Actions Against Gentrification & Displacement

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Full original title: Athens, (Exarxeia) Greece :Taking responsibility for the actions against gentrification and displacement By Anarchists

We call for corresponding sabotage in every neighbourhood affected by the onslaught they call “development”.

In solidarity: The Libertarian Cultural Centre of Almada

From Autonomies

For a new space for the Centro de Cultura Libertária/Libertarian Cultural Center!

The space that the Libertarian Cultural Centre (Almada, Portugal) has occupied and rented for almost 50 years is again in danger. The continued pressure exerted by gentrification and the real estate market that has evicted and forced out of city centres hits us once again. After years of threats and eviction processes that we resisted, in March 2024, the CCL will have to leave its historic headquarters in Cacilhas.

Text regarding the situation in Exarcheia

From Athens Indymedia

Exarcheia finds itself in a moment of existential crisis. However, while most groups are focusing on the external forces that threaten the neighborhood, they are ignoring some of the internal conditions that have helped bring us to this point.

Exarcheia, the subway station, and public space

From Freedom News UK

For quite some time now, in the historic Exarcheia neighbourhood of Athens, home to countless anti-authoritarian and anarchist collectives, squats, and social centres, there has been a struggle directed against the construction of a metro station on the district’s central square. How does an area with such a libertarian history oppose the expansion of public transport, one might ask; but the truth is that the problem is not the subway as such, but the way the decision to build was made and what will came after it.

Eviction of CSO La Astilla (Barcelona)

Translation of the leaflet circulated last night (1-12-22) in the post-eviction demonstration for the CSO Astilla in L'Hospitalet de LLobregat (Barcelona, Spain) La Astilla was an important anarchist Squatted Social Center that held countless concerts, talks, solidarity events and workshops during the last 13 years.
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Today they have evicted the Squatted Social Center La Astilla. This is the end of a project that began in March of 2009, when a group of people decided to squat a warehouse in Hospitalet to start a self-managed project that would respond to their concerns.

Statement on the arson against a vehicle of the Greek Embassy

From Kontrapolis.

We have been closely following the Greek state's crushing of demonstrations in the streets of Athens. The government of Nea Dimokratia and its judiciary have proven that in the hunger strikes of D. Koufontinas and G. Michailidis they are ready to let prisoners die rather than to give way one step. We know the videos of the lynching with the participation of police officers of Zak Kostopoulos. As well as the execution of N. Sampanis in Perama by DIAS is an expression of a ruthless regime, as is the murder of Vassilis Maggos in Volos. Blood drips from the hands of the Greek authorities.

The Exarcheia Riots of June 25: background and thoughts

Why speak when you can be silent? and yet, since the sexy videos of the riots that took place in Exarcheia on Saturday, June 25 have gained a lot of views, the English-speaking audience might benefit from some context. What follows is my account of that night, from the perspective of a neighborhood resident, anarchist, etc.

Responsibility claim for the attack on the OBA store

On the night of May Day we chose to attack the new store in the area of Exarcheia, at 45 Themistokleous Street, called OBA. We smashed its window and left the political message of our action with stickers saying that since the opening of this shop the homeless person who lived in front of its window was displaced. This action was our response to the displacement of the homeless man who had resided for years in the arcade in front of that store and who, after the store opened, was forced to seek shelter in another corner of the neighborhood. How those who are left over are displaced to make way for urban and middle-class shoppers is also shown by the fact that on the opposite side from the store we raided there was a housing squat, which the state evacuated some years ago, sealing the building to prevent its reoccupation.

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