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It has now been over a week since our doors were first cut off, cops and security intruded into our housing project, installing themselves in our stairways and other previously collective spaces. From then, the speedy and aggressive eviction and destruction of the ground level of our home began. Our social space, the Kadterschmiede, along with our workshop, laundry, attic and garden were stripped of all recognition in clouds of dust and mortar, while rubbish skips were filled with our belongings and collective histories.
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Our rebellious, emancapatory project has been overrun by empty headed
\nlackeys in uniform and we are pissed \u2013 not the least because we are used
\nto better company than this. Whether these unwelcome wardens wear uniforms
\nissued by the state or private security companies makes little difference
\nto us. They both show their petty allegiance to the logic of domination
\nand control not only via their presence but also through daily acts of
\nphysical violence, harrassment, degrading comments and leers \u2013 not only
\ndirected towards us, but our visitors, friends and neighbours including
\nyoung children. The police have set up a restricted area, closing off the
\nentrance to the building and its surrounds, with anyone wanting to enter
\ntheir home or visit us having to pass a gaunlet of beefed up aggressive
\ncops and security, often needing to present identification. This process
\ncan take hours.
\nFurther it has just been exposed that the police have been recording the
\ndetails and compiling a database of people that have been identified
\ncoming into the house. At least part of this list has been passed on to
\nand published by organised Nazi groups.<\/p>\n
The pretext of this eviction is that the owner John Richard Dewhurst, a
\ntaxation lawyer, millionaire mega investor with companies implicated in
\nthe Panama papers, and previously an attorney for the South African
\nSupreme court during the apartheid era, wishes to house refugees in these
\nspaces. If of course they can pay market rate rent in the newly renovated
\nspaces, an amount too high for most people and above what refugee housing
\norganisations can afford to fund. The irony of this claim doesn\u2019t bypass
\nus.
\nThe clear instrumentalization of refugees as an excuse to attack a space
\nthat has shown political and practical solidarity with refugees and other
\npeople in precarious positions does not surprise us. For those in the most
\nprecarious positions are frequently pitched against each other under this
\ncurrent system that is set up to exploit us for the benefit of people like
\nDewhurst. To add salt to the wound, in this violent and invasive process
\nthree refugees who had found a home with us in the 94, can now no longer
\nlive here for fear of extra repression and police stress. The state and
\nits most wealthy have once again moved to destroy safer solidarity spaces
\nfor those in our community who\u2019s struggles intensify on a daily basis.<\/p>\n
The area around Rigaerstrasse has been heavily gentrified in the past
\ndecade and skyrocketing rents have seen many residents pushed out,
\ndisplaced and evicted in order to make room for new developments. These
\nare unaffordable to most existing long term residents but bring in more
\nprofit for investors. As part of a larger neighbourhood coalition of
\nprojects and individuals we have struggled against this process of
\ngentrification, fighting to keep our neighbourhood a place for all, not
\njust the rich. Over the past year or so we have seen the relationships of
\nwarmth and solidarity between people in our neighbourhood growing and
\npeople increasingly sharing daily life. Neighbours from both the projects
\nand private living spaces have met and organised on the streets, in our
\ngarden and at the peoples kitchen in Kadterschmiede.<\/p>\n
We understand the aggressive, overbloated attack on our collective spaces
\nas part of the wider repressive conditions under capitalism. Conditions
\nthat see all elements of collective life and resistance attacked,
\ncommodified, co-opted and as a last resort destroyed and replaced by more
\ncontrollable and consumptable forms of life. We also recognize the power
\nof collective spaces, campaigns, actions and initiatives in the face of
\nthe increasing pressure placed on all of us under a rotten and collapsing
\nsystem that tightens the noose around all of our necks as it slowly drowns
\nunder the weight of it\u2019s own bloated corpse. It is clear to us that the
\neffectiveness and potentiality of these liberatory collective forms,
\nincluding our own project, poses an increasing threat to this system and
\nall those who benefit from it.<\/p>\n
We will continue to fight for all projects, initiatives and spaces that
\nprovide space and opportunities to experiment with alternative ways of
\nliving under these shitful conditions, across all divisive borders imposed
\nfrom above.<\/p>\n
We invite you to join us in expressing our resistance and rage in three
\nmajor public displays of rebellion:<\/p>\n
5th July \u2013 Court case to decide who can occupy these evicted spaces (10:00
\nLandgericht Berlin, Littenstr. 12-17, Berlin)<\/p>\n
9th July \u2013 Demo to show our anger and solidarity with all threatened
\nautonomous spaces (20:30 Wismarplatz, Berlin)<\/p>\n
And fullfilling our promise of at least ten million euros in damage to the
\nstate and its structures \u2013 every eviction has it\u2019s price.<\/p>\n