¶  (photography and recording consents)

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do we record?
"it is public, so we are not supposed to talk about confidential issues anyway"

-- "I don't want to have a trace of it."

"In Spain we like to take photographs, so we can show to the outside there is many people."

Systems:
    a) "opt-in"
    b) "opt-out" <-- we agree on this, and inform everyone about it
###

¶  (sleeping at Ingobernable)

"if you want to take the risk of eviction, you can go there"
There are 5 places:
    "but you risk getting arrested"
    not planning on resisting eviction.
    there is a fund ready to help with any legal proceedings costs to involved.
There is an alert group there.

We are invited to go to a solidarity party for minors migrants there, tomorrow.



((( today they're related to migration )))

¶    >>><<<
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1 (S):
    This is also important for the current squatting culture and its awareness of its history.
    Is often related to Tower hamlets (### explain).
    Suggestion to keep original words sometimes. 

2 (H):
    Similar oral history research project in 1975 (###).
    Connection to housing scene by Puerto Ricans in NYC (###).
    "These are exceptional cases - more often, migrants were not organising like this."
    ____________
    >>>
    Bengalis felt directly targeted. This is why they saw themselves as a cohesive group - with a separate housing interest.
    They did get support from white squatters (?###) that supported them - also legally, etc.

3 ():
    Do they call themselves "squatters"?
    >>>:
        Yes - they use the english word.
        At this time, for them, it was not a bad word. It was not criminalised then.

### I'm interested in the consequences of these decisions:
    "We would've been better off if we chose X"
    "This was also temporary for them".

4 ():
    Since the 1990s there's been a criminalization (especially corporate).
    Lots of people now use the word "occupy", not "squat" - because of the media campaign.

5 (Y):
    "How can we study home-making in an ethical way?"
    Talking later (perhaps decades later) looks like a better idea, because people are not endangered any more.

6 ():
    "Racialised identity": is there more research?
    Mentioned Florence Bouillon (###) - "not sure if it's translated in ENG" (she published a chapter in the first SqEK book, 2013).
    >>>:
        "Race today" published a journal - focus on black working class, etc.
    _________
    <<<(S):
    "Great website":
        Remembering Olive [Morris] collective (ROC) - group at "56A" (###) , addressing forgotten history of Black Panther squatting.

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1 (S): tensions between (1) refguees looking to work with the state and find place to stay/access services & (2) squatter political aims to maintain autonomous spaces and not work with/resist state.
<<<
Conflicting motivation "cause tensions in the squats everyday".

2 (M):
    what network was built? how was it different from previous anarcho squat networks?
    >>>:
        similar to ??? movement since 2010
        not so many commonalities with "traditional squat movements" of greece
        more connected to ???
        ... but still using same symbols and relying on similar infrastructure
        "ordinary people participated"

3 (Y):
    in athens, City Plaza ... mentions inter-squat ("people of every squat making connections")

4 (): ???
    >>>:
        when it was evicted, many were moved to camps, but many were taken by friends they made while squatting

5 (pink):
    "big assemblies in athens were organised ... one kitchen for all squats in area ... assembly was really good ... great ideas"
    "it's very powerful to do these networks in the city"
    "people were supporting refugees by letting them use places they couldn't rent out"

6 (M):
    after Turkey & EU agreement? ... what happened to displaced people?
    >>>:
        ~ summer of 2016 : the camps were quite open (Creo, Cassikas sp###) ... but people were desperate ... paid a lot of money to cross
        they started "Registration":
            white paper to move inside Greece,
            they could choose countries they wanted to go to.
            each country would "choose" what kind of refugees they would want
            In Spain it was Red Cross: taught spanish, hosted in hostels ... after 6 months they get a work permit

7 (D):
    how did governance work - how did they decide who to accept? did this create tensions?
    >>>:
        they knew each other from Idomeni (camp at border) ... and came together to squat
        "there were not so many ... it wasn't really selection ... even in the most crowded period"
        also they were told "living has its dangers ... cops can come, etc"

8 (M):
    "we always have the issue to understand if squatting is empowering people ... or not"
    was it crucial that it was a squat (or could it have been something different)?
    >>>:
        ???
    <<<:
        "for them it was something that was going to end ... they knew they had to work together"
    ________
    ×××:
        "It's not the same to have it rented on and off-the market!"
        "with normal places comes contract responsibility, hierarchy, etc ... disabling self-organisation"
        So: Rented ok - but how? This completely changes the relationship.

9 (D):
    proposed: work group for "patterns" classification:
        &&& (and looking for collaboration)

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1 (D)
    did you adopt the syntax of spatial approach, or create it?
    >>>:
        stavridis : common space - city as commons
        it's not an existing language of encoding "space flows"
        ### verify
        ------------------
        savdarov:
            in "the new commons and right to the city"
            says "spaces work in a similar way"

2 (M):
    what is the difference with thessaloniki situation?
    >>>:
        

¶    >>><<< Stop Desahucios Móstoles introduced their collective
    
One of the approx 10 weekly district assemblies against evictions in Madrid, dealing with mortgages, tenant issues and squats (after it's been a hard point at the beggining).
The assemblies offer juridical support in a principle of "pair-to-pair

1: How do evictions happen in different places?

>>> London:
    Housing price is characterised by speculation. The more houses are empty, it makes land value rise.
    [...]
    People are given housing, but all over the country.
    It varies - notable are violent evictions of barricaded squats (using dogs, pneumatic door breaking robots, etc).

>>> France:
    Lots of empty buildings are public. Occupying points to the responsibility of the authorities. This happens many time because the government has a bad management of his own domain. Also real estate buys old buildings to later rebuild them - a form of speculative behaviour. If you occupy and prove you've stayed longer than 48 hours, you enter a judical process, depending on the situation. If minors, or vulnerable people (disabled, etc) are involved, special processes are applied ("social diagnosis"). In the context of Marseille, usually the persons considered as vulnerable  get up to 3 nights accomodated after being evicted. There is also "the winter truce" - no eviction between December-March. A law to structurally criminalize squatting was intented in 2018 but blocked at  the Parliament vote.

>>> NL:
    Often people don't resist. Sometimes they chain themselves, and it takes more effort to do that.
    Normally it's a fine (a few 100€), in theory you can get up to 3 years of prison, if resisting.
    It's not common to evict poor people.

>>> Sweden:
    Housing used to be affordable. Now there is foreign speculation, forcing rents higher, and forcible evictions of renters unable to pay. [...]