a journal about squatting
Today, the residents of the cultural free-haven ADM summoned the Amsterdam municipality in ‘Kort Geding’ (=> interim proceedings). They are claiming that Amsterdam enforces the perpetual clause in the purchase contract and thus prevents the public- and social interests of …
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Amsterdam: Antifa activists forced Generation Identity fascists to leave “squat” Netherlands: Generation Identity fascists claimed to have squatted an apartment next to the “We Are Here” refugee squats in Amsterdam. Squatted or not, the fascists had to leave after antifa …
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Amsterdam, 1998 (It must be noted that my recollection of events, being as they took place so long ago, has been altered from the reality in ways I can only begin to imagine in the retelling of it. The following …
Book Review – Seances: Re-wiring images in the Amsterdam Underground E.T.C. Dee 2016, Self-published in an issue of 600 copies. Jeffrey Babcock is well-known in Amsterdam for his underground cinema screenings, which take place in funky venues across the city, …
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Thanks for the extended article about the parallel world of undocumented fellow towns-men. Chris Keulemans sketches in the article a pretty complete image of the world in which people without documents try to live, both the daily reality as well …
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This PhD research by Deanna Dadusc [pdf] analyses how the criminalisation of the Amsterdam squatting movement works.
The squatters in Strekkerweg 81, Amsterdam Noord, have won their second court case. The owner, Lanvas Beleggingen, wanted the squatters out to replace them with start up companies. In their plans these companies would first get a kind of anti-squat …
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Amsterdam, 24 december 2016 – Today, we, a Swahili subgroup of the refugee action collective We Are Here, squatted a building on the Amstelstraat 29-31. We had no other option because we were evicted from our previous location at the …
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On Friday 23rd December, less than 16h after the negative verdict for WH7 the cops and construction worker show up at 8 am and evict the house with the inhabitants and their animals inside. Everyone gets arrested and the dog …
Today, Sunday, September 18th, We Are Here (Wij Zijn Hier) squatted two buildings on Burgemeester Roelstraat 70 (for women) and Rijswijkstraat 2 (for men). We squatted these buildings cracked because the Vluchtgemeente squat, where many of us stay, will be …