The streets of Vitoria-Gasteiz have been filled with feminist demands, to denounce the illegal banalization of Thursday and show its support for the feminist project Talka. As the members of the project have explained, the aggression against the Tika is also an attack on the popular movement and the feminist movement as a whole. They denounce that “the police forces have acted for the benefit of the capitalist elite and the big business” and reject the “aggressive and aggressive attitude” of eviction.

They have recalled the "constant attacks" suffered by the project since its inception. Cutting of light, attempts to access the Talca, police presence and various identifications. They have denounced the “infantilization suffered by feminists” and have claimed the transformative force of feminism.

The members of the project have denounced the “laundering of the face” of the institutions and have pointed out that “they commercialize feminism, make it product and destroy its revolutionary force”, sending a clear message: “No, Gorka Uraran, we will not leave you or the PNV to put the feminist veneer! Your is not feminism! Feminism is a woman*: bollerone, trans*ona, migrant, worker, refugee… feminism is the body that rises in the face of any oppression.”

Finally, they have reiterated their firm determination to continue to defend "an integral project that is born and lasts" with the aim of "destroying capital and putting our desire, desire, relations, needs at the centre".

Identification after manifestation

The Ertzaintza has identified four people who have stayed in the place shortly after the demonstration ended in the Talka space. One of them has been subject to the Moorish Law.

We've just come to the occupied, feminist space of shock. Our wild dogs -- we won't give them a leading role that they don't deserve. FEMINIST SELF-DEFENSE AGAINST EVICTIONS! #talkaezuki pic.twitter.com/9ZWaQpC8zX

— Talka (@Talka Gasteiz) February 23, 2019

An unprecedented feminist project in Gasteiz

The shock was a project that began to settle in Vitoria-Gasteiz since December 15, 2018, when hundreds of women* made public the occupation of the Álava Velasco Palace, a project carried out by women** for women**. The members of the project had made it clear from the outset that they would remain in the execution of the project that they had been working for months. This project was supported by other feminist groups in the city.

It is a palace built in the 17th century and abandoned in the last decades. It was covered until December, under the ownership of unknown investors. However, in recent years he was in a process of expropriation by the City Council. Gorka Uraran's cabinet notified the occupying company (Promotions Irene) of the occupation, so that the complaint could be lodged.

“We manage it ourselves and respond to our needs and desires.” This is what Talka members want about the project. To have a “safe space” in view of the “slowness” of the institutions “which do not take account of our needs and which take action against us on an equal footing”.

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