The victory of a movement fighting in a popular area ---- During one week, from January 10
to 17, thousands of people of Gamonal, the great popular area of Burgos, have mobilized to
prevent the start of a project. The mayor of this conservative city of Old Castile, in the
north of Spain, wanted to turn the Vitoria street, a main thoroughfare that connects the
neighborhood to downtown, in a "boulevard", which would - among other consequences -
removes unique free parking that exist for the benefit of underground paid parking (and
each location would have been sold around 20,000 euros), that in a working class
neighborhood which has 18,000 to 70,000 unemployed ... ---- Very quickly, repeated clashes
vandalized bank branches, the paralyzed site, sending police reinforcements and repression
make the case quickly occupy the headlines in the press and TV, both public and private.
And causes many solidarity demonstrations under the slogan "we are all Gamonal" some of
which will also be suppressed, as in Barcelona, ??Madrid, Zaragoza ...
Despite the media and political campaigns against the so-called "antisyst?mes"
infiltrators "itinerant" who would go fight fight sow disorder, people remain united,
occupy the streets, organize meetings, manifest physically block the start of construction
, collectively assume a certain level of confrontation with the police and other angry
expression (barricades, destroying construction equipment and fences, fire containers,
bank branches attacked ...) defend all persons arrested and prosecuted what what are the
charges.
Government propaganda on policing does not happen and it is even the opposite effect
occurs: a solidarity movement is spreading like wildfire across that in less than 48
hours, see multiply initiatives rallies and demonstrations throughout the territory of the
Spanish State.
The strong determination of self-organized movement of residents and "Gamonal effect" will
result of the project is officially canceled on January 17, a week after the outbreak of
fighting. It is an undeniable victory for the movement and for all those who know that it
is there, in the street, as it happens, this is where win fights. Pre-election period, it
puts some things right.
Here are two articles that illuminate the struggle of the people of this neighborhood, one
that happened in the last few weeks ( "The street belongs to us" ), the other ( "Gamonal:
neighborhood still alive, still fighting" ) that belies the vision of a spontaneous and
uncontrolled explosion and tells a story of struggle, many conflicts, and the story of a
working-class neighborhood, located in a generally pretty bourgeois city, which has the
good habit, since more than fifty years, not to be, to resist, a working-class
neighborhood that has always opposed a strong social cohesion in the face of various urban
development projects and beyond, against everything that could negatively affect the lives
of its inhabitants.
XYZ, February 5.
Added on February 8 , " Dies Irae. Syndrome Gamonal "text journal Argelaga , see end of
document.
The street is ours!
by Todo por hacer , Madrid
"Those who won are the most perverse and antisocial elements of a system they want to
burst kicks" - Daily La Razon
Once again, the popular area of Burgos Gamonal gives us a lesson in commitment, solidarity
and struggle, showing us that victories are the result of great efforts and that "The
struggle is the only solution" is not just a slogan, but a reality in each of the advanced
popular movements. The conflict Boulevard Vitoria street is not an isolated incident, or
even a mere outburst similar to those that occurred in previous years in the popular
districts of Paris (suburbs) or more recently in slums of Melilla. This conflict would not
be explicable without prior mobilization of the whole neighborhood, without the daily and
invisible work of so many people and groups, and no memory of residents who remember how,
on other occasions, they also won.
Gamonal away from the media spectacle and folklore which criminalizes violence as the only
tool used by the locals is a neighborhood awake, organized, active and combative.
Little more than a boulevard
"We r?inviterons these politicians and the municipal staff who showed us a loyal
collaboration" - M?ndez Pozo.
For the untrained observer, the conflict could be reduced to the simple fact that the
residents of a neighborhood did not agree with the construction of a new boulevard in
their streets. This is at least what has been wanted us to believe the mainstream media.
Away from this reductionist view, the conflict is broader and goes beyond the neighborhood
itself. It is clear that the construction of the boulevard caused the spark, but if we
look at how we arrived at this project, we will realize that - how could it be otherwise?
- The interests of the ruling class, bosses and politicians opposed to the interests of
the inhabitants.
We can go back a few years back, when, in a process flawed, are granted the restructuring
work of Vitoria street now Ingenier?a y Arquitectura MBG, owned by Antonio Miguel M?ndez
Pozo and his family, who are at the same time the owners of several local media, including
the daily Diario de Burgos . In addition, everyone knows that Burgos M?ndez Pozo is one of
the largest funders of the PP [Popular Party, right] local, and if it still remained a
doubt, this guy spent some time in prison because of its urban affairs. M?ndez Pozo is
what is traditionally called a cacique, someone who made ??and unmade at will, a figure of
economic power that works constantly in the shadow of political power. And this is how
politics works, large and small scale one who puts money on the table will always be
provided to require, order and order. In front of this, the response area is clear and strong.
Manifestation of the conflict
Once that was publicly known that the early work of said Boulevard Vitoria street was
imminent, significant local opposition expressing its rejection of this project arose. The
reasons are not lacking those who argue that, in a context of widespread local
institutions, initiate work with such characteristics assumed debt in the long run, it's
always the same people who will pay the piper this macro equity. And they are not few who
stressed that official messages that we constantly hammer the need for austerity are not
consistent with planned spending several million euros and it has attracted a lot of
doubts in the neighborhood.
The protests against the boulevard began around the "Platform against Boulevard Vitoria
street" with successive events which brought together thousands of neighbors in early
December 2013 on the slogan "Not now!" , a slogan unhappy and who can be easily foresee
the composition of said platform. As time passed, there was no indication that the work
would stop and the neighborhood, the atmosphere is heated.
On Wednesday, January 8, Vitoria street is closed and the start of construction is
imminent. On January 10, a gathering is scheduled at 17 hours, which ends up being
dispersed by the police, after which the inhabitants call back to the rally at the same
place later in the evening. ? that time, we can already predict a strong tension between
the demonstrators and the police, which is why the platform decides to dissolve with
statements like "do not approve of acts that are not based on civic compliance other
citizens, including workers who work there because they are not guilty of what is
happening " or "never defended and never support vandalism, acts outside-the-law and
extreme actions that lead to situations of violence. "
While the Civic Platform back, people, them forward. On the evening of January 10 will
start a wave of clashes between residents and police, repressive escalation that will
result with more than 40 arrests - and remand for some - and sending riot police More from
Madrid to Burgos.
From here then, is the self-organization of local people who will lead the dance, with 24
permanent rallies on the work site to prevent them from starting. With the nights of
January 11 and 12, in the same vein as the 10 new arrive 15 January announcing the
provisional arrest of the site and, on January 17, the judgment becomes final.
All against Gamonal
"They scream pretty upset, you feel a lot of tension" - Reporter La Sexta , as protesters
of all ages pass him without a single sign of violence
It may be unlikely that a small neighborhood conflict comes to attack all the front pages
of national newspapers and is also noticed by all television news programs. Gamonal could
become a model for other neighborhoods throughout Spain, so he had to try to discredit and
isolate their struggle. And all the media were put, hoping with reports and statements
absurd, hatred and contempt for all Burgos would be obtained. The reporter who dares to
lie in the middle of the protest, demonstrators were telling the truth and who was removed
microphone. La Sexta , ridiculous, when she speaks of "tension" and "extreme violence"
while the live we see the old walk in the event, RTVE, a shame, saying that shops were
attacked in the area when a resident replied by saying that only banks were destroyed, not
stores.
Nor could he miss the most famous ETA-Gamonal link the most reactionary media tried to
sell and the novelty of "itinerant antisyst?mes groups" , so-called radical groups from
one conflict to another to exercise violence. Anyway, the role of the media is not
surprising, but they have the ability to create, invent and distort never cease to amaze
us. Pure spectacle.
All / all with Gamonal
In all cities during the week of conflict Gamonal large demonstrations of support have
followed, one of the objectives was that the IPU (riot forces) are not sufficient because
they were trying to send them to Burgos. ? emphasize the magnitude of the event in
Barcelona, ??where the crowd is taken to a police station on the Ramblas. It seems that
this was not to the liking of the police who is responsible for taking his revenge out
into the street the new weapon at its disposal to dislodge events, a gun to his (LRAD),
which produces an unbearable noise they are located close to the emission source.
Beyond the story, we must ask what is the best way to show solidarity with a conflict, and
if the answer should not be to reproduce such a conflict in every neighborhood and every
city. All areas used for grazing for speculation, urban development projects and policies
contrary to the interests of the inhabitants of each area make a Gamonal.
With all this struggle and its small victory - the permanent cessation of work - it seems
that everything is back in order, but as we have seen, Gamonal is not a neighborhood that
is satisfied with little and fight continues. After a demonstration in support of all
those arrested and prosecuted for the events, premises belonging to the municipality, but
yielded to the Caja Burgos was Okup?, with the goal of creating a social center for the
neighborhood. And the fight continues, because the struggle is the only solution and
Gamonal, that they know very well.
They removed us so much they eventually take away the fear
Gamonal: a district full of history
This is not the first time that the people of Gamonal take to the streets to defend their
rights and their dignity. Gamonal is a neighborhood with a long history of mobilization
and struggles.
In 1970-80, there were several protests, similar to the current scale for public
transport, for better access to the city and against the rate increase. Specifically, in
1980, due to the increase in the price of one peseta bus ticket between Gamonal and
Burgos, the events in the area ended with the NI highway barricades and burned bus. Also
at this time, there has been self-management of CYFISA factory near the district. These
are residents who were the first to take legal action against M?ndez Pozo which led to
prison. In the 1990s, the Movement of Conscientious Objection against conscription to
military service was very strong, and in 2005 the conflict broke out against a plan to
build a parking lot, which was surrounded by the same aura (corruption, M?ndez Pozo and
advisor to plan then who is the current mayor), the protest movement that led to major
clashes and finally ended with a victory of the neighborhood and the project was abandoned.
(For more details on the history of this area and its struggles, see below the text
"Gamonal: always living area, always fighting")
Armored with water cannon, cannons and rubber bullets its
The repression of demonstrations in solidarity with the struggle of Gamonal gave the
opportunity to Mossos d'Esquadra [Catalan police] to try out their new riot weapon: the
gun to his or Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD for its acronym English for Long-range
Acoustic Device ). It is portable device that, if used by the Catalan police, beeps a
maximum volume of 137 decibels in order to dissolve the raising or control groups.
Although be considered a type of non-lethal weapon, some doctors reminded that from 90 dB
sound can cause permanent irreversible hearing damage and the sound level is greater than
that caused by a jet engine at takeoff . Despite the fact that this device is used by
Western fonts for a short time, we already know a complaint from a protester against the
G-20 has suffered permanent hearing damage in 2009.
It is not a coincidence that now that this weapon is tested recently Catalan Parliament
decided to ban rubber bullets from next April, after the success protest campaign led by "
Stop Bales Goma ", after a protester lost an eye during demonstrations for the general
strike in Barcelona 2012 and the same year, the Ertzaintza (Basque police) has taken the
life of I?igo Cabacas a favorite flash-ball.
Such withdrawal rubber bullets was criticized by section CCOO [Workers' Commissions, union
historically linked to the Communist Party] Mossos d'Esquadra who sent a report to
Parliament against the ban which the union said : "Our position is very clear. In no way
can we remove this resource because we believe that the wounded (both police officers and
demonstrators) would multiply (...) The gun police is essential. " We did not hear a voice
in the union that dissociate from their peers ...
While new repressive measures are studied, we find that the traditional are dusted. The
Catalan government has indeed ordered the repair of a truck pitcher of water that had
fallen into disuse and a few days later, the Directorate General of Police has launched a
tender to buy one for an amount of half a million euros. Manel Prat, director of the
Catalan police, explained why this tool was not used before, it has "cons" such as its
lack of autonomy, mobility difficult and can cause damage and loss of eyes .
But these new weapons are not entirely new in 2013, the Ministry of the Interior was spent
3.26 million "anti-riot equipment and special equipment Protection and Defense" to the
National Police and the Guardia Civil, 20 times more than what was spent in 2012
conventional equipment such as rubber bullets and tear gas. In addition, it seems that
high place, instructions were given to their mercenaries for their use with more
dedication when distributing the blows. According to a statement from the end of 2012 the
Unified Union of Police during a training of the IPU to fire rubber bullets, in which the
senior manager asked his men to greater determination, several police anti- riot were
injured knee, eyes and testicles and the head of the unit has been sent to the hospital.
They go to hell!
Texts published in Todo por hacer (monthly anarchist published in Madrid), No. 37,
February 2014.
http://www.todoporhacer.org/
[Translation: XYZ OCLibertaire]
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Gamonal: neighborhood still alive, still fighting
The history of Gamonal through its conflicts and social struggles
Thursday, January 23, 2014
After days of rioting, the information making the headlines of state and media coverage on
all continents TV, we can say that today acquired Gamonal category symbol of resistance
against arbitrary power. But why a neighborhood of a conservative city like Burgos came
out to the streets to defend their territory with such determination? Why is the fight
still so alive?
Get acquainted with its history and its present.
The ancient village of Gamonal has stood as an independent municipality until the
mid-1950s. Under pressure from the big city and in the middle of the choking of the Franco
regime, the city council, which presumably he was particularly overwhelmed by the lawyers
of the city of Burgos and the civil governor, accept s' integrate the "capital of the
crusade". [1] This integration, which occurs at the end of a fictitious trading is a scam
for the people. It sells its extensive grounds only against the creation of an urban bus
line and the Municipality covers the costs of supervisory celebrations, which still exist
today (Las Candelas, in January).
For centuries, the city had the village in his line of sight, such as Capiscol.
Ultimately, this "diplomatic" offensive was motivated by the future creation of industrial
cluster Burgos by the Franco regime.
However, the bourgeoisie and the clergy did not want workers near their mansions or the
cathedral. Archbishop P?rez Platero was to argue that plants brought Marxism and
prostitution. This is why urban development as the only director had to build housing for
workers in the new district line. In the words of the Polla Records, "You made ??our homes
next to your plants."
Like most working-class neighborhoods surrounding big cities, urban development was
totally chaotic and did that for decades, the area was little space. No park was designed.
Children playing in the rubble of construction sites until the 1990s. There was also no
parking on the street, because it was assumed that workers would never have cars. On the
other hand, there were many gardens adjacent buildings and streets. There were also many
factories along the streets and on the edge of seats. All this created a radically
different from the center of Burgos unique environment.
As mentioned, the composition of the neighborhood was mainly working. Among its
inhabitants there has always been a gypsy population and later also an immigrant. In the
district, coexistence has always prevailed, and nobody remembers any tension or incident
due to the multi-ethnic composition.
On the other hand, the area retains a strong identity, the result of its origin. Both in
Gamonal itself and outside, is evident in popular expressions, slang ... The examples are
numerous. For example, when someone goes to the district center, it is very common to say
that "down to Burgos' .
As can be seen going up, this area has undergone over the past 60 years, a serious neglect
and numerous abuses, so that its people mobilize and fight, especially with regard to
issues urban. This is an area used to fight, but also, as we shall see, to win.
The main players in these popular struggles were residents' associations, social movements
specific to the neighborhood (especially youth and cultural, very strong and combative
libertarian) and numerous meetings appeared to specific problems. On the other hand, it
should be noted that this area has always provided much of the most militant activists of
the city organizations, both under Franco and thereafter. In fact, some organizations had
two meetings, one in Gamonal and the other for the rest of Burgos.
Of course, the neighborhood is very actively involved in the struggles which concerned the
entire city of Burgos (such as the requirement of a new public hospital), but he has
developed a lot, a lot, specific to their own space.
Stress-in here some of the most significant.
In the late 1970s, struggles occur neighborhood whose claims focus on the need for better
bus service and the problems arising from the motorway "Ronda II". On 8 September 1978,
residents gathered at a meeting called in an event which was ruled illegal by the police
and turns into a series of clashes that closely resemble actual events in the district in
January 2014.
But far from stopping, social conflict in Gamonal continues to develop in the 1980s.
Earlier this decade, the Municipality decided unilaterally, and of course without prior
consultation or information, increase bus fares in the city. When people read this
information in the press, they spontaneously began to speak in informal meetings as
circles in building entrances, and are out to gather in the street Vitoria (which, as we
shall see is the scene of many events) to cut off circulation. They ended up throwing
stones at the police, who had come to watch the event, and reverse many streetlights,
which has had an impact in the local and national press.
At the same time, known as "Las Torres" buildings were being constructed. There were three
blocks of 14 floors, located in an area barely paved in a little landscaped environment.
Well, in these buildings and daycare nearby, toxic fumes began to be detected: they came
from a propane tank buried beneath the surface. When the residents and inhabitants of the
neighborhood began to denounce the case publicly and judicially, by requiring that the gas
is removed from the area and their houses are repaired to prevent seepage, the city
authorities have called, as often "brown" Miranda de Ebro [2]. This riot quota was
frequently present in the area and suppressed the movement of people repeatedly. This is
one of the occasions when the mayor Jos? Mar?a Pe?a, later declared ineligible, earned his
nickname of "Stubborn" ["stubborn" or "Head of bacon"] for his incredible stubbornness and
ability to listen anywhere people of Burgos. After 20 twenty years (!) Judicial
proceedings, the City had to compensate the families who lived in these buildings
(especially intoxicated persons) and repair center.
Moreover, in these years of effervescence of workers' autonomy, workers CYFISA took over
the factory and have self-managed for over a year. Finally, as has happened in other parts
of the country, the majority unionism liquidated experience in negotiating the sale of the
plant to the former owners, who finally closed with economic aid from the State.
Then, in the 1980s, still struggles related to urbanism have continued, but in the
neighborhood, other initiatives have begun to articulate. Several group conducted a very
interesting campaign against the rising cost of living, have called for a strike and small
business hosted a major event, in which more than 5,000 people attended. An initiative
that we have not heard in other cities, and that was all very curious and interesting
evidence to try to draw attention to the loss of purchasing power of workers' power. To
this mobilization took part in the Popular Athenaeum "Los otros" ["Other"], which in this
decade and the next, has developed very against continuous-cultural and community
activities with the residents and inhabitants of the neighborhood.
At this time, other major struggles lead the field of urban planning, as we have said.
Many of them also end in victories, partial or total, in any case, for a very important
political wear omnipotent Jos? Mar?a Pe?a "El Cabezon" and its corrupting Antonio Miguel
M?ndez Pozo. For example, they tried to charge from the pockets of residents of Eladio
Perlado tiles that were placed on their sidewalks Avenue. The people are down to the City
Council meeting with their releases and triggered a major scandal, some of them expressing
rebellious and saying they would not pay. In addition, various forms of protest were
organized against the presence of plants in the area, and this movement got in they all go
to the periphery. Even a dairy plant (CLESA) was occupied and turned into social center.
Later, after its demolition, the City was forced to build the F?lix Rodr?guez de la Fuente
Park. It happened the same with the Santiago park.
Mayor and several construction contractors have also sought to build more buildings in a
densely populated area already, but the palisades of the site have been slaughtered and
completely destroyed. Nowadays, it is a place of entertainment and leisure.
It is also important to note that what is public has always been very popular in this
area. In addition to the struggles for health, the campaign largely followed for the
construction of a sixth public, because all the others were completely saturated, was also
remarkable.
Culminating in 1980, note that the residents' association "All States" in our
neighborhood, has filed a lawsuit that secured the conviction M?ndez Pozo to nine years in
prison for corruption in urban planning. Although the joy was short-lived, as he made ??
only nine months in prison and later was named president of the Chamber of Commerce. His
friendship with Aznar appears to have been decisive. [3] For more details on this first
case in which a manufacturer of construction was convicted of corruption of planning, it
is essential to refer to the pages of El Jeje. El caso of construcci?n de Burgos (Librer?a
Editoria Berceo, 1998)
As for the youth, and in this decade of the 1990s, many experiments appear. Movement of
Conscientious Objectors had a significant impact, as well as the Social Centre Gacela
[Gazelle], popular music schools (where the sharing of knowledge and learning to play
instruments totally free ), many social centers or houses occupied by more traditional
local youth used to repeat the music and enjoy moments of leisure ... It should be
mentioned that several generations of young people formed (and are) their own
socio-political group, whether anarchists castillanistes, fascist, social work ...
Past the 1990s, some of these collectives, associations, ath?n?es still exist, others have
disappeared or have been processed, but the people who have boosted remain connected and
are part of a relatively broad social fabric. New experiences also create.
In the first decade of the 2000s, the hardest and most remarkable battle which once again
ended in victory, was the Avenue Eladio Perlado. In some circles, it is called "the Second
Battle of Gamonal" the importance of the riots and repression ordered by the Municipality
and representatives of the central government (the first battle of Gamonal was against
Napoleon's troops). Its origin: the arrogance of Javier Lacalle (then advisor to
planning), Juan Carlos Aparicio (the mayor) and construction company Arranz Acinas in
their desire to build a parking lot in this avenue. Neighbors and neighbors complain that
this is a speculative maneuver, which is not necessary and that it endangers neighboring
buildings, some already cracked causes in previous projects. In addition, the previous
year, 10 workers working for Arranz Acinas had died in an accident at work due to
non-compliance with safety rules (an event that also caused a great scandal and many
protests).
As with the current conflict Boulevard project, residents' associations have organized
demonstrations and many forms of peaceful and legal protests, but the municipality refused
to listen.
In the middle of summer, the morning of August 18, while the mayor and all his deputies
are on vacation, the local police escort construction vehicles came to install fences and
machinery.
's older neighborhood people learn what is happening and down to protest, but the police
baton and stop some of them.
In the afternoon, a meeting was organized in the neighborhood, where hundreds of people go
absolutely outraged, by both the site itself and the abuse of older people by local
police. Although the police remains present to protect the site, the local people, young
and old, expel, demolish fences, burn the house down the site and start a riot which will
last about five hours.
result, many injured and 8 people are considered and finally sentenced to heavy fines and
prison sentences against preventable bail. But another result, the work was completed on
the same day of August 18. Today, Eladio Perlado is always a four-lane avenue, with free
parking spaces and wooded in its central part.
On the other hand, after the mobilization of the 15M movement, Burgos was created Assembly
Gamonal. This is the only part of the city where the initiative neighborhoods led [4] and
has acquired a distinct feature. This assembly, composed of young and older people, got a
"payment in kind" with a social housing after an intense struggle against evictions. She
also obtained for the recovery of ancient theaters closed by the Caja Burgos (now
CaixaBank) district and campaigns against banks.
In an abandoned construction companies parcel, plant it and take care of a vegetable
garden organic community with many activities for people of Gamonal and Capiscol. And it
also develops many activities, discussions and reflections on gender identities, machismo,
the right to decide and structural state violence against women.
Moreover, during the days of general strikes, this area also contributes significantly.
First, because it is surrounded by a major industrial parks, and is one of the key points
where the pickets gather to develop their action. During the last two days, it was here
that the main places of confrontation in reaching block the passage of city bus that had
not signed the minimum service despite the opposition of the Municipality and also block
the entry of certain plants, despite the presence of the national police.
As can be seen, during these six decades, the people of this district are organized in
different ways to cope with their problems and present their proposals, demands and ways
of doing things beyond what is stipulated in the so-called " democratic participation "we
sell institutions. Young people and the rest of the district have not been disconnected,
and bridges have always existed and people who serve as a reference for what is happening
in the neighborhood and coordinate actions when deemed necessary, with a success variable.
With the historical memory of the neighborhood, the existing social fabric, the absolute
ras-le-bol of corruption in Burgos recent years (including two resignations of councilors)
and the suffering caused by the policies of the last two governments of the state [PSOE
and PP], everything was in place for a fight explodes like the one we have witnessed so
far. The whole neighborhood knew it. Half Burgos too. All except the mayor.
A resident of Gamonal
Text published in Diario de Vurgos , anti-authoritarian publication of Burgos, who during
and after the conflict, published daily information and analysis.
Original here
[Translation: XYZ OCLibertaire]
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Notes Translation
[1] From 1936 to 1939, Burgos was the city chosen by Franco to establish the seat of his
government and of this fortress became Franco's capital, launching his "crusade".
[2] City of 40,000 inhabitants in the province of Burgos, famous for being the site of a
major concentration camps of political prisoners from 1939 to 1947. The "marrones" mean,
in 1979, members of the National Police, as it has become this day the color of their
uniform. Before, under Franco, they were a different color and they were then called "los
gray" , not to be confused with "los verdes" Guardia Civil.
[3] Jos? Mar?a Alfredo Aznar member Falangist movement in his youth, PP president of the
Spanish government from 1996 to 2004, and former President of the Community of Castilla y
Le?n where Burgos. Conviction M?ndez Pozo in 1994 had a great impact in Spain because it
was the first time a head of BTP and Media (owner of a holding consisting of 62 companies)
was sentenced to prison.
[4] Movement 15-M (for May 15), also called the "Indignados" born in spring 2011. After
the first weeks of occupation of the central squares of cities, the movement takes the
initiative "Toma los barrios y pueblos" to try to incorporate these dynamics in social
gatherings assembl?istes tissues and closer to concrete problems where live populations,
neighborhoods, small towns ...
[5] Dation payment. Legal possibility which was taken as a claim by the movement of
struggle and resistance against evictions, real estate foreclosures. This would allow
debtors to make their homes to the bank against the cancellation of the debt, while the
rule is that the seizure of the property by the bank does not end with the mortgage still
short on its value original purchase (while its market value has declined) and the debt is
most often augmented by penalties for late or non-payment.
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Dies Irae.
syndrome Gamonal
Review Argelaga , February 5, 2014
The mafia and the Spanish construction partitocracy which serves as the political arm
experienced a major setback to Gamonal, and that because no other neighborhood in any
other agglomeration dared defy such a strong and exemplary manner. Has long containers
burn without that power gives one iota in its corruption and arrogance, but this time, the
hand that had just burned a community outraged neighborhood and not a handful of irregular
in urban rebellion. Formed a community in the conflict and strengthened by its development
is not easy to overcome because it really is the "public interest" against its usurpers.
In addition, due to the similarity of current social conditions in urban areas, it was
likely that his example would spread, it is not surprising that the ruling class preferred
to retreat than to engage in block a conflict that did not suit him. The general interests
of domination had more weight than doubtful profits of individuals; petty corruption
manufactured home and private business will have to wait for better times, at least in Burgos.
Revolt Gamonal did not burst simply because of an urban remodeling that would have been
detrimental to the neighborhood and shockingly good for the cacique who control policy in
Burgos and regional media. The parking was the spark that caused the fire, the materials
were previously piled up by an obnoxious urban forty years of impunity. The latter, in a
hierarchically ordered infamous space apartment blocks traversed by sad boulevards
regulating motorized access of the population, while filling the pockets of real estate
speculators and dishonest politicians, required the population living conditions even more
unbearable than the distance from the center was great.
Industrialization lifestyle increases with the distance of offices where leaders take
unilateral decisions that worsen the lives of everyone. But it is difficult to always
accept a lifestyle enclosures, depending on transportation and money, in short irrational
and inhuman, and what is more, in a horizon of insecurity, unemployment and abandonment as
currently. Sometimes the resignation is not enough to quell the anger of a neighborhood
that knows it is not included in the calculation of the beneficiaries of survival slave,
then a small real estate scam over the last straw of patience. The day of wrath is coming
and popular indignation rises before the speculative political imperatives. The street
riot is the immediate consequence because these imperatives, as a last resort, usually
materialize in law enforcement. But what was really admirable Gamonal is that taking the
street has promoted awareness: the community of neighbors really emerged at that time.
Revolt Gamonal was an uprising against the proletarianization of life and social
injustice, rejection of the model of industrial life, uprooted and lonely. Community
spirit born of the conflict transcends purely protest aspects, what the people really
require, but intuitively, it is the right to the city - to equality, to public assembly,
self-management of the district, self-sufficiency, self-defense, to free mobility, agora -
a right buried in the sea from a crippled architecture for the poor, where lapping
overflows of raw private cars, and today is inseparable from the right to revolt and the
barricade. In the capitalist world, many places are like Gamonal, all major cities are
definitely "gamonali?res" as they recreate the same degrading conditions that induce
perpetual revolt. Just abuse more for it to happen it may be the expulsion of an occupied
social center (Hamburg, 7 January 2014), the increase in the price of a bus ticket (S?o
Paulo, June and October 2013), the brutality of the police face in a demonstration
protesting against the destruction of a public garden (Istanbul, May 28, 2013), the death
of a sick old man in an immigrant neighborhood (Stockholm, 23 May 2013), death in police
custody of a young Black in a London suburb (Tottenham, August 9, 2011), etc.. etc.. The
truth that all these struggles discovered is that in the local community crystallizes the
true social nature of the human being, but it can not be fully realized in the absence of
capitalism and the State. To exist, the community must assert itself against the two,
which is why, in the first moments, it shows negative violently. It does nothing more than
to defend against the State / Capital and try to answer.
Social war, since it is an authentic war between the ruling class and the population will
not only led urban, because the main antagonisms unfold deeper into territory where the
farming community must rebuild to make habitable again. However, hostilities begin in the
cities because that is where the masses are concentrated, becoming conscious collective
subjects, that is to say, neighborhood community, may face the attacks of the oppressive
order with guarantees of success. Neighborhoods emerge guerrillas that will extend the
territory, final scene of social struggles that have to free the world. And it is
precisely to abort any attempt in that governments prepare general security measures,
whether in the form of plans, laws and decrees against the "internal enemy" (the protocol
that extends the existence of FIES regime [*], the reform of the Penal Code, the Law of
Citizen Security, the National Plan for Critical Infrastructure Protection ...) or in the
form of quotas specialized police, state or private, with which they wreak havoc in the
countryside and neighborhoods, not to mention the continual expansion spaces violation of
human rights as Internment Centers for Foreigners, Therapeutic and Educational Units
prisons, detention centers . juvenile
Gamonal is only the beginning: the victory of freedom will not be easy.
February 5, 2014
Review Argelaga .
(review antid?veloppementiste and libertarian)
Source: http://argelaga.wordpress.com/2014/02/05/dies-irae-el-sindrome-de-gamonal/
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[*]'s Note: Ficheros of Internos of Especial Seguimiento or Files Special Monitoring of
internees. Scheme introduced in 1991, with a database according to the profiles of
supposed dangerousness of inmates who can organize a system of internal disciplinary
special arrangements for Spanish prisons, and punitive prison system inside prisons.
Translation: XYZ / OCLibertaire
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