Tag Archives: spain

Un desalojo, otra okupación

Colin Ward, writing of the post WWII british squatters movement, he came to identify four phases in squatting understood as a form of direct action to the housing problem in non-revolutionary situations.  There is first the initiative, the action that … Continue reading

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Casablanca …

We do not want to take power, but rather destroy it.  Destroy the monopoly of the use of force by the State, destroy the relations of domination and control over the territory.  Destroy the possibility of accumulating private property, alienation, … Continue reading

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15M through the eye of film

El 15-M es sobre todo una llamada a la conciencia, el germen de una nueva cultura política que se abre paso entre las envejecidas pero aún dominantes estructuras de poder.                                                                                                                                    José Candón Mena, Una Breve historia del 15-M, Libre … Continue reading

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The Politics of the Body: Visions from 15M

For a revolution from and for a self-management of our bodies, of our lives, of our decisions and other spaces.  We affirm our bodies as territories that reject any form of colonization.                                                                             Comisión Transfeminista Benimaclet (Valencia) The body as … Continue reading

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It is all about what is dreamed: Sueños Colectivos

An excellent documentary about Anarchism in spain during the Civil War … but much more than that: it is a testimony of the creativity of those who sought to make real in their everyday the beauty of the anarchist utopia … Continue reading

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Okupying with Alegría

On the 30th of August, up to 200 people occupied a residential building in Sevilla, subsequently providing housing for 5 families.  Supported by 15M Sevilla, the building taken was recently constructed, but empty and had passed to the bank Bankia … Continue reading

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The contagion of rebellion

From the protests of working class neighbourhoods in Sevilla (tercera información), to the occupation of residential buildings for housing those made homeless (Corrala de Vecinas La Alegría), to the call for a general strike by the CGT, CNT and Solidaridade … Continue reading

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A tentação do poder: Ocupar um congresso, ou não ocupar, eis a questão!

The following is an effort to intervene in a debate that arose recently in spain, among a great number of social movements, associations, collectivities, before a call by a group calling itself Plataforma ¡En Pie! to occupy the country's parliament … Continue reading

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Archipelagos of resistance/autonomy

… l’organisation autonome des sans-pouvoir peut en exercer une multiplicité qui, tout simplement, permettent de vivre mieux, et cela précisément parce que le pouvoir des sans-pouvoir n’est pas un autre pouvoir, « égal et opposé » au pouvoir ennemi, mais un ensemble … Continue reading

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15M’s spain: In the balance of protest and creation

15M continues to walk the limenal space between political contestation and the construction of other worlds … a space without identity, always in the making … the space of autonomy …

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