European Squatting Meeting

Next 17, 18, 19, and 20 of June, a Euro­pean Squat­ting Meet­ing will be held in the “CSO La For­sa” (Aveni­da de la Fama, 41, Cor­nel­la de Llo­bre­gat — Barcelona), so we are con­tact­ing groups across Europe who are inter­est­ed in par­tic­i­pate.

To join the meet­ing and / or sub­mit­ting infor­ma­tion, you can get in con­tact with us at: jornadaskny010@riseup.net

Pro­gram

Wednes­day 16 June

Arrival & Wel­come: Food, Drinks & Live Music (Txaranga)

Thurs­day 17 June

Morn­ing Pro­gram

Open­ing: Pre­sen­ta­tion of the dif­fer­ent squats presents
• His­tor­i­cal Con­text: Begin­ning of the squat move­ment in Europe
• Polit­i­cal Con­text: Legal frame­work, repres­sion and response strate­gies (Con­tacts and agree­ments with the state, response on the street, assim­i­la­tion of evic­tions … )
• Present and Future
• Con­nex­ions with oth­er strug­gles

We´d like that every col­lec­tive could make a lit­tle scheme of this to tack­le it bet­ter.

Evening Pro­gram

Dis­cus­sion:
We would like to expose dif­fer­ent strate­gies against repres­sion fol­lowed in dif­fer­ent spaces and places and their long-term effects: legal­iza­tions, agree­ments, dif­fer­ent kinds of direct response against evic­tions and its effects of the activ­i­ties of the spaces (such as the recep­tion of chil­dren, sup­port groups out­lawed …)

Fri­day 18 June

Morn­ing Pro­gram

Speak­ings:
Exhi­bi­tion of dif­fer­ent par­tic­u­lar cas­es of ways of act­ing against evic­tions try­ing to accom­mo­date the exist­ing diver­si­ty.
(To Be spec­i­fied but we want cas­es suf­fi­cient­ly rep­re­sen­ta­tive into the direct action)

Evening Pro­gram

Dis­cus­sion:
Con­se­quences of dif­fer­ent types of reac­tion to evic­tions: Legal, per­son­al and move­ments long-term effects?…

Sat­ur­day 19 June

Morn­ing Pro­gram

Open Air: Food & The­ater

Demon­stra­tion

Evening Pro­gram

Speak­ings:
Exhi­bi­tion of dif­fer­ent strug­gles with the squat move­ment as a cat­a­lyst or as a sup­port for their devel­op­ment.

Sun­day 20 June

Morn­ing Pro­gram

Dis­cus­sion:
Police repres­sion and dif­fer­ent meth­ods of repres­sion, see if there is an under­ly­ing polit­i­cal pur­pose at the Euro­pean lev­el and seek to form a gen­er­al pic­ture of it for a Euro­pean legal per­spec­tive of the map and the nation­al and local nuances (Com­mon­al­i­ties and dif­fer­ences between coun­tries and areas …) Any trends in com­mon? Are they using the same meth­ods of repres­sion? (Increased penal­ties, penal­ties of areas not pre­vi­ous­ly leg­is­lat­ed sen­tences, fines penal­ties, tight­en­ing of the evic­tions, more or less aggres­sive or spec­tac­u­lar of these, pro­pos­als for legal­iza­tion and recov­ery of the spaces …)

Evening Pro­gram

Speak­ing-Dis­cus­sion:
Police and Euro­pean police net­works, how they affect us, devel­op­ment and effec­tive action (DNA, data­bas­es, files police activists, agreed the clo­sure of bor­ders …)

Con­clu­sions and future pro­pos­als

Clos­ing Event: Drinks and Live Music

Both ses­sions in the morn­ing as the after­noon will be divid­ed into two blocks with a break in the mid­dle. We pro­vide simul­ta­ne­ous inter­pre­ta­tion.

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