The latest article by ROAR contributor Carlos Delclos on the autonomous Mount Zion community in Barcelona: "While the most hopeful aspect of what took place in Mount Zion is this exercise in autonomy rooted in a situation of extreme necessity, it would be dishonest to portray the experience as utopian or emancipatory. Living amongst precariously stored scrap metal implies constant exposure to lead, and the lack of an adequate sewage system is a major problem. Vermin such as rats and bed bugs are also highly present. “This is a squat, and it is not fit for us to live in. It’s a free prison,” says Mamadou, a talented Senegalese percussionist. “There’s no electricity, no water. We didn’t come here with our families to live like this. There are other ways of living your life, but it’s an injustice that we have to do this. We just live like this because we can’t do anything else about it.” opendemocracy.net/opensecurity/carlos-delclós/mount-zion-city-within
Posted on: Fri, 02 Aug 2013 12:39:20 +0000
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