Occupied Centers Resist Summer Evictions in Barcelona

 from La Directa, translation TheFreeOrg , en Catalá cap a baix
Self-managed and housing projects built in squatting areas such as Ca La Trava, Armadillo or the Expropriated Bank are threatened with eviction in the Gracia barrio suffering the pressure of tourism and the increase in prices in the purchase and rent of housing

In the neighborhood of Gràcia 2 occupied social centers have a threat of eviction Ca la Trava and the Expropriated Bank (El  Banc Expropiat),  separated by a mere 500 meters, they are different projects in the fight against the progressively imposed model where  traditional neighborhoods and businesses still struggle to coexist  in the face of real estate investors, promoters and tourists.

A second hand flat  Gràcia costs € 4,379 per m², the average rental price was € 856 per month in 2017, there are 1,081 hotels, hotel-apartments and pensions in the District.

Ca la Trava or luxury apartments


In December 2016, a group of students, workers, etc occupied the buildings located at numbers 154 and 156 of the Travessera de Gràcia in Barcelona. The first block was called Jahnela and hosted the ‘Gràcia Housing Office’ occupied project. Next door is Ca La Trava. “We organized ourselves at the Housing Office of Gracia, a group that offers solutions to the various housing problems, either by stopping eviction, defending neighbors in cases of real estate harassment, or by helping to squat to guarantee everyone access to decent housing, “they explained to their founding manifesto.

The block of Ca La Trava is property of the ‘ Inmobiliaria Mar SL’, also owned by the huge developer and construction company ‘La Llave de Oro’. ” It was in disuse for a long time and when we entered, we found it deliberately damaged to make  it uninhabitable” assure the occupiers

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Negotiations with the City Council and property began  Ca La Trava. After the first attempts to get the council to buy the blocks, in a process that delayed the order of eviction and finally did not fructify, the fate of real estate goes through the eviction and fell through they were scheduled for demolition to build ‘luxury homes. We are now facing a ”precautionary eviction” through criminal law, against which we will resist “, affirm the residents.

Banco Expropiat, six years and three threats

After the last eviction of the old bank the group of the Expropriated Bank liberateded a new space at the extinct ‘Center for Primary Health Care (CAP) of Quevedo Street and kept the same name. Continue reading “Occupied Centers Resist Summer Evictions in Barcelona”

Errekaleor is Alive!, the Epic Struggle of a Self-managed and Anticapitalist neighborhood.


we share an interesting interview with Estitxu Villamor, by Adrián Almazán for 15-15-15.org/webzine/ on the situation of Errekaleor, neighborhood of Vitoria.errekaleor-29052016-360x542.jpg

Errekaleor Bizirik!see also… Police Attack Occupied Utopia: Errekaleor Under Siege: Solidarity Appeal

Let’s start with the history of the Errekaleor neighborhood. In what year was it built? What kind of population lived in it and what was its role in the struggles of the city?

Errekaleor is a working district that was built in 1959 to house the workers who came from the whole peninsula to the factories of Gasteiz. This is a time when there is a very strong industrialization in the city and many workers come with their families.Related image

The city grew and this type of labor districts were created, away from the center of the city. This, in particular, is built by a cooperative of the bishopric, totally on the periphery, without any services (the neighborhood initially comprised of the houses and a church), so that the life of the workers was reduced to the work and did not have the possibility of organize themselves in the workers’ struggle.

Even so, because of their workmanship, neighbors were very close and organized from the outset. Very involved in the workers’ struggle and in the defense of their own neighborhood, they themselves built a cinema, a bar and a grocery store; Also through their struggle they got the city council to equip them with services such as the social center, nursery,  … Continue reading “Errekaleor is Alive!, the Epic Struggle of a Self-managed and Anticapitalist neighborhood.”

Madrid Assembly liberating Building for 11 evicted Homeless Families

The OS Madrid with hundreds of people are just  liberating a building in Malasaña (live commentary)

by Kaos.   (note. the organised squatters seizing bank property for homeless are now called ‘Obra Social’..Social Work )

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Hundreds of people ”regain” a building in central Madrid . The best gift of kings day (6th Jan), we want  no people without homes or homes without people. Epiphany Today, 11 families have recovered a building # CaixaBank. .    HT:    Riot police are stationed outside. While there was an agreement not to evict immediately, logically there is distrust. Everyone waiting for it to happen.

Comrades report that they have reached an agreement with the police: If the traffic is let move in the street they will not intervene because the evictio isn’t  their department. We begin to clear the road so they vehicles and people csn move past. The information provided is ratified: : They agree to move the riot òlice if we clear the road.. Yes We Can Win!

 There are still two riot police lorries on the corner. The people keep blocking the door

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We’re preparing to read tha Communique from ‘Social Work’.. . Building recovered!

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Social Work clmmunique from Madrid on the new building occupied in Malasaña

..”We are a large family of people of all ages and backgrounds who have lawfully squatted for housing and emergency housing insecurity. We are in untenable situations because local, regional and national governments are daily committing High Treason against the People:

They lie and manipulate both the information and the public media for partisan propaganda, Congress has been converted into a media circus unworthy of a country and dictate laws destroying decent jobs, allowing 25% of children to go hungry in Spain , destroying the public health and education, ruining dependeny people, youth and pensioners, cancelling social services and access to justice, and selling off the evicted houses and all public infrastructure that we have already paid. for  Shaming us citizens internationally with their misrule.

Corrupt governments, which only act to favor their caste, the economic elite, have concealed and falsified the bank bailout, robbing the country and loading giant debt. Now they repeat the move through SAREB, ( note: a special bank which was set up to hold and sell off the hundreds of thousands of evicted homes, etc) which promotes the re-re-sale of property agreed with banks and real estate prices to their benefit and to the detriment of the people who can not and should not continue to pay. The performance of governments in Spain is a sadistic regression to feudalism, plus an ignorant and incompetent myopia, repeating the most obscene  capitalist method of creating inequality and precariousness, causing permanent damage to persons.

We, who have had our present and future stolen by these governments and have been excluded and thrown in nthe rubbish by them , we act responsibly and legitimately to cover the basic necessities of life that they systematically deny us. These governments only serve to enrich themselves in their predatory, aberrant, inhuman and criminal plutocracy.

For these reasons, we have no other choice but to take the basic rights that have stolen from millions of people in this country, to create a decent life in a decent home, according to the Constitution of 78 which guarantees thias and is still in force. Hundreds of thousands of others, pushed to the limit by this scam, will follow in our footsteps to recover what is rightfully theirs.

We are here to create a responsible community that improves the condition of the building and enriches the social life of the neighborhood. Malasaña, a neighborhood with a long local history, is being subjected, like many others, to processes of real estate speculation and gentrification, dynamics that destroy the social fabric by displacingb the original inhabitants. We do not want a neighborhood where the City Council controls commerce and offers subsidies and licenses to create spaces crowded areas of consumption and alienated leisure consumtion. By liberating this building we wish to regain community spirit, neighborhood solidarity, and mutual support so we can know and recognize each other in the streets.

This building is owned by CaixaBank. It has been empty from 2009 until today. The only slight use was from November 2011 until February 2012, however, the Caixa and the Judge decided that private property was above the right to housing. Today things have changed, we now know that YES YOU CAN WIN, so today we challenge back the Caixa: Do you want to continue being known as the Bad Bank? We only want one thing, housing.

All this shows once again that private property excludes the majority of people from access to goods that actually belong to the commons and leaves many abandoned and disabled to sleep in the street. We demand that there be no more houses without people or homeless without houses. We’re going to pamper our new home, we’re going to rehabilitate and repair it to make it warm and decent housing.

Statewide, it is the 15th block liberated by the ‘Social Work’ squat campaign. The housing work groups of the assemblies of districts of Madrid , inspired and encouraged by the 15m Movement, as well as other groups struggling for decent housing, have been developiung a self-managed, assembly-based, horizontal response to the housing emergency caused by the banks with the complicity of the administration. On behalf o the Social Work f Ther Housing Assembly we hereby liberate this block of empty homes owned by  CaixaBank in Malasaña, Madrid, and today we make that public.

This afternoon we will contact the Caixa through its managing company DiagonalGest to give us a solution in the form of Social Rent. If by Tuesday we have not been answered, we will have to stay here until we get a solution.

There will be many more homes legitimately occupied by assemblies because “Yes He Can WIN” and “Yes WE SHOULD”

http://madrid.tomalosbarrios.net/5285183/comunicado-de-obra-social-madrid-sobre-el-nuevo-edificio-ocupado-en-malasana/

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La O.S. Madrid con cientos de personas acaban de rescatar un edificio en Malasaña (en directo)

por Kaos. Vivienda y Ocupación

Domingo, 05 de Enero de 2014 1  Video
 @ObraSocialMad

Cientos de personas recuperan un edificio en pleno centro de Madrid. El mejor regalo de reyes; que no haya gente sin casas ni casas sin gente. Hoy día de reyes,11 familias han recuperado un edificio de #CaixaBank. Obra Social Madrid difunde comunicado.

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  @ObraSocialMad

Los antidisturbios siguen allí apostados. Si bien hubo un acuerdo hay una lógica desconfianza. Todo el mundo a la espera de lo que suceda.

Compañerxs informan que se ha llegado a un acuerdo con la policía: Si se libera la calle estos no intervendrán porque la ocupación no es de su competencia.  Se procede a liberar la calzada para que puedan circular los vehículos y las personas. Se ratifica la información proporcionada: : Se llega a un acuerdo con la UIP, en el momento que dejemos la calle libre ellos se van. ¡Sí se puede!

 

Ya hay dos lecheras y efectivos con casco. La gente se agarra en la puerta

Leyendo comunicado en Corredera baja 33 . Edificio recuperado!

Comunicado de Obra Social Madrid sobre el nuevo edificio ocupado en Malasaña

Somos una gran familia compuesta por personas de todas las edades y condición que legítimamente hemos okupado una vivienda por emergencia habitacional y precariedad. Estamos en situaciones insostenibles porque los gobiernos locales, regionales y nacional cometen a diario Alta Traición al Pueblo:

Mienten y manipulan tanto la información como los medios de comunicación públicos para propaganda partidista, convierten el Congreso en un circo mediático indigno de un país, dictan leyes que destruyen el empleo digno, permiten que el 25% de las niñas y niños en España pasen hambre, destrozan la sanidad y la educación públicas, arruinan a dependientes, jóvenes y pensionistas, anulan los servicios sociales y el acceso a la justicia, y venden la vivienda y toda la infraestructura pública que ya hemos pagado. Avergüenzan a la ciudadanía a nivel internacional con su desgobierno.

Los gobiernos corruptos, que sólo actúan para favorecer a su casta, a la élite económica, han ocultado y falseado el rescate a la banca, endeudando y robando al país. Ahora repiten la jugada por medio del Sareb, que promueve la re-re-venta de vivienda a precios pactados con bancos e inmobiliarias en su beneficio y en detrimento del pueblo que no lo puede ni debe pagar. La actuación de los gobiernos en España es una regresión al feudalismo sádico, además de una miopía ignorante e incompetente, repitiendo el método capitalista de crear las desigualdades y precariedades más obscenas, que causa daños permanentes a las personas.

Nosotras, a quienes estos gobiernos han robado el presente y el futuro, excluidas y desechadas por ellos a nuestra suerte, actuamos responsable y legítimamente para cubrir las necesidades básicas de la vida que nos niegan sistemáticamente. Estos gobiernos sólo sirven al enriquecimiento propio y al de una plutocracia inhumana, depredadora, aberrante y criminal.

Por estos motivos, no nos queda otro remedio que tomar los derechos básicos que nos han robado a millones de personas en este país, para crear una vida digna en una vivienda digna, según debería garantizar la Constitución del 78 todavía en vigor. Cientos de miles de personas más, empujadas al límite por esta estafa, seguirán nuestros pasos para recuperar lo que les pertenece.

Estamos aquí para crear una comunidad responsable que mejore la condición del edificio y enriquezca la vida social del barrio. Malasaña, un barrio con una larga historia vecinal, se está viendo sometido, como muchos otros, a procesos de especulación inmobiliaria y dinámicas de gentrificación que destruyen su tejido social desplazando a quienes lo han habitado. No queremos un barrio en el que el Ayuntamiento controla el comercio y ofrece subvenciones y licencias para crear zonas atestadas de espacios de consumo y de ocio alienador. Liberando este edificio queremos recuperar el espíritu comunitario, la solidaridad vecinal, el apoyo mutuo y poder así conocernos y reconocernos en las calles.

Este edificio es propiedad de CaixaBank. Está vacío desde 2009 hasta la actualidad. Los únicos meses que albergó vida fueron desde noviembre de 2011 hasta febrero de 2012, sin embargo, la Caixa y el Juez decidieron que la propiedad privada estaba por encima del derecho a la vivienda. Hoy las cosas han cambiado, por que hoy sabemos que SÍ SE PUEDE, así que hoy retamos de nuevo a la Caixa : ¿Quieres seguir siendo el Banco Malo? Nosotras, sólo queremos una cosa, vivienda.

Todo esto que demuestra una vez más que la propiedad privada excluye a la mayoría de personas al acceso a bienes que en realidad pertenecen al procomún y lo deja abandonado e inhabilitado mientras muchas dormimos en la calle. Exigimos que no haya más casas sin gente ni más gente sin casa. Mimaremos nuestro nuevo hogar, lo rehabilitaremos y repararemos para hacer de él una vivienda digna y cálida.

A nivel estatal, éste es el 15º bloque liberado por la campaña de recuperación de bloques de la Obra Social. Los grupos de trabajo de vivienda de las asambleas de los barrios de Madrid, surgidos y potenciados a raíz del 15M, así como los diferentes espacios de lucha por una vivienda digna, llevamos tiempo dando una respuesta autogestionada, asamblearia y horizontal a la emergencia habitacional que provocan las entidades financieras con la complicidad de la Administración. Desde la Obra social de la Asamblea de Vivienda Centro liberamos este bloque de viviendas vacías propiedad última de CaixaBank en el barrio de Malasaña, Madrid y, hoy lo hacemos publico.

Esta misma tarde nos comunicaremos con la Caixa a través de su gestoría DiagonalGest para que nos de una solución en forma de Alquiler Social. Si el martes no hemos obtenido respuesta, nos veremos obligados a permanecer aquí hasta que se nos de una solución.

Habrá muchas más okupaciones legítimas por asambleas de vivienda porque “Sí Se Puede” y “Sí Se Debe”

http://madrid.tomalosbarrios.net/5285183/comunicado-de-obra-social-madrid-sobre-el-nuevo-edificio-ocupado-en-malasana/

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