Rozbrat is a long-running

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in Jeżyce in

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Occupation

Rozbrat is based in a former paint factory

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in autumn 1994. The name means 'to make peace and get detached from an enemy.'

Activities

Rozbrat hosts many events and discussions. Different groups use the space such as a bicycle workshop, silk-screen printers, anarchist library and

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, a gallery, the Breaking (Ear)drums samba band and

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. The local branch of the ''

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'' has been based at Rozbrat since 1997. The centre's longevity means that it is well supported in Poznań, although its future remains precarious.

Antifascist

Rozbrat joined with groups including Stonewall and Poznań Free from Hate to protest when Robert Winnicki, member of the Polish Parliament and then chairman of the far-right

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organization wanted to speak in Poznan in 2017. Rozbrat has experienced two serious neo-Nazi attacks in 1996 and 2013. The perpetrators of the first attack received jail sentences after seriously wounding a sleeping person. Rozbrat rowerownia

Related Initiatives

* Workers' Initiative (''Inicjatywa Pracownicza'') * WSL Wielkopolska Tenants' Association - member of European Action Coalition to the right to housing and to the city * Anarchist bookstore Zemsta opened as an offshoot of Rozbrat in central Poznań.

References

{{Infoshops 1994 establishments in Poland Anarchism in Poland Infoshops Anarchist squats Culture of Greater Poland Voivodeship Poznań