London meeting 7 April: Days of Action For Squats and Autonomous Spaces

from email, 6 April 2008:

Towards the end of last year an international call out was made for decentralised days of action for squats and autonomous spaces. Following the call out there was a preparatory meeting at Les Tanneries in Dijon and later still a National Squatters Meeting in Leeds to discuss UK actions and events in response to the call out...

Autonomous spaces in London are organising events for the Days of Action for Squats and Autonomous Spaces (http://april2008.squat.net) which is taking place next weekend - Friday 11th to Sunday 13th. This monday [7 April 2008] there will be a meeting held at the new social centre in Shoreditch from 7.30pm to finalise the programme of events (see also http://www.wombles.org.uk/article2008031695.php).

If you are involved in an event planned for the days of action or would like to help out in some way, please attend this meeting!

Some ways you can help...

1. Send us digital photos of empty buildings for the squatters estate agency. Email them to the.rampart@gmail.com along with the address, postcode and a brief description of the building.

2. Got colour printing at work? We'll need the final estate agent things printed out on A4. There will probably be a couple of dozen. Can you do it mid week and get them to us by friday?

3. Contribute your art work. The Space Is The Place is themed around issues of the current housing crisis, the appropriation of public space by big business through privatisation and speculation, the sell-off of council housing, the Olympics in 2012, social centres, squats & free spaces, the mismanagement of land and its ownership by the wealthy elite.

4. Share your skills. There will be a programme of practical workshops over the weekend and we need people to facilitate them. Can you show people how to pick locks, do simple plumbing, install a toilet, fix a roof, reglaze a window, make a bike trailer, rewire a squat, do a permaculture makeover of your yard, make a solar water heater from old radiators etc. etc.? If so, please volunteer ASAP.

5. There will be a cafe and film night, probably Friday evening at rampART so it would be good to have a crew of people up for making it happen, skipping, food prep and cooking etc.

6. The Advisory Service for Squatter benefit gig taking place at the Hackney Social Centre will need a crew of people to help things run smoothly. Please volunteer.

7. We'd also really appreciate some help over the next five days to make sure that the new building is ready. We've done loads (see update below) but there is still plenty to finish.

Update on rampart 2.2

In the last two weeks all the missing floor boards have been replaced, two flights of stairs rebuilt (almost), water piped into the toilets and kitchen, two toilets installed and cisterns plumbed in, hole in roof patched, some of the many smashed windows patched up or replaced, etc. We've also rigged up electricity via a large bank of batteries and an invertor.

We've also been chatting to neighbours and learning more about the threaten redevelopment of the area and the local campaign against it.

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