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<b>Subject: </b>Zagreb against the Waterfront development - we won!<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear Inurians,<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">we have some great news from Zagreb! <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Yesterday, our City parliament rejected the changes of city Masterplan that were to enable the Mayor to put forward a Waterfront project on Sava river, not unlike the one in Belgrade. The project, for which the Mayor signed the Memorandum
of understanding last spring with the developer Eagle Hills (the same investor as in Belgrade) is of now void.
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<p class="MsoNormal">This victory comes on shoulders of the civil disobedience that came in form of actions and large protest (with more than 20 000 people on a protest just a week before the plan was voted out) organized by Right to the city, Green action
and Siget organization from Zagreb, but also on the shoulders of more then 10 years of fighting against the neoliberal rule of our Mayor and in large part helped with grassroots organizations that emerged in city neighborhoods, some of which you had a chance
to visit in last year's INURA. <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Also, we had a fortunate situation inside the City parliament where the opposition, basically led by INURA's own, Tomislav Tomašević, energized the conversation and fought aggressively against this plan and privatization of large part of
the city. And, not to forget that, by some miracle, and by miracle I mean by the voice of our comrades in Belgrade that have managed to show the world what was happening in Belgrade, our architectural associations and Architectural school of the University
of Zagreb (the one where we had panels and meetings last summer) all came together and held their ground against this project and the Masterplan even though they were threatened to be expelled from the process of architectural competitions (one of their main
source of income). <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">In the end, I am writing this here, not just to inform you, but to
<b>thank INURA and all who came to Zagreb for the conference and especially all of you who helped shape the open letter against the devastation of Zagreb's river banks. You are also a part of this victory and peace of the puzzle we needed to get to where we
are today. </b><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Ofcourse, we have won the battle, but we know that there is more to come and we are prepared to fight another day, but this was a major major victory for Zagreb's activists scene and for Zagreb itself and the biggest win against the long
term mayor Milan Bandić. We are all rooting for him to fall and will continue to organize further in the hope that our demand for radically different Masterplan that will envision a more just city will be in the works soon after the fall of current administration
in next year elections. <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On that note, all of us from the organizing team of INURA would like to thank you all again for being a part of our organizing efforts!
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<p class="MsoNormal">best,<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Iva & INURA Zagreb team<u></u><u></u></p>
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