
ZBOR
ZBOR is a word with many layers of meaning for the people of the former Yugoslav countries. Most simply, it means gathering or assembly, and as such it is known in villages throughout the region. However, the Climate Justice and Just Transition Initiative ZBOR specifically evokes the meaning(s) from the days of Yugoslavia’s anti-fascist revolutionary liberation movement and socialist years, when ZBOR was the fundamental institution of direct democracy and self-management. ZBOR was a vital everyday democratic practice in every factory, organization, apartment block, school, workplace. ZBOR is a place and time where anything can happen. Today, the word is often reduced to the meaning of chorus, but the ZBOR initiative embraces this contemporary usage as well – as one of its main goals is to gather the voices of the many for our common world and time.
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