Hi everyone! As you might know, Nattsvart Verkstad’s space in Högdalen is now closed. We moved out but we still haven’t found a new home for our activities. We are spatially challenged until further notice.
This does not mean that we’ve gone inactive. It means that we will have to continue our activities without our own space for a while. We still don’t know how long that will be since we are trying to choose our new space carefully so that we can address longstanding issues with the old space. When we open again we hope to be warmer. We intend to be more accessible to people with a wider spectrum of disabilities. We intend to be easier to visit. We intend to get serious about the kind of organizing that is needed to go beyond the comfort zone of the tired and shrinking autonomous left. This could take some time, but that’s ok since we can use this time to reflect on how we have failed and succeeded – how we can be a better resource for the anarchist movement. We want to strategize, consider our options, and come back more in line with what we want to achieve as anarchists in Stockholm.
The activities that we will continue without the space include organized letter writing to anarchist prisoners, workshops about anarchist basics, history, and other practical projects. We will even continue to support and involve ourselves in the transaid events. We also are working on beginning a few new campaigns that we’re not ready to go public with yet.
We write this to be transparent about our costs and intentions since it’s y’all who are largely paying the bills. Right now we’re paying about 1000 sek per month for storage and other small costs. That cost was about 10000 sek before and will probably go back to a similar amount after we find a new space. If you are currently donating money to us on a monthly basis and feel like you’re not super into paying for storage and supporting our current scaled-back projects email us to change or stop your donations. We hope that you continue to donate in order to help us build up our reserves for when we actually get our next space and for the costs that arise with our space-less activities.
Comradely