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Tag Archives: Okupations
Dancing life: Radical gestures of okupied social centres
Today okupied social centres play today a fundamental role in the renewal, constitution and radicalisation of social movements. Where there presence is marked (e.g. greece, spain, italy), they themselves often constitute a challenge to both State and an economy based … Continue reading
Standing with Standing Rock
“State security services in North Dakota have used tear gas and water hoses against hundreds of activists protesting against the Dakota Access Pipeline. Protesters also reported being hit with rubber bullets and percussion grenades on a bridge just north of … Continue reading
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Tagged capitalism, ecology, Indigenous peoples, Okupations, rebellion
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The expropriated bank la canica: The contagion of bank okupations in spain
With the earlier bank occupations of catalonia in 2014 and the struggle for the defense of the Banc Expropiat in the Gràcia neighbourhood of Barcelona in the bankground, and also in Madrid with the occupied La Bankarrota in 2015, the example continues to resonate, … Continue reading
Gràcia, Barcelona: Battles for an okupied bank
In June of 2014, we posted news about a series of okupations of banks in Catalonia, with the aim of creating social centres. One such okupation was baptised the Banc Expropiat of the Gràcia neighbourhood in Barcelona.
Dissonant okupations: The Klinika squat in Prague
Autonomies has insistently defended a politics of okupations/occupations, as a means of both contesting the legal regime of private property and of generating spaces and times for experiments in autonomous, self-managed social relations. In the panorama of okupied spaces, self-managed … Continue reading
CSOA La Morada: In solidarity aganist an eviction
The self-managed okupied social centre La Morada, in Madrid, was evicted by the riot squads of national police in the early hours of the 20th of April, without any judicial eviction order. During the course of the day, 32 people … Continue reading
La Esperanza commune, Gran Canaria: Revolution through okupation
Whether in time of revolution or in time of peace, the worker must be housed somehow or other; he must have some sort of roof over his head. But, however tumble-down and squalid your dwelling may be, there is always … Continue reading
Remembering a Barcelona February
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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Tagged anarchism, gentrification, occupy the city, Okupations, spain
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Shards of time amid spaces of rebellion
This essay is the child of an earlier reflection on time and revolution, as well as of work on the 15th of May movement in spain, Pasolini and anti-fascism, and other essays posted on Autonomies, from which it borrows generously. … Continue reading
The limits of community
We share an essay by Ruymán Rodríguez that critically evaluates the radical poltical potential of the idea of community. Without defending the need to abandon the creation of communities as part of a larger anarchist political project, Rodríguez nevertheless argues … Continue reading →