After several years of work in TeleK, one of the most veteran and interesting TV projects in Madrid, the video collective Deyavi came with an open propossal to think and make anew not just the contents of what a local tv could be, but fundamentally the ways through which such contents are decided, produced and distributed. The propossal was made incide the contexts of the Barrio Social Centre, a squat called El Laboratorio 3, where most of the antiglobalization, ecologist and neighbourhood movements coincide. It was indeed one of the strongest networks of the Barrio: La Red de Lavapies, that took the TV project as a kind of priority.

Lavapies is the barrio with the bigger proportions of migrant population coming mainly from Northern Africa, South America and South-East Asia. Here they have found, relatively, cheap prices and a barrio structure (narrow streets and little plazas) where meeting and getting together is much easier. Here they have found the strongest networks of social movements in Madrid that almost inmediately have become an allied force in the fight against the gentrification process that local autorities and EU funding has ignited. The whole of this gentrification has to do with a construction of the image of the barrio as both a "castizo" place, somewhere where you can find traces of what Madrid used to be traditionally together with a postmodern "multiculti" concerní which has found translation in several artística-and-culture centres which have been opened recently. The "joke" about the "multiculti castizo" approach is that it is foreseen to be developed not just without the concourse of neither of the actual inhabitants of the barrio, mostly old castizo people, young people and migrant families but finallly being addressed to the eviction of these groups, as it is declared in oficial literature to be substituted by young and with-more-money spanish families.

In this context opening a TV project where the biggest emphasis falls over the participation of all this to-be-evicted people in a media process which has finally the result of an ongoing construction of their own image and representation is something else than just an experimental exercise, which it night be also. We are planning to work out in the streets, our streets, not just recording events and interviews or whatever happens to be recorded, but also thinking of editing openly in a plaza where everybody can see how the whole proccess goes and how the distance between what's out here and what's broadcasted in shorter than ever. We do consider this as a political point. Of course we are also organizing workshops to have as much people as posible learning to deal with all the technical stuff .

So far TelePies is broadcasting a couple of hours weekly making a complex mixture of little video productions, composing a fragmentary approach to what our barrio is. In some months we might be shifting to a wider and wilder range.