Ungdomshuset support demo?

As I'm sure you are all aware, the Ungdomshuset social centre in Copenhagen has now been evicted and demonstrations are going on all over Denmark and across Europe. Is anyone interesting in a London demo?

Some of you may be aware of Ungdomshuset ('Youth House') social centre located
in Copenhagen, Denmark. The Youth House has provided a fantastic centre for all
forms of alternative culture in Copenhagen for the past 24 years, with regular
film, art, music and workshop events, and an important focal point for the
surrounding community. The building itself was built by a local workers
movement, over a century ago, to function as a base in the struggle for social
justice, with many local workers unions using the centre as their base. In the
80's, the City council gave the building to the occupants.

However, in 2001, it was sold to an evangelical Christian sect (Faderhuset), who
ordered a mass eviction over this weekend just gone. The occupants tried to
hang onto the building for as long as possible, but tensions are high, and
there have been some running battles with the police and reports of police
violence. There has been huge support for the Youth Centre with literally
thousands of Danish youths demonstrating in the streets. However, there have
also been a very large number of arrests, at least 300+ on the first day.

The building has pretty much now been demolished, but the global day of action
is this Saturday, and basically a few of us are trying to organise a demo
outside the Danish Embassy in London on the saturday, but are just wondering if
there are enough people who would be interested in coming down?

http://www.ungdomshuset.dk/spip.php?article45

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/03/363973.html

Please message below if you would be interested, and we could try and organise something.

Many thanks, and take care.

sprite

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Yes

06.03.2007 22:55

i am with you, we could tie it in with a demo about this:

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/01/360972.html

fly posters

YEsYEsYEs

07.03.2007 00:08

I agree with fly poster.
hopefully we will discuss tomorrow night
at the Evicted Vortex Social Centre meeting
around Stoke Newington.

Please "sprite" could you leave email / contacts with people
in London involved in the Danish embassy solidarity demo
and future solidarity for Ungdomshuset...

thanks

Ungdomshuset4action

definately

07.03.2007 08:59

I think its really important that we do....Ungdomhuset was a really special part of my life...I think its a great idea to tie it in with Vortex....maybe this will see the re-birth of the UK anarchist movement....we'll be like the Tute Blanche all over again ;-)....i think if we give people a bout two weeks notice that its going to happen then we're a lot more likely to get lots of people from all over for it (that was my experience in organising RTN Ipswich anyway)

Tumble Weed
mail e-mail: ipswichqueers@yahoo.co.uk

Thankyou + email

07.03.2007 10:18

Thanks for your support so far.

Contact me at

get_up_and_run@hotmail.co.uk and please email and let other people know about it. I don't know where to meet and what time, or anything like that, but if we can all decide collectively?

What do you think?

sprite
mail e-mail: get_up_and_run@hotmail.co.uk

Also...

07.03.2007 10:24

..linking it to the Vortex eviction would be a fantastic idea. Email me and let me know the results of the meeting. :)

sprite
mail e-mail: get_up_and_run@hotmail.co.uk

yes

07.03.2007 11:30

this saturday would be good to tie in with demos in the rest of europe...
put out a call and people will turn up.. especially on a saturday.

zx81

Building...

08.03.2007 00:29

Although my first reaction would be to have a demonstration in conjunction with European events this weekend, I do think that if this is to have a prolonged and larger impact, we should build for something as big as we can, with as much time to publicise as we can without it being irrelevant.

I would suggest that those who are free to take action this weekend do so, not just as an act of immediate solidarity with our friends across the world, but also to build for a larger, sustained prescense - i.e. use this Saturday as a springboard for a bigger action on say, the weekend after next (24th March).

I don't know if this is leaving it too long, but I really think it would have a bigger impact. The authorities are used to the same old - they'll hit against our community, then expect a small flurry of immediate dissent that is hastily organised (and this isn't a criticism as such of past actions) and then things die down again. Taking part in an action this Saturday, as a precursor and publiciser for a bigger event could really be useful. Also, from my point of view on campus where there is a new, growing autonomous group which is getting properly organised, it would give us and everyone else time to build awareness and get this into a sustained campaign that will not just simply go away a week after somethings happened - something I think a lot of people would appreciate as it would give an immediate focus to get people who are not usually involved in activism a concrete action to work towards.

Any thoughts?

SOAS (A)utonomous

callout now out

08.03.2007 16:12

seems like some people who went to copenhagen are calling for a soli-demo outside the dannish embassy this saturday:

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/03/364522.html

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