Saturday 25th February 11am - 6pm

In the Heygate Estate's community garden Area

Heygate Street

Elephant and Castle

Greedy landlords are pushing tenants out of their homes in time for the London 2012 Olympics in favour of highly profitable short term rentals.

In the top-secret Southwark Notes HQ in Walworth, we overheard this water-cooler account of our visit to the Soundings and Lend Lease consultation on what they are going to do with that nice bit of public land where the Leisure Centre now stands:

"Despite the pain of talking to community consultancy types, I would always choose an employee of a property developer above a touchy-feely consultant s…

On Friday morning Hackney squatters and supporters took to the streets to resist the evictions of two squatted homes in Hackney. Following successful resistance they took a neighbourhood stroll to Hackney Town Hall and local branches of Tesco, drawing attention to their role in evictions in the area.



Read first hand report of friday's action.

LARC - and pumpin' out your stereo

Tuesday's morning eviction of Clifton Mansions, a block of flats in Brixton's Coldharbour Lane, signaled the end to one of the longest lasting community of squatters in the neighbourhood. The residents in the 22 flats that had been occupied since the early 1990's were made homeless in the latest operation of further gentrification of central Brixton that involved police in riot gear, a police heli…

Tuesday's morning eviction of Clifton Mansions, a block of flats in Brixton's Coldharbour Lane, signaled the end to one of the longest lasting community of squatters in the neighbourhood. The residents in the 22 flats that had been occupied since the early 1990's were made homeless in an operation that involved police in riot gear, a police helicopter hovering over the area, the fire brigade and b…

Following on from our previous Private/Public space projects which have focussed on the gentrification of London and the erosion of civil liberties that that entails, the Space Hijackers headed out to the Truman Brewery complex on Brick Lane to enforce the rules that are implicit, and perhaps not so implicit in such places. Stopping people from drinking, smoking, talking, loitering, laughing and…

Liebig 14 is one of Berlin longest running autonomous housing projects, serving as a space for collective living as well as community and political organising for over 20 years. After a 4 year legal process the owners of the building have finally been given legal permission to evict the house on the 2nd of February 2011.

On Sunday, 6th September about 200 people gathered for a mass picnic against the planned Metropolitan Police operational centre for the Olympics 2012 on Wandstead Flats. Although the sky was grey and a brisk wind was keeping the kite flyers busy, the announced rain never came. The superintendent for the park was brave enough to attend and got grilled by local residents about numerous issues with t…

195 Mare Street, Hackney, E8 3QE

In terms of accessibility, have a look at the Access Codes for the building. in short there is a ramp at the front for the steps but there is no wheelchair accessible toilets.

A week end of event : Friday 23rd , Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th July.

195 Mare Street, Hackney, E8 3QE

In terms of accessibility, have a look at the Access Codes for the building. in short there is a ramp at the front for the steps but there is no wheelchair accessible toilets.

A week end of event : Friday 23rd , Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th July.

195 Mare Street, Hackney, E8 3QE

In terms of accessibility, have a look at the Access Codes for the building. in short there is a ramp at the front for the steps but there is no wheelchair accessible toilets.

A week end of event : Friday 23rd , Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th July.

The Foundry in London's trendy Shoreditch shutdown on May 30th to make way for a luxury hotel. A group of squatters occupied the building in protest against the gentrification of the area and plan to resist the eviction. London, UK. 28/06/10

The squatters are now under threat of eviction, with bailiffs scheduled to arrive on Monday morning to clear the building for demolition. They say that…

The well known and much loved pub, alternative arts space and venue for a myriad of political and campaigning events - The Foundry in Old Street - was finally shut down in May as a result of Hackney's Council plans to pull down the building and turn it into a 18-storey hotel and shopping mall.



During its decade long history, the venue was not only consistently open to non-commercial art, music and …

A blog by "local people who aren’t particularly happy about what is going on in the name of ‘regeneration’ in Southwark Borough" taking a critical and in depth look at look at an area that is often dealt with, by government councils, on quite a superficial level, resulting in less council housing and further errosion of community, local economy and public space.

From one of the bellies of financial capitalism reaches us David Graeber's analysis of the current crisis, a look at the recent past of our movement and the lack of organised resistance to capitalism.

We seem to have reached an impasse. Capitalism as we know it appears to be coming apart. But as financial institutions stagger and crumble, there is no obvious alternative. Organized resistance appe…

There has been controversy recently on the global imc-communication and imc-tech lists over the issue of a $200,000 grant application sent to the Knight Foundation by IMC Boston to do Drupal development work for Indymedia sites.

The grant application was blocked by IMC Rosario in Argentina. As a working technical volunteer who has been building a new Indymedia website for the past year or so, I t…

As part of a 2006 stock transfer, Swan Housing took control of The Exmouth Estate from LBTH, promising improved services to everyone.??



Shortly after residents began to witness the emergence of a two tier class system on The Exmouth Estate.? Residents who blindly approved of development decisions by Swan benefited from well maintained living conditions.?



However things were much tougher for those …

... uninvited visitors to victual at rampART?

Hackney isn't Crap Gentrification Tour on Sunday the 28th of September walked from Dalston lane to Broadway market visiting new developments like Dalston Square and listening to shopkeepers and local residents at the sharp end of the regeneration of Hackney.