Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 14:20:07 +1000
Subject: (en)La guindalera - eviction


Subject: (en)La guindalera - eviction (ca)
From: Luis Prat <prat-AT-chem.ucsb.edu>
Reply-To: <a-infos-d-AT-tao.ca>
Date: Wed March 12 1997


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THE EVICTION OF OKUPIED SOCIAL CENTER "LA GUINDALERA"

On monday March 10 several hundred anti-riot cops from the National Police
evicted the premises of what until then was the okupied social center "La
Guindalera" at Marque's de Ahumada #7, Madrid. Over 150 people were arrested
and several were injured due to the brutal and indiscriminate police
operation, when they didn't hesitate to use all available means (clubs,
rubber bullets, tear gas) against those who manifested their support for the
social center. The police intervention caused serious incidents in the area.

The social center had made it known in a press release that this would be a
difficult eviction. A challenge to the okupa (squatters) movement, who in
these times have seen attacks upon the majority of spaces rescued from the
speculators and used as social centers. This repressive process is taking
place simultaneously in different parts of the Spanish State: the cases of
Lavapies #15 and Social Center David Castilla in Madrid, la Casa de los
Ban~os in Cordoba, Cine Princesa y L'Economat in Barcelona etc...

Social Center "La Guindalera" had already announced that it would take no
responsibility for what could happen during the eviction. While it was
taking place those finally responsible were busy making plans to
restructure-destroy the neighborhoods, repeatedly making false promises of
housing for young people, nothing but lies and dirty tricks and, of course,
evictions.

Faced with this our only option is to bare our teeth, to prove that this is
a political conflict whose only solution is a political and not a repressive
one. No eviction, no acts of police brutality are going to intimidate us nor
make us stop liberating spaces to create in them real alternatives to this
unjust economic social and political disorder which not only do we not share
in, but which we're also ready to topple.

ONE EVICTION, 10, 100, 1000 SOCIAL CENTERS !!



   Luis
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Luis J. Prat

University of California
Chemistry Dept.
Santa Barbara CA 93106
(805) 893-3295
(805) 893-4120  FAX

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