Cosi l'escalera karakola, di cui abbiamo seguito (da
qui) l'occupazione e i successivi mesi di vita,
s'avvia all'affidamento del posto....
tristess =°(
>
> dear all,
>
> check out the action of the karakola
> (http://www.sindominio.net/karakola/)
> friends in Madrid yesterday:
>
http://www.globalradio.it/article.php3?id_article=1613&recalcul=oui
>
>
> which reminds me of something long due:
> below is a letter of support that could be useful in
> the karakola's
> on-going negotiations with the public
> administration.
> so you can do a
> nice
> print out and sign it and send it to La Eskalera
> Karakola,
> c/Embajadores
> 40, 28012 Madrid, Spain.
>
> [in Brussels we could easily get gather a bunch of
> these signed letters
> and
> send them off together, i'll bring copies to various
> next meetings.
> Utrecht: at the next feminist cafe you could also
> gather a bunch, no?]
>
> (for spanish version + other ways to support:
> go the karakola website and click 'como apoyar')
>
>
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>
> PUBLIC INITIATIVE: Participation in the project
> Eskalera Karakola
>
> We demand that the dialogue between the public
> Administration and part
> of
> the citizenry be reopened. This is a process which
> we
> understand to
> transcend the
> Eskalera Karakola Feminist Social Center itself,
> constituting a
> fundamental
> part of citizen demands to take part in the
> construction of
> participative,
> active and public ways to make city. Such a
> process
> must inevitably
> include:
>
> - The recognition of the social function which
> the
> Eskalera Karakola
> has
> been fulfilling for almost seven years: the
> construction of a
> collective
> space which has housed innumerable forms of
> intervention in the social,
> in
> building community, in generating a strong social
> fabric in a
> neighborhood
> like Lavapies heavily marked by exclusion and
> precariousness, in
> creating
> the indispensable links between women which are
> necessary for us to
> recognize ourselves as subjects active at the
> political level.
>
> - The expropriation of the building.
> Expropriation
> is a means which,
> according to its own laws, the Administration should
> use in many cases
> such
> as this. Expropriation could guarantee the social
> use
> of otherwise
> abandoned spaces in which the property owners have
> failed to fulfill
> their
> maintenance responsibilities. The building which
> houses the Eskalera
> Karakola has been abandoned for more than twenty
> years. The owners have
> expressed no concern whatsoever for this
> historic
> building. We
> therefore understand that they also have no concern
> for the tremendous
> lack
> of housing and social spaces from which we
> suffer. The policy of
> non-intervention in these cases therefore becomes a
> policy that
> protects
> privatization, speculation and the monopoly of space
> and which
> disregards
> the great need of citizens in general and women in
> particular. The
> Administration must respond to this conflict: it is
> not a neutral
> question
> but rather a political decision which we demand be
> taken.
>
> - The cession and restoration of the building as
> a
> response to the
> demands of a large community of users, permitting on
> the one hand that
> the
> space be managed by the participants in the
> Social Center
> themselves
> and, on the other hand, permitting that this project
> expand to its full
> potential in an adequate space.
>
> We solicit the opening of a process of negotiation
> capable of
> responding to
> this situation.
>
> I support this initiative:
>
>
> (Name, signature and ID number.
> Name of group or university affiliation if applicabl
>
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