There are 27 Cowley Roads in the UK, 7 of which are in London. Care to narrow it down?

sorry about that! :-))

oxford

Hey all,

It might be an idea for people involved to clarify the legal status of the new social centre...a full range of people
aren't going to come along unless they know what the situation is beforehand. Not everyone is familiar with
squatting and all that lark...

Matt

Here is a list of events planned for this week so far:

Thursday 8 April 11:00 am: Gardening...

Thursday 8 April 6:00 pm: Social Centre Organising meeting

Saturday 10 April 8:00 pm: Drum and percussions night... bring your djembes, your instruments and your smile!

Monday 12 April 7:30 pm: Oxford Indymedia meeting

do come along and get involved! there are loads of possibilities, it just needs people to organise them! 220 Cowley Road! :-))

For more information about squatting see  http://www.squat.freeserve.co.uk/ . Have a look at the future Oxford Social Centre website as well,  http://free.hostdepartment.com/o/oxsocial/ . For an introduction on squatting, see "Notes for New Squatters",  http://www.squat.freeserve.co.uk/notes.htm . For example,

"SQUATTING IS STILL LEGAL

Despite the introduction of the Criminal Justice Act, Squatting is still legal. Squatting means occupying empty property to live in and is a necessity for many. Squatters have the same basic rights as anyone else, and can not be evicted without the owners carrying out certain civil legal procedings first. (...)"

Also have a look at the following Resource centre:  http://www.squat.freeserve.co.uk/centre.htm .

"SQUATTING is a solution to homelessness, empty properties, speculation and building unnecessary new homes on greenfield sites. It provides homes for those who can't get public housing and who can't afford extortionate rents.

SQUATTING creates space for needed community projects.

SQUATTING means taking control instead of being pushed around by bureacrats and property owners.

SQUATTING IS STILL LEGAL, NECESSARY AND FREE"

You can also contact the social centre by emailing oxsocial [at] linuxmail [dot] org

I think its fantastic that we have a social centre here(with whatever name it ends up with). In Italy squatted public buildings have been the birthplace of all sorts of cultural and political movements including the whole tutte bianche and disobbedienti things. They act as info points, cafés, alternative education centres, recycling centres and they have great gigs (where I lived that was the main fund raising thing)..... tons more stuff too.

If we use it fully and properly we should be able to stay there for a bit but if not there will always be somewhere else begging to be squatted.

I thought Oxford was shit but now I'm wondering.......

The djembe/drums/percussions on Saturday has been postponed for technical reasons.

More events:

Tuesday April 13th, 7:00 pm: Community Café; come and eat great food!!!