STOP 2nd Eviction Attempt! La Ruïna and el Kubo WILL NOT DIE
from thefreeonline on 26th Nov 2023 by La Ruïna and el Kubo at squat.net/ and anarchistnews.org/
Barcelona: Our Houses are Trenches! Mass Eviction Resistance against Bank which has 57K empties .
We will turn our houses 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. OKUPA Y RESISTE!
Statement made in February 2023, La Ruïna and el Kubo threatened with eviction:
Our Houses are Trenches.
Here we go, 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. (CSO = Occupied Social Center)
This space was abandoned by SAREB for more than 15 years. ( SAREB is a Bank set up by the State to handle ‘repossessed property’)
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.
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