2021-06-17 20:53:22
In #berlin comrades of #rigaer94 called out an autonomous zone and built barricades in order to resist the state repression. Tomorrow the so-called owner wants to observe the building under the pretext of fire 'prevention'. That kinda backfired already.
Our solidarity is with our people in struggle!
Here documentation of their statement:
Creation of an autonomous zone
In a lightning action, we have turned Rigaer Straße between Zellestraße and Liebigstraße into an autonomous zone. With barricades at both ends, with many people as support, we try to anticipate the establishment of the Red Zone, which is planned by the police for today at 3 pm. The Red Zone is supposed to be an area of total control of this decades embattled street. We have had numerous experiences in recent months and years with this type of state of emergency. Several blocks are subjected to purely police orders, residents have to submit to searches and controls, assemblies are basically forbidden. The goal is to ban protest and resistance from the places where they could really hit the ruling class. During the last evictions and also on May 1st, the Interior Senate has repeatedly subjugated entire streets in this way. As a gathering in solidarity with Rigaer94, we have therefore decided not to wait until nails are put to heads, but to take the area, so that in the end we don't have to watch the police act unhindered in front of the barriers several blocks away.
Here in Friedrichshain, despite state fantasies of omnipotence, the history of organized resistance and rebellion lives on. With our action today, we bring the awareness to the streets that the city should actually belong to the people, that the houses have no owners, that the state is not needed here and should be abolished as a guarantor of real estate speculation in particular and capitalism in general. Who should do that, if not us.
In our limited possibilities we decided to use today to realize our ideas of solidarity and freedom at least in this street. Rigaer Straße is especially close to our hearts, as we have been trying to live self-organized and rebellious here for more than 30 years. Tomorrow, Thursday, we plan a frontal attack on our local structures. Just a little more than half a year after the eviction of the anarcha-queer-feminist house project Liebig34 a few meters away, Rigaer94 is to be put through the wringer. It is no secret that the alleged fire safety inspection was already planned as an eviction of the house in March. Also this time this state attack aims at the suppression of the individuals and collectives struggling here as well as at the destruction of a house that represents an important infrastructure. We as an assembly call on everyone to join the resistance against the eviction. From now on we have to take things into our own hands.
Short update on us: We are fine, the helicopter is circling, the street smells like smoke and we have fire in our hearts! Let's keep it up and defend what is ours ! Defend autonomous spaces ! Rigaer remains !!!
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