Update from Rozbrat Polish squat

Rozbrat squat alarm — Com­mu­nique from 16/01/2008

Rozbrat Col­lec­tive would like to thank every­one who in the last days expressed their sup­port and their readi­ness to defend our place. We’ve received hun­dereds of e‑mails, tele­phone calls, let­ters, both from ind­vid­u­als and orga­ni­za­tions, social move­ments from Poland and from abroad.

In gen­er­al, after the vis­it of the bailiff last week (8/01/2008), noth­ing sig­nif­i­cant has hap­pened, noth­ing that would change our sit­u­a­tion. We’re still under the threat of evic­tion, but the date is real­ly hard to pre­dict. We’re still analysing our legal sit­u­a­tion, con­sid­er­ing both the orga­ni­za­tions and ini­tia­tives that are active at Rozbrat, and the peo­ple liv­ing here for years. With­in next 2 or 3 weeks our legal sit­u­a­tion should be clear and we will pub­lish anoth­er com­mu­nique. How­ev­er, we would like to state that we will defend Robrat both with all legal means and with all means nec­es­sary.

So far, Rozbrat is still active! We invite all of you for the events that will be orga­nized in Jan­u­ary and Feb­ru­ary: gigs, exhi­bi­tions, lec­tures, film screen­ings and so on… We invite you to vis­it our Anar­chist Library and our Infos­hop, where you can get some use­ful pam­phlets, leaflets, posters, or bor­row a book. Please vis­it our web­site www.rozbrat.org — in the announce­ments (in Pol­ish “zapowiedzi”) sec­tion we will be announc­ing all the cul­tur­al, social and polit­i­cal activ­i­ties that we orga­nize and we will inform you about the cur­rent sit­u­a­tion of Rozbrat.

Strug­gle con­tin­ues!
08.01.2008 — ALARM AT ROZBRAT!

Today, around 10 a.m. bailiff togeth­er with cops came to Rozbrat squat. The police­men drilled the lock of the gate, the bailiff had a court’s per­mis­sion to come in and esti­mate the price of the ground. The mid­dle part of Rozbrat squat (includ­ing both con­cert halls, gallery, bars, library and part of the liv­ing area) was indebt­ed for a long time by a com­pa­ny that does­n’t exist any­more. The ground price eval­u­a­tion today means that the ground can be auc­tioned wit­thin one or two months — that can mean the end of Rozbrat squat — the longest occu­pied space in Poland.

We’ll keep you informed. We count on you being ready to orga­nize sol­i­dar­i­ty actions by you and your groups!

We’re not gonna give up with­out fight!

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His­to­ry of and wide range of activ­i­ties at Rozbrat, Pos­nan — see http://www.rozbrat.org/english.htm

500-per­son strong Crit­i­cal Mass­es: http://www.rozbrat.org/english/english_more.htm#cr