On the first day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, L is leaving Prague. She has been planning to see her family. Oh. It’s happened, she says in the early morning as she checks her phone. Shit, I say — blinking — still lying in bed. * * * I’m meeting W at a kavárna(1)
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Czech Rep: Klinika social centre mounts eviction resistance
After two years of back and forth, police and private security have been sent in to clear out the autonomous squatted centre, which has been an important cultural and community building since it opened in Prague in 2014. Bailiffs arrived early this morning at the centre, which Freedom previously reported on in 2017 when Prague’s
Czech Rep: Klinika radical centre threatened with eviction
On Tuesday September 5th the municipal court in Prague opened the way for the eviction of Klinika, an autonomous social centre set up in one of the city’s old clinics. The State, which owns the site, successfully argued that it shouldn’t have to a extend a unique contract drawn up with the Klinika collective in 2015 which