Profits for few, or housing for all?
Saturday 6 December 2008: a new house occupation in Rome. About 200 people occupied a house at Via Vigne Nuove 36.
The action was done by Blocchi Precari Metropolitani (BPM). In English it would be “Metropolitan precarious blocks”(???).
There are thousands of unlet habitations in Rome - 120.000 according to one estimation, 270.000 according to Eurispes.
Now one of these was liberated, thanks to direct and self-organized action of families, migrants, precarians.
BPM wanted to put the struggle for housing and against precarity in the center of attention and to give a strong and clear signal ahead of the generalized strike of 12 December.
The squatters also launched a message for a campaign to liberate Horus Occupato, a Roman social center which was evicted in October.