I am a Woman in Black from Belgrade.  I was one of the organizers of the the first feminist conference in East Europe, Drug-ca Zena in 1978 in Belgrade.  I am also the author of  “The Diary of the Political Idiot,” maybe the first war diary written by a woman distributed over the Internet.

In 2005, I happened to be in New York at the UN Conference. Beijing Ten Years After.   I have to tell you about my very weird, conflictual role there.  On one hand I was representing the group Women in Black Serbia.  On the other at a certain point I became the representative of the Serbian government since the  official one didn’t manage to get to the conference.  She asked me to speak in her name.

At the same time, since I was in the US, I was an active member of Code Pink women for peace group.  Code Pink literally crashed into the UN building during the 8th of March street protest.

The UN meeting was bullied by the Bush administration representatives, acting  together with satellite countries.  In the severe conditions of America’s War on Terror they all voted just as they were told. While women’s autonomous feminist groups had their underground parallel and alternative session presided by Charlotte Bunch an activist and  academic writer.  They were trying to stop or at least make public, the misdoings of Bush Administration official.