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squatting in uk
[edit]Society
[edit]July 1972, Volume 9, Issue 9, pp 46-52 The politics of housing: Squatters Rob Hollister
Campaign to Clear Hostels and Slums
[edit]- tonymahoney
- october 17 1969 brighton
http://www.internationaltimes.it/archive/page.php?i=IT_1969-10-10_B-IT-Volume-1_Iss-66_008&view=text
to add
[edit]- sealand
- topple the tyrants
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:North_Star_Squat.png
1970s
[edit]- [[tolmers square
- [[frestonia
- [[centre point
- [[big flame
- [[villa road
- [[st agnes place
brighton
[edit]Squatters in Brighton have occupied buildings to protest against the clone town effect of supermarkets, to give away food by donation and for concerts.
social centres lewes road community garden
another space http://issuu.com/photoworks_uk/docs/another_space_bpb12
photoworks
zigzag
[edit]On 18 December 1982, Crass helped co-ordinate a 24 hour squat of the empty Zig Zag club in West London primarily for an all day event attended by approximately 500 people to prove "that the underground punk scene could handle itself responsibly when it had to and that music really could be enjoyed free of the restraints imposed upon it by corporate industry". http://www.radlyrics.com/c/crass/bio.php
Rosebery Avenue Autonomy Centre
[edit]The 'Peace Centre' was a loosely organised squatters collective that opened in 1983 on Rosebery Avenue in Northeast London. It was called the 'Peace Centre'as it was owned by the left-wing Greater London Council who had designated 1983 to be 'Peace Year'. Regular benefit concerts were held in the basement. The centre was raided in the night preceding the first 'Stop The City' demonstration by riot cops expecting a bomb factory. Many of the original squatters grew tired of arguments between vegetarians and vegans/animal rights activists. Some were involved in subsequent squatted community centres such as the Bingo Hall at Highbury Corner (now The Garage music venue). The centre was closed in 1984 when the vacant office building it occupied was redeveloped.
The centre had a completely open-door policy with regard to who lived there with literally anyone being able to walk in off the street and live there for free. The full-time squatters' rooms adjoined a large communal room where visitors came and went and parties took place. On the ground floor there were free bookshops and, for some time, a vegan cafe which supplied free food for residents, visitors and local homeless people.
info
http://greengalloway.blogspot.com/2007/12/save-roseberry-ave-anarchy-centre.html
http://www.killyourpetpuppy.co.uk/news/?p=361#comments
http://bp1.blogger.com/_C0WG1neJzCE/R1XmnrTMsSI/AAAAAAAAAes/qmqZ_gr9mYY/s1600-h/RoseberyAveCentreinthepapers.jpg
See also
Wapping Autonomy Centre
social centres
[edit]aspire http://www.oocities.org/directactionagainstapathy/aspireintv.htm okasional http://radicalmanchester.wordpress.com/2009/12/20/okasional-cafes/
stuff
[edit]archives http://www.wussu.com/squatting/index.htm
independent http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4159/is_20031012/ai_n12746871
links radical dairy - http://www.n16mag.com/issue25/p10i25.htm http://www.camdennewjournal.co.uk/archive/n210803_5.htm http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0004-5608%28197912%2969%3A4%3C589%3AISIL%3E2.0.CO%3B2-0&size=LARGE&origin=JSTOR-enlargePage
squatters2003 http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4159/is_20031012/ai_n12746871
piccadilly http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/21/newsid_3092000/3092343.stm
121 railton road
http://rememberolivemorris.wordpress.com/2007/09/28/121-railton-road/
squatter town http://www.homeless-international.org/News_1.aspx?id=0:264&news=1:28621 56a crampton street
netherlands
[edit]Hunzerheem building in Groningen three years ago. They were not planning to live in there, but the squat is still alive. Now it is about to give its last breath http://issuu.com/kalleerkkila/docs/the_sinking_squat
Pruijt H, Squatters in the creative city. Rejoinder to Justus Uitermark in International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 2004, Vol. 28, nr. 3, 699-705 http://home.hetnet.nl/~Kiebeler/homepage%20Hans/Squatters%20in%20the%20creative%20city.htm
Pruijt H Squatting in Europe - English version of Pruijt, H., 2004, Okupar en Europa, in Miguel Martínez Lopez and Ramón Adell (eds) ¿Dónde están las llaves? El movimiento okupa: prácticas y contextos sociales, Madrid, La Catarata, 35-60 Available online
http://home.hetnet.nl/~Kiebeler/homepage%20Hans/institutionalization-inevitable.htm
uslinks
[edit]http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0005,lobbia,12237,5.html
http://www.thelmagazine.com/5/3/NYCProfiles/feature1.cfm
http://www.therealdeal.net/issues/SEPTEMBER_2003/1063067568.php
http://gregoryheller.com/home/node/35
glass house
[edit]- Glass House By Margaret Morton
http://books.google.com/books?id=f2poGlSBM6UC
homesteading
[edit]http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0235,ferguson,37825,1.html
13th street
[edit]http://www.nhi.org/online/issues/81/squat.html
http://www.citylimits.org/content/articles/articleView.cfm?articlenumber=861
http://mediafilter.org/MFF/S39/S39.13st.html
links
[edit]wiki
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spike_Surplus_Scheme
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_Today
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kew_Bridge_Ecovillage
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eel_Pie_Island#Eel_Pie_Island_Commune
1946
grow heathrow
- http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/apr/28/police-raid-squats-royal-wedding
- http://www.channel4.com/news/police-say-swoop-on-squats-is-not-royal-wedding-related
- www.transitionheathrow.com/2012/05/royal-wedding-raids-judicial-review/
- http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/dec/03/squatters-criminalised-not-home-stealers
- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/royal-wedding/8481261/Royal-wedding-Twenty-arrested-as-squats-raided-across-London.html
- http://transactivist.wordpress.com/2012/06/01/royal-wedding-arrests-judicial-review-update/
- http://www.theecologist.org/investigations/society/1193593/europes_empty_houses_drive_new_wave_of_squatting_activism.html
other
- http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/blog/2011/sep/15/squatting-dale-farm-protests-live
- http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/nov/03/criminalising-squatting-law-trespass-homeless
- https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:1Noujq_bz10J:www.insidehousing.co.uk/journals/insidehousing/legacydata/uploads/pdfs/IH.050812.020-023.pdf+&hl=en&gl=uk&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESgIIu1CVsUxrGl56m_37jcmskYarePRuahp3XA6Vp7-Z5ajbsBvLsDrEy_ORhfh9G7Gz9WGmYZTxVqB9u1y--i43XJZPIwZeaV3MVYFaVvIckOzxV9QiXxyOart0dY-IrLbchx4&sig=AHIEtbQd5apTNN4LKS9yfeUrqF-k61h05w
- http://libcom.org/library/1969-revolution-personal-theatre
- http://libcom.org/forums/current-affairs/tony-mahoney-r-i-p
- http://eastlondonhistory.com/2011/06/16/tony-mahoney-activist/
- http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/16/AR2009011604192_2.html
- http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2004/feb/11/voluntarysector.comment1
bengali activism
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_Today
- http://www.sarahglynn.net/The%20Battle%20for%20Housing.html
- http://www.swadhinata.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=173&Itemid=205
- East End Immigrants and the Battle for Housing: A comparative study of political mobilisation in the Jewish and Bengali communities
The final version of this paper was published in the Journal of Historical Geography 31 pp 528-545 (2005) http://www.sarahglynn.net/The%20Battle%20for%20Housing.html
I'm scratching my head on this one. This page doesn't seem to be working out well - i created it as a branch from Squatting since that page was getting large, but now people are simply adding new information about England and Wales to the original entry here and here, resulting in duplication of information, which is not ideal. I guess the two solutions would be:
1. Move this page's contents back into Squatting and delete it.
2. Move the content currently on Squatting/England and Squatting/Wales over to this page.
I'm leaning towards 1, since 2 would mean continually having to transfer information from Squatting to here. Any thoughts?
Canada
[edit]The Frances Street Squats in Vancouver were a row of six buildings squatted in 1990. A film was made about their eventual eviction.
In recent years there have been a number of public squats which have brought together the two main contemporary reasons for squatting - homelessness and activism. Examples are the Overdale squat in Montréal (2001), the Woodward’s Squat in Vancouver (2002), the Infirmary Squat in Halifax (2002), the Pope Squat in Toronto (2002), the Seven Year Squat in Ottawa (2002) and the Water Street Squat in Peterborough (2003) and the [[North Star hotel] in Vancouver (2006). These are squats organised by anti-poverty groups and thus the squats themselves have a short life expectancy. The North Star hotel was temporarily squatted as a protest against emptiness by the Vancouver Anti-Poverty Committee. The Woodward's building was an derelict department store which had stood empty for nine years. After being evicted from the building, two hundred squatters set up a tent city on the pavement outside.[1] The Peterborough Coalition Against Poverty (PCAP) publicly squatted 1130 Water Street, a building which stood empty after a fire. The group offered to repair the place and return it to its use as low-income housing. City officials agreed to the repairs and then the City Council voted to demolish the building. The cost of demolition was $8,900 and the cost of repairs had been projected to be $6,900.[2]
Notable and well known squats dated 20/9/2008
[edit]- Ernst-Kirchweger-Haus (EKH), Vienna
- Freetown Christiania, Copenhagen
- Ungdomshuset, Copenhagen, evicted 1 March and demolished 5 March, 2007
- Anatopia, Papenburg
- Au, Frankfurt
- Hafenstraße, Hamburg
- Rote Flora, Hamburg
- Kunsthaus Tacheles, Berlin
- Köpi (often spelled Køpi), Berlin
- ASCII, Amsterdam
- OT301, Amsterdam
- Ruigoord, still exists, but no longer a squat (legalized), Amsterdam
- De Blauwe Aanslag (now evicted), The Hague
- Fort Pannerden, Pannerden
- Poortgebouw, still exists, but no longer a squat, Rotterdam
- Het Slaakhuis, Rotterdam
- Metelkova, Ljubljana, a claimed free state in a former Yugoslav army garrison
- Tovarna Rog, Ljubljana (abandoned bike factory)
- infousurpa contains info about squats in Barcelona
- Kasa de la Muntanya, Barcelona, the citys oldest squat
- Ruina Amalia, Barcelona, site of the Biblioteka Kilombo
- Can Masdeu, Barcelona
- C.S.A. Can Vies, Barcelona
- Bahía, Barcelona
- Gaztetxe of Gasteiz, Gasteiz
![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Chien-Rouge-p1020708.jpg/220px-Chien-Rouge-p1020708.jpg)
- RHINO, Geneva, evicted July 2007
- Cabaret Voltaire, Zürich, now evicted, art house 2002
- Kulturzentrum Reithalle, Berne
- Eel Pie Island, London
- RampART Social Centre, London
- St Agnes Place, London, evicted 2005
- Medina House, Hove, evicted September 2006, re-occupied briefly in January 2007
- ABC No Rio, New York City, a social center founded by artists and activists in 1980
- C-Squat, New York City (Ownership gained by squatters via Adverse possession)
- Hellarity, Oakland, internationally-known anarcho-punk traveler house with its own pirate radio station
- Halfway House, West Philadelphia
- Paradise City, West Philadelphia (Now inaccessible)
- People's Park, Berkeley, 1960s icon which epitomizes the notion of squatter's rights
- Zzyzx Mineral Springs and Health Spa, evicted 1974
Notable and well known squats
[edit]- Ernst Kirchweger Haus (EKH), Vienna
- Chang Sang-Min Haus, Kingston
- False Creek, Vancouver
- Woodwards Squat
- Frances St. Squats
- Squatzilla(st.catharines)
- Ladronka (evicted)
- Milada
- Stare Stresovice (evicted)
- Espace Autogéré des Tanneries [2], Dijon
- Alternation, Paris (now evicted)
- Beluet [3]
- 59 Rivoli, Paris [4]
- Au, Frankfurt
- Duncker Straße, Berlin
- Eimer, Berlin
- Hafenstraße
- KULE, August Straße 10, Berlin (art house)
- Kunst Haus Tacheles, Tacheles, Berlin
- Köpi, Berlin [5]
- New Yorck59 in the Bethanien, Berlin [6]
- Rote Flora
- Brancaleone, Rome
- Bussana Vecchia, Liguria
- CSA Spartaco, Ravenna
- CSIOA Villaggio Globale, Rome
- CSOA Cartella, Reggio Calabria
- CSOA Corto Circuito, Rome
- CSOA Spartaco, Rome
- DAMM, Naples
- Ex-Mercato24, Bologna
- Forte Prenestino, Rome
- LOA Acrobax, Rome
- Officina 99, Naples
- SKA (Laboratorio Occupato Sperimentazione Kultura Antagonista), Naples
- ADM [7], Amsterdam
- ASCII, Amsterdam
- De Blauwe Aanslag, The Hague (now evicted)
- Fort Pannerden, Gelderland
- Kalenderpanden [8], Amsterdam (evicted)
- OT301, Amsterdam
- Het Poortgebouw, Rotterdam (still exists, but no longer a squat)
- Ruigoord
- Het Slaakhuis, Rotterdam
- Morgohjertasvei 23 (evicted) [9], Oslo
- Blitz [10], Oslo
- Hausmannsgate 40, 42 [11], Oslo
- UFFA [12], Trondheim
- Svartlamon [13], Trondheim
- Metelkova, Ljubljana (a claimed free state in a former Yugoslav army garrison)
- Tovarna Rog, Ljubljana
- Kasa de la Muntanya, Barcelona
- Can Cadenas, Barcelona
- La Makabra, Barcelona
- Can Masdeu, Barcelona
- Cine Princesa, Barcelona
- Plaza de Encarnacion, Sevilla
- more
![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Chien-Rouge-p1020708.jpg/220px-Chien-Rouge-p1020708.jpg)
- Chien rouge, Lausanne
- CSOA il Molino, Lugano
- Rhino, Geneva
- Wohlgroth, Zürich (now evicted) (art house 1995)
- Platten Straße, Zürich (now evicted) (art house 2004)
- Cabaret Voltaire (Zürich) (now evicted) (art house 2002)
- Kulturzentrum Reithalle, Bern
- Principality of Sealand (on HM Fort Roughs, a wartime sea-fort)
- The ARC, London (now evicted) (art house 1990)
- A-Spire, Leeds
- ASBO Community Centre [14], Nottingham (Squatted council housing turned into community centre)
- RampART Social Centre, London
- The Circle Community Centre [15] (a community center opened in November 2004 in London, now evicted)
- The Nursery Occupied Social Centre [16], Birmingham (a squatted council day nursery transformed into a social centre. The collective left the building on their own terms in 2005, on the condition that the council return the building to social use)
- The Cottage Occupied Social Centre [17], Birmingham (a squatted community youth centre shut by the city council. The collective along with local people are seeking to compel the council to re-instate the community/youth centre)
- Medina House, Hove, Sussex
- St Agnes Place, London (evicted 2005)
- ABC No Rio A social center founded in New York City by artists and activists in 1980.
- C-Squat, New York City
- People's Park, Berkeley, California [18] (1960s icon which epitomizes the notion of squatter's rights)
- Zzyzx Mineral Springs and Health Spa (evicted 1974)
- Power Machine, Emeryville, CA
thoughts for how to make the page better
[edit]useful pages:
ny
squat the world
philadelphia - http://www.brynmawr.edu/cities/CitiesThesisAbstracts2001.htm
uk
ward
france
- Image:Squat à Paris (59, rue de Rivoli, 1er ardt).jpg
nl
adilkno kastanificos trespass at will
south america
india
Image:Slum_in_Mumbai.jpg Jockin Arputham shadow citites
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Squatters_at_Rubish_Tip_in_Port_Moresby.jpg
turkey
shadow cities
berlin
http://www.brynmawr.edu/cities/CitiesThesisAbstracts2001.htm
Autonomen Katsiaficas G. (1999) The Subversion of Politics: European Autonomous Social Movements and the Decolonization of Everyday Life Humanity Books ISBN 1573924415