What´s this all about?
30 years of squatting
When the wall came down 30 years ago and in the months that followed a phase of the cheerful absence of the state’s monopoly on the use of force led to the occupation of hundreds of houses in the former East Berlin, many thought in a wave of euphoria that we could get something really new here. Beyond real-existing socialism and west german capitalism, real freedom, basic democracy from below and civil diplomacy from east to west….
A lot has happened since then, many of the houses that were taken over at the time no longer exist, others are currently fighting for their future, still others have been able to legalize themselves, but often at the expense of political energy to the outside world.
And today?
Occupations are brutally ended, people are frithened and driven out of their apartments on basis of flimsy pretexts. As if possessed, luxury living space is being built obsessively, and cheap rents are being modernized at expensive, insanely high prices. Pubs and alternative locations will be quit and replaced for profit.
We have to do something!
Therefore, in September 2020, in a month of action, we want to remind you of the carefree time thirty years ago, and see, at what we were able to save from then to now, and above all think about which strategies and forms of action can help in our struggles for the city today.
And of course we will celebrate, on May 1st in Mainzerstraße and the rest of the year in the whole city. We will be loud, we will demonstrate and show in a variety of ways that we are here, that we don’t let ourselves be split, that we stand together in solidarity and that open spaces are something completely different than their profit-oriented utilization of rental space.
For a colorful and solidary city, for freedom and subculture, against maximation of profits and the city’s sell-off. – Let’s grill the rental sharks!
Ideas
Exhibition Squatter Kitchen – something special and ordinary from the houses, with the houses
Squatters Escape Room -R83
Squat to go Theatre – Everywhere in our neighborhood and in our heads
Houseproject Crash Car Derby
Join us!
Open meeting every 3rd Tuesday of the month at SchreinA 47
Next meeting: January 21, 2020 at 7 p.m.
Come in, find out! Participate!