Tag Archives: gentrification

Voices from an okupation: The assembleia de occupação de Lisboa

Posted on September 30, 2017 by Julius Gavroche

Ongoing reflections on an okupation in Lisbon (continuing a discussion) … The essay below, which we share in translation, is by Tiago F. Duarte, a member of the Assembleia de occupação de Lisboa, a collective responsible for the recent occupation … Continue reading →

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Rebel neighbourhoods: Vallcarca, Barcelona

Posted on January 12, 2017 by Julius Gavroche

As we once wrote of Madrid’s Carabanchel neighbourhood … “There are cities where particular neighbourhoods guard a memory of past disobedience and rebellion. They were in the past often referred to as working-class neighbourhoods, or quartiers populaires, to employ the … Continue reading →

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Remembering a Barcelona February

Posted on February 5, 2016 by Julius Gavroche

Soy mi destino, mi tiempo, mi camino, mi gran amor, mi guerrera y mi poeta. Soy la caída, la bajada en picado a los infiernos, el dolor, el amor, la esperanza. Soy mi memoria, mi esencia y mi existencia. Soy … Continue reading →

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Landscapes of oppression, gestures of resistance: Istanbul

Posted on July 18, 2015 by Julius Gavroche

Sunday Today is Sunday. Today they led me out into the sun for the first time. And for the first time in my life I stood immovable Amazed at how distant the sky was How vast, How blue Respectfully I … Continue reading →

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Precarity in Paradise: the Barcelona model

Posted on July 1, 2015 by Julius Gavroche

We share below an essay by Peter Gelderloos on the capitalist city and anticapitalist resistance in Barcelona that originally appeared in Roarmag (28/06/2015) …

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Gentrificação: A cidade como campo de apropriação, deslocação e segregação

Posted on May 27, 2015 by Julius Gavroche

Partilhamos uma reflexão sobre a gentrificação enquanto processo de desalojamento capitalista, de um amigo de Autonomies … No dia 14 de Junho de 1989, Bruce Bailey, activista de defesa dos direitos de inquilinos na cidade de Nova York foi assassinado, … Continue reading →

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Gentrification: The city as a field of appropriation, dislocation and segregation

Posted on May 27, 2015 by Julius Gavroche

We share below a reflection on gentrification as capitalist dispossession, from a friend of Autonomies … On the 14 the of June of 1989, Bruce Bailey, tenants activist in New York city, was murdered, his dismembered body abandoned in a … Continue reading →

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