Even if the smoke has cleared a little after the attack on Rigaer 94, this does not mean that the struggles for affordable and decent housing in Berlin and elsewhere have stopped. Every year, many other tenants fear anew for their flat and thus for their centre of life. The prospects of finding a halfway affordable flat in this city tend towards zero for most people with an average salary.
The death of Peter Hollinger on 31 May 2021 shows that this fear can also have deadly consequences. After a three-year, unsuccessful court case against an eviction action due to owner-occupancy, the 67-year-old musician and long-established Kreuzberger killed himself. This is not the first death in connection with evictions. It is also worth remembering the death of Rosemarie F. who died two days after her eviction in a Berlin homeless shelter. In both cases, it was clear in the run-up to the eviction what immense pressure and psychological stress the people concerned had been subjected to and in both cases, from a medical point of view, an eviction was urgently advised against. The fatal consequence was accepted in favour of a property issue.
Last night, over 100 tires on large SUVs were deflated in solidarity with recent actions by the Climate Liberation Front. From Portland to Arlington, we see ya.
An awl through the sidewall is quick and quiet.
It was hot as fuck during the day, over 110 degrees, so we took full advantage of the night. The city would never even get this hot if not for the gases these SUVs emit into the atmosphere, and the miles of dark, heat-absorbing asphalt that have been put down for them to drive on.
In response to the Portland Police murder of Michael Ray Townsend on June 24, a parking lot containing multiple Portland Police Bureau squad cars was attacked. A hole was cut into the surrounding barbed wire fence, and a dozen vehicles were hit. All cars had their windows, windshields, lights and mirrors smashed, and abolitionists / anarchists messages were painted across their exteriors. A fire extinguisher filled with paint was used to completely cover multiple squad cars, as well as their interiors.
Everyday the pigs turn our public spaces into open air prisons. We call on all abolitionists to take the defunding and disarming of the pigs into their own hands.
In a few days the cops will try to enforce an inspection of Rigaer Straße 94 in Friedrichshain by the so-called “owner” of the house and a fire safety expert. From the planned lockdown and siege of the neighbourhood it is obvious that the house project is seriously threatened again.
That’s why we sent solidarity and militant greetings on the night of Tuesday, 15.06, to all companions who keep their heads up and oppose the repression. Shards in front of the “Qintus Ingenieurhaus” in Max-Brauer-Allee 62-64 testify to the hatred that unites us against all those who profit from the city of the rich. Greetings to Rigaer94 were also left on site.
On June 5th there will be a nationwide anti-motorway-actionday. this starting shot against the car-capitalist madness was the reason for us to set fire to a vehicle of strabag on Monday night.
No people were endangered, no other cars were damaged and above all the attack was not directed against the driver of the company car.
As a group of people who have a political perception and hate the cops, we decided on our own initiative to attack the Matzides (riot cops) of Xenia Square, using fireworks, stones, etc. as solidarity with the occupation of Rigaer94 and as a response to the deliberate patriarchal cop control of Xenia Square.
We destroyed a Still company van with fire during the eviction of Tiefe Straße 3 in East Leipzig. This was our attempt to support #leipzigbesetzen and to answer the attack of the pigs on their creation of collective housing. The van is definitely a complete loss, even if the otherwise sensationalist press has reported little about it.
Still is the supplier of many forest clearcuts, which is why it made sense as a target. Solidarity with Moni, Danni and all other environmental campaigners.
In the night from 08.06. to 09.06., we set fire to a wheel loader and a power distribution box on the construction site in Braunschweiger Straße 21. The driver’s cab of the wheel loader burned out completely, the power distribution box was damaged so significantly that it is no longer functional. After the Edeka was demolished, the vacant site there was occupied by a neighborhood initiative in 2019 and transformed into a beautiful place to gather and network.
But after only two months, the newly created neighborhood garden was destroyed by construction workers and security guards, the area was cleared and thus another uncommercial and social meeting place was razed to the ground. Instead, the construction of a fortress of unaffordable micro-apartments/luxury apartments is now planned there, which will significantly advance gentrification in the neighborhood.
While during these days people from Rigaer 94 in Berlin are fighting for their self-determined spaces and comrades defend themselves against Red Zones, we are focusing on the surveillance apparatus as a mark of our solidarity.
In the early morning hours of June 21, we attacked the company Eurocommand in Hamburg Halstenbek with stones.
Eurocommand develops surveillance software, among other things. One of their programs was already used in 2017 at the G20 to coordinate the cops’ operations.