Squat Patio in Mandrid needs help

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Squat Patio in Mandrid needs help

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We need your help!

Since July 2007 the classrooms, corridors, and, above all, the patio of an
old school in Madrid are living again.
After many years of abandonment, the decision of many individuals and social
collectives allowed a new life to start between these walls: Patio
Maravillas,
a social centre open to citizenship, a place were decisions are taken in a
collective and participative way, a way which is more and more left behind
in
the contemporary way of life: an individualistic, screen-based, aseptic life
that this society imposes to people.

*Now they want this place to be silent and empty again.
*
Therefore we NEED your support!

By signing here: *http://apoyos.patiomaravillas.net/* you can hel us
demosntratng that another way of organization and creation is possible and
necessary.

In these 10 months the Patio has became an authentic social equipment for
this city. Uncounted activities took place there: concerts, exhibitions,
projections, conferences, meetings...From political reflection, shared upon
different conflicts that cross our lifes: work, urbanism, house, gender,
feminism, sexual diversity, environment, culture,
migration, political participation, rights and liberties, the action of
squatting shows itself in its most beautiful expression: the most
collective, multiple, public one.
All of us that have been participating in the Patio revindicate this and
make it ours.

We are convinced that projects like the Patio Maravillas are necessary and
essential in a city like Madrid, a city ruled by the generation of
dependency and submission to private interest, business logic and public
powers which are accomplices of real estate speculations, and supporting the
multiplication of inner borders that deny us the possibility of getting to
the life that we want.

For these reasons, once more, it is necessary to demand:

1. No further evacuation, neither of the Patio nor any other squatted space.
2. *That Squatting may no longer be considered a crime, and be considered as
en expression of political conflict generated by the systematic denial of
fundamental rights ad ways to active participation of citizenship.*
3. Public Institution has to assume their responsibility by

- acknowledging that self organization projects of citizens created
through practices of civil disobedience such as squatting generate
mechanisms and instruments of political participation (such as social
centres), which are ways to a democratization of society.
- condemning those who speculate, damaging the citizen's rights.
- acting to garantee the universal access to these fundamental rigths.

Madrid, May 2008

To learn more about the past, the preset and the future of Patio
Maravillas: www.patiomaravillas.net

**it is necesarry to keep running to be able to stay in one place*
*
Please *spread the voice*, don't forget Labo3, and for those of you who
already know the Patio, or those who are willing to know it..* keep it
alive!*

¡El Patio Vive, la lucha sigue!