Morze infoshop new poster

Solidarity action with Rozbrat squat in Poland, Poznan

Today (2009.04.06) a small group protested in front of the Polish Embassy in Budapest, showing the letters "Save Rozbrat" in a hopefully not so bad Polish. They gave a letter addressed to the ambassador and the city council of Poznan, which was received by the housekeeper and her small child. Rozbrat is one of the oldest squats in Europe and under threat of eviction these days because of an imminent auction. The squat called for an international day of action for May 6th.

London: police represion in Rampart

In an obvious attempt to de-escalate the situation after the events of yesterday, police aggressively raided Rampart today.

How they got in

Somebody being led away under arrest

"evidence"

The FIT doing research work

Legal observer at work

People being searched outside

The FIT having a good day...

Free Spaces Demonstration-Berlin March 14 2009

At the 14. march 2009 arround 4.000 people were gathering on the Hermannplatz in Berlin to demonstrate for the survival of left free spaces in Berlin and everywhere and against the ugly gentrification in lot of the center’s districts of Berlin. Many residents already have been forced to move in other districts of Berlin, since they cannot afford the constantly increasing rents in the center’s districts anymore. The demonstration was part of the “United We Stay” action weekend. The campaign, which organised the demonstration is called “We Stay All”. They also claim an immediately political solution for the few stayed house projects and Wagenburgen (squatted places where people live in trucks and cars). The concept of the demonstration was to appear as colourful and openly as possible so that common people also join the demonstrations and to avoid attacks of the riot cops (which in last time offener happened on demonstrations of the radical lefts).

The demonstration started at 15:00 from Neukölln, went through Kreuzberg and ended then in Friedrichshain. The cop’s presence and repression took place with 900 of them following and disturbing the peacfull protest. They started with randomly controls to people who started gathering, filming the protestors during the whole event. At the Warschauer Bruecke the whole demonstration had to stop because the cops arrested two prostesters. They said that they shall have went on the rail tracks of the underground. After they took their blood type and their personal data they released them and the demonstration went on. But already short time later the cops started trouble again, they splitted the demonstration into two parts after some ppl surrounded and attacked a singled cop car. The cops stated later that they weren’t completely innocent that the situation escalated because the cops in the car got scared and locked themselves inside the car. At the same time that happened a group of arround 1.000 demonstrants splitted from the demonstation and went in the Warschauer Strasse, where some cars, cop cars, a Mc Donalds and a bank has been smashed and some waste containers were looted. One cop car has turned upside down. Later they also tried to attack the new opened Nazi’s clothes shop but it was protected by arround 50 cops. As the first coming 100 demonstrants saw the cops they stepped back and after one minute hundreds of cops were coming from all sides and hunting the protestors. During that situation a bunch of cops were passing by a person who had nothing to do with the demonstration, one cop hit him and the person felt with his head on the kerb stone edge. That person has been seriously injured with a basal skull fracture, but instead of the cops helping him and call the emergency they went away and let him lay helpless on the street. Also the feminist squat near the place the person was injured was attacked by cops. At the time that this event happed the rest of the demonstration went through the Revaler Strasse, where people of the culture project RAW made a fire show, further through the Simon Dach Staße (a street full of trendy tourist’s bars), where some protestors smashed windows of a bar and later in the night four bars were attacked with butyric acid. The demonstration went then on through the Scharnweberstrasse where people from the house project Scharnweberstrasse 29 made a fire show on the balcony and people from the second house project Scharni were standing on the roof and waving flags. The demonstration ended in front of the city hall in the Frankfurter Allee observed from a cop’s helicopter and lot of cops with dogs in front of the city hall. During the demonstration 12 people were arrested and two cops injured. After the demonstration the cops were present in the whole district all the night over and randomly pressed charges against people. Police and fire-fighting operations continued through the whole night.

http://de.indymedia.org/2009/03/244145.shtml

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call from Netherlands (taken by squat.net)

Amsterdam: Call for help from Commelinstraat

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We are a group that squatted Commelinstraat 246 - 250 on Sunday 15th of February. On Monday morning we were awakened by a group of at least ten men, led by Menno Jeen Bos (the owner of this building) into the house. They broke down the door, and threatening physical violence, they demanded that we leave within ten seconds.

By breaking into this house, where we had secured the right to domestic peace, they took the law into their own hands. They throw us out onto the street and then threw our belongings down from the second floor onto our heads. Due to these actions a few people sustained physical injuries.

The police came and asked mister Bos the reason for the disturbance. He claimed that the house had not been empty for a year and that anti-squatters were living there last sunmmer. We know this is a lie for we have received from several neighbours, declarations that say that the house is empty for at least a year (average astimation - 2 years). When mister Bos could not reproduce any documentation for his story, the police respected our legal rights to be there and let us back into the building, with no further immediate action taken against mister Bos.

On the same evening, agent from Nuon Company, together with 2 police officers appeared in our door, send by mr. Bos. We allowed the Nuon agent in, but refused to let the police join him. The police was threatening to use force and to cut the electricity. At that point we called an alarm, some people arrived to support us. As a result, the winds were calmed, Nuon and police left calmly after declaring that electricity is safely used.

Till this moment, we had no further contact with the owner, nor the police.

We are busy occupying, working hard on cleaning, building and fixing the building. Our goal is to make it a beautiful warm house, and in the future, as well create an open public space in the lower floors. It is a large space with big potential for the community in the middle of the city. It is as well a politically important case for the future of squatting in Amsterdam.

WE NEED YOUR HELP!!!

How Could You Help?

1 - We need people to occupy the place for the first period. Sharing shifts to keep the place occupied with as many people possible at all times. Come and be with us.

2 - Building materials. Everything is welcome, but we are specially looking for: - Copper pipes (no. 22 and 15) - Chimney pipes - Connection bites for gas pipes - Gyps (plaster) boards - Wood - Electric wires - Doors - Smoke detectors - Banners - Sink

3 - Help in work, cleaning and building. We need your hands! If you have some sort of knowledge and experience - great, but if not, no worries, we can closely direct you to work safely (and happily).

If you have any other suggestions, ideas or initiatives, they are more then welcome. We have a new space with open arms. Mail us (address below) or, simple and best - just pass by Commelinstraat 246 - 250 (near the corner of the Dappermarkt).

Thanks to all of you, hope to see you soon,

The Commelin Group - Esmeralda Dapperbuur

commelinstraat246.250[AAA]gmail.com

Appeal for signing the support for the autonomous, free and in self-managing use of

Rog factory, Thursday, 20th of March 22.30 Mayor of city of Ljubljana Zoran
Jankoviæ decides to make an unexpected visit. He notifies the people in Rog that
he will order the evacuation and sealing of Rog. Upon being asked what the reason
for his decision was he said that the users broke the agreement with The City
Council of the City of Ljubljana (MOL) which claimed that no one was to reside in
the factory. The reason for his decision was supposed to be the hosting of
»Brothers of liberty«, a German medieval craftsman guild, which is holding a
congress this weekend in Rog. It is an old association, whose graduates acquire a
trade certificate after they contribute to the public benefit in various cities
for several months with their work and are welcome everywhere in Europe because of
their noble mission. As hosting such a collective is in accordance with the
mission of openness of Rog, the Mayor's demand that Rog denies them the
hospitality is simply impossible.
Rog will build no walls for the »Brothers of liberty«. It will not instigate
Security or police against them. The world of walls, security services ,
exclusions and discrimination is the world of Mayor Jankoviæ. Rog is a different
world. Many have finally found a place in it where they can express themselves
freely. Many have found in it the dignity and value of their life. Everything,
that the world of Major Jankoviæ wants to deny them. A rich programme, an
exceptional ammount of events and an incredible social engagement of Rog is a
testimony to all this, which can all be seen on the websites www.tovarna.org and
www.njetwork.org.
Mayor Jankoviæ's assault on Rog is simultaneously symbolic and real. The formal
reason for this outburst of self-will and authoritarianism is hosting the
»Brothers of liberty«. The real reason however is the hatred towards all forms of
creative existence that are actively rejecting the subordination to the authority
of »The City Council of the City of Ljubljana » - a company, in which a handful of
arbitrary and authoritarian Moguls is trampling the freedom of expression, human
dignity and diversity. It is about the methodical destroying of those rare
possibilities of autonomous and self-defined activities of individuals and groups
that reject to do just what the hegemonic model of organised social life expects
them to do. For the managerial ideology of the municipal authorities the sole
existance of such possibilities of different creativeness is already
problematical.
Therefor it is important, that you support the free, self-managing and autonomous
use of Rog. Oppose the destruction of one of the rare places in which different
forms of collective activity and life are possible. With your signing and other
forms of support you will be sending out a message that this city, this society
and this world needs places like Rog.
We ask you to send your messages of support for Rog to the Mayor's email and fax
number.
You can sign this petition at http://www.njetwork.org/spip.php?article67.
Jankovic's contacts are mail: zoran.jankovic@ljubljana.si, fax: 013061214. Please
add this information in the text and send it out.
Temporary users of Rog
Ljubljana, 21. March 2008.