The following piece has been written by Ashleigh Marsh, one of five currently being prosecuted under SOCPA legislation for her role is taking part at a picnic and sleep-out on the 31st October 2011, in order to visually show the effect that the criminalisation of squatting would have on between 20-50,000 people in England and Wales, ie having to sleep rough. Ashleigh is active in her communit…

SQUASH campaigners have just returned home from a three hour stint in the House of Lords public gallery. After an hour discussion on scrap metal the debate on squatting finally took place just before midnight. Considering the hour the honourable noble speeches couldn’t have gone any better. Baroness Miller who had tabled five amendments in opposition to Clause 136 – which seeks to criminalise…

One of London's largest and most active social centres was evicted Friday morning by around 100 TSG units. According to reports, occupants were rudely awakened by an unruly mob of riot police breaking the inner door to their sleeping area. As no legal process had been initiated, an old warrant for the building was used as a pretext for the eviction. Occupants were in shock with the latest move by …

It is time for squatters to act NOW to save squatting with the House of Lords having their committee stage this Wednesday. "The Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill which includes Clause 130, added at the last-minute, to criminalise squatting in residential buildings is currently passing through the Lords," said Squash on its website.

Kukutza III Gaztetxea is a squatted Social Centre in the Basque city of Bilbao. The massive building has been occupied for the last 13 years giving space for numerous long term projects and activities to flourish. It has a massive local support within the neighborhood. But the Social Centre is now in an imminent threat of eviction and demolition, and that's why we have been preparing a series of a…

It's been coming, it was in their manifesto, but it appears that the Tories are now acting on their promise to criminalise squatting. We need to plan for this early, squatting has been destroyed in other countries across Europe recently by swift gov/cop action. But we have the infrastructure to make them regret picking this fight.

An indepth personal - but also politcal - look into the author's six months of living in the squatted Ocean Estate in Stepney Green, Eat London. Keith Hallack, the author of this brilliant text, re-examines everyday life in such a mass squat by looking at different aspects of his experience there.

the rough timetable of activities happening at the Squats and Autonomous Spaces event this Saturday 19th September (https://london.indymedia.org.uk/events/2396).

From the UK National Squatters Meet-up in Bristol way back in March a callout was released for people involved in squats and autonomous spaces. It encouraged 2 days of direct action on the 18th and 19th September 2009 around housing and the creation of more autonomous spaces at this time of crisis. Now we're in September and the days are approaching...

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