Learning from “Informal” Urban Innovation
It’s not like we need to encourage bottom-up building and community building, because that’s happening without anyone asking or assisting.
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Autonomy of Place
Assertions of the basic human freedom to move, and to stay.
Squatting for Reform?
A squatted social center isn’t just a building for concerts and workshops, but a site that mobilizes resistance against state and capital, not just in the content of its programs but in its very existence; this basis in structural defiance of the law marks the difference between a pacified faux-radical target market and an actual culture of resistance.
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Squatting Across the Atlantic
“Nothing is more tragic than watching generation after generation trash potentially powerful movements by making the same mistakes.”
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Squatting versus Speculation in New Orleans
Squatting is actually quite easy, as long as the property owners don’t call the police on you. If it’s an abandoned house and fairly run-down, it’s very easy to squat.
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«Wir bleiben alle!»
Das Hamburger Beispiel zeigt, wie sich antirassistische Proteste gegen die europäische Flüchtlingspolitik mit lokalen sozialen Konflikten wie den Auseinandersetzung um steigende Mieten und um ein Recht auf Stadt verbinden können.
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Move In!
The time appears ripe to begin introducing squatter philosophies, such as self-organization and the struggle for Freiraum and community preservation, into the broader public discourse.
Binz Bleibt Binz: “We are gone and yet we remain!”
As tensions continue to rise surrounding housing and right-to-the-city issues in Switzerland, one squat’s struggle was derailed at a critical moment by violence. How the Schoch Family of Zurich’s Binz responded and what we can learn from their equanimity
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