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DESCRIPTION:17th of December\nAccess all areas
\n\nCities are the location of 
 economical constraints and repressive policies all over the world. But at 
 the same time they are contested areas characterised by the fight for 
 self-determination and participation. Presently, we are experiencing 
 crises, social protests and new movements. In order to multiply these 
 conflict lines on the city’s terrain, a day of action against capitalist 
 urban development and gentrification is going to take place. The action day 
 is to create an event which has its place wherever you are fighting and 
 living and relating to squatted projects like Rote Flora in 
 solidarity.\n\nDefend Rote Flora!\n\nA squatted autonomous centre, the Rote 
 Flora in Hamburg has been the point of origin of political intervention and 
 a meeting place for political groups as well as a non-commercial location 
 for parties, events and self-help for more than 20 years. Currently, the 
 project is once again threatened by sale and eviction due to the formal 
 owner’s announcement to sell the property profitably. In consideration of 
 a possible eviction scenario, we intend to develop resistance at all levels 
 beforehand.\n\nIn order to defend Rote Flora, we are not relying on 
 negotiations, agreements or so-called participation models. The focus of 
 current and prospective conflicts is on the project’s disagreeability: We 
 aim at the empowerment of the Flora as a politically disturbing factor 
 which is intervening proactively in recent social conflicts and crossing 
 the “business as usual” of capitalist urban development. In recent 
 months, solidarity events, various actions and an inter-regional 
 demonstration mobilising more than 5000 people were taking place. In 
 keeping with the slogan “Do city yourself” the struggle for Rote Flora 
 has been linked to the fight for a right to the city. The focus was on the 
 interconnection of local conflicts in the perspective of a socialisation of 
 the city: A solidary notion of society which is co-thinking the local and 
 the global and is contrasting the logic of the state and private ownership 
 with self-determined practise.\n\nWith its desire for disagreeableness, 
 Rote Flora is part of manifold movements developing in every space where 
 there are people self-organising critically against the apparent 
 inevitability of capitalist constraints.\n\nFor the appropriation of life 
 and urban space\n\nIn our view, squatted spaces are black holes in the 
 order of ownership: They don’t belong to anyone but to the people using 
 them actively. On the other hand, we are aware of our embeddedness in 
 social power and inequality relations. We are part of an incessant 
 production of goods, values and consumption needs. But exactly this 
 starting point in the midst of given conditions enables us to sabotage 
 those circumstances from within in order to confront oppression and the 
 compulsion to participate with collective processes of subversion and 
 appropriation.\n\nIn capitalism, cities, houses, things and ideas are 
 turned into commodities. From our perspective, they are part of the common 
 wealth created by all and consequently all are entitled to them. The 
 objective of appropriation isn’t individual enrichment but expropriation 
 resulting in collective re-distribution – an appropriation of a life 
 beyond norms, constraints and the misery of wage labour. These struggles 
 are taking place in metropolises as well as in peripheries and rural 
 spaces.\n\nA day of theory and practice of social struggle\n\nThe 
 international day of action is to be an expression, a point of focus and an 
 interconnection of these local but border-crossing fights. We aim at 
 relating these ubiquitous struggles to each other and visualising them as a 
 general political conflict in the fabric of capitalist society without 
 standardising them. On the other hand, local struggles are reinforced by 
 this reference, gain strength and political weight, shift power structures. 
 Consequently, it’s a specific objective of the day of action to convey an 
 impression – to ourselves, but as well to potential investors – of the 
 inter-regional and international resistance which will occur in case of 
 e.g. an attack on Rote Flora.\n\nWe are calling all to take action 
 everywhere at 17th of December 2011, to pick up local conflicts and to 
 connect your local struggles with the fight for the political project Rote 
 Flora!\nIn our view, possible links are – among others – the 
 appropriation and defence of self-determined projects and the socialisation 
 of contested spaces, protest against gentrification and neo-liberal 
 privatisation, against repression and displacement of undesirable 
 population groups, against racist police checks and deportation. – The 
 day of action provides an opening for various forms of intervention. Draw 
 on the experience of social and political movements or think of something 
 else entirely. Make yourselves the point of origin, be artistic and 
 forthright, contemplative and angry, secretive and noisy, unpredictable and 
 resolute!\n\nSabotage gentrification – defend squatted projects!
\nFor 
 expropriation of private and appropriation of public assets!
\nFight 
 fascism, racism, anti-Semitism, homophobia and sexism!\n\nKampagne „Flora 
 bleibt unverträglich“ – campaign „Flora remains 
 disagreeable*“\n\nInformation: 
 http://florableibt.blogsport.de
\nNetworking, questions and suggestions: 
 flora-bleibt@nadir.org\n\n*disagreeable means both being bad for the system 
 and refusing to enter into any agreement\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/11/07/18698087.php
SUMMARY:Day of action against capitalist urban development and gentrification
LOCATION:worldwide
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/11/07/18698087.php
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