From Antiga Massana they have made an appeal through the social network X for people to gather in Plaça de la Gardunya to protest against the violent ongoing eviction of the Social Center.
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Antiga Massana is an occupied social Center in a long abandoned school belonging to the City Council. For 4 years a whole range of social projects have been using the building and it is vital for this neglected city center Raval area.
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The square is cordoned off and the gathering is taking place in adjacent streets, such as Carrer de l’Hospital. The police are attacking with extreme violence. “Today will be a very long day for all the politicians and businessmen who think they can impose capitalist misery without consequences,” they warn in a tweet.
“It is a completely illegal action”
Antiga Massana assures that the appeal they filed has not been resolved and that they have not been notified two weeks in advance, as is mandatory. “It is a completely illegal action”, Max Carbonell, from Antiga Massana, told Betevé tv.
He believes that the eviction was carried out without warning in the same week that the Casa Orsola eviction is also planned, to take advantage of the media hype and for this action to go unnoticed.
City Hall surrounded by fences
In parallel with the eviction of the Antiga Massana, fences have been placed around the entrance to Barcelona City Hall, in Plaça de Sant Jaume. There are also members of the Guàrdia Urbana guarding the entrance to the building.
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Antiga Massana
@antigamassana
We call for a demonstration at 7:30pm in response to the eviction of Antiga Massana. AGAINST THE DICTATORSHIP OF POLITICIANS AND BUSINESSMEN!
COLUMNA SANTS: -WE DEFEND THE OLD MASSANA-.
The Collboni i Batlle City Council has evicted the Old Massana today.
But today is not the end. Today is the beginning of the construction of a revolutionary alternative that will set us free. Column at 6:30 p.m. Plaça Sants
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2000 protest 1st attempted eviction of 9 Collectives in the Old Massana School Occupation, Barcelona
20th October 2024..
This afternoon 1000’s of took to the streets of Barcelona to warn the PSC govt that if they evict Antiga Massana there will be riots in the Old City.
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«Nine collectives» are carrying out projects in the occupied Ciutat Vella building.
The organized youth has come out with banners, flags and chants against the council asking to stop the eviction of a space that brings life to the neighborhood and gives tools and resources to people neglected by the administration.
A thousand people demonstrate against the eviction of the old Massana in Barcelona
The building remains occupied pending the judicial eviction order requested by the council CR – Barcelona The demonstration against the eviction of the building in the old Massana in Barcelona started after six in the afternoon.
20th October 2024..
The Antiga Massana began as an occupied refuge for «illegalized» migrants
Activists have begun to gather in Plaça de la Gardunya at half past six and the procession has started once six columns of citizens from Vallès Occidental, Baix Llobregat, the Eixample, Sant Martí, Sants and also one made up of students who have arrived from the Raval Campus of the University of Barcelona.
The City Council wanted to evacuate the building yesterday Thursday, but was unable to do so due to the «peaceful resistance» of the people who were still there. Faced with this fact, he has requested a court order and is waiting to receive it to execute the eviction.
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20th October 2024..
Under the slogan ‘Defend the old Massana’, the demonstrators have gathered in Plaça de la Gardunya to protest against Barcelona City Council’s intention to evict this public space. The participants gathered with banners critical of the management of the Collboni government and chanted chants such as «the old Massana stays in the neighborhood», «the Massana is defended to the end», «you for money we for love» or «Jaume Collboni, Albert batlle and PSC evictors».
On Thursday, the City Council ruled out executing the planned administrative eviction. Several units of the Urban Guard and technicians from the council’s legal services went to Plaça de la Gardunya and found that there was a «peaceful resistance» preventing the eviction.
For this reason, the local executive decided to request a court order to recover the building owned by the municipality.
«WE defend this space of the Working Class- DEMONSTRATION- Space under Popular Control- «
The spokesperson for the former Massana, Elena Martín, recalled minutes before the demonstration began that the group had worked «for two years» with the previous government team for the transfer of the space, a transfer that it had «promised» them and that it had already been approved, as he said, by bodies such as the district plenary, Patrimoni Ciudadà and the government of Ada Colau.
Now, on the other hand, the PSC government has not contacted the activists since it has been in power, even though they have asked to meet with them on repeated occasions.
«The response has been through the district plenary to tell us that we have to leave. And we don’t agree. What we want is the transfer of the space as the previous government had promised us.
We have been working with that government for two years and now all the work is for nothing? What we want is for the government to comply, no matter what color it is,» said Martín.
The spokeswoman for the former Massana also explained that the collective is used to «fighting until the last consequences» and assured that the activists will not «back down».
He explained that they will continue to defend the initiative «legally and politically» and celebrated the «support» of people and institutions, the last of which is that of the Ombudsman of Barcelona, who has invited the City Council to «reflect» on the eviction.
At the same time, he defended the social project that «nine collectives» are carrying out in the Ciutat Vella building and regretted that the City Council wants to evict them «to close it», because «there is no planned project».
In his opinion, «they want to evict us to close the building and then they will ruminate on a project, which in any case is certainly not ready for this legislature».
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The Occupation of Antiga Massana..
June 23, 2020
The Housing Union and the Raval Mutual Support Network make public the occupation of the old Massana School
Escola MassanaokupacióSindicat d’Habitatge del RavalTancada migrantXarxa de Suport Mutu del Raval
Activists denounced that the building has been disused for years and claim it as the “base of operations of the popular movement of the Raval”, one of the neighborhoods most punished by the effects of the socio-sanitary crisis
Maties Lorente
This Tuesday, June 23, around 10 pm, the occupation of the building of the old Massana School, in the Plaza del Canonge Colom, next to the premises occupied two years ago by the Closed migrant. The action has been claimed by the Housing Union and the Raval Mutual Support Network.
The occupation was made visible at the end of a protest procession that started at 8 pm in Plaza Salvador Seguí and was attended by about 250 people and was convened encouraging them to follow the security measures on the occasion of the coronavirus.
The groups denounce the state of a building “abandoned for years by the institutions” and warn that it will become the “base of operations of the popular movement of the Raval”.
“We warn the institutions that we intend to stay, that this is already in the neighborhood, and that for every step they take against us, we will make three,” they said in a statement read minutes after it was made public. the occupation. The intention of the occupation is to provide a place in the Mutual Support Network, the Housing Union and the Popular Food Network.
Escola Massana squatting Raval Housing Union Closed migrant Raval Mutual Support Network
Les activistes denuncien que l’edifici fa anys que està en desús i el reivindiquen com a “base d’operacions del moviment popular del Raval”, un dels barris més castigats pels efectes de la crisi sociosanitària
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Activists denounce that the building has been disused for years and claim it as the “base of operations of the popular movement of the Raval”, one of the neighborhoods most punished by the effects of the socio-sanitary crisis
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Maties Lorente
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June 23, 2020
Revetlla de Sant Joan vindictive in the Raval of Barcelona. This Tuesday, June 23, around 10 pm, the occupation of the building of the old Massana School, in the Plaza del Canonge Colom, next to the premises occupied two years ago by the Closed migrant. The action has been vindicated by the Housing Union and the Raval Mutual Support Network.
The occupation was made visible at the end of a protest procession that started at 8 pm in Plaza Salvador Seguí and was attended by about 250 people and was convened encouraging them to follow the security measures on the occasion of the coronavirus. The groups denounce the state of a building “abandoned for years by the institutions” and warn that it will become the “base of operations of the popular movement of the Raval”.
“We warn the institutions that we intend to stay, that this is already in the neighborhood, and that for every step they take against us, we will make three,” they said in a statement read minutes after it was made public. the occupation. The intention of the occupation is to provide a place in the Mutual Support Network, the Housing Union and the Popular Food Network.
Escola Massana squatting Raval Housing Union Closed migrant Raval Mutual Support Network
El Sindicat d’Habitatge i la Xarxa de Suport Mutu del Raval fan pública l’okupació de l’antiga Escola Massana
PUBLICAT: Juny 23, 2020
Revetlla de Sant Joan reivindicativa al Raval barceloní. Aquest dimarts 23 de juny, cap a les X de la nit, s’ha fet pública l’okupació de l’edifici de l’antiga Escola Massana, a la plaça del Canonge Colom, a tocar del local okupat fa dos anys per la Tancada migrant. L’acció ha estat reivindicada pel Sindicat d’Habitatge i la Xarxa de Suport Mutu del Raval.
L’okupació s’ha visibilitzat en acabar una rua reivindicativa que ha arrencat a les 20 h a la plaça Salvador Seguí i on han participat unes 250 persones i que s’ha convocat animant a seguir les mesures de seguretat amb motiu del coronavirus. Els col·lectius denuncien l’estat d’un edifici “abandonat des de fa anys per les institucions” i alerten que es convertirà en la “base d’operacions del moviment popular del Raval”.
“Advertim les institucions que tenim intenció de quedar-nos, que això ja és del barri, i que per cada pas que facin contra nosaltres, en farem tres”, han reblat a través d’un comunicat llegit minuts més tard que es fes pública l’okupació. La intenció de l’okupació és proveir d’un local a la Xarxa de Suport Mutu, el Sindicat d’Habitatge i la Xarxa Popular d’Aliments.
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