Rozbrat is located in the western Poland city of Poznan. The property was squatted in 1994 and since then it became an alternative politics and cultural centre. It also serves as a home for over 20 people, and is both temporary and permanent shelter for homeless people.

The principal idea behind the space is grassroots organising and self-governing. It is a home to the local Anarchist Federation branch and Food not Bombs among others. The activists involved in Rozbrat have been very much part of the local and beyond projects, including Anarchist Black Cross, the Free Caucasus Committee and Workers Initiative Trade Union. The squat has also been hosting many grassroots initiatives, such as the anarchist library and publishing house, the printing workshop, self-education initiatives, bicycle workshop, a sports club, and a rehearsal space for musicians. Over the years, thousands of events have been organised at Rozbrat, including concerts, exhibitions, theatre plays, lectures, seminars, meetings and workshops.

Rozbrat has been a home to several generations of activists who have played critical roles during many social mobilisations and debates on social issues. The activists from Rozbrat and the Poznan Anarchist Federation have actively defended the most excluded inhabitants of the city, by supporting and initiating dozens of labour, tenant and environmental protests. It was also them who co-funded the regional tenants’ association and brought the issue of illegal dislacements to public light by organising eviction blockades and making it nearly impossible to render homeless the city’s sick, disabled, seniors and parents with children.

In a statement, Rozbrat says:

“We have provided organisational, legal and moral support to thousands of victims of capitalism and of the state, and we supported other independent groups in Poland. We are building a movement that relies on solidarity and mutual help instead of a rat race. We have organised hundreds of rallies and demonstrations decrying contempt for people with lower material status, different skin colour or different views.”

Rozbrat’t rich history includes a previous eviction attempt in 2009, when the space was due to be auctioned, but no buyers turned up for the auction; and the February 1996 neo- nazi attack, when a large group raided the space, stabbing a woman while she was sleeping in her bed. The victim nearly died of blood loss, and was saved only due to a very prompt medical treatment.

Today, the future of the space is again uncertain. In May, the bailiff office announced that is is preparing the auctioning of the property. That move came despite of the fact that several years ago, Rozbrat filled a case in court to secure rights to its lands based on adverse possession law. This case remains open.

The legal status of the land where Rozbrat is located is complicated. It was nationalised after the WW2, and, after Poland’s transition to capitalism, it was taken over by a private company as part of reprivatisation process. The new owner quickly went bankrupt following a number of loans the company took, and the lender, a bank, sold it to a debt trading company. The company is now demanding that the land is sold for an estimated 1.4 million Euro. This will certainly lead to an eviction attempt of the squat in order to make space for developers and land speculators to do their business.

According to Rozbrat:

“The Mayor of Poznan has declared that no tools are available to him that could force the bank to relinquish its claim to the plot and let the anarchists maintain the possession of the land. But we know that the state and local government have grounds for defending the social ownership of the property. They are simply refusing to make use of this right and stop the land speculation. The bailiff, real estate speculators and their political allies have once again taken legal steps to get rid of us. It is our conviction that after 25 years this area belongs to the Rozbrat community and needs to stay a collective property of the movement. We are not going to give it up without a fight. Rozbrat has countless times proved to serve the public interest, in contrast to the authorities, which represent the private interests of real estate developers.”

It is quite likely that Rozbrat will be forced to enter an expensive and complicated legal battle in order to defend itself. That could be costly, and the squat decided to ask for solidarity donations to cover legal costs. Anyone who is able to do so, can donate to this account: BIGBPLPW 03 1160 2202 0000 0002 3589 7475 with reference “Donation to save Rozbrat”. Otherwise, share widely.

source: freedomnews.org.uk

more info about Rozbrat in English: http://www.rozbrat.org/news-in-english

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UNDERGROUND RESISTANCE
Electro TECHNO Zone

Saturday 24 December 2016

GEORGE APERGIS
ALMOST DEFF
DJANE ZOYA
ECHOSENSE PROJECT
WAR
DUAT
visuals: VOID OPTICAL ART LABORATORY

starts 23.00

Occupied theatre EMBROS
Riga Palamidi 3 – Psiris

Είμαστε όλοι μπάσταρδοι, τρελοί και ερωτευμένοι.
Ζήσε με αυτούς που έχουν επικίνδυνα όνειρα, απελευθερωτικά σχέδια, ριζοσπαστικές επιθυμίες. Ταξίδεψε μέχρι την άκρη του γνωστού σου κόσμου. Αγωνίσου δίπλα σε όσους τολμούν να αγωνίζονται ενάντια στην εκμετάλλευση, τον ρατσισμό, την ανισότητα, την κυριαρχία. Με την συμμετοχή σου, τις ιδέες σου, τις πρωτοβουλίες σου κάνε τον Δημόσιο Χώρο πεδίο της εφαρμογής των αποφάσεων σου. Βρες τον δρόμο σου ρωτώντας για αυτόν, μάθε όλα όσα θέλεις να ξέρεις, φρόντισε να έχεις δικιά σου γνώμη, σκέψου από πού έμαθες αυτά που ξέρεις. Δώσε σχήμα στην οργή σου. Υπερασπίσου με πάθος όλα όσα αγαπάς και αυτά που σέβεσαι και όλα όσα αξίζουν πραγματικά για εσένα. Η ανθρωπιά μας είναι το μόνο μας χρέος. Και οι αντοχές αυτής της ανθρωπιάς κάθε μέρα γίνονται όλο και πιο αμφίβολες. Καθώς ο κοινωνικός κανιβαλισμός εξαπλώνεται παντού, οι συνταξιούχοι κρύβονται πίσω από τις ελληνικές σημαίες στα φτωχικά διαμερίσματα και κοιτάζουν με μάτια γεμάτα μίσος τους «ξένους» και τους «διαφορετικούς» έξω στην πλατεία. Οι αστυνομικοί χτυπάνε τον κόσμο στις διαδηλώσεις και οι τράπεζες παράγουν πεινασμένους και άστεγους, οι δικαστές φυλακίζουνε τους χρήστες της κάνναβης και τα κορίτσια κάνουν βίζιτες μέχρι να τελειώσουν τις σπουδές τους, η ηρωίνη πουλιέται νοθευμένη στους δρόμους και τα νοσοκομεία κλείνουν από υποχρηματοδότηση, τα πανεπιστήμια γίνονται εκκολαπτήρια για ζόμπι και τα τηλεοπτικά παράθυρα ξερνάνε φόβους και μαζικές αυταπάτες. Kαθώς η νύχτα γίνεται τρομακτική στην μοναξιά της οθόνης του υπολογιστή σου και στους δρόμους της πόλης σου δεν παίζουν πλέον τα παιδιά, ένα μόνο μένει να θυμάσαι:

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Live with those who have dangerous dreams, liberating plans, radical desires. Travel to the edge of your known world. Fight alongside those who dare to struggle against exploitation, racism, inequality, domination. With your participation, your ideas, your initiatives make Public Space the scope in which you implement your own decisions. Find your way by asking for it, learn everything you want to know, make sure that you have your own opinion, think of where you learned what you know. Give shape to your rage. Defend with passion everything that you love and those you respect and everything that can be really worthwhile for you. Our only debt is to be humane. As social cannibalism is spreading everywhere, retired grandmothers hide themselves behind the Greek flags in poor apartments and look with eyes full of hatred the “foreigners” and the “different” ones outside at the square. The police beat people at demonstrations and the banks generate and banks render people homeless and hungry, the judges imprison users of cannabis and girls do sex-work to finish their studies. Heroin is sold adulterated everywhere in the streets and hospitals close due under-funding, universities become incubators for zombies and TV channels vomit fear and mass delusion to the public. As the night is frightening in the solitude of your computer screen and children no longer play outsisde in the streets of your city, only one thing remains to remember:
OUR ONLY DEBT IS TO BE HUMANE …
DEATH TO THE TYRANTS ! LONG LIVE FREEDOM

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Φίλα με μέσα στην έρημο των θεάτρων της αλλοτρίωσης. Περήφανα, μπροστά στα εμβρόντητα, αποχαυνωμένα μάτια των λωτοφάγων. Στηρίξου στον ώμο μου… Είναι ώρα να προχωρήσουμε, μέσα στην αγρύπνια μας… Να σε εμποδίσω και να με εμποδίσεις…, από το να πέσουμε στα πεινασμένα στόματα των ψυχοφάγων! Μείνε μαζί μου αγάπη μου σε αυτή μας την αγρύπνια. Μείνε μέχρι οι βάρβαροι τρομαγμένοι από τις φωνές των αγρίων συλλογικών εραστών, να τρέξουν και να φύγουν! Συντρόφεψε με σε αυτή την αγρύπνια, αγάπη μου… Μέχρι το έμπρακτο γεγονός της ελευθερίας! Συντρόφεψε με, αγάπη μου… Μέχρι το τέλος του υπάρχοντος…”

 “What is there in the horizon my love? .. What views you caress next to ours? .. What aversion shows again and again in your face’s scars … the view of hypocrites, torturers and murderers? Kiss me through the desert’s theater alienation! PROUDLY IN FRONT of stunned, befuddled eyes of the lotus eaters. Lean on my shoulder … It’s time to move on, into wakefulness … Let you prevent me and stop you … than to fall into the soul eaters hungry mouths! 
Stay with me, my love, and stay awake with me. Stay until the appalling barbarians, by the collective voices of the wild lovers hearts, run away scared and go! Accompany me with this wakefulness, darling … Until the practical fact of freedom comes! Accompany me, love My … Until the end of the existing…”

Event Report: More than 1000 people… a crazy night, a great occupied old theatre, an art space for freedom of expression, an ever=growing experiment! Keep in contact! More events at Embros are coming!

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