A council decision on the guidelines for running a new social centre is to be taken on December 13th. A common set of guidelines have been agreed between the Monday meeting negotiation delegates and the Mayor and her legal staff. Central to the agreement is the foundation named Jagtvej 69, which will be responsible for ensuring the new social centre complies with council health and safety standards and making financial reports to the council.
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Jagtvej 69 was officially (re)created today and has not been interested in revealing where its funds come from, although it is known to the activists. Another foundation named Jagtvej 69 originally offered to buy the old Ungdomshus on Jagtvej 69 before the eviction and a major player in the old foundation - barrister Knud Foldschack - is also involved in the current version. Knud Foldschack has also been acting as mediator in the negotiations between activists and council and has acted as council for imprisoned activists for free.
The council is due to formally accept the guidelines on its meeting on December 13th this year. The mayor stated that she hasn't given in to the violence and riots - "It is not in the interests of this city to assume a rigid position on a group of youths who are now trying hard for a dialogue with the council", she said. This despite her previous unrelenting and uncompromising crusade against Ungdomshuset and its activists.
Despite the council meetings and common guidelines issues still remain, not the least of which is the selection of an actual house. "Until there is a concrete address we won't believe anything", an activist spokesperson said after the last meeting.
Also several other issues remain. On the subject of the running of the house the mayor and the mediator said "The house is basically open to any and all young people." However a member of the activist negotiation group stressed that that means "all young people who can agree with the basic principles of the house".
The council is due to formally accept the guidelines on its meeting on December 13th this year. The mayor stated that she hasn't given in to the violence and riots - "It is not in the interests of this city to assume a rigid position on a group of youths who are now trying hard for a dialogue with the council", she said. This despite her previous unrelenting and uncompromising crusade against Ungdomshuset and its activists.
Despite the council meetings and common guidelines issues still remain, not the least of which is the selection of an actual house. "Until there is a concrete address we won't believe anything", an activist spokesperson said after the last meeting.
Also several other issues remain. On the subject of the running of the house the mayor and the mediator said "The house is basically open to any and all young people." However a member of the activist negotiation group stressed that that means "all young people who can agree with the basic principles of the house".
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Days of actions for squats and autonomous spaces
24.11.2007 22:26
There had been a call out for the 4th and 5th of April 2008 as two days of demonstration, direct action, public information, street-party, squatting... in defence of free spaces and for an anti-capitalist popular culture but these dates clash with Mobilisations against a Nato conference so the dates for the days of action will now be the 11th and 12th.
Through these two days the aim is to help create greater visibility for autonomous spaces and squats as a european/global political movement, develop interconnections and solidarity between squats and autonomous spaces, link the autonomous spaces with new people and new struggles, and support the creation of new autonomous spaces in places where there has not been a history of this kind of action.
11th-12th April 2008
Homepage:
http://april2008.squat.net/en/