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Three Colts Lane Eviction
At 10.30 this morning (16 march 2010) high court bailiffs arrived at the newly opened Rampart building, warrant in hand, and only days after they lost the court case. The residents inside repeatedly asked to be shown the warrant but to no avail. Legal observers outside were threatened with violence, abuse and crowbars, and were told that it was non of their business. The angle grinder came out and the residents were given 10 seconds to open up, which of course they didn't, so the cutting started and the door was soon forced open. The people inside grabbed what they could and where manhandled out of the building. It seems the rampart library is now lost. more >>
Black Cat Kitty Antics: And Stay Out?
The Black Cat occupied radical community social centre of Bath is currently located at the old 'Newark Works' building, Unit 3A, the former Riverside Business Park, Lower Bristol Road, Bath, BA2 3DW, a 5 minute walk from Bath Spa train station. However, their stay at that venue is looking currently threatened, which is a shame, because the building is particularly suited to its current use for community, art, campaigning, residential and performance events.Whilst B&NES Council have decided not to follow up on the Black Cat collective's attempted negotiations with Property Services personnel Malcolm Grainger and Joanne Long, they handed court summons to the BC on Wednesday, who are in court to defend against eviction proceedings on Wednesday the 17th at Bath County Courts at 10am. Highlights from their argument went along the lines that, though the BC people seemed “personable and enthusiastic” their “business proposal” seemed “naive”, and they should be moved out in case they trip over, hurt themselves and sue B&NES. Whilst the Black Cat Collective are surprised to hear they made a business proposal to the council, they are saddened that the council have chosen to go against public opinion and against financial common sense to spend taxpayers' money on court and bailiffs, even though there have been no complaints regarding the community social centre's behaviour, and indeed, the council has no plans for the 2-year vacant building. B&NES instead made the decision to not legitimise the Black Cat's presence in the city, shockingly.And the trouble doesn't just stop there. Bath police attempted at 15:15 on Friday the 12th of March to force entry to the building, kicking at the door and dislodging three bricks of the Grade 2 listed stonework, and claiming that the Black Cat people had broke in that morning – even though Bath police were informed about the occupation back on the 15th of February by 'Rely On' security. Beat manager Adrian “you won't have a community social space round here if I have anything to do with it” Secker, previously indicted by his own words of overstepping his own supposedly non-political remit, turned up and expressed lament that the Black Cat were still on his patch. Perhaps he should change his patch? Nevertheless, the police threatened to return and arrest the one resident, if they could find an excuse.Police also turned up the next morning at the back door the around 10.40am, complaining about another supposed neighbouring break-in. If anyone is unhappy with this turn of events, and can think of anyway to help persuade Bath & North East Somerset Council to change its mind, then they would be delighted to hear from you, via bathsocialcentre [at] googlemail.com, or over the phone on 07956 777609. It's always nice to have company at the Centre anyway, so why not drop round and say “hi”? more >>
Cape Town homeless relocated during World Cup
http://www.playthegame.org/news/detailed/cape-town-homeless-relocated-during-world-cup-4688.html Cape Town homeless relocated during World Cup The City of Cape Town’s latest housing initiative is to relocate street children and homeless people 30 km away from the city centre. Critics call the plan a ‘clean-up operation’ for the World Cup, while the municipal government defends it as a humane programme that happens to coincide with the tournament. Their eyes are deep brown, wide and imploring. Their clothes are ragged and dirty. Their bodies are thin and bony and their feet are bare. On Long Street, the busiest strip in Cape Town, while locals catch a bite to eat during their lunch break or tourists cruise the clubs on a night out, they follow like strays, begging for “50 cents” or “money for food ma’am”. read more more >>
Media: Cape Town homeless relocated during World Cup
he City of Cape Town’s latest housing initiative is to relocate street children and homeless people 30 km away from the city centre. Critics call the plan a ‘clean-up operation’ for the World Cup, while the municipal government defends it as a humane programme that happens to coincide with the tournament. 11 March 2010 The relocation camp [...] more >>
Squatter City: Squatters and the World Cup
http://squattercity.blogspot.com/2010/03/squatters-and-world-cup.html Squatters and the World Cup South African squatters are suggesting that they will protest during the soccer World Cup to dramatize the lack of affordable housing and horribly deprived and neglected condition of their communities. Understandable. After all, the South African government and various municipalities are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on the Football World Cup, including, the Telegraph notes, $170 million just for security. read more more >>
Chicago: Support the lowercase collective squat! Fight evictions!
A few weeks ago we posted a call-out asking for support in lieu of our pending eviction. After receiving many questions concerning logistics and the space itself, we have decided to issue the lowercase call-out part II to clear up any confusion. As many of you now know, the state is planning to evict the lowercase [...] more >>
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In monumental buildings in Vancouver, people gathered to bear witness to the strength of the human body and the spectacle of the recent Olympic games. On the streets, thousands gathered to mourn and protest to its current and future cost: the mountains and trees removed to build lodges and ski trails on un-ceded indigenous territory; the eviction of low-income people from homes designated for Olympics inspired renovation and demolition; the homelessness beyond “Project Civil City,” an initiative that criminalized aggressive panhandling and sleeping outdoors. ---- Beneath the surveillance cameras recently installed on public streets, two Seattle residents, Michelle Woo and Stephen Clark, raised their voices in protest. ---- When did you decide to go and why? ---- Michelle: We decided a month or two before the Olympics, but I had been thinking about it for a long ... more >>
Squatters and the World Cup
South African squatters are suggesting that they will protest during the soccer World Cup to dramatize the lack of affordable housing and horribly deprived and neglected condition of their communities.Understandable. After all, the South African government and various municipalities are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on the Football World Cup, including, the Telegraph notes, $170 million just for security. But what a difference a different newspaper makes. Here's the lede from the coverage in The Star: "Poor and homeless South Africans are threatening to turn the World Cup into a bloodbath by unleashing a wave of riots during the tournament."A bloodbath? Riots?The Star seems to believe that people have no right to point out the horrible inequity of spending millions for the sporting event while spending almost nothing for people's homes and communities. more >>
Calais - effective disruption of police
With a few more of us on the ground in Calais we were more effective at protecting the large Africa House squat last night more >>
IPS: Community fears World Cup will cause homelessness
http://www.afrika.no/Detailed/19456.html South Africa: Community fears World Cup will cause homelessness Inter Press Service (IPS) / Monday, 08 March 2010 Cape Town (South Africa) - While South African parliamentarians attended a swanky pre-International Women’s Day celebration at Cape Town’s International Convention Centre, a group of destitute women in decaying Kewtown, just seven miles away, worried about looming homelessness. The women were notified by the municipality that their homes will be bulldozed to make way for an extended parking lot for Cape Town's Athlone Training Stadium, while others were asked to vacate their flats for renovations. But residents fear their flats, situated in a prime location for the Soccer World Cup in June, will be rented out to soccer fans. read more more >>
Chicago: Support the lowercase collective squat! Fight evictions!
A few weeks ago we posted a call-out asking for support in lieu of our pending eviction. After receiving many questions concerning logistics and th... more >>
NETCU visited a former squat to look for squatters who have left the squat.
A NETCU A4 and F2 combination unit visited a former squat, Green Banks in Tufnell Park. The squat had been used a Social Centre. Social Centres are where squatters allow terrorists, like Friends of the Earth, footpath protestors, fly ash tipping protestors, people who use Madonna's bridleway, Climate Camp etc use the space. NETCU can confirm that since the Social Centre became a Public House the squatters have gone. more >>
Support the lowercase collective squat, fight evictions!
Hey folks, A few weeks ago we posted a call-out asking for support in lieu of our pending eviction. After receiving many questions concerning logistics and the space itself, we have decided to issue the lowercase call-out part II to clear up any confusion. As many of you now know, the state is planning to evict the lowercase collective squat in approximately three weeks. The foreclosure and eviction of our home is one of many in this neighborhood and many other neighborhoods. Our resistance is a response to not only the attack on our home, but also to the attack on all people facing eviction as well as the system from which evictions are born. During the weeks that precede our eviction, we are asking for the help of our friends and the greater radical community. Mutual aid, folks! These are the things we need right now: read more more >>
Media: Community fears World Cup will cause homelessness
Inter Press Service (IPS) / Monday, 08 March 2010 Cape Town (South Africa) – While South African parliamentarians attended a swanky pre-International Women’s Day celebration at Cape Town’s International Convention Centre, a group of destitute women in decaying Kewtown, just seven miles away, worried about looming homelessness. The women were notified by the municipality that their homes [...] more >>
First conviction for a Mainshill Wood eviction
Hadda be the conscious opposition to truth. Hadda be contrived and calculated untruth. Hadda be the first trial relating to an eviction at Mainshill Wood. On Wednesday 3rd March 2010 the first trial relating to an eviction at Mainshill was heard at Lanark Sheriff’s court. The eviction was carried out on Monday 26th October by Strathclyde [...] more >>
“City is not a company – Rozbrat stays!”
On Monday, 8th March, about 50 people from Rozbrat squat Collective made a demonstration in front of the gate of Poznan International Fair Center, where a congress of local councils from all over Poland was taking place. Shouting slogans “City is not a company. Rozbrat stays!”, the anarchists blockaded the gate. Many cars with the [...] more >>
Antiracist-Antifascist rally in Amerikis Square (Athens): February 24 at 6 pm
Antiracist-Antifascist rally in Amerikis Square (Athens): February 24 at 6 pm SOLIDARITY TO THE IMMIGRANTS! There has been an effort by a fascist “citizens group” formed by extreme right wing racists and nazis, with the police in the leading role, to establish a type of Apartheid in the square of Agios Panteleimonas. Now, a new racist experiment is attempted in Plateia Amerikis (Amerikis Square). In this neighbourhood, where locals and immigrants have been living together for years, coexisting in their daily life, in the streets, in schools, in squares and public spaces, racists and the state are trying to artificially create a field of racist brutality and police occupation. In the reality of the financial, social and political crisis, the state and the bosses are launching and attack against the whole of society, intensifying exploitation and oppression. Immigrants and refugees, as the poorest and most excluded part of society, are the ones on whom this attack is focused in the most cruel way: Many are murdered in the borders, imprisoned in concentration camps, tortured in police stations. Living in the country, they are facing the most savage exploitation by the bosses. And they are hostages of the anti-immigration policies of the greek state which divides them into "legal" and "illegal". A perfect example is the new bill on citizenship that is defining which children have rights and which don’t! This way it is justifying the repression and manhunt of refugees and immigrants without papers while it promotes the incorporation of a small number of immigrants under the condition that they submit. In this context, the state has every interest in spreading racism within the society. Through a racist campaign by the media, the state is trying to force “national unity to save the greek economy” and it is targeting immigrants as a “threat to security and stability” in order to cultivate fear, class divisions and social cannibalism, so that in conditions of poverty the oppressed will be turned against each other, against the most oppressed among us, and not against the real enemy: the state and the bosses who are looting our lives. This way the state intensifies police repression to force its anti-social policies, especially after the social revolt of December ’08 where locals, refugees and immigrants met in the barricades, giving only an image of the future the bosses will have to face. The state itself is breeding racist groups through its policies and it is supporting them through its official repression forces. This is what happened in Agios Panteleimonas neighbourhood, where the police covered the locking of the playground, arsons against places of prayer for Muslim immigrants, attacks in which immigrants were beaten and stabbed by racists. These racist groups are presented as “local citizens committees” in order for the state to give the image that police brutality against immigrants is supposedly a “popular demand of society”. And it is also using these groups to attack against people and spaces of social struggle that fight in solidarity and against fascism. In mid December ’09, a fringe of “citizens”, mainly members of LAOS ultra-right party, showed up in Plateia Amerikis asking that the place will be “cleansed and evacuated”. Their gathering ended ingloriously, and Th. Plevris, a fascist member of LAOS in the parliament, left immediately, when dozens of people went to the square and declared that racists and misanthropists are not welcome in the neighbourhood. This effort of a hate committed to be established was also presented in “Eleftherotypia” newspaper, supposedly progressive. In an article published on 31 December ’09, under a heading saying that Plateia Amerikis is “a bomb about to explode”, a fake image of the neighbourhood is presented and the real motives of the racists are obscured by a discourse about cleanness and degradation problems of the area. Ultra-right conservatives and neo-nazis, with the blessings of the police, think that they can turn this multicultural neighbourhood of Athens, where locals and immigrants have a tradition of living together, into a field of intolerance and racist hatred. They think that they will be allowed to assault refugees and spaces of self- organization and social struggle (social centres, housing squats, parks). Never! Like in every neighbourhood, locals and immigrants, we are people who live together everyday, in our workplaces, in schools, in the squares. We share common problems (unemployment, work exploitation, devastating way of life in an urban jail, without sufficient green and free spaces, control and repression). And we will fight together for a world of equality, having solidarity as our weapon and having as only enemy the enemies of freedom for all people. - No racist and no fascist will define which people are allowed to live together in the neighbourhoods, to hang out in the squares and to walk in the streets of the city. - No consent to the racist policies of the state against immigrants. - No tolerance to the fascist – racist gangs. EVERYONE TO THE RALLY IN AMERIKIS SQUARE Wednesday, 24 February at 6 pm Anarchists, Anti-authoritarians, Antiracists, Antifascists from Athens neighborhoods more >>
On the case of Fabrica Yfanet squat
On our blog we published an announcement of the Fabrica Yfanet squat, that fascists attacked their building and also we published photos and iformation about a demonstration that hapenned for that incident.But before some days, there was a claim of rensopnsibility for that attack by somebody with the name ''Autonomus Antiothoritarians''.The posts on that case at our blog are erased.The claim of responsibility on greek language: https://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=el&article_id=1135193 more >>
NIGERIA: Oil Spill Displaces 10 Ijaw Communities
CHEVRON'S Abiteye flow station oil spill of over 1,500 barrels of crude has rendered over 10 Ijaw communities and 500 hundred persons homeless in Gbaramatu kingdom in Warri South West local government area of Delta State. more >>
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Reclaim the Future 5: A vast day/night party event in a liberated, occupied space in London, 5 September 2009
from email, updated 6 September 2009: "Reclaim the Future 5 is a vast all-day all-night information and party event in a liberated, self-managed occupied venue somewhere in London on Saturday 5 September 2009.
* At least two rooms of live bands 9pm-4am
* DJs 4am-7am
* Cabaret * Workshops and stalls all afternoon - info on the arms trade, the G20, prisoner & detainee support, squatting, samba, permaculture, climate change, bike repair, and more... more
Poland: Demonstration in support of the Rozbrat squat, Poznan, 8 March 2010
from email, 9 March 2010: "On Monday, 8th March, about 50 people from Rozbrat squat Collective made a demonstration in front of the gate of Poznan International Fair Center, where a congress of local councils from all over Poland was taking place. Shouting slogans “City is not a company. Rozbrat stays!”, the anarchists blockaded the gate. Many cars with the officials were forced to turn back..." more
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