Eskalera Karakola
{{short description|Squat in Madrid, Spain}}
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Eskalera Karakola is a feminist self-managed social centre in Madrid, Spain. Women squatted 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.{{cite news |last1=Aguirre |first1=Begoña |title=Cien agentes y un helicóptero para echar a cinco 'okupas' |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1996/10/09/madrid/844860277_850215.html |access-date=23 September 2020 |work=El País |date=8 October 1996 |language=es}} 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.{{cite news |last1=Sanz |first1=Segundo |last2=Tejero |first2=Raquel |title=Huelga 8 de marzo: Un centro de 'okupas' feministas financiado por ediles de Carmena está detrás de la huelga del 8M |url=https://okdiario.com/espana/centro-okupas-feministas-financiado-ediles-carmena-esta-detras-huelga-del-8m-3789534 |access-date=23 September 2020 |work=okdiario |date=7 March 2019 |language=es}} The bakery was evicted in 2005 and subsequently demolished.{{cite news|title=Las integrantes del centro Eskalera Karakola serán desalojadas mañana|url=http://elpais.com/diario/2005/05/09/madrid/1115637867_850215.html|newspaper=El País|date=9 May 2005}}
Activities
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Eskalera Karakola works on the principles of autogestion and organizes activities focusing on domestic violence and women's precarity in post-industrial capitalism.{{cite news|title=La Eskalera Karakola: Un espacio deliberado|url=http://www.sindominio.net/karakola/antigua_casa/textos/articulomolo.htm|newspaper=El Molotov|date=March 2003}} In 2002, it created a Female Workers' Laboratory (Laboratorio de Trabajadoras), and has carried out anti-racist activities, in particular with female immigrants, since 1998. Eskalera Karakola also took part in the organization of the 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.[http://www.nextgenderation.net/ nextgenderation.net] It publishes a review, Mujeres Preokupando (a pun between "Concerned Women" and "Pre-Squatting Women").{{cite book|first1=Javier Alcalde |last1=Villacampa |first2= Ramón Adell |last2=Argilés |first3= Miguel Martínez |last3= López|title=¿ Dónde están las llaves? El movimiento okupa: Prácticas y contextos sociales|year=2004|publisher=Los Libros de la Catarata|location=Madrid|isbn=9788483191828|pages=220–226|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4cEozFIcYssC&q=Eskalera%20Karakola%20Mujeres%20Preokupando&pg=PA220}}
The research collective Precarias a la Deriva formed out of discussions at the social centre.{{cite book |last1=Shukaitis |first1=Stevphen |last2=Graeber |first2=David |last3=Biddle |first3=Erika |title=Constituent Imagination: Militant Investigations-collective Theorization |year=2007 |publisher=AK Press |isbn=978-1-904859-35-2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Fcl8T_gmU4wC&pg=PA116 |access-date=23 September 2020 |language=en}} During the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain, its activities went online.{{cite news |last1=Tseng |first1=Chenta Tsai |title=¿Cuándo fue la última vez que te aburriste? |url=https://elpais.com/espana/madrid/2020-07-29/cuando-fue-la-ultima-vez-que-te-aburriste.html |access-date=23 September 2020 |work=EL PAÍS |date=29 July 2020 |language=es}}
References
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Further reading
- {{cite journal |last1=González García |first1=Robert |last2=Araiza Díaz |first2=Alejandra |title=Feminismo y okupación en España: El caso de la Eskalera Karakola |journal=Sociológica (México) |date=April 2016 |volume=31 |issue=87 |pages=207–236 |url=http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?pid=S0187-01732016000100007&script=sci_arttext |language=es |issn=0187-0173}}
External links
{{Commons category|Eskalera Karakola}}
- {{Official website|https://eskalerakarakola.org }}
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Category:1996 establishments in Spain