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BASQUE YOUTH CENTRE UNDER ATTACK!!!!

category international | rights, freedoms and repression | news report author Tuesday August 17, 2004 03:44author by Ezez

Police and bulldozers siege Irunea's 'Gaztetxe'

The 'Gaztetxe' Euskal Jai (derelict house, occupied and made into a self-substaining cultural centre run by the Basque youth ) in Irunea (Euskal Herria, The Basque Country), is being attacked by the police with the intention of demolishing it. Bulldozers are charging against the building putting the resisting people inside, who have chained themselves to the building, in great danger as the house may collapse at any moment. The Spanish seem to be learning from their Israeli counterparts!

The 'Gaztetxe' Euskal Jai (derelict house, occupied and made into a self-substaining cultural centre run by the Basque youth ) in Irunea (Euskal Herria, The Basque Country), is being attacked by the police with the intention of demolishing it. Bulldozers are charging against the building putting the resisting people inside, who have chained themselves to the building, in great danger as the house may collapse at any moment. The Spanish seem to be learning from their Israeli counterparts!

There is a great resistance by Basque citizens despite the charge of the police. Fair play to this brave Basques who won't let the Imperialist dirty Spanish Government get away with their politics of opression!!!!

As usual, media censorship keeps this news away from the international public, but you can check what's going on at www.gara.net or www.euskaljaigaztetxea.net

You can express your rejection to the eviction by e-mail to the following address (Council of Pamplona): sugerencias@ayto-pamplona.es
Also, you can do it from the Council's website at http://www.pamplona.net/VerPag.asp?IdPag=2258&Idioma=1

This is the company that's carrying out the demolishion, putting the resisting youth's life in danger:

DEMOLICIONES CORTES Y TALADROS, S.A. - DECOTA, S.A. Madrid María de
Molina, 56, 4º, Esc. 2, Of. 411 .
28006 MADRID
Tel. 0034 91 562 54 48 -
Fax 0034 91 562 03 25
www.decota.com
e-mail: decota@decota.com

Another address of the above company: Barcelona Balmes, 111, 2º 2ª .
08008 BARCELONA
Tel/Fax 0034 93 323 04 10

Related Link: http://www.euskaljaigaztetxea.net

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author by ?¿publication date Tue Aug 17, 2004 17:14author address author phone

more like learning from the Xunta of Galicia.
c/f eviction of casa encantada-
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2003/07/274850.html
This summer's evicition wave in the Spanish state has seen typically "a period of resistance", followed by "a lull" followed by "a suprise attack by lots of police" follewed immediately by "demolition of the site".
CSOA Hamsa was evicted so after three months resistance and though the okupes re-entered the building within 72 hours, the estate agency who own the site had already ripped out the roof and caused extreme structural damage.

Here is a minute by minute update thing on Gaztetxe de Iruña :-
http://barcelona.indymedia.org/newswire/display/112152/index.php


UPDATE!!!!
5 people have re-okupied Gaztetxe and seemingly it isn't in such a bad state as Hamsa was left in.
http://barcelona.indymedia.org/newswire/display/112578/index.php

and if youwant to follow all this with photos and stuff-

Related Link: http://euskalherria.indymedia.org/
author by -publication date Fri Aug 20, 2004 02:40author address author phone

more arrests relating to incidents which immediately followed the eviction of this squatted autonomous centre in the Navarran town of Pamplona. Big mobilisation in support has been called for August 21.
Speaking for the Delegation of the Government to Navarra (mechanism for the central Spanish state in it's communities or "provinces") Vicente Ripa, called for calm "as long as stones bottles and molotov cocktails are being thrown normality will not return to the Navarran capital".

on-going protest.
see Basque indymedia
http://euskalherria.indymedia.org

or Madrid indymedia
http://acp.sindominio.net

Pamplona is famous for it's yearly psychotic display of macho traditional spanish culture and bull running and being the capital of Navarra.
Pamplona is less famous for being a big town in the southern part of very traditional "nine province" Basque country.

sin é.

Aurrera Okupazioa!



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