Housing / Squatting

from LCAP, updated 3 September 2009: "Fifteen years after the end of apartheid, poverty and inequality in South Africa have increased. Durban’s shack dwellers started to build a movement in 2005 and Abahlali baseMjondolo is now the largest social movement of the poor in post-apartheid South Africa. BENEFIT Fri 4 Sept 7.30pm-2am @ the Belgrade Social Centre, 2a Belgrade Rd, London N16. TALK Sat 5 Sept 3-5.30pm @ Navarino Mansions Community Hall, Dalston Lane, London E8..." more

from rampart, 19 August 2009: "We're kicking off the weekend on Friday with a fundraiser for Climate Camp action in the city at the end of the month. And join us on Saturday for our first Sound Foundation party to raise money for a Solidarity Not Charity project working with Burmese community groups and celebrate the birthday of the oldest living member of the rampART collective (not counting the zombies). Reggae and dubstep Djs + 52 Commercial Road..." more

from 56a, updated 18 July 2009: "56A Zine Library Launch and Benefit Weekend, Saturday 25th July - Launch Party Music & Distros at The Grosvenor in Stockwell 7.30pm. Music from: Jean Genet, Husbands, Chaps and Candy Panic Attack :: Sunday 26th July at 56a - Pancake breakfast from 12 noon. Workshops, discussions, exhibition, zine library browsing, general hanging out. Specific activities confirmed; self published comics discussion, practical squatting and bike fixing workshops..." more

from Czytelnik CIA, updated 10 July 2009: "The 4th Musta Pispala will offer practical and theoretical workshops, parties, sauna, book fair and children's activities in the unique setting of Tampere, Finland.

Through the workshops in the festival you can get familiar with topics such as basics of anarchism and anarcha-feminism. There will be a couple of workshops on anarchist parenting and unschooling. Anti-psychiatry criticizes mainstream views on mental problems, and offers alternatives for mental care...

Our analysis is not limited only to human relations. It also includes our relationships with non-human beings. Our aim is to strengthen critical views and empowerment in the form of taking control of our lives. Kill the police within!..." more

from freeschool, 8 June 2009: "Special theme on housing, squatting and gentrification - A weekend of workshops, discussions and skillsharing to promote free, community organised learning... So, if there's something you always wanted to learn, a skill you are willing to share or a topic for discussion you think is important we would love to hear from you.." more

from various sources, updated 15 June 2009: "Come to Berlin for the action days to fight for free spaces. We're all staying. Against gentrification, for freedom. This year there will be the 'We all stay! Action Weeks' again. Since the decentralized DIY concept of protest was so successfull last year we will continue to rely on it this year PLUS latest info on defending the Berlin Rigaer94 squat..." more

from various sources, updated 29 May 2009: "On May 16th 2009, over 1000 people gathered to participate in the occupation movement festival in Lund, Sweden. During Saturday two buildings 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..." more

from email, 25 May 2009: "On 1 June 2009 the anarchist/alternative infoshop-library „A-raamatukogu“ (the A-library) will open its doors in Tartu Kultuuritehas (Culture Factory of Tartu, Pikk street 58/60) in Estonia. Estonia is a small (ex-Soviet) country in north-east Europe, near Finland, Russia and Latvia. The A-raamatukogu is situated near the downtown area of Tartu, the second biggest city in Estonia which is known as the „University city“ of the region. more

from various sources, updated 2 September 2009: "In Bristol and surrounds, a diverse bunch of enraged creative, dreamers and schemers, builders and gardeners, workers, students and unemployed have been drawn together by the common threads of our indignation at how a combination of corporate greed, social injustice and environmental degradation is leading us all towards climate chaos and financial collapse.

We invite you to converge on Bristol for an uprising of autonomous actions and events from 12th – 20th of September 2009... more

from email, updated 10 September 2009: "This is a call out to people involved in squats and autonomous spaces for 2 days of direct action on the 18th & 19th of September 2009 around housing and the creation of more autonomous spaces at this time of crisis... As the global economy grinds to a halt so too do the big capital development projects, luxury apartment blocks and shopping complexes that have threatened us with displacement for so long..." more

from email, updated 11 May 2009: "LONDON: This May we got three events in our small but perfectly formed Social Centre space:
- the film 'Chop Shop' (Sunday 17 May) directed by Ramin Bahrani;
- a night of dystopian sci-fi films - 'Idaho Transfer' and 'Soylent Green' - to get you scared for the future (Tuesday 19 May);
- plus a night of readings and chat from two US zine writers and zine librarians Alex Wrekk and Robb Roemershauser (Wednesday 20 May)..." more

from email, 9 May 2009: "We are trying to invite the entire population of Lund to join us in taking back the city from the politicians that let houses stand empty and degrade while people don’t even have a roof over their heads, and the few owning property keep building luxury houses at expensive prices..." more

from ramparts, 15 April 2009: "On the Thursday following the G20 protests (2 April 2009), two squatted social centres in East London were raided by riot police, apparently looking for instigators of the attacks on the Royal Bank of Scotland.

RampART Social Centre, which has existed for more than four years, and a newly opened Convergence Centre in Earl Street were both being used to house and feed protesters throughout the period of the G20 summit. In both cases, the police acted illegally but, other than a brief report in the Independent which referred to unwarranted violence, the raids remained largely unreported.  more

from email, 15 April 2009: "Rozbrat Collective needs support from any groups, movements and people who feel Rozbrat Squat is close to them. We already announce that on the day of the auction there will be a demonstration and we invite you all to come... ROZBRAT STAYS - LET'S RECLAIM THE CITY", on 9 May 2009 there will be a demonstration in defence of Rozbrat taking place. We invite all of you to take part in it..." more