On September 15th, 2014, dozens of military police crammed the narrow alleyway at Vulturilor 50 Street in Bucharest, Romania. Vulturilor 50 is an address in Bucharest’s city center, home to generations of Roma families who had been living there throughout the socialist and postsocialist eras. While this wasn’t the first time that the police showed up, it was this time that they would change the Vulturilor 50 space and community forever. The military police were in the process of evicting roughly 150 residents, displacing the tenants and all that they could carry.

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McElroy, Erin, and Veda Popovici. “Diary from Vulturilor 50: Building a Radical Housing Justice Movement in Bucharest.” Notes From Below, no. Housing Issue #6, https://notesfrombelow.org/article/_diary-vulturilor-50_.