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Tag Archives: Okupations
Scenes from the class struggle in spain: Evictions and the reign of capital
The politics of eviction is the political expression of the protection of Capital …
Cinema America Occupato (Rome): The okupation of culture
Okupations are often conceived of as the taking and creation of spaces, spaces that then serve to satisfy immediate needs. We think of houses, factories, land, and so on. But okupations are also, and perhaps above all else, spaces for … Continue reading
A house of rainbow colours: the story of Fronte del Porto Occupato (Rome)
Walls divide, segregate, displace; channel according regimes of power, direct according to apparatuses of control. They mark lines of authority, frontiers of wealth, psychoses of fear. Yet they may also be breached: if rebellion is transgression, then it is defined … Continue reading
Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca (PAH): An anniversary of resistance
The Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca (PAH) of Barcelona celebrated this last Sunday, February 22, its 6th anniversary, and it did so with a protest march, music, and the occupation of a block of apartments owned by the spain’s … Continue reading
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Scenes from the class struggle in spain
(Photograph by DISO press) Capitalism is a form of government that mobilises power through war. The field of conflict is not marked by a battle front, but is played out in the everyday of each one of us. In this … Continue reading
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Okupations without borders: The ExMoi occupation in Turin
Squatting is politically significant as part of a conscious project to contest the sanctity of private property, the exclusive role of the State in securing rights and providing for social needs, as experiments in autonomous self-management, which multiplied, both create … Continue reading
Wars for the commons in turkey
While turkey’s president celebrates his new presidential palace, the White Palace in Ankara, of over one thousand rooms, constructed on more than 150,000 sq m, and costing over 600 million dollars (BBC 14/11/2014), an okupied social social in the Kadiköy … Continue reading
Claiming property as use: House okupations in Madrid
The occupation of empty, bank owned houses in spain, under the name of Obra Social, appeared in the wake of the creation 15M neighbourhood assemblies and parallel movements that came together initially to address the mass evictions in the country, … Continue reading
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Tagged Occupations, Okupations, Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca, spain
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Creating through resistance: The ZAD in Notre-Dame-des-Landes
Since the winter of 2012-2013, the Notre-Dame-des Landes resistance/okupation against the french government’s plan to build an airport in the midst of agricultural and forest lands has met with ongoing opposition. We chronicle here some of that continuing creativity, since … Continue reading
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Okupying education: Taking the university of Amsterdam
Since late 2014, students of the University of Amsterdam have engaged in protests against planned budget cuts and the restructuring of academic programs, especially humanities programs, all part of the University´s overall austerity measures dictated by an institutional debt crisis, … Continue reading →