Housing / Squatting

from OL, 11 March 2009: "Benefit event for Konstantina: Screenings, discussion, food and live music on Friday March 13 2009 from 5 to 11 at 100 Flowers squat, 2A Belgrade Road, Dalston N16 8DJ. Konstantina Kuneva is a female, single mother, migrant worker and grassroots syndicalist who was attacked with sulfuric acid by employer-hired thugs in late December 2008. She has suffered major injuries and is being treated in intensive care in Athens since..." more

from email, 23 February 2009: "The big news of last week: we just received our court papers... But we keep going! Our two main events this week, the mini Eco Fair on saturday 28th at 12noon (lots of cool stuff: really really free market, seed swap, free food and a Bike Powered Generators workshop!!). Also on Sunday 1st March, our third Knitting And Sewing Circle, at 4pm. Join in for some knitting, crochet and sewing!" more

from email, updated 11 March 2009: "NATIONAL SQUAT MEET 2009 to be held in the Bristol Area, in March. Come get involved! Now is a perfect time to come together to share our collective creativity, rage, and pride in our cultural identity; to come together for ourselves and look to our future with solidarity and passion. Let’s meet and empower ourselves in our common struggle!" more

from WSM, 2 February 2009: "Q. What exactly is Seomra Spraoi? Seomra Spraoi is a self-managed, self-funded project on Belvedere Court, just off Gardiner Street in Dublin’s north inner city. It’s a project that functions both as a resource to different campaigns, groups and individuals to use for meetings and workshops, as well as being home to a radical cinema, cafe, internet access and library. This month there will be a creche opening too..." more

from email, updated 19 February 2009: "A weekend of free workshops and discussions to promote community organised skill-sharing. The London FreeSchool is planning an event for mid-February 2009 which will be completely free and open to all willing to respect the ideals of the freeschool and of each other..." more

from email, 11 January 2009: "Despite rumours to the contrary, rampART Social Centre and Creative Space is very much alive, well and ready to connect. We’ve had our problems over the past year, not least because we’ve been preparing for an eviction that hasn’t happened. Bowl Court was amazing but, ultimately, devastating. In its short life it showed us what a social centre can potentially realise but it also took energy and resources away from rampART and left us with a building in dire need of renovation and an exhausted and dissipated collective. So much for the past. Now for the future….." more

from email, 6 January 2008: "Rozbrat is Poland's oldest squat. During the years it has been the center for much activity in the Poznan region, hosting anarchist and syndicalist meetings and conferences, and housing several political projects including a library, archives, a concert space and workshops... The Rozbrat squat is situated in the Western city of Poland ­ Poznan..." more

from email, 5 January 2008: "Social centers - in their different forms and declinations - have been in the last twenty years one of the most significant common words in autonomous movements all over Europe. The fil rouge connecting several experiences from North to South, from East to West has been the constitution of self managed spaces - for culture, rights and socialization - as political counterpowers able to challenge the hegemony of the State, of the Parties, of the Market... This is why we call for a Meeting in Barcelona/Terrassa – on the 8th, 9th and 10th of January 2009..." more

from email, updated 31 December 2008: Still Alive and Kicking! New Year's Eve Party @ the Rampart Social Centre, London, E1 +++ featuring: Chaos Cabaret (Cabaret) 52 Commercial Road (Experimental) Xtrats (Drum & Bass) Critical Sound System (Dubstep) more acts to be announced... ++++ Wednesday 31st December 2008 from 9 till late Rampart Social Centre London E1 2LA (near Whitechapel, off Commercial Rd)  more

from anarkisterna, 20 December 2008: "The “Salem March” is the biggest annual neo-nazi gathering in Scandinavia. It is an alleged “commemoration” event for a Swedish youth with contacts to the country’s extreme right who died during a late-evening confrontation with migrant youths in the year 2000 in Salem, a suburb of Stockholm. In the weeks leading up to this year’s march, neo-fascists engaged in a series of attacks against antifascist activists..." more

from email, 17 December 2008: News from rampART, and related people and places... "After our meeting last week to rebuild RampART, we're now doing it... literally. We are now trying to get the building back in shape (or at least keep out the rain) and are organising a work party for Saturday, 20 December starting at 10AM, to fix the roof and clean up the building. Any help would be appreciated..." more

from email, 11 December 2008: "In the early morning of Monday, December 8, 2008, murderer Ulises Ruiz’s Oaxacan state government, through its Preventative and Municipal police, onboard various police pickup trucks and motorcycles, violently attacked those who live and work in the political and cultural space of the house located at 408 Crespo Street in the historic center of Oaxaca, “Oaxacan Autonomous Solidarity House of Self-Sustaining (Autogestive) Work” (Casa Autónoma Solidaria Oaxaqueña de Trabajo Autogestivo – CASOTA)..." more

from email, 25 November 2008: A new social centre is developing near Birmingham City centre. Please come and get involved. JUSTICE NOT CRISIS have moved on from their squatted Cllr John Lines homeless village into the Firebird pub, on the local Benmore estate... Some of us will be at the film screening this Thursday (27 November 2008) at The Spotted Dog in Digbeth at 7.30pm, showing and talking about we've been up to. more

from email, 14 November 2008: 21st – 23rd November 2008: A weekend of free workshops promoting community learning and skill-sharing in autonomous spaces across London. more