Barcelona: Almost two months in CSOA Castillo

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For almost two months we have occupied the Castillo (Castle) in Les Planes on top of the Collserola mountain range in Barcelona. Since then a lot has happened, with this we would like to inform you about recent developments. Firstly most of the cleaning and rennovation work is, in parts completed and the social centre can present its frst events program:

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Barcelona: New Bank taken in La Floresta

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Now there are 3 ex banks OCCUPIED around Barcelona. And on Friday a big crowd played cat and mouse with the baffled police, before successfully occupying another huge building as a ‘home for evicted mortgage defaulters’.

The latest Bank was taken in the La Floresta suburb. After a leafleting and graffiti march around local banks the local ‘Indignats’ cooked an enormous veggie Paella for up to 200 people. Finally they enacted a drama in the street which ended..SURPRISE in the occupation of an adjoining abandoned bank.(Still going strong). La Floresta is close to the new Occupied Castle Social Center (see post), begun just last week, so there’s plenty of local action, including a small consumers CoOp, an occupied community garden.. and more stuff.

http://thefreeonline.wordpress.com/2011/11/19/ocupat-un-banc-occupan-otro-banco-banks-occupied-in-barcelona/

Barcelona: Open call out to support the new international squatted social center

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Long abandoned in 2000 the castle returned to build life as a squatted social center, soon evicted and left alone again into oblivion. Today we have liberated it..we have taken back the castle, and now open to create a meeting space, creation, culture, policy debate and dissent against speculation, and capitalism. We make an open call to come to build with us your passionate projects…
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Barcelona: C.S.O. La Papa evicted this morning

In the morning of 5th october, C.S.O. La Papa (Barcellona) was evicted by about 8 vans of the Mossos de esquadra without any advice nor legitimate court order and without any arrest at about 6:00 in the morning and at just 2 weeks from the 5th anniversary of it’s okkupation.

This afternoon we call for a demo in front of the evicted social center at 20:00

No justice, No Peace!

1 eviction, 1000 squattings!

Mobilize and call out!

We’re sick of the fascist system


Comunicado sobre el desaojo del CSO LA PAPA

Perante una acción de desalojo totalmente ilegal y ilegitima, en que de forma corporativista en una farsa judicial solamente integrada por las entidades imobiliario-especuladoras y el estado corrupto nunca fueron incluidxs lxs habitantes de la casa, ni tampoco existio algun intento de dialogo siquiera por parte de la auto proclamada justicia, nos vemos en una realidad pura y cruda: el desalojo de La Papa ha tenido objectivos claros de persecucion politica e social, intentando sobre todas las formas destruir la cultura sin fines economicos, desalojar y afastar a sus unicos reales enemigxs en esta epoca de cri$i$ y respectiva respuesta popular revolucionaria, y quebrar la dinamica internacionalista y solidaria que se desenvolve de forma paralela y contraria a la especulacion de nuestras vidas por parte del capital.
Para provar sus – democraticos – fines, el terreno donde se situa La Papa sera utilizado para la construccion de hoteles, demonstrando sus prioridades: las necessidades capitalistas, no las reales necesidades de lxs habitantes de la karcelona, este parque tematico para turistas monopolizaren inconscientemente nuestros trabajos, nuestras casas, nuestro tiempo – nuestras VIDAS, redireccionando toda nuestra utilidad enquanto seres humanos, toda la produccion que nos es robada y toda propriedad, hasta donde dormimos y comemos todos los dias, para la semanita que se pasan aqui los turistas felices y contentos subindo y bajando las ramblas, haciendo sus compras en zara y tirando fotos de todas las perspectivas de la sagrada familia.
RECUSAMOS RADICALMENTE NUESTRA POSICION DE ESCLAVXS, RECUPEREMOS NUESTRAS VIDAS, OKUPEMOS SUS CASAS.

A LAS 20 HORAS DE HOY, DIA 5, EN EL JARDIN FRENTE A LA PAPA, CONCENTRACION CONTRA TODOS LOS DESALOJOS, CONTRA LA ALIENACION DE NUESTRAS VIDAS!
el colectivo la papa.

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Barcelona: A Combative May Day Regained

http://anarchistnews.org/?q=node/14546
Tuesday 3 May 2011

Just a decade ago, Barcelona was one of just a couple cities in the world known for maintaining a riotous tradition of combative May Day protests, with a strong anarchist presence. In more recent years, however, the First of May has tended to be as peaceful as Christmas. The events organized by the anarchosyndicalists of the CNT and CGT were more like parades, while the other anarchists were largely trapped in a squatting movement that was losing its ability to take the streets. Already by 2007, anarchists were bemoaning the loss of this tradition and attempting to recover it, organizing a May Day black bloc demonstration that was completely shut down by the police. In 2009, evidently recognizing that it would take more than a single year to reverse their losses, anonymous anticapitalists throughout the city organized a week of sabotage and other actions leading up to May Day. On May Day of 2010, they symbolically squatted a luxury hotel. In 2011, they were ready to reclaim their holiday.

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Barcelona: Notes on the european squat meeting (17-20 june 2010)

Translation of an article written in french and originally published on squat.net/fr.

From june 17th to 20th, 2010, an european squat meeting took place in Barcelona [1|2].

More than one hundred people participated in the discussions, all of which took place in the Laforsa squatted social centre (41 av. de la Fama, in Cornellà de Llobregat, suburbs of Barcelona). This old factory is squatted for a year now, but it’s famous for having been occupied during several months by its own workers in the late seventies, becoming a symbol of the workers autonomous class struggle.
The discussions happened in the huge Laforsa’s first floor (with plugged simultaneous translations in spanish, english, french and italian) and food was served twice a day in the second floor.
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Barcelona: European squat meeting, from june 17th to 20th 2010

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Under the motto of “Present, Past and… Future??? of Squatting in Europe”, some squat collectives of Barcelona organize a meeting the 17, 18, 19, and 20 of june to debate about historical, political and legal aspects of this movement in a european perspective.

So this is a calling to all collectives, projects or houses across Europe who are interested in participate to come and give an own view of your experience and situation in your city or country. In the development of the meeting, simultaneous translation equipment will be provided to everyone.

The meeting will be held in the “CSO La Forsa” (Avenida de la Fama 41, Cornella de Llobregat – Barcelona).

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Tallin, Vienna, Prague, Barcelona, Berlin: Solidarity actions with Dutch squatters

Solidarity from Berlin to the Nederland

While the actiondays in the Nederland we attacked in the night to Saturday (30th to 31th October 2009) the Nederland Embassy with colours and stones.

We show solidarity with all the squatters and activists who fight offensive against the new squatter laws in the Nederland. The strike of the Nederland State against selforganized autonomous spaces is an attack on us all and could not be tolerated. Fight for selforganized autonomous spaces – squat the world! Smash capitalism! We stay all!

Barcelona squatters demonstrate at dutch consulate

Barcelona squatters demonstrate at dutch consulate against new dutch anti-squat law:

Monday 26 oktober 2009

Barcelona squatters demonstrate at dutch consulate against new dutch anti- squat law:

today,a group of 60 squatters from Barcelona held a one hour demonstration in front of the dutch consulate to protest the new anti-squatting law

With slogans and banners in Spanish, English and dutch, short speeches and making noise, the barcelona squatters expressed their solidarity with dutch squatters and their stuggle for a dignified existence.

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Barcelona: CSO El Baco, new social centre and community garden in horta per el Barco

CSO EL BARCO
Email: fuspey (nospam) yahoo.co.uk
Telèfon: 662 347 902
Adreça: 26 pere pau, horta, bcn (beside metro stop horta, lisboa exit)
23 feb 2007
CSO EL BARCO (occupied social centre “the boat” )

http://barcelona.indymedia.org/newswire/display/294337/index.php

Opening doors and making gardens in horta

NEW SOCIAL CENTRE AND SQUAT GARDEN OPENED IN HORTA
eviction order for 6 days time, time for rethink and re-action of okupa movement…

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Barcelona: Solidarity action for Ungdomshuset at the Danish consulate

Account summary of Ungdomshuset support initiatives in Barcelona: infonight & prisoner solidarity on January 11th, action at the Danish consulate on January 12th, 2007.

http://indymedia.dk/article/796

On January 12th 2007, a group of autonomous Ungdomshuset supporters came together and briefly occupied the danish consulate. Five people entered the building and got the message forwarded to the embassy in Madrid, leaving a solidarity statement addressed to danish authorities. Pictures of the Danish queen and her husband were gifted new faces, and now boldly bear the Ungdomshuset skull!

Meanwhile, a group of some 30 people manifested outside carrying a banner, chanting slogans (“Dinamarca, escucha, ¡Ungeren se queda!” which translates to “Listen, Denmark, Ungeren stays!”), and distributing flyers to passers-by, linking the Ungdomshuset struggle with the broader squat and autonomous movement in Barcelona and the rest of Europe.

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