BlokR was a success! Copenhagen action day report — Ungdomshus update

The trans­formed BlokR action was held on April 3rd as planned. About 5–6000 peo­ple took part in the mas­sive demo, that went by many of the places in Copen­hagen that have sup­port­ed Ung­domshuset and housed its activ­i­ties for the last year or more. The route took near­ly four hours to walk and every mile was severe­ly enjoy­able and fes­tive with four speak­er trucks play­ing every­thing from rock through dis­co to elec­tron­i­ca.

The demo was received at the square in front of Nør­re­bro­hallen where G13 start­ed by four tripods with ban­ners in the colours of the four blocks, roman can­dles and a big ban­ner say­ing sim­ply “ung­domshuset”.

Even though the mood at the demo was fes­tive the speak­ers kept empha­siz­ing that the bat­tle is not yet over and that Thurs­day demos will con­tin­ue until we are in actu­al phys­i­cal pos­ses­sion of a new house. And even after that has hap­pened, most like­ly the Thurs­day demos will con­tin­ue, because the coun­cil has still not come through on its promise of a new chil­dren’s house that they took away and promised to replace about five years ago.

From the speak­er trucks a sol­i­dar­i­ty greet­ing was also sent out to the activists in Bukarest action­ing against the NATO sum­mit there. So the strug­gle con­tin­ues.

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10.4.2008
At the last Mon­day meet­ing of the Ung­domshusets, con­sen­sus was reached to agree­ing to an offer of a new build­ing in North­west of Copen­hagen on Dortheavej 61.

The new solu­tion for an Ung­domshus in Copen­hagen has been agreed by all par­ties involved. The final deci­sion still rests with the city coun­cil and will be for­mal­ized on June 11th, but pub­licly sev­er­al politi­cians, includ­ing the may­or Ritt Bjer­re­gaard, have ok’ed the solu­tion and Ung­domshusets Mon­day Meet­ing has agreed as well.

The new house will be in what is now a local cul­ture cen­tre under the coun­cil. It will be in two con­nect­ed build­ings, one of which will be split in half. The cul­ture cen­tre will remain in the oth­er half of the build­ing and the city coun­cil has agreed to build a new add on to com­pen­sate for the space lost to the new Ung­domshus.

The first part of the take over (the small­er build­ing com­pris­ing 600 m²) will hap­pen on July 1st. After that the main build­ing will be avail­able for take over on Jan­u­ary 1st next year.

There has been very pos­i­tive con­tact between the left rad­i­cal scene and the lead­ers of the cul­ture cen­tre, who are wel­com­ing the new house.