🌱🎨👕 AVUI MANIFESTACIÓ L’AGORA ES QUEDA AL BARRÍ 19:00 12/05 🌱👕🎨
Abans i després en L’Agora - ESTAMPACIÓ DE SAMARRETES // porta una samarreta per para pintar / trae una camiseta para pintar // bring clothes and bags to paint 🎨🎨🎨🎨🎨👕👕👕💖💖💖
Sick art by @ccatarina.alves txt by me xo
In the overheating and overpoliced neighbourhood of Barcelona, residents turned a site of a police murder into a memorial community garden. Now, a state-backed “bad bank” is coming to evict them.
Read about the work of Col·lectiu Comí and other collectives in Barcelona resisting this violent eviction of Àgora Juan Andrés Benítez: /articles/act/agora-juan-andres-benitez-the-community-garden-fighting-barcelonas-rampant-privatisation-agenda/
“L’Àgora shows what becomes possible when communities stop waiting for the city and start building it themselves. This is the spirit of Catalunya we can all learn from. L’Àgora proves nurturing mutual aid, greening the city and building community power are the same fight, done together, in one place, by enough people who refuse to wait for permission. We know this because we have been part of it. Since the eviction notice arrived, that same collective muscle – the one we cultivate each week feeding hundreds of people from food the city throws away – is now helping us fight alongside other collectives, unions, and neighbours to resist eviction and keep the space that made it possible.”
image credits -
cover image: Pedro Mata (2014)
background image: James Souder (2026)
my lovely friends set up bcn kitchen collective, turning local food waste into hot nutritious vegan meals for the community every Monday in Raval. We’ve made around 800 meals since September - and are fundraising to cover some basic costs (meal transportation and protein)!
This helps us be reactive when there have been evictions or communities needing rapid response meals, and work towards adding a second day of regular hot meals each week. As most of our ingredients are free from food waste, a small investment to cover some basic costs can go a really long way - link to gofundme in bio! ❤️❤️
In today’s article shado’s editor @zorasbash unpacks how grassroots organisers are making Israel’s tech dependency a liability. Speaking with Bella, coordinator of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) tech campaigns Zoe reveals how tech is the foundation of Israel’s apartheid economy. In the article Zoe and Bella discuss how workers are resisting it and explore how else we can use boycotting and organising as a tool to disrupt this.
Zoe says, “Big Tech feels untouchable because it wants us to not pay attention, they control the algorithms that control how we perceive the crisis. Read independent media, boycott Microsoft games, organise in your workplace and local government and pay attention to the wins. The precedent has been set.”
Illustration by Walker Gawande who says, “I chose to depict this article using classic cctv cameras, given that they are a well-known symbol of surveillance. I superimposed onto these cameras some of the logos of the tech companies which have collaborated with the Israeli government to evoke their partnership.”
/articles/can-tech/why-the-tech-sector-is-israels-weak-spot/
last year I wrote an essay about how the ‘economic growth at all costs’ has hollowed out creative life in the uk (its London centric, tech heavy, exploitative to workers, profit driven, rife with repression) and lessons we could learn from Barcelona’s network of decommodified, cooperative cultural venues, spaces, infrastructure.
A love letter to Barcelona and a call to imagine UK cultural life and infrastructure beyond growth, published on @r_degrowth now xo s/o to @impremtacollectiva for inspiring the piece
When the train prices are too damn high and the services are getting worse while shareholders take profit off the top…. What if we just stopped paying?
Shado-lite is back and this season we’re talking tactics: what successful organising strategies from past and present actually are affecting change?
Up first: the protest march. Are we marching towards actual change or just marching in place?
Listen on Apple Podcast and Spotify now.
