Trespass Journal
We are pleased to present issue one of Trespass Journal. Trespass is self-managed, open access, and unfunded. It is multidisciplinary and publishes work in different languages. It is an online journal...
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Barcelona: How solidarity and mutual aid saved Barcelona’s Can Vies Squat for...
The Can Vies social centre in Barcelona made headlines around the world when its eviction led to five consecutive nights of rioting in late May 2014. But the social center has a longer history than...
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Squatting: the urban space as a common good
“Housing is a need, not a privilege”, “Housing for people, not for profit”. Banners with slogans like these hang from windows in any number of European cities. Across Europe, increasing social...
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Portugal: Voices from an okupation. The assembleia de occupação de Lisboa
Ongoing reflections on an okupation in Lisbon (continuing a discussion) … The essay below, which we share in translation, is by Tiago F. Duarte, a member of the Assembleia de occupação de Lisboa, a...
View ArticleZAD: The Movement is Dead, Long Live… Reform!
This text was written during fall 2017 on the ZAD of Notre-Dame- des-Landes, France. Since then, the situation drastically changed when the government announced on January 17 th , 2018 that they are...
View ArticleTrespass Journal Issue Three
We’re glad to finally present Issue 3 of Trespass Journal! In this issue, which is online and freely distributed, you’ll find a translation from English to Dutch of a journal article about how a moral...
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Greece: First they take Exarcheia…
Recent evictions of several squats, some housing refugees and migrants, mark the beginning of a new chapter of repression and dissent in Greece. In the autonomous Athens neighborhood of Exarcheia on...
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Amsterdam: “Free” Space and Squatting. No More Caged Chickens
Free Space Now. The slogan of ADEV in 2018 – an annual street rave organised by squatters and artists in the city of Amsterdam. The slogan refers to a lobbying initiative called the Free Spaces Accord...
View ArticleSqEK (Squatting Everywhere Kollective) is dead
Well, well, WELL. Here we are, it’s been the best part of a decade and now SqEK is dead. I have mostly enjoyed my time being part of Squatting Everywhere Kollective (SqEK) ever since I popped up at the...
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Brighton: Direct action to prevent deaths on the streets
A squatted night shelter in Brighton is housing homeless people. The Canary visited the squat and spoke to residents about the project. Back in December 2019, people in Brighton called an emergency...
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Berlin: Expropriate Everything
It’s an unusually warm Saturday in Berlin—if it even makes sense to refer to the weather as “unusual” anymore. I wake up early, read a bit, write some emails, change some diapers, and then head out to...
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UK: HS2 High Speed High Tension
Over the last fortnight I have gone down a High Speed 2 research wormhole, sparked by the thought that I hadn’t heard much about what was going on lately with this bloated project. I started to google...
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Spanish state: What is behind the campaign against squatting?
Panic wave. The looming economic crisis has begun to negatively affect the real estate market: rental prices are falling, rents are falling. Breakfast with alarming news: squatting is still going on,...
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An update from the No TAV campaign and thoughts on its relevance for Stop HS2
The No TAV campaign in northern Italy has been fighting an expensive, unneeded and corrupt high speed railway link for over three decades. The proposed mafia-linked freight train service from Turin to...
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