New squatted social centre in central Manchester

By: liberation - December 2nd, 2003  Filed under: News

It’s a non-profit space for hanging out, discussing ideas, reading zines, and stuffing yer face fuck-full of vegan scrummies! Court case was today, and the owners (premier land uk ltd.) won. They seem to be up on getting us out muchos quick too, so get off yer ass and get down to it:

Kickstart C@fe -Timetable of events 13-15 Liverpool Rd – off deansgate

Events this week –

tuesday 2nd – Creative writing workshop 7pm

Wednesday 3rd – Peoples kitchen 7pm

Thursday 4th – Free film night in association with Beyond TV! 7pm

Friday 5th – Gig night, 8pm till late – Featuring/ seth/the dragon rapide/burnst/our beautiful ridiculous plan

Saturday 6th – Stumblefunk sound system 8pm onwards

CAFE OPEN MON-FRI 3PM – 11PM SAT – 12NOON – LATE – EVENING MEAL 7pm

07811 981760 for more info < !!!!

e-mail: Kickstart [at] shortcutz [dot] org [dot] uk

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Council eviction threat The Flying Dog Utrecht [Nl]

By: liberation - November 21st, 2003  Filed under: News

Nederlandse versie

Unfortunately we have very very bad news…. the city council decided to force UPC (the owner) to get us out. They do this because they believe we are involved with criminal activities and other reasons like the wagens. Also they claim that this building was build for a company and therefore not suitable to live in…

UPC has to get rid of us before the 1st of december otherwise they will get fined for 15 000 euro’s. We are stunned with this decision because UPC told the council that they didn`t have so much problems with us being there. Nevertheless the council has decided. We choose to fight them in any legal way.

Therefor we are organising an evening with our laywer to gather as much objections possible to keep vlampijpstraat squated. This means we are inviting everyone that has any involvement with our squat ( neightbours, skaters, artists etc… ) We hope we can gather as much as possible support. We believe that we give Utrecht so much on a cultural level and that we are so important for many people but now they threaten to close us down.

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Warsaw, Poland: Grrl punk festival in Fabryka squat

By: liberation - November 13th, 2003  Filed under: News

Grrl punk festival at “Fabryka” squat

12-13 december

entrance: very cheap :)))

(first plans:)

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St-Petersburg: Eviction of the Pekarnja squat

By: liberation - November 11th, 2003  Filed under: News

Eviction of the squat in St. Petersburg

On Friday, the 7th, November 2003, the squatted house in Petersburg was evicted. Early in the evening two policemen – a man and a woman came up to the house. As we didn’t open the door on repeatedly request, one of the policemen began smashing the windows with stones. Then we opened the door. Although we were prepared to the eviction (we carried all worthy and not immediately necessary things away already two days ago), the time of the eviction was very bad for us. Out of twelve people who were in the house to the time of the eviction, seven were foreigners. There was a finnish women’s band, which arrived one day ago and two of the squatters who lived in the house since the very beginning of the squat. Because of this, we decided not to take up a confrontation with the policemen, but to leave the house voluntarily.

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Ontario: OCAP takes ‘Gatekeeper’ Squat, MP vows conversion to social housing

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

** check end of report for details of election night action **

More information and Photos: http://www.ocap.ca/ocapnews/gatekeeper.html

OCAP takes ‘Gatekeeper’ Squat, MP vows conversion to social housing

On Saturday, November 8th in the heart of downtown Toronto’s east end, All Saint’s Church was packed with people who came to eat a hot meal and to rally for a demonstration called by the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty. We had put out a call to take over an abandoned building in a community well aquainted with living in poverty. Over 500 people then took to the streets in a spirited march that made its way through a neighbourhood dense with homeless shelters, low income housing, and parks where people live and die with the reality of how serious the housing crisis in this city really is.

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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.

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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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