Squatting/working

i guess squatting is still alive because the reason to squat is still relevant - the lack of free/cheap room to live in.
on the other side: there are that many residential/apartment houses and flats, old factory buildings and even former army barracks rotting away - not occupied for years, just because the property owner uses his "losses" of income to dodge the tax, waits for the building to collapse, so the empty ground could be sold for more profit.
sometimes the property situation isn't "clear", some inheritors fight at courts for years - whatever the reason is:
it's dearly needed room to live in - rotting away or empty/unoccupied just for profits.

what a waste! - too bad that around here "the bavarian way" rulez, since the early eighties no squat in this state survived the first 24 hours and the evictions became brutal and bloody and very one sided battles - its suicidal.

we have a nice old factory building down the street - a former spinning mill with almost a hundred rooms and little halls - it would be perfect to give dozends of people space to live in and there could be workshops and shops or ateliers, even a kindergarden would be possible - and it's empty and rotting slowly away since 45 years... too bad that this little paradise is guarded by millions of black armoured clone warriors defending the idea of "property"...

 

Sickening lil...

 

Sickening lil...?

 

... because of "property" as part of the holy trinity of capitalism: property, profit and power...

i'm still getting fits of rage when i think of "the mill" down the street, or an old barracks area 20 minutes away: full of slowly degrading vehicle workshops, hangars and the former barrack buildings, large green spaces between the blocks crying to be used for greenhouse farming... but off limits because still property of the german military and sometimes guarded by private security - and yes, the clone invasion at the slightest sign...
One of my mates inherited some money and wrote to the city to ask for a tenancy agreement - the answer:
the area is still an object of the military security and btw: We don't want no second Christiana in germany...
It's really sickening!

 

Property speculation and the profitable games the tax laws allow to play by using "empty" or "unused" buildings as a "loss" to dimish the amount of taxable income, are two of the most annying crimes of the parasites using their lobby in our beloved social market state - pure unadulterated capitalism.
Squatting started in the early seventies in almost every university-town - and still the fucking problem is the same, it's discussed, critisized and condemned year after year, reforms are promised and quickly forgotten afterwards - now the last established squats are evicted one by one and every new attempt is going down in an invasion of special squats and worse within hours - while the average citizen has to spend almost half of his income just to have four walls and a roof over the head...

 

I have no frikkin idea what a "real" anarchist does.

I do think it is criminal that landowners can hold a piece of property indefinitely without ever setting a foot there and let it rot. Detroit is mostly abandoned buildings now, and there is tons of homeless people. If a squatter spends more time at your place than you do, you should forfeit it! America USED to have squatter's rights. I think it was ten years, if you lived there that long it was yours. Squatters nowadays are forced off the land before that is even possible anymore. I don't think those rights even exist anymore.

 

important part of the misery around here is that the state/the city/the cops don't want to allow "liberated zones", or lawless places how they call it.
squats like in berlin or hamburg easily became centres of aktivism and resistance - and sometimes the drug and social problems became more visible too - so the cops were ordered to give them the boot.
the scene around here is scattered and barely visible sometimes, but i wonder what would happen if there were places to go and meet squatters, punks and activists...

 

Very interesting - sounds a bit like the "customary laws" of some indigenous peoples or pre-roman european societies - any sources about that in the U.S.?