Rotterdam: Squatting the Grey City
Squatting the Grey City is a book about the squatters movement in Rotterdam in the Netherlands from the 1970s to the present day. Rotterdam has a rich and diverse history of squatting. As well as...
View ArticleDijon: large refugee squat evicted
Yesterday (10/7/18) early morning French police, with assistance from border police evicted the XXL Squat in Dijon, where about hundred asylum seekers lived. During the eviction, twenty-four people...
View ArticleTurin: Police attack Askatasuna social centre
A massive repressive operation took place on Friday 13 in Turin. 15 precautionary measures were notified at dawn, against university students, antieviction and notav struggles’ militants: 9 of them...
View ArticleSão Paulo (Brasil): Call for an Independent Materials Fair – August 25th, 2018
CALL FOR AN INDEPENDENT MATERIALS FAIR – ACTIVITY OF THE SIXTH INTERNATIONAL WEEK FOR ANARCHISTS PRISONERS In response to the call for a “Sixth International Week in Solidarity For Anarchist...
View ArticleAthens (Greece): Occupied gym evicted and demolished
On Tuesday morning [July 17th, 2018] a bulldozer (with agreement of the owner of course) demolished squat in Exarchia, Athens, which was acting as the only occupied gym in the city. No one was...
View ArticleAmsterdam: Council of State wants the ADM gone within five months
On 25 July 2018, in higher appeal, the Council of State has announced ADM to be empty within 5 months, by 25 December 2018. A new court case started by the ADM against the city of Amsterdam took place...
View ArticleKempton Park (South Africa): Brutal Attack on the Phumula Mqashi Land...
30 July 2018 – Phumula Mqashi Land Occupation Press Statement The Phumula Mqashi Land Occupation in Tembisa on the East Rand was founded on 13 February 2018. It has been coming under sustained, illegal...
View ArticleAmsterdam: Bajesdorp celebrating free spaces
Bajesdorp Festival 2018, saturday 11 august, 14:00. We in Bajesdorp are keeping an eye out as our neighbourhood is rapidly getting a facelift by gentrifiers. We are doing our utmost to keep the spirit...
View ArticleDublin: Leo’s Early Risers
Yesterday [9/8/18] the housing activist occupation at 35 Summerhill Parade entered its third day. Approximately 100 people attended the ‘Leo’s Early Risers’* event yesterday evening to show solidarity...
View ArticleEast Rand (South Africa): The Zikode Extension Land Occupation has Passed...
The land on which the Zikode Extension Occupation was founded, which is between Germiston and Boksburg on the East Rand, was first occupied on 11 May 2018. We have now been on the land for more than...
View ArticleHelsinki: Squat Kumma 2V Party
Squat Kumma celebrates its 2 year journey in august with a hardcore gig on saturday 25.8 and a DIY-festival on 31.8-2.9. At the DIY-fest there will be workshops about tattoos and “artvandalism”, food,...
View ArticleGermany: Hambacher Forest Solidarity
In the course of militarized assault on the meadow on August 28, an activist from the forest was taken down off the kitchen roof after updating the outside on the situation in the meadow and arrested...
View ArticleDublin: 34 Frederick street occupied
After an injunction was obtained against the occupiers of the evicted house on Summerhill they vacated it only to march to another vacant house at 34 Fredrick street and occupy that. At the time of...
View ArticleBerlin: We will #occupy again
We will #occupy again. On the 20th May 2018, 10 houses were occupied in Berlin and the bordering city Potsdam. Despite positive feedback by neighbours and the public (aka media), all houses were...
View ArticleAmsterdam: ADM, an update on the actual situation
Upcoming fall, the largest cultural free-haven in The Netherlands, ADM, will be 21 years old. Since its beginning in 1997 ADM has been under constant pressure to a greater or lesser extent. Especially...
View ArticleLondon: Streets Fest on Monday!
CALL OUT TO ALL SQUATTERS / HOMELESS / TRAVELLERS All Day Free BBQ / Hairdressers / Doctors / Vets / Showers / Opticians / Housing, Squatting, Boat Advice / Free Clothes / #STREETSFEST #STREETSKITCHEN...
View ArticleLondon: Queens in Furs guided tour of Brixton
In the 1970s Britain was saturated in political activity right across the board. Not just in the Labour movement, trade unions and the Left but also the new social movements were particularly active in...
View ArticleDublin: Third building occupied by Take Back the City
Saturday 8th of September saw another building occupied in Dublin as part of the Take Back the City campaign, this is the 3rd occupation in a little over a month. The new occupied building is on 41...
View ArticleDublin: Masked thugs evict Frederick Street
Masked Garda threatening people with batons in the aftermath of the violent eviction carried out by thugs in Dublin last night. Pepper spray, dogs and batons were deployed, there were 5 or 6 arrests...
View ArticleLondon: Homeless Festival Was a Stark Reminder of How Bad Things Have Got
Immersed in the fun of Streets Fest, you could have been excused for forgetting, just for a day, how vast a crisis homelessness in Britain has become. Unless, of course, your first sight after walking...
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