East London squat evicted illegally
Submitted by panic_rant on Jun 10 2014 10:06
A squatted building in East London was evicted illegally, facilitated by police, last week.
Can Vies: the reason of force in Barcelona under police rule - Argelaga
Submitted by Alias Recluse on Jun 1 2014 01:49
A short article about the recent riots in Barcelona after the city attempted to enforce an eviction order and demolish a popular social center in the neighborhood of Sants known as “Can Vies”, in which the authors observe that, “The total domination of Capital demands a kind of urban space that is managed like a business and pacified like a prison. Within this space there is no room for neighborhood assemblies, or ways of life at the margins of the market economy. In this space, the framework cannot be more authoritarian, and politics is not distinguished from social control. In a world that is heading towards totalitarianism, political management is repression.”
Spontaneous insurrections: the story of Alicia Jackson's eviction defense
Submitted by Eviction Free Zone on May 14 2014 06:55
Alicia Jackson, long-time Portland, Oregon eviction resister is finally seeing the confrontation with the banks coming to a head. Here is the story about how the community came together almost immediately to form an eviction defense when the danger was imminent.
Ancona’s centre-left city council evicts housing occupation
Submitted by StrugglesInItaly on Feb 28 2014 16:59
On 5 February 2014 Ancona’s centre-left city council evicted refugees and homeless people from the Casa de Nialtri housing occupation. The Casa was a former infant school (disused for three years) which had been occupied on 22 December by people from a large network of grassroots groups and associations, together with a number of Italian and migrant homeless people.
Social centres and the struggle for a different model of legalisation
Submitted by StrugglesInItaly on Feb 18 2014 17:35
A look at recent discussions amongst Italy's social centres about the balance between self-management, autonomy and legalisation.
Protesters clash with police at Rote Flora social centre eviction in Hamburg
Submitted by working class s... on Dec 22 2013 16:23
Over 8,000 protesters have clashed with riot police as they protested against the planned eviction of squatters from a popular social centre, and against the eviction of hundreds of people from heir homes. The largely peaceful protest erupted following a baton charge, and use of teargas, and water cannons by the police. The protesters responded by building barricades, throwing stones, fireworks, and bottles. It is reported that over 500 people has been injured, and around 150 arrests made.
Wave of housing occupations in Bologna
Submitted by StrugglesInItaly on Nov 19 2013 14:52
Over the last month Bologna has been shaken by a wave of housing occupations.
Nine-tenths of the law: Property and resistance in the United States - Hannah Dobbz
How does "property" fit into designs for an equitable society?
Bloc Salt: flat block occupied by PAH members in Salt, Cataluña, Spain
Submitted by Caiman del Barrio on Sep 16 2013 10:05
A selection of photos (taken by the author) to accompany the "[url=Salt of the Earth]http://libcom.org/blog/salt-earth-pah-occupied-flat-block-catalu%C3%B1-foot-door-something-new-involuntarily-homeless-1[/url]" article.
Salt of the earth: PAH-occupied flat block in Cataluña is a foot in the door of something new for the involuntarily homeless
Submitted by Caiman del Barrio on Sep 15 2013 18:39
For the last five months, sixteen families – from a broad range of backgrounds and nationalities, almost all victims of bank foreclosures – have been living together in an abandoned, brand new flat block in a ghostly quiet suburb of the Catalan town of Salt in Spain.
Can comment on articles and discussions