The owner of the Ghost Blocks ( Blokes Fantasma) has taken legal action to evict us. He wants to destroy a community life project that, since 1993, has been home to hundreds of people and a multitude of social projects.
On 15th January 2025 from @blokesfantasma instagram.com/reel/DExSMGat8CZ/ via thefreeonline at https://wp.me/pIJl9-FAZ Telegram https://t.me/thefreeonline.
‘By attacking one of us they ATTACK US ALL!‘
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We defend the Ghost Blocks- Blokes Fantasma
– translation from Catalan
From its beginnings, the Blokes Fantasma were committed to not only being a home, but to building an open space, where to generate and share counterculture away from the commodification of time and leisure.
We want the owners to withdraw the lawsuit and accept that Blokes is not theirs but belongs to those who live there!
It was built almost 40 years ago, and the owner, who belongs to a family of large landowners in the city, abandoned it before finishing the work, without paying the workers and endangering the lives of the neighbors, leaving a crane at the mercy of the wind.
After his death, his children have never claimed the inheritance; until now, when all the former debts have been prescribed.
One of the many reasons to defend the Blokes is that they are part of a struggle to conquer another model of life.
And in this struggle there are many of us, from different places, but with the same goal: to build a world free from oppression and material accumulation. A world that defends the right to housing above the right to private property.
Access to housing has become the slavery of the 21st century and is essential for the maintenance of capitalism.
How many people would leave their crappy jobs if they didn’t have to pay rent?
For us, just as the land belongs to those who work it, houses belong to those who live in them. Or, what is the same, we want for everyone what we want for ourselves: we want everything.
We want houses for everyone. For those who are in an irregular situation, for those who study, those who work, those who are unemployed; those who give birth and those who dedicate their time to getting involved in social causes without receiving anything in return.
We don’t want anyone to be able to speculate on housing. But, above all, we don’t want to leave anyone behind.
We don’t want to be accomplices in the commercialization of housing and, in this fight, our tool is the occupation.
But we won’t be satisfied with just that. We want to end the plunder of natural resources that this city model based on mass tourism entails. We want to stop satisfying the whims of the rich.
We want resources to be distributed according to needs, and to contribute according to our possibilities. We want no one to be able to accumulate wealth in order to, thus, put an end to poverty.
We want Blokes Fantasma for all. We want these Blokes and all those who will come
You won’t be able to defeat The Blocks, we are all ghosts!!
Against your greed, our love and our rage.
Barcelona is ours and we have the keys to all the houses.
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