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'Positive squat' about to feature on BBC London News

pre-post | 29.08.2008 17:20 | Free Spaces | Other Press | London

Now the Beeb catches up with the Grauniad

Feature on a 'positive squat', about to be evicted in spite of creating an 'idyll' or word to that effect. 18.30 today BBC1, London

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Positive Squat

29.08.2008 17:54

I hope this term 'Positive Squat' doesn't catch on. It's easy to then make a story of 'negative' squats like all this weeks bullshit about the squatters evicted from Clapham. In the end there's not much difference bar one or two losers who squat and act like kids in a new found playground. But these people are no different from renters who do the same.

Bobs Yr Uncle

apart from

29.08.2008 19:12

"In the end there's not much difference bar one or two losers who squat and act like kids in a new found playground. But these people are no different from renters who do the same."

'cept the renters are paying rent / cash / money that can make good any damage!

Yer uncle bob

Negative squatting

29.08.2008 19:41

Don't believe in negative squatting? Check out the ex-DSEi convergence centre which is now a trashed building which a leaking roof and a perfect excuse for the local authority to flog it on to developers rather than reopen it as an adult education centre. Or check out the sorry decline of Rampart Street over the last six months.

lead

Still not helpful

30.08.2008 09:58

Trashing squats! Yeah - That's people that do that. Not the act of squatting itself

It's still not helpful to what we could call the squatting 'movement' ;-) to have the terms 'negative' and 'positive' squatting. This positive label is never going to be attached to the general situation of most squatters who just live day to day and go about their lives. But when shit hits the fan, like in Clapham this week, those people are targetted in the media in the most racist and anti-human of ways for merely taking an empty place and living in it. In the end, accounts of 'positive' squatting make life harder for the general squat population making a standard for a set of acceptable squatters (usually media-friendly) against the others (poorer, not usually from the UK originally).

Bobs Again

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