Author: kate

In Maribor we slept at the Pekarna Squat, a huge complex of bars, music rooms and an anarchist book shop. The following day we met local bike activists at the  CAAP,  – Centre for Autonomous Production and Active Ctizens, where we had the chance to look over our bikes in the DIY bike workshop,  were shown around the cooperative  including a seed library, seminar space, work with Roma communities and the acclaimed Urban Furows project. The centre wishes to promote sustainability, autonomy and active citizenship. One example was empowering people to do something about the issues that mattered to them.…

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…Oh how did that get there ?

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Art Centre Slovenia, a former Border Guard House, was another gem in our trip so far…nestled somewhere between the hills and fruit trees in a secluded part on the border of west Slovenia. We spent three glorious days here helping on the project, learning about the local struggle to keep the project from the eager grips of the municipalities, sampled the local produce from pumpkin seed oil to home grown vegetables from the centre and of course the local ale around the fire. We also had time for some of our own workshops: Most of the help needed was preparing…

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Another days cycling through Hungary, with a quick look in curiosity at a local event, the annual community event, and are all offered drinks from the Major and end up on the stage singing songs from Catalan! – a great applause, and were off again, all in a days cycle!

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After two days of cycling through the highest temperatures on record in Austria (41 degrees celsius!) we reached Die Mühle, a relatively new community project and seminar house for political events and projects. Here we performed a human chain and put our people power into practice to shift tonnes of bricks and rubble from the ruins of the adjoining building, and enjoyed the house facilities for our workshops on consensus, small group work and Biketour 2014! Pictures to follow!!!!

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In Vienna we were spolit for choice of contacts and collectivers to meet and network with, including visits to the Vienna Bike Kitchen, and meetings at the Café Gagarin, a collectively run and owned vegan-vegatarian restaurant, and space for, culture, music and politics. We were hosted there for two days and took full advantage of their newly co-funded professional kitchen. – Compared to cooking on rocket stoves and a head tourch…it was sheer luxury! On tuesday we met with some of the orgainisers of the Vienna Refugee Protest Camp, who protest weekly outside the Pakistani Embassy and monastery where many…

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After a long HOT cycle we finally made it along part of the the Danube to Vienna! Tonight we will be hosted by the PIZZA Muhlfeldgasse 12 from 6pm, for their regular sunday skipped pizza and info eveing, where much of the ingredients come from food that would have otherwise been wasted. We hope to share some of our stories and learn from their collective over dinner! Hope to see some of you there.

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A few images from an evening at Garten der Gernerationen, an emerging community project experimenting with anti-capitalist ideals, self-organisation and self-sufficiency. After an introduction from one of the founders, who also founded a successful community not far from here, we eagerly offered help with their straw bale house construction … . . . . …and we enjoyed a walk through their emerging community garden before dinner.

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