Research objectives were to analyse the cultural policy of the city of Pula and the way in which independent culture and civil society can also affect them. To determine which are the ways in which civil society can influence the cultural policy, makes it and who causes it. Method used were analysis of literature, ethnography, and auto-ethnography, since I have been also active participant of the cultural scene. Therefore, for this study I analyzed the local and national cultural policies, recorded interviews with key players and I used more titles published in the field of independent culture. The most important results and conclusions proved that the independent culture organizations do not have the capacity to implement their projects and advocacy activities at the same time. From the very inception of the independent cultural scene, even in the 90's, there has been little capacity of the actors at the independent scene to deal with cultural policies. However, most of them have been active because it was necessary. It was about the survival of their core business. Maybe in some larger cities, as Zagreb and Rijeka, there were more opportunities for profiling people who would have dealt with it, the cultural policy, the theory of cultural systems, organizational theory, while in smaller communities and all organizations at the same time and the work program and engage in cultural policy that no person may engage in cultural policy, and organizations can not finance the work of experts in the field. Also, the question is whether they have the time to deal with time and how advocacy can be funded as there is some form of overproduction of the independent scene. Organizations produce enormous amounts of events with regard to human, physical and financial capacities at their disposal. That is because they want to reach high visibility with which they want to prove to others and to ourselves the value of the program. Partly this is a consequence of the organized system of financing the Croatian cultural system, since the independent organizations rarely funded "overhead" and salaries of employees, but financed events, festivals, or series of events. However, it creates long-term effects of the program, which remains only the presentation at that level and it is a big problem for most organizations the independent scene. In addition to smaller communities are the reasons a lot simpler and more pragmatic. People will decide for action when the judge that there is the possibility that this action fails if there is some kind of danger to them from some of the practices and will rebel against it. Most organizations are doing individual calculations if it is worthing getting into some action that is in opposition to the government or they are proactive when they want to create a system. It's not that they are not aware of the possibilities of the position as an active citizen, they are actualy calculating how much results they could get from this type of advocacy or resistance to political power. Also, they should have multiple sources of funding, that are not dependent on one or two projects and also they should have a long-perspective of their actions or a perspective of a system in which their action may be possible. For the organisations the best solution is to have a kid of proactive action, if there is a basis for a strategy and a plan to implement some of the things which they could point to, because it is much easier to get then support the government and the public. The authorities have already obliges the document and the interest to realise the actions in the public policy documents because they could show a record of success. The best chances to succeed is to form a partnership with the city or county. Adoption of the Cultural Strategy of the City of Pula 2014th-2020th therefore open the possibility that the association get actively involved in advocating for its implementation.