Category: Squatting / Free Spaces / Protest Sites

Saving Iceland tour coming to Oxford

Mon­day 23 April 7.30pm
Oxford Action Resource Cen­tre (OARC) 44b Princes St (cor­ner of Cow­ley Road)

Activists from the Sav­ing Ice­land cam­paign to defend Europe’s last great wilder­ness from destruc­tion by dams and cor­po­rate ‘devel­op­ment’ will be in Oxford next Mon­day (23rd). Come and meet them to hear about the cam­paign, this sum­mer’s protest camp and forth­com­ing con­fer­ence. Find out what peo­ple in Britain can do to help.

Dead Icelandic reindeerMon­day 23 April 7.30pm
Oxford Action Resource Cen­tre (OARC) 44b Princes St (cor­ner of Cow­ley Road)

Activists from the Sav­ing Ice­land cam­paign to defend Europe’s last great wilder­ness from destruc­tion by dams and cor­po­rate ‘devel­op­ment’ will be in Oxford next Mon­day (23rd). Come and meet them to hear about the cam­paign, this sum­mer’s protest camp and forth­com­ing con­fer­ence. Find out what peo­ple in Britain can do to help.

Tea and cof­fee avail­able. Venue unfor­tu­nate­ly not wheel­chair acces­si­ble.

http://www.savingiceland.org/camp2007
http://www.savingiceland.org/conference

Let’s defend the autonomous space “Les Tanneries” (Dijon, France)

After near­ly 10 years of exis­tence, the squat­ted autonomous space “Les Tan­ner­ies” (in Dijon, France) is being threat­ened by a pri­vate med­ical com­plex, facil­i­tat­ed by the city coun­cil.

TanneriesAfter near­ly 10 years of exis­tence, the squat­ted autonomous space “Les Tan­ner­ies” (in Dijon, France) is being threat­ened by a pri­vate med­ical com­plex, facil­i­tat­ed by the city coun­cil.

The excel­lent social cen­tre, which host­ed the cen­tralised part of the PGA con­fer­ence last year as well as dig­i­tal strug­gles and free spaces sec­tions, has a con­cert hall for do-it-your­self bands and mis­cel­la­neous per­for­mances, a hous­ing col­lec­tive and some anar­chist affin­i­ty groups, a hack­lab for devel­op­ing free soft­ware and run­ning alter­na­tive servers, a free-shop, a space for mecanics and a bike-repair work­shop, rehearsal rooms and silk-screen­ing facil­i­ties, a meet­ing space, an organ­ic gar­den, an alter­na­tive media cen­ter, a squat­ters’ helpdesk, a library, diverse eco­log­i­cal con­struc­tions, dozens of col­lec­tives, asso­ci­a­tions, and local and inter­na­tion­al net­works that use the space to organ­ise gigs, info-nights, actions, skill-shares, meet­ings and projects…

Les Tan­ner­ies

Let’s defend the autonomous space “Les Tan­ner­ies”
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Català : http://squat.net/tanneries/documents/EADT-C-20070324-cat.txt
Deutsch : http://squat.net/tanneries/documents/EADT-C-20070324-de.txt
Español : http://squat.net/tanneries/documents/EADT-C-20070324-es.txt
Euskara : http://squat.net/tanneries/documents/EADT-C-20070324-eu.txt
Français : http://squat.net/tanneries/documents/EADT-C-20070324-fr.txt
Ital­iano : http://squat.net/tanneries/documents/EADT-C-20070324-it.txt

After near­ly 10 years of exis­tence, the squat­ted autonomous space “Les Tan­ner­ies” (in Dijon, France) is being threat­ened by a pri­vate med­ical com­plex, facil­i­tat­ed by the city coun­cil.

We have just learnt that Dijon’s city coun­cil had start­ed nego­ci­a­tions to sell our occu­pied social cen­tre and its sur­round­ings to devel­op­pers, and we need to act quick­ly. This is why we have writ­ten the fol­low­ing state­ment, explain­ing why and how we will strug­gle for the very exis­tence of our free space.

After a first protest gath­er­ing and an occu­pa­tion of the city hall meet­ing in Dijon, as well as a num­ber of sup­port e‑mails from around the world, the coun­cil has slight­ly backed up, say­ing they will con­sid­er putting our space aside from the build­ing plans. How­ev­er, there’s no way we can take that for grant­ed; not if we don’t main­tain pres­sure, and
pre­pare to act when­ev­er we face anoth­er alert.

To all those you have been sup­port­ing us in the last few days, we want to say: “thanks for the amaz­ing strenght and sup­port you gave us”. We still incite you all to voice your dis­con­tent to the munic­i­pal­i­ty, by let­ters, tele­phone or e‑mails:

Mairie de Dijon,
M. François Reb­samen, Phone: (+33|0)-380–745-151
place de la Libéra­tion, E‑mail: francois.rebsamen@ville-dijon.fr
21000 Dijon, France.

We need to main­tain the pres­sure, and take the time to cre­ate a wider mobil­i­sa­tion. Thanks again, and be ready!

* * *

With­out any pub­lic con­sul­ta­tion, but with the typ­i­cal secre­cy that typ­i­cal­ly accom­pa­nies hot top­ics dur­ing elec­toral peri­ods, the “social­ist” city coun­cil of Dijon is mak­ing deci­sions that could lead to the end of the autonomous space “Les Tan­ner­ies”, a self-man­aged polit­i­cal, social, cul­tur­al cen­tre that was squat­ted in 1997 and since then has become an impor­tant node for anar­chist orga­niz­ing and rad­i­cal activism through­out France and Europe. Need­less to say, we won’t let the coun­cil car­ry out their plans!

We have known since the begin­ning that we would have to main­tain a per­ma­nent vig­i­lence, despite the no-evic­tion agree­ment we obtained from the coun­cil in 2002 after years of fight­ing. In ear­ly March 2007, after hear­ing per­sis­tant rumours about threat­en­ing projects, we got in touch with the coun­cil and asked for expla­na­tions. In spite of repeat­ed
queries by mail and tele­phone, we were denied any answer. Two days ago, we got the con­fir­ma­tion from a trust­wor­thy but unof­fi­cial source, that the city coun­cil had sent a writ­ten pro­pos­al to the “Générale de San­té”, offer­ing them the whole piece of land where our space is locat­ed for the con­struc­tion of a 25-acre-wide pri­vate med­ical com­plex by 2009.

While pub­lic health­care ser­vices are being threat­ened by neo-lib­er­al pri­vatis­ing strate­gies in Europe, will the Dijon city coun­cil encour­age a “two gear” health sys­tem?

Does it want to con­tribute to the monop­oly of Générale de San­té, the biggest euro­pean pri­vate health transna­tion­al (1.741 bil­lion euros of prof­it in 2006, 10% of the transna­tion­al being owned by Viven­di) by offer­ing them land that is close to the city cen­tre, almost in front of the pub­lic hos­pi­tal? The Générale de San­té would thus seize this great oppor­tu­ni­ty to close its near­by hos­pi­tals rather than ren­o­vat­ing them.

Despite its pro­pa­gan­da for “par­tic­i­pa­tive democ­ra­cy”, the city coun­cil did not ask us or any­one else from the neigh­bour­hood before propos­ing the deal which not only threat­ens us, but would also decide upon the future of a whole part of town.

* * *

Why sup­port Les Tan­ner­ies loud and clear?

The coun­cil’s poli­cies are already threat­en­ing the inde­pen­dant the­ater “L’El­do­ra­do”, as well as the squat called “Le Tobog­gan”. By plan­ning to shut down “Les Tan­ner­ies”, the coun­cil will osten­si­bly con­firm that the so-called “social­ist” par­ty wants France to be a police state with­out places of resis­tance, exper­i­men­ta­tion and pop­u­lar cul­ture.

“Les Tan­ner­ies” hosts a con­cert hall for do-it-your­self bands and mis­cel­la­neous per­for­mances, a hous­ing col­lec­tive and some anar­chist affin­i­ty groups, a hack­lab for devel­op­ing free soft­ware and run­ning alter­na­tive servers, a free-shop, a space for mecanics and a bike-repair work­shop, rehearsal rooms and silk-screen­ing facil­i­ties, a meet­ing
space, an organ­ic gar­den, an alter­na­tive media cen­ter, a squat­ters’ helpdesk, a library, diverse eco­log­i­cal con­struc­tions, dozens of col­lec­tives, asso­ci­a­tions, and local and inter­na­tion­al net­works that use the space to organ­ise gigs, info-nights, actions, skill-shares, meet­ings and projects…

While pub­lic cul­tur­al spaces run with the help of huge grants, and pri­vate ones thanks to busi­ness­es and spon­sors, hun­dreds of peo­ple come week­ly to “Les Tan­ner­ies” to cre­ate a tru­ly inde­pen­dent cul­ture and indulge in all kinds of activ­i­ties for free or on a “slid­ing-scale” basis. To pre­serve its free­dom, “Les Tan­ner­ies” has always been run
with­out any kind of sub­sidees nor any employ­ees.

In a coun­try where self-man­aged struc­tures are almost always repressed and there­fore frag­ile, “Les Tan­ner­ies” is one of the very few long last­ing projects of this kind. Hence it has become a resource­ful place and a cru­cial part of an autonomous, activist and counter-cul­tur­al scene in Europe.

“Les Tan­ner­ies” is about putting rad­i­cal social views into prac­tice and about pro­vid­ing tools for peo­ple to expe­ri­ence their ideas. We try to break down the bor­ders between our “per­son­al lives” and the “polit­i­cal world” — an attempt at orga­niz­ing in for­mal hor­i­zon­tal fash­ion, against author­i­tar­i­an and hier­ar­chi­cal struc­tures.

We want to build things our­selves and change our own lives by chal­leng­ing dom­i­na­tion, racism, sex­ism and homo­pho­bia — in the streets, as much as with­in our own walls. Most impor­tant­ly, we want to do it now, rather than wait for some D‑day that might not come.

How­ev­er, “Les Tan­ner­ies” does­n’t want to be a “nice and friend­ly” alter­na­tive that won’t shove estab­lished pow­ers too vio­lent­ly, nor does it want to be some tol­er­at­ed folk­lor­i­cal zoo that would prove the demo­c­ra­t­ic good­will of coun­cil lead­ers. We’re here to strug­gle and change the world, nat­u­ral­ly!

Still, we don’t fan­ta­size about stand­ing on the fringe of soci­ety. Con­trary to the cyn­i­cal main­stream polit­i­cal norm, expe­ri­ences such as ours are show­ing it is pos­si­ble to prac­ti­cal­ly chal­lenge cap­i­tal­ism and author­i­ty with­out elec­toral speech­es. Through­out its exis­tence, “Les Tan­ner­ies” has proved that it is not only real­is­tic, but also rel­e­vant to self-organ­ise with­out insti­tu­tions. We also believe that we’ve demon­strat­ed that our project is not just the deliri­ous utopia of a bunch of kids who will change their minds when they grow old­er.

“Les Tan­ner­ies”, just like all these places stand­ing against the world sur­round­ing them, is unique in its way, and yet bound to the his­to­ry of so many. It sprang out of the dreams, col­lu­sions and affini­ties, encoun­ters and com­bat­iv­i­ty of hun­dreds of peo­ple. Carved with­in its walls are the joys and angers, rages and pas­sions, adven­tures and emo­tions of sev­er­al gen­er­a­tions.

* * *

# Our project can’t be moved or destroyed;
# It must stay in the neigh­bour­hood!

What­ev­er the new urban devel­op­ment plans for the neigh­bour­hood might be, we will strug­gle to pre­serve what we’ve been build­ing here for ten years and to ensure that the project as a whole can car­ry on. It is per­fect­ly pos­si­ble, con­sid­er­ing how much avail­able space there is around “Les Tan­ner­ies”. With a real polit­i­cal will from the City Hall, suit­able solu­tions can be found.

Thanks to every­one for their sup­port, and thanks for the series of pres­sure actions that were done before “Les Tan­ner­ies” got an end to city harass­ment in 2002. Five years lat­er, we’re ready to start fight­ing again to defend this space and build a new net­work of resis­tance based upon the con­tacts, expe­ri­ences and com­plic­i­ties that we’ve made over the years. Not only is “Les Tan­ner­ies” deeply-root­ed local­ly, but it is also part of a larg­er com­mu­ni­ty whose affini­ties know no bor­ders. Be it through sup­port actions around the world, or by com­ing to “Les Tan­ner­ies” to phys­i­cal­ly defend the place against evic­tion, we expect this extend­ed fam­i­ly to mobi­lize with us!

Let’s hope lead­ers will keep in mind the long days and nights of demon­strat­ing and riot­ing that paral­ysed the Dan­ish cap­i­tal in the last weeks, as well as the num­ber of rad­i­cal actions that hap­pened all over Europe in sup­port of our friends in Ung­domshuset. Just like theirs, our strug­gle is a glob­al fight for self-organ­ised spaces and nodes of
sub­ver­sion to car­ry on and extend all over Europe.

While we’re very like­ly to call for sol­i­dar­i­ty actions in the future, we want to start with a warn­ing cam­paign, and incite you to write to Dijon’s city-hall to say that you want “Les Tan­ner­ies” to car­ry on exist­ing where it is. If you want to be informed of sup­port actions and demon­stra­tions, send us your e‑mail or phone num­ber at tanneries@squat.net.

We’ll defend, we’ll resist. Parce qu’on a la rage!

Dijon, March 24th 2007,
Espace auto­géré des Tan­ner­ies,
http://squat.net/tanneries/

Polish ecologists still under surveillance…

A let­ter, sent to all Pol­ish police head­quar­ters about an order to inves­ti­gate and gath­er infor­ma­tion about oppo­nents of build­ing the bypass through Rospu­da Val­ley has already been cir­cu­lat­ed around the Inter­net.

A let­ter, sent to all Pol­ish police head­quar­ters about an order to inves­ti­gate and gath­er infor­ma­tion about oppo­nents of build­ing the bypass through Rospu­da Val­ley has already been cir­cu­lat­ed around the Inter­net.

Although every­body laughs at the fact that the police are wast­ing their time keep­ing ecol­o­gists under sur­veil­lance the case is quite seri­ous because the pur­pose of this police action is defined as: “to gath­er infor­ma­tion about pos­si­ble dan­gers to pub­lic order and ille­gal sab­o­tage acts from orga­ni­za­tions which show their aver­sion to gov­ern­men­tal enter­prise”.

For the time being, it is not entire­ly obvi­ous what they are look­ing for and how this infor­ma­tion is going to be used by them but most prob­a­bly jour­nal­ists from www.zieloni.org.pl will also be under police sur­veil­lance (although we do not have any sab­o­tage plans, we show our “aver­sion” to gov­ern­men­tal project) that is why we’re going to observe con­stant­ly their plans and inform you sys­tem­at­i­cal­ly. Below you can read the let­ter to the police head­quar­ters.

The same let­ter was sent to all police head­quar­ters in Poland (a copy of the let­ter is avail­able from the web­site http://adamwajrak.blox.pl)

From: The Crime Divi­sion of The Police Head­quar­ters in Jele­nia Góra
To: The Police Head­quar­ters in Jele­nia Góra

TELEGRAM nr MJ-B-5421/38/07

On account of the orders includ­ed in doc­u­ment no WK II 146/06 from the Chief of the Police Sta­tion, Kon­rad Kor­na­tows­ki, dat­ed 19 Feb 2007 about the plans for build­ing the Augusów bypass (Pod­lask­ie province) I would like to ask to order sub­or­di­nate police­men to direct work of per­son­al sources of infor­ma­tion (and to recruit new ones) to gath­er infor­ma­tion about pos­si­ble dan­gers to pub­lic order and ille­gal sab­o­tage acts from orga­ni­za­tions which show their aver­sion to gov­ern­men­tal enter­prise.

All the infor­ma­tion should be sent to SMI WWK KWP in Wrocław (with “Rospu­da” in the sub­ject of the report) and The Crime Divi­sion from The Police Head­quar­ters in Jele­nia Góra should be informed at the same time.

One copy was made.

(sent via fax)

Writ­ten by JL

VICE GOVERNOR
of the Crime Divi­sion
The Police Head­quar­ters in Jele­nia Góra

Chief Inspec­tor Artur KRAWCZYK

[a com­ment by the author of the post] I am not sure what it sup­posed to be: is it a joke or should I start to pan­ic that we are under sur­veil­lance. I won­der what they are going to do with this infor­ma­tion and for what and where they are look­ing… It’s mad­ness! So far I count on free flow of infor­ma­tion and that they will restrain them­selves when they see that every­body has read these let­ters.

Spray Building ‘spring into action’ open for business

Here in Not­ting­ham, A ‘free space’ has been made avail­able and is now pre­pared for use. There will be many work­shops here and at the oth­er loca­tions around town.

Spring into Action EF bannerHere in Not­ting­ham, A ‘free space’ has been made avail­able and is now pre­pared for use. There will be many work­shops here and at the oth­er loca­tions around town.

Thu 5th — Wed 11th Apr, Spring into Action — A week of work­shops, events, music and action on cli­mate change hap­pen­ing at dif­fer­ent venues across Not­ting­ham. It is expect­ed that with­in this peri­od, there will be some work­days, were you will be able to turn up, and get involved in help­ing build the project

Spring Into Action — A week of events on Cli­mate Change, hap­pen­ing in Not­ting­ham

Thurs­day 5th — Wednes­day 11th April 2007

This is the ‘full’ Pro­gramme of Events, with dates, time, loca­tions .…. and every­thing

http://www.eastsideclimateaction.org.uk/workshops/programme/

info@eastsideclimateaction.org.uk
http://www.eastsideclimateaction.org.uk

Please check Not­ting­hamshire Indy­media on the ‘Events’ col­umn [left hard side] for details of what when, how and where, near­er the time.

A week of work­shops, events, music and action on cli­mate change hap­pen­ing at dif­fer­ent venues across Not­ting­ham.

Cli­mate change is real and its hap­pen­ing now. Gov­ern­ments and cor­po­ra­tions dream of con­tin­ued eco­nom­ic growth — eco­nom­ic growth can’t solve this cri­sis, but we can. A mas­sive and con­cert­ed effort is need­ed on the scale of ‘Dig for Vic­to­ry’ or the ‘Home Front’: A war on cli­mate change.

We can’t con­tin­ue our cur­rent way of life — the oil on which it all depends is run­ning out too fast. A shift to a local­ly based econ­o­my will have to hap­pen, with food and ener­gy being pro­duced by the peo­ple that use it. The only ques­tion is when? We could start now, or we could wait for a future of war, famine, hur­ri­canes, droughts and floods. We need to gain the courage and change fast enough to cul­ti­vate a new world, before it’s too late.

‘Spring into Action’ is part of an emerg­ing grass­roots move­ment against cli­mate change. Born out of the Camp for Cli­mate Action (www.climatecamp.org.uk), ‘Spring into Action’ unites peo­ple across the east of Eng­land into mak­ing changes in our own lives, cre­at­ing small scale solu­tions in our com­mu­ni­ties and resist­ing those who still seek their own short term gain over a safe future for us all.

So get involved, come join a work­shop or run one your­self, come and help organ­ise the change that you want to expe­ri­ence in our world.

info@eastsideclimateaction.org.uk
http://www.eastsideclimateaction.org.uk

Machinery occupied near anti-pipeline camp (plus camp directions, carnival footage, news of court ruling on terminal…)

2.04.2007

Activists have once again climbed on machin­ery to delay work on Nation­al Grid’s 200 mile gas pipeline. Work was stopped near the anti-pipeline tree camp for sev­er­al hours on two con­sec­u­tive days.

2.04.2007

Activists have once again climbed on machin­ery to delay work on Nation­al Grid’s 200 mile gas pipeline. Work was stopped near the anti-pipeline tree camp for sev­er­al hours on two con­sec­u­tive days.

Trees around the anti-pipeline tree camp in Pen­pont have been chopped down in recent days and heavy machin­ery has been brought in to enable work on the pipeline to start in the area. How­ev­er, the anti-pipeline camp has still not been evict­ed. More peo­ple are urgent­ly need­ed to take part in the grow­ing resis­tance to the pipeline, which is caus­ing huge destruc­tion to the envi­ron­ment and pos­es seri­ous safe­ty risks.

For more infor­ma­tion on the dam­ag­ing effects of the pipeline: fightthepipe.co.uk

DIRECTIONS to Pen­pont tree camp:

The protest camp is in ancient wood­land at Pen­pont, 4 miles west of Bre­con on the A40 close to Bet­tws Pen­pont church. It is locat­ed at Ord­nance Sur­vey nation­al grid ref­er­ence SN9728728525. There is a bus going from Cardiff coach sta­tion to Bre­con town (X43, takes aprox 1hr, costs around £4). From the bus stop you get off at in Bre­con town (the only bus stop there) there is anoth­er bus that goes right past the camp (£1.60, aprox 10 mins- ask dri­ver for tree camp, you will prob­a­bly see ban­ners on the left).

DONATIONS:

Peo­ple on site are request­ing any dona­tions. Please send sup­plies of all sorts, espe­cial­ly beams for build­ing, tarp, rope, nails, D‑locks, heavy chains, stuff for lock-ons (sand, cement, grav­el.), har­ness­es and oth­er climb­ing gear, scrap met­al, cud­dles etc etc etc.
We can use almost any tat…

Please come vis­it the camp before it’s too late!

Footage of Sat­ur­day 24th March Tre­banos car­ni­val against pipeline.

News of court rul­ing stop­ping work on ter­mi­nal — http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/6510957.stm

Camberwell Squatted Centre holds it down!!!

Hold­ing it down since 10th March, the Cam­ber­well Squat­ted Cen­tre unleash­es a new wave of activ­i­ty. Upcom­ing events include cafes, bar-socials, films and a sec­ond­hand book­sale.

We have made amaz­ing leaps and bounds with a very trashed build­ing — you can see a pic­ture gallery of this work in progress at our web­site.

Hold­ing it down since 10th March, the Cam­ber­well Squat­ted Cen­tre unleash­es a new wave of activ­i­ty. Upcom­ing events include cafes, bar-socials, films and a sec­ond­hand book­sale.

We have made amaz­ing leaps and bounds with a very trashed build­ing — you can see a pic­ture gallery of this work in progress at our web­site.

Full pro­gramme of events at
http://www.56a.org.uk/warham.html

Come and down and get involved. Want to use the space — mail us with your ideas. The more days we can open the bet­ter…

Some bod­ies at
Cam­ber­well Squat­ted Cen­tre

blackfrog@alphabetthreat.co.uk

Bath Climate Camp — info and wish list

Between late after­noon on thurs­day 19th of April and sun­day 22nd April, there is going to be a cli­mate camp just out­side of Bath focus­ing on Land and Marines offices (the com­pa­ny build­ing the gas pipeline smash­ing through Wales).

Between late after­noon on thurs­day 19th of April and sun­day 22nd April, there is going to be a cli­mate camp just out­side of Bath focus­ing on Land and Marines offices (the com­pa­ny build­ing the gas pipeline smash­ing through Wales).

The camp is shap­ing up to be a real­ly good event. We have most things up togeth­er such as bands, a veg­an field kitchen, a com­post toi­let, mar­quees etc, but there are a few things we could do with more of includ­ing

- Mate­ri­als for ban­ner mak­ing, car­ni­val props etc
— vegetables/spices/pulses — we have got food sort­ed out, but could always do with some more
— reclaimed wood for fires and con­struc­tion

Most impor­tant­ly, we need peo­ple to attend the camp, as this is an oppor­tu­ni­ty to take the fight over the pipeline to the front door of those build­ing it.

as well as bands, food, work­shops, DIY ses­sions and kids activ­i­ties, we have two demos planned -

*fri­day 20th of April — All day — Shut down Land and Marine — a day of autonomous actions against Land and Marines offices. Wether you want to block­ade, make music, ban­ner drop, leaflet, or any­thing else you can think of, all non vio­lent actions and all non-vio­lent peo­ple are very wel­come!

*Sat­ur­day 21st April — Par­ty against Petrol — Meet at 11 at Bath Cli­mate Camp or 12 at Bath Abbey — A col­or­ful, noisy car­ni­val against car cul­ture and fos­sil fuels, roam­ing around Bath and stop­ping to par­ty and high­light some local cli­mate crim­i­nals!

we hold week­ly plan­ning meet­ings on Thurs­days in the hob­gob­lin (47 st. James Parade) at 7.30 in the down­stairs room, all are wel­come.

For more info, to request posters/booklets etc or to ask any ques­tions, please e‑mail bathclimatecamp@yahoo.co.uk or check out www.myspace.com/bathclimatecamp

See you in the fields!

bathclimatecamp@yahoo.co.uk
http://www.myspace.com/bathclimatecamp

Developing Social Centre — Sheffield

Any­body want to help devel­op a social cen­tre ..

45 Marl­bor­ough Road, Broomhill S10

We’ve been fix­ing up an old 20 room house in Broomhill.
We’ve housed des­ti­tute state­less, had plumb­ing work­shops, Bike work­shops some art works are appear­ing and Its been used as a film set for inde­pen­dent film.

Sheffield social centre 1
Sheffield social centre 2

Any­body want to help devel­op a social cen­tre ..

45 Marl­bor­ough Road, Broomhill S10

We’ve been fix­ing up an old 20 room house in Broomhill.
We’ve housed des­ti­tute state­less, had plumb­ing work­shops, Bike work­shops some art works are appear­ing and Its been used as a film set for inde­pen­dent film.
There is heat­ing and light­ing .. but NO elec­tric­i­ty.
We have a well stocked kitchen with the alter­na­tive super­mar­kets out the back of Somer­field and Sains­buries eas­i­ly acces­si­ble.

There is a great room down­stairs with an arched win­dow that would make a won­der­ful acoustic gig space.

Inter­net access is avail­able whilst bat­ter­ies stay charged.

If you have any meet­ings or social events that would ben­e­fit by being held in a free non com­mer­cial autonomous space come around and make use of the space. This would help us also main­tain and defend the space.

See you soon.
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»>Amaz­ing!

If I have done my home­work right, this house was used as a meet­ing room and cam­paign­ing cen­tre by local suf­fragettes at the turn of last cen­tu­ry.
Adela Pankhurst — the youngest Pankhurst daugh­ter — lived here 1910–1912.
We must con­tin­ue the rad­i­cal tra­di­tion of this beau­ti­ful house.

National Grid feeling the pressure as time runs out on giant pipeline project (& video interviews)

Nation­al Grid’s pet pipeline is way behind sched­ule. They are in a pan­icked rush to get it built and avoid hefty fines, but a deter­mined protest cam­paign and the rugged welsh land­scape are gang­ing up on the ill-fat­ed pipe.

Nation­al Grid’s pet pipeline is way behind sched­ule. They are in a pan­icked rush to get it built and avoid hefty fines, but a deter­mined protest cam­paign and the rugged welsh land­scape are gang­ing up on the ill-fat­ed pipe.

Nation­al Grid will be penalised with hefty fines if they don’t com­plete the project on time, so they are pulling out the stops — dou­bling the num­ber of dig­gers they use from 200 to 400 and work­ing in 4 places at the same time.

Phase 1 of the project, from Mil­ford Haven to Ffe­lin­dre, is 90% com­plete, but phase 2, from Ffe­lin­dre to Tir­ley in Glouces­ter­shire, is far from.

“This is one of the biggest [projects] we have ever built,” says Kees Ezin­ga, head of oper­a­tions for con­trac­tor Nacap Land & Marine Joint Ven­ture. (Nation­al Grid have con­tract­ed them to do the actu­al build­ing bit.)
“Last year, we man­aged to [lay] 100 km of pipe in two spreads. But we have four spreads to go and are bring­ing in extra equip­ment,” says Ezin­ga. “Start­ing in April, we only have four months to [fin­ish] this job.”
Full arti­cle at…
http://enr.construction.com/news/transportation/archives/070226b.asp

Clear­ly its time to step up the protests and make it as hard as pos­si­ble for them to work. A con­cert­ed effort now could push the project far beyond the dead­line, cost­ing Nation­al Grid some seri­ous mon­ey and under­min­ing the via­bil­i­ty of the whole thing. Even if they do even­tu­al­ly get the thing built, it would be mas­sive­ly over-bud­get and, as hap­pened with the road-build­ing projects of the 90s, future destruc­tive and car­bon-inten­sive projects could be scrapped.

The protest camp in Bre­con is under imme­di­ate threat of an evic­tion, just when Nation­al Grid are start­ing to pan­ic. They need peo­ple to come and sup­port them, even if you can only come for the day. Its in the Bre­con Bea­cons Nation­al Park, in beau­ti­ful wood­land. You can find the lat­est news, pic­tures, and the site con­tact phone num­ber and direc­tions here:
http://risingtide.org.uk/node/193

There are lots of events com­ing up around the pipeline.

On Sat­ur­day 24th March, there will be a Car­ni­val against the Pipe, start­ing at 2pm in Tre­banos, near Swansea.
Details:
http://www.fightthepipe.co.uk/?m=200703

There will be a bike tour of the pipe, start­ing at the Car­ni­val and going all the way along the length to Glouces­ter­shire. Have a look at…
http://risingtide.org.uk/bristol/bikethepipe
to see the route and read more about it. The bike tour will be stop­ping to spread the word about the dodgy pipeline in the com­mu­ni­ties that it pass­es through.

On 20th-21st of April, Bath Cli­mate Camp, is tar­get­ting the offices of NACAP Joint Ven­ture Land & Marine, who are the con­trac­tors build­ing the pipe for Nation­al Grid…
They are inspired by the Cli­mate Camp at Drax last Sep­tem­ber.
More info : http://risingtide.org.uk/node/199

http://risingtide.org.uk/bristol

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With evic­tion at the camp look­ing immi­nent, cam­paign­ers appeal for peo­ple to join them in the fight against the pipe.

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Video also on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNzWVsO-3k4

Christiana callout for mass action

Call­out for activists to come to Chris­tia­nia to fight for the 24 year old Dan­ish squat­ted vil­lage, on Sat­ur­day 31st March.

After 24 years as an alter­na­tive and pro­gres­sive cul­ture cen­tre for the youth of Copen­hagen Ung­domshuset was stormed and evict­ed by the police on March 1st.

Ever since, thou­sands of peo­ple has been tak­en the streets all over the world to protest against the evic­tion and to demand a new place and a future for the cul­tur­al and polit­i­cal activ­i­ties that took place at Jagtvej 69.

Christiania mapCall­out for activists to come to Chris­tia­nia to fight for the 24 year old Dan­ish squat­ted vil­lage, on Sat­ur­day 31st March.

After 24 years as an alter­na­tive and pro­gres­sive cul­ture cen­tre for the youth of Copen­hagen Ung­domshuset was stormed and evict­ed by the police on March 1st.

Ever since, thou­sands of peo­ple has been tak­en the streets all over the world to protest against the evic­tion and to demand a new place and a future for the cul­tur­al and polit­i­cal activ­i­ties that took place at Jagtvej 69.

Ung­domshuset was not the only tar­get of repres­sion. Chris­tia­nia is also fight­ing attempts of nor­mal­iza­tion. We are strug­gling against an attack on every sin­gle one of our free spaces.

This is why we call on all our friends and sup­port­ers for a huge unit­ed protest from Chris­tia­nia Sat­ur­day the 31 of March at 2pm. For more infor­ma­tion check www.ungeren.dk and www.jagtvej69.dk. For con­tact write to
ktownhc@care2.com

We invite every­one to come and fill the streets Copen­hagen with peo­ple to show the politi­cians, that we will not accept them evict­ing and tear­ing down a lib­er­at­ed space with­out offer­ing any­thing in return to the kids and
young­sters of the city. Nor will we accept the stran­gu­la­tion of Chris­tia­nia.

All over Europe our free spaces are threat­ened and attacked by the gov­ern­ments. We will not accept this aggres­sion on our lives and we will not accept the repres­sion against the right to a diver­si­ty of cul­tures.

We demand free space for every­one who refus­es to join the com­mer­cial­ized dull­ness of main­stream soci­ety.

We demand a youth house now and we demand a com­plete stop to the aggres­sion against Chris­tia­nia.

We will nev­er sur­ren­der

The Protest will include grannys kids and bikes. there will be sleep­ing­places for peo­ple from abroud.

pass this mes­sage on to all friends!

greet­ings from the old Youth­house crew, the new youth­house moove­ment in CPH and the defend chris­tia­nia ini­tia­tiv.

http://www.christiania.org/