Barcelona: Ca l’Espina still squatted despite the Mossos attempted to evict them

By: fawda - July 27th, 2020  Filed under: News

The group that previously squatted Ca la Trava and Ka la Kastanya denounces that the police operation that tried to evict the social center on Carrer d’Asturies was carried out without a court order.

At 7 a.m. on Wednesday, the Mossos d’Esquadra, made up of riot vans, occupied the Gràcia district of Barcelona. The objective was to evict Ca l’Espina, a squatted social center located at number 12 Asturias Street. “The police vans went from Fontana to Lesseps,” explains the group that occupied the building in January 2020. “There has been a totally disproportionate militarization of the neighborhood,” they add.

The apartment block in the centre of the city is made up of four floors of housing and a room on the ground floor. When the members of the project learned that the police wanted to break into Ca l’Espina, they blocked the access that goes from the premises to the houses in which about fifteen people live today. [Read More]

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Barcelona: We reoccupied Ca La Trava

By: fawda - July 27th, 2019  Filed under: Communique, News

We have returned to Ca La Trava, now an empty plot, and we are not planning to leave. This space, until now closed, will again be open to the neighborhood, and we will defend it as we have defended our houses. We want it to be again a trench from which to resist the onslaught of the speculators and give war to all those who are destroying our neighborhood. If in Ca La Trava they make luxury flats we all lose, and we can’t allow that.

These are times of empty phrases, of euphemisms, of symbolisms without content and of politicians contradicting each new declaration. For this reason, we want to make it clear that when we say “Ca La Trava will never be luxury flats” we say it as seriously as possible. The struggle of Ca La Trava is not a lost struggle, and resquatting is not an improvised decision or the fruit of sentimentalism. Our goal is to win and we are convinced that we will. [Read More]

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Madrid-Barcelona: Estate agents attacked in solidarity with the CSOA La Gatonera and the CSO Ka La Trava

By: fawda - November 2nd, 2018  Filed under: Communique, News

Thursday September 27, the windows of estate agency Tecnocasa in Vallekas were shattered. The agency was also covered in paint. This action aims to encourage the comrades of the CSOA La Gatonera (Carabanchel-Madrid) and Ka La Trava (Gràcia-Barcelona), as well as all the people who struggle in defence of squats as a revolutionary tool.
Neighbourhoods are being transformed by capitalist speculation, gentrification being a tightening of screws in a cyclical process that affects all the cities of the world. Real estate agencies and other capitalist entities such as banks and speculators are responsible. Let’s spread the attack against them and build bridges based on solidarity and attack.
Refusing to negotiate with the State, the town hall or private property and resisting the scoundrels and the police must have an echo of solidarity in the form of seeking and spreading the struggle. This is only the beginning and we call for the reproduction of the attack, overcoming any path of mediation and negotiation with power. We do not negotiate with the State and capital. [Read More]

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