Resist Eviction of Kings Crescent Estate 12pm Thursday (London N4)

Resist the evic­tion of a com­mu­ni­ty squat­ting ini­tia­tive 12PM on THURSDAY 3rd of DECEMBER. They are call­ing for as many peo­ple as pos­si­ble to assem­ble at our place from Wednes­day night onwards. Num­bers mean vic­to­ry!

Com­mu­ni­ty Squat­ting Project Under Threat

What’s Hap­pen­ing?:

Resist the evic­tion of a com­mu­ni­ty squat­ting ini­tia­tive 12PM on THURSDAY 3rd of DECEMBER. They are call­ing for as many peo­ple as pos­si­ble to assem­ble at our place from Wednes­day night onwards. Num­bers mean vic­to­ry!

Com­mu­ni­ty Squat­ting Project Under Threat

What’s Hap­pen­ing?:

The com­mu­ni­ty squat­ting project has come under yet anoth­er attack from
Hack­ney Coun­cil and the Police, this time in the form of an Anti-Social
Behav­iour Clo­sure Order. These orders, usu­al­ly used to evict crack hous­es
from com­mu­ni­ties, give the police pow­ers to evict prop­er­ty by force and to
make it a crim­i­nal offence to return to the build­ing.
As some of you may be aware, squat­ting in this coun­try is not a crim­i­nal
offence. If the own­ers of the prop­er­ty (in this case, Hack­ney Coun­cil)
want to evict squat­ters it is seen as a dis­pute between two pri­vate
par­ties and they must get a court order through the civ­il courts.
The com­mu­ni­ty squat­ting project on green lanes was opened spec­tac­u­lar­ly a
month or so ago, when a large group of peo­ple descend­ed upon a par­tial­ly
emp­ty block of flats and col­lec­tive­ly occu­pied, defend­ed, fixed up and
final­ly allo­cat­ed hous­ing to those in the group who need­ed it. Many of the
peo­ple there were first-time squat­ters, includ­ing a migrant fam­i­ly (with a
new­born baby) who had been denied social hous­ing.
Hack­ney coun­cil are keen to stamp out this kind of organ­ised squat­ting.
The legal route is not open to us here — the courts have said they can­not
hear an appeal against the clo­sure order until after Thurs­day (when the
evic­tion is due to take place). The only way for us to defend this project
and our abil­i­ty to take sim­i­lar action in the future, is through good old
fash­ioned force of num­bers. See you there.

They are to be evict­ed 12PM on THURSDAY 3rd of DECEMBER and are call­ing for
as many peo­ple as pos­si­ble to assem­ble at our place from Wednes­day night
onwards.

ADDRESS: Lems­ford Court, Brownswood Road, N4 2XN

MAP

DIRECTIONS
The Com­mu­ni­ty Squat­ting Project is just oppo­site the gates of Clis­sold
Park on Green Lanes (Stoke Newington/Finsbury Park area). It is a large
block of flats with a grey steel door to the left. Enter through this
door.