Ontario: report on OCAP Squat Victory from Arrested Trade Unionist

By: liberation - November 10th, 2003  Filed under: News

Note: The one other arrested person is a member of the Steelworkers. In total four people, all trade union members, were arrested yesterday.

Report on OCAP Squat Victory

40 members of CUPE 3903 were among the 500 people who participated in the victorious march and occupation of an abandoned building at 558 Gerrard St. E., securing its conversion into social housing. The action was a victory on two counts: in addition to transforming an empty building into social housing, demonstrators forced the state to respond politically by negotiating with the demonstrators instead of unleashing its uniformed goons. Unequal and inhumane distribution of housing is a political issue that politicians should address through negotiation and dialogue rather than through police violence on unarmed civilians, and this victory should be recognized as a breakthrough in that regard.

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Ontario: “GateKeeper” squat action media articles

By: liberation - November 10th, 2003  Filed under: News

Corporate media:

OCAP Thunders Into Mayoral Campaign With March (City TV) * Video footage too* http://www.pulse24.com/News/Top_Story/20031108-007/page.asp

Mills puts career on line (Toronto Sun) http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/TorontoSun/News/2003/11/09/251344.html

MP’s vow ends protest (Toronto Star) http://thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1068336306004&call_pageid=968332188492&col=968793972154

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The Netherlands: open squats

By: liberation - November 8th, 2003  Filed under: News

In 18 cities and villages Dutch squatters had an ‘open day’ in more than 50 squats to show their neighbours, media and other interested people what squatting is and how squatters live.

The open day is a reaction to the proposal to make squatting of commercial buildings illegal (see-> http://squat.net/en/news/dutchlaw181003.html). Since this proposal squatters and squat actions draw a lot of attention. Squatters in the netherlands continue their daily squat actions.
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London: The Butt Plug Bar want YOU!

By: liberation - November 4th, 2003  Filed under: News

The Butt Plug Bar

Fridays:14 Nov; 12 Dec; 23 Jan.

56 Dalston Lane, Hackney.

8pm till late. FREE entry.

DIY entertainment for the international queer jet set.

This autumn and winter, the Butt Plug Bar will take residency in the glamorous London borough of Hackney. In the luxurious surroundings of The Chinaman Squat, Dalston Lane, the queer glitterati will enjoy cocktails and sophisticated queer entertainment designed to cheer us all up during the cold months and raise funds for radical queer projects around the world. We suggest you mark the three events in your social calendar, for they are not to be missed. The first, on Friday, the 14th of November, will feature experimental film and djs spinning house and D&B till the small hours. The second date, on December the 12th will boast punk-chic and a pornographic dirty-sex theme, and we will end the season in style with the final event, playing electro with the theme being camp and glamour.

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Grenoble: A new squat has opened!

By: liberation - November 4th, 2003  Filed under: News

A new squatted villa has opened at the end of october 2003. The address is Golgoth-A-XXX, 14 rue Paul Doumer, 38100 Grenoble, fr. Contact golgoth-a-xxx [at] squat [dot] net. It is a drug free squat, with party projects without alcohol nor cigarettes.

Z.

 

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squat pekarnia update 301003

By: liberation - October 30th, 2003  Filed under: News

Squat Pekarnia – alert of eviction!

28. of October 2003 police officers of Kirovskiy district raided the squat Pekarnia. The reason for cops to check the house was, that a day before one of the homeless people, who live at 2nd floor (the squat Pekarnia is located at the 3rd floor), fall out from the window and was taken to hospital because of severe head injury.

One day after the accident, when the cops came to the house, there where 2 people inside in Pekarnia. One of them was taken to police station as a captive, the other one was asked to find the people, who live permanently at the squat. Cops take sound system from Pekarnia to secure that the squatters show up at the police station until the evening.

In the evening some squatters went to the police station to free the squatter, who was catched, and also to get back the sound system. The squatters where first accused in “creating criminal surroundings”, and soon demanded to leave the house, because “the house is empty, and nobody should live there”. Cops gave the squatters one week (until 4th of November) to move away from the house or to show official documents from KUGI (City Comittee for Dealing with the State Property). About the right to use the house.

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House occupied in St. Petersburg, Russia!

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

Squat Pekarnja – House occupied in St. Petersburg, Russia! One floor of a three floors house at industrial region of St. Petersburg is occupied by anarchist and punk/HC scene activists. This floor was occupied already in the beginning of June by Petersburg anarcho-punk group Punk Revival and PLA, and from the beginning of October other anarchist and anti-authoritian activists join them and the squat project. Last week at the squat there were maid electricity and DIY heating systems, which is very important, as far as central heating and gas systems doesn’t work in that house.

The occipied house is called Pekarnja (Bakery), because there used to be bakery in that house. Now there is 4 people more or less permanently living at Pekarnja. Also it’s a free space for other anti-authoritarian people and groups to meet and hang around.

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Possible new anti-squat law in the Netherlands

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

Next tuesday the Dutch parliament will vote on a proposal to make squatting in the Netherlands more difficult. The proposal was made by Christian Democrat Ten Hoopen and is aimed against ‘criminal organisations who squat buildings to have parties’. Ten Hoopen proposed this to the parliament with a right wing majority after ten years of silence on the subject of squatting on national political level.

According to Ten Hoopen the squatters profit from free electricity and they make life more difficult for real estate owners. In an interview he said he wanted all squatting to be illegal. The next few days he got loads of counter arguments in the main stream media and it became clear he didn’t know what he was talking about. Even his colleage from the Christian Democrat party ‘CDA’ responsible for housing issues said he didn’t want to talk about making squatting in general illegal and preferred making plans against the housing shortage.

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Brussels: first squat opening of a week of pro-squat actions

By: liberation - October 17th, 2003  Filed under: News

Yesterday saw the first opening. About 150 people gathered and walked around, giving away newspapers in town towards the place and got in. Stuck themselves in with barricades and started the whole shit.

The building is an old chocolate factory with six floors right in the center of town. The kitchen started running, some people came and played music, the place was brushed and cleaned. Colours cover the walls. Banners were hung from the windows. A few habitations are being set up on the top floor.

The neighbors look quite happy, the police looks quite frustrated, passing by down the street and unable to do anything. A few lawyers are supporting us and working quite hard, as the last places were evicted illegally.

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Bologna, Italy : Queerizing Party at TPO social squat.

By: liberation - October 17th, 2003  Filed under: News

>> 08 november 2003 @ TPO – Bologna – Italy

QUEERIZING PARTY :::: Sexy_Shock_Antagonist_Shop Anniversary!!!

Pornflakes Queer Crew plus special guest* sleaze beat dj set: Dafne_Malatina_MarKorso_Pugsley, videomake-up, performance, exposition, off-fanzine…

SMfetishCyborgBiotechImagining&otherSide is good!

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Barcelona : Demonstr-action against speculation and against evictions.

By: liberation - October 6th, 2003  Filed under: News

Demonstr-action against speculation and against evictions

Nou Barris, Barcelona, 30th september 2003

Some 30 persons, from Can Masdeu and from the Miles de Viviendas collective, gathered on tueday 30th of september at 6pm, in the barrio Nou Barris in Barcelona, to denounce housing speculation and evictions. This demonstr-action was part of the Forthnights of action in support to the local okupas, threatened of eviction (Kasa de la Muntanya, l’Hamsa…). The program of the actions days invited everyone to go out for a tour of the empty houses in each district.

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Grenoble, France : A new anarchafeminist squat called “La Flibustière”

By: liberation - October 5th, 2003  Filed under: News

LA FLIBUSTIERE

Since the octobre 2nd 2003, a new squat opened in Grenoble (France). This place is occuped by anarkafeminist women and lesbian. It’s a living and feminist activities house opening to all women (angry, shy, fast, straight, black, bi, ugly, white, trans, lesbian, pretty…).

We’ve got a lot of ideas: library, infoshop (brochures, keeper, freelax…), discussion and feminist action group, party, debate, workshop…

We really need your support!!!!! Come to visit us!!!!

For the beginning of the squat, we need people and help.

Our adress: La Flibustière, 17, rue des Charmettes, 38600 Fontaine, france

Phone: 0033-06 62 82 74 02

Or contact us by e-mail laflibustiere@@@no-log.org.

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