House Occupation News

Amsterdam: Mokum Kraakt squats former windows in the Red Light District

Mokum Kraakt squats on the Dollebegijnensteeg in the Red Light District in solidarity with the sex workers and against the arrival of the erotic center. During a protest against the planned erotic centre, squatting collective Mokum Kraakt announced it has squatted a number of former sex work windows in De Wallen, Amsterdam’s red light district.

The squatters say the windows were squatted in solidarity with sex workers who fight against plans for an erotic centre on the outskirts of the city. Sex work has been a part of De Wallen for over 400 years and sex workers have clearly and repeatedly said they want to stay in the city centre. The people living close to the location of the prospective location of the erotic centre are also against it. And still, mayor Halsema is pushing through her plans.

According Mokum Kraakt, the planned erotic centre is in fact an erotic prison, in which the state has total control over who can and can’t sell, or buy, sex. In this, we see only the latest state attempt to control sex workers and restrict people’s right to sex and sexuality. Also, closing windows in De Wallen would force a part of the sex workers active there now into illegality, where exploitation and coercion are much more prevalent.

Although the municipality presents closing windows as a way to reduce mass tourism in the area, research shows that limiting sex work would barely have an impact on the number of tourists that flock to De Wallen. We previously occupied an empty hotel close to Leidse square to protest Amsterdam’s tourism policy and we say the municipality itself is to blame for out-of-control tourism. The municipality was never against mass tourism, and isn’t now. The real aim is for a different kind of tourist to come to the city, a richer kind. In the meantime, the city becomes more and more unaffordable for its citizens, sex workers are stigmatised and pushed away, and the large numbers of tourists stay as they are.

The former sex work windows have been vacant for nearly two years, and are owned by Stadsgoed NV, the real estate company responsible for introducing the maligned waffle shops to Amsterdam’s city centre. In the squat, we will create a meeting place for sex workers to organise. We demand more sex and less Halsema. We are against pushing out sex workers and against a prudish city. What’s fundamental for us is that inhabitants and workers decide what the neighbourhood looks like, instead of the municipality changing things unrecognisably from the top down. If it’s up to the mayor, De Wallen will become a sanitised shopping mall for the moneyed class. We don’t accept that and that’s why we will sabotage every step that’s taken towards the erotic centre.

Mokum Kraakt
Amsterdam, Netherlands
mokumkraakt [at] riseup [dot] net
https://squ.at/r/8g9h
https://mokumkraakt.nl/

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Barcelona: the police install a camera to spy on a squat in the district of Gràcia

A camera hidden in a dark box on the roof of a restaurant monitored the activity of a squat house in the Gràcia district of Barcelona, at least since December 22 when it was detected. As disseminated by the group Ègida -Defensa Collectiva Anarquista, the video surveillance team focused directly on the door of the squat, which is why they rule out that it is the restaurant’s security system.

Neighborhood witnesses have told La Directa that during the last weeks they had observed the presence of “strange” individuals and vehicles parked with people inside the house all day: “I saw them in front of the house, I am convinced that they were plainclothes policemen,” says a neighbor. One of the managers of the restaurant, where the state security forces had placed the camera, told this media outlet that they have “nothing to say”.

The uncovered camera, which allows external control of the images, is a Dahua CA-HZ2030T and has been connected to the power grid and a Telefónica distribution box for real-time transmission of the recording. Through a statment published on Indymedia, signed by Ègid, they made public photographs from the camera and denounced the fact that “the state and private companies, in this case Dahua, profit at the expense of our limited sense of freedom, creating common enemies.”

In the text where they denounce the facts, they recall that the inhabitants of the squatted house under the spotlight were arrested on August 23, following May Day 2023. As detailed by the press service of the Mossos at the time, the detainees were accused of “damaging establishments with blunt objects” that day. Specifically, these would be ATMs and the headquarters of Zara, Primark and Starbucks in the center of Barcelona, among others. The Central Research Unit of Violent Extremism of the Mossos d’Esquadra was in charge of carrying out the operation. Those affected say that since then “the presence of members of the secret police has been seen in the vicinity of the building”.

Video surveillance of the Kasa de la Muntanya

It is not the first time that the anarchist and squatter movement has been spied on in Barcelona, nor specifically in the district of Gràcia. In July 2013, the installation of a chimney that did not draw smoke from the roof of the Turó del Cargol school with a hidden object inside raised suspicions. The object turned out to be a video surveillance camera that focused on the interior courtyard of the CSO Kasa de la Muntanya, in the La Salut neighborhood.

A few weeks later, a group of workers went up to remove the device, to reassemble it, days later, inside a false ventilation tube on the roof of the Hospital de la Esperanza. Facing directly on the façade and the entrances to the social center, the new perspective allowed the camera to record at all times who entered and left the building. Eventually, a group of activists dismantled the spy system.

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author: Gemma Garcia, La Directa

Belo Horizonte (Brazil): “Casa Encantada” book project

Hello comrades, how are you all doing? I wish everyone a happy new year filled with struggle, solidarity, and a lot of revolutionary construction.

I’m writing to friends and accomplices from various parts of the globe, whom I met during tours and conspiracies, those I visited or who visited our squat Kasa Invisível, and also who corresponded and cooperated with us at some point, to announce our campaign on the FireFund platform to launch my next book “Casa Encantada”, which documents 20 autonomous squats in our city, Belo Horizonte, Brazil. With this campaign, I hope to translate it into four languages and undertake a tour to release it in Brazil and Europe in 2024. The campaign is flexible, but I’m hoping to achieve the total amount to be able to print and cross the ocean for this tour and speak in different social centers and communities.

On this first day of January, known as the day of “Universal Brotherhood and Peace”, it’s better remembered by us revolutionaries who dream of the end of capitalism and all forms of oppression as the day of the outbreak of the Haitian anti-colonial struggle in 1804, the Cuban Revolution of 1959, the Zapatista Uprising of 1994, and the declaration of autonomy of the revolutionary cantons of Afrîn, Jazira, and Kobanî in Rojava! It is on this day that we have chosen to spread the word about this campaign among our closest comrades and accomplices. The closing date is the famous March 18, the anniversary of the Paris Commune.

Please visit the link below to learn more about the project and how to support it. If you can donate any amount, please do so. But don’t forget to share it with other individuals and collectives who might be interested in supporting. Feel free to post and spread it within your networks. Also, in the future, please write to me if you’d like to help organize a talk between April and May in Europe.

Thank you very much! See you on the road!

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Contact me at: comofas@@@riseup.net

Brooklyn (NY): Skull Squat defense ongoing

For the past week, squatters and friends have defended Skull Squat in Brooklyn from shady developers and their goons attempting to break-in, lock out residents, and demolish the building. After forcing entry three days in a row with hammers and angle grinders, the developers have been turned away for the past two days by dozens of punks, anarchists, neighbors, and friends. The building has been squatted for six months by six black, brown, and white transgender anarchists.

The developers, two persistent and violent Israeli-American brothers, do not own the building. They forced long-term residents out years ago, allowed the building to deteriorate, and are hoping to reclaim it once it is foreclosed upon. They convinced the police of their claim to “management” with dubious work permits, who allowed them to break in and hurt those trying to defend the squat. Both their purported lease and permits have been found invalid by several civil authorities.

An affordable housing cooperative owns the three-story rowhouse and abandoned it years ago. It’s in a neighborhood we aren’t supposed to be able to afford. But we found it, did a little work, and live here. And we aren’t leaving it without a fight.

By defending our home, we directly confront the development machine that wants to take this building, raze it, and build another condo. The underfunded city agencies tasked with preserving affordable housing have long neglected to protect the building, so we’re doing it ourselves.

Last week, squatters at Skull woke up to construction workers in their living room. The equally startled workers called one of the developers, who called the pigs. Officers who showed up determined we are residents – and thus, that this is a matter for civil court – and turned away the developer and his workers.

Several days later, the other brother arrived with a new crew of goons. They shoved and kicked squatters and forced their way into the first floor, which they locked up. The pigs determined they had a right to be on that floor and stood by as they assaulted us with pipes and hammers. After they left we removed their locks and reinforced the building but on the very next day they again forced their way in. As the police again watched on, they demolished the first floor with sledgehammers and attempted to break water and sewage pipes in the basement. After they left we took the whole building back again, and spent all night strategizing and constructing barricades.

The following day, over sixty friends and supporters turned out on rapid response after break-in attempts resumed.

Today, they again tried to breach the front door with angle grinders and after a few moments they gave up and moved on to grind the lock off the bulkhead hatch to the basement. In the forty-year lineage of New York squatters, they were met with piss jugs emptied on them from the window. They gave up trying to force entry.

As I’m writing this friends from the local info-shop are laughing and talking around a grill and folding tables of food and drinks. Yesterday, squatters from a neighboring city played cards on the sidewalk before quickly linking arms to defend the doors from arriving goons. Old friends and squatmates have reconnected on the barricades and new connections have formed between comrades across subcultures and generations.

Tonight is the winter solstice. The goons had not yet left as the sun set. Tomorrow the sun will rise and the days will get longer and Skull Squat will still be here and will be for much longer.

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Athens: demonstration in defense of Ano Kato Patission

Demonstration in defense of Ano Kato Patission, after the successful resquat of the steki on 9 december 2023. Sunday 17 december, at 12.00 pm. Pre-gathering at Steki Ano Kato Patission, Naxos 75.

Last summer, while Greece was experiencing the violent signs of the climate crisis (fires, floods), magnified by the unpreparedness of the relevant state mechanisms, the government adopted a classic recipe for decoordination for disasters: the eviction of occupied spaces.
At the same time that the state proves in practice that it is incapable of dealing with our problems, it is trying to gain some legitimacy in the eyes of the world by selling security and order.
But with tenacity and militancy, three of the evicted squats of the summer are once again in the hands of the community. After Zizania in Victoria and Evagelismos in Heraklion, Crete, it is the turn of Stekiou Ano Kato Patission to get its space back, to revive a debris building.
The contribution of occupied spaces to the transformation of society proves important, especially in cases where they do not function as an end in themselves of some ideological hegemony but transform the here and now of the entire neighborhoods where they are located.
By proposing and prefiguring another way of social organization, they recreate public space and change the architecture of cities.
In addition, they create social bonds of companionship and free coexistence of individuals. Perhaps, on the occasion of the particular case of squats and self-organized social spaces in general, we can talk about the contemporary problems of cities that seem to surpass us: individual immobility, the epidemic of loneliness, political weakening, environmental degradation, the commercialization of cities and neighborhoods
That is why on Sunday, December 17, at 12 noon, we support the neighborhood march to defend the occupation in Patissia. Instead of letting empty buildings fall into disrepair, we open them up to the whole society!

Αυτοδιαχειριζόμενο Στέκι Άνω Κάτω Πατησίων
Steki Ano Kato Patission, Naxou 75, Athènes, Grèce
anokato [at] espiv [dot] net
https://squ.at/r/9q0t

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Athens: Steki Ano Kato Patission resquatted

On saturday december 9, 2023, the Steki Ano Kato Patission was resquatted by 80 comrades. Then 250 people gathered in front to support the reoccupation. This gathering was attacked by cops and people were trapped in apartment buildings, in the adjacent dormitories and in the Steki itself. At the same time, teargas was thrown into cars, cops shouted at people that they would burn them alive, arrests were made, and people were beaten up. The cops also surrounded the Steki, teargas was thrown inside. People defended the Steki and kept it. There are seriously injured comrades, they are taken to the hospital. Around 19 people were arrested. On sunday 10, solidarity rally for those arrested during the Steki Ano-Kato Patission resquat at 11:00, Dikastiria (Evelpidon).
The Ano-Kato resquat took place on the nationwide day of action in solidarity with the squats, with a demonstration at Monastiraki in Athens. The attacks on our squats confirm once again that solidarity, self-organization and unmediated struggle are a formidable enemy for the state. The call out was made by Ano Kato Patission, ASP (Autonomous Polytechnic Steki), Evagelismos and Zizania.
STRUGGLES ARE NOT EMPTIED, IDEAS ARE NOT SEALED
SOLIDARITY WITH SQUATS

Statement from Steki Ano-Kato Patission:

We said that we are not leaving and we mean it

Today we are glad to transform our mottos into action and to have regain with persistence and confidence a fragment of our lives. The garden where we grew up and learned to live have returned to us through this action taken by tens of comrades, friends and solidarians. We are defending our place in the city by retaking this abandoned space for us and the coming generations. We light up the wood stove and the oven, transforming our fire into a message of resistance to the squatting movement. With our fists pointed to the sky we climb to the terrace of our squat, sending our warmest greetings to all those around the world who persist resisting.

We break the vicious cycle of fear reclaiming what is rightfully ours; we may not unconditionally support the civil rights provided by the State, yet we struggle against the law to retake what we consider to be ours within the city. Those things that we have built with our hands and minds, those things that are assumed dead unless capilitalised upon, like the thousands of empty houses and buildings in Athens. We choose to give life to the “dead” property, turning empty spaces into collective places of resistance. We creatively subvert the social context within which we assert value for these spaces: Not for profit making, not for real estate agencies, not for NGOs but in order to cover and transcend our collective needs and desires. We think of it as a laboratory, in which we build our collective relations of struggle, care and welfare, beyond the institution of the family, beyond religion and the State. This is the place where our visions come to life, where we come together imagining new potential worlds, against the normalisation of massacres and borders, against every god and every master.

We think of our political space in Naxou 75 and Krassa street (Koliatsou square in Patissia) as such a laboratory. For the past 27 years it has been the workshop where we express our subversive ideas and actions, against exploitation, oppressions and injustice. Those were 27 years during which this place was freed and open to the neighbourhood; hospitable to every dreamer, excluded proletarian, punks, to the world’s damned, to the crooked, the underground artists, musicians and poets, the freaks, the uncompromised spirits, the addicts and the young. During those 27 years we resisted against this fucked-up society: where racists and cops are violently killing our people, where pushbacks and “shipwrecks” at the boarders and femicides are normalised, where drowning people at the ports and “falling” from scaffolds is the “naturalised” condition forced upon us. During those 27 years we learned the ins and outs of collective living and discovered how to cross the pathways of struggling against power.

During those 27 years we ridicule the world of “private property”: we will be here as long as we have to, even if it means that we’d do it all again. This is our neighbourhood, where we went to school; this is where we firstly met with our friends, where we live and work. Where we formed bonds with our neighbours and where we hated for the first time the violence imposed by the rich. We struggle to take back everything that has been stolen from us. We are not going to let so easily the Papaoikonomou family, those rich inheritors living in the Northern suburbs of the city, whom own tens of properties in Patissia and in various islands, to steal it from us. We are clearly stating that it’s gonna take long until they rip us off. We are constantly spreading in this neighbourhood. We are swirling around the big cypress of the squat.

27 years squatting
27 years Ano Kato Patission
We are not gonna leave.

Αυτοδιαχειριζόμενο Στέκι Άνω Κάτω Πατησίων
Steki Ano Kato Patission, Naxou 75, Athens, Greece
anokato [at] espiv [dot] net
https://squ.at/r/9q0t

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Heraklion: Evagelismos resquatted

Today December 1, 2023, we resquatted Evagelismos, giving our final response to the repression and militarization of our neighborhood and the wider city center.

We are here, in the place where two months ago our comrade A. was almost found dead at the hands of bastards in uniforms when armed forces of ECM and OPKE invaded the building. In the same spot, where for two months all kinds of cops have been harassing passers-by and neighbors, afraid of sitting on the steps of the building. At the same point, which by order of the Senate of the University of Cyprus, the historic building of of Evagelismos was sealed and suffered numerous damages by the tons of cement they poured. All the above were considered “collateral” damage, according to the Rector, in order to return the building to its rightful owner, at the same time, of course, returning to its previous state, devastated and abandoned and far away from being a public space. Today -all together- we validate in practice, what the whole city knows: THE EVAGELISMOS SQUAT WILL STAY.

Over the past 21 years, the Evagelismos squat has accommodated the desires and needs of hundreds of people who have passed through it. It is our home, it is a meeting point, it is a symbol of resistance and struggle for the city of Heraklion. The people of Evagelismos, as part of the movement and the local community, have fought and participated in struggles and will continue to do so. We remain on the side of history, the oppressed and the persecuted, the rebels and the militants. Against individualization, misery and frustration. Against racism, fascism and patriarchy. Against the state and capital.

The Big House is back.

-21 years of history are not extinguished by an evacuation, just as the flame in our eyes and hearts is not extinguished by repression-

We call on people to support the solidarity rally at this time at the Evagelismos Squat (Theotokopoulou 18, Heraklion, Crete)

Solidarity with the struggling people of Palestine

Power to all antifascists who fought fascists and cops on November 1st.

Solidarity with comrade B.

The same story once again – the cops shot because they were Roma. We do not forget the state murders of Nikos S., Costas F., Christos M.

Good luck to comrade Paula Roupa and comrade Kostas Dimalexis who were recently released.

We send signals of resistance to all squats throughout Greece that have been or are threatened with repression.

Our thoughts with comrade A.

PS. A big thank you to the neighbors who showed us their solidarity, but also to all the people who stood with us all this time and brought each time today one step closer.

Reconquest is just the beginning!

Evagelismos squat
Θεοτοκοπούλου 18
Heraklion, Crete
Greece
evagelismos [dot] squat [at] espiv [dot] net
https://squ.at/r/1q5l
http://evagelismos.squat.gr/

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Barcelona: El Kubo, La Ruina and Estudi 9 social centers defend themselves against three simultaneous evictions

The courts of Santa Coloma de Gramenet and Barcelona have aligned themselves with the Catalan police to proceed today, November 30, with the construction work of three buildings belonging to Sareb and an investment company based in Luxembourg.

In a joint statement issued by El Kubo y La Ruina from Barcelona’s Bonanova and by Estudi 9 from the old town of Santa Coloma de Gramenet, it is announced that this Thursday, November 30, “our houses are trenches”… They consider that the suspension of the previous eviction date of the Colomense building was an “attempt to divide our struggle”, but they advance that “it will be expensive for them, we know how to play our own strategies”.

The mobilization began in the early hours of the morning, with a march from the Uri Caballero square in Vallcarca to the Bonanova square, next to where El Kubo and La Ruina are located. In Santa Coloma de Gramenet, the rally took place on Calle Pedró, where the Estudi 9 social centre is located, the epicentre of the struggle against an urban plan promoted by Mayor Núria Parlon (PSC).

All three buildings are in the hands of large holders. In the case of the Bonanova properties, its owner is the Company for the Management of Assets Proceeding from Bank Restructuring (SAREB), a body created with the contribution of 60,000 million of public money with the aim of rescuing the banking system from the financial crisis of fifteen years ago.

The company behind the eviction of Santa Coloma de Gramenet is Hiperion Activos Inmobiliarios, a subsidiary of Saturno Holdco SA, which in turn is a front for the Luxembourg-based company Ocm ReDes Holdco Sarl. If we follow the trail through the Commercial Registry, it is associated with Coparalq Holdco and both managed by executives of the Dutch group Intertrust, which appears in the Panama Papers of companies operating in tax havens. From Santa Coloma de Gramanet to Panama, passing through Luxembourg.

“They can’t stand the fact that we organize on the margins and don’t respect their property titles. It is evident the danger that our practices pose to false peace and social uniformity and we are clear that we are not going to play their game,” say the Bonanova activists. And from the other side of the Besòs, they add: “If their strategy was to unify two relevant evictions to make their work more effective, our answer is clear: coordinate and confront repression with greater force.”

400 riot police in the eviction of Bonanova

The action of the Mobile Brigade began at half past five in the morning, when a dozen agents placed the first protection fences of the Barcelona City Council in the Plaça de la Bonanova. About forty vans from the central anti-riot unit, arriving from the Egara building in Sabadell, are participating. Then, with a loudspeaker, they warned of the beginning of the intervention to hand over the buildings to the representatives of Sareb, who are already in the area accompanied by the judicial entourage.

At six o’clock, the first firecrackers were launched by the activists who resisted from the buildings of El Kubo and La Ruina. A first attempt by the police to gain access to the courtyard of the building has been thwarted by the large amount of objects and liquids that have been thrown from the windows. More than a hundred demonstrators have moved in solidarity from the Uri Caballero square in Vallcarca. At least one person is hanging with ropes and harnesses on the façade of El Kubo and three others have sat on the roof of La Ruina.

The agents of the E-800 team of the Mobile Brigade, equipped with autonomous battery-powered radios, have accessed the courtyard of both buildings by moving inside a rudimentary barred cage to avoid the impact of objects. From within the building, they have tried to scare them away by throwing fire extinguisher powder. The public expenses of today’s police deployment exceeds 125,000 euros, including the salaries of the officers and the logistics used. Shortly before 10 a.m., members of the Fire Brigade arrived, who according to sources from the Barcelona City Council will only carry out tasks of “reviewing” the structure of the buildings.

At the same time, a hundred riot police from the ARRO Metropolitana Nord are carrying out the eviction of the Estudi 9 social center on Pedró street in Santa Coloma de Gramenet. The building is at the epicenter of a controversial urban plan battled by the neighborhood movement in the area. The property is owned by a commercial company based in Luxembourg and with ties to tax havens. Its administrators appear on the Panama Papers list of tax evaders, published by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. This afternoon, starting at 7 p.m., a joint demonstration of La Ruina, El Kubo and Estudi 9 is planned in the streets of Santa Coloma de Gramenet.

CSO La Ruïna
Carrer de Sant Joan de La Salle 4, Barcelona
https://squ.at/r/7yo0

El Kubo
Carrer de Sant Joan de La Salle 6, Barcelona
https://squ.at/r/9szo

CSO La Ksa Estudi 9
Carrer Padró 14, Santa Coloma de Gramanet, Barcelona
https://squ.at/r/7m3v

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author: Jesús Rodríguez, El Salto/La Directa

Barcelona: El Kubo, la Ruïna and Estudi 9 coordinate to stop evictions

“Our houses are trenches”

The courts of Santa Coloma de Gramenet and Barcelona sided with the Mossos d’Esquadra to execute, on Thursday 30 November, the eviction notices of three buildings belonging to Sareb and an investment company based in Luxembourg.

In a joint statement issued by El Kubo and La Ruïna from Barcelona’s Bonanova and Estudi 9 from the old town of Santa Coloma de Gramenet, it is announced that this Thursday, November 30, “our houses are trenches”. They consider that the suspension of the previous date of eviction of the Colombian building was an “attempt to divide our struggle”, but they anticipate that “it will be expensive, we know how to play our own strategies”.

The mobilization will begin at dawn, with a march that will leave at half past five from the Plaza Uri Caballero in Vallcarca bound for Plaza de la Bonanova, next to where El Kubo and La Ruïna meet. At the same time, the residents of Santa Coloma de Gramenet will gather on Carrer del Pedró, where the Estudi 9 social centre is located, the epicentre of the fight against an urban plan promoted by Mayor Núria Parlon (PSC).

All three buildings are in the hands of large holders. In the case of Bonanova properties, the owner is the Company for the Management of Assets from Bank Restructuring (SAREB), a body created with the contribution of 60,000 million public money with the aim of rescuing the banking system from the financial crisis of fifteen years ago.

The trading company driving the eviction of Santa Coloma de Gramenet is Hiperion Activos Inmobiliarios, a subsidiary of Saturn Holdco SA, which is also a cover for the company Ocm Redes Holdco Sarl based in Luxembourg. If we trace it through the business registry, it is associated with Coparalq Holdco and both managed by directors of the Dutch group Intertrust, which appears in the Panama Papers of companies operating in tax havens. From Santa Coloma de Gramenet to Panama, passing through Luxembourg.

“They can’t stand us organizing on the margins and not respecting their property titles. The danger that our practices pose to false peace and social uniformity is evident and we are clear that we will not enter into their game”, say the activists of La Bonanova. And from the other riverbed of the Besòs, they add: «if their strategy was to unify two relevant evictions to make their task more effective, our answer is clear: coordinate and face the repression with more force».

Directory of squats in Barcelona: https://radar.squat.net/en/groups/city/barcelona/country/XC/squated/squat
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Directory of groups (social centers, collectives, squats) in Catalonia: https://radar.squat.net/en/groups/country/XC
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Amsterdam: two buildings squatted next to Nieuwmarkt

We squatted two buildings in light of the Housing Crisis, International Day against Sexist and Sexual Violence, in solidarity with our Palestinian comrades, and we express our anger about fascism taking over the Netherlands.

We revealed two squatted buildings on 22 November, at Krom Boomssloot 45 and 47, in light of the need for housing for our comrades and our sisters.

In light of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women on the 25th of November, it is crucial and a priority to open housing where women can feel safer, where we can find each other and grow our resistance together.

Our solidarity specifically goes to migrant women, especially those making their way through the nightmarish Dutch asylum process, sex workers and the increasing number of women sleeping in the streets. Local and national governments are excluding and ignoring their voice(s) and material needs.

Migrant women are subject to harassment in camps, sex workers risk more violence due to Amsterdam’s widely contested plan about the Red Light District; there are no women’s shelters in Amsterdam leaving homeless women in a highly vulnerable situation e.g. sexual assault in the streets or domestic abuse in a dependent relationship. On this matter, Blijf Groep does a great job for victims of domestic violence, should be more known, and should have more locations. There is only 1 location in Amsterdam and 5 in the Netherlands. Feminism means including all women. Therefore, we decided to open a squat to house women and transgender people.

We will not tolerate empty housing left to rot. At a time when alienation is getting stronger in the Netherlands, we take action. We revealed the houses the day of the election, so the day that Wilders and the PVV won the elections of the Netherlands ‘by a landslide’. His program and ideology is dangerous and clearly fascist.

He stated to hate Islam, wants to reduce social housing – during a housing crisis, and to quit the European Union in favour of a supra-nationalist stance. His hate of a religion, his targetting of specific groups, and his extreme far right ideology is history repeating itself, just like in countries around us. Voting has proven to not work, to not be ‘enough’. It is important to stay in solidarity with each other, here and internationally, and to act against fascism. Organize, squat a house for you and for others, and resist.

Finally, we express our solidarity with the Palestinian people and their struggle against the Israelian occupation and attacks. We also squat for our Palestinian refugees comrades and sisters, even more neglected by the asylum and refugee legal systems.

The solution is ours: our action and solidarity with each other.

Jin Jyan Azadi
Palestine will be free
No Gods No Masters No Husbands
And Kraken Gaat Door!

Some squats in the Netherlands: https://radar.squat.net/en/groups/country/NL/squated/squat
Groups (social center, collective, squat) in the Netherlands: https://radar.squat.net/en/groups/country/NL
Events in the Netherlands: https://radar.squat.net/en/events/country/NL

Barcelona: La Ruïna and el Kubo will not die

We will turn our house into a battlefield, el Kubo and the Ruïna will not fall. See you on November 30 at 5:30 a.m. in Uri Caballero square, Vallcarca metro station in Barcelona. If el Kubo and La Ruïna fall, the neighborhood will burn down. OKUPA Y RESISTE!

Statement made in February 2023, La Ruïna and el Kubo threatened with eviction:

Our squats are trenches.
Here we go, on March 23 they are going to try to evict us. In 2016, an office building was squatted for the first time in the Sant Gervasi neighbourhood and we called it El Kubo. The Kubo has been the home and place of passage of more than a hundred people in the more than 6 years that it has been in existence. This has been the home and trench of many people. It has been an oasis of resistance in the bourgeois quarter of Barcelona for many years and this has not been easy. “Squat and resist” defines the history of the Kubo very well. During all these years we have faced two evictions and the constant siege of extreme right-wing groups, capitalist press and political parties. And despite the hostilities we have reoccupied and resisted this house all this time.

The Kubo has been the satellite and fundamental point for the birth and resistance of what is now the CSO La Ruïna in 2019. This space was abandoned by SAREB for more than 15 years. La Ruïna has also been home to many people for four years and a space that has tried in the most coherent way possible to stand up to gentrification and speculation in our city, in the neighbourhood with the highest per capita income in Barcelona.

The story of La Ruïna cannot be understood without El Kubo and vice versa. And this is why it is so difficult for us to separate the two houses, since for many years we have worked as families who feed off each other in the struggle for the defense of squatting and direct action, specifically, in a neighborhood that, as we have said before, has not ceased attacks since we arrived.

We believed, and still believe, that we need to have a presence and occupy spaces where we are not wanted. Where the businessmen, the politicians, live. Where the embassies are, where the wealth is, where there is confrontation and where we have a remarkable impact. The two properties belong to the SAREB, which currently has around 57,000 empty properties spread throughout the state, to which we point directly and tell them that we are not going to leave, that we are going to defend our homes and our social centers as if it were a trench since we are certain that they are worth fighting for.

Our squat, apart from being a living space, has hosted local struggles, international struggles, DIY training workshops. It has been a space where we can question the structural problems of our society and organize against them. We have organized concerts, soup kitchens, we have created culture, theater, poetry, talks, debates and above all we have created bonds of solidarity and resistance.

We believe in squatting, not only as a tool of direct action against the state and the precariousness to which it subjects us, but also as a way to put into practice horizontality, solidarity, mutual support and a way to grow together with our comrades and neighbors on the margins of the subjugation of the state.

The structural problems are obvious, people without homes and houses without people and in the face of this unscrupulous injustice we are going to continue squatting. In the face of any attempt to put an end to our movement with smear campaigns in the mass media or with laws such as the LeCrim, we will continue to squat and organize ourselves better. Because we have less and less to lose and more desire to live a livable life, in community, following the principles of non-aggression, claiming self-management, self-defense and the struggle against this grey future that awaits us in the cities.

We believe and will believe in what we do, and we will continue to squat despite the laws that are directed against us, just as we did with the previous ones, and just as it was done whenever there was private property to squat.

Because our homes and social centers are much more than four walls. They are spaces where we can try to create new alternatives, new ways of life outside the state where we can develop as people and that is why we must defend them at all costs.

We know from the record that they’re not going to stop, they’re going to come for us. But from the runes of some buildings, in the bourgeois heart of Barcelona, we have built spaces where we could think that we could fight against this network of destruction and apathy that is capital and the projects of European cities. Dead, grey, unlivable and dehumanized to the point of nausea.

You don’t know the pain, frustration and hatred that this eviction generates in us. Inside each one of us, our chests beat with fury as we see how quickly you are going to destroy years of sweat, beautiful moments, hard work and resistance when we see the future that lies ahead. The rage that invades us will grow with each blow of the water hammer that our doors receive and our organization will be stronger for each blow of the truncheon that we receive.

The day the BRIMO arrives at La Ruïna or the Kubo you will find us in front of you.

We call on all squats, collectives, individuals in Barcelona and its surroundings to help us defend the Kubo and the Ruïna, just as we urge the defense of all the liberated spaces in the state with everything we have at our disposal so that it continues to be possible to build together, organize, and continue dreaming of a life that is not the one they want to impose on us.

The anarchist resistance in the bourgeois quarter of Barcelona.

Directory of squats in Barcelona: https://radar.squat.net/en/groups/city/barcelona/country/XC/squated/squat
Directory of squats in Catalonia: https://radar.squat.net/en/groups/country/XC/squated/squat
Directory of groups (social centers, collectives, squats) in Catalonia: https://radar.squat.net/en/groups/country/XC
Events in Catalonia: https://radar.squat.net/en/events/country/XC

Amsterdam: two houses owned by Blackstone squatted during the ADEV demo

No free spaces without a free Palestine

Amsterdam, October 21st – We have squatted these 2 buildings (Prinsengracht 804 et 806), despite the city’s (and the police’s) best attempts to make it very difficult, because we believe that ADEV(Amsterdam Danst Ergens Voor – Amsterdam dances for something)’s call to ‘disown stupid property’ is a call to action.

These buildings, owned and left empty by a massive american investment firm called Blackstone, some (though not all) of whose crimes you can read on the banner, are definitely, by all definitions, stupid property. But we want to stress that, in a capitalist system that puts corporate giants over human life and dignity, ALL PROPERTY IS STUPID AND ALL PROPERTY IS THEFT.
In our fight against the housing crisis in the Netherlands and our celebration of the so-called ‘free spaces’, we cannot forget that we are fighting a much broader struggle – the struggle for land rights worldwide & against capitalist dispossession. As we dance here today, Gaza is running critically low on food and water, and its starving population is being bombed to extinction. The number of people killed had reached nearly 4000 as of Thursday, and the number of displaced persons mounts to 1 million.

It is the same logic, the same colonial capitalist system that causes the displacement of people here as it does elsewhere. Blackstone has not only nearly singlehandedly created the housing crisis in Europe. It also invests in Israeli tech, now deployed heavily by the military to commit war crimes, and has pledged millions to ‘support’ Israel days after the latest siege against Gaza began. Blackstone has direct ties to war criminals in Saudi Arabia through infrastructure megaprojects and works with the US Immigration and Customs enforcement in tracking, racially profiling and detaining people on the move. Blackstone has employed kids as young as 13 to work in slaughterhouses & owns more than half of the company that has cut down and destroyed parts of the Amazon rain forest, leading to deadly forest fires in 2019/20 in which nearly 50 000 square kilometers of rainforest were lost.

As this long list of Blackstone’s crimes shows all too clearly, capitalism is a death cult. As we stand in front of numerous irreversible tipping points, too many already passed, what we have to lose is nothing less than life itself. From the mass extinction of species, extreme weather events and large parts of the earth becoming completely uninhabitable, to the many people directly or indirectly killed by climate collapse.

Capitalism in crisis also means an intensification of violence. As the colonial empire is coming to its end, as capitalism enters another cycle of economic crisis, the fear of people’s self determination and collective strength leads those in power to intensify repression. Land defenders everywhere are facing increasing criminalization – in the Amazon rainforest, nearly 200 environmental activists were murdered in 2020 for resisting the Blackstone-funded projects that led to the forest fires. In Chiapas, people are facing large-scale forced displacement; forced disappearances; land divestments; assassinations; torture; espionage and criminalization of social protests at the hands of the Mexican state and industrial megaprojects. And right now, in Palestine, we are witnessing the colonial Israeli state committing a genocide against the people of Gaza with the full consent and support of the Dutch government. When our leaders and mass media is trying to justify the indiscriminate murder of thousands by painting Palestinians as savages or terrorists, staying silent means being complicit.

Our struggle for housing and dignity is fundamentally a struggle for land, a struggle against exploitation, displacement and the destruction of this planet. Our solidarity with comrades around the world, in the struggles we have mentioned here and those we have not, can therefore never be just symbolic. Their struggle is our struggle. How many more times are we going to stand here and say enough is enough? how many more people need to die? Too many lines allready crossed and lives lost. Enough happend and the global socialist revolution did not come. Might not come, Might not come in time to stop the destruction of life as we know it.
Capitalism is death.
Israel is death.
still
The time seems never quite right to act. We are still waiting for someone to save us, making demands from governments, hoping for technocratic solutions to stop climate collapse, we look at the united nations and cry out that genocide is against international law, while every 15 minutes a child is murdered in gaza.

Our words are followed by actions. We have to do it ourselves. It is here in the Netherlands, in Europe, that the companies are based that fund and produce the weapons that are used against the people of Palestine. It is here in the global north, where the warmongering vultures sit in their ivory towers as they line their pockets with the profits of death and destruction. Let us show them that they are not invincible, that they can be targeted, harmed, that there actions will not go unnoticed and that there will be consequences.
We call upon you to show up to the next Palestine protest; inform yourself on the companies and states that drive the destruction of land and dispossession of people worldwide. Destroy these companies, help bring the death machine of capitalism to a halt by whatever means necessary. Check in on your comrades from and in the middle east. Show some love to the people around you that are struggling, build community, share your knowledge and skills. Anyone of us hold the capacity to act. to Fight back. to resist. it is not going to be easy and there will be repression. We too, are afraid, but we cannot let our fear stop us from acting. We must be strong. Because if the people of gaza can find the strength and power to resist against all odds, under impossible circumstance,then we can too.

There are no free spaces without a free Palestine !
No one is free untill we are all free.
Fuck blackstone !

Anarchist Emma Goldman famously said “If I can’t dance I don’t want to be part of your revolution” and we agree that our joy in this world is also resistance. But as we dance here today, let us not forget the struggle to make this revolution happen.

Press statement

On Saturday, October 21st, during ADEV 2023, we revealed that we have squatted two buildings owned by the American private investment giant, Blackstone.

Blackstone owns 1700 houses in the Netherlands and is almost singlehandedly responsible for the housing crisis in Europe.

Cultivating empty houses for profit while people struggle to find a roof over their head is not the only activity Blackstone is involved in; Blackstone uses child labor, destroys the amazon rainforest, collaborates with the USA immigration force ICE, violently evicts tenants and funds the Israeli genocidal state.

With our action we want to especially put focus on the situation in Palestine and Blackstone’s involvement in it. Not only does Blackstone invest in Israeli tech companies that have direct contracts with the Israeli military; they have also donated to different organizations in support of Israel, days after it began its violent siege against Gaza. One of these organisations (UJA of New York) sponsored an event promoting settlements in the West Bank in the past and today their emergency fund is not just used for humanitarian aid, but also to fund charter flights for Israeli reservists.

As of the day of ADEV, Gaza is running critically low on food and water and its starving population is being bombed to extinction – a genocide that the Dutch government openly supports. This is not something we can forget or ignore as we dance against ‘stupid property’ and the housing crisis, because the struggle for decent housing is fundamentally a struggle for right to land and against state and capitalist dispossession. As the example of Blackstone shows, our struggles are borne of the same root poison – capitalism. Our solidarity with land struggles worldwide, therefore, must be more than just symbolic.

We call upon everyone to show up and take action against the genocide in Palestine.

Some squats in the Netherlands: https://radar.squat.net/en/groups/country/NL/squated/squat
Groups (social center, collective, squat) in the Netherlands: https://radar.squat.net/en/groups/country/NL
Events in the Netherlands: https://radar.squat.net/en/events/country/NL

Indymedia https://indymedia.nl/node/53909

Berlin (Germany): Barricades and stones for the anniversary of Liebig34 eviction

Housing is not a commodity! Two apartments in the Liebig14 expropriated

“We will not surrender. And even if they drag us out of our homes. We will return. And we will take back what is taken from us.”
Words from the Liebig34 on October 9, 2020, at 04:00 am.

Exactly three years ago today, on October 9, 2020, the anarcha queer feminist project Liebig34 was evicted. More than twelve years ago, on February 2, 2011, the house project Liebig14 was evicted. The evictions were attacks on our struggles to shape our lives and places of living in a self-determined way and from below. They were attacks on our collective organizing against sexist violence and capitalist patriarchy.

Exactly today, on October 9, 2023, we expropriated two vacant apartments in Liebig14. We declare them common property of the neighborhood.

We cannot turn back time, but the memory of struggles that were fought lives in our steps today. We draw strength from the awareness of our history, not because we wish the past back but because in what we do today, tomorrow shines through. Because we seek new ways and spaces to put our ideas of self-organization, mutual aid and autonomy into practice.

The previously vacant apartments are to be sold – as in the rest of Liebig14 as well as in the houses Rigaer95 and Rigaer96 – as high-priced condominiums. The so-called owner is the AfD-affiliated company “Hanse Real”. Other houses in the neighborhood are also acutely threatened by displacement. Not least the current residents in Liebig34, who act as a temporary solution of Padovicz and rent under miserable conditions until the house will be luxury renovated. The upcoming Amazon Tower in our immediate neighborhood will cause rent and real estate prices to skyrocket. Although several waves of gentrification have already rolled through Friedrichshain’s Nordkiez, current developments show that profit logic and the commodification of the capitalist system will never end – unless it is said once and for all:

Housing may be neither property nor commodity but is a basic need! Enough is enough!

Unaffordable housing or rising homelessness is one of the most pressing social issues in cities. The transformation of Berlin into the “capital of digitalization” is being implemented by force. Inflation leads to even tighter budgets for many tenants*, many can hardly afford the housing prices in the inner-city area. Every day there are several eviction suits, apartments are evicted. On Friday, October 13, Reinhard is to be evicted from his apartment at Manteuffelstraße 63 in Berlin-Kreuzberg, where he has lived since 1979. Reinhard is to have his future stolen!

In order to defend the apartments in Liebig14, which were expropriated today, barricades were erected on the street. Our aim is to break through the powerlessness and lack of perspective that is spreading around us. In view of the violent transformation of the city into a concrete desert, we see this as necessary. We send you a sign of liveliness.

Greetings to the squatters in Leipzig two weeks ago! Greetings to the squatters of Habersaath Street!

Instead of isolation, division, domination, exploitation and destruction, we strive for a neighborhood with exchange, solidarity, self-organization, mutual help and activity.

We are angry, we are loud. Nordkiez lives!

[Source: Kontrapolis, October 9th, 2023. English translation from Athens-Indymedia.]

Athens (Greece): The building of social centre Zizania has just been resquatted

October 14th, 2023: Today we resquatted Zizania

For the past two years the building on Fylis & Feron has been a squatted social centre where collectives and individuals from the neighborhood and around struggled for a more collective and more free life.

We resquatted the building to continue the fight against gentrification and for free public space. We resquatted as we see the constant rise of rents, the conversion of the city to a field of consumption and of our houses into Airbnbs, the violent confinement of our migrant-neighbors in detention centers and camps, and the rise the rise of a cop culture that reaffirms all the above.

We resquatted the building because we cannot stand to watch cops bullying people while “protecting” an empty building inside which we held vegan social kitchens, language lessons, film screenings and political events. A space that had a free shop, library and a self-organized barber shop. A space that was open so that people can hang out, socialize or cover their basic needs such as water or electricity.

We resquatted because the building has belonged for 30 years now to the resistance movement. Zizania was the most recent initiative that was built in this house, among a series of horizontal collectives that battled against the exploitation and violence of capitalism, the state and fascism.

We resquatted in order to have a safe space inside the city where we can express ourselves, self-educate and organize against patriarchy, sexism, racism, queerophobia and capitalism.

During a period when we constantly live death from up close: in Tempi, in Pylos, on the borders, amongst fires and the floods, in our work, on the streets, in prisons, and in our houses, we choose to give an answer to the state in our own terms. During this period when we see the state continuing its “function” with the elections, we resquatted Zizania to organize collectively and in solidarity since our lives do not fit in their ballot boxes.

We resquatted to continue existing, organising, and struggling in the neighborhood. We resquatted for a world with squats on every corner, to take back grounds that were taken by state, and because no eviction will remain unanswered. We stand in solidarity with Anokato, Evagelismos, Steki Politexnio, and every squat that keeps struggling.

So here we are again, the queer, the migrants, the workers, the squatters. We are our neighborhood organized from the base to take back our spaces and our lives. We stand one next to the other to defend our existence in the streets until total liberation.

ZIZANIA EVERYWHERE

[18 October 2023, Act for freedom now!]

Greece: Two months of repression against antiauthoritarian squats and social spaces

About the recently attacks over the last 2 months by the Greek police State on the anarchist antiauthoritarian squats “self-managed hangouts” and social spaces.

At dawn on Friday 25 August, 2023 cop forces of all kinds surround and evacuate the squats “self-managed hangout Ano Kato Patision” (since 1996)…

… and “occupied social centre Zizania”.

In the morning of 30th September, the uniformed bastards of the National Police, with the consent and cooperation of the rectors of the NTUA Bountouvis and the University of Crete Kontakis, evict two occupied premises. Violating sanctuary, they evict the Self-managed Polytechnic space for the third time within a month. At the same time, the occupation of Evangelismos in Heraklion, a building owned by the University of Crete, is also evicted, an eviction that included the savage beating of 11 comrades by the Crete TAE cops forces of Crete island.

The Evangelismos squat, the Big House, was evicted on Saturday 30 September 2023.

For 21 years it had housed assemblies without hierarchies, a library, counter-information structures, collective kitchens, and so much more; it embraced debates that competed with the nationalist/patriarchal/racist narratives of the system; it hosted women and men militants. And finally, it proposed a different way of living and thinking against the brutality of our times.

Against the evictions of the struggle places and State repression, against the ever-increasing effort of the State to crush any voice of struggle, we must advance our struggle and solidarity. As long as they are working on plans to destroy struggle spaces and subjugate class resistance, the higher we will raise our voices, the more forcefully we will respond with class and social struggle in the streets. They are memory, struggles and ideas, and these cannot be evacuated.

THE STATE’S INADEQUACY IN FLOODS AND FIRES. THE STATE’S LEGAL VIOLENCE DISPATCHES SQUATTERS AND FIGHTERS. THEIRS WILL BECOME THE STATE’S CONDEMNATION. LIBERATION FOR THE ANARCHIST KOSTAS DIMALEXIS. ONLY THE FASCISTS MAKE STATEMENTS OF REMORSE. INFORMERS BACK, COMRADES FORWARD, AND SOLIDARITY WITH NIKOS MAZIOTIS.

Occupations, self-organized projects of struggle, social and class resistance, insurrections are the realization of utopia in the now.

SOLIDARITY WITH OUR SQUATS
SQUATS ARE FLOWERS IN THE SCORCHED EARTH
DOWN WITH THE POLICE STATE, TOMORROW OPENS WITH A CROWBAR
TO BECOME A BARRICADE TO BARBARISM

[Act For Freedom Now! / October 18th, 2023.]

Ljubljana: anarcha-queer space Mačjak on ruins

Parmova 1312 is gone. it has been more than a month since the first machinery arrived. walls, rooftops and furniture are by now all grinded to dust and scattered around the lot.
We (Mačjak) did not know the exact date when they would demolish our part. Nonetheless, we organised an eviction fest, one last collective gathering with the aim to give away everything we had not been able to move to the other spaces and celebrate all that had happened in the times before. Our squat was still standing the day after the eviction fest. and the next. A fence was mounted around us, but our building remained intact. meanwhile, in Athens, two squats were evicted – Ano Kato and Zizania. In solidarity, we raised a banner against gentrification, evictions and for the creation of new squats in our deserted space.
The construction site expanded. the walls began to fall. With each passing day we could see more and more of the destroyed leftovers of things that had previously been part of our space. We threw bottles and ceramic plates at the excavators and the target of Zoran Jankovic. It was symbolic, like a protest or a physical defense of a space could be, but which never happened. We left without resistance, we weren’t there, one of the reasons is that we see the very act of squatting as resistance. We decided to reduce the chances of repression and to open up new spaces rather than defend the ones we knew from the start would not last forever. Yet we missed the moment of catharsis that comes from direct physical confrontation with the authorities. Maybe that moment is still there for us?

In short, mačjak is no longer.

Mačjak
Ljubljana, Slovenia
crnemacke [at] riseup [dot] net
https://squ.at/r/8zgy

Some squats in Slovenia: https://radar.squat.net/en/groups/country/SI/squated/squat
Groups (social center, collective, squat) in Slovenia: https://radar.squat.net/en/groups/country/SI
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Heraklion: neither 21 nor 100, squat forever in Evagelismos

Text of the people arrested during the evacuation of Evagelismos Squat in Heraklion, after 21 years of history

In the early hours of Saturday 30.09.2023, around 5:30 in the morning, cops of various forces overrun the neighborhood of Theotokopoulou. People living in the Evagelismos squat wake up to the sound of broken glasses and metal shaking from the blows. After the very short time during which the police forces managed to enter the building, they find half of the people inside it, and half on the terrace above it. The people inside the building are immobilized in rooms by the intervening forces (OPKE, EKAM), while EKAM proceed to intervene on the terrace. At this point there is tension between the people on the roof and the cops trying to approach them, which ends when the cops manage to reach us, to avoid violence towards us. They lay us on our faces and tie us up, some with handcuffs and others more roughly. In order to gather us in one place, they drag a person for several meters handcuffed, with his face on the ground. Shouts follow both from us and from neighbors against the eviction; a stance met with the threat of automatic weapons, physical violence and gestures by the cops. At that moment, the person who had been dragged escapes their attention and steps out onto the roof ledge, threatening to fall if they approach him. The stance of the repressive forces remains relentless, with eight armed cops rushing directly towards him. In a few tenths of a second, the comrade is falling from the terrace, with the clear responsibility of those who took part at the evacuation operation of Evagelismos, but also of those who ordered it: from the University of Crete and the municipal authorities, up to the high levels of the government. From our side, there was immediate resistance and shouts to the neighborhood, in the face of the event we witnessed. The cops panicked, realizing their responsibilities and trying to silence us, and kicked some of us in the head. When they were informed that the comrade was alive they mocked us, lied to us about his condition, and told us that we would go to find him. They then took out all their anger on us, cursing us, threatening us, hitting us and stomping us on the roof floor.

Their procedures were accelerated, by taking us down and placing us inside the building, in rooms they assumed that were ours, so that we would not have visual contact with the neighborhood, and they start writing down what they find. During this process they discovered clothes, political books, kitchenware, personal things (photos, laptops), material for a bar organised to raise funds for the costs of the restoration works we have been doing in the squat, but also items that had been collected by solidarity people in the neighborhood and the city, to be sent in the following days to the affected areas by the floods in Thessaly. Some objects that seemed useful to them were kept, while the others were thrown here and there, or broken before our eyes, without us being able to react. During our presence, nothing more was found than what is recorded in the arrest report, and anything added subsequently will be considered planted. In addition, a purse with personal belongings and a mobile phone of a comrade were removed, which are not mentioned anywhere in the police documents. Subsequently, we were allowed to get dressed and take a couple of things in a bag, as if your life can fit into a backpack. Also comrades who were outside the building managed to take the dogs of the house, while the cats hid due to the noise, and procedures are being carried out to find and take them. At the same time comrades gathered near the squat for solidarity. Listening to their chants but also the conflicts that took place, gave us incredible strength to continue with our heads high, while the message was conveyed to the cops present, that Evagelismos is not only the 11 people they found inside on a September Saturday. Evagelismos is the relationships, camaraderie, solidarity, movement, it is all of us. Also noteworthy are the anti-cop songs that were heard loudly in the neighborhood when they took us out of the building, not from some organised gathering, but – as we realized later – from a house near the squat.

When we arrived at Heraklion General Police Directorate, the legal proceedings began, during which we refused to cooperate, did not undress, did not provide photographs and fingerprints, and did not sign anything. We were notified of our arrest about three hours later, and from the beginning to the end of our detention the cops were constantly trying to delay the process. Our injured comrade, who had been probably taken irregularly from the Venizelio Hospital to be transferred to the police headquarters, was kept isolated in a separate area from us, while both the police and the prosecutor did not allow him to be transferred to a hospital again. It was only after pressure from the lawyers -who were there the whole time we were detained, and whom we thank from the bottom of our hearts for their attitude- that an order was given for his release at first, and finally after some hour an ambulance came to collect him. At the moment he is in PAGNI hospital, receiving the necessary medical care, we are in contact with him, and he is strong.

The second point that caused tension was the information from the cops that the prosecutor will announce whether we would be detained at 18:00. Under this pretext we had no access to food until 20:00, that is for fourteen hours since the operation. After constant pressure from us and the lawyers, and evasions from the cops, we were finally released at 21:00, after the dynamic afternoon demonstration was over. Even by that time, the comrade’s belongings which had been irregularly taken by the cops had not turned up, except for her ID which was necessary for their procedures. After an intense confrontation with the officers on duty, her purse was miraculously found -among the confiscated items, but without it being registered- but her cell phone was still missing. After verbal and legal pressure, we were called to collect the mobile two days later, with it having almost a full battery. We have every reason to believe that it had been improperly held by the police ranks, at the responsibility of both those in charge of the operation and the officers on duty. Until today (Tuesday, October 3) we have yet to receive our case file, while the charges that we know from the arrest report that we are jointly charged with are: disturbance of peace, weapons law, theft of electricity and disobedience.

This was a record of what happened during the evacuation operation and our detention. We write it for the people of the movement that could not be there, and for future use. After all, it is clear that we are not the only ones who have been subjected to repression. We are at a junction when both the movement and the entire society are under full-frontal attack by the state and the capital. With a purely political decision to attack an active political space, they are once again applying the doctrine of law and order, trying to stifle the voices that still resist their domination, and distract the people from their real problems.

We, for our part, take responsibility for the history of the squat, all these years of its occupation. We stand by our comrades who fought to defend the squat and its history on the streets. We express our solidarity with the Self-managed Political Space in the Polytechnic University in Athens, that was evacuated at the same time, and we stand together with all the political spaces under threat. And just as in all the attacks we have received, we have responded in a clear way that they will bleed to get the occupied places, now is the time to act. Nothing is over, ideas are not evacuated. Now that you’ve taken us out of our house, we’ll go into yours.

We do not forget our dead comrades, we do not forget our political spaces.

Not a step back.

Arrested from the Evagelismos Squat

Residents and guests

Comrades

Tuesday, October 3, 2023

Evagelismos squat
Θεοτοκοπούλου 18
Heraklion, Crete
Greece
evagelismos [dot] squat [at] espiv [dot] net
https://squ.at/r/1q5l
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Heraklion: the whole city knows it. Evagelismos does not surrender

On Saturday morning, numerous police forces stormed inside Evagelismos Squat. 10 comrades were arrested, one of whom -while being handcuffed- was led to fall from the roof of the building, and is currently still in the hospital. The sealing of the building with iron plates started immediately. The comrades were transferred to the General Police Directorate of Heraklion, where they were charged, while the injured comrade was being held separately and not receiving the necessary medical care. Outside the building dynamic reflex reactions took place, resulting in the arrest of one more comrade. Reactions that continue in the following days…

The first public information about a possible evacuation operation had been released on September 20, with statements by the General Secretary of Higher Education and former rector of the University of Crete Od. Zoras, regarding the evacuation and “utilization” of the building. Thus, on Thursday September 28, we did an intervention in the University’s online Senate, where a text was read. The current rector G. Kontakis -who was in Rethymno at that time- had an sarcastic tone and avoided making any comments.

After the eviction, which took place less than two days after the aforementioned intervention, both Zoras and Kontakis were nowhere to be found, with the Deanery refraining from making any statements and Kontakis not having the courage to take responsibility for his choices. Of course he could not hide forever, as it is now known that, by his own actions, the Senate of the University had requested, since July 20, the evacuation of Evagelismos.

The timing chosen for the eviction, two months later, and a week before the municipal elections, is probably no coincidence. The current mayor finishes his term and avoids making any statements regarding the issue. A candidate (and former chief of the police) declares that he is not the mayor himself and that he can’t be affiliated with the evacuation. Another candidate avoids taking a stand, but at the same time is meeting up with Kontakis, who states that when the elections are over, will start contacts in order to secure funds. And somehow everyone is trying to avoid any responsibility and the political cost involved in the eviction of a historic political space, which has been alive and active for 21 years, and is a milestone for the movement and the city of Heraklion.

We also do not consider the third eviction attempt that took place at the same time at the Self-managed Political Space at the Polytechnic University in Athens as incidental. The two operations were presented by the media as a joint action in the context of the “return of university spaces to society”. The -once again- simultaneous attacks on spaces of struggle and resistance constitutes a conscious state policy and agenda.

A choice made at a time when the greek state and capital are responsible for dozens of deaths, and when deaths and disasters have become a normality. From the charred migrants in Evros to the drowned people in Thessaly (in an area where three years after another disaster, the necessary protection works, that cost millions, had yet to be carried out). From hundreds of murdered animals and destroyed villages, to vast burned farmland and Natura designated areas. At a time when the cost of living is rising endlessly and we are under constant attack in all aspects of life: from the degradation of labor rights and the legal attack on unionizing in the workplaces, to the repression of gatherings that do not meet thei state’s requirements, and the hundreds of auctions of people’s homes and evictions.

While our neighborhoods are filled with airbnbs and are oriented more and more towards the tourism industry, at the same time that migrants drown in the Aegean Sea, while investors buy whole blocks of houses, when people of our class barely cover the ever-increasing costs of living or are forced to move to other neighborhoods, squats cover our common need for decent living. In a society where there are thousands of empty houses and people without shelter, squats reject in practice the concept of property, as well as the ability of the wealthy few to use it to become even wealthier. They are a living example of collective life. The issue has never been whether they are “legal” or “illegal”, but that they are just and necessary.

The attack on squats is not detached from the overall attack on society and the fights that are developing on the streets, universities, prisons and workplaces. Squats are not just buildings, but spaces of organization and struggle. They are a part of the resistance against the dystopian reality we live in, against individualization, apathy, and the even worse future that the rulers are preparing for us. Spaces in which the values of capitalism are challenged in practice, while the memory of the struggles that the exploited gave in the past is preserved, so that we can use it in our times, in our own struggles. The attacks on squats, such as now in Evagelismos, or the evictions in “Zizania” and Ano-Kato in Athens this summer, at a time when half of Greece was on fire, are part of the overall effort of the state and capital to hit the internal enemy, to silence any resisting voices which threaten their domination, as well as attempts to impress, in order to hide the dead ends of capitalism, and to disorientate us from our real problems.

The excuses that were initially used for the “utilization” of the building as students dorms and then as a “cultural space” are nothing more than pretexts. On the one hand, they are lies to manipulate public opinion, as one can see from the history of so many former squats. We can easily recall the case of the Delta Squat in Thessaloniki (a center of student struggles in the 2000s, which was supposedly evicted to be turned back into dorms and has since been demolished), the Orphanage Squat from which immigrants and locals were kicked out in order to turn it into a “rehabilitation center” and in the end it was demolished, Mundo Nuevo where they also used a similar pretext, but instead the building remains shut off with metal sheets, Biologica Squat, that would supposingly be turned into a library, and so many more… The lies regarding the interest in the building can also be seen by the deanery’s decision this summer to ask for its eviction, while restorative construction work was taking place (for the third time in recent years). Work carried out by the efforts and resources of the people who are active in the squat, and the solidarity from Greece and abroad, for the safety of both Evagelismos and the neighborhood itself.

On the other hand, squats cannot actually be “attributed back to society”, because they are already utilized by it. 21 years ago we entered into a wreck of a building, which was rendered dangerous, since it had been left to rot for decades, and had literally ended up a hotbed of infection. It seems that this situation did not bother them as much as our political action; as much as solidarity, self-organization, and unmediated struggle, which are a clear threat to the system of power that places profit above life. With our forces, anti-hierarchically and self-organized, we managed to turn a decaying building into something viable and functional. We have transformed it into a place that’s vivid and open to society, in which a variety of political, cultural and social events have taken place over the years. Evagelismos cannot become a “cultural space”, as they state, when it has already existed as such for 21 years. Within the building, a political bookstore and lending library operate on a permanent basis, as well as a self-organised cafe, gym and carpentry. Video screenings take place, assemblies and collectives are hosted, while these days basic necessities were collected for those affected by the floods in Thessaly. This is Evagelismos. A space that’s open to society, but also to those who are excluded from it. And the only ones who can utilize it are the people who are active in it.

But enough with the talking. We want to make it clear, that from the moment you kicked us out, your task will be difficult and all those responsible -from the state to the Deanery – will pay the political burden of what follows. Don’t have the delusion that you are dealing with 10-20 squatters. Evagelismos is the people that have existed here, the people who are here now, and we will try to make it be the people that will come in the future. People who organize horizontally and from bottom-up to create a dynamic, active and diverse movement, people that for years have learned to fight and resist, and know very well how to react to this new threat. Be sure that the struggle and solidarity will not only come from within the borders of Heraklion, but just like every time an occupied space is threatened, there will be reactions from all over Greece, from all the other squats and the whole movement. We’re not going to take a step back until we get Evagelismos back. And we get it.

Demonstration for the defense of Evagelismos Squat – Sunday 8/10, 18:00, Lions’ Square, Heraklion

EVAGELISMOS SQUAT

Θεοτοκοπούλου 18
Heraklion, Crete
Greece
evagelismos [dot] squat [at] espiv [dot] net
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Amsterdam: news from Vossiusstraat 16

Why there are no public events anymore, comment on Volozh’s statement against the war

Soon Vossiusstraat 16 will have existed for one year!
During the last few months, many changes happened. We won the court case and its appeal and this stability allowed us to make this house our home. While the doors of Vossiusstraat 16 were initially open, there have not been any public events in the past few months. This statement is here to explain why that is.
We will also comment on a statement issued by the owner of Vossiusstraat 16, Russian oligarch Arkady Volozh, where he claims he is against the war.

Why we don’t organize public events anymore

When the Vossisstraat 16 squat opened, we decided that it would be both a place to house ourselves and new people and a social space where anyone who wants can come and organise. Many discussions, benefit evenings, meetings, workshops, and more initiatives took place at Vossiusstraat over the span of several months. We really appreciate the fact that so many people were able to use the building and that Vossiusstraat 16 could be a place for political organising and for people to meet.
However, for the past few months, there have not been any public events organised at Vossiusstraat 16. This is a decision we took in response to the verdict of the appeals court.

The court hearing took place in April and we received the verdict a month later. While it stated that we could stay in the house, it also explicitly listed all the events we had organised and stated that the house could not be used as a public social center anymore. The justification behind it is that the usage of the house as a social space does not correspond to the “zoning plan”. The zoning plan is established by the municipality and determines what a building can be used for. In the case of Vossisstraat 16, the zoning plan states that the building has to be used exclusively for housing. In addition, complaints by our posh neighbours could result in the municipality starting a court case against us for noise disturbance.

After this verdict, we discussed the future of Vossiusstraat 16 and decided that we were going to prioritise housing over having a social space. This was a difficult decision to take as it changed the political vision we had of this space, as well as what it represented for people. This decision was also taken considering the squatting movement in Amsterdam and the difficult housing situation. We decided that we did not want to risk facing eviction because of our open social space. We all want to continue to organise events, so we will now do so in our friends’ squats.

About Volozh’s statement on the war

A month ago Arkady Volozh issued a statement where he declared: “Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is barbaric, and I am categorically against it.” He then acknowledges having a “share of responsibility for the country’s actions”.
In order to get some understanding of this statement’s implications, a bit of context is necessary.

In 1997, Volozh co-founded the Russian search engine Yandex. Later on, as the CEO of Yandex, he developed several other services and apps such as Yandex Mail, Yandex Maps, Yandex Taxi, etc.

The problem with Yandex lies in its well-documented collaboration with the Kremlin and the Russian secret services. In 2011, a report by the BBC showed that Yandex passed on information to the FSB about people who donated money to an anti-corruption website created by Navalny. More recently, in 2020, Yandex released its first transparency report which revealed that, in the first half of 2020, the Russian government had sent Yandex a total of 15000 user data access requests, from which 84% were fulfilled. The services most affected by these requests were: Yandex.Passport – the service managing all the basic information of Yandex users (name, bank card, login history, and devices etc.)-, Yandex.Mail – which shared users’ private conversations with the Kremlin – and Yandex.Taxi, which gave the Russian government access to trip histories and driver information.

In 2022, as a response to the war in Ukraine, the European Union established a list of ‘sanctioned individuals’. Arkady Volozh was placed on this list for Yandex’s promotion of State narratives and the removal of content related to Russia’s involvement in the war from Yandex’s search results. The sanctions targeting Volozh prevent him from entering any EU country as well as accessing or earning any money in the EU. The day after the sanctions list was published, Volozh renounced his position as CEO of Yandex. However, this does not mean that he has lost all influence over Yandex. Volozh is working on moving certain Yandex services outside of the company, such as drone delivery and cloud technologies. This way he can develop them independently from Yandex and market them at the international level. To explain the entire history of collaboration between Yandex and the Russian government would take too long, and demands expertise about the Russian political and economical life that we unfortunately do not have. But if you want to know more about that, you can read this news article that we found interesting.

In short, Volozh wants to continue to develop his projects and earn more money. The EU sanctions against him threaten all his political and economic ambitions as it prevents him from doing business in the EU. Stating that he is against the war a few months before a re-evaluation of his case by the EU administration is part of his attempt to clean his image in order to get delisted as a sanctioned oligarch. It appears his attempt has failed, according to an article from the Moscow Times that claims his name will remain on the EU sanction list for at least another six months.

Another news article that highlights the blatant hypocrisy of Volozh’s statement is this opinion piece published in the opposition media outlet the Moscow Times. This article mentions how Volozh’s personal website describes him as a Kazakh-born Israeli. Since 2014, Volozh is indeed married to an Israeli woman and lives in Tel Aviv. However, this angle of self-presentation is misleading given that Volozh lived in Russia most of his life, developed his entire buisness in Russia and has cultivated personal relationships with Russian politicians, including Vladimir Putin.

We are not surprised by Volozh’s affection for the Israeli state, as it is known that Israel commonly grants second passports to Russian billionaires. It is, however, no less shameful that, in order to clean his image, Volozh associates himself with an arpatheid regime that is guilty of repeated war crimes and human rights violations. We should all regret that it is possible for anyone to gain more legitimacy in the eyes of the Western world by becoming an Israeli citizen.

All this is to simply point out that Volozh’s critical statement on the war in Ukraine is only aimed at increasing his chances of getting off the sanctions list so he can continue his buisness and get back his house on Vossiusstraat 16.

Vossiusstraat 16
1071AB Amsterdam
Netherlands
vossiusstraat16 [at] riseup [dot] net
https://squ.at/r/91hd

Sources
https://www.ft.com/content/24c47ec1-dc7f-48a9-960e-7ad89cda8e1a
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66341619
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2020/10/26/who-s-asking
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-13274443
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/09/13/tech-billionaire-volozh-to-remain-under-eu-sanctions-bloomberg-a82445
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jemimamcevoy/2022/04/28/why-israel-became-a-safe-haven-for-russian-billionaires/?sh=55d078676ef7

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Amsterdam: Time Travelers Hotel, new squat on Rokin 108

Time travelers arrived a couple months in Amsterdam to usher in a new era of activism and change. They have been publishing newspapers, running amok, and resurrecting the inherited tradition of the Hi-Ha Happenings originally started by the Provos in the sixties. After the success of the first Happening, during which the structure that eats away at the lives of ordinary folk was denounced and partially dismantled through ritual and magic, a second Hi-Ha Happening took place on the 29th of September.

This Happening was a constructive one, in counterpart to it’s destructive predecessor. This came to a climax when at the end of the Happening a new squat was announced: the Time Travelers Hotel. The following statement was made during the revealing, and is thus made public for all those who experience a like minded sense of time-dysmorphia, unrest, urge for change, and willingness to provoke and be provoked.

“What can we learn from the future? If anything it teaches us that we should embrace the more radical parts within ourselves. What used to be a massage parlor will give this happening a happy ending! An ending that will pave the way for new beginnings!

The egg that we find ourselves in is constantly hatching, as constantly new and ever growing projects come again into this world. The world that we have inherited is a broken one. It is a necessity to look towards a future where living is once again possible. Where the vile tar that seeps into our lives as weeds, is rooted out by the stem. This is done not only by expressing ourselves through ludicrous and perfectly reasonable happenings, but also with a physical reclamation of space. This place, located at Rokin, is at the center of a consumerist society. The tourist shop below speaks for itself. This society is sick, and its disease needs to be shown to the everyday ostrich that seeks to avert it’s gaze. The activists from the future have looked upon our timeline, and concluded that the present circumstances are not made to be built upon. How can someone resist the system if they don’t have a stable home to organize from?! How can demo’s be organized when the very streets are filled with those mindless zombies called tourists?! How can life realise itself in a place where it is constantly repressed?! And still it will always find a way. That is why we are here today, to offer an alternative. This place has been squatted!!! It will be a transformative presence, one that will give people an actual place to live. It’s white doors will be opened! It will be a sanctuary to time refugees, this time travelers hotel! Because it is insane that a perfectly good living space should stay empty to fill the pockets of investors and rich magicians. Instead of squatting being illegal, it should be the norm! It should be illegal to evict people from their homes, when all they are looking for is a place to live!

Let houses once more be filled, doors painted white! Make Rokin once more a place for people to call home! Take to the streets, this is a happy ending! And as this night will pass into morning, the spirit of those that take up their arms, crowbars, instruments, and voices, will not die down! But the night is yet long, and we have only just started happening! Free yourself and each other of your shackles! Free yourself of your bonds! As Takland annexes new territory, it grows to be an even larger place of potential, inclusivity, and organization! Want Wet of geen wet: Kraken Gaat Door !!! (With or without law, squatting goes on!!!)”

And so it was that on the 29th of September Amsterdam came to have a new squat, on one of it’s most central and busiest streets. It will be made into a place for people to live, with a social space on the first floor. What was previously a massage parlor had been empty for over four years. The owner, an investor from Belgium, has as of yet not filed a case with the police. The police that were at the revealing were, when it became clear that the place had been squatted for some time already, didn’t wish to intervene. Which can also likely be attributed to the large crowd that had gathered there in good spirits. Thus concludes a very successful Hi-Ha Happening, with a Hi-Ha Happy Ending.

Future Times call out for their second happening on 29 September 2023:

Hi Ha Happening: Provocation Nr. 2

REMINDER: This is a Bring Your Own Orca(/Marine Mammal) event. Mobilize your local Marine life forms and bring them to Spui in Solidarity with the Radical Orcanisation of Killer Whales!

Hear ye hear ye! Gather all you dwellers in, and children of, Amsterdam. For on Friday the twenty ninth of September at nine, a decentralized Neo-Provotarian movement will once again meet at the feet of the statue ‘het Lieverdje’ on Spui for a Happening. A second rendition in a recurring and ever more evocative tradition, it calls on all inhabitants of this corrupted city to happen individually and collectively. It ushers in a new age wherein the structures that we know might come to fall in a cascade of chronological disturbance, floods, evolutionary nightmares, and revolution. As the Spirit of Mokum shows herself before us, the structures that have demanded our servitude and sought to put us in chains might once more come to light, so that we may avert the apocalyptic consequences that will otherwise come to pass. And so it was that even after the first ritualistic unearthing and expressing of unrest and vivacity the government fell, the technobike-conglomerate Van Moof went bankrupt, and orca’s continued their fervent war in the reclamation of their living spaces.

It is thus that we need to be encouraged by these marine mammals who are our fellows, and follow their example by taking back the streets and canals of Amsterdams. Let doors be painted, houses filled. Let Spui, Rokin, de Dam and de Wallen once again become a place for the Amsterdammer. Let it once more be a place where living beings come to be, instead of one where solely tourists come to find an amusement park tailored to their needs. Let it be amusing and dionysian, but not in the boring and deflating hedonistic manner that is the current norm.

And so it is of the utmost importance that we free ourselves of the shackles of the sorry consumer. The ostrich, that flightless bird, is addicted to hate, sensation, mindless scrolling, and illusions of grandiosity and shame. They need to provoke and be provoked. For in our plight we will not only consume commodities, but ourselves and everything around us. And yet there is a different path that we might take, of collective individuation and transformation. We need to manifest change through unashamed expression, in absurdity and beauty. We need to build a new society out of the ashes and rot of one that is unsustainable, as to principles of collective responsibility. We need to happen. For if nevertheless we stay idle, repressed by addictive hocus-pocus and turmoil, catastrophe will come to pass. And in our deformed attempt at flight we would lose our wings, and fall as Icarus into the destructive sea below that will inevitably engulfe Mokum.

Concluding, halt this haphazard hurry, by hi-ha happening!!

Future Times, Amsterdam
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TⒶkland Vrijstraat
Time Travelers Hotel
Rokin 108, 1012 LA Amsterdam, Netherlands
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