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LIEBIG34 MUST STAY!

The Liebig34 is a self-organized, anarcha-queer-feminist house project in Berlin-Friedrichshain. The house was occupied in 1990 and later legalized. This contract expires in December 2018 and and we are not being given an extension: the owner, Gijora Padovicz, wants to clear the house, renovate it and rent it out again for maximum profit. Padovicz is known in Berlin for systematically buying up, clearing and destroying houses and residential projects.

We cannot and will not allow another house to be taken from us. In times of progressive capitalist exploitation of living spaces, a practice needs to oppose this logic. In times of AfD, CDU/CSU and Pegida such feminist spaces and organization are needed to counter the noticeable shift to the right in society. Places are needed where people with diverse backgrounds and gender identities can live collectively and without cis-men -irrespective of their origin, social class, financial means or residence status. Places where power structures and privileges are reflected upon are needed to make them surmountable. Everyday organization which instead of relying on state structures makes them superfluous and attacks them are needed now more than ever.

We are standing in the way of neighborhood development and will not make room for luxury buildings. We need places of feminist self-organization and political resistance. We will fight for the Liebig34!

Come to the demo on 29.09.2018 at 6pm and show that the Liebig34 concerns us all!

Keep resisting to patriarchy, gentrification, the state and capitalism!
Fight for Liebig34!

On Friday the 10th of August, we attempted to occupy a building in Matrozou Str., Our target was to expand the housing structures of our community. We chose the specific building since it was visibly abandoned. The doors were picked, the ceilings about to fall and the house in a mess. We had also entered the house from the front door with daylight lots of times without any reaction from the neighbourhood. Although, during the time of the people’s market (laiki agora) and after the body of our community entered the house starting the jobs to stabilise it as an occupied space, a lady showed claiming it as her property. Allegedly, she wants to take future value out of it and was using it to keep inside her mother’s trousseau. She had an inflexible stance and repeatedly called the cops.

Der Hambi ist akut räumungsbedroht. Kommt alle, um gemeinsam zu überlegen, wie wir von Berlin aus ins Rheinland mobilisieren und den Hambi auch von hier aus supporten können!

Der vierte Verhandlungstag gegen Isa am heutigen Montag, den 13. August, war kurz und doch nicht unbedeutend. Für die Staatsanwaltschaft trat heute der ermittelnde Oberstaatsanwalt Matthias Fenner an, der einen allgemein schlechten Eindruck machte. Die Richterin Kheune hatte offensichtlich die Prozesspause dazu genutzt, sich von ihrem peinlichen Schauprozess in der Sonne zu erholen.