(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL #227 - Squat: The Crea live, Crea overcomes (fr)

For two years, a move to requisition buildings developed on Toulouse: Campaign for the 
requisition, mutual and self (Crea). The goal is to requisition empty buildings, abandoned 
or subject to property speculation. ---- We're up-group [ 1 ] with all those who want to 
participate: ill-housed, are, left to the street by the State and capitalism families, 
people who can not pay their rent , people who are fed up with this system, supportive 
people. ---- In a previous paper [ 2 ], we talked about the expulsion of a large 
self-managed social center, leaving the street about 200 people. Since we moved es in 
Bonnefoy, a popular area that is the target of an urban renewal project. Indeed, with the 
advent of high-speed line between Toulouse and Bordeaux, the area behind the station will 
gradually evolve into business district.

We prefer to make a neighborhood resistance! Still, it is an arm of iron daily with the 
prefecture, the mayor and the cops. The winter was marked by the trial and expulsion 
repeatedly. But as the old saying goes: "No evictions without reoccupation! ".

Repression and expulsions

Currently, it is more than 14 buildings were requisitioned and home to nearly 180 people. 
Since January 18, we are in a building owned by the town hall, where about fifty people 
live, but also welcomes a new Autonomous Social Center (the third in two years!) Which 
hosts many activities: workshops languages, fight, dance, film, choirs, etc.. Impressive 
numbers when you consider that for Toulouse, there are only 409 seats emergency 
accommodation, only 168 relate to families.

But the goal is not to overcome the shortcomings of the government and make the country a 
"real estate agency of misery." On the contrary, we think that the state is not the 
solution but part of the problem and no one can take care of us better than ourselves. We 
want to exceed the pyramidal society based on money, power, racism and sexism. For this we 
are looking for ways of organization founded by solidarity, equality and autonomy. 
Activities and free housing is a first step.

The motto: self-organization!

It is organized horizontally, all decisions are made at general meetings. It also tries to 
deconstruct the privileges of gender and race, with single-sex women's meetings and 
workshops "deconstructed your privileges" to move towards more egalitarian social 
relations. The campaign also opened the "children's house", a place of residence, but also 
allows a collective responsibility of the youngest, with activities on Wednesday, help 
with homework and language courses. During the February vacation, the bushels have even 
gone to air in the self-managed farm Cravirola!

So, although much remains to be done, to resist, to build, we will continue to open 
buildings despite the repression of the town hall of the prefecture and the state. In 
Toulouse, as elsewhere, many homes are empty, then we are more and more numerous and too 
much hassle for many to pay rent, what do we expect? Everything for everyone, power to the 
people!

Crea

[ 1 ] see creatoulouse.squat.net

[ 2 ] see AL No. 222 of November 2012