For 3 months some homeless students, anarchists & workers had been squatting the massive 3 story St Michael’s Cathedral in Darlington, Sydney and had plans to turn it into a social centre and accessible accommodation. The occupiers had been able to build a properly functioning kitchen for community dinners, had rigged the electricity to provide […]
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Sydney: A better squat eviction
Bristol (UK) – Stokes Croft Riot after massive police raid against Telepathic Heights squat
Stokes Croft Riot after massive police raid against Telepathic Heights squat April 21, 2011. 10pm. A riot starts after a 160 strong multi-regional police force coordinated assault shuts down a district and breaks down the door of a squat named ‘Telepathic Heights’ in Bristol. The cops then violently harass local people and get attacked in […]
Amsterdam: Events in Amsterdam over the last few weeks
09.10.2010 As everyone knew for a long time already the squatting ban finally became a legal entity on the 1st of October. How the law isto be implemented and enforced is still speculated upon. In the week before its arrival there came some very hard talk from the mayor and the chief of police. […]
Barcelona: Notes on the european squat meeting (17-20 june 2010)
Translation of an article written in french and originally published on squat.net/fr. From june 17th to 20th, 2010, an european squat meeting took place in Barcelona [1|2]. More than one hundred people participated in the discussions, all of which took place in the Laforsa squatted social centre (41 av. de la Fama, in Cornellà de […]
Copenhagen: Riots around Christiania after an eviction on 28th October 2008
The Eviction The main authority on Christiania (slots & ejendomsstyrelse) decided to evict the second floor of a house on Christiania. They were backed by an unprecedented large police force. At 7:30am a major police force arrived at Christiania. Neighbours of the soon to be evicted house were rushed out of their beds and homes […]
Global summary of april2008-related actions throughout the world
May 1st, 2008 Last year, a call to decentralized actions in support of squats and autonomous spaces was issued, proposing to join forces in April, 2008, for a few days of direct actions, public demonstrations, building occupations, open celebrations of our struggles and counter-cultures… in a desire to bridge our energies, and use a […]
Everything4Everyone in Response to the Dalston Lane Eviction
Hello, The 3 houses adjoining Dalston theatre, occupied since February this year to prevent the planned demolition of the whole site to make way for high rise luxury flats, were evicted at 5am on Wednesday night. Despite having mounted solid barricades throughout the building and kept up regular roof shifts to keep a look-out for […]
Copenhagen: Riots during a “Reclaim the streets” for Ungdomshuset
Sunday, Sep 24 2006, 11:01pm I’m an activist from Denmark who participated in a “Reclaim The Streets” party for Ungdomshuset (The Youth House). I have used Ungdomshuset for a few years as a place for great parties and cool athmosphere. I hate the fact that cristian fundamentalists are to take it over and i’ve been […]
Freiburg (Germany): Massive repression against the anarchist convention “DIY against the State”
http://www.indymedia.org/fr/2006/07/843771.shtml From July 26th to July 30th, an intergalactic festival of squatters, anarchists & miscellaneous activists took place in Freiburg im Beisgau, South Germany: “DIY against the state”. It was meant to allow hundreds of participants to meet & share, putting forward the ideas of autonomous living, anticapitalist & anti-authoritatian struggles, through “do it yourself” […]
Grenoble, France: Interview with ex-400 Couverts squatters
“Les 400 couverts” was a five houses squatted street in grenoble, france. It was a place i used to enjoy a lot, and i felt like interviewing its squatters in order to make people know about it. When we actually made this interview, they were about to be evicted so it was a bit particular […]
Call for solidarity from Amsterdam / Holland
On Friday July 14th 2005, ten people had to appear in the court of Amsterdam. They were prosecuted because of their participation in actions against the eviction of six squats in Amsterdam. Eight of them were already locked up since the evictions on Tuesday May 31st. That day around 70 people gathered in front of […]
Tufnell Park social centre evicted (London)
26 Aug 2004 Around forty police along with about 30 bailiffs smashed down the front door of the occupied social centre at 5.30am this morning. The small number of people inside were searched and police intelligence teams filmed and photographed peoples notebooks and much of the other paper based material they could find. Some people […]