Of course we are furious about the planned destruction of yet another
free-space but this is only one outbreak of a larger problem. In
Friedrichshain as in many other city districts Gentrification has been an
integral part of all day vocabulary for quite some time already. Only a
few colorful stains manage to break through the mirror-finished
citymadness. Surveilance and control of public spaces continue to
increase. But more and more annoyance is growing wider, because the
neoliberal city-restructuring does not only concern the leftist,
uncommercial subculture of this city but especially people of lower social
position, immigrants and people of other citizen-groups who are already
being pushed to the edge of society anyway. Increasing rents force them
into places where they have socially already been for a long time: far
away from those things that make life pleasant, like grown social networks
or a vivid self-made culture. What´s left is a cultural uniformity-mush in
the shape of faceless cocktailbars with overexpensive prices and unified
ready-made half-houses of cement which greatest creativity mount in their
different nuances of grey. All of this is decorated with private
security-companies and surveilance-cameras everywhere.
Our struggle is not about saving our own ass, so we can live an
undisturbed life for little money and with nice people in our own little
scene-district.
No! We demand a city for all!
We are aware that the reality in our projects often doesn´t match all of
our nice claims. It is most important to make our ideas practical here and
now. We experiment, and together we try to find the best way to a
different with-each-other outside the various forms of social hierarchy
like racism and sexism. It is a struggle against those things that we have
spiritualized, against the temptation of giving up our ideas and going the
simple, submissive way leading to a little bit better life in the Wrong.
It´s not about building a safe and sound little world, but about creating
places where resistance against the reigning conditions is organized. We
know very well that increasing rents, displacement and evictions are -
despite the burning topicality - only a part of the problem: the normal
capitalistic state. We think that it is correct to not only criticize the
certain conditions that socially lock out and repress people, but to
attack them as well.

For self-shaped city-restructuring!!!!!
Gain free-spaces by force!!!!!
Defend Liebig 14!!!!!

Demonstration in Berlin on 29. January 2011 at 3:00 pm - Subway-station: Kottbusser
Tor. And if the eviction on 2. February 2011 should succeed: 2. February
2011, 7:00 pm – at Boxhagener Platz.

Further infos: www.liebig14.blogsport.de or www.l14soli.blogsport.de