#rigaer94

Hausdurchsuchung gegen Rigaer94 in Berlin.

"Defend R94"

Die Leute terrorisieren seit Jahren die Gegend. Ich habe mit meinem letzten Hund die Tierphysio in der Rigaer besucht (sind jetzt ausgezogen, auch wegen den Bewohnern des Besetzten Hauses, die Kunden wurden zu oft beschimpft, die Tiere verängstig, die Autos demoliert).

Ich wurde beim vorbeigehen angespuckt, mein Hund einmal von deren Hunden angegriffen. Die Autos die in der Straßen parken mit Farbe beschmirrt. Scheinbar ohne jeglichen Grund.

Die Bewohner sind extrem feindselig gegenüber Menschen, die nicht ihre Tasse Tee sind. In den Nächten wird aggressive Musik auf einem unzumutbaren Lärmpegel gespielt. Gebäude werden immer wieder vandalisiert, obwohl dort Familien wohnen. Man muss nicht Teil einer offiziell verhassten Gruppe sein (Investoren, Polizei, Nazis), um die volle Behandlung zu bekommen.

Zitat einer Nachbarin: „Solidarität von Anwohner*innen einfordern, aber dann denen den Kleinwagen abfackeln.“

Einmal hat einer der Bewohner einen Mann zusammengeschlagen, nur wegen eines Streits über den Hund des Besetzers (gab öfter Probleme mit deren Hunden..). Danach gab es Plakate, auf denen jedem der vor Gericht oder vor der Polizei aussagen würde mit Gewalt gedroht wurde.

Kinder die um die Ecke zur Schule gehen werden teilweise angepöbelt.

Ab und zu liegen Zeitschriften der Extremisten in den Briefkästen, in denen man Geschichten über ihren gewalttätigen "Widerstand" findet, die normalerweise Dinge wie die Verwendung eines Laserpointers beinhalten, um die Hubschrauberpiloten zu blenden, was tatsächlich zu einer Menge Todesopfer führen würde, wenn sie erfolgreich wären. Aber ach, wie heldenhaft von ihnen!

Berlin: Demonstration for the Termination of the Peace with the Rich & Powerful

International demonstration for the termination of the peace with the rich and powerful April 22nd 2017 // 20:00 // Corner of Eldenaerstr and Proskauerstr, Berlin.

Fight CG-Gruppe , Attack G20, Defend threatened Projects

The humanity and what has been defining the neighbourhoods is ultimately and irrevocably getting lost in the development of Berlins living and dwelling situation. The years of pushing back against the sell out of our habitat were not without small achievements but the general frenzy is ploughing on through the city.

The long overdue insurgence, one which goes beyond what is accepted as protests and violently intervenes against capitalist logic and it’s beneficiaries, remains absent. The wish to destroy the capitalist order keeps growing in many of us.

The last year already saw two neighbourhood demos in Friedrichshain, each time several thousand people came together and set an example for the support of rebellious projects. There have been continual attacks against the city of the rich in parallel, not only in Berlin. We’re now planning the third and maybe last orderly demonstration from Rigaer Straße. We call all those that are in favour of an uprising against party politics and monetary interests and want to fight for freedom and autonomy, to join us

Fight CG-Gruppe – obliterate new hotel-developments

Demonstrations and other actions against the new developments on Rigaer Straße between Voigtstraße and Samariterstraße have been happening for a year now. The commencement of work for CG-Gruppe is stumbling a bit but in the mean time the LIDL across the road was demolished and the construction work for new hotels has started there. What’s in store for the Kiez (local term for the close neighbourhood, its community and structures) is becoming clearer: the residential area around Rigaer Straße is meant to cede to a vibrant neighbourhood à la Simon-Dach Straße. They want our full touristic and commercial exploitation. We are just scrap in that plan

Chasing out , obliterating, preventing: this Is the vocabulary of our deepest desires

but we don’t have any other choice. Those living under the illusion a compromise for Berlin could be found – have lost their marbles . Let us be realistic, if we don’t find a weapon that can stop this development now, we will keep losing ground.

We’ll live scattered all over the city and won’t even have to think about gentrification, because everything is already sold.

What is needed now is creativity , a readiness to take risks and coordination between militant actions and public kiez-initiatives – more boring, meandering walking demos will not bring us forward.

That is why this demo should be a motivation for us and others, to force people like Christoph Gröner of CG-Gruppe , constructions and investment firms and institutions like the police and political parties to PRACTICAL responsibility.

Attack G20 – bring Kiez struggles to Hamburg

Gentrification and repression are not isolated from worldwide struggles. All over the world people are robbed of their habitat and their social and cultural context. Be it Peru, Brazil, France or China, where people are subjected to the callous lunacy of super projects, being displaced and treated like commodities.

Here a mine, there a giant airport or Olympics or here a super-city supposed to serve capitalist interests with no ifs, ands or buts.

The response to resistance ranges from brutal repression to bribery. The same logic of exploitation not only applies to people but also to nature and the whole globe. The 20 strongest states of the world meet in July for the G20 summit to perfect this logic. In the past, summits like this were also summits of resistance. This year it’s time again, a meeting of all those that want to bring their rage against the prevailing order onto the streets is announcing itself. We don’t want to be just onlookers, but properly stir it up. There are already call outs to bring the neighbourhood struggles to the Elbe-city. It’s hard to bring this concept into practise as most people don’t want to realize the connection between neighbourhood struggles and the struggles world wide. This demonstration should advertise for those to come to Hamburg that feel exploited and oppressed by city politics and get involved in elevating the tension in the run-up to the summit.

Defend threatened projects – decentralized and mass resistance on Day X

Like Rigaer94 and Rigaer as a whole, several other projects and people in Berlin are threatened by getting evicted and being destroyed. Especially Neuköllns Kiezladen Friedel54, has developed a potential for setting an aspirational example for the resistance.

Users of the shop have not been paying rent for several months after permanent threats from the corporate owner. Now the threat of eviction comes from the same party politics that have permanently attempted to portray itself as social but engages in violent displacement for years.

If there will be a new escalation by politicians or police like in the previous year, they can expect plenty of stress.

No matter whether it’s the commencemnt of building from CG-Gruppe, eviction of Rigaer94 or Friedel: our answer is a mix of mass actions and decentralized Day X actions.

When our lives are destroyed, there will be “TRÜMMERTANGO” (dance of the debris)

Gestern Abend wurde durch die Presse bekannt, dass ein Kammergericht in Berlin beschlossen hat, dass der ›Hausverwalter‹ der Rigaer94 in Berlin diese unter dem Vorwand des Brandschutzes begehen kann, zur Not mit Hilfe von Polizeigewalt.

»Was jetzt auf den Nordkiez und die mit der Rigaer94 verbundenen und solidarischen Strukturen zukommt, kennt nur eine Antwort: Widerstand auf der Straße. Zu erwarten ist im Moment nicht viel mehr oder weniger als ein Invasionsversuch wie schon in den Sommern 2016 und 2020 mit geplanter Belagerung. Dem Wunsch, das Haus zu vernichten und dem antikapitalistischen Widerstand in Berlin zu schwächen, wird wie zuletzt bei der Räumung der Rummelsburger Bucht wahrscheinlich der Brandschutz vorgeschoben werden. «

Deshalb übermorgen alle auf zur »Langen Nacht der Weisestraße«, damit Syndikat bleibt!

Alle Infos: https://syndikatbleibt.noblogs.org/post/2020/07/20/lange-nacht-der-weisestrase-am-6-7-august/

Ehemaliger Hausbesetzer über die Szene der 80er in Berlin.

Germany: ‘In Spite Of Their Separation’ – Call for international solidarity and action to defend R94 in Berlin

Defend Rigaer 94 and Kadterschmiede

We are writing to you from the threatened houseproject Rigaer 94 in one of Berlins once notorious squatting neighbourhoods. Our contexts might be worlds apart or really close but the reality we lived last year bears the prints of the same systematically oppressive system. In solidarity with all threatened projects, individuals and emancipatory struggles, we would like to better connect our structures and work on a closer link based on support, in our struggles.

Let’s keep walking this path together, but first a short summary of the recent past and our situation.

Last year saw us, the neighbourhood and people around, on the receiving end of much police repression, starting with the declaration by the state that our street and neighbourhood was a danger zone (Gefahrengebiet), giving the police extra search and detain powers and a green light for constant street harassment of anyone fitting their vision of a ‘leftist’, not white or somehow not normative person (this evolved into almost anyone being controlled, no matter how they presented). This saw a massive rise in police riot vans cruising the streets, meaning constant conflicts for the neighbourhood, and in our efforts to fight for a autonomous and cop free area. Rigaer 94 was at the centre of these conflicts, as the state and its cops declared it the crux of militant struggle. This tactic can be seen in the wider context of reactionary imposed controls and intimidation, such as states of emergency and curfews, employed as constant stress factors (and datamining) to those against the aggressive progression of gentrification and public control.

In the beginning of the year, a traffic cop was confronted on the street while trying to give out parking tickets, seven hours later, 500 or more cops were used to raid our house. Some days later we were raided again, this time after a bag of rubbish was thrown from a window, as cops were going through the nearby house dumpsters (this was a ‘life threatening attack’). In response to these attacks, we made a call for 1 million euros of damage to the state and its structures to meet any attack on left radical spaces. This was consistently met. The state was set on trying to destroy our structures and continued to put on pressure, but we never let them get on top of us. The last attempt by them to crush our spirit was in the summer. A massive police operation was organised to evict the bottom story („Kadterschmiede“ bar and Workshop) of our project. This plan was concocted by the police chief and the interior minister, who then approached the owner for the final ok. The house was surrounded 24/7 by cops, who fenced off the front entrance and occupied the attic, stairways and yards. They protected private contractors who started a process of clearing and gutting the bottom story and attic. They were then helped by private security to control the coming and going of people from our house. The narrative given to the media was that the bottom story was going to be renovated and rented as housing for refugees. This was of course proven to be a lie and a divisive tactic by the state, who was trying to manipulate the public opinion and crush left struggle with some of its own pitfalls. This occupation lasted three weeks.

(This is a more detailed text from the time.)

In the summer we saw the occupation of our home and project come to an end from the combination of inspirational street actions and a court process. The court hearing concluded that the police action was ‘illegal’ and we had some sort of squatters rights to the contested areas of the house. Whether or not this action was ‘legal’ or ‘illegal’ in the eyes of the courts was and is of no concern to us, but in that moment it meant the state had to eat its own laws and go home. Of course it would not let go so easily, and there has now been an appeal by the house owner to obtain an eviction order. In their legal way. This court process will happens today,Thursday Febuary 2nd, and we do not expect to ‘win’. Once the owner has this eviction paper, the earliest they could evict with due notice is two weeks after the court decision.If their first attempt fails they can theoretically try again at anytime in the future with no prior warning.

The solidarity in response to the past attacks on Rigaer 94 was incredibly powerful. To read everyday of the actions that had happened in the night before, filled us with the strength and fire that we needed to continue this fight. The forms of resistance within the „Day X“concept were as diverse as the people showing it. The streets were full of action, but not only for us, as the struggle against gentrification is international and these and other actions have inspired and been inspired by movements from all over. This is our strength against the repressive state and its structures – decentralized actions and autonomous organising that the state cannot even come close to keeping watered down and sated. This is the pressure we can excert on the apparatus of capital and state.

Selforganized spaces such as Kadterschmiede in Rigaer 94 have to be defended!

We want to keep fighting not just for our housing project but for all those threatened by state violence and oppression- all those fighting for living spaces, all those sitting in prisons, all those fighting for their own autonomous futures, all those who are fighting just to live.

All evictions are Day X. Day X will only bring us together again and strengthen and extend our networks of rebellion.

Day X means Chaos