Kan Kolmo still Resists and Parties! An Occupied Social Center (CSO), in Girona, Catalunya, since 2009!-

Eviction Postponed!

on 20th Jan 2025 by Kan Kolmo via thefreeonline at https://wp.me/pIJl9-FF2 Telegram https://t.me/thefreeonline

16th Anniversary of the CSO Kan Kolmo

Against all odds…

We are celebrating the anniversary of the CSO KAN KOLMO again!!

We have been resisting for 16 years, and although the threat continues, we want to celebrate that, for another year, we continue to corrode the suffocating normality of Girona.

That is why, this year we have prepared a very special anniversary, with lots of love and activities for all tastes:
A bioconstruction workshop where we will build a hazelnut dome/lunch- cigalonada/ a talk to debate and analyze the housing situation -both necessary and poignant at this time and in this space- concerts, dinner… and of course, don’t miss it… The famous Kan Kolmo cabaret

We are expecting you on Saturday 1 and Sunday 2 February.
We know we always say this, but… what if this were the last one?
Let’s enjoy it until the end
Kan Kolmo resists

Remember to leave your canine companion at home!

** Any profit will go to the resistance fund

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On December 12 the Courts once again FAILED to make us abandon what is an autonomous, common, assembly-run, committed and above all free space, for all the people who understand that this is not the best of societies.

A society based on inequalities and fear is not healthy, and that’s why we are occupying, to demonstrate that living differently is not a utopia. We organize ourselves in an assembly-like manner, promoting horizontality and the breaking of hierarchies.

We build safer, transfeminist and anti-fascist spaces, confronting the patriarchal, racist and speciesist model.

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They died for being poor: How Mass Squatting could Burst the Speculation Bubble.

by Perifèries Urbanes (+ in Spanish Italian Catalan) tweets + pics added)

In the early hours of 14th June 2017, a fire tore through a 24-storey tower block in North Kensington, killing at least 72 people. In the wake of the event, it soon became clear that this was more than a tragic accident, as revelations began to emerge around a lack of fire safety standards, a refurbishment which had saved £293k by downgrading insulation to less fire-proof material, as well as panels installed on the outside of the building to make it ‘look better’ for local wealthy neighbors (creating a cavity which acted as a chimney).

It also emerged that the residents of the tower had been trying to raise their voices in the run-up to the event in order to get their landlords and the council to address fire safety issues in the building, but to no avail….

Housing Crisis 1946 – Thousands march in London in support of squatted empty blocks in Bloomsbury and near Regents Park. Housing Crisis 2018 – The same slogan is still good! 196 Retweets 239 Likes

Grenfell Tower has now become a beacon for the housing crisis and urban inequalities in cities like London, symbolic of an aesthetic disregard for the poor (not listening to their voices and trying to mask their appearance on the city’s skyline behind panels) as well as who has the ability to access safe and secure housing (which is currently distributed around property ownership and notions of entitlement). Many, for instance, have pointed out that the fire took place in one of the richest boroughs in the country, but that Kensington and Chelsea also has one of the highest number of empty buildings in the UK, which are largely being used as investments by the international super-wealthy.”

Addressing this context after the blaze, there was an extraordinary and controversial call by leader of the opposition, Jeremy Corbyn, for the state to take over these empty buildings in order to house survivors. This idea was immediately met with dismissal as threatening core tenants of property ownership and entitlement, yet we can actually find a precedent in the UK for requisitioning empty buildings in order to address a housing crisis. Continue reading “They died for being poor: How Mass Squatting could Burst the Speculation Bubble.”

Spinhuis ..Occupied Free Life University RESISTS in Amsterdam

Spinhuis might get evicted but these streets are still ours! Thank you so much for your support .Here are some shots from our manifestations .

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Amsterdam: Spinhuis to be evicted. We are militant and determined to resist

– August 30th, 2017

On the 28th of August, almost two years after the abandoned dungeon under the bridge was squatted, the Spinhuis will be evicted. The autonomous social centre will be swept away. What will come in its place will be a closed, ostensibly ‘neigbourhood initiative’ for canal homeowners, but which is widely known to be a vessel for the ambitions of Peter Hagendoorn (son of the well-known real estate speculant).
Whoever thought that we would just let this happen is wrong. Long have we fought for a social and independent Spinhuis to remain, using all the tools we had: from crowbars on doors, to negotiations with the municipality, and all the rhetorical skills and political wrangling that come with dealing with bureaucrats.

However the fate of the squat had already been decided upon. Nevertheless, we remain ready to fight. From under the bridge we will take to the streets to resist the evictions of the Spinhuis and ADM, and the overwhelming commercialisation and gentrification of our city. Here follows a reflection on the past two years and the battle that is yet to come.

During our time in the Spinhuis, so much was learned and accomplished, but we also made our mistakes. Too long have we negotiated politely: with a municipality that is selling off our city; with rich neighbours, who bluntly declare that homeless people should be excluded from our space and city centre; with slimy real estate speculants, who called the police when we opened the Spinhuis to shelter refugees from the We Are Here group. Continue reading “Spinhuis ..Occupied Free Life University RESISTS in Amsterdam”

Dublin: Grangegorman Mega Eviction Fails!

Via Squat.net.

International Callout: Help us resist eviction of SquatCity

see video here http://bcove.me/02q47p86

We are putting out an international callout for support, to help us resist the eviction of our homes, and to defend squatting in Dublin. We have been subject to a large scale eviction attempt over the last couple of days, and we are currently resisting, and appealing for help and support. Many of you would have stayed there during the International Squatters Convergence, and saw the space for yourselves.

Solidarity Times – Free the Media, Be the Media

GRANGEGORMAN -An Inspirational Beauty is Born

Occasionally events happen and you fail to realise the significance until much later. But the recent events in Grangegorman and the violent and oppressive attempts to evict the thirty young people from the home they’ve built for themselves in the ruins of terraced houses and a warehouse is such a significant moment.

Continue reading “Dublin: Grangegorman Mega Eviction Fails!”

Manila Squatters in anti-yuppy riots

Police attack squatters in Philippines slum riot

Thousands of people living in slums in Manila have fought fierce battles with police, who are trying to evict them from their homes in order to make way for a multi-billion dollar project to turn the area into a new business district.

As police moved in to the 72 acre site, residents erected barricades, and fought back the police using rocks, nail bombs, and bags of faeces. The police repeatedly charged the barricades with batons and teargas, but without success. Continue reading “Manila Squatters in anti-yuppy riots”

Utrecht: Ubica heroes evicted in 16 hour battle

Netherlands: A report on the eviction of Ubica squat

Utrecht, Holland

Suddenly they came storming out. They were ten or fifteen. Black clothes, hooded. They had a fire extinguisher, a ladder, paint and some tires with them. And gasoline. The great final act of the sad drama of the Fall of Ubica had started. Continue reading “Utrecht: Ubica heroes evicted in 16 hour battle”