Since a big squat here got demolished and broken up, any smaller groups made by others from that one, got immediately put under municipality's pressure, closed and razed to the ground, it got me thinking
I have no experience with squats in more developed countries like Slovenia, only Serbia and Bulgaria where literally no one cares what you do, even cops, as long as you are not an illegal immigrant or a criminal they leave, since they have so much bigger problems to deal with...
in Slovenia these problems are not common, so the focus turns onto potential problems, which are squats and any underground (unregulated) movement, instantly
there are a few squats here, but they are all legalized art/event venues, its for tourists, social media kids and rich people, no punks, anarchists, queers, bums, road dogs, travellers, nomads... nothing, just a more art/open centered community that hosts events and invites artists
its like a "see we still have squats" just everything has to be official, online, has a social media page and its allowed, if you deviate from what daddy municipality lets you do, the bulldozers are there in a week. Its an extremely sad state of affairs here.
The municipality keeps demolishing any actual squat that forms, these "official'/regulated art installations are the only thing allowed, so the tourists feel safer and they can get more money in this perfect tourist theme park wonderland, the city is getting so gentrified its wild
+ since the capital is so small, even one squat actually has a somewhat noticeable impact on the culture of the city (no joke)
so yeah, the municipality wants to destroy squat culture here (they kind of succeeded), anything that they dont have their grubby greedy mits in gets their fascist boners hard and they start terrorizing everyone and demolishing everything
so, my question is, as I said I have no experience with proper squats in europe, or in the US, so Im wondering how is it there
the capital city Ljubljana is so small that it is a unique situation, no real way to put the squat "out of the way"
anyone elses view, of their own city where they grew up in, or any area/culture they know about is appreciated
I have no experience with squats in more developed countries like Slovenia, only Serbia and Bulgaria where literally no one cares what you do, even cops, as long as you are not an illegal immigrant or a criminal they leave, since they have so much bigger problems to deal with...
in Slovenia these problems are not common, so the focus turns onto potential problems, which are squats and any underground (unregulated) movement, instantly
there are a few squats here, but they are all legalized art/event venues, its for tourists, social media kids and rich people, no punks, anarchists, queers, bums, road dogs, travellers, nomads... nothing, just a more art/open centered community that hosts events and invites artists
its like a "see we still have squats" just everything has to be official, online, has a social media page and its allowed, if you deviate from what daddy municipality lets you do, the bulldozers are there in a week. Its an extremely sad state of affairs here.
The municipality keeps demolishing any actual squat that forms, these "official'/regulated art installations are the only thing allowed, so the tourists feel safer and they can get more money in this perfect tourist theme park wonderland, the city is getting so gentrified its wild
+ since the capital is so small, even one squat actually has a somewhat noticeable impact on the culture of the city (no joke)
so yeah, the municipality wants to destroy squat culture here (they kind of succeeded), anything that they dont have their grubby greedy mits in gets their fascist boners hard and they start terrorizing everyone and demolishing everything
so, my question is, as I said I have no experience with proper squats in europe, or in the US, so Im wondering how is it there
the capital city Ljubljana is so small that it is a unique situation, no real way to put the squat "out of the way"
anyone elses view, of their own city where they grew up in, or any area/culture they know about is appreciated