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Tag Archives: Okupations
The insurrection of occupations
(photograph by Olmo Calvo) As the violence of State-Capital displays itself in spain – 6 million unemployed, cuts to public social services, 500 hundred daily home evictions, with their attendant tragedies of homelessness, destroyed families, suicides – the defense of … Continue reading
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Tagged 15M, Okupations, Olmo Calvo, Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca
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Updates from Greece: The Resistance continues
We are happy to let you know that the Greek anti-authoritarian resistance is countering the terroristic assaults of the Greek State. From the http://blog.occupiedlondon.org/ we repost: http://blog.occupiedlondon.org/2013/01/15/lelas-karagianni-squat-has-been-re-occupied/ http://blog.occupiedlondon.org/2013/01/15/police-raid-lelas-karagianni-athens-oldest-anarchist-squat-updates/
Lines of fracture, lines of conflict, lines of freedom: The war of okupations in greece
In solidarity … From greece to spain, passing through italy, okupations increasingly mark a territory of conflict between State-Capital and those who seek to create spaces and times of autonomy inside/outside the reigning regime of power. Beyond what they directly contest in capitalism, … Continue reading
Taking Rome: Okupation as Revolution
This last 6th of December, eight new occupations of buildings and houses took place in Rome. This was not a spontaneous, momentary explosion, but a premeditated collective step that allowed some 2000 families to be sheltered. That many have been … Continue reading
The ZAD is Everywhere: The Autonomies of Protest in Notre-Dame-des-Landes
“On veut inventer un nouveau mode de vie … On s’oppose au projet d’aéroport et au monde qui va avec, au système qui le porte … C’est un projet emblématique d’une logique d’aménagement du territoire autoritaire, qui contrôle les vies et détruit les … Continue reading
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Tagged france, insurrection, Notre-Dame-des-Landes, Okupations, revolution
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Strikes against Capitalism
ParkeHarrison Flying Lesson (2000) The State is a social relationship; a certain way of people relating to one another. It can be destroyed by creating new social relationships; i.e., by people relating to one another differently. Gustav Landauer The struggle … Continue reading
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Tagged 15M, insurrection, Okupations, revolution, spain, Strike
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The Roots of Okupation
On November 17th was announced another okupation in Madrid and the creation of a new Self-Managed Okupied Social Centre. The new okupation now carries a name: the CSOA Raíces, or Roots. Roots, because radical, because okupations contest the very foundations … Continue reading
A war without end: The eviction of La Gotera
The fractures of modern society are many. The factory/latifundia of the 19th century have been replaced by the 21st century city as the space of contestation. The proletariat is now inclusive of workers, as well as of the … Continue reading
Rebelling against property: the PAH
The PAH, Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca, predating the emergence of 15M in spain has been, with 15M’s neighbourhood assemblies in various cities, been one of the most emblematic protagonists in the popular efforts to resist the power of … Continue reading
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Tagged 15M, Okupations, Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca, spain, Spanish Revolution
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Lines of tension, lines of flight: the revolution of occupations
Instead of gambling on the eternal impossibility of revolution …, why not think that a new type of revolution is in the course of becoming possible … Everything is played in uncertain games, ‘front to front, back to back, back … Continue reading →