Magpie Collective continue to resist eviction

dublin | anti-capitalism | news report

Wednesday March 24, 2004 13:48

by k magpie - magpie collective (personal capacity)

Here are a few pictures from inside the Leeson Street squat after it had been renovated.

Why have the Magpie Collective decided to fight against the evcition initiated by Dublin City Council... because when you put so much time, effort and love into a building it becomes a home. It becomes more than the sum of its parts - it takes on a life of its own and develops into a living, breathing space, instead of a dead building. Squatting this house is an affirmation of life over death.

Squatting is a direct action that calls into question the anti social practice of property speculation. Developers (and in this case, the city council) allow buildings to sit empty while a housing crisis exists. They fall into disrepair and crumble, which eventually leads to someone making a huge profit further down the line.

Autonomous Spaces need to exist because there is a need for difference. Everywhere, the state's tentacles wriggle their way into every facet of our lives - cataloguing us, monitoring us, taxing us, making sure we comply with their law and their ideology. If you live on this island of Ireland then you automatically have to comply with the culture of "The State", even if you do not agree with it.

Either automonotony - or autonomy. Autonomy means starting to take control of your own life.

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