Monthly Archives: January 2012

Brazil: The rise and rise of the landless movement

The landless: no longer to be ignored. At first sight it looks like a festival. The makeshift tents hung with colourful hammocks, the rousing Brazilian beats blaring from speakers, even the portaloos – like a mini Glastonbury sprung up in … Continue reading

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Berlin: Rigaer 94 attacked

Nearly one year after the eviction of the neighbouring houseproject Liebig 14, our project Rigaer 94 and the squatbar Kadterschmiede got attacked by cops. On 28th of January 2012, a demo against a police congress and the urban operations-conference in … Continue reading

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Italy: NO TAV – Arrests and denunciations throughout the country

Italy – NO TAV – Arrests and denunciations throughout the country 26/01/2012 – At 6:30 this morning, Thursday, January 26, 2012, a vast police operation ordered by the Public prosecutor of Turin has struck many friends, comrades, and No TAV … Continue reading

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Cops riot, 300 nicked as Occupy Oakland tries to Occupy Social Centre

Yesterday, Occupy Oakland moved to convert a vacant building into a community center to provide education, medical, and housing services for the 99%. Police responded with tear gas, rubber bullets, beanbag rounds and mass arrests. The state has compounded its … Continue reading

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London: Student centre branded terrorist

London students who occupied a space in the run-up to the November 30th public sector strike were under the jurisdiction of the Met’s SO15 Counter Terrorism Command, FITwatch have learned today. Bloomsbury Social Centre [now evicted] – which aimed to … Continue reading

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Occupy London publicly repossesses empty nine-storey building in the Barbican

Occupy London this morning (21/01/12) publicly repossessed Roman House, an abandoned nine-storey office building in the Barbican in the City of London which previously housed companies from the financial service industries. [1] The Occupy London campaigners – part of the … Continue reading

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London: OffMarket Project Coming To An End

It is with mixed feelings that we announce the end of the offMarket project. We took disused buildings and try to turn them into open resources for the wider community. We started the project with a big collective. Now there … Continue reading

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Squatters march through Brighton streets

Three squats are due in court as the owners of the buildings try and regain possession. The protest started at 10.30 outside Brighton County Court in solidarity with the squatters in court. Once the last squatters have had their court … Continue reading

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France: ZAD, Eviction document converted into eviction attempt

The 13th of January, “Les Planchettes”, “Bel-Air”, “Le Tertre” and “La Gaité” received a letter from the baliff announcing that he had come to deliver a “document of eviction converted to an attempt at eviction” on the 10th, but hadn’t … Continue reading

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Pinheirinho Occupation, Sao Paulo resisting eviction now

The mega-operation of the police to vacate the Pinheirinho has started. Police helicopters are flying around and throwing leaflets urging residents to retreat without resistance. The residents are firm and organised to resist the eviction.Leaflets from the residents read “A … Continue reading

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Walbrzych (Poland) : Rent strike and mothers’ strike in 2010

“Mothers’ strike” is a documentary that shows the living conditions of the striking women in Walbrzych in 2010, their struggle against local authorities, conflicts with welfare institutions and their self-organizing attempts. They explain how their living situation relates to the … Continue reading

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San Juan City (Philippines): Squatters’ resistance against a police demolition attack

Article mainly translated from the original article in french, January 12th, 2012. [San Juan City is a city in the Manila’s eastern suburb, Philippines‘ capital.] “Patay kung patay. Hindi kami aalis dito.” [We’ll die if we have to. We’re not … Continue reading

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Elba squat in Warzaw threatened with eviction!

There’s an alarm call [in polish language] about eviction on their website : http://elba.bzzz.net Elba was established in autumn 2004 and is run by collective of people who decide about the place by consensus. The collective include both people living … Continue reading

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Sydney: Some anarchists celebrate New Year’s Eve by dropping eighteen banners from five empty buildings in the CBD

Found on Indymedia-Australia: Some Sydney anarchists celebrate NYE by dropping 18 banners from 5 empty buildings in the CBD Black Rose books – January 5th, 2012 On New Years Eve while the city streets were packed with drunken revelers and … Continue reading

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Sydney: Workshop about squatting movements in Europe, at Occupy Sydney

Next saturday, January 14th, from 4:00pm to 5:00pm, let’s go to Occupy Sydney’s free school, there’s gonna be a workshop about squatting movements in Europe! Location: Occupy Sydney Martin Place CBD, Sydney (In the case of heavy rain on Saturday, … Continue reading

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UK – Police Raids on Occupy Squats

As UK occupations squat more buildings the police, many of whom have criminal records are flouting the law to harass protesters, the Lords are debating making squatting residential buildings illegal, the government plans to make hundreds of thousands homeless and … Continue reading

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Watching the value of property melt away – The increase in squatting across the U$A

Although it is hard to hear what is really happening on the ground in U$A, it appears that recently there has been an increase in squatting in cities across the United States. Obviously, squatting is often a covert activity, but … Continue reading

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Police Harass Occupy Liverpool at Legal Squat

The “new location” is a squat in a derelict office block on Preston Street and until the above message was posted its location was kept secret. I always thought the decision not to tell anyone the new location was odd … Continue reading

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New York City: An interview with Rob Robinson from Picture the Homeless and Take Back the Land Movement

Published in “Brisbane From Below” n°1 (Brisbane, 2011). Could you tell us a bit about yourself and how you became involved with Picture the Homeless? No problem. I became involved with Picture the Homeless after spending 10 months in a … Continue reading

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Ontario (Canada): An Interview with John from Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP)

Published in “Brisbane From Below” n°1 (Brisbane, 2011). Justice, Dignity, Resistance: An Interview with John from Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) Could you tell us a bit about yourself and how you became involved with OCAP? I was a worker … Continue reading

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