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The documentary “SI SE PUEDE” by the PAH (Spanish Housing movement) is now available online for free and in multiple languages. It shows how people got organized to provide mutual support and resist hundreds of evictions. It is so interesting and inspirational; their approach to campaigning and resisting evictions is amazing! In the last few months it has influenced many housing campaigns in London, and many groups in the Radical Housing Network.

Watch it if you can! Even better, watch it with your friends/fellow campaigners:

English:

Español: https://youtu.be/elnjoFVv_Os

Deutsch: https://vimeo.com/126099795

Italiano: https://vimeo.com/126120237

Message from Yorkley Court Community Farm:

Support needed at Yorkley Court Community Farm. Community before profit!

We have been given a date when county court bailiffs will come to evict us, which is

    Thursday 26th March at 10am

Whether or not they actually try to evict us on this day, we expect that they will at least show up. It would be good to have a lot of people here to show a large force of resistance.

Yorkley Court is a sustainable farm in the Forest of Dean where for the last three years we have been living and working to turn a neglected piece of land into a community farm, with activities open to local people. At the same time were also trying to stop a land grab that was in progress. But this project is now under threat. A few months ago, a millionaire property developer “bought” the land under questionable circumstances, was granted a possession order through the courts, and now wants to evict us from the land.

We have already beaten an eviction attempt by this property developer once, with your help we can see him off again!

We’re inviting any interested people to come occupy the land with us. Come live in the woods, build awesome treehouses, participate in skill-shares, learn about sustainable living, resist eviction, and join us in fighting for access to land.

Updates are regularly going up on our website (https://yorkleycourt.wordpress.com/) which also gives details of how to find us, and on our Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/YorkleyCourtCF)

In the case of eviction, there are a variety of roles that people can take on, both on and off site, including support roles such as cooks, legal observers, medics and arrestee support.

As well as people on the ground for practical solidarity, monetary donations and resources (such us building materials, food and so on) are much appreciated.

We are here, we are determined and we will not leave quietly.

We went to the Brick Lanes Debates DAY FOR HOUSING last Sunday, it was very inspiring.

We made a workshop about how to resist an eviction for tenants, which went very well and started some interesting conversations about safety in an action of Eviction Resistance, and children.

We also made a few contacts and got invited to two places to do workshops there.

Thank you Brick Lanes Debates!

Notes from the workshops will be turned into resources on the website. Hopefully within the next few weeks!

What a great day of meeting, sharing and learning!
Thank you so much to everyone who came to this very inspirational day.

I was so happy to see people connect, realize that they are not alone but many, and that they can support each other and fight together! Like someone said in the PAH documentary: “once you join the PAH you know that you will never be alone, you will never be homeless”.

PS: on Sunday we will be at the Brick Lane Debate to hold a workshop about Eviction Resistance. Join us there if you fancy another session, have new questions, ideas, etc. Or if you just want to connect with more people.

On 27th of November, 2014 the (A)nti-Social Centre was threatened with eviction. For 3 months the squatted space hosted numerous radical events such as the MIPIM counter-conference, anti-fascist, Student organising events, Radical Housing Network meetings, all sorts of fundraisers and info-nights.

On the day, the plan was to pre-empt the eviction by moving to other empty buildings nearby. These were three empty houses 5 minutes up the road on Argyle street that had an open window. They belong to the social housing landlord ‘One Housing Group’, that had allowed the properties to remain empty for some time despite the need for homes in the area.

The eviction of Guildford Street went ahead and the new occupation (24-28 Argyle Street, WC1) had barely started when on the evening of Saturday 29th November 2014 private security personnel – who had been seen around the property since almost the start of the occupation – moved in to forcefully and illegally evict the occupiers inside using a sledgehammer to break down one door. This was done in the presence of police who did nothing to prevent what appears to have been a criminal act by One Housing Group and Assured Guarding security services.

Check out the video.

ANTI-SOCIAL CENTRE EVICTION, OCCUPATION, EVICTION 27/11/14

Russell Sq, London: (A)nti-Social Centre successfully resists eviction, then evicted following morning