Category Archives: News

Brazil: The rise and rise of the landless movement

Posted on January 31, 2012 by squat

The landless: no longer to be ignored. At first sight it looks like a festival. The makeshift tents hung with colourful hammocks, the rousing Brazilian beats blaring from speakers, even the portaloos – like a mini Glastonbury sprung up in … Continue reading →

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Berlin: Rigaer 94 attacked

Posted on January 30, 2012 by squat

Nearly one year after the eviction of the neighbouring houseproject Liebig 14, our project Rigaer 94 and the squatbar Kadterschmiede got attacked by cops. On 28th of January 2012, a demo against a police congress and the urban operations-conference in … Continue reading →

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Italy: NO TAV – Arrests and denunciations throughout the country

Posted on January 30, 2012 by squat

Italy – NO TAV – Arrests and denunciations throughout the country 26/01/2012 – At 6:30 this morning, Thursday, January 26, 2012, a vast police operation ordered by the Public prosecutor of Turin has struck many friends, comrades, and No TAV … Continue reading →

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Cops riot, 300 nicked as Occupy Oakland tries to Occupy Social Centre

Posted on January 30, 2012 by squat

Yesterday, Occupy Oakland moved to convert a vacant building into a community center to provide education, medical, and housing services for the 99%. Police responded with tear gas, rubber bullets, beanbag rounds and mass arrests. The state has compounded its … Continue reading →

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London: Student centre branded terrorist

Posted on January 26, 2012 by squat

London students who occupied a space in the run-up to the November 30th public sector strike were under the jurisdiction of the Met’s SO15 Counter Terrorism Command, FITwatch have learned today. Bloomsbury Social Centre [now evicted] – which aimed to … Continue reading →

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Occupy London publicly repossesses empty nine-storey building in the Barbican

Posted on January 24, 2012 by squat

Occupy London this morning (21/01/12) publicly repossessed Roman House, an abandoned nine-storey office building in the Barbican in the City of London which previously housed companies from the financial service industries. [1] The Occupy London campaigners – part of the … Continue reading →

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London: OffMarket Project Coming To An End

Posted on January 24, 2012 by squat

It is with mixed feelings that we announce the end of the offMarket project. We took disused buildings and try to turn them into open resources for the wider community. We started the project with a big collective. Now there … Continue reading →

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