Squatting "not dead yet" in Netherlands
Biero Hinkelmaan | 16.07.2012 13:40 | Free Spaces | Social Struggles | World
http://en.squat.net/2012/07/16/netherlands-squatting-not-dead-yet/ for a report with more fotos.
Squat one after cracking
Squat two before cracking
The first squat was above a coffeeshop in an otherwise derelict block, some of which is really fucked (no roof). The coffeeshop owner was at first quite unhappy and waved a spade around enthusiastically. Perhaps he was eager to get gardening in the large vacant piece of land behind the building. He soon calmed down. Fifty people stood outside the door and two people spoke to the assorted cops who turned up. After a while the police decided there wasn't much they could do and jogged on, with the exception of one car left for "our own safety." We then all had a look round the house, on three stories, which was pretty destroyed but certainly will be a cosy place soon.
More information in Dutch -
https://www.indymedia.nl/node/6137 The second squat was quite close, next to some water. There were about thirty of us that time and it went a bit faster. The same chief cop turned up and didn't seem all that bothered. What was nice was that all the neighbours were completely on our side and happy that the place was no longer empty.
More information in Dutch -
https://www.indymedia.nl/node/6127 There was an alarm later that day at the first squat, but it turned out to be not much, just the police hassling people for checking out the vacant lot.
Great that squatting continues in Amsterdam and indeed across the Netherlands! There's an interesting article on squat.net with more information about other squatting actions going on recently -
http://en.squat.net/2012/07/16/netherlands-squatting-not-dead-yet/
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17.07.2012 00:16
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Bizarre case of fake message on Indymedia UK
17.07.2012 07:33
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