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About this project
Support the condemned people of Fraguas case and help the avoid going to jail.
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Task
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First stage of collection
Minimum we need to reach to be able to continue with the collection.
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£ 16,561 | |
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Second stage of collection
It would also be essential to reach this amount to avoid the prison of Lxs 6 de Fraguas, but we put it as an additional amount in case we do not achieve it, at least to have a part of it and be a little bit closer.
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£ 41,403 | |
| Total | £ 16,561 | £ 57,964 |
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General information
In 2013 the Fraguas Revive project was born in a village abandoned since 1968, expropriated (by force and illegaly) by Franco´s dictatorship and destroyed with military practices.
The project aimed to rebuild the village of Fraguas around values such as self-sufficiency, ecology, historical heritage recovery and community life.
Despite being a project with a positive impact on local demographics and economy, (as it is located in one of the most depopulated areas in Europe ), despite having the support and help of the former inhabitants and despite being strongly supported by civil society, the regional goverment, owner of the land, does not look allow it.
In 2017, 6 of us were condemned as construction speculators even though the requirements for this were not met, we had not built new constructions, there was no urbanistic development and everything can be authorized.
Furthermore, we were not allowed to appeal the sentence to the Supreme Court, which infringed our right of defense. Neither has the scientific community been listened to, which has warned on several occasions, both the administration and the judge, of the illegality of the sentence, which aims to demolish Fraguas, assuming an irrecoverable loss of heritage.
The sentence imposes to pay for the demolition of the village, valued at 110,000 euros or that 6 people go to jail for 2 years and 3 months.
This sentence is unfair and exorbitant but it is already firm.
Today, after 10 years of legal battle and after having ended all possible ways, the Fraguas project is focused on avoiding the imprisonment of 6 people and that is why we are forced to make this crowdfunding.
It is unbleivevable that we go to jail for repopulating an abandoned village while real ecological attacks such as the Algarrobico or Isla Valdecañas are still standing.
To avoid the imprisonment of Lxs 6 de Fraguas and to face this heavy penalty, we call for solidarity by launching this crowdfunding.
Main features and goals of the crowdfunding campaign
It is incredible that a project like Fraguas Revive, awarded by Ecologistas en Acción and with a positive impact in all its readings, is persecuted and condemned for repopulating and adding value to the historical heritage.
To fight against this injustice and to safeguard the freedom of the 6 people condemned, Fraguas Libertad was born to raise the money to avoid imprisonment.
Currently, through other funding campaigns and thanks to solidarity, we have managed to raise about 40,000 euros, so we need 70,000 euros to cover the amount of 110,000 euros, which is the total penalty. In relation to the minimum, we have established 20,000 euros, sincerely, to put a figure that we hope to get in the first round and move on to the next one so if in the second round we do not reach the total at least to have achieved a part.
The economic penalty is a joint and several penalty so it is paid among all the convicted persons. When the court asks us for the money if we do not have it all, we will ask them to split the payment making us pay approximately 5 thousand euros per month for two years, so even if we do not reach the total we will have time to pay some installments while we get the missing money.
We want to emphasize that if we do not pay everything and we finally go to jail they will never remove the economic penalty, so we would have to pay it then, and having already paid something there would be less left.
Why this is important
The harsh repression that the Fraguas project has suffered has led us to launch this campaign, however the motivations of the project are coexistence and care for the environment, energy and food self-sufficiency and the recovery of tangible and intangible heritage.
Who does not have relatives or friends who had to move from small villages to big cities? However, in the case of Fraguas, a group of young people tried to make the opposite way, to return to the countryside, in Castilla la Mancha, whose government spends millions of euros annually to fight against depopulation without achieving but does not allow projects like Fraguas.
It is aimed for people with social, cultural, agricultural, repopulation, subsistence concerns and sor the majority of society that supports us and knows the outrage that has taken place in Fraguas.
REMINDER: when making a contribution you can deduct up to 80% of the amount of the same, for example, if you donate 100 euros when making the tax return you would get back 80 euros or if you donate 180 euros you would only pay 50 euros because they would be returned to you.
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Fraguas Revive is 10 years old, since 2013 it has been creating networks and being a "nursery" of projects and people with aspirations to rural repopulation.
The support group Fraguas Libertad is currently promoting the campaign for its legal defense.
Social commitment
Solidary
The Fraguas project aims to repopulate a very depopulated area of Europe, with values around environmentalism, food sovereignty and community life.
It has served as a rural training center for many people who have visited the village, bio-construction, organic farming, reforestation of native trees, forest management, collection and cultivation of edible mushrooms, beekeeping .... It has also received many camps and groups of young scouts.
Nowadays it tries to avoid the imprisonment of 6 of its members.
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