Squatted Village Community

In the Basque country a community has squatted five abandoned medieval villages in ruins. In 1995 they started the projects, trying to produce their own food and break the links to the capitalist economy more and more. Inside the community they try to avoid reproducing patriarcal structures and to live in accordance with nature.

This spring two of the villages got orders of eviction. The government of Nafarroa intents to evict and destroy the villages, including the rebuilt houses, by machines in order to avoid new occupations. This attempt is expected in June or July, most likely in the first half of July. They are preparing for non-violent resistance. Activists are invited to go to the Pyrenees and join them (it helps to speak spanish or basque).

Contact address in town: Iruneko Gaztetxea, Calle San Augustin, 17 E-31001 Pamplona, Nafarroa E.H. Postal address: Artanga, Rala, E-31430 Aoiz, Nafarroa E.H., artanga@gmx.net.