Brighton squatted social centre eviction

88 LONDON ROAD SOCIAL CENTRE EVICTION

At 7am this morn­ing the anar­chist social cen­tre at 88 Lon­don Road, Brighton was forcibly evict­ed, despite resis­tance. The Vic­to­ri­an church had been occu­pied since the Squat­ting Days of Action on the 4th and 5th of April. The space was intialy opened as part of a two day inter­na­tion­al event, com­mit­ted to cre­at­ing autonomous spaces and high­light­ing the impor­tance of squat­ting and glob­al net­work­ing.

Since then, the com­mu­ni­ty at 88 Lon­don Road had suc­ces­sive­ly resist­ed one pri­or evic­tion attempt from police. The space was being used as a social cen­tre for grass­roots move­ments, free cafes, work­shops and a lot of oth­er pos­si­ble projects for the ben­e­fit of the local com­mu­ni­ty.

Two of the occu­p­ing mem­bers of 88 were arrest­ed when they pro­longed the evic­tion by climb­ing to the rafters, clam­ber­ing into a car­go net and hang­ing high above the injus­tice below. The whole evic­tion was over by mid­day and the coun­cil spent the rest of the after­noon board­ing up an amaz­ing space that held so much poten­tial.

we will be back.….…

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