The July 11, 2008 a diverse group of groups and individuals took the old building company in the neighborhood Flex Gijón de la Calzada. This plant had many years abandoned by her owner, who patiently waited for an urban renewal give him the tempting fruits estate.
With this occupation actually become a necessity. The need for self-managed social centers, spaces than those who run public institutions, governed by its unique model of thought, culture, social structure and economic organization.
This occupation also become a dream come true. Faced with the commodified culture and unidirectional, training and critical learning. Faced with the lack of solidarity and egoism, mutual support. Against "democracy" organic, open-ended horizontal and anti-authoritarian. Faced with the conformism and passivity, action and hope to build a neighborhood, a city, a better world.
not only words were not just words. During the eleven months of the experience, made plenty of activities (lectures, theater, popular dining, poetry recitals, concerts and so on), were given workshops and courses (Llingua, of Castilian to immigrants, for example ) organized a library, a skatepark and shop for free, a real anti-capitalist practice where people could freely take what they need. The Reflexón was a space open to all groups and all residents who wish to participate.
The June 5, 2009 all this disappeared. The eviction of the Reflexón had an immediate response in a demonstration which ended with the symbolic occupation of a building in the central street of Los Moros. One month later, a group of people put into practice the oft-repeated slogan "an eviction, another occupation" entering an abandoned building on Calle Chile, building owned by the San Andrés del Valle, SL
The police, the judicial system and the construction took so little to end the project did not even let him start.
And by way of exemplary punishment against any attempt to occupy, five people accused of a theft crime, which call for several months in prison, and another from harm, by asking thousands of euros. The building, besides wanting to get an extra benefit, accuses the defendants of causing some damage that already existed in an abandoned building on their own for years.
The trial for these acts take place April 6. Later on, still no date, there will be another by the occupation of the Flex. Disproportionate to these criminal and economic measures, we appeal to your solidarity to support us as far as you can and for you to participate in different activities and events we will organize in the coming months.
We will continue demanding, compared to abandoned buildings, sad, dead of speculation, the living spaces of the occupation.
SOLIDARITY WITH retaliation for Squats
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