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Aug 2016
- Lessons on Working Together from Tobocman’s “War in the Neighborhood”
Jun 2016
- Squatting Stats 2015 version 2 released
- Squatting & Criminalisation in the Netherlands
Mar 2016
- “Options for dealing with squatting” by Persons Unknown
- Film: Living History at Crossroads Women’s Centre
Jan 2016
- #SupportYourLocalSquats – Charles Edward Brooke secondary school
Dec 2015
- SQUASH NewsRound – September to December 2015
Sep 2015
- Squatting Spring – 2015
- Runnymede Eco-Village in Epic Court Battle – Sept 2015
Aug 2015
- SQUASH NewsRound: July – August 15 (Mini-Update)
Mar 2015
- Resist the Eviction of Yorkley Court Farm – from 1pm, 12 March onwards
Feb 2015
- Happy Birthday Grow Heathrow – 28th Feb 2015
- SQUASH NewsRound: January – February 2015
- Call-out for Volunteers – SQUASH
Jan 2015
- Urgent – Help Save the 12 Bar, Soho
- Squatters Bloc at March for Homes – Sat 31st January
- SQUASH Newsround: December 2014 – January 2015
Dec 2014
- A Christmas Tale: the Gauntlett Inquiry
- Kent Coroner’s Inquest into the Death of Daniel Gauntlett
- SQUASH NewsRound: June – November 2014
Jul 2014
- House of Brag: Squatted Queer Social Centre Opens…
Jun 2014
- ALERT & Update: Attempt to criminalise squatting in commercial
May 2014
- SQUASH NewsRound: March – May 2014
- Feeding Back from the Housing Weekender 2014
Apr 2014
- Housing Weekender 2014 – FULL PROGRAMME
Mar 2014
- SQUASH Update: February 2014
Jan 2014
- Stop MIPIM 2014 – Update
- SQUASH NewsRound: December 2013 – January 2014
- Haldane Society Lecture on Squatting – 15 January
Nov 2013
- Mike Freer MP Constituency Office Occupation
- SQUASH EXCLUSIVE: “Squatting the frontline” by John McDonnell MP
- 195 Free School: 18th – 24th November
- SQUASH NewsRound: All Hallows Eve-Guy Fawkes 2013 Special Edition
- An interview with two ex-squatters
- Park Street Occupation, Southwark
Oct 2013
- SQUASH NewsRound: September – October 2013
- Punish landlords who leave property empty
- Any squatters out there up for doing media?
Sep 2013
- Open Letter: The Debate
- SQUASH Newsround August – September 2013
- Made Possible By Squatting Exhibition Now Open (9th – 16th September 2013)
Aug 2013
- SQUASH NewsRound: July – August 2013
Jul 2013
- SQUASH NewsRound: June – July 2013
- Made Possible By Squatting call-out
Jun 2013
- SQUASH NewsRound: April – June 2013
- Anti-squatting laws and the coming crackdown on occupations
- SQUASH NewsRound: February to March 2013
Apr 2013
- Anti-Squatting Law Challenged in Brighton Court
- The Evening Standard is Lying to London
Mar 2013
- 40 top lawyers sign Guardian anti-squatting law repeal letter
- The Evening Standard Hates Romanians
- Squatting law causes more problems than it prevents
- Court case won by former Friern Barnet Library activists
- Open Letter to Mike Weatherley MP and The Argus
- Squatters Occupy Bloomsbury Hotel…
- SQUASH launch new report in Parliament
Feb 2013
- New report has been launched HERE
- Criminalising squatting, empty homes and property guardianship
- Squattastic, Sunday 17th February
- Grow Heathrow’s Third Birthday
- A Polite Revolution
- Violent Russian Squat Eviction- Activists Face Ten Years in Prison
- SQUASH NewsRound: Mid-January 2013
- Squatters save Friern Barnet Library
Jan 2013
- Spanish Locksmiths Unite Against Evictions
- SQUASH NewsRound: January 2013
Dec 2012
- “Put property to productive use”
- The Friern Barnet Library gets Six Weeks before Eviction
- SQUASH NewsRound: December 2012
- Waste of Space at the 491
- Richard Madeley Reaction # 2
- Richard Madeley Reaction #1
Nov 2012
- SQUASH NewsRound: November 2012
- Crisis Launches No Going Home campaign.
- The media has squatted my brain
- SQUASH NewsRound: Mid-October 2012
- How the “Co-Operative Council” is destroying housing co-ops
Oct 2012
- An Organised Gang Drove Off With My House of Commons!!
- SQUASH NewsRound: October 2012
- When poverty and homelessness become a criminal matter
- Lawyer calls on Labour to repeal s.144
Sep 2012
- SQUASH NewsRound: Issue 1, September 2012
- Update from Eviction Resistance Network
- Criminalising Squatting – Privatising Empty Space
- Legal challenge to new squatting law
Aug 2012
- Updated advice from the Advisory Service for Squatters
- Criminalising squatting hurts the poor and benefits the rich
Apr 2012
- Tell us your story: the Squash Campaign is collecting case studies
- Squash Picnic Attendees facing SOCPA charges
- Council pays £440,000 so security firm can exploit tenants
- Bristol Squattastic statement: Whatever they say…
- Squatting criminalised by ‘sham democracy’
Mar 2012
- Squatting in residential properties to be criminalised in months
- Criminalising squatting is the real crime
- New video: Cost of Criminalising Squatting
- You know something stinks when its only debated at midnight
- And those amendments in full…
- The final push: what you need to know to save squatting
- Channel 4: Minister with no sympathy for homeless
- Bad time to ban squatting
- Where it’s at: an update on the parliamentary process and our campaign to stop criminalisation…
- Squash on the radio
Feb 2012
- Squatting law will only criminalise the homeless. Let’s demolish clause 136
- Adding up the cost of privatisation…
- Squatters move to stop council sell-off
- Squatting, South American style…
- It’s all in the timing…
- Nice one, Gorms…
- Another response to the Daily Mail
Jan 2012
- Nick Clegg’s lobbying group opposes criminalisation…
- Could this be love?
- Quick: dig a moat…
- George Monbiot says something eminently sensible about democracy…
Dec 2011
- Treacherous Weatherley – Schnews reports how anti-squatting MP exposes himself
- The Great British Property Scandal (C4)
Nov 2011
- BBC goes squatting…
- Time Out: Should Squatting be Made Illegal?
- Shift: the spatial politics of squatting in the UK…
- NUS Student Activism 2011 Conference: why is squatting relevant to students?
- Your gauntlet, Mr. Weatherley?
- This pernicious choreography hints at a more sinister logic…
- ‘Out of the squats, onto the streets’ Photos
- John McDonnell’s speech from Tuesday
- It’s a choice between homelessness and a criminal record
- Squash Parliament
- #StopClause26
Oct 2011
- Between people and property: why the anti-squatting amendment must be opposed
- Event: Student solidarity with squatters – 02/11/11
- Why we need to ‘keep squatting legal’, and why ‘guardianship’ is no solution
- Take a look in at Squatters Town…
- The Demonisation of Squatters
- Inside Housing article: ‘There’s no such thing as squatter’s rights…’
- In defence of squatting
- Student solidarity… with squatters?
- Grant Shapps and his housing mishaps
- Britain’s got [squatted!] Talent
- This is where it starts getting lively
Sep 2011
- Home-Made: the misery the government can cause
- In support of squatting – the neighbours talk
- Travellers and Squatters
Aug 2011
- Squash’s guidelines for responding to the consultation
- Advisory Service for Squatters’ Response to the Consultation
- Fitzrovia, 130 years of Squatting
- Who is a squatter?
- Squatters in Britain: vulnerable, demonised, and soon to be criminalised?
- Islington Community Housing Co-op oppose the criminalisation of squatting
- Hackney GP backs squatters fighting eviction from abandoned school
- The Neo-Liberal City: Struggles in Space
- Brighton’s Squatted History 4 – the 21st Century
- Empty Promises – A report from The Big Issue in The North
Jul 2011
- Brighton’s Squatted Past 3 – the 1990s
- Brighton’s Squatted Past 2 – the 1970s (& ’80s…)
- Dear Telegraph…
- Brighton’s Squatted Past 1
- From Housing Crisis to Radical Urbanism: Reflections on Squatting
- Further Reading
- Stirring up the consultation
- Advice for talking to journalists
- Squats bred some of the best UK music – the Tories want to shut them down
- “Some of them have jobs” – Kenneth Clark
- Landlords From Hell… Jon Snow tells us how unscrupulous landlords are exploiting the most vulnerable people in society and getting away with it
- The Assault on Squatting
- Amid government fears of ‘mass homelessness’ is criminalising squatting appropriate?
- The Legal Aid and Sentencing Bill: what does it really mean?
Jun 2011
- No round table with Camelot
- Squatter hate Mail’s real agenda
- Housing Trust Praised for “Doing the Dirty Work” – forcing people onto the street and destroying their homes
- OUR SOCIETY IS BIGGER THAN YOURS: Squatting and the wider political rumblings
- On the Naughty Step: The Telegraph Gets it Wrong (again)