As of last Thursday, Sweets Way Resists had succeeded in regenerating 1/142nd of the Sweets Way estate. We did so in just six days and for about £370, using a lot of volunteer labour and a mix of found and donated materials. We hope that the People’s Regeneration Show Home will encourage others around London […]
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London: Sweets Way D.I.O. Regeneration, proving that we can Do It Ourselves
London: Sweets Way Resists, our occupation turned 4 months old today…
Today marks 4 months since our occupation began. It seemed like a good time to go down memory lane and have a look at how it all started… Firstly however we would like to thank amazing Focus E15 Mothers, Barnet Housing Action Group, Our West Hendon, and all the other extraordinary selfless individuals. Their commitment […]
London: The Sweets Way social centre has moved!
Sweets Way Resists responds to a predictably unfair legal decision and gets on with fighting social cleansing. Today [March30] one of the most long-standing principles of British law was reinforced: that private property rights hold greater importance than human rights. A Barnet County Court judge decided to rule against our protest and social centre occupation […]
London: Sweets Way calls for support against evictions
Barnet Housing Action Group are a group campaigning around housing issues in The Borough of Barnet, North London. We have been working with the Our West Hendon campaign for the past year and have recently joined the Focus E15 Mums in occupying a house on the Sweets Way Estate in the North of the borough […]
London: Sweets Way occupation
[Posted March 19] A beautiful house has been occupied on the Sweets Way estate in Barnet. Come down to check out the estate, chat to some local residents, and help create a community space!
London: Time to defend Sweetstopia!
CAN YOU COME VISIT THIS WEEK? Shortly after we began our occupation of the estate (news here and here and here), some other occupiers emerged on the scene. At first we had some tensions, but gradually we have come to see eye-to-eye on the need to keep our homes from being destroyed, in spite of […]
UK: 6 reasons to support your local squats
Squatting has always been a direct solution to housing need, providing homeless people with immediate free housing that they can have some control over. Squatting has changed over the decades, from taking over entire empty streets neglected by councils in the 1970s to now moving into empty business premises before developers manage to tear them […]
London: Occupied community centre in Kensington
Welcome to the OUR HOUSE Pop Up Community Centre! We have occupied a building in the heart of the most expensive part of London to host a community-led occupation in protest at the Tories Housing Bill, the housing crisis and to highlight the insanity of empty properties when thousands are homeless. This was a pop-up […]
London: DiY regeneration shows how to solve housing crisis
We’re told the only solution to the housing crisis is to build more homes. Just whack up enough new build flats and the market will sort itself out and make things a bit more affordable, right? But if you’re a person who’s getting kicked out of a council estate so that it can be flattened […]
London: Organising in our Communities
Housing Action Southwark and Lambeth (HASL) have been organising together for two years on housing, benefits and other issues we face relating to poverty. Over time we have explored ways to make our organising more accessible and better addressed to our diverse needs. There are people in our group for whom English is not their […]
London: Help us rebuild the People’s Regeneration Show Home!
New occupation and community-led refurbishment will highlight that ‘regeneration’ doesn’t need to be another word for ‘social cleansing.’ Come down now and help make it happen! [Previous stories here] Good morning London! As most of you started your work days today, dozens of us began to repair the damage inflicted by Annington Properties to one […]
Their Law: The New Energies of UK Squats, Social Centres and Eviction Resistance in the Fight Against Expropriation
For anyone old enough to remember themselves as a teenager during the nineties, with fond memories of piercing their own ears (multiple times) whilst listening to the second album of The Prodigy ‘Music for a Jilted Generation’ [self-piercing nostalgia optional], they will recognise ‘Their Law’ as the musical response to the criminalisation of rave culture’s collective enjoyment […]
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