Address - 359 - 361 deansgate (the packhorse)
Little Peter St - West End of

News !!

The hearing went the only way it could have gone really. There is no dispute about who owns it so we went to court on Monday the 25th of March to try and get some discression from the judge.The judge was totally sympathetic to the aims of the OK cafe and seemed genuinely gutted that he had to provide the necessary bit of paper to chuck everyone out.

This position endorses the OK cafe's policy of opening disused commercial space and using it creatively, housing homeless people, and creating a non-commercial space where people can chill out.

Now it's just a case of negoticating with the owners, baliffs etc- saying that if the occupants try to resist then it'll cost them a lot of money as far as eviction costs go. So it'd be better to wait a bit. This has been the case will all previous cafes - and works well.

This has already been effective - We've heard that the cafe is definately going to be open over Easter!!! There's a fallafel night tonight Wednedsay the 27th.

There is also a Video on line of a Subvertising workshop
that took place at the cafe

 http://images.indymedia.org/imc/uk/subvertise-workshop.mov