Forced out of the areas they occupy, the involuntary subjects of urban gentrification confront a double challenge: the need for housing, and the need to radicalise campaigns beyond the parliamentary liberalism of rights discourse - writes Neil Gray in his extended report of last August's Right to Stay Put conference in Manchester

Having chosen the conspicuously tranquil site of Blackheath for Climate Camp 2009, attention shifted from the politics of land occupation to the camp’s panic-fuelled green authoritarianism. Report by Damian Abbott

Where the recession opens up ‘slack spaces’ in the city, squatters and artists are sure to follow. Nowadays the apparatchiks of culture-led regen are hard on their heels. But what would a gentrification non-compliant occupation look like? Peter Conlin reports from St. Martin’s Radical Incursions symposium

Several videos on housing struggles, sub-prime and free culture in Spain courtesy of CONSERVAS, Barcelona http://www.conservas.tk

Robert Neuwirth's urgently necessary 'Squattercity' draws attention to the Takebacktheland occupation in Miami, where on the site of a demolished block of cheap apartments the homeless are building and defending the housing that the 'market' and the state will never provide.  As Neuwirth suggests, imagine if this supposedly 'third world' phenomenon were to spread to New Orleans and...and...
http://squattercity.blogspot.com/

Thursday, January 04, 2007

The Pottinger Settlement

Press Release 13 August 2006 At around 8:30 p.m.