squatting in uk

Society

July 1972, Volume 9, Issue 9, pp 46-52 The politics of housing: Squatters Rob Hollister

Campaign to Clear Hostels and Slums

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

sealand
topple the tyrants
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:North_Star_Squat.png

1970s

[[tolmers square
[[frestonia
[[centre point
[[big flame
[[villa road
[[st agnes place

brighton

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

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

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

social centres

aspire http://www.oocities.org/directactionagainstapathy/aspireintv.htm okasional http://radicalmanchester.wordpress.com/2009/12/20/okasional-cafes/

stuff

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

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

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

Glass House By Margaret Morton

http://books.google.com/books?id=f2poGlSBM6UC

homesteading

http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0235,ferguson,37825,1.html

13th street

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

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A01E6D91431F937A2575BC0A960958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all

links

wiki

1946

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,888314,00.html

grow heathrow

other

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

Squatting in England and Wales

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

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

Austria

Ernst-Kirchweger-Haus (EKH), Vienna

Belgium

Brazil

Prestes Maia, São Paulo

Canada

Croatia

Karlo Rojc, Pula
Medika, Zagreb

Denmark

Freetown Christiania, Copenhagen
Ungdomshuset, Copenhagen, evicted 1 March and demolished 5 March, 2007

Finland

Siperia, Helsinki

Germany

Greece

Villa Amalia, Athens

Italy

Bussana Vecchia, Liguria

Lithuania

Užupis, Vilnius

Mozambique

Grande Hotel Beira, Beira

Netherlands

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

Norway

Philippines

Tondo, Manila, Smokey Mountain

Slovenia

Metelkova, Ljubljana, a claimed free state in a former Yugoslav army garrison
Tovarna Rog, Ljubljana (abandoned bike factory)

Spain

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

Switzerland

The *Chien Rouge* in Lausanne, a squat held in the old hospital

RHINO, Geneva, evicted July 2007
Cabaret Voltaire, Zürich, now evicted, art house 2002
Kulturzentrum Reithalle, Berne

United Kingdom

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

United States

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

Austria

Ernst Kirchweger Haus (EKH), Vienna

Belgium

Scheld'Apen, Antwerp
Alcahell, Ghent

Brazil

Prestes Maia, São Paulo

Canada

Chang Sang-Min Haus, Kingston
False Creek, Vancouver
Woodwards Squat
Frances St. Squats
Squatzilla(st.catharines)

Czech Republic

Ladronka (evicted)
Milada
Stare Stresovice (evicted)

Denmark

Finland

Siperia [1], Helsinki

France

Espace Autogéré des Tanneries [2], Dijon
Alternation, Paris (now evicted)
Beluet [3]
59 Rivoli, Paris [4]

Germany

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

Greece

Italy

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

Lithuania

Užupis

Mozambique

Grande Hotel Beira

The Netherlands

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

Norway

Poland

Rozbrat, Poznań

Slovenia

Metelkova, Ljubljana (a claimed free state in a former Yugoslav army garrison)
Tovarna Rog, Ljubljana

Spain

Sweden

Ladonia
Mullvaden (evicted 1978)
Taråberg (evicted 1980)
Borgen (evicted)

Switzerland

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

United Kingdom

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)

United States

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

useful pages:

Continent

ny

squat the world

philadelphia - http://www.brynmawr.edu/cities/CitiesThesisAbstracts2001.htm

uk

ward

Sealand

france

Image:Squat à Paris (59, rue de Rivoli, 1er ardt).jpg

nl

adilkno kastanificos trespass at will

Fort Pannerden

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

Kreuzberg

Autonomen Katsiaficas G. (1999) The Subversion of Politics: European Autonomous Social Movements and the Decolonization of Everyday Life Humanity Books ISBN 1573924415

[1] Vancouver's Woodwards squatters must go by Monday

[2] Squatting and the City

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