Non Commercial House is gone again…

On Wednes­day 3rd Feb at 9.20 am, High Court Bailiffs came round the Non Com­mer­cial House Free Shop, armed pre­sum­ably with a resti­tu­tion war­rant, and evict­ed the place and its occupiers.Owners and Bailiffs seemed quite hap­py to pre­vent us from run­ning a FreeShop (oooooh, scary, giv­ing out shit for free!!!!) and mak­ing some more peo­ple home­less because they want to keep their build­ing emp­ty for anoth­er cou­ple of years.

Once a per­son com­ing into the shop sim­ply asked: “but why do they want to evict you?” Thats a very good ques­tion isn’t it? Why? Prob­a­bly hun­dreds of rea­sons, just pick your favorite one. Maybe the rea­son they want us out is exact­ly why we’re mov­ing in! 🙂

So the Non Com­mer­cial House Free Shop is gone. It’s been an amaz­ing project, so many peo­ple just pass­ing by, com­ing in, hav­ing a quick chat, being so shocked that this was a squat and that some of the peo­ple they were talk­ing to were actu­al­ly here in rela­tion to their anar­chist pol­i­tics, tak­ing a cou­ple of cool things they liked, promis­ing to bring some of their own unused stuff (and some­times actu­al­ly doing it!!!!).

Apart from hav­ing loads of peo­ple giv­ing and tak­ing the most incred­i­ble stuff on open­ing days, many com­ple­men­tary activ­i­ties hap­pened in the house: bike repairs, par­ties, Span­ish lessons, moth­ers’ gath­er­ing, work­shop of noth­ing, polyamory work­shop, squat­ting meet­ings, wire­less hack­ing, queer fash­ion show, film screen­ings and box­ing in the base­ment, etc

It’s also been so much fun for every­one involved that it would be sur­pris­ing not to see some more FreeShop blos­som­ing lat­er this year…

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email: non­com­mer­cial­house at riseup.net