In the last few months the situation in Friedrichshains northern part ("Nordkiez") has escalated steadily. Cops here have delighted in daily ritualized bullying of the areas residents. The culmination of police repression, the events that took place in the last couple of days, demonstrate clearly that Frank Henkel, Tom "Death Star" Schreiber - amongst others - have placed those remaining rebellious few in heavily gentrified Friedrichshain at the top of their agenda.
While "cleaning house", apartments
are raided without warrants, residents are frequently stopped and
searched without cause as well as banned from entering certain areas,
dangerous satellite dishes and chimneys are confiscated off the roofs
of buildings - measures intended to "nurture a climate in which
the [anti-authoritarian] left decides to leave on their own".
How serious the cops are with their recently leaked "Masterplan"
was evident just this Sunday, when they raided Rigaer94 for the
second time this week - after an apparently life-threatening
garbage-bag dropped out of a window.
The pressure is rising
elsewhere too - rebellious projects of self-organization are
threatened all over Berlin. M99 is to be evicted after nearly 30
years existence, Drugstore and Potse are dealing with gentrification,
and Friedel54 is putting a fight for their community-organized
space.
The attacks on individual projects can only be seen as
attacks on all our projects - our individual resistance is resistance
against all attacks!
In times where Nazis run rampant through
Connewitz, in which violence and prejudice against those fleeing to
Germany are ever-rising, and rebellious neighborhoods are declared
"dangerous areas", it is all the more important to not be
intimidated and to react from a position of unity.
One
occasion for a show of solidarity and strength is the demonstration
on the 6th of February.
Defend rebellious structures, create
solidary neighborhoods!
Demonstration 06.02. - Rummelplatz
(Gürtelstr. 26) 16:00 rally - 17:00 demonstration (on time)
In
solidarity, Meuterei