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disruption network lab presents Evicted BY GREED meetup: Pushing back against housing disruptors

4 Mar 2020

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Wed, 04 Mar
10:00 – 18:00

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Disruption Network Lab is an ongoing platform of events and research focused on the intersection of politics, technology and society. We organise international conferences and local meetups.

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EVICTED BY GREED meetup: Pushing back against housing disruptors
Part of the DNL Activation Programme https://www.disruptionlab.org/meet-ups 

We will hear from three Berlin-based initiatives how they work on collective responses to the ever-increasing disruption of the housing market by speculators and real estate investors, with a special focus on what they are planning for the upcoming Mietenwahnsinn-Demo Berlin / Housing Action Day 2020 on Saturday 28 March.

Programme – Starting from 19:00
• Introduction to the EVICTED BY GREED conference
• Input presentations by Berlin vs. Amazon, Kotti & Co and KunstBlock
• Open discussion
• Drinks and networking

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Berlin vs. Amazon is a a coalition of activists, local initiatives, tech workers and artists who want to mobilize against Amazon and the so-called Amazon Tower, Berlin's tallest building which is scheduled to be completeled in 2023 on the Warschauer Bridge. When Amazon comes to Freidrichshain, the neighborhood will see a demographic shift, with tech firms disrupting the neighborhood staples: small businesses, schools, community initiatives and cultural centers. The recent victories in New York City and Kreuzberg show that we are not simply at the mercy of real estate, but that we can successfully push back against tech giants through grassroots coalitions. https://www.berlinvsamazon.com/en/

Kotti & Co is a Berlin-based tenant initiative that formed at Kottbusser Tor in Kreuzberg in 2011 to fight against rising rents in their social housing buildings, which force more and more neighbours to move out. Beside being a tenant initiative, Kotti & co is a project of diversity – bringing together a wide range of different people, who would usually live a typical urban life next to each other but not connecting with each other. https://kottiundco.net/

Kunstblock and beyond is an association of art and culture producers who joined the Bündnis gegen Verdrängung und Mietenwahnsinn in 2018 to show their solidarity against segregation, gentrification and the sell-out of the city. Kunstblock and beyond explicitly resists any appropriation and instrumentalisation of artists, art institutions and cultural funding for city marketing or enhancement in the service of the profits of the real estate and tourism industry.

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The Disruption Network Lab Activation program is kindly supported by the Guerrilla Foundation.
The ‘Tactics of Empowerment’ series is funded by the Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa (Senate Department for Culture and Europa, Berlin), Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), The Reva and David Logan Foundation (grant provided by NEO Philanthropy) and the Checkpoint Charlie Foundation / Checkpoint Charlie Stiftung. Supported [in part] by a grant from the Foundation Open Society Institute in cooperation with the OSIFE of the Open Society Foundations. Part of Re-Imagine Europe, co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.

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