reclaiming spaces: news

http://www.fahamu.org/publications/item/a_place_in_the_city/
A Place in the City[/lang_en]

Posted on June 26th, 2010 under Right to the City, movements, repression, South Africa, evictions & demolitions, action, transactions & privatisations. Comments: None

PRESS RELEASE FROM SULUKULE STUDIO :
Why we didn’t apply for the Deutsche Bank Urban Age Award?
THOSE WHO CAUSE FORCED EVICTIONS SHOULD NOT GIVE URBAN AWARDS!
As the Sulukule Studio, we didn’t apply for the Urban Age Award, both due to Deutsche Bank’s role in the mortgage crisis, which triggered the current global crisis, and also [...]

Posted on November 4th, 2009 under Foreclosure, Right to the City, Uncategorized, Urgent calls and petitions, movements, Germany, Turkey, evictions & demolitions, transactions & privatisations. Tags: Deutsche Bank, Istanbul, Resistance, Sulukule, Urban Age, Turkey. 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

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

Three months before the opening of the Universiade, Belgrade’s City Secretariat for Inspections decided to destroy the Roma slum settlement located right next to the athlete’s village “Belleville”. On April the 3rd 2009 all of a sudden a couple of bulldozers showed up at the settlement and demolished 40 houses. As the demolition was carried [...]

Posted on July 16th, 2009 under Urgent calls and petitions, evictions & demolitions. 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

TEAR DOWN THE WALLS! RAISE THE ROOFS!
HOUSING MARCH @ G20 MELTDOWN 1 APRIL … meet at Cannon Street at 11AM
On April the 2nd the world’s leaders are meeting in London for the G20 summit. In the wake of the banking crisis, they are meeting to try to salvage a tottering system, which is aimed at [...]

Posted on March 27th, 2009 under Foreclosure, Right to the City, Uncategorized, movements, UK, repression, evictions & demolitions, action, squats, transactions & privatisations. Tags: G20, housing, London, Right to the City. Comments: None