Input of Libertatia squat on the topic of squats/social centers at BAB2025

From Balkan Anarchist Bookfair

A few words about Libertatia squat

Libertatia squat, the neoclassical listed building at the junction of Sarandaporou and Stratou streets in Thessaloniki, has been squatted since May 2008. In these 16 years it has been a hospitable place not only for those in need of housing but also for the ongoing struggle against the state, capital, capitalism and fascism.

Anarchist squats and autonomous social centres

From Balkan Anarchist Bookfair

In the context of the capitalist crisis and intense repression, we watch our cities submitting to the business of tourism and increasingly accommodating activities mediated by commodities and profit. This is a form of enclosure of public space, that displaces people from the cities. Squats are being evicted and it is becoming increasingly difficult to secure our material conditions of existence for social centres. Yet the existence of social centres is vital for the sustainability of relationships of solidarity between people trying to breathe in a suffocating world.

Celebrating 30 years of the Base for Anarchy and Solidarity in Easton (BASE)

From The Bristol Cable

As the Easton-based social centre reaches its thirtieth birthday, we explore the history of the much-loved volunteer-run community space, which began life as a squat back in the mid-1990s

As the winter of 1995 drew in, a group of Bristol’s anarchist squatters started to talk about where to go next. One comrade heard that a building at 14 Robertson Road, which had previously housed the Bristol One Parent project, had been empty for over six months.

Program of International Anarchist Agitation & Kulture Fair, March 29-31

From FIAKA 2024

FIAKA 2024 (Veracruz, Mexico)

This is the schedule for the International Anarchist Agitation and Kulture Fair 2024. There was a change with the location of the fair, now it will be in Tlaltetela, Veracruz. Ask for information on how to get there. This is an alcohol and drug-free meeting space with only non-animal plant foods)

Squatting in Defense of Queer Autonomy

From AntiDote Zine, Your friendly neighborhood anarchists since 2013

AntiNote: With permission from our comrades in Montreuil, we present two recent blog posts from La Baudrière, a queer-feminist squat that was valiantly defended and ultimately evicted this past week. While we mourn the loss of this stronghold of joyous queer life and resistance, we celebrate all of the possibilities that La Baudrière has opened up for young queer anarchists and the solidarity networks they have built across struggles more broadly. We present their call to defend the squat, as well as their update on the eviction, as a means to uplift and applaud their fight for queer autonomy. Their words stoke a fire in our hearts that inspire us to imagine a more liberated future, where free time, good snacks, and feeling safe enough to make mistakes are just a part of life, for all of us.

Anarchist squatters in Spain release video of demands

From EuroWeeklyNews
By Imran Khan
May 11, 2023

Full title: Anarchist squatters in Spain post video in masks demanding to ‘hand over the keys to all properties’

La Ruina in Barcelona, which is a social centre that has been taken over by squatters in Plaça Bonanova, has published a video on Twitter, with two of its members making several demands.

Balkan info-tour report: Niš – Sofia – Istanbul – Thessaloniki

https://bab2023.espivblogs.net/balkan-info-tour-report/
March 16, 2023

The delegation of the anti-authoritarian movement from Ljubljana that is participating in the Organizational Assembly of BAB2023 have travelled to Sofia (Bulgaria) to support the Anti-Lukov March on the 25th of February. They used this opportunity and visited also Niš (Serbia), Thessaloniki (Greece) and Istanbul (Turkey) to meet comrades from the anarchist movement, establish new contacts, promote BAB2023 and talk about ongoing struggles, international and mutual solidarity.

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.

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