Squat manual from Barcelona (EN)

1. Introduction
- Information about the Oficina per l´Okupació, Assemblea d´okupes and squatting in BCN.
- What is squatting.

2. The politics of squatting
- Autonomy or housing rights.
- Friends and enemies.
- Solidarity.

3. Looking for a house
- Finding out who the owner is and how to look for abandoned houses.
- Investigating Permits for the house.

4. Preparing your squatting action
- Practical things about the building.
- Tools, materials, essentials.
- What NOT to bring.
- About Locks and bolts.
- Neighborhood informational pamphlet.
- You can’t do it alone.
- How to break a rounded cylinder lock.

5. Squatting Action
- The actual squatting.
- Silent action.
- Public action.
- Note to neighbors.

6. Your rights in the building
-“Morador” legal occupant.
- Identify or not?.
-The first days.
- Matones illegal eviction.

7. Your rights and the police
- Police illegal eviction.
- If you are arrested.
- People “with papers”.
- People “without papers”.

8. Legal Process
- Administrative, civil and penal processes.
- Administrative process.
- Civil process.
- Getting a state appointed free lawyer.
- Civil case strategy.
- Penal process.
- Penal case strategy.
- Evictions.

9. Deals with the owner
- While squatting.
- Before an eviction.
- Don’t take money or make deals.

10. Appendices:
- Your rights being identified during squatting.
- Your rights being arrested during squatting.
- Advice about testifying in front of a judge.
- Legal notice against cops and matones.
- List of useful addresses.
- Note to neighbors.
- Check list. Examples of a letter to your neighbors in català and castellano

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