Your solidarity with citizens fighting for the public space in Vilnius is needed.
We are writing to you with hope, to support the movement that tries to escape destruction of the public cultural space and the biggest non-commercial cinema in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania. Sign an online petition and express your solidarity with citizens defending public space in Vilnius : www.culture.lt/petition At the moment 4 citizens are defending public space in the Vilnius County Administrative Court appealing for the violation of the law in the detailed planning process in the site of cinema Lietuva. This court process is a follow-up of the actions initiated in spring 2005 as a campaign for reclaiming public space. For the active position citizens are threatened by the private developers for “doing tremendous harm to their investment and stopping the development of the site”. They keep intimidating the protesters, threatening to appeal to the Civil Court if we not withdrew our claim for the public interest. We appeal for this solidarity, as we are confronting vast machinery of the bureaucrats and lawyers serving the private investors. There is a strong feeling that presence of international solidarity for cinema Lietuva case might discipline the decisions of local clerks. Vilnius City Council is the last institution to approve detailed planning and to issue permits for the construction (and destruction of the cinema), we retain the hope that the destruction can be prevented if there is an international reaction expressing concern over the destruction of public space, of cultural space, corruption and non-transparent process of urban development. Please forward this call to all people of a good will. On behalf of the movement Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas Sign an online petition and express your solidarity with citizens defending public space in Vilnius : www.culture.lt/petition Further information can be found here: http://transform.eipcp.net/correspondence/1179495490 http://www.indymedia.org/en/2007/05/886010.shtml http://www.liberation.fr/culture/cinema/237838.FR.php Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas Mildos 11-13, 10311 Vilnius Lithuania e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel.: +370.656.64.311 ______________________________________________ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre