Elephant and Castle area.

Check the indymedia events page on the day for information on the venue Address.

Anti eviction at work, squats saved by the people. Early friday morning, police and bailiffs turned up to evict a row of squatted houses in Dalston lane, but luckily the anti eviction squad was out, in numbers this time with over 60 people blocking the road and lining the rooftop.

another successful resistance in hackney

500 rooms in abandoned buildings recently owned by Swiss banking giant UBS, on Sun Street just next to the OccupyLFS site, have been occupied today. The buildings have been taken as part of Occupy London and are being transformed into a ‘Bank of Ideas’ which will open on Saturday. The first building for Occupy London campaigners has been taken as they occupy a third space in borough of Hack…

call 07570189222 on the night for party location

Police closed off Coldharbour Lane at 9am to evict a community squat in the heart of Brixton. Over 50 people protested outside and members of the community joined in. Specialist police units worked with fire crews to remove them. London, UK, 12//07/2011.

After a bit more than 3 full on months of activity, the Offmarket squatted social centre on 121 Lower Clapton road was evicted by Bailiffs, police and owners on Thursday 7th July 2011. Read report and see pics ...

Past OffMarket reports in London Indymedia: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4

In the past couple of days, a group of people in Vienna, fed up of the increasing daily repression of life and the lack of free social space, have taken over an abandoned building in the Ottakring part of the city. Ottrakring is ground zero of Real Estate speculation in Vienna. The people are also fed up of rising rents and abusive landlords in Vienna. We are also fed up with how the city gov…

For many people, the word squatter conjures up the image of a dreadlocked, middle-class, tree-hugging hippie eking out an alternative lifestyle in someone else's home. But with plans afoot to outlaw squatting, just who are today's squatters?

A small protest was held outside Paddington Green in solidarity with those arrested from the March 26 protest and the recent raids on squats and social centres including the Ratstar in Camberwell, Offmarket in Hackney and the Grow Heathrow Project. London, UK, 29/04/2011.

An anti-wedding zombie breakfast gathering, organised by Chris Knight's Government of the Dead, failed to amass after Chris was arrested last night following a handful of pre-wedding raids in which a guillotine and effigies were also confiscated. London, UK, 29/04/2011.

At least two squats - including Rat Star Social Centre in Camberwell and OffMarket in Clapton - as well as Grow Heathrow's market garden area, have been raided by police this morning. We also hear that Petroseige and The Cave squats in Camberwell were the recipients of police attention.

According to journalist Laurie Penny, the Camberwell warrant was to look for stolen goods, yet the officers des…

OffMarket

121 Lower Clapton rd

offmarket@riseup.net / 07706279299

Opening hours: Sunday 12-6pm, Monday 12-6pm, tuesday 12-8pm

Open meetings are on monday 7pm if you want to meet us, check the space out or have any proposal to use the space!

ACCESSIBILITY: We will post full information here shortly. The events will be taking place on the ground floor. The toilet is in a large room but along a narrow…

OffMarket

121 Lower Clapton rd

offmarket@riseup.net / 07706279299

Opening hours: Sunday 12-6pm, Monday 12-6pm, tuesday 12-8pm

Open meetings are on monday 7pm if you want to meet us, check the space out or have any proposal to use the space!

ACCESSIBILITY: We will post full information here shortly. The events will be taking place on the ground floor. The toilet is in a large room but along a narrow…

Episode 80 of Dissident Island Radio brings you:

- Words from Temporary Autonomous Art about their upcoming weekend of exhibitions and events

- The notorious WAG, discussing the disillusion of their group and the formation of ALARM

- An update from the Ian Tomlinson inquest from Dean, who has been in attendance over the past few weeks

- The Counter Olympics Network discussing points objection …

Squatters calling themselves 'Topple the Tyrants' moved in to Saif Gaddafi's £11m house in North London this morning as they do not trust the British government to properly seize Gaddafi's corrupt assets. London, UK, 09/03/2011

Police serve the eviction of Guy Ritchie's £6m property, 34 Fitzroy Square. The 'Really Free School' collective moved in lat weekend and turned the space into a free education centre in response to rising tuition fees. London, UK, 18/02/2011.

after being recently evicted from their bloomsbury mansion, the free school moved to a large double-fronted house in fitzroy square. they faced a court hearing this afternoon, but are planning a day of creative resistance in the square tomorrow.

Police arrived in Friedrichshain at Liebig 14 from 4:00am to begin the eviction of a former squat, now a housing project. The eviction began just before 8:00am and riots ensued in the surrounding area afterwards. Berlin, Germany, 02/02/2011.

Police turned up in force at 4am, as well as protesters - mainly residents from other housing projects on Rigaer strasse in a show of solidarity against …

Dissident Island Radio - 5 November 2010 - EPISODE 69:

Holy crap. This is a firey hot, jam-packed show. Here's what you can look forward to:

• Our friends from the band 52 Commercial Road on the imminent release of their long-awaited 2nd album on 12 November
• the totally awesome printer's co-operative, Footprint, on their 10th birthday festivities and zine fair
• an interview from this week's 

LARC - and pumpin' out your stereo!

For this show the dissidents scoured the world selecting the finest information to put inside your head (through your ears)

- we talked to an Ad Hoc Properties resident about his experiences living in an 'anti-squat' and how seeing Leegstand Zonder Zorgen has affected his outlook

- all the way from 'down under' we had a member of the City is Ours group in Melbourne about squatting and housing ri…

East London (Hackney/Shoreditch Area)

Partyline (Satuday 11th from 10pm) : 07970 885 538

Around 5am 2nd September 2010, high court bailiffs turned up in force, for the second eviction attempt on the east London social center. around 30 officers failed to batter the grade 2 listed door in, and then moved on to the chain saws.

This awoke residents sleeping inside who had seconds to react as the bailiffs, in a change in strategy started smashing through the grade 2 listed windows, …

rAtstar

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…

After the Foundry at Old Street was shut down, it has promptly been re-opened. Back to the roots for an old legalised squat: it's now you're local social centre!

compare the lines:

Lambeth          26,421 council homes | 1,090 empty | 100 squatted

Tower Hamlets 21,612 council homes |    326 empty | 121 squatted

With Lambeth having about three times as many empty homes than the average borough, can't help to wonder why squatters haven't taken over the borough yet...

A "youth against the banks" Facebook party at a Mayfair mansion in London was broken up by officers in riot gear last night after revellers pelted police with bricks and bottles.

Anarchist Bookfair, Queen Mary & Westfield College, Mile End Road, London, E1 4NS

Room: SG7-70, Time: 5-6pm