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.
The Casa – the first housing occupation in Ancona for more than two decades – provided a home to around 60 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.
Italy has one of the widest and strongest social centre movements in Europe. Social centres can be found all over the country in almost every medium-sized and large city, though they tend to be more concentrated in the big cities of the centre-north. They first appeared in the 1970s and since then have been the main crucible of Italian radical urban movements.
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.
The Rote Flora is an old theatre building which has been used as a social centre since 1989. The initial sale of the building to developers took place in 2001, and has sparked widespread outrage and protest. There are also wider issues relating to an old apartment building nearby, the ‘Esso houses’ that had been the home to around 300 people, until they had been evicted last week.
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.
These occupations should be seen in the context of the nationwide weeks of action which culminated in 19 October’s national demonstration in Rome. The occupiers justify their action as being a response to what they describe as a housing emergency.
Nine-tenths of the law: Property and resistance in the United States - Hannah Dobbz
How does "property" fit into designs for an equitable society?
Nine-Tenths of the Law examines the history of squatting and property struggles in the US, from colonialism to 20th-century urban squatting and the foreclosure crisis of the late 2000s, and how such resistance movements shape the law.
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.
Organised in the PAH (Plataforma por los Afectados por la Hipoteca –the Victims of Mortgages Coalition), the occupiers of Bloc Salt have held out since 23rd March against repeated attempts by the authorities to cut their water supply and intimidate them into leaving, and instead are concentrating on developing their own community, with a living space t
The 'Squatters'... Ilford: a report and critique - Solidarity
'The 'Squatters'...' was published by Solidarity (South London) in September 1969. No authors name is given in the pamphlet. An advert for it in Solidarity (West London) No. 2 attributes it to Andy Anderson.
"I don’t believe in nothing
I feel they ought to burn down the world
Just let it burn down baby."
Squatters in Manila clash with police over gentrification project
Submitted by working class s... on Jul 1 2013 19:34
Thousands of people living in slums in Manila have fought fierce battles with police, who are trying to evict them from their homes in order to make way for a multi-billion dollar project to turn the area into a new business district.
As police moved in to the 72 acre site, residents erected barricades, and fought back the police using rocks, nail bombs, and bags of faeces. The police repeatedly charged the barricades with batons and teargas, but without success.
Legal activism: the spatial politics of squatting in the UK
SQUASH and Alex Vasudevan discuss the Government's plans to criminalize squatting and the legitimacy of engaging with the state over the proposed change in legislation.
By Victoria Blitz and Rueben Taylor, published online October 2011.
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