Okupas - Spanish squatters
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Okupas is the name given to squatters in Spain, common in many cities. Okupación in turn is squatting. Wikipedia notes:
Squatting became popular in Spain in the 1960s and 1970s, as a result of the shortage of urban accommodation during the rural exodus. It was revived in the mid-1980s during the La Movida Madrileña, under the name of the okupa movement, when thousands of illegal squats were legalized. Influenced by the British Levellers, the movement’s popularity rose again during the 1990s, once more due to a housing crisis, this time related to the 1992 Summer Olympics and the concomitant urban regeneration. Property speculation and house price inflation continue to catalyze okupa activism…
As of 2007 there were approximately 200 occupied houses in Barcelona.
Casa okupada (Viladecans, Barcelona)
Note: The K (rather than C) in Okupa is typical of radical-left/Anarchist political writings. This “punki” K probably owes more to Basque radicalism than a borrowing from English (Basque uses K extensively).
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