reclaiming spaces: news

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Posted on March 5th, 2010 under Canada, Olympics, Right to the City, Uncategorized, Vancouver, movements, action, homless action. Comments: None

Chronicles of the Olympic Tent Village
by Harsha Walia for The Dominion Paper
Published on the 28th February 2010 on Vancouver Media Coop
[Written with the memories of Laurie P. in the minds and hearts of many of us at the Olympic Tent Village– Laurie was an active member of the DTES Power of Women Group [...]

Posted on March 5th, 2010 under Canada, Olympics, Right to the City, Vancouver, movements, action, homless action. Tags: Capitalism, housing, Resistance. Comments: None

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Posted on October 20th, 2009 under Right to the City, movements, evictions & demolitions, action. Tags: call for solidarity, DAL, Right to the City. Comments: None

The London rampART Social Centre was evicted at 5:30am this morning by 45 police, bailiffs and a priest.
After over 5 years and many eviction scares it has finally happened… 3 people and a dog were inside when police attempted to chanisaw the door. They also had climbers going up to the roof conjuring up [...]

Posted on October 15th, 2009 under Right to the City, Urgent calls and petitions, movements, repression, evictions & demolitions, action, squats. Tags: Police, Resistance, Social Centre, repression. Comments: None

The “Dignified” Destruction of Calais Refugee “Jungle”

22/09/2009: At 8am in the morning some 600 CRS riot police moved on the Calais refugee “Jungle”, under the orders of French immigration minister Eric Besson, to destroy the camp and arrest all the remaining refugees.
The camp usually held up to 1500 people, but many had fled and [...]

Posted on September 25th, 2009 under Right to the City, Uncategorized, France, UK, repression, evictions & demolitions, action. Tags: calais, Capitalism, immigration, repression. Comments: None

European Coordination Via Campesina
Reclaim the Fields
European Camp To Cultivate Alternatives
30th of September - 4th of October 2009, Minerve (France)
The young people of European Coordination of Via Campesina are organizing an European camp to gather people who wish to settle in agriculture, who are young peasants, landless peasants and/or who want to recover food sovereignty.
The [...]

Posted on August 27th, 2009 under Uncategorized, Urgent calls and petitions, movements, France, action, transactions & privatisations. Tags: Access to Land, call for solidarity, Capitalism, reclaiming spaces, Resistance. Comments: None

Climate Camp Site Taken at Blackheath, Greenwich in London.
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http://www.youtube.com/user/climatelife

http://london.indymedia.org/articles/1978
On the 26 August 2009 hundreds of Climate activists converge on Blackheath in Greenwich for the set up of the 2009 London Climate Camp. Groups gathered at locations across the city for midday, awaiting instructions to be sent by SMS which led them in stages towards the [...]

Posted on August 27th, 2009 under Climate Camp, Right to the City, movements, UK, repression, action, squats. Tags: Access to Land, Capitalism, G20, reclaiming spaces, Resistance, Right to the City. Comments: None

http://www.openshoreditch.net/
Following a long running campaign by OPEN Shoreditch a major developer has now abandoned its plans to demolish and redevelop The Light building at 233, Shoreditch High Street in London.
Hammerson’s Managing Director, Martin Jepson, announced yesterday that “Following the local campaign to preserve the Light Bar building, we are preparing amended proposals for our Bishops [...]

Posted on August 14th, 2009 under UK, countries, evictions & demolitions, action, transactions & privatisations. Tags: reclaiming spaces. Comments: None

By now we all know about the mess that was the eviction of the Climate Camp In The City, which was Climate Camp’s genuinely novel idea to set up home in Threadneedle Street - the heart of London’s banking district, over the G20 summit.

Posted on May 12th, 2009 under G20 London, Right to the City, Uncategorized, movements, UK, repression, evictions & demolitions, action, squats. Tags: G20, Resistance, Right to the City, repression. Comments: None