Dispatches from Argentina's Struggles Against Dispossession: From Buenos aires to Mapuche territory, recent actions resisting colonialism and the housing crisis share a critical common thread: reimagining land and life in the face of political and economic violence

In the meantime, both their original demands and the repressive state response they faced continue to shape feminist debates around gendered state violence and land occupations amid the current housing and economic crisis. However, while the Guernica occupation was the immediate economic corollary of pandemic-response measures, it was also the consequence of broader economic, labor, and housing crises, as well as previous experiences of collective organization within and beyond occupations. Although they appear to respond to separate and dissimilar issues - the Lof Lafken Winkul Mapu to long-term racial and settler colonial violence and the Guernica occupation to the contemporary housing crisis - these are in fact overlapping forms of capitalist dispossession. PHOTO (COLOR): "No to the eviction, land to live.". [Extracted from the article]