Fighting for spaces, Fighting for our lives: Squatting Movements today

While waves of repression against squatters seems to spread across many places, attacking and shutting down it´s remaining squatting strongholds and it´s historical spaces of rebellion, some squatted social centres manage to withstand meanwhile and new occupied zones arise – both are successfully defended through public mobilization and widespread solidarity, alongside with militant action. At the same time squatting has seen a rebirth as a tool of radical praxis in movements fighting against the rising number of evictions and foreclosures during the financial crisis or facing the policies of racism and open space for refugees, migrants and people of colour. The collected essays, first-hand accounts and photographs in this book do not offer an over-arching narrative of where the squatters movement is heading. Instead the book provides glimpses into a diverse and multi-faceted movement, with accounts from local struggles, experiences of repression and stories of the collective forms of life which grow out of squatted spaces in various cities and countries throughout the world, including accounts from Rio de Janeiro, Istanbul, Seattle and Australia.