The ‘Paard van Amstel’ is a squat opposite the councilhouse in Amsterdam. It has been squatted several times the last twenty years. The last eviction took place in july this year (see also http://squat.net/uk/news/horseherkraak160799.htmland older news at http://squat.net/uk/news). This eviction was ordered by the council. Four people were arrested and finally sentenced to one month in prison. The gable of the building was severely damaged by the container which carried the riotcops to the roof of the heavily barricaded building. A few days after the eviction the Amsterdam squattersmovement reacted with a renewed squat-action. This time we wouldn’t let them kick us out anymore! [Read More]
Unknown suspects ravaged departmentstore in Leipzig
Unknown suspects tried to set a departmentstore on fire during saturday night.The police told the public on sunday of broken windows and afew attepts to start fires inside the building. Following investigations there where no signs of looting. The amount of damadge was not known to the police. The youth also broke 13 windows on a nearby bank building.
The police was called by neighbours that noticed the 15-30 youth. Nobody could be arrested, as the suspects had disappeared by the time the police arrieved. The department store is located in Leipzig-Connewitz, Where the left orientated scene is based.
Wether or not there might be a connection between the incident and a peaceful demonstration of around 500 left-orientated youth that happened saturday evening in leipzig could not be told yet.The demonstration that was against the ban on demonstrations in Saalfeld in Thueringen proceeded peacefully!
12/10/1997 Berliner Zeitung
Old English booklet on Squat!net
Today we put an old booklet in the squat!net-archive. It is made for the London squatters conference in 1977 by Amsterdam squatters. The text is not perfect yet but we will make it better in the near future.
The url of the archive: http://squat.net/archiv
“Houses occupation- Liberation?”: http://squat.net/archiv/gb/london/index.html
The introduction:
WAYS OF SQUATTING
This text was written for the London squatters conference on 15 may ’77, where groups from Amsterdam were invited. [Read More]
Social anger and protests lead to Copenhagen riots
The night between the 7th 8th November 1999 a lot of people got fed up with the racism of the Danish state.
At approximately 22.00 at the between the 7th and the 8th a group of second generation immigrants, punks and other people joined together at the old working-class neighbourhood of Nørrebro. As a reaction to the extradition of citizen of Turkish origin, whom have lived in Denmark all his life. The get-to-gether resulted in a riot which resulted in smashing windows of Banks, and other capitalist and multi- national corporations. After one and a half hour the police arrive at the scene, which put a lit on tempers for a while. After two hours, things exploded in virtual war in the streets of Nørrebro.
Finally the police reacted with heavy teargassing which resulted in people were forced to spread out over the neighbourhood.
The police arrested one man. They are holding him back for 11 days in isolation.
Protesters damage storefronts on Copenhagen street
Riots in Kopenhagen, from AP-Newsticker
Several dozen protesters smashed store windows on a downtown Copenhagen street, set two vehicles afire and threw rocks at police late Sunday night.
The incident took place in an immigrant neighborhood and reportedly was set off by the recent decision to expel a Turkish-born nationalized Dane who was convicted of a crime.
About 100 storefronts were smashed by rocks, iron bars and baseball bats.
At around 1 a.m. Monday, police were reestablishing control by their presence on Noerebrogade and nearby streets, but were not directly confronting the protesters, who generally ran away when authorities arrived on the scene.
Copenhagen: Ungdomshuset will be sold to the highest bidder
0riginal Danish text at:
http://squat.net/nl/news/ungdom311099.html
English summary:
This weekend the Ungdomshuset was celebrating their 17 years existence. Just before the council decided not to sell the Ungdomshuset to a green fund who wants to keep the Ungdomshus like it is. It is decided that the building will be sold to the highest bidder. [Read More]
Anti-Betuweline Campaign Update
News from Groenfront.
Betuweline campaign Update
The Betuwelijn is a Transport European Network project connecting Rotterdam, Netherlands, with the Ruhr-area with a cargo-dedicated trainline. Cost is some 10 billion euro’s for the Dutch government (but we will make it more…). Construction will ruin some nature, bother people in the area and is useless. Calculations have shown that it will hardly decrease roadcargotransport and just increase total transport, obviously hazardous. At the moment GroenFront!, Dutch EarthFirst!, has squatted some eight farms and houses on route in the last year. These will have to be evicted before any demolishing can be done and thus will delay the project considerably. To increase the delay, we are constructing treehouses, tunnels, barricades etc. [Read More]
London: Hunting down the riot women…
After months of intelligence gathering and analysis, police say that at least one woman was among the ringleaders of the violence which injured 28 police officers and 14 members of the public, and caused £2 million worth of damage in the City of London riot this year. Today detectives released new pictures of the people they most want to question, including three women who they say were actively involved in some of the most serious assaults on police officers – often in hand-to-hand attacks. [Read More]
Amsterdam: The Story of the Squatted OLVG + Eviction Activities
The Anna and Maria Paviljoens, the only remaining buildings from Amsterdams? old main city hospital, the Onze Lieve Vrouwe Gasthuis, have been occupied since June 7th 1998. When they were originally squatted the idea was to provide ateliers for young artists needing working space as well as creating homes for people to live in a community environment. Presently there are about 50 people living in the buildings, including several families with children, and at least 30 using it for workshop space. [Read More]
Amsterdam: Possible eviction of the biggest squat of the Netherlands, the OLVG
The squatted part of the Onze Lieve Vrouwengasthuis, The Anna and Maria paviljoen, will 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. [Read More]
Amsterdam: OLVG Actionday in the Netherlands
JOIN US 4 BIG PARTY, BREAKFAST & FUNERALS!!
OLVG Eviction-day actions on
OLVG is a big squatted hospital in the east part of Amsterdam
tuesday 19 OCTOBER 1999
The residents of OLVG invite you to join us in a non violent protest against the eviction and distruction of our house. [Read More]
Squat in Oslo evicted, squatters don’t give up
The text below is a summary of the Dutch translation of the Norwegian text. Both the Dutch and the Norwegian text can be found on http://squat.net/nl/news/saxeg091099.html
In the English newslist you can find previous information on the latest squats in Oslo. For the people who are interested in more (Norwegian) information have a look on http://wit.no/doogie/ga/ (Gateavisa, alternative magazine) or at http://www.angelfire.com/ok2/boligaksjonen/ (Boligaksjonen, Housing actiongroup).
More information from ‘Aftenposten’ (newspaper) you’ll find at http://squat.net/archiv
Squatters of Saxegaardsgate 11 don’t give up
Tuesday two weeks ago Saxegaardsgate 11 was evicted. The police didn’t use violence on the ten people sitting inside the building. [Read More]
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