Two houses cracked this weekend and lots else going on, check 
http://en.squat.net/2012/07/16/netherlands-squatting-not-dead-yet/ for a report with more fotos.
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
Yesterday, Sunday, on the traditional day of the week to go out cracking, two buildings were squatted in Amsterdam Oost.
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/
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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