Diez años del Centro Social Rey Heredia: de la ocupación al triunfo vecinal para toda Córdoba - Córdoba, Andalucía, España - News Article Locations on Waymarking.com

"The eviction attempts, the complaint in the courts of the municipal government of that time and the supply cuts did not prevent the activity in Rey Heredia from continuing and its request for transfer to the neighbors from becoming stronger until it was achieved. It was on October 4, 2013 when the new life of the abandoned Rey Heredia school began, in Córdoba. That day, under the name of the Acampada Dignidad, about two hundred people entered the municipally owned building that had been closed for several years and had been claimed by the residents of the area as a space for the neighborhood. Before the deaf ears of the City Council, the Acampada Dignidad and the neighbors entered and took possession of it to turn it into only a few days in a social center for the neighborhood and groups throughout the city. Now, ten years later, the Centro Social Rey Heredia is a consolidated spacelidated and remember that citizen triumph lies not only in having maintained all its activity, but in having turned it into its great asset to make the City Council formally cede the use of the building to the neighbors and for them to also appear in the official role under the command of the new King Heredia that they had built together. . During all these years, the soup kitchen, the support classes a the poor children of the neighborhood, the library with mylis volumes, language and computer classes, talks, conferences, exhibitions, summer cinema and meetings of groups throughout the city were set up during this time thanks to the neighborhood work that cleaned and renovated the abandoned school . The maxim that always guided them was self-management and solidarity: “Everyone who uses King Heredia collaborates with King Heredia,” they repeated. Eviction ultimatum and complaint in court And although the neighbors' objective was always clear to stay in school, this path that they now look at in the rearview mirror of a decade, was strewn with struggles and adversities< a i=2> that they had to face. The chronology of the Rey Heredia Social Center has been dotted with obstacles, from the eviction ultimatum that the PP municipal government gave them from then to the following week from occupying the school, to the judicial complaint that was finally filed on behalf of the City Council and which resulted in ten activists accused at the time, going through the cutting of electricity and water supplies to the school, also ordered by the previous local government. Demonstration in support of King Heredia Against this position of the City Council, the social activity of King Heredia increasingly had more echo in the city and outside of it. At the same time, activists and school users maintained their protests for months due to the lack of dialogue and the judicial complaint by the municipal government. And they gained the support of thousands of citizens -among them some who lent their public image for the cause, like Julio Anguita-, who with his signatures, with the campaign 'I also occupy King Heredia' and in Massive demonstrations showed their support for the project. A fight between the City Council and neighbors In parallel, the neighbors organized themselves through the body for dialogue with the City Council – the District Council – to formally request the transfer of the building and maintain the activity that had been developing. And the pulse that the City Council maintained seemed to begin to side with the neighbors at the end of 2014. The a campaign for the municipal elections of 2015 crossed the middle and the PP government paralyzed its announced intention to reach an agreement with the neighbors. On the other hand, the rest of the political parties of that time showed their commitment to King Heredia. And once the results of the polls arrived, the new government team was made up of parties -PSOE and IU- that had given their support to the social center. Thus, at the beginning of the summer of that year, King Heredia recovered the water supply, the municipal government team approved the transfer of use of the building to the neighbors to maintain the activities of the social center and finally dropped the charges against the ten accused activists. It was the triumph of the struggle that the neighbors and groups had maintained in those first two years since the occupation of the abandoned school. Neighborhood triumph and consolidation of the project Since then, in the new Rey Heredia Social Center, the usual activity was maintained and even expanded, open to activities proposed by neighbors and groups from all over Córdoba. They even managed to bring to their side someone who had previously been stranded in their position and who they had against: the City Council itself developed cultural activities in the courtyard of the old school of the Urban Because the activity, in all this time, has not stopped in Rey Heredia. Year after year, the school welcomes a hundred children to its Summer School during the month of July. Its Open Kitchen as a soup kitchen resumes the stove in October, after serving bags of food during the hottest months of summer, months where it greens up, for For example, his summer cinema. About 70 people come there with needs to feed themselves every day, explains Emilia Murillo, neighbor and representative of the association created for the transfer of the school to the District Council and the Municipal Board. Group events and a party to celebrate a decade of life The library is also open there all day, if there is demand the support classesfor students without resources and, with the new course, the acts of groups and entities throughout the city will multiply that in these years have filled their classrooms, such as the Yayoflautas of Córdoba, the Mosque-Cathedral Heritage Platform for All, Stop Evictions, environmental organizations and LGTBIQ+ people, etc. Book presentations, conferences, screenings, meetings and cultural events are added to the calendar of this old school, which is preparing to celebrate its anniversary this October with music, theater , circus and dance, as well as a collective exhibition that remembers the path that has passed since 2013 until now, from the occupation of the abandoned school to the neighborhood triumph for all of Córdoba on October 21 there will be a big partyas the Rey Heredia Social Center. Each group that uses the center is going to organize an event for these ten years of neighborhood use and first decade of life" https://cordopolis.eldiario.es/cordoba-hoy/sociedad/diez-anos-centro-social-rey-heredia-ocupacion-triunfo-vecinal-cordoba_1_10551535.html

Type of publication: Internet Only When was the article reported?: 09/30/2023 Publication: cordopolis Article Url: [Web Link] Is Registration Required?: no How widespread was the article reported?: regional News Category: Society/People

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