Eskalera Karakola
Eskalera Karakola | |
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Address | Calle de Embajadores 52 |
Town or city | Madrid |
Country | Spain |
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Eskalera Karakola is a
a bakery on Calle de Embajadores 40 from 1996 until 2005, whereupon they were given a building at Calle de Embajadores 52.History
Eskalera Karakola (EKKA) emerged from a squat on Lavapiés 15, in the Lavapiés district, in 1996.[1] Staying in Lavapiés, several female participants decided to make a women-only occupation in a former bakery at Calle Embajadores 40. The project was eventually legalised in 2005, when it moved to its present location at Calle de Embajadores 52.[2] The bakery was evicted in 2005 and subsequently demolished.[3]
Activities
Eskalera Karakola works on the principles of
LGBT Pride and the forum "Women and Architecture". It participated in alter-globalization events such as the European Social Forum and is part of the European nextGENDERation network.[5] It publishes a review, Mujeres Preokupando (a pun between "Concerned Women" and "Pre-Squatting Women").[6]
The research collective Precarias a la Deriva formed out of discussions at the social centre.[7] During the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain, its activities went online.[8]
References
- ^ Aguirre, Begoña (8 October 1996). "Cien agentes y un helicóptero para echar a cinco 'okupas'". El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 23 September 2020.
- ^ Sanz, Segundo; Tejero, Raquel (7 March 2019). "Huelga 8 de marzo: Un centro de 'okupas' feministas financiado por ediles de Carmena está detrás de la huelga del 8M". okdiario (in Spanish). Retrieved 23 September 2020.
- ^ "Las integrantes del centro Eskalera Karakola serán desalojadas mañana". El País. 9 May 2005.
- ^ "La Eskalera Karakola: Un espacio deliberado". El Molotov. March 2003.
- ^ nextgenderation.net
- ISBN 9788483191828.
- ISBN 978-1-904859-35-2. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
- ^ Tseng, Chenta Tsai (29 July 2020). "¿Cuándo fue la última vez que te aburriste?". EL PAÍS (in Spanish). Retrieved 23 September 2020.
Further reading
- González García, Robert; Araiza Díaz, Alejandra (April 2016). "Feminismo y okupación en España: El caso de la Eskalera Karakola". Sociológica (México) (in Spanish). 31 (87): 207–236. ISSN 0187-0173.
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