April 2008: call for decentralized squat days of action

1) Call for days of decentralized actions in defense of squatted &autonomous spaces in Europe, April 2008;

2) Invitation to a preparation meeting in “Les Tanneries” (Dijon,France), November 2007;

Call ——- > http://april2008.squat.net

« On Friday the 4th and Saturday the 5th of April 2008, we call fortwo days of demonstration, direct action, public information,street-party, squatting… in defence of free spaces and for ananti-capitalist popular culture.

Through these two days, we want to help create more visibility ofautonomous spaces and squats as a european/global political movement.We want to develop interconnections and solidarity between squats andautonomous spaces. We want to keep linking our spaces with new peopleand new struggles, and support the creation of autonomous spaces inplaces where there has not been a history of this kind of action. Wewant to build, step by step, our ability to overcome the wave ofrepression falling on us.

We call for decentralised and autonomous actions of all kinds,depending on what people feel to be the most appropriate to theirlocal context. You’ll find below the political content we wish togive to these two days. »

The rest of the call can be read on http://april2008.squat.net/. It isnot a final text, but a way to introduce and discuss the project. Itwas first proposed by a group of people involved with various autonomousspaces around Europe. This summer, we travelled with it and introducedit to various collectives. Given the present dynamic of resistancearound autonomous spaces in Europe, it seems that the word is spreadingquite quickly and enthousiastically.

preparation meeting——————-

The success of this call now depends upon our capacity to create abigger international working group. The whole event will happen withoutany “central commitee”, and will be made of a various autonomousdecentralised actions. Still, we think it is important to have aphysical meeting, in order to exchange ideas and strategies, discuss thecontents of the call, see how to create common information tools aroundthat project, how to connect and help the various local initiatives.

Thus, we’re calling for an international preparation & coordinationmeeting on November 24th & 25th 2007, in the autonomous space “LesTanneries”, located in Dijon, France. It is a squatted social centre ina post-industrial environment, occupied since 1998. Thanks to years ofstruggle against the city council owning the buildings, the project hasreached a certain degree of stability. It hosts a collective house, agig room, a hacklab, a free shop, an infoshop, a collective garden, alibrary…

We hope that many of you will be able to join. Please tell us a bit inadvance if you’re planning to come, so that we get an idea of the numberof people we have to accomodate and plan food for. You’re very welcometo pass this invitation to squats and autonomous spaces that you know.The call can be downloaded as a flyer from http://april2008.squat.net/.Furthermore, any help with translations in whatever languages is verywelcome.