Title: Driven by poverty, squatters occupied a derelict São Paulo hotel. Now they face eviction | Brazil | The Guardian
Headings: Driven by poverty, squatters occupied a derelict São Paulo hotel. Now they face eviction
Driven by poverty, squatters occupied a derelict São Paulo hotel. Now they face eviction
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Content: They go in hard. Rubber bullets. Teargas. Percussion grenades. Pepper spray. This is what about 1,000 people who have been squatting in an abandoned hotel in the city centre for a decade are facing on 22 October, barring a last-minute reprieve. But they are not afraid, they say, nor do they intend to budge. “We have already been teargassed, and we have been hit by batons,” said Ivaneti Araújo, 43, one of the organisers of the group. “ It has happened to us at other occupations.” The city government was trying to negotiate buying the building from its owners when a judge issued the eviction order.