[Squat!net]

Now there is an international mailing list on squatting. The initiative is taken by people from the dutch squatters mailing list, kraken-post

Any news on squatting you think is interesting enough for an international audience is welcome but there is one condition: The message should be in two languages. So write at least a summary in an other language.

The decision to have a multi lingual list is taken to make it easier for more people to understand where it’s about and to prevent postings of already existing mailing lists. On the other hand the list can be used to advertise for these mailing lists if they are related to squatting.

To begin with the list will be moderated for everyone. Hopefully everything works well enough so we can stop the moderation for people who are subscribed to the list.

subscribe: send an empty mail to kraken-int-subscribe [at] dvxs [dot] nl posting: kraken-int [at] dvxs [dot] nl

[squat!net]

The former restaurant Planet Hollywood on the Rembrandtplein in Amsterdam was squatted on sunday 10.12.00. The squatters are now working on the founding of their Autonomous Social Center Cineak. With this they want to fight against the money orientated marketing strategy from the council of Amsterdam. Even the council program to legalise squats with cultural activities is only money orientated according to the squatters.

One of the first activities in the squat was a live TV program on saturday 16.12, also to be seen via http://live.dds.nl/from 21.00-22.00

The squat was evicted on the 19th. According to the council the building was in use. ‘Proof’ for this was some old equipment which was left in the building. The same day the riot cops also evicted about 100 squatted apartments in a demolition block just south of the city center. The 200 inhabitants were unorganised. Many of them moved out of the city or try to squat new places just as unorganised as before. Some of their places got evicted again. [Read More]