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Artkatraz CSO domingo 1 de mayo de 2011

El día Jueves 28 de Abril, a las 10:40 de la mañana, tocan a la puerta del centro social Arkatraz una persona representante de la empresa Metrovacesa, acompañado de dos personas más, dándonos el plazo de dos horas para desalojar el lugar donde hemos puesto nuestra energía durante un año y medio. Acción prácticamente imposible teniendo en cuenta que convivimos con más de 20 animales, que tenemos un huerto con plantas y árboles a los que hemos cuidado y que no podemos abandonar sin más, que tenemos un material que nos ha costado un esfuerzo crearlo y que costaría trasladarlo mucho más tiempo que el plazo irrisorio dado.   continua

via Artkatraz CSO.

Christiania: last stand after 39 years

Lars Eriksen in Copenhagen and Alexandra Topping

The closed entrance to Christiania, Copenhagen

An inhabitant of Copenhagen’s free city of Christiania, long a refuge for hippies and artists stands at the entrance to the city. Photograph: Jens Noergaard Larsen/AFP/Getty Images

For four decades, the freetown of Christiania has existed as a testimony to an alternative way of life, where hash was sold openly and squatters’ shacks jostled comfortably with architect-designed eco-sheds.

For some, the commune was a human jungle in the centre of Copenhagen; for others a bastion of irreverence.

But now residents have erected its last line of defence against the Danish government attempts to “normalise” one of Europe’s most famous squats after 40 years of legal wrangling.

Residents have erected fences at entrance points which they patrol, handing out flyers which declare that “Christiania will be temporarily closed until further notice”. Cafes and shops were closed as residents began meetings to debate their future.

Continued…///

via Christiania, one of Europe’s most famous communes, faces last stand | World news | The Guardian.

– Cops Raid UK Social Centres –

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…Apparently the warrant at the RatStar was for stolen goods…….Nothing must be allowed to interfere with the fawning lackyism that our rulers like to refer to as patriotism. There have been a number of arrests. And the Green and Black Cross have set up a legal helpline for those affected on 07946 541 511.

….During the attack on Grow Heathrow, sleeping people were dragged out of their beds by up to 40 cops.  The police left having seen mostly vegetables and some bees. I’m unconvinced that vegetables (organic or not) required the possibly illegal presence of dozens of riot cops to stop them from being repurposed as guillotines or whatever mad nonsense the cops will inevitably say they……….

cont/  from Squatageddon – Cops Raid UK Social Centres — New Internationalist.

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Mayor Wants Homeless Out of Sight

MADRID, Apr 20, 2011 (IPS) – The mayor of Madrid, Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón, has called for a law for compulsory removals of homeless people off the streets, but this has met with resistance from civil society organisations and has split Ruiz-Gallardo’s own People’s Party (PP).

Ruiz-Gallardón wants the centre-right PP, the main opposition party in Spain, to include in its platform for next year’s general elections a bill to authorise the expulsion of homeless people sleeping in public spaces in the country’s big cities, against their will if necessary.

via SPAIN: Madrid Mayor Wants to Sweep Homeless Out of Sight – IPS ipsnews.net.

An end to the occupation

 

An end to the occupation

Complicity, Duplicity, Monstrosity, Let me count the ways. A numerate response to the apparitions of neo-liberal confinement.

Nic Beuret

The Paper

1. The violence comes in waves of shock, panic and terror. As the waves crash, outrage emerges as the universal emotional condition: so commonplace as to become another affliction like an obsession with the weather. People are outraged about what is being cut and from whom. Others are outraged about occupations and property damage. With baton charges and things thrown from roofs. People are outraged about the complicity of the TUC, the duplicity of the Liberal Democrats and the so-called self-interest of students and public sector workers.

2. Outrage flies in all directions, creating a numb sense of brutality. There are two faces to this brutality. It is productive of both our ability to solve the twin crisis of profitability and governance and to their policing of our labouring bodies.

3. But outrage gives us no special insight: it is mere reaction. So it must be put to one side. We need to see why our struggles, actions and protests have invited the intensity of violence that they did. We must look to what the theatre of baton charges, horse charges and late night imprisonment meant.

4. The police are not merely an agent of repression. The idea of the police evolved from a set of practices……….

read more..  via UK: An end to the occupation – Infoshop News.

The State Goes After Squatters

 

squat the lot

 

The State Goes After Squatters (Europe)

Squat news from Amsterdam (Holland)

EVICTION WAVE HITS AMSTERDAM: SQUATTERS CHOOSE ATTACK INSTEAD OF DEFENSE.

This Tuesday the 22nd of March, the city of Amsterdam witnessed a huge eviction-wave.

It was the first big series of evictions after the new anti-squat law in Holland. The formerly quite tolerant attitude in Holland towards squatting has been replaced by a zero-tolerance approach to anyone taking housing rights into their own hands.

Instead of evicting squatted houses one by one, the Amsterdam police has a tradition of evicting in so-called “eviction waves”. An eviction wave generally consists of a high number of riot

via Propaganda Lalaland: The State Goes After Squatters (Europe).

ToPPLe The TyRants

– Activists say they have occupied a London mansion owned by a son of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi.
squatters on roof 10 million pound 'home'

A group calling itself Topple the Tyrants said it entered the house Wednesday. Spokesman Montgomery Jones says the squatters, who are not Libyan, will stay “until this property can be returned to the Libyan people.”

Police say officers are monitoring the situation and no arrests had been made.

The eight-bedroom Georgian-style house with swimming-pool and sauna is reportedly owned by Seif al-Islam Gadhafi, who had put it on the market for more than 10 million pounds ($16 million). It was withdrawn from sale last month.

The British government has seized more than $3.3 billion in assets belonging to the Gadhafi family and associates, as part of sanctions.

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