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Rog Autonomous Factory (Slovenian: Avtonomna tovarna Rog), known as Rog, was a squatted factory in Lubljana. It was used as a art space and self-managed social centre from 2006 and 2021. It was evicted by the city council in January 2021.

Occupation
Rog was named after the bicycle manufacturers Rog which had built the factory complex before it became derelict in the 1990s. It was squatted in 2006. The centre was run by assembly and hosted different activities, functioning as both a cultural centre for art and a self-managed social centre. It hosted concerts, lectures, refugee support activities and other events.

The centre was used by many groups, for example such as Antifašistične fronte (Antifascist Front) and Nevidnih delavcev sveta (Invisible Workers of the World), and there was a medical clinic for asylum seekers. Volunteers built the largest skate park in the Balkans in a previously derelict hall. Another hall housed the concert venue. There was also the "Blue corner", a football pitch, a circus space, artist ateliers, galleries and a graffiti workshop.

Conflict with city council
Mayor Zoran Janković threatened to evict the squat in 2010, but the support of the local community and organizations dissuaded him. In 2010, the city council joined a project called Second Chance aimed at redeveloping industrial areas in Nuremberg, Krakow, Leipzig, Ljubljana and Venice. It discussed turning the factory into the Rog Center for Contemporary Arts.

In June 2016, the city council unsuccessfully attempted to evict the centre, bringing a digger to start demolishing in the middle of the night. It was later sued by the centre. A demolition permit had been signed in 2011 and extended in 2014, and was due to run out with no possibility to extend it again. The Rog collective then presented its own vision of how to develop the factory complex.

Eviction
Rog was evicted in January 2021 by the city council, which claimed it was empty and abandoned at the time. The centre argued that the people ordered to leave the site following a courtcase had indeed left but other people were still using the space since in total there were between 100 and 200 participants, tolerated by verbal agreement with the council. The centre was given thirty days to appeal the judgement. Twelve people were arrested as they tried to stop city workers beginning the demolition of the site and eight were later charged with various offences. Afterwards a man was charged with burning down a tree at Prešeren Square.

The city of Lubljana plans to set up a cultural centre in the former factory, called the Rog Centre. An additional budget of 1.85 million euros has been funnelled towards the project, which aims to house 500 creative workers in 8000 m² of new development.

Source review

 * 1 Opinion blog x
 * 2 https://www.mladina.si/174658/proti-rusenju-nekdanje-tovarne-rog ok
 * 3 own site x
 * 4 https://siol.net/novice/slovenija/skejterski-ponos-v-tovarni-rog-244261 skate ok DONE
 * 5 own site x
 * 6 https://www.dnevnik.si/1042732717/lokalno/ljubljana/v-avtonomni-coni-rog-clovek-ni-le-potrosnik NOT USED YET 2016
 * 7 https://siol.net/trendi/kultura/deset-let-legendarnega-roga-jankovic-bi-ga-naredil-na-novo-uporabniki-ga-ne-dajo-foto-in-video-414780 ten years ok
 * 8 https://www.dnevnik.si/1042719928/kultura/glasba/recenzija-prvega-brezdomskega-festivala festival nope
 * 9 https://www.dnevnik.si/1042732717/lokalno/ljubljana/v-avtonomni-coni-rog-clovek-ni-le-potrosnik autonomous ok
 * 10 https://www.rtvslo.si/kultura/drugo/tovarna-rog-desetletnica-zasedbe-opuscenih-prostorov-in-napovedano-rusenje/388997 2016 ok
 * 11 https://www.rtvslo.si/slovenija/foto-mol-bo-vztrajal-pri-pravnih-sredstvih-policisti-preiskujejo-morebitna-kazniva-dejanja/394942 2016 ok
 * 12 https://www.rtvslo.si/kultura/drugo/tovarna-rog-desetletnica-zasedbe-opuscenih-prostorov-in-napovedano-rusenje/388997 2016 ok
 * 13 https://www.rtvslo.si/slovenija/obcina-nadaljuje-rusitvena-dela-odvetnik-rogovcev-za-nekatere-ljudi-ni-pravne-podlage-za-izgon/549609 USED
 * all newspapers so far
 * 14 opening statement - maybe
 * 15 https://www.mladina.si/90802/uvo-manipulator--sinisa_gacic-2/ 2016 ok
 * 16 https://www.dnevnik.si/1042740851/lokalno/ljubljana/aigul-hakimova-gonilna-sila-socialnega-centra-rog-pritisk-obcine-na-rogovsko-gibanje-je-pritisk-moci-oblasti 2016 nope
 * 17 https://www.mladina.si/90802/uvo-manipulator--sinisa_gacic-2/ 2007 nope
 * 18 https://www.dnevnik.si/1042638832/dom/arhitektura/tovarna-rog-se-bo-razvila-v-center-sodobne-umetnosti 2010 development USED
 * 19 https://www.mladina.si/173265/zadnji-samorog/ 2016 NOT USED YET
 * 20 own site x
 * 21 https://old.delo.si/novice/ljubljana/rogovci-v-boj-proti-se-eni-mestni-gradbeni-jami.html history, USED
 * 22 https://www.dnevnik.si/1042735035/lokalno/ljubljana/-jankovic-bo-rusil-rogovci-imajo-svojo-resitev REALLY NICE all the groups