Hans Pruijt visits the squatted bicycle workshop – 2mins – 2010 (VARA). The workshop still exists in 2016 but in another location. The clip is cut out of a longer piece on national TV about the criminalisation of squatting. Film. Subs.
We began what’s now Alara by selling fruit and veg that would otherwise have been thrown out. We bought a sack of flour from a wholefoods wholesaler near the squat and started baking bread. Eventually we squatted in a retail premises and turned it into a wholefoods shop.
We got evicted from that shop and another, second premises within two years, so, in 1978, we leased a small shop just off the Euston Road. The shop continued to do very well, but the area was being redeveloped and Camden Council allocated our shop as the site office, so we struck a good deal with them to move to a bigger place on Marchmont Street in Bloomsbury.
We wanted to produce really healthy food, and there were no cereals on the market that had no added sugar, salts or fats at that time, so we started making muesli. With more space in Bloomsbury, we were able to get a muesli mixing machine. It all expanded from that point on, until we had our own factory in Camley Street, King’s Cross. We’ve been embedded in the community for years now – we’ve planted lots of trees near the factory, we have an orchard, and the people who work here live close by, too. Our next mission is to sequester more carbon than the carbon we create in making our products.
Our focus is on creating a healthy product with high nutritional value. As well as keeping our muesli free from sugar, salt and fat, we use superfoods such as goji berries and linseeds, and we’ve developed a complex database that we use to develop blends with specific requirements – such as high selenium, or vitamin C – that will still taste great.
Alara was the first cereal company in the world to be certified organic, and now our factory produces about half of all the organic muesli sold in the UK. We are also the first company to be licensed by the Coeliac Society. We’ve come a long way since squatting, but being accessible to everyone remains central to what we do.
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/feb/22/alara-cereals-wholegrain-alex-smith-squat#
Birmingham Social Centre Part I
Date: 2013, Country: UK, City:Birmingham, Language: Eng, Length: 2.5mins, Size: 11mb Type: flv
On the 8th of November 2011, we left the Whitmarley, which has been the first home of “the Birmingham social centre”. The social centre is much more than the building; it is the concept, community and people that have formed around it.
In easter, months before we started the project we set out these as the reasons “we”, then a bunch of students who had been organising on campus should create a squatted social space.
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Voices in the Community: Squatting and the Social Centre
Date: 2013, Country: UK, Language: Eng, Length: 30mins
Voices in the Community tells the story of occupied social centres in the UK and considers their significance in the recent discourse surrounding the criminalisation of squatting.
Date: 2013, Country: Scotland, City: Faslane Language: EN Size: 63mb Length: 10min Type: mp4 Maker:Camcorder Guerillas
For over 30 years Faslane Peace Camp on the west coast of Scotland has been a beacon of anti militarism and anti nuclear action. Now the peace Camp need new supporters form all over the UK and beyond.
Can you help save the Faslane Peace Camp?
Maracana Squatters Clash With Riot Police
Date: 2013, Country: Brasil, City: Rio de Janeiro Language: EN Size: 5mb Length: 1min Type: mp4
Police have surrounded Rio de Janeiro’s Indian Museum complex, next to the legendary Maracana Stadium, and have released tear gas in a bid to expel a group of indigenous people and their supporters on Friday (March 22nd) – riot police clashed with supporters of the group, some of whom have been squatting in the crumbling complex for years.
Ofensiva Horticola a La Llagosta
Com a cloenda d’una trobada internacional d’activistes europeus de la xarxa “Reclaim the Fields” realitzada a Can Piella, el passat diumenge s’okupà un solar de La Llagosta per iniciar un hort popular.
En una jornada fresca pero festiva, s’obriren diferents bancals d’enciams i patates, amb la participació motivada dels veïns i d’un nodrit i divers grup d’activistes internacionals reunits a Can Piella per debatre sobre estrategies de lluita per la terra.
Can Piella resisteix ja a una setmana d’amenaça de desallotjament i fan una crida a la solidaritat activa per defensar l’espai i les terres cultivades.vegeu el video:Ofensiva Horticola
Βίντεο από την εισβολή στη Βίλλα Αμαλίας
Date: 2013, Country: Greece, City:Athens, Language: GR, Length: 3mins, Size: 15mb Type: flv
Τραβήχτηκε μέσα από την Βίλλα την ώρα της ανακατάληψης (9-1-2013)
[EN] Video from inside Villa Amalias during its attempted re-occupation
The Art of Squatting – plus part2
Date: 2012, Country: UK, City:London Language: ENG Length: 21mins, Size: 8mb Type: FLV
This documentary takes a contemporary look at squatting in England. Mostly filmed in South London, it is set against the backdrop of the approaching olympics and the new law (passed today) which makes the practice of living in unused properties illegal. It explores the kinds of people who live in squats and why, and addresses how these places contribute to society. The film takes the view that squatting in itself is an artform.
Part 1 explores an underground punk gig at a squat, and we meet some of the people who help the night happen. We also learn a bit about squatting in the 1970s.
In Part 2 we talk to a band big on the southern squat scene. We visit the oldest squat in England and see how they open their arms to the public. We are introduced to a campaign group opposed to the law criminalising squatting, and we hear from the council and a housing association. We also visit an art exhibition with work from people who have been living homeless.
Βίντεο από την επιχείρηση της αστυνομίας στην κατάληψη ΔΕΛΤΑ στη Θεσσαλονίκη έδωσε στη δημοσιότητα το αρχηγείο της ΕΛ.ΑΣ.
At approximately 7.30am on Wednesday, September 12th, in Thessaloniki, at least five MAT anti-riot police squadrons and two jeeps with EKAM special suppressive antiterrorist units lined up outside the anarchist squat Delta and stormed the building soon thereafter.
Ten people were arrested inside the building and others who arrived in solidarity were detained on the street. Also, more solidaritarians who gathered near the squat were surrounded and cut off by the police.
http://en.squat.net/2012/09/12/thessaloniki-delta-squat-evicted/
The media has squatted my brain
Give powers of arrest to garden gnomes! Sound advice from poet Pete the Temp to protect your property from squatters.
Written and performed by Peter Bearder aka Pete the Temp. Directed by Richard Hering.
Brighton First eviction under squatban
Watch police take an amusing TEN MINUTES to break the door on the first squat to raided since the law changed on September 1, criminalising those who live as squatters in residential buildings. No-one was living in this place but unfortunately three visitors were arrested. We love them and all squatters. Squatters Network of Brighton.
Tokludede Düşleri / Dreams of Tokludede
Istanbul’daki Tokludede mahallesi, şehrin farklı yerlerinde de yürütülen kentsel dönüşüm projeleriyle uğraşıyor. Bölge tarihi ve mimari özellikleriyle şehrin önemli bölgelerinden biri. Yürütülmeye başlanan proje bölgenin tüm değerlerini umarsızca ve saygısızca yok ediyor. Burada yaşayan insanlar zorla göçe itiliyor. Belediye, bölgedeki evlerin elektriklerini ve sularını kesti. Diğer belediye hizmetleri de büyük ölçüde yerine getirilmiyor. Burada yaşayan insanların ise başka bir yere taşınmak için yeterli ekonomik güçleri bulunmuyor. Devlet, ev sahiplerine şehrin çeperlerinde bulunan ve yaşamak için yeterince uygun olmayan TOKİ konutlarında ev satın alma programı sunuyor. Bölgedeki kiracılar için ise herhangi bir ev satın alma programı bulunmuyor. Burada yaşayan insanların büyük bir bölümü şehri terk etmek zorunda kaldı. Diğerleri ise devletin teklifini kabul edip şehrin periferi bölgelerine taşındı. Son olarak burada kalan birkaç aile ise halen bu zorla göç karşısında direniyor. Bu kısa belgesel, Mimarlar Odası İstanbul Büyükkent Şubesi’nin ev sahipliği yaptığı Kent Düşleri Atölyesi süresince yapıldı.
With English subtitles.
Heftige krakers rellen in Peru mp4 1.41min (Dutch)
In Peru zijn duizenden krakers slaags geraakt met de oproerpolitie. Het geweld barstte los toen de politie duizenden krakers wilde verwijderen van een privéterrein in de hoofdstad Lima. De politie zette traangas in tegen de krakers die bewapend waren met stokken en stenen.
Date: 2012, Country: CH, Language: FR Length: 8mins, Size: 50mb Type: mp4 Film-maker: urbamonde
Marche des Habitants, visite de l’Îlot 13 et intervention de Luca Pattaroni, professeur à l’EPFL et spécialiste des mouvements squat. Genève, 29 septembre 2012
Living in the city that hosts the World Cup
The story of indigenous Brazilian Indians living next door to one of the world’s largest football stadiums…
‘We heard the builders say it: “This isn’t a village, go and live in the rainforest”‘, says Carlos Tukano, chief of the Aldeia Maracanã village.
This video is part of the Amnesty International www.SlumStories.org project. An online videochannel about the life in slums in different parts of the world.
All videos can be watched with English, Arab, French, Spanish, German and Dutch subtitles.
Date: 2011, Country: Euskal Herria, City:Bilbao, Language: EUS, Length: 10mins, Size: 68mb Type: flv
Ikusi duzuena Kukutza III Gaztetxean mugitzen denaren zatitxo bat besterik ez da. 13 urteetan garatutako proiektu partehartzaile eta autogestionatua. Gaur egun, Kukutza desalojo arriskuan dago eta guztion eskuetan dago defendatzea.
Lovely film about a social centre, now sadly evicted and demolished.
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Date: 2011, Country: UK, City:Brighton, Language: Eng, Length: 7mins, Size: 58mb Type: flv Filmaker: SchMovies.
On November 5 2011, Brighton squatters took to the streets in protest against the forthcoming criminalisation of squatting. A move which will only make things worth for the homeless and indeed anyone taking direct action to house themselves. This film includes the last footage of activist Mark Rivers, who died tragically that night.
Kukutza: Crónica de 3 días de ocupación de un barrio
Date: 2011, Country: Euskal Herria, City: Bilbao, Language: EUS/ESP, Length: 7mins, Size: 30mb Type: mpeg
Website: http://www.youtube.com/user/kukutzaIIIgaztetxea
Kukutza: Crónica de 3 días de ocupación de un barrio
Kukutza: auzoaren 3 eguneko okupazioaren kronika
ACPO Conference – Squatters UK
Date: 2011, Country: UK, City:Brighton/London/Southend, Language: Eng, Length: 9.5mins, Size: 40mb Type: mp4 Film-maker: Shergroup
Shergroup wankers talk about a few evictions in the UK (Raven’s Ait island, the church in Brighton, Camp Bling in Southend-on-Sea). This film was apparently shown at the 2011 ACPO conference (ACPO = Association of Chief Police Officers). See you next time suckers!!
Open House, A short documentary(flv)
Date: 2011, Country: Australia, City: Melbourne, Title: Open House, Language: English, length: 6mins, size: 44mb
This film explores an alternative way of living in the U$A through the eyes of the narrator Beee.
Bailiffs Attempt to Evict Mare Street Squatters
Date: 2010, Country: UK, City: London, Language: ENG, Length: 2 mins, Size: 10mb Type:
Squatters and their supporters were determined to stop the eviction of an occupied social centre in Hackney, East London. They constructed barricades and declared that they would peacefully resist any attempt to remove them. On the morning of the 17th August High Court bailiffs tried unsuccessfully to remove the squatters.
17-08-10, Hackney, London, UK (the place was later evicted).
Date: 2009, Country: UK, City:London, Language: Eng, Length: 10mins, Size: 47mb Type: mp4
Spike Surplus is a community centre who has helped many artists, musicians and free thinkers to attain their goals. Now after ten years providing beneficial services to the community, Southwark Council are evicting the Scheme and selling of the land. This is a massive injustice! Please help the Spike!
UPDATE the place was evicted :{
Squatting in Serbia(flv)
A short film suggesting the possibilities for squatting in Serbia.
