UK free-spaces news — Rampart & Worcester possible evictions

New social cen­tre under threat of ille­gal & pos­si­bly vio­lent evic­tion tomor­row
21.10.2008
This is to inform every­one as well as a call-out for sup­port — new­ly occu­pied com­mu­ni­ty and arts cen­tre in Worces­ter threat­ened with ille­gal and pos­si­bly vio­lent evic­tion tomor­row.

This is a call-out for sup­port — if you can get here before mid­night tonight and want to stay here, and eat with us and have a mer­ry night then please do. After mid­night, the last door will be ful­ly bar­ri­cad­ed. Any­one wish­ing to show sup­port for this ille­gal evic­tion after this point please turn up at 13–17 Car­den Street (off City Walls Road), Worces­ter WR1 around 11.30 tomor­row (WEDNESDAY), bring ban­ners, cam­eras and cam­era-phones and pro­vide pos­i­tive pub­lic rela­tions, because if they are forc­ing their way into our home IT IS ILLEGAL and we will not be scared by this bull­shit.

So what hap­pened…?
At about 15:30 today a bailiff arrived at the door with a let­ter on behalf of Keather Prop­er­ties Ltd. THE LETTER IS TRANSCRIBED AT THE BOTTOM FOR ANYONE WHO WANTS TO READ THE BOLLOCKS NOTICE

We’ve been on the phone to the Advi­so­ry Ser­vice for Squat­ters, and they have con­firmed that this is a total­ly ille­gal evic­tion. They have dealt with mat­ters like this on a day to day basis for 30 years and under­stand the law a lot bet­ter than most com­mer­cial lawyers. They assure us any attempt to evict tomor­row will be crim­i­nal and we should defend our­selves with num­bers and phys­i­cal bar­ri­cades. The ‘exer­cis­ing their rights’ part applies to land, and not build­ings. And see­ing as a tent can apply as a build­ing, an 8000 square ft com­mer­cial build­ing cer­tain­ly counts!

This would be a dif­fer­ent sto­ry if we only lived here.. but for two sol­id weeks we have been putting all our love and ener­gy into this place. We have had dreams become real­i­ty in cre­at­ing a space where any­one is wel­come and can come and cre­ate any­thing, any­time they want.

Com­mu­nal cook­ing, cir­cuit bend­ing and sewing work­shops, music prac­tice, paint­ing, and much much more was on the agen­da — our gallery cov­ered with work from many dif­fer­ent local artists, and now we have been dis­cov­ered we are being pre­sent­ed with ille­gal and vio­lent threats.

This whole thing is new to us.. but the bar­ri­cades are being strength­ened and peo­ple are get­ting ready for a poten­tial­ly long day of defend­ing the Wet Paint build­ing.

This is a call-out for sup­port — if you can get here before mid­night tonight and want to stay here, and eat with us and have a mer­ry night then please do. After mid­night, the last door will be ful­ly bar­ri­cad­ed. Any­one wish­ing to show sup­port for this ille­gal evic­tion after this point please turn up at 13–17 Car­den Street (off City Walls Road), Worces­ter WR1 around 11.30 tomor­row (WEDNESDAY), bring ban­ners, cam­eras and cam­era-phones and pro­vide pos­i­tive pub­lic rela­tions because if they are forc­ing their way into our home IT IS A CRIMINAL OFFENCE and we will not be scared by this bull­shit.

call us on 07965710354

Your friends at WET PAINT 🙂

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TAKE NOTICE

KEATHER PROPERTIES LTD (LANDOWNER) are the own­ers of the land on which you are tres­pass­ing and require you to leave. You are here with­out con­sent and are there­fore tres­pass­ing and have no right to remain. You should there­fore leave togeth­er with all your vehi­cles and goods by 1200 hours on the 22 day of Octo­ber 2008.

If you fail to do so, KEATHER PROPERTIES LTD (LANDOWNER) will exer­cise its rights to self-help to remove you from the land and have instruct­ed Bailiffs from Swift Cred­it Ser­vices Lim­it­ed to do so on its behalf. This right, under Com­mon Law, is set out on Hals­burys law of Eng­land. The police will attend if nec­es­sary to ensure that there is no breach of the peace.

Should this enforce­ment action by nec­es­sary , you will be held respon­si­ble for all costs of your removal and trans­porta­tion and KEATHER PROPERTIES LTD (LANDOWNER) may take pro­ceed­ings against you for the recov­ery of these costs.

KEATHER PROPERTIES LTD (LANDOWNER) will be enti­tled to take such action because you failed to respond to a request to leave the land on which you are cur­rent­ly tres­pass­ing.

DATED THIS 21 DAY OF OCTOBER 2008
SIGNED
LANDOWNER KEATHER PROPERTIES LTD
ADDRESS C/O ROBERT DAVIES PARTNERSHIP LTD.

wetpaint@riseup.net

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SAVE the Ram­pART

21 Octo­ber 2008
Ram­pART Lon­don’s longest last­ing lib­er­at­ed space is fac­ing evic­tion.

yes­ter­day a mem­ber of the Ram­pART col­lec­tive talked to a guy out­side Ram­pART, who intro­duced him­self as Stu­art who was also present at court on the 20th of Decem­ber. he said that the coun­cil build­ing con­trol depart­ment had been has­sling them and he’d nar­row­ly avoid­ed them slap­ping a court order on them last week in rela­tion to dan­ger­ous parts of the build­ing such as slates hang­ing off etc.

they have been try­ing to get us evict­ed since March and got there­fore a war­rant from the high court, which means they are using the high court bailiffs, the police say they need 80 offi­cers and demand­ed £25,000 for the costs. so the own­er took the police to court and the police backed down. the hold up is still the police who have not giv­en a date yet…

so.…

basi­cal­ly the Ram­pART could be evict­ed any time and it’s just the police being the ones that has held it up. we will not get notice of the date of the
evic­tion and we will find it dif­fi­cult to hold off 80 cops and bailiffs on a sur­prise 5am evic­tion. we do need to pro-active­ly find anoth­er build­ing as a back­up. we won’t give in with­out resist­ing the evic­tion to make a state­ment against gen­tri­fi­ca­tion and the evic­tion of free spaces in east Lon­don.

we invite you to come and get cre­ative in its defence. this Thurs­day we are launch­ing an ongo­ing time of action.

we’ll start build­ing and cook­ing @ 3 pm, then Dan­ish activists will share expe­ri­ences from the youth house @ 6 pm, din­ner around 7.30 and build­ing and direct action skill-shar­ing after that. we need tools for mak­ing the bar­ri­cades effi­cient and beau­ti­ful, so if you have access to tools or mate­ri­als please bring them along.

when we fight for Ram­part we are not just fight­ing to defend the space. we are part of a world wide strug­gle against the cap­i­tal­ist world order.

we are fight­ing for every­one’s rights to learn and edu­cate, share, live and love with­out author­i­ties.

we are fight­ing for our dreams.

now is the time to show Lon­don and the rest of the world that the strug­gle con­tin­ues…

rampart@mutualaid.org
http://www.rampart.co.nr