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SUPPORTING THE POPULAR FIGHT, SAVE KUKUTZA!

Kukutza III Gaztetxea (youngs home in basque),

the only cultural and social chance in Bilbaos

Rekalde district (Basque Country), is in danger of 

eviction. It is an old factory which was occupied by

the young people from the district. The factorysowner was a drugs trafficker, and when he was

arrested and imprisoned, the building was sold to

Cabisa, S.A., which has abandoned the factory

during more than ten years until it was occupied by

the neighbours.

From a dark abandoned factory, full of syringes and rats, Rekaldes neighbours became the old

building in a dreams factory. During 13 years, after be working very hard, it is the only cultural

and social chance in the area to supply the peoples

needs, because Bilbaos council havent been able

to do that (because they dont want to do, of 

course). In that social centre (as we can see in thelipdub they have done to support the project in

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2VieT5ksyo)

we can find a tavern, a public library with a lot of 

books about a lot of things, a vegetarian dining

room, a barter shop (where you can get what you want only giving a thing you dont use), the

only circ school in all Bizkaia (), a theatre room (Ex#Presa), a place to learn martial arts, one of 

the best climbing wall around Europe, a place to learn a lot of dances from around the world

(http://dantzaguneakukutzan.blogspot.com/) and a home in the top of the building where 10

young boys and girls are living. Apart from that, a lot of cultural associations can use the

building freely to do the activities which they want, and there are a lot of courses about self-

financing, recycling, dancing... Its a self-financed place, where everybody can take part and

have a good time doing activities from the neighbourhood to the neighbourhood. Its the only

place where the alternative culture is done in Rekalde, doing concerts of little musical groups

which cant play them songs anywhere freely.

Nowadays, Cabisa (a mafias enterprise) wants to evict the building and

destroy that. Against that, Kukutza has received a lot of support around

the world by associations, neighbours collectives, intellectuals, artists,

politics, anonymous people... The last 16th

July we could see that

support in the international demonstration which was done in Bilbao

under the slogan Ez dira pasako! (They wont pass!) from the city hall

to Rekalde. There were more than 8000 people, and in a festive

demonstration they asked to the council for not to evict the building.

Even so, despite the achieved support, the council doesnt want to take

a solution in order not to destroy that dreams factory. Because of that,

there is an international agitation to get more support, and

they have get more than 6000 signatures in defence of that

auto financed cultural centre. If you want to sign pro

Kukutza, you can get the signatures form in the following

link:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lxIdVFSmEl_w9bv7

adqq42tEIhabiJ9wHTzNt01gtsk/edit?hl=es&pli=1.

In the same way, the neighborhood and young people from

around the world are doing the resistance brigades

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defending Kukutza, and you are invited to take part in them. You can

see in a map the situation of Kukutza III Gaztetxea in the following link:

http://maps.google.es/maps/place?q=estrada+caleros+2+bilbao&hl=e

s&ftid=0xd4e51d2233b472d:0x6173e2a7f86fb1e8.

Without Kukutza, Rekalde, Bilbao and the Basque Country wouldnt be

the same thing. All together we need to defend the popular places like

Kukutza, in order to build a better world and a better society.

THEY WONT PASS!

KUKUTZA ALIVE!

DEFENDING THE POPULAR PLACES AND INICIATIVES!