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Tag: Squatting
Greece: occupied gym in Exarchia evicted and demolished
On Tuesday morning Athens’ only squatted gym was evicted and demolished with a bulldozer.
Spain: police crack down on anarchists resisting social centre eviction
On Tuesday, two people were arrested in A Coruña in relation to the events that occurred during the eviction of A Insumisa social centre.
Spain: A Insumisa social centre evicted
Last Wednesday, the municipal police have evicted the A Insumisa social centre in Galician city A Coruña.
Netherlands: harsh sentences for squatters
The six squatters who occupied a water tower in Utrecht last October to mark 7 years since squatting were made illegal in Netherlands were sentence…
Amsterdam: asylum seekers squat 12 buildings
Last weekend a group of asylum seekers squatted 11 homes and a shop on Rudolf Dieselstraat in Amsterdam Oost.
Bonn: former Iranian embassy squatted and evicted
The former Iranian embassy in Bonn was recently squatted in solidarity with political activism, feminist struggles and prisoner rights in Iran.
Tresspass Journal Issue 2
Our friends from Trespass Journal sent in their recent issue. It is in depth, multilingual publication about issues of squatting all over the Wor…
Amsterdam: ADM Squat wins in court!
In a rather unexpected twist of events, yesterday afternoon Raad van State, the Dutch High Court for administrative law, decided that ADM squat in …
Greece: Libertatia occupied centre burned by fascists
Members of a mass nationalist rally in Thessaloniki attacked and burned a squatted social centre Libertatia in the city today, though fortunately …
London: Embassy of Conscience occupied centre evicted
Following a court hearing on January 14th the Utopian Bohemians group has been ousted from their latest squatted social project in part of the Cong…
Activists for Love set up ‘SustainaClaus’ centre in Charing Cross
Squat group Activists for Love is bringing a bit of festive cheer to West London’s homeless community this Christmas, after squatting a colle…
Frestonia and Me
A former resident writes on their experience of the Free and Independent State of Frestonia, a unique 1977 rebellion in Kensington and Chelsea by a…
Last chance for squats in Holland and Switzerland
Two squats under attack from the authorities are mobilising to beat back the latest round of evictions on the European scene.
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 t…
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No consent to confinement
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