[Oberlist] AT* cfA: Have you ever squatted the heart of the beast?

Sun Jul 17 21:13:33 CEST 2011


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Subject: [transversal] Fw: Have you ever squatted the heart of the beast?
From:    "Lina Dokuzovic" <aniliname at yahoo.com>
Date:    Wed, July 13, 2011 1:25 pm
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--- On Tue, 7/12/11, listmail at riseup.net <listmail at riseup.net> wrote:

> From: listmail at riseup.net <listmail at riseup.net>
> Subject: <edu-factory> Have you ever squatted the heart of the beast?
> To: "international_students_movement-owner"
<international_students_movement-owner at lists.riseup.net>, "edufactory
list" <edufactory at listcultures.org>
> Date: Tuesday, July 12, 2011, 6:02 AM
> from: http://at.indymedia.org/node/20911
>
> In the past couple of days, a group of people in Vienna,
> fed up of the
> increasing daily repression of life and the lack of free
> social space,
> have taken over an abandoned building in the Ottakring part
> of the city.
> Ottrakring is ground zero of Real Estate speculation in
> Vienna. The people
> are also fed up of rising rents and abusive landlords in
> Vienna. We are
> also fed up with how the city government not only
> unconditionally supports
> the landlords but also how the city is doing less and less
> to help tenants
> and other social layers who find life in Vienna more and
> more unbearable.
> We're comprised of Austrians, immigrants, women, men,
> youth, middle aged,
> students, workers and unemployed. We are artists,
> intellectuals, and free
> thinkers. We represent a true microcosm of Vienna and
> Austria.
>
> Vienna is one of the few capitals of Western Europe with a
> significant
> lack of Free House Projects / Squats and Community Centres.
> London, Paris,
> Amsterdam and Berlin, just to name a few cities, all have
> these spaces.
> Therefore we call for all those that have Free House
> Projects/Squats and
> Free Community Centres to come to Vienna to support us and
> to help us keep
> the house. Vienna is one of the most important cities of
> the world. It is
> the 3rd Seat of UNO. Vienna also serves as the headquarters
> of OPEC and
> the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Austria is
> the second
> richest Euro Zone country and the 6th richest country in
> the world. With
> all this wealth, the Austrian State and City of Vienna says
> there is no
> money for social housing. Yet Vienna can spend millions of
> Euros to host
> the World Economic Forum, where in June, leading European
> banks discussed
> the carve up of markets in Southeastern Europe. Vienna
> plays a key role in
> the neo-colonisation of Central and Eastern Europe. While
> Austria serves
> as a junior partner and helps to conceal the role of
> Germany's planned
> domination of Eastern and Southeastern Europe by finally
> achieving the
> Nazi objective of Lebensraum, Austria uses the EU as a
> mechanism to
> re-establish the Habsburg Empire which was defeated and
> destroyed at the
> conclusion of the First World War. The impoverishment of
> the masses in
> Hungary, Roumania, Bulgaria and the Republics of former
> Yugoslavia is a
> direct result of political and economic decisions made in
> Austria.
>
> Yet. there is no money for community centres for youth,
> women and other
> oppressed groups. There is no money for media education.
> The few places
> which exist are too small and too weak. The rules and
> regulations to
> become an officially recognised "Association" (Verein in
> German) are
> complex, bureaucratic and forces a dependency upon the
> official structures
> of the state.
>
> Until a decade ago Ottakring was one of the least desirable
> parts of the
> city to live in. It's the historical district of the
> proletariat and
> lumpen-proletariat. In recent decades, Ottakring has become
> one of the
> largest immigrant districts of Vienna with migrants mostly
> from the former
> Yugoslavia and other Balkan lands. Since the past decade,
> Ottrakring has
> become the centre of a Real Estate speculative frenzy. The
> poor and the
> migrants are slowly being priced out of the district.
>
> We want a truly free, independent and autonomous space in
> Vienna. We are
> actually doing a community and public service which the
> Austrian State and
> City of Vienna should be doing in the first place, of
> course don't expect
> anything from the city or the state! We are people
> dedicated into
> remodelling the building using our own resources and labour
> to create a
> space for living, working, education and food for the
> community and
> society at large. We do not support capitalism nor do we
> have the illusion
> of reforming capitalism. The era of reformism is past. All
> across Europe,
> Finance Capital is using the state to take away all of our
> social and
> economic rights which our parents, grand parents and
> ancestors fought and
> died for. We are taking what is rightfully ours. Housing is
> a human right.
> Food is a human right. We are not begging for what belongs
> to us
> naturally. We are asserting our fundamental human rights.
> We are not
> criminals nor are we terrorists. We simply want to live as
> social human
> beings and to take the first step of creating a new
> society. The same
> struggles and day to day oppression which take place in
> Athens, Madrid,
> Dublin occur here in Vienna. Vienna is also caught in the
> web of
> totalitarian capitalism under the Neo-Feudal Corporate
> Fascist State. The
> financial aristocracy (oligarchy) is the same everywhere.
> Every country
> and every city in Europe is under occupation by Finance
> Capital. Like most
> countries in Europe, Austria confronts the ever growing
> support for the
> far right and neo-fascist parties. This house is actively
> anti-racist and
> anti-fascist. It is also a zone of anti-sexism, a space
> where women can be
> free and comfortable. This is also a house where human
> sexuality is free
> regardless of sexual orientation. Therefore, we send this
> call to all
> groups across Europe to come to Vienna immediately. We call
> on all
> Squatters, Autonomous, Women's Collectives, LGBT,
> Syndicalists , Antifa,
> etc. groups to travel to Vienna and support our House! We
> have plenty of
> space for hundreds of people to sleep. We also need tools,
> food, supplies,
> ideas, strategies and above all numbers to help us keep
> this building. In
> short, we are calling for active physical solidarity. This
> is an urgent
> call as by the next couple of days the city will begin
> moves to evict us.
> If we have more than 200 people, we will be able to repel
> the city from
> evicting us by force. WE HAVE STRENGTH IN NUMBERS! Vienna
> does not have a
> history of violent confrontations with the state. Riots
> seldom happen
> here. This is why we urgently need large numbers as the
> Austrian police
> have no experience with dealing with large organised
> resistance. We need
> help from comrades in Berlin and France who have experience
> in defence in
> the face of police intimidation.
>
> One Advantage of the legal situation in vienna is that to
> be inside a
> squatted house is not a crime, only the failure to comply
> with the order
> to leave is a misdemeanor, fines normally don't exceed
> around 100 Euros.
> The House is located at Roseggergasse 1 in the 16th
> District of Vienna. It
> is easily reachable by the U3 Metro station Kendlergasse.
>
>
>
> For more information visit: http://autonomizethecity.blogsport.eu
>
> House information phone +43 699 144 56 187
>
> email: autonomeszentrum[a]riseup.net
>
>
> >>> some more information <<<
>
> The first introductory flyer text, in german and english:
> http://at.indymedia.org/node/20866
>
> For those that can read German, there's an
> indymedia-feature with links to
> many articles:
> Hausbesetzungen in Wien und Linz
> http://at.indymedia.org/node/20901
>
> or in the newswire:
> http://at.indymedia.org/newswire
>
> (use https instead of http for the links above, for more
> safety)
> Hausbesetzungen in Wien und Linz
>
>
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