Draga Potočnjak - manifesto

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HUNGER STRIKE FOR PALESTINE

from 12 April to 21 April 2024

is an act of desperation, but also the last glimmer of hope for solidarity and humanity.

 

No need for many words, today is enough to say

GAZA,

and everything is clear.

 

All that we may once have meant well but did nothing to be heard. The dead voices of Europe and America, the introspective self-sufficiency and arrogance of the so-called democratic world are responsible for millions and millions of deaths in the last century and this century, for genocides, scorched earth, for forever lost homes. Courage and pride were replaced by fear for one's own material goods. We have sold the much-vaunted security to defend against the poor who have nothing anyway. And they are only looking for peace. Their displaced souls wander and disappear, while the Democrats hatch new wars. They beat their chests and count dirty money.

 

Bloody.

From the blood of innocent people,

from too sad children's eyes,

from wounds, maiming and death.

 

Is the Slovenian state too small to be able to recognize Palestine on its own?! Is she still too servile to start realizing her own independence? She is too insignificant to bang on the table in the UN Security Council and tell Americans to hang their guts on the fence and blow themselves up with their missiles! Why doesn't Slovenia have the courage to stop cooperating with and trading with the genocidal Israeli government and state?! Even if she knows she should! Because it is bound to do so not only by Security Council resolutions and international humanitarian law, but also by a fundamental sense of justice and truth. We demand from the Slovenian authorities:

 

• RECOGNITION OF PALESTINE NOW!

• CUT OFF ECONOMIC AND DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITH ISRAEL NOW!

• DETERMINED AND VOID ADVOCATION FOR THE STOPPING OF WAR AND GENOCIDE, TORTURE AND SUFFERING OF THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE IN GAZA AND THE WEST BANK, MORE DETERMINED REQUESTS FOR THE IMMEDIATE PROVISION AND DELIVERY OF HUMANITARIAN AID, THE IMMEDIATE BAN OF THE DISPOSAL OF THE TERRITORY OF THE REPUBLIC OF SLOVENIA, ITS AIR SPACE AND AQUATORIUM MILITARY WAGONS AND DELIVERY FORCE AND MEANS TO PERMIT GENOCIDE BY ISRAEL WITH US AID.

Striking Draga Potočnjak

 

 

Draga Potočnjak is a drama and film actress, writer, and playwright. She was born on May 29, 1958, in Prelog, Croatia, but moved to Ljubljana with her family in 1964. She enrolled in drama studies at AGRFT, finished it in 1981, and in the same year got a job as a drama actress at the Slovenian Youth Theatre. He also works in other professional and experimental theatres in Slovenia. Until 1991, she often participated in the theatres of the former Yugoslavia, including KPGT, and was a member of Koreodrama Ljubljana. Until 1991, when the war started in the Balkans, she also worked in theatres in Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro, and Macedonia.

 

She collaborated with important Slovenian and foreign directors, such as Tomaž Pandur, Rahim Burhan, Dušan Jovanović, Janez Pipan, Matjaž Berger, Dragan Živadinov... In Mladinski, she began her career with roles in Ristić's great plays Peržani, Missa in a minor, Romeo and Julia; now demonic, now effectively comic, she was in several roles in The Crow, she also entered the tanned seraglio of the cult Scheherazade. She created a variety of well-crafted roles in Matjaž Berger's plays. She poignantly portrayed two mothers, crushed by pain at the sight of their sons' suffering and decay, in Crime and Punishment (as an alternation by Olga Kacjan) and Tower. Her interpretation of the free-spirited Teresa Raffo in Innocent is brilliant, where she weaves into an organic whole an unusual mixture of cold distance and sensuality, ease and sharpness, dominance, and softness.

 

She regularly collaborates with the artistic program of Radio Slovenia, she has also created several prominent roles in films, and since the beginning of the 1990s she has also devoted herself to writing plays (Kalea, The noise caused by animals is unbearable, Alisa, Alica, For our young ladies , Forever unconscious, and her lyrics Blind mice, Che Guevara, Kekec, Srce na dlani and Vsi junaki zbrani came to life on stage in Mladinsko). In 2010, together with her colleagues, she received an award for an exceptional collective creation in the play Cursed be the traitor of his homeland! at Borštnik's meeting in Maribor, in 2007 the Grum Prize for an original Slovenian dramatic text at the TSD in Kranj for the text Za naše mlade dame, in 2003 the first prize at the anonymous competition Neznani sosedje (Graz - the cultural capital of Europe) for the drama Noise caused by animals , is unbearable, in 2001 the special jury award of the Zlati lev festival in Umag for the drama Alice, Alice, in 1995 the Župančič award for the play House without a roof, in 1994 the European award for the project Pregnanci (Tampere, Finland), and in 1982 the audience award in Goriška meeting of small stages for the role of Little Medea in Medea's Children.

 

She devoted a lot of time to working with exiles, and she is also engaged in pedagogical work. She was a drama tutor at GILŠ (1996–1999); she worked with exiles as the leader of the Incorrigible Optimists group, she participated in the theater group at ZU Janez Levac (2001-2002 and from 2003-2006 onwards) and at Prežihovo Voranc Primary School (1998-2002 and from 2005/6 onwards), etc. He is currently completing his specialist studies in drama therapy at PF in Ljubljana.

 

Taken from SIGLEDAL https://sigledal.org/geslo/Dragica_Draga_Poto%C4%8Dnjak