Münster (Germany): Social centre opens its doors

By: dooozie - October 13th, 2015  Filed under: Communique
mu-zollamt

We have squatted a house! What happened?

We have opened the doors to the old Hauptzollamt in the Sonnenstraße 85 in Münster, Germany on the second weekend of October [Oct 9] for us and everybody! The building has been empty for several years. It costs, according to Westfälische Nachrichten (local newspaper), „several million.“ This is too expensive for us. But we would not give a single Euro for it either. We want the Zollamt to be a non-commercial space, for meetings, discussions and workshops, for art and music, a place for neighbourhood community and joint organisation. In short, this space is going to be transformed into a social centre – a space where everyone feels welcome.
[Read More]

Tags: , , , ,

Lecce: Binario68 evicted, ex post office occupied

By: fawda - September 16th, 2015  Filed under: Communique, News
Binario_68_ex_stabile_delle_poste_via_Leuca_Lecce

Binario 68, an eclectic squat born in March 2014 in a huge disused tobacco factory in the suburbs of Lecce, was evicted by cops and Digos in the early hours of Wednesday 2nd September. After a year and a half of initiatives, meetings, talks, concerts, parties, exhibitions, tattoo circuses and other activities, the occupiers were thrown out of their home by the usual bastards in uniform, but not before resisting till the end.

A spontaneous demo through the centre of the town, a confrontation with the mayor of Lecce in the corridors of the town hall, a lot of noise and rubbish bins upturned on pavements following the intervention of the cops, as many people arrived in solidarity from all over the province. The day ended with the occupation of another abandoned building, just to show how the Binario 68 squatters, however varied a group they are, don’t like the city of Lecce, its luxury shops and restaurants, prudish citizens, political leaders, radical chic leftists, historic centre transformed into a disgusting shop window for rich shoppers, cops, cameras, fascists, and so on. [Read More]

Tags: , , , ,

Amsterdam: The Elephant, new social center threatened with eviction

By: fawda - August 13th, 2015  Filed under: Communique, News
20150726_Olifant_Eerste_van_Swindenstraat_391_Amsterdam

On the 26th of July a commercial space at the Eerste van Swindenstraat 391 in Amsterdam that had been left empty by property speculators was squatted with the intention of transforming this empty shell into a community social centre: The Elephant.
This space was managed by real estate agency Van Maarschaalkerwaart, known to deliberately leave properties empty for a long time, as a means to make profit through speculation on property markets.

This is a widespread trend amongst property corporations, contributing to the gentrification process in the Dapperbuurt in which small businesses and low-income family are displaced from the neighborhood, through the raising of rents, lack of maintenance and other means. This has taken shape in the destruction of community and cultural spaces, as well as pressure on small businesses, forcing closures. This feature of the gentrification process can be noted clearly in the the closure of two social centres in the Dapperbuurt, as a result of corporations such as DeKey raising the rent to extortionate rates, in order to sell to property developers, speculators, hipster bars, and chain stores. [Read More]

Tags: , , , , ,

São Paulo: Espaço de Cultura Libertária Quilombo Fortaleza

By: dooozie - July 30th, 2015  Filed under: News
quilombo-street

In the city of Sao Paulo, in the centre there is one anarcho-punk occupation called “Quilombo Foraleza”. Since May 16, 2014.

Fotos below:

[Read More]

Tags: , , , , ,

London: Help us rebuild the People’s Regeneration Show Home!

By: dooozie - July 24th, 2015  Filed under: Communique
sweetsway

New occupation and community-led refurbishment will highlight that ‘regeneration’ doesn’t need to be another word for ‘social cleansing.’ Come down now and help make it happen! [Previous stories here]

Good morning London! As most of you started your work days today, dozens of us began to repair the damage inflicted by Annington Properties to one of their buildings – one of our homes – on the Sweets Way Estate.
[Read More]

Tags: , , , ,

London: Lewisham and Southwark College occupied, evicted

By: dooozie - July 24th, 2015  Filed under: Communique
lewishamoccup

On Sunday 19 July, in the middle of the night and after much planning, a group of around 15 members of the Southwark and Lewisham community including LESOCO (Lewisham and Southwark College) students, occupied the Camberwell campus of LESOCO to resist its closure. They locked the gates and barred the doors, claiming the space for the community and wrenching it from the claws of managers, bureaucrats and the market. The plan was to use the campus for community education and organising and to stop management from clearing the building out by the end of the month. They damaged nothing. They wanted the building kept for further education.
[Read More]

Tags: , , , ,

Amstelveen (NL): Island squatted

By: dooozie - July 23rd, 2015  Filed under: News
media_xl_3176845

Twenty squatters have been there a week on the Amsteleiland, which is on the edge of Amstelveen and Ouderkek aan de Amstel.Two years ago the people living on the island had to leave to make way for a ‘millionaire’s enclave’ which has never appeared. Developer Marco Krol bought the island in 2009 and planned to build swanky villas, but the plans went awry.
The squatters are planning a BBQ for the neighbourhood.
Source

Tags: , , ,

London: Elephant & Castle pub squatted

By: dooozie - June 19th, 2015  Filed under: News
1434629277_80.177.117.97

[From press] The Elephant & Castle pub at the corner of Newington Causeway and New Kent Road has been occupied by squatters.
[Read More]

Tags: , , ,

Amsterdam: New squat Amstelkade 43h

By: dooozie - June 18th, 2015  Filed under: Communique

Today [14/6/15], we are putting Amstelkade 43h back in use!

The building has stood empty for over a year. The owner is the famous notorious Libra BV. For more information about Libra check out www.speculanten.nl

The property was purchased for 18 million euros. This is for the whole house .

Law or no law squatting continues!

Residents Amstelkade 43h

Translated from Dutch Indymedia

Tags: , , , ,

Brighton: Radical Bank

By: dooozie - June 11th, 2015  Filed under: Communique
radical-bank-brighton

I am writing on behalf of The Radical Bank of Brighton & Hove. We are a diverse group of people who have come together partly in response to the deprivations of the austerity measures enacted by European governments. We refuse to accept their claims that austerity is necessary, indeed, we understand that it has done nothing to improve economic health. Instead, we recognise that this current economic regime has only resulted in impoverishment and misery; it is a means of weakening the public infrastructures relied on by so many, for the purposes of privatization and profit. We refuse to watch as our future is sold to the highest bidder. In response, we have recently reclaimed an abandoned building on 1 Preston Road, in Brighton, previously used as a bank.
[Read More]

Tags: , , ,

Amsterdam: New squat

By: dooozie - June 2nd, 2015  Filed under: News

Last week Sunday May 24th, a new office building was squatted on the Dynamostraat 7 in Amsterdam West. The building served as a printing facility until the company owning it went bankrupt.

KRAKEN GAAT DOOR

Source

Tags: , , ,

Stockholm (Sweden): opening of a new squat, Högdalens new Folkets hus

By: xxx - May 25th, 2015  Filed under: News
2015-05_Stockholm_Folketshus-a

We are a group who on Saturday 23rd May re-opened the old school building on Rangstaplan 22 in Högdalen Centrum. We did this because of the plans to demolish the building soon. The decision to do so was taken over the head of the local people. A former public space has without the local communitys’ consent been sold cheaply to a private developer who’s planning on building expensive private housing on the land. Protests and alternative suggestions, like using the building as an elderly home or community center, were ignored by the local politicians and decision makers. [Read More]

Tags: , ,