Turin: On the eviction of the occupied Ex-Lavatoio

By: fawda - August 5th, 2024  Filed under: Communique, News

At dawn this morning – July 9, 2024 – the former occupied wash-house in Corso Benedetto Brin 21 in Turin was evicted and subjected to a search. During the eviction, various materials were seized for investigative purposes.

Bombastic media fanfares communicate the eviction of the “den of violent anarchists” and the politicians on duty congratulate themselves on the umpteenth eviction, while workers at the service of the police and the municipality wall up and smash the building, giving it back to abandonment and oblivion.

The Ex Lavatoio was occupied on December 9, 2022 as part of a citizen mobilization in response to the eviction of the Edera Squat. In those months, many considered it essential to claim and practice the instrument of occupation – certainly not that of municipal bargaining and co-planning tables – so, in solidarity with the comrades of the Edera, three occupations were born one after the other (Ex-Lavatoio occupato, Polisportiva Occupata Iris Versari, Circolo Occupato La Crepa). [Read More]

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Florence: Corsica social centre eviction in progress. Resistance on the roof, solidarity rally in the street.

By: fawda - August 8th, 2023  Filed under: News

In Florence eviction in progress of the squat “Viale Corsica 81”, living space and anarchist social center.

At dawn, the Digos executed the preventive seizure of the occupied property on Ponte di Mezzo Street. The neighborhood is filled with riot cops, soldiers of the Guardia di Finanza and carabinieri. Corsica 81, squatted in 2012, was evicted last year from the homonymous street, then reopened at 32 Ponte di Mezzo street where today the new police eviction took place and which is not yet finished: two people are actually on the roof, the solidarity rally in the street was violently pushed back by the police in riot gear. The resistance, however, continues: at 5 p.m., gathering in the nearby gardens of Via Mariti in Florence. [Read More]

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Susa Valley: Passamontagna, camping against the borders

By: fawda - July 18th, 2023  Filed under: Communique, News

4-5-6 August 2023, travelling NoBorder Camp in Susa Valley, Italy https://squ.at/r/9jj2
Place: Susa Valley – Claviere (ITA) – Briancon (FR)
Three days of traversing the mountains together for a world without borders and authoritarianism!
Three days of encounters, discussions and reflection.
Three days of collective struggle and solidarity.

The Border Machinery
The policies of the European Union and its member states continue to make it deadlier to reach Fortress Europe. Both at sea and in transit countries such as Turkey, Libia and now Tunisia, death is the currency being dealt to those seeking out a better life. The border is enforced internally and externally; having shifted as far south as the Sahel and as far east as Kurdistan.

The Frontex budget is exploding, having risen from €93 Million to €845 million (2023) in just ten years. In the same time frame, the length of EU border fences have grown from 315 km to 2048 km. Novel technologies and intense militarization of the borders have kept arms & technology producers’ profits soaring. Those who manage to reach the shores of Europe are kept in servitude, picking the fruit and vegetables for discounters and slaving away in the factories and brothels. They are promised a shot at climbing the ladder, kept as human capital in the service of the economy with the hopes of achieving the golden ticket; asylum or even residence. [Read More]

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Susa Valley: barricading weekend on the border

By: fawda - September 22nd, 2022  Filed under: News

October 01-03, weekend to build barricades at the occupied house on the border, we want to invite anyone interested to give us a hand to make the house safer, before winter! We are waiting for you !
Yallah, the autonomous occupied shelter, is in Cesana-Torinese, between Oulx and Claviere, Italy. This house is owned by Enel, the main company that manages the production but above all distribution of electricity in Italy and of course they are not very happy to have us here.
An eviction could take place at any time. Since there is always a lot to do here en not always enough skills, we want to invite anyone interested to come and spend a weekend with us at Yallah, help us to make the house safer and sharing dinners together! We have some building materials and tools, but it would be nice if more were brought in! [Read More]

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Susa Valley: new squatted shelter in Cesana-Torinese

By: fawda - June 22nd, 2022  Filed under: Communique, News

In almost a year since the last eviction of the Casa Cantoniera in Claviere, we stayed here, in this valley, on this bloody and racist border, close to the people who challenge and overcome it every day, despite being forced to do so “illegally”: controlled, rejected and violated by the state and its armed forces. In the same valley where thousands of “migrants” with “the good papers”, called tourists, transit undisturbed. In the same valley where only in January this year the border killed two people, Fatallah Belhafif and Ullah Rezwan.

As of today, we return to organize in a place that has been abandoned for decades, which now belongs to nobody but lives thanks to the people who inhabit, build and self-manage it, in opposition to one and all states and laws that would like to repress any form of collective and individual autonomy. [Read More]

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Florence: a week of resistance on the roof of the Corsica 81 squat, “lift the siege of our neighborhood”

By: fawda - April 11th, 2022  Filed under: News

The occupation of the building of Viale Corsica 81 in Florence continues and resists. After the eviction on 15 March, on 5 April, the social centre in Rifredi was reoccupied, with some people now on the roof for 7 days.
There is a permanent solidarity gathering in the street, but also a constant presence of the police. However, the neighborhood responded with solidarity for the occupiers, despite the militarization of the streets. Some residents of Viale Corsica also passed on a message in which they explained that they welcomed the return of the occupants. “They came back and we are happy. They returned to the abandoned building of Viale Corsica 81, after the eviction that had left us with enormous sadness, they returned and left us alone, we left them alone. We used to see this building full of life. Lift the siege of our neighborhood. » [Read More]

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Florence: resquatted… the building of Viale Corsica 81 was again evicted

By: fawda - April 5th, 2022  Filed under: News

The new occupation of the building of Viale Corsica 81 in the Rifredi district of Florence lasted less than 24 hours. After almost ten years, the building was evicted in mid-March 2022 and then occupied again this morning.

Statement of the activists on their networks: “Today we reopened the squat of Viale Corsica 81″… “We have freed the building from its chains that have hampered him for the past three weeks.”

But hours after the police sealed on March 15, police arrived at the scene, pushing back those present and closing off the area. Inside, three comrades resisted and managed to climb onto the roof where a banner was unfurled with the words “Not for us but for everyone, occupy and resist”. [Read More]

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Florence: “Corsica 81 is everywhere”. After the evictions, the rebellious city responds with new openings

By: fawda - March 16th, 2022  Filed under: News

In Florence, they responded with 4 new openings following the eviction of Tuesday, March 15 against the squat of Viale Corsica 81.

Squat opened in November 2012 and attacked by the police, who first lured comrades to another part of the city with a surprise eviction, then showed up in force in front of Viale Corsica.
After Monday’s day of mobilization and resistance, this morning – Tuesday, March 16 – activists squatted 4 new buildings. A demonstration for the right to housing is announced in Florence on Saturday, March 19, the time and meeting point are still to be announced. [Read More]

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Florence: resistance during the eviction of the Corsica 81 squat

By: fawda - March 15th, 2022  Filed under: News

There will be resistance on one of the roofs of Viale Corsica 81 in case of eviction since this morning in Florence.

The building, which previously housed a company’s offices and laboratories, was squatted in November 2012. This morning, when news of the eviction spread, several dozen activists gathered in the neighborhood and marched through the streets in a spontaneous demonstration, now over, blocking traffic in the Piazza Dalmazia neighborhood. The protesters then returned to the building to support the rooftop protest, but were turned away by riot police. Everyone gathered via Benedetto Dei for a demo in the streets of the city. [Read More]

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Susa Valley: eviction of the occupied customs house in Claviere

By: fawda - August 5th, 2021  Filed under: News

This morning at 6 o’clock we woke up to the shots of Carabinieri, police and firemen destroying the barricades.
We are currently on our way out, being identified and denounced for aggravated occupation.
The people of passage without papers who were at the infopoint were removed by the Red Cross and the police to identify them and bring them to institutional centers between Turin and Bardonecchia.
This is how they try to cancel the spontaneous and direct solidarity on this infamous border.
We resist, join us in Claviere! Meet us after the last tunnel at the first parking of the village.
The police is trying to block the access to the village at the round about. The tunnel towards France is free. You can still pass, or you can leave your cars and continue on foot. [Read More]

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Susa Valley: former customs squatted in Claviere, statement against all borders

By: fawda - July 31st, 2021  Filed under: Communique, News

Today 31 july 2021, we have occupied Claviere’s ex customs, the Dagona Occupata. The building place that represented both border’s control and repression, and free circulation of products and tourists, now becomes a self-organized refuge, a space for political organization and direct solidarity, free and open to everyone.
We decided to occupy again to maintain a presence on the border and as a response to the previous evictions of Chez Jesus in Claviere (october 2018) and the Casa Cantoniera in Oulx (march 2021).
Following the last eviction, we came back to Claviere with a permanent camping, this is the place where people on the move are being pushed back during their journey by the repressive dispositives/forces of both the italian and french state. [Read More]

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Susa Valley: about the eviction of the Casa Cantoniera

By: fawda - March 29th, 2021  Filed under: Communique, News

For a year now, the pandemic has disrupted the lives of billions of people, and in the dystopian world where the huge increase in surveillance and control systems is legitimised by the doctrine of war on the virus, where everything is illegal except going to work, the evictions do not stop.
Two and a half years after it opened, the Casa Cantoniera Occupata, the self-managed shelter in Oulx, was evicted.
Inside the House was full of people: the pandemic has never stopped those on the move without the privilege of having a place to stay.

Occupied in December 2018, it was a place created to give solidarity to people who wanted to cross the French-Italian border at the Montgenèvre Pass. A place of struggle and self-organisation, against all borders and military and political devices that seek to control and select. [Read More]

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