a collective of housing advocates in Sao Paulo have spent the past decade or so, reclaiming an abonded clothing factoryphotos here making a collective, finding medicine, food, shelter, all the basics, in the midst of a place left feral by the state.

they have until today to leave, the owner of the clothing company, who owes the government 5m dollars, and who hasnt even looked at the building in 20 years, is taking it back. (the government in brasil is basically socialist)

i keep thinking about this, and thinking about how it relates to how the danish government has become farther and farther right, and has found the anarchist collective who grew up around, and provided an alternative, in the compund of cristina in denmark, (link from a promient candian journalist who wrote a globe and mail feature about it) and this as well offical site

and then i was wondering about the cyberfutrists favourite example--kwoolon, and i realised that i assumed it was broken down underneath the mainland chinese government, but i didnt know anything about it since 1997, except in the fiction of gibson (irodou, etc) and so i read about it a bit, and it seems to have gentrified and become another bohemian theme park (ie east village in new york; yorkville in toronto; gastown in vancouver,et. al)

and i realised, is that a failure of immiganation, does the state always win, does capitalism bulldoze, what are the implicaitons of this