Please circulate. The space occupied and self-managed Barcelona largest in danger of eviction.
BEFORE METROVACESA (construction company, which broadcasts commercial centers, speculation, debt and pollution) will touch ARTKATRAZ THIS IS OUR DOOR.
ArtKatraz is a dynamic and diverse group of people from different parts of the world with different artistic groups, professional, cultural and social.
Our group was born in October 2009 with the idea of \u200b\u200bcarrying out a project entirely social and non-profit. We used an abandoned space, rehabilitating it to carry out our objectives.
Our intention is to offer to everyone without any discrimination, a space where possible training, practice and expression of art, culture and sundry non-profit. Living in a community, gathering the energy to carry out a project that involves all people and creating an alternative model outside the consumer society.
Our main achievements during this year and a half have been:
Conducting more than 200 cabarets, enabling 11 spaces for artistic creation through recycling of waste materials, creating a community garden in a cosmopolitan city, the an area open to kitchen, library, training areas, bathrooms, open stage & in which have also been community gazebos.
Artkatraz believe in an ideology of self, believe in access to housing, health care and free education, create an exchange and purchasing power, believes in reducing the environmental impact, he believes in an assembly system as a social project management and this creates an alternative model to this consumer society.
current situation.
On Thursday April 28, at 10:40 am, knock on the door of the social center Arkatraz a person representing the company Metrovacesa, accompanied by two others, giving us the term two hours to leave the place where we put our energy for a year and a half. Action virtually impossible given that we live with more than 20 animals we have a garden with plants and trees that we care and we can not leave without more, that have a material that has cost us an effort to create and remove cost a lot longer than the term given ridiculous.
This why? Metrovacesa is Spain's leading real estate has a gross asset value of 8.082 million in Europe in September 2010, 76% of this amount corresponds to the portfolio of assets valued at more than 6,500 million euros. His budget mission, inscribed on its website is to generate value for shareholders, ensuring customer satisfaction and suppliers creating an attractive working environment to ensure personal and professional development of employees and fostering a culture of respect for the environment and the integration of disadvantaged groups in society. ( www.Metrovacesa.com ). The main shareholders are banks, including Banco Santander, BBVA and Banco Popular.Y wonder then, if presumed to values \u200b\u200bsuch as integration and personal development, how they can build the Arenas Mall? "To help disadvantaged collective? "Those who have sufficient economic capital to invest in an overwhelming and unnecessary consumerism and fashion apparel, art, jewelry & ? And they do to preserve the environment? Promote the spread of brick?
now our turn came to us, and to promote integrated environmental philosophy and want to deprive us of a place that had been abandoned a long time and we have rehabilitated through the efforts of those who believe in our social project therefore had to abandon a garden with fruit trees, an area with animals, and other places where they are carried out different forms of artistic expression.
Our judicial process just because we do not consider that part of having power Metrovacesa strong economic growth that leads not to deny people their defense before a trial, and that of the 14 involved in the judicial process, neither was advised of his situation, not only by letter if not through the Government Gazette claim that the Social Centre came to give notice that we were in a judicial process, but found it boarded up and therefore could not inform & It seems a strange coincidence that the day to inform us of our judicial process so that we could have found defendant had walled and the day being evicted, the doors are open Social Center, a fact that always happens because Artkatraz is a social center, open provided to all.
Now the sentence is imposed, since the five days that follow the ruling of a trial to claim have passed, because we are not notified of the trial. We can not defend, do not give us the opportunity to not even show everything that we undertake in the center with a social objective and not even give us the necessary time to find another place in time where they could be. All this means that more than 40 people were left without a place to live, which take the risk of losing material of significant economic value, impairment of continuing social project of great human value, and the lack of spaces creation and training Free.
Today eviction is suspended until further notice with a supposed date of eviction. Our uncertainty is large, we do not know if you receive this notification, because the former were not received. Meanwhile, we live with this doubt, not knowing when it's time to leave our home and design, yet we continue our objectives, including giving workshops, cabarets do, we water the garden & hoping that when the eviction take into account our effort and our dedication to be rehabilitated for over a year, a full space abandoned, without any profit motive, for a large number of people freely to enjoy an alternative to the current social development, which we consider oppressive and discriminatory. But above all, we still believe in our project, and not because we removed a material space stripped us of our ideas.
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