Camberwell Squatted Centre: Under immediate threat!!! Court & events update

The Cam­ber­well Squat­ted Cen­tre has seen its court date brought for­ward to TUESDAY 10th JULY plac­ing the Cen­tre under dan­ger of evic­tion in the very near future. How can you help?

Emer­gency meet­ing MONDAY 9th JULY at 7.30 pm
Cam­ber­well Squat­ted Cen­tre
190 Warham St
off Cam­ber­well New Rd
Cam­ber­well SE5
bus 185, 36, 436
tube Oval

We have been in occu­pa­tion of the build­ing on Warham St since 10th March. Since then we have filled almost every day with events for any and every­one.

Now we are fac­ing the real­i­ty that we have always faced, that we will be thrown out of the build­ing we have lov­ing­ly restored to life.

So see you in court Mr Prop­er­ty Spec­u­la­tor…

Please check our web­site for news and also to see how you can keep the spir­it of the Cam­ber­well Squat­ted Cen­tre alive

Black Frog Col­lec­tive
@
blackfrog@alphabetthreat.co.uk
http://www.56a.org.uk/warham.html

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Cam­ber­well Squat — own­ers grant­ed Pos­ses­sion Order

Cam­ber­well Squat Cen­tre | 11.07.2007 01:43 | Free Spaces | Social Strug­gles | Lon­don
Tues­day July 10th, the own­ers of the build­ing were grant­ed a Pos­ses­sion Order to regain the prop­er­ty. Bail­ifs could pay a vis­it any time from Wednes­day 11th. Please come along, we plan to stay in the cen­tre for as long as we can…

After two adjourn­ments and much legal shenan­ni­gan­ing the Cam­ber­well Squat­ted Cen­tre at 192 Warham Street SE5 has entered its final phase…

Twice we have man­aged to gain adjourn­ments on the grounds that we had a licence to stay in the place grant­ed by Sean Dav­ey and John Desmond, the two char­ac­ters we had been deal­ing with from the own­ers’ side, which had not been prop­er­ly end­ed before the case was brought… This time the licence argu­ment was prop­er­ly test­ed in a court. We thought we would lose.

Although we were telling the truth and Sean had grant­ed a licence, the oth­er side claimed Sean and John hadn’t done any such thing and any­way even if they had, had no author­i­ty to do so, ie they aren’t the own­ers, only care­tak­ers and builders, not enti­tled to give us per­mis­sion to stay…
They gave evi­dence, we gave evi­dence. The Judge chose to believe them.

Prop­er­ty being nine tenths of the law, we had expect­ed that this would hap­pen, regard­less of the facts in the case. The Judge in fact called us liars, though not in such words. And said they were reli­able wit­ness­es. I.e. we were squat­ters and they busi­ness­men. They want the space to demol­ish
it, build yup­pie flats or what­ev­er mon­ey-mak­ing scheme they can con­coct. Our whole project was about sub­vert­ing their world-view.

So it goes. When we squat­ted the build­ing, we expect­ed a short time there; the licence, quick­ly revoked, gave us hope of longer, but in fact we have strung it out thus far and achieved much, We have had some bril­liant events, met and got to know some fine peo­ple, explored new ways of being, in a space under our con­trol, not for prof­it but for fun and with a view to work­ing towards a dif­fer­ent world.

We always knew we would be mov­ing on some time – but this is not the end. Every such occu­pied space is a cre­ation in itself, as well as a stage along a road. The process­es we have evolved in run­ning the space, inter­act­ing there, as well as the ideas, infor­ma­tion, social­is­ing, exchange of ideas and expe­ri­ences, add up to more than the rick­ety four walls or the dead hand of prop­er­ty.

Oth­er projects will arise, oth­er spaces will be squat­ted, all of us who have been through the build­ing will take the four months we have spent there for­ward in our hearts.

We don’t yet know how long we have before the bailiffs arrive. While we are still there we will car­ry on hav­ing events, using the space, cel­e­brat­ing the time we still have. We hope you will all come by, hang out, help to keep up the amaz­ing atmos­phere that has grown up in the place. We do need peo­ple to come and hang out in the day, to keep the build­ing secure, in case of ear­ly evic­tion attempts… Do drop by. You have all helped to make this project a liv­ing thing.

Check the web­site or come by the Squat to keep in touch with what’s hap­pen­ing on the evic­tion front.

Cam­ber­well Ver­sus Death!

EVENTS PLANNED –

Obvi­ous­ly we could be evict­ed before the lat­er ones here!

WEDNESDAY 11th?FILM NIGHT: THE WORKING CLASS GOES TO HEAVEN?
Lulù is a real hard work­er. For this rea­son he is loved by the mas­ters and hat­ed by his own col­leagues. The unions decide agi­ta­tions against the mas­ters. Lulù does­n’t agree…Classic REFUSAL of WORK movie from Italy!! Sub­ti­tles. 7.30pm

THURSDAY 12th:?A talk about the Oper­a­tion Span­ner case of the 1990s, the pros­e­cu­tion and jail­ing of con­sent­ing gay men for their sado-masochis­tic sex lives and the strug­gle against their crim­i­nal­iza­tion. Talk by a founder of the Span­ner Cam­paign.

FRIDAY 13TH: Café/Bar, 8 till 1… Is there any­one out there fan­cies cook­ing for this…? The usu­al cooks are a bit tired and all Ram­sayed out… Any vol­un­teers email us… It’s not that hard.

SATURDAY 14th
Star­bucks Work­ers Rebel… A film night, talk and social in sup­port of Star­bucks work­ers organ­is­ing against their evil cap­i­tal­ist boss­es in 3 con­ti­nents. We will be show­ing the film ’Cof­fee Sirens’ about Star­bucks work­ers organ­is­ing, plus talks from peo­ple involved in pick­et­ing Star­bucks here over their attacks on union organ­is­ers in the USA and else­where. 8pm onwards, plus social after.

SUNDAY 15th
3pm: open meet­ing to dis­cuss what hap­pens next: Cam­ber­well Squat­ted Cen­tre is in court on the 20th of July, fac­ing evic­tion… We will prob­a­bly lose, after hero­ic adjourn­ments in the last two court appear­ances. So what next? For those who want to see anoth­er local autonomous social and rebel­lious space, we’re meet­ing to work out where to go and how things car­ry on.

MONDAY 16th
BUILDING MEETING
7pm

TUESDAY 17th
POLISH LESSONS. For the very begin­ners and very com­mit­ed. Bring pen and paper. Some home­work. 7.30pm
SPANISH LESSONS. For the not so begin­ners. 7.30pm

WEDNESDAY 18th FILM NIGHT: INVESTIGATION OF A CITIZEN ABOVE SUSPICION
Anoth­er clas­sic movie from 1970’s Italy!! A dis­turb­ing por­trait of police pow­er as played out through twist­ed eroti­cism and State repres­sion. Sub­ti­tles. 7.30pm

THURSDAY 19th Peace Time In Pales­tine: Ille­gal occu­pa­tion. Ille­gal Con­fis­ca­tion. Humiliation.?The Wall of Shame. Inter­na­tion­al Sup­port. A talk and slideshow by a wit­ness and human rights observ­er after two months in Pales­tine (more on http://ana-en.blogspot.com). 7.30pm