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The eviction of Entrepotdok, a huge squatted building in Amsterdam is now going on in the east part of Amsterdam. In the early morning, at 4:30 am the police came with a watercannon, tear gas commando – Stopping the squatters to build more barricades.

The barricades were build in the more early morning – the western part of Entrepotdok was protected by opening two bridges – The easter side was protected with three barricades.

At the moment the police fight through two of the barricades and is infront of the third one.

We expect the eviction going on in the next hours – The situation keeps very tense…

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Of course this are not all actions, much more is going on, but by some reason not published on this page

Infopoints for all the actions:

• Kalenderpanden, Entrepotdok 96-98, Adam-East. Map
• Fort van Sjakoo, Jodenbreestraat 29, Leftwing Infoshop with ASCII Internetconnection downstairs Map
• Vrankrijk Spuistraat 216, Leftwing, boring, alcohol-adicted Illegal-Bar, open Fri from 7:00 pm – 2:00 am, Sat from 2:00 pm – 4:00 am, Sun from 11:00 am – demo (2:00 pm) Map

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Eviction possible from 3rd October

WEEKEND OF ACTION: Saturday 30th September and Sunday 1st October

DEMONSTRATION: Sunday 1st October, 2pm, Dam Square, Amsterdam

Luxury apartments in the “Kalenderpanden”, whatever next?! In these squatted warehouses in Amsterdam you can find concerts, performances, food, an infocafe and giveaway shop, information evenings, parties and many other activities – something happening almost every day. But if the city council get their way, in the very near future there will be, instead of all these cultural activities, 47 luxury apartments with private parking spaces…

From 3rd October, the current users of the Kalenderpanden can be evicted by the police. We refuse to leave because Kalenderpanden is not only a non-commercial venue, but also a protest against the direction Amsterdam is developing in.

The form of the ‘new Amsterdam’ is becoming clearer and clearer: a city where the centre is affordable only for the rich, with lower-income people, immigrants and students pushed out to deprived neighbourhoods. People living in houseboats, artists and other non-conformists are dumped out in industrial areas.

All this to make space for the rising population of bourgoise hard-working yuppies. Their streets are kept clean by city guards, chewing-gum cleaners and other underpaid workers – all to present an appealing investment climate for big companies like Albert Heijn, Heineken and McDonalds. The middle-class consumer lifestyle is selling itself well! Never before has Amsterdam been so boring and never before has the city reaped so many hundreds of millions of guilders in profit and rising property prices.

And as if all this isn’t enough, they now want to build millionaires’ apartments in the Kalenderpanden, because they say there is a ‘need’ for ludicrously expensive living spaces. Who came up with that? What sick mind thinks seriously that a rich citizen is some kind of “ubermensch” that can solve all the problems of our city?

The Kalenderpanden has had an important public function for the last 4 years: everything has deliberately been made affordable for everybody, and initiatives that haven’t yet really ‘made it’, or maybe never will, are all given a place. This is how it must stay. Over the last few years there has been an endless list of squats evicted in Amsterdam. This must end.

The owner of the Kalenderpanden is the city of Amsterdam. They have the choice how it is used. Choosing to evict is therefore a political choice: a choice for high incomes, privatisation, polarisation and stamping down on culture.

Our demands are therefore: NO EVICTION OF THE KALENDERPANDEN, NO RICH-ONLY NEIGHBOURHOODS!

Kalenderpanden Entrepotdok 93-98 1018 AD Amsterdam tel. 0031-(0)20 4206645 www.kalenderpanden.nl

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The squatted part of the Onze Lieve Vrouwengasthuis, The Anna and Maria paviljoen, wil get evicted the 19th. The building lost a case against eviction via the penal law. The council still wants to use this against the squatters even if it is more than a year ago the huge buildings got squatted.

At this moment there are about 60 people living there and there are ateliers, rehearsalrooms, a restaurant, etc. All these activities have to find a new place which will be quite difficult with the active anti-squattingpolitics of the Council of Amsterdam. Just before the Eurosummit in Amsterdam Ine van Brenk from the ‘evictiondepartment’ of the council even placed the Entrepotdok on the evictionlist although they didn’t have a legal ground yet. Also in other cases she is far to eager to evict, breaking law and normal conventions. In this case, the squatters didn’t oppose the idea of extending the hospital, but joined the fight from the neighbourhood against the ugly buildingplans and the parkinggarage. At the same time the squatters developed projects which couldn’t find a place anymore in other places in Amsterdam. Anyway, join the OLVG on tuesdaymorning. They start with a breakfast at 6.00. Further actions will be announced. OLVG http://huizen.dds.nl/~olvg

or a project which resembles the OLVG: http://squat.net/entrepotdok

The council of Amsterdam: http://www.amsterdam.nl

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On september 28th The court in Amsterdam decided in the courtcase wich was startet to get permission for demolition of parts of the building. The courtcase was started by Aquartis bv. who wants to turn the building into so-called loft appartments.

Although the building is a protected monument the company got permission to tear one third of the building down. The judge did not listen to the several complaints made by the squatters. The city has to give Aquartis bv. within 2 weeks a building permission. The Entepotdok, a squat where 20 people live and work is now under direct threat of an eviction

Watch this pages for further news and actions or visit the dokpages: http://huizen.dds.nl/~entrepot/

Entrepotdok forever!

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