Really yes, YOU and only YOU but ALL of YOU have stopped the demolition of the Casa Encantada (something like Charmed House). Now we are taking breath, catching air because the last 48 hours were probably the worst of our twelve year history of day-to-day work in an experience of sharing a XIX century squatted house to social activities.

so thank you *very* much for making the telephone callings to this very short-minded local politicians wherever you were from, because after hours (special thanks to Barcelona and EuskalHerria people) of net-activism through the Indymedia network, resistance from the roof (woof, woof ;-) and very hard legal negotiations *YOU* have stopped the demolition!!

Yes you have read it well: TWELVE years of social empowerment day-to-day work... it was very difficult to find the ways to survive, but we have found it until today. There were twelve years of teaching and learning music, marcial-arts, projected social compromised films, theatre, nuppets, working around feminism, ecologism... working about social uses of technology... going deep into the reality of the spanish jails helping people who mostly die due AIDS, we have achieved the United Nations to advertise to the spanish government about its torture practices in detentions... and more and more...

We have launched projects like the Galiza Independent Media Center ( http://galiza.indymedia.org) when we have to fight to make the world know about the worst european ecological disaster, the Prestige Oil Spill wich our governement presided by the Vitoria-Gasteiz killings responsible Mr. Manuel Fraga tryed to hide to the mass media. Tha Casa Encantada was one of the main centers of the Nunca Mais civil movement, and just an example, we have organized with the teachers collective Area Negra (Black Sand) a human-chain of more than 25.000 childrens came from all the points of Galiza around the Costa da Morte coastline wich was one of the most affected areas of the Prestige Oill Spill.

This are the reasons why now the government wants to put us away, they want to put silence about that things; and using its knowlege of legal mechanism they call the bulldozer to break our ideas... but thanks to your help, we stopped the bulldozer!

Until when? We do not know, perhaps next monday they will begin to start the administrative machinery, but now we know we are more than yesterday, because we share an international movement that no governement, no politicians, no administrative nor policial or legal machine could stop.

Thank you very much!!

Solidarity!!

Casa Encantada

The main site of the Casa Encantada was at:

 http://www.casaencantada.org/

There you'll can find (in galician and spanish language) a brief of its history ( http://www.casaencantada.org/historia/gz/hist_01.htm ) a local press dossier since 2001 (  http://www.casaencantada.org/papeis/prensa/prensa.htm ) the legal actions taked by the people of the Casa Encantada in the las three years ( http://www.casaencantada.org/desaloxo/gz/cronica.htm ) a lot of photographs ( http://www.casaencantada.org/fotos/gz/ ) made by one of the iniciatives iniciated in the Charmed House: Negativo/Positivo ( http://causaencantada.org/negativopositivo/) as well as videos ( http://www.casaencantada.org/multimed/gz/video.htm ) or a flash-game to help us join signatures to avoid the demolition ( http://www.casaencantada.org/multimed/okupa.htm)

But with the upcomming of the Indmedia project ( http://galiza.indymedia.org) and the HackLab (hacking laboratorie that works about social uses of technology) there was born a new project which is now growing called Causa Encantada (Charmed Cause) wich wants to be an evolution of the matricial Casa Encantada that wants to extend the original ideas and working areaes through the net: it is at  http://causaencantada.org/ and there you'll find information about prissons, GNU, feminism, alternative art, ecologism, self-management among others.

See you, solidarity!!