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NEW CASA (Berlin-Hellersdorf) Updates!
🖤❤️It’s time for an update!✨🍉

🌈 Summer is drawing to a close and a full two months have passed since the Zionist thugs attacked the Casa.
A lot has happened – things have calmed down a bit, whilst others continue to grow and blossom. We look back on weeks filled with plenary meetings, building days, discussions, doubts, joy, change and comradeship.🌸

Whether the anti-Deutsche, following their sad ✨occupation✨, will once again get the idea to launch another attack is something only those who understand what goes on in their heads can say.

🌼If we, as a house and as an anti-racist and anti-fascist movement, are attacked once again by the anti-Ds or others, we will defend the house and our ideas :)

The German bureaucratic apparatus is, as is well known, the favourite tool and the most despicable weapon of the liberal ultra-Germans. We therefore expect trouble and repression, particularly at the level of (association) law.
🫠 You can read about the association’s board’s attempt to cooperate with the police and the CDU here: https://de.indymedia.org/node/857579
In typical German fashion, the increasingly isolated “Reclaim la casa” thugs and their circle are wallowing in the grand victim narrative and launching ‘outcalls’ against their enemies.
First they resort to violence – then they complain that violence has taken place – only to finally portray themselves as ✨in exile✨, lol 🎉
It’s hard to say whether anything else will come out of this paranoid parallel world, and if so, what.

The current (still🙄) anti-Deutsch board, which was involved in the attack – or at least knew about it – is no longer in the house (🥳). The previous atmosphere of mistrust and political paralysis has improved significantly.
🌷Overall, the house is coming more and more to life, and it’s a real joy to see and feel how projects and ideas of resistance are beginning to sprout here 🌱

🐿 Our focus as New Casa over the last few months has been primarily on building and renewing structures within the house and the neighbourhood, on networking, and on continuing to put our stance and practice of solidarity with Palestine and internationalism into action.
Unfortunately, this has entailed – and continues to entail – gruelling confrontations with annoying Zionists.

In concrete terms, this means:

🌈With the Youth Casa youth club, a safe space has been created where young people from the area can once again use the house as a place to gather. Kids and teenagers now drop by on Tuesdays and Thursdays to paint, play sport or simply hang out.

🔥Lots of lovely and exciting events have taken place (and we promise: there are many more to come!!🌼). Groups that previously avoided the building are using the space again.
It’s incredibly wonderful to see how this place can finally be used for open discussion, libertarian events, community projects and so much more 🌼

❗Do you need a space for a meet-up or a weekend away with a group? Drop us a line via this Signal contact <3

Understandably, some in the neighbourhood were initially confused and put off. 🥗 However, through the neighbourhood brunch (every Sunday at 12 noon – do pop round!) and conversations, we’ve since been able to build many relationships and strengthen mutual understanding and connections.

🍂The AfD (❗just like all political parties❗) currently poses a major threat to resistance movements and all life in Marzahn-Hellersdorf. After all, the state, along with its institutions, has always been – and always will be – the enemy of all free, vibrant and revolutionary people and movements!
We do not see the AfD as a ‘glitch’ in the system, but as a continuation of the life-threatening structures that the German state is currently busily expanding as part of its imperial rearmament and militarisation.

🌿We are taking part in the current protests against the AfD and in support of neighbourhoods based on solidarity, and are contributing ideas and proposals for autonomy, mutual aid and direct solidarity 🏴

✨Come along to Eastgate on 9 September at 4.30 pm!

🧚‍♀️ The sports sessions are going really well. At last, the sports room is being used by a wide variety of people! We’re currently looking for a replacement to lead the boxing session on Wednesdays.
🎇If you’ve got time and fancy it on a Wednesday evening, and can teach boxing, kickboxing, Muay Thai or something along those lines, please do get in touch! :)

Various repairs, such as fixing the doorbells and replacing the lighting, have improved our quality of life🔨💡

🌸For us, the first few weeks after the attack were inspiring, encouraging and full of fighting spirit, but also very draining, uncertain and tough. It is only thanks to all the support and solidarity we’ve experienced that we are where we are today. Thank you to everyone!💗

🌈Please keep popping round!
Whether it’s to get things done or just to chill out and have a chat – we invite you to join us in continuing to fill the house’s resources, structures and spaces with life, ideas and revolutionary practice!
If you have any questions or feedback, please feel free to get in touch!🌼

🔥Whether it’s Zionist thugs, landlords and investors, or the state – we stand side by side in solidarity with all unyielding places that are resisting!
Whether it’s Evangelismos or Gisi – from Habersaath to Prosfygika. Åbrinken, R94, Ülase12 and all the other places where resistance and community are growing – we will win or we will win!

Viva Palestina!
Viva Autonomia!

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