Greetings from Rijeka, Croatia.

For its sixth recurrent season, the Infoshop Skatula opens its doors. At the same place where we stopped before the very summer, the Infoshop in Rijeka is starting with all its activities. This year is a continuation of an intensive programme consisting of evenings for the radical freeing of our minds and our society. Experiences, ideas, and solutions for freedom, more precisely, public discussions / lectures / projections each Tuesday organized by the Amandla association acting closely with the Infoshop, and film projections of various topics each Sunday, from activistic documentaries to the rights of women and children, horror, comedy...

We organized a "Take or Leave" corner with the Infoshop library. It's a place for everyone with things at home which they don't use but are still usable - clothes, footwear, tools, furniture and everything else that we keep in closets, basements, attics, boxes... All that stuff is still usable so we don't want to throw it away, but we don't know what do do with it...

Alongside the "Take or Leave" corner, we organized a DEMONKRACIJA (diy distro/label) table for the distribution of punk and political literature, music, shirts, patches, badges, and everything else that goes with it...

With a belonging kitchen, the "Food Not Bombs" collective acts as part of the infoshop as well. We also maintain a small basement for DIY concerts that are organized a few times per month...

Because we, through acquaintances and offers of certain associations, entered an alliance last year with these associations of the independent-cultural and activistic scene, we were compelled into compromises concerning the finances for a new space. Since we had two different spaces at our disposal in the last five years which we didn't have to pay for, a moment has come when we couldn't say no to a new, better, space. That fact alone created certain problems; from the collective that maybe didn't manage very well with its current interest and input, to a lack of people on the side, who seem to have lost the will and wish for something newer, different and more interesting? In our darker moments there was talk about disbanding the Infoshop, because the bills, i.e. management and rent, were pushing, and we just couldn't allow the worst outcome of this whole story. At that time our only source of income was a small cafeteria, i.e. drinks, collected wrapping material, and different kinds of donations. However, the worst is behind us, and now, stronger than ever, we want to head into new victories...so we need any kind of help!

For this year, what we see as the biggest problem is the lack of literature, but we could also say that it can be considered as a small turning point in our work. A few years ago the number of the Infoshop library's users had dropped significantly, and with that some of our books, fanzines, and other stuff, also disappeared. We need any kind of help in form of donations or discounts with which we could finally raise our library to a higher level than with the case thus far. The topics, i.e. titles that we are looking for are classical; from general politics to anarchism, ecology, alternative food diets, human and animal rights, queer, (anarcho)feminism, art and culture, any kinds of pamphlets, punk fanzines, comics, newsletters, etc. Since we are unable to refresh our literature frequently, we are compelled into actions such as these, so that we could really capacitate our library with as much as possible material that can not be found in other places like libraries, book stores, colleges, universities, and similar. We are sure that there is a wider public in our city, but this needs to be presented to them in some way...

The whole Infoshop Skatula organized programme is free, except for the concerts, which we have to charge because it pays for the food, drinks, and traveling expenses of the bands on tour!

Well, that's it for now from the Infoshop Skatula collective. We impatiently await any kind of answer, positive or negative. Your help or reaction is very important to us!!

Peace, love and anarchy