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Call for action for the actiondays for autonomous freespaces, in Berlin:
Fighting
for Ungdomshuset was reactivating the movement for autonomous spaces.
The radicalism and determination of this fight had motivated many people to
actively join the movement. There have been international solidarity actions and
when activists mobilised for Copenhagen many folks packed their bags to come and
help defending Ungdomshuset on the spot.
But
sadly even the huge protest could not prevent the brutal evacuation of
Ungdomshuset. Driven by the seriousness of the people going out to the streets
in December 2006, this evacuation intensified the fight for autonomous spaces.
In Germany alone solidarity actions took place in over 20 cities after the
evacuation. The protest is going on for a new youth house until now.
The
intention of international networking was repeatedly expressed. Consequently the
first international squatters meeting after a long time was held in Dijon. At
the meeting the decentralized squatter days of action were called for on April 11th/12th
2008, to use these two days to promote the european/global political movement
for autonomous spaces and squats.
(source:
http://april2008.squat.net/index.php/category/english/lang-pref/en).
There
will be a follow up meeting of the squatter days at the end of May in Berlin (Interspace).
Berlin
became the main focus of the autonomous space movement when the evacuation of Köpi
was proposed. Hence numerous actions were dedicated to publish and fight the
threat to Köpi. There also was international mobilisation to Berlin and this
mobilisation and public campaign was not the least reason to prevent the
evacuation of Köpi for a long-term future.
But
awareness kept growing, that Köpi is “only” ONE of many more threatened
projects in Berlin. A lively expression for this idea unity was given at the “One
Struggle One Fight” demonstration in December 2007.
The
essential statement of the demonstration was the defence of ALL autonomous
spaces. Thereby we clearly stated, that an attack at ONE project will be fought
back by ALL of us. And there is no change to that after the contract for the Köpi.
Even if the german magazine “Der Spiegel” declares the squatter’s fight in
Berlin is over, we will definitely keep protesting energeticly: by so called
value-rising processes and gentrification processes a lot of autonomous spaces
are still in danger.
To
face this threat vigorously and in solidarity we call you to participate in the
Action Days for Autonomous Space in
Berlin on 27th May - June 1st!
WE
will provide the infrastructure e.g. a place to sleep, info points, several
events, food, workshops… If want to do a workshop or anything else that should
be published beforehand, let us know: wba-actiondays(at)riseup.net
WE
want to propose our networks. WE want to exchange pieces of information about
different situations in different countries. WE want to reclaim the streets with
you and celebrate the defence of Köpi.
WE will show that the fight for and defence of autonomous spaces is not over yet!
We stay all! Everywhere!
http://actiondays.blogsport.de
http://wba.blogsport.de