Tag: Raval

Autonomous Students Residences (REA).. Ongoing Eviction in Barcelona

LATEST NEWS  Mon 3rd Dec
The center has been RESQUATTED   

Jóvenes de Barcelona derrumban los muros y ocupan el edificio para poner en marcha el proyecto REA (Residencia de Estudiantes Autogestionada). Este bloque era habitado por muchos estudiantes que no pueden costear un alquiler. #REA

 Barcelona City Council has evicted the Autonomous Student Residences in the Raval barrio. ( Residencia de Estudiantes Autogestionada del Raval).

17h17 hours ago

 Communiqué of @el_lokal denouncing the #BrutalidadPolicial that has occurred today the people who were demonstrating against the eviction of @ la_REA_.PEPPER GAS  and police charges of the riot police of Guardia Urbana de Barcelona:

Comunicado de denunciando laque se han sufruido hoy las personas que se manifestaban en contra del desalojo de . GAS PIMIENTA y cargas policiales de los antidisturbios de Guardia Urbana de Barcelona:      40 retweets 13 likesUn grup de persones s’han apropat a l’edifici per donar suport a la trentena de persones que resistien dins / Victor Serri

At eight on Friday morning, agents of the Guardia Urbana city police began the operation to remove the 30 occupants who resisted inside the building. The council justifies the decision with the technical reports that warn about the architectural deficiencies of the block. Continue reading “Autonomous Students Residences (REA).. Ongoing Eviction in Barcelona”

New Mutual Aid Hotline Blocks dozens of Evictions, Threats and Toxic Capitalism

 

   Stop evictions..the Raval barrio (Barcelona old city) opens a  mutual support hotline.  .. we’re living a situation of extreme urgency with weekly and often daily evictions, harassment and bullying, an exponential increase of speculative practices, and price rises that are covert expulsions of the population;

http://ellokal.org/   In short,  organized real estate violence, which is not new but has been getting much more serious for two years. We have seen investors buy whole buildings and send thugs with “offers” to tenants to leave, we have seen properties vacated in record time, we have seen the proliferation of ‘Desokupa style companies’ (companies which provide heavies to evict people) specialized in bullying and intimidation, and companies cashing in on  alarms, armored doors, video surveillance, doing an  kind of business with the expulsion of families. Continue reading “New Mutual Aid Hotline Blocks dozens of Evictions, Threats and Toxic Capitalism”

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