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Somers Town Residents Protest Corporate Land Sell-Off

Today Somers Town Residents came out and protested government plans to sell off one of the few remaining undeveloped plots of land left in Euston / Kings Cross area.

Decision on new Copenhagen Social Centre this year

24-11-2007 15:39 | Free Spaces | Social Struggles | World

A council decision on the guidelines for running a new social centre is to be taken on December 13th. A common set of guidelines have been agreed between the Monday meeting negotiation delegates and the Mayor and her legal staff. Central to the agreement is the foundation named Jagtvej 69, which will be responsible for ensuring the new social centre complies with council health and safety standards and making financial reports to the council.

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300 on the streets of Helsinki for squat Elimäki

24-11-2007 12:24 | Free Spaces | Social Struggles | World

Helsinki, Finland: We get more time – 300 on the streets of Helsinki for squat Elimäki
Thursday was a day of victory for the squatting scene in Helsinki. 300 people defied the really shitty weather and gathered to demonstrate at the Youth Department of the city to show their support to the social centre Elimäki, aka squat E15.

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Screw Wildlife - Let's Play Golf!

22-11-2007 15:39 | Climate Chaos | Ecology | Free Spaces | World

I have just got off the phone after speaking to Neil Hobday, the Project Director for the proposed Trump Golf links golf resort development in eastern Scotland. I would like to say that he seemed a reasonable man, but that would be untrue because despite trying to interest him in the views of the rest of life on the irrepairable damage that will be caused to 1400 acres of pristine sand dune habitat, he was clearly stuck in the lie that the economy was far more important than our life support system.

Israels only squatted house evicted by police

22-11-2007 15:02 | Culture | Free Spaces | Repression | World

The Ben Atar squat in Tel Aviv was evicted today by many policemen, undercover detectives and border policemen.

Call For International Days Of Action For Squats & Autonomous Spaces - April 08

On Friday the 11th and Saturday the 12th of April 2008, we call for two days of demonstration, direct action, public information, street-party, squatting... in defence of free spaces and for an anti-capitalist popular culture. Through these two days, we want to help create more visibility of autonomous spaces and squats as a european/global political movement. We want to develop interconnections and solidarity between squats and autonomous spaces. We want to keep linking our spaces with new people and new struggles, and support the creation of autonomous spaces in places where there has not been a history of this kind of action. We want to build, step by step, our ability to overcome the wave of repression falling on us.

video from 2004 SOA (School of the Americas) gathering

15-11-2007 06:54 | Anti-militarism | Free Spaces | World

3 days in Columbus Georgia

Show Master Democracy or Social forum in exSU

04-11-2007 09:14 | Analysis | Free Spaces | Social Struggles | World

What happened on 3rd of December to the vital Russian-Ukrainean Social movements in Moscow is hopefully just a warning case. If not, the show-down of the Moscow meeting at the posh club “Bi-Lingua” yesterday proves that the Forum process in the former Soviet Union is about to be high-jacked by a professorial self-made man. => How can we restitute the power of direct democracy and participatory conversion in our movement?

Afterthoughts on the No Border camp in Ukraine (August 2007)

written on sept. 22, 2007

Afterthoughts on the camp which took place in western Ukraine a month before the repression of the No Border camp in Gatwick (UK)

The Little Chief and the Cops
or
Inconsistencies and Nonsense at the August 2007 No Border Camp in Ukraine

A Sussex police chief gets some worrying instant karma

A Sussex policeman has been discharged from hospital after an attack by about 50 cows left him with four broken ribs and a punctured lung.

Anarchist Bookfair 2007

The umpteenth Bookfair at the umpteenth venue.

Fascists not welcome at this hotel

22-10-2007 15:45 | Anti-racism | Free Spaces | World

A letter from the director of a Dresden Hotel cancelling the booking of MPs from the local BNP-equivalent party (NPD, German equivalent of the BNP).

Ben Atar Squat under Threat of Eviction

21-10-2007 16:26 | Free Spaces | Palestine | World

The three years old squat in Florentin, a southern neiboughrhood of Tel Aviv, recieved an eviction order for this coming Teusday. Protests are planned.

European Housing action round-up 2007

20-10-2007 19:45 | Free Spaces | Repression | Social Struggles | World

The fight for the Enforceable Right to Housing in the midst
of Property Speculation

Campaigning for Housing and Land Rights in Europe.

www.reclaiming-spaces.org

It seems when "free-market" is adapted to the places where people
live, love, raise their children and their vegetables, THE LAND, from a
pure financial asset is becoming a poisoned asset; "Poisoned" in
fact by the voices and souls of people fighting for their dignity, for
their right to live in peace in the place where their families died rather
than become subject (physical and economical) of Stock Market brokers
in their Private Equity business.

Riots in Switzerland

20-10-2007 08:39 | Anti-racism | Free Spaces | Repression | World

Switzerland, Bern. The conservative and right winged party SVP tried to do a "march to Bern" on october the 6th. This march was planned as a part of the racist and antisocialist election campaign of the SVP. Planned was also a celeberation on the central place of Bern. What u got 2 know: the fascist leader Mussolini and his party once did a "march to rome" and adolf hitler and the NSDAP did a "march to Berlin". So this march of the SVP was a clear provocation.-

Massive riots stopped the march. At the central place of Bern a huge stage, several vans, mics - everything belonging to the SVP - was destroyed by anarchists and communists. The marchers were not able to reach the place though police fought for them against the rioters.

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