dear all,
check out the action of the karakola
(
http://www.sindominio.net/karakola/)
friends in Madrid yesterday:
http://www.globalradio.it/article.php3?id_article=1613&recalcul=oui
which reminds me of something long due:
below is a letter of support that could be useful in
the karakola's
on-going negotiations with the public administration.
so you can do a
nice
print out and sign it and send it to La Eskalera
Karakola,
c/Embajadores
40, 28012 Madrid, Spain.
[in Brussels we could easily get gather a bunch of
these signed letters
and
send them off together, i'll bring copies to various
next meetings.
Utrecht: at the next feminist cafe you could also
gather a bunch, no?]
(for spanish version + other ways to support:
go the karakola website and click 'como apoyar')
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PUBLIC INITIATIVE: Participation in the project
Eskalera Karakola
We demand that the dialogue between the public
Administration and part
of
the citizenry be reopened. This is a process which we
understand to
transcend the
Eskalera Karakola Feminist Social Center itself,
constituting a
fundamental
part of citizen demands to take part in the
construction of
participative,
active and public ways to make city. Such a process
must inevitably
include:
- The recognition of the social function which the
Eskalera Karakola
has
been fulfilling for almost seven years: the
construction of a
collective
space which has housed innumerable forms of
intervention in the social,
in
building community, in generating a strong social
fabric in a
neighborhood
like Lavapies heavily marked by exclusion and
precariousness, in
creating
the indispensable links between women which are
necessary for us to
recognize ourselves as subjects active at the
political level.
- The expropriation of the building. Expropriation
is a means which,
according to its own laws, the Administration should
use in many cases
such
as this. Expropriation could guarantee the social use
of otherwise
abandoned spaces in which the property owners have
failed to fulfill
their
maintenance responsibilities. The building which
houses the Eskalera
Karakola has been abandoned for more than twenty
years. The owners have
expressed no concern whatsoever for this historic
building. We
therefore understand that they also have no concern
for the tremendous
lack
of housing and social spaces from which we
suffer. The policy of
non-intervention in these cases therefore becomes a
policy that
protects
privatization, speculation and the monopoly of space
and which
disregards
the great need of citizens in general and women in
particular. The
Administration must respond to this conflict: it is
not a neutral
question
but rather a political decision which we demand be
taken.
- The cession and restoration of the building as a
response to the
demands of a large community of users, permitting on
the one hand that
the
space be managed by the participants in the
Social Center
themselves
and, on the other hand, permitting that this project
expand to its full
potential in an adequate space.
We solicit the opening of a process of negotiation
capable of
responding to
this situation.
I support this initiative:
(Name, signature and ID number.
Name of group or university affiliation if applicabl
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