July 1st, 2013: Today we’re happy; today we feel strong. Catalunya Caixa has requested the paralyzation of the proceeding against the Expropriated Bank (a squatted former bank branch). Our joy is due in part to this, but what makes us really happy is how we got here: it’s mostly been […]
Expropriated Bank in Gracia
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On the night of June 26th, 2013 we smashed the front windows of a Catalunya Caixa bank branch in the Cantabria street of the Barcelona neighborhood of Sant Martí. On that night we did not only break some windows but, even for a few seconds, we also broke the social […]
A few days ago, we received a letter from the court summoning us to a civil trial against the Expropriated Bank in the Gracia hood of Barcelona. We did not know that there was a civil process opened against our space (Banc Expropiat de Gràcia), and so we did not […]
The exhibition/auction for supporting prisoners is an initiative with which we intend to aid all those behind bars through our paintings, drawings or other forms of expression, as much as we wish the extermination of any type of prison. We are not artists, nor do we like to commodify our […]