Amsterdam: Pink Light House needs help!

By: liberation - June 27th, 2003  Filed under: News

The pink light house is a brand new queer squat collective, currently the only queer squat in amsterdam! we plan to open a queerspace with music, dancing, arts and crafts, an infocafe/reading room, and a chill out bar.

we are looking for donations of the following: money, craft supplies (sewing machines, materials, paints, etc.), hardware supplies (wood, tools, carpeting, etc.), or if you just want to help or spend the night. email us!

our website: http://squat.net/pinklight

our email address: pinklight [at] squat [dot] net

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squat taken in peterborough, ontario

By: liberation - June 20th, 2003  Filed under: News

Sunday June 15, 2003

(Peterborough) – On Sunday June 15, 2003 community members took over an empty building as part of the Peterborough Coalition Against Poverty’s second action in its “Give it or Guard it” Housing Campaign and Squatting tour. The summer-long campaign tours unused buildings in the city that could be used for affordable housing.

The squatted house is located at 1130 Water St. and is officially owned by the City of Peterborough. As far as PCAP knows, the house has been sitting empty and unused for approximately a year. One city worker told a PCAP member that the City is attempting to buy up all the houses along the river with the intent relocating or demolishing the buildings in an effort to create a green space. However, the same city worker told PCAP that this could take “forever.”

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Grenoble, France : La Charade has been evicted

By: xxx - June 19th, 2003  Filed under: News

La Charade has been opened in october 2002 and did lots of activities : debates, film projections, free zone, feminist space, free library, etc.

The owner of the building is the “communist” mayor of Saint-Martin-d’Hères. Soooooo communist is this eviction….

If you read french, check “actualités” on http://squat.net/fr or http://charade.squat.net

The struggle continues !

An evicted squatter of la Charade

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SQUAT TAKEN IN PETERBOROUGH, ONTARIO

By: liberation - June 18th, 2003  Filed under: News

On Sunday June 15, 2003 anti-poverty activists and community members took over an empty building owned by the city of Peterborough. Approximately 30 squatters are currently staying in the house – located at 1130 Water Street – and demands to the city have been released.

Anti-Poverty Activists Squat City Building in Peterborough, Ontario

Sunday June 15, 2003

(Peterborough) – On Sunday June 15, 2003 community members took over an empty building as part of the Peterborough Coalition Against Poverty’s second action in its “Give it or Guard it” Housing Campaign and Squatting tour. The summer-long campaign tours unused buildings in the city that could be used for affordable housing.

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Finland: Töölönkatu 51B evicted

By: liberation - June 18th, 2003  Filed under: News

10/06/2003 – Töölönkatu 51B evicted

The latest attempt at a squatted place for young people in Helsinki ended today in the eviction of Töölönkatu 51B.

It had only been squatted since Saturday night and already a sleep-in occupation had been arranged, and local bands and DJs invited to play this week. However, seven police vans arrived around ten o’clock this morning. Without warning, police wearing riot gear smashed through the glass door entrance to the squat. A short statement was made claiming that the occupation was illegal and that the local council had asked the police to remove the occupants. We were asked to leave, and when nobody complied, the 30 or so of us left in the building were systematically frog-marched out one by one. Outside, police checked i.d.’s and took mug-shot photos, and released everyone except three who had chained themselves in the attic. They were removed and arrested.

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“The house of the community”, squatted house in Puerto Rico

By: liberation - June 18th, 2003  Filed under: News

hello! yeah, we’ve been here since march 2003. All is going well and here is what we’ve got to say (publish in squat.net, if possible, thanks! -;o).

SQUATTED HOUSE IN A SMALL TOWN IN THE SOUTH OF THE COLONIZED/INVADED ISLAND, PUERTO RICO. WE CALL IT “THE HOUSE OF THE COMMUNITY”. AT THE MOMENT YOU CAN FIND A SMALL LIBERTARIAN LIBRARY (donations always welcome!) AND DISTRO SHOP. IT ALL STARTED ONE QUIET AFTERNOON. WE FOUND THIS CURIOUS HOUSE BETWEEN BUSHES AND NEAR THE LONG ROAD NOWHERE, AND SO WE DECIDED TO BREAK IN AND DO SOME ACTION IN BENEFIT FOR THIS DEAD COMMUNITY (and all)… WE HAD IT ALL EASY. THE DOORS WERE ALREADY OPEN AND THE HOUSE WAS SCREAMING INSIDE AWAITING FOR US TO DO SOME MAGIC IN HER. NOW SHE LIVES WITH HER WALLS ALL COVERED UP IN GRAFFITTI.

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