Torino – Barocchio squat – Serata Vegan Comics – Friday 14th january 2011
BAROCCHIO SQUAT GARDEN
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Hamburg: new trailerpark “Zomia” squatted and tollerated
19.12.2010 On 20th november 2010, people squatted a free space in Wilhelmsburg (Hamburg) with six trailers, campers and mobile homes in order to enforce a new trailerpark in Hamburg.
After only a few hours the group had to leave the place to avoid an eviction through the police and moved to a temporary stay at a befriended project in order to start negotiations with the city.
After two involuntary relocations, many fruitless negotiations, several demonstrations, one trailer ralley and city actions, Zomia once more squatted a beautiful piece of land at the Ernst-August-Kanal, where they still are.
Following busy eviction preparations from the citycouncil and a declaration by the group saying they will not leave the place by any means, Zomia now has been told to be tollerated at the premisses till the end of april 2011.
Hamburg has a new trailerpark!
There hasn`t been any trailerpark-squatting in Hamburg since the violent eviction of the Bambule in 2002.
10 of the former 15 trailerparks have been evicted and for several years a new squatting-attempt seemed unwinnable.
Zomia proved the opposite.
For more trailerparks and squats everywhere!
For more information look at:
http://zomia.blogsport.eu
vivaBambule
Grenoble (France): The 56’s trial has been put off
Translated from french:
https://squat.net/fr/news/grenoble171210.html
On wednesday december 15th, 2010, the 56’s squat, in Grenoble (56 rue Docteur Hermite), was supposed to go to the tribunal for an eviction trial:
https://squat.net/fr/news/grenoble141210.html
The “socialist” Grenoble’s city-council, owner of the building, doesn’t like the idea of people self-organizing oustide from its control, leaving them doing debates, free shop, free launderette, karate and self-defence lessons, public meetings, infoshop, etc.
The city-council wants the police to evict the squat as soon as possible…
Because of the lawyers strike, all the trials of december 15th were put off to the end of the month or even later.
Le 56’s trial has been put off to next january 19th !
Geneva (Switzerland): Squat video
Here’s a video of a symbolic attempt to squat in Geneva.
Since 2 months there were two demos (1000 and 3000 people), and that is the 4th squatting try!
Geneva wakes up! [Read More]
UK: Squat Crackdown, Bristol Fashion
Autonomous society in Bristol is under serious threat as eviction faces the Stokes Croft Free Shop and Emporium, Frowning Motorcycle events space, Smiling Chair anarchist library, and three other squat houses. In a move that will effectively mean making 60-70 people homeless, the bailiffs have been getting busy all around Stokes Croft.
The anarchist library was hit by ‘heavies’ on Monday 8th,who started putting metal sheeting over doors and windows whilst people were still inside. The illegal bailiffs were quickly dispatched by the coppers, having been called in by the occupants, for attempting to imprison the squatters inside. Later the same night the Frowning Motorcycle events space, which is also home to 5 people, was targeted by more illegal bailiffs trying to crowbar their way in. Luckily, the space was secure and they left without gaining access. [Read More]
London: An empty police station is getting squatted
Monday 11 October 2010
http://london.indymedia.org/articles/5654
A police station has been squatted in London in retaliation against police oppression.
What follows is a ‘communique’ from the occupied to the occupiers:
Squat
470 High Road Leytonstone
‘This is for everyone who has suffered injustice at the hands of the police.
This is for everyone who has been robbed by a banker,
This is for every soldier who was sent to war on lies.
This is for every refugee who is hounded for having there homes destroyed.
This is for the people who sleep on the streets on the outside of empty buildings.
THIS IS FOR YOU
RISE UP NOW! IT’S NOW OR NEVER…’
New squat in Zaandam in Holland
A group of people squatted a building, and started to paint, and hang out flags and banners.
Lots of nice photos : http://indymedia.nl/nl/2010/10/70743.shtml
The banner says : “With hollow laws you cannot fill empty houses”.
[squat!net]
Hamburg: Pro-squat demonstration, with 6 000 people in the streets !
October 26th, 2010
See https://squat.net/de/news/hamburg261010.htmlfor the original version.
On saturday 23rd of october, about 6 000 people demonstrated in Hamburg against vacancies and for squatting, this was about double the amount of people that was expected.
A broad alliance of 108 initiatives had called for the demonstration.
In the last years there have repeatedly been squattings, that are mostly evicted by the police within a few hours (the last one on the 16th of october).
One of the topics of the demonstration was that more than 1,2 million squaremeters of office space are vacant within the city, still new office blocks are beeing built and in the same time there is no affordable space for living and rents are increasing. The background of this absurdity of the kapitalist property market is the fact that vacant office space can be set off against tax liability.
Utrecht (NL): A squat brutally demolished while the residents were still inside the building!
October 27th, 2010
http://indymedia.nl/nl/2010/10/70648.shtml
– english translation –
The squat on Gageldijk 71 in Maarssen (just outside of Utrecht, NL) has been brutally demolished while the residents were still inside the building. The residents only just managed to escape by jumping through a window from the first floor into the neighbour’s garden. At that moment the demolition workers, who knew there were people inside the building, were destroying the roof with heavy machinery sending wood, stones and glass flying around.
Just before the first blow from the excavator, one of the residents hung out of the window to inform what was going on. (S)he could barely manage to jump away in time not to be hit by the machine.
Zürich (Switzerland): The Hotel Atlantis has been squatted
Today the Hotel Atlantis on the outskirts of the Swiss economic capital Zureich (too rich) has been squatted. The city is growing but affordable housing and autonomous spaces for experimenting souls are disappearing. Space is needed to live and unfold all the possibilities of human beings.
The action went smooth and the cops didn’t even bothered to show up. As long as the owner doesn’t file a complaint they will not take action. The Company which owns the place is a multinational operating hotel exploitant: Rosebud heritage SA which owns also at least one hotel in Bruxelles. Hotel Atlantis has been empty for 8 years and will give home to various groups which are fighting the overpriced, through and through commercialized and ever increasing repression in one of the richest cities in the world. If you have any experience or information over the Rosebud heritage SA, please shared it with us, so we can make complete picture of their activities. We suspect them for quite some nasty things.
Hamburg: house squatted and evicted
21.10.2010
On the 16th oktober a house in Hamburg was squatted just beside the Rote Flora.
Like most squattings in hamburg in the last years it was violently evicted by the police just a few hours later. Seven squatters were taken into custody and released immediately after. The police used watercannons and pepperspray against the supporters on the street.
0ut of the squatting declaration:
“we squatted an empty building in the Schanzenviertel, the house was nearly empty for over 4 years, maybe the owner wants to wait until the Rote Flora is evicted in order to sell the flats for higher prices.
In Hamburg rents are increasing, more and more rental buildings are turned into condominiums and there is more than 1 million squaremeters of vacant office space.
Resistance against this situation is spreading, people who are renting places refuse to pay rent increases, there are repeatedly squattings and on 23 oktober there will be a demonstration against empty houses, empty office buildings and housing shortage.
The demonstration will lead to the “Astra” tower, a huge office building in the middle of town that is 70 % empty.
We’re gonna take the city!
we’re gonna take houses!
Oxford (UK): Opening and eviction of a new social centre…
– New social centre opened in Oxford!
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/12/469848.html
December 5th, 2010
As of today the Fox and Hound pub on the corner of Abingdon and Wiers road, derelict since July 2009, has reopened for the use of the local community as a space for free cultural expression and the growth of solidarity in a climate of austerity.
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