Eskalera Karakola
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Eskalera Karakola is a squat in Madrid, which is held by feminists and works on autogestion principles. It was situated in the Lavapiés barrio from 1996 to 2005, and is now in Calle Embajador. The squat organizes activities focussing on domestic violence and women's precarity in post-industrial capitalism. In 2002, it created a Female Workers' Laboratory (Laboratorio de Trabajadoras), and has carried out anti-racist activities, in particular with female immigrants, since 1998. Eskalera Karakola also took part in the organization of the GLBT Pride and the forum "Women and Architecture". It participated in alter-globalization events such as the European Social Forum and is part of the European nextGENDERation network. It publishes a review, Mujeres Preokupando ("Concerned Women").
[edit] Controversy
Some of the people involved in the squat were the target of heavy criticism as they were perceived to propose a kind of reverse sexism ideology. In some feminist rallies, women from the Eskalera Karakola expelled men who were participating in the rally chanting sexist slurs at them.[citation needed]
