Lund, Sweden: Mass squatting action videos, photos

from various sources, updated 29 May 2009:

On May 16th 2009, over 1000 people gathered to participate in the occupation movement festival in Lund, which featured food, music, entertainment and of course SQUATTING!

There's a longer report available here, with more photos and video links.

During Saturday 16 May two buildings, Bredgatan 4 and Observatory in the City Park were occupied, and during the Sunday night so were two unused buildings on the St Lars.

In addition to the imaginative tactics the activists used to outwit the cops, different blocks were subject to random and ordered police violence.

Making a comeback to street politics was the re-appearance of padded and white-suited protesters (Ya Basta-style (Italy) and WOMBLES-style (London) who use their block to push through static police lines.

You can see these in action in the photo galleries...

Photos:

http://motkraft.net/nyheter/3543
http://w2.sydsvenskan.se/bildspel/HROokupantdemo/
http://www.photo.nu/PRESS/20090516-17.00-Demonstration/
http://www.photo.nu/PRESS/20090517-15.00-Ockupation/
http://pppress.se/bilder/main.php?g2_itemId=246090

Videos:

http://vimeo.com/4843436
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OU6-pvJZk8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOlppsPjKfQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GN1kG9dKsWs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ybU2B1oe3U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNXWoQbAgHE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEn_l8GwrGQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uv-tvjroG-o

There's a longer report available here, with more photos and video links.

[original article]

More background information here

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