A home doesn’t always need four brick walls, and freiräume sometimes come on wheels. One of the city’s most obvious rejections of an atomizing, alienating housing market, the wagenplätze are synonymous with a way of life that attempts to exist autonomously and self determinedly, offering a clear and visible answer to a dominant culture of property as status that shuts its front door on community, neighbourhood and solidarity.
Breathing life into unused land and unwanted structures the wagenplätze demonstrate a possibility outside the framework of consumption and waste, commodity and value, where new ways of relating and struggling together develop. As the city attempts to purge itself of zecken, of those living and fighting against capitalism, it turns on them, as it has done with Liebig 34, Syndicat, DieselA, SabotGarden and other evicted spaces. Along with property speculation, rampant gentrification and the building of a new autobahn thisputs many more at at risk. Whether in imminent danger or not, a threat to one wagenplatz is a threat to all, and a threat to our wider community. We stand together: Köpi Wagenplatz, Scheffelstraße, Mollies, Laster & Hänger, Rummelplatz, Ratibor, Mollies, Convoi , Kreuzdorf, Lohmühle, Wagen- u. Projektplatz Karpfenteich, -unterstrom+, Fips.
Join the demo on the 20th of February at 2pm, starting from Köpi by bike, before meeting the truck convoy at Scheffelstrasse at 3pm. Freiräume are a vital part of a wider anti-authoritarian, anti-capitalist fight!
Stop the city! Block the traffic! Circle the wagens!
Interkiezionale 15.02.21
