[kraken] Barcelona: ontruiming Kasa de la Muntanya op 2 oktober

Auteur: Vrankrijk Bar <info@vrankrijk.org>
Datum: 05 sep 2003 14:20 uur

ATTENTION!! EVICTION ORDER AGAINST KASA DE LA MUNTANYA FOR THE COMING 2nd OF
OCTOBER

     Last Friday July the 11th the Ministry of Treasury requested to the 1st
Instance Tribunal (section 4) the execution of the sentence of eviction
ruled against Kasa de la Muntanya by judge Estrella Radio Barciela. This way
culminates the civil process started six years ago by the Ministry of
Treasury
     The building (classified as historical patrimony) known as Kasa de la
Muntanya for 14 years, was built by the Güell family in 1909. Due to the
request of the neighbours for more protection for the neighbourhood of “La
Salut”, the building was destined to be barracks of the Guardia Civil
(police). Eusebi Güell, by means of a public bequest scripture, gave this
building in use under the following conditions: the surrender of property of
this house is gratuitous, but with the condition that the building is
destined to be used as barraks of the Guardia Civil, and in the case that
the Guardia Civil stops using the building for the expressed destiny, the
property will revert to the original owner or his heirs.
     This juridic-legal premise had to assure that the house was going to be
returned to the Güell family once the Guardia Civil stopped making use of it
on 1983. Otherwise, by means of a burocratic process and , under signature
of Julia Garcia Valdecasas, at that moment delegate of the Ministry of
Treasury in Barcelona, the house was alegally owned by that Ministry.
Kasa de la Muntanya in the district of Gràcia in Barcelona, was sqatted on
November the 11th 1989 by a group of young people wich considered squatting
as a different way of living and fighting in the political and social
fields. From concepts like antimilitarism, antifascism, self-organization it
started a project wich during the last 14 years has made Kasa de la Muntanya
a place beloved and necessary for a lot of people and organizations in
Catalunya, in Spain and in the rest of Europe.

     Along this time lots of persons have felt this place as their place,
our place. We have proved that it is possible to live in another way, that
solidarity, collectivity and self-organization are words that make sense. We
have fought for our causes and we supported other causes, always maintaining
a critical and combative spirit towards the system settled down by the rich
and powerful. We have been a space of support for many social and cultural
initiatives and we have made of this our way of being political. We have
also experienced difficult moments. The summer of 2001, in a surge of
repression in the whole State, and especially in Barcelona, we were
assaulted by the police. Later on, in september we were pursued by the media
and the police shortly after the arrest of presumed members of the Comando
Barcelona of ETA. Already in that moment we received the full support and
solidarity on that part from many communities, organizations, diverse
people... Time has proved that they were dirty attempts to ciminalize the
house and sqatting as social movement on the part of the PP-Government .
2001 supposed a hardening of the authoritarian and fascist institutional
practices characterized by the persecution, imprisonment and systematic
repression of social movements.
     Now, two years later and without a clear project for this building,
they want to evict us and put an end to 14 years of history, struggle and
illusions. But, while the house is not empty, we will fight until the last
moment to defend this space and all what it means. We want to stop this
eviction and we cannot make it without solidarity, help and support of all
the social movements, organizations, groups and people that make use of the
street to denounce injustice and repression.

STOP THE EVICTION OF KASA DE LA MUNTANYA SQUAT!!

KASA DE LA MUNTANYA
Av/Santuari Sant Josep de la Muntanya, 33
08024 Barcelona
www.nodo50.org/kasadelamuntanya
km@nodo50.org

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ontvangsttijd Fri Sep 05 12:23:21 2003