Eskalera Karakola
Squat in Madrid, Spain
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EKKA at Calle de Embajadores 52
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Address | Calle de Embajadores 52 |
Town or city | Madrid |
Country | Spain |
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Eskalera Karakola is a feminist self-managed social centre in Madrid , Spain. Women squatted a bakery on Calle de Embajadores 40 from 1996 until 2005, whereupon they were given a building at Calle de Embajadores 52.
History
Eskalera Karakola (EKKA) emerged from a squat on Lavapiés 15, in the Lavapiés district, in 1996. [1] Staying in Lavapiés, several female participants decided to make a women-only occupation in a former bakery at Calle Embajadores 40. The project was eventually legalised in 2005, when it moved to its present location at Calle de Embajadores 52. [2] The bakery was evicted in 2005 and subsequently demolished. [3]
Activities
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Eskalera Karakola works on the principles of autogestion and organizes activities focusing on domestic violence and women's precarity in post-industrial capitalism . [4] In 2002, it created a Female Workers' Laboratory ( Laboratorio de Trabajadoras ), and has carried out anti-racist activities, in particular with female immigrants , since 1998. Eskalera Karakola also took part in the organization of the LGBT Pride and the forum "Women and Architecture". It participated in alter-globalization events such as the European Social Forum and is part of the European nextGENDERation network. [5] It publishes a review, Mujeres Preokupando (a pun between "Concerned Women" and "Pre-Squatting Women"). [6]
The research collective Precarias a la Deriva formed out of discussions at the social centre. [7] During the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain , its activities went online. [8]
References
- ↑ Aguirre, Begoña (8 October 1996). "Cien agentes y un helicóptero para echar a cinco 'okupas' " . El País (in Spanish) . Retrieved 23 September 2020 .
- ↑ Sanz, Segundo; Tejero, Raquel (7 March 2019). "Huelga 8 de marzo: Un centro de 'okupas' feministas financiado por ediles de Carmena está detrás de la huelga del 8M" . okdiario (in Spanish) . Retrieved 23 September 2020 .
- ↑ "Las integrantes del centro Eskalera Karakola serán desalojadas mañana" . El País . 9 May 2005.
- ↑ "La Eskalera Karakola: Un espacio deliberado" . El Molotov . March 2003.
- ↑ nextgenderation.net
- ↑ Villacampa, Javier Alcalde; Argilés, Ramón Adell; López, Miguel Martínez (2004). ¿ Dónde están las llaves? El movimiento okupa: Prácticas y contextos sociales . Madrid: Los Libros de la Catarata. pp. 220–226. ISBN 9788483191828 .
- ↑ Shukaitis, Stevphen; Graeber, David; Biddle, Erika (2007). Constituent Imagination: Militant Investigations//collective Theorization . AK Press. ISBN 978-1-904859-35-2 . Retrieved 23 September 2020 .
- ↑ Tseng, Chenta Tsai (29 July 2020). "¿Cuándo fue la última vez que te aburriste?" . EL PAÍS (in Spanish) . Retrieved 23 September 2020 .
Further reading
- González García, Robert; Araiza Díaz, Alejandra (April 2016). "Feminismo y okupación en España: El caso de la Eskalera Karakola" . Sociológica (México) (in Spanish). 31 (87): 207–236. ISSN 0187-0173 .
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