Days of resistance from 21 to 25 November. We will have debates, workshops, open mic, jam session, reflections on the future of space, as well as the collaboration of sister spaces such as the CSOA La Algarroba Negra. We encourage you all to participate and show support for CSOA La Muela!

The rehabilitated space that is now the CSOA La Muela began to be self-managed at the beginning of 2024, although the collective project had begun a year earlier. After an exhaustive search we found a plot in the Ribera del Marco, a place that, like many other plots in the area, was expropriated by the City Council of Cáceres more than a decade ago.

We practice mutual support and solidarity with like-minded collectives and initiatives, engaged in social struggles, both local and those that transcend borders. We aspire to generate an intercultural, social and political space free of censorship and an alternative to capitalist impositions. A place open to both people and ideas, free, safe and without prejudice, moved by libertarian, anti-fascist and feminist values. In general terms, we are committed to the environmental struggle, the class struggle, social justice, human rights, the defense of territories, antimilitarism and the rejection of fanaticism.

Every week open assemblies are held in which anyone can make contributions, resolve doubts or propose activities. All activities within the Muela are collaborative. This means that everyone can take initiatives and responsibilities, becoming part of a multidisciplinary team with a great desire to do and learn. In this way, in addition to the hundreds of collective actions for the improvement of the space and the community, we have carried out many scheduled activities, all of them open and free. We have also held various meetings and activities to support some related struggles. We estimate that more than 500 people have already passed through the CSOA La Muela.

Our intention is to continue making the CSOA La Muela a living place, of community participation, open to the neighborhood and the city.

CSOA La Muela
Camino de la Juventud, s/n
Cáceres, Extremadura, Spanish State
csoalamuela [at] riseup [dot] net
https://radar.squat.net/es/caceres/csoa-la-muela

Directory of squats in the Iberian Peninsula:
Spanish State: https://radar.squat.net/en/groups/country/ES/squated/squat
Catalonia: https://radar.squat.net/en/groups/country/XC/squated/squat
Basque Country: https://radar.squat.net/en/groups/country/XE/squated/squat

Directory of groups (social centers, collectives, squats) in the Iberian Peninsula:
Spanish State: https://radar.squat.net/en/groups/country/ES
Catalonia: https://radar.squat.net/en/groups/country/XC
Basque Country: https://radar.squat.net/en/groups/country/XE

Events in the Iberian Peninsula:
Spanish State: : https://radar.squat.net/en/events/country/ES
Catalonia: https://radar.squat.net/en/events/country/XC
Basque Country: https://radar.squat.net/en/events/country/XE

The “owners” of Køpi project, Startezia GmbH (a shell company of Sanus AG), will take Køpi to court on 6 November 2024 , 10:15, at the Moabit Criminal Court (Turmstraße 91, 10559 Berlin). This is the same postbox company that evicted Køpi Wagenplatz in 2021.
Unfortunately we cannot give any more information on the situation as the project is in talks with our legal team, but we can tell you that the future of Køpi as we know it is under threat.

For more information and to find out how you can help, please check https://kopibleibt.noblogs.org/

KØPI
Köpenicker Straße 137, 10179 Berlin
https://radar.squat.net/de/berlin/kopi
https://koepi137.net/
https://kopibleibt.noblogs.org/

Groups in Berlin https://radar.squat.net/en/groups/city/berlin
Wagenplätzen in Berlin: https://radar.squat.net/en/groups/city/berlin/topic/wagenplatz
Events in Berlin https://radar.squat.net/en/events/city/Berlin
Stressfaktor https://stressfaktor.squat.net/

Groups in Germany https://radar.squat.net/en/groups/country/DE
Events in Germany https://radar.squat.net/en/events/country/DE

Køpi Bleibt, october 31, 2024 https://kopibleibt.noblogs.org/post/2024/10/31/kopi-is-in-danger/

September 28, the OCCII is hosting a benefit event to help the Klokkenhof squatters prepare for a court case and other expenses:

Towering over Surinameplein stands the monumental Klokkenhof flat. Originally built in 1962 with the purpose of housing single working women, now its current owner, property investor Vesteda, plans to renovate the building and charge returning renters higher rent, and is continuing the longstanding trend of investors driving low income workers, students and elderly people further out of the city. Where there used to be 144 social housing apartments, there will be very few left after the renovation.

Vesteda has for years been trampling on renters’ rights and creating a lot of uncertainty amongst them. Renters are being asked to find alternative housing in a market that’s in the worst shape it has ever been in, and then return to their homes which will cost them hundreds of euros more to live in.

Many have moved out already and will not return, but there are still renters who simply can not leave. Some refuse to leave and do not agree with Vesteda’s plans for their homes and the surrounding area. Renters also have the right to stay in their homes until the moment the renovations officially begin. Due to Vesteda’s continuous lack of transparency it is unclear when these renovations will actually take place. The necessary permits have not yet been granted, and Vesteda’s incredibly irresponsible and dangerous practices trying to keep the building free of squatters might slow down the process as well. They have barricaded perfectly livable apartments and demolished dozens of them too, leading to a damaged water system, causing leakages through multiple floors and a potential threat of Legionella bacteria forming, a lot of noise and chaos in the building while renters and squatters still reside inside. It seems like Vesteda are starting their renovations with total disregard for the permit process and the safety and health of their renters.

Since May 2024 a substantial amount of apartments in Klokkenhof have been squatted. There are many renters who support the squatting and understand that it is one of the few tools we have to wield against institutional investors in a housing landscape in which this country’s government has failed people massively for decades.

This benefit has been organized to help the squatters prepare for a court case and other expenses.

Some squats in the Netherlands: https://radar.squat.net/en/groups/country/NL/squated/squat
Groups (social center, collective, squat) in the Netherlands: https://radar.squat.net/en/groups/country/NL
Events in the Netherlands: https://radar.squat.net/en/events/country/NL

We are really grateful to everyone that has helped out and stood by us, it truly means a lot!!
On the 22nd of august we got a letter for a speed court case for the eviction of Catullusweg 11.
In the morning of august 23rd we went to court, and we’re happy to announce that we won!!!
Even though we don’t have anything nice to say about the judicial system, we feel a weight taken off our shoulders knowing that in the coming time there won’t be any attempts of eviction by the state and its servants.
Now that this squat has more stability, we will put even more time into setting up a social space including a library, free shop, cinema/theater, community kitchen etc.

This is a callout to gather and organise together. Come by share your ideas and don’t don’t hesitate to join in on the fun! We’re looking forward to your ideas and initiatives.

Catullus
Catullusweg 11
3076 KB Rotterdam, Netherlands
https://radar.squat.net/en/rotterdam/catullus

Some squats in the Netherlands: https://radar.squat.net/en/groups/country/NL/squated/squat
Groups (social center, collective, squat) in the Netherlands: https://radar.squat.net/en/groups/country/NL
Events in the Netherlands: https://radar.squat.net/en/events/country/NL

[Statement made on 23 August: https://squ.at/r/aijv]

With the PVV winning the elections in the Netherlands and the rise of extreme right-wing parties all over Europe, the anti-migration policies are becoming more strict, less humane, more violent, and dangerous. People are governed through fear and heatred, lashing out to others. Especially others who are labled as ‘outsiders’, ‘foreigners’, and ‘wealth-seekers’. Stopping immigration is on the top of every politician’s wish list.

The European Union is trying to keep people outside of its borders by militarising borders, having Frontex execute illegal push-backs on the Mediterranean, weaponise countries like Libya to drag people back (pull-backs), lock them up and torture them. On top of all of that, the EU is working on plans to lock up refugees and asylum seekers right at the European borders.

Militarisation is increasing world-wide: the Russian invasion into Ukraine, the genocide in Palestine, and large scale European plans to weaponise the Union. Thereby increasing the amount of weapons and the risk to violent conflict that forces people to flee. All these topics touch upon areas of struggle, among which the continuing emissions of fossil fuels, the greenwashing of the fossil fuel industry, exploitation of people and lands in Congo and elsewhere, human rights violations in Palestine, Libya and the Mediterranean.

We need to work together to build a world without borders and for freedom of movement for all, and a world where people are not forced to flee their homes. Stop the spread of fear and hatred!

The camp starts on Tuesday 20 August in Utrecht, Netherlands. Volunteers build up the large tents and facilities. Arriving participants can select a spot in the camping area of the terrain. Because the kitchen also needs to be set up, no lunch will be provided to arriving participants, so either have lunch before you come or bring your own lunchbox. Later in the day everyone should gather in the circus tent for the first general assembly of the Camp. As on all days (except for the last day, Sunday 25 August) dinner will be served at 19:00 and the cultural programme starts at 21:00.

The No Border Camp is an ACTION camp, meaning that we also ask you to come well prepared to join actions (if you want). Next to the actions we have a workshop schedule (see below) and a cultural program in the evenings.

WEDNESDAY 21 AUGUST

Wednesday 21 August – 11:00 am – Border industrial complex in Utrecht – By No Border Camp organisation
Several companies, government agencies and institutions in Utrecht and the surrounding region are involved in repressive border and migration policies. In Soesterberg there is also the detention center for refugee families and unaccompanied minors at Kamp Zeist (Justitieel Complex Zeist). In this workshop we’ll present an overview of the entities which are complicit in the Dutch and EU’s practices of detention, deportations and border violence.

Wednesday 21 August – 11:00 am – Brandalism
Workshop on how to use available advertisement to spread your opinion; vandalising advertisement you disagree with is also an option.

Wednesday 21 August – 2:00 pm – 20 years of Frontex are 20 years too many – Abolish Frontex workshop on Frontex’s 20th anniversary – By: Abolish Frontex
6 October 2024 marks the 20th anniversary of the EU border guard agency Frontex. For these 20 long years it has spread death and insecurity. We count and mourn more than 60,620 deaths caused by the EU border regime since 1993. Frontex is a key actor in the war against people on the move and a symbol for its certain failure. This workshop will start with a quick introduction to Frontex, its histories and why it needs to be abolished. This will be followed by a collective postcard writing session as part of our action days against Frontex.

Wednesday 21 August – 2:00 pm – Being Trans In All The Wrong Places – By: Trans Rescue
Being trans is tough anywhere. Being trans in Saudi Arabia is deadly. A discussion of how we help transgender people in some of the world’s toughest places find safety.

Wednesday 21 August – 5:00 pm – Solidarity noise demo family prison Kamp Zeist
Bike with us from the No Border Camp or to meet us at 5pm, at Kamp Zeist, Richelleweg 13, Soesterberg

THURSDAY 22 AUGUST

Thursday 22 August – 11:00 am – Aid distribution in street settings – By: MiGreat
From Ter Apel to Greece, borders force hundreds to thousands of people onto the streets and into informal camps. Grassroot aid is often crucial to make sure people have basic necessities. But how to distribute fairly, safely and nicely in a street setting? How to deal with the authorities and the NGOs, and how not to become like them?

Thursday 22 August – 11:00 am – Open action meeting NEDS arms fair – By: DRAMA (Directe Radicale Anti-Militaristische Actie)
On November 21, the annual arms fair of the Dutch and international arms industry will take place in Ahoy Rotterdam. Dozens of arms companies will present their deadly offerings, while speakers from government and industry will network about arms purchases, exports, more cooperation and higher military budgets. In this workshop we want to hold a brainstorm and provide the first impetus for organizing actions against this fair. Arms fairs like these play a crucial role in the expansion of the Western military-industrial complex.

Thursday 22 August – 11:00 am – Mindfulness for activists – By: deeez mindfulness
Many activists at some point become action-weary or develop burn-out symptoms. The question is, how can you as an activist not become exhausted and maintain contact with yourself, others and the earth? Through practical exercises you will receive a number of tools on how to take good care of yourself and therefore also of your fellow activists and the earth.

Thursday 22 August – 2:00 pm – Strategizing against the migration plans of the new government – By: migration lawyer and Stroomversnellers
Just before the summer the new, far right, Dutch government published its coalition agreement. New measures to make border and migration policies stricter and repressive, take away rights of people on the move and increase detention and deportations are a central focus of this agreement.

Thursday 22 August – 2:00 pm – The externalisation of EU borders – By: Transnational Institute
Border externalisation is a strategy through which the EU tries to outsource the control of its borders to third countries. This has accelerated in the past decade, with the most recent examples being deals with countries such as Tunisia, Mauritania and Egypt which see the EU paying those countries to stop people on the move from reaching EU borders in the first place. This workshop will provide an overview of this externalisation strategy, look into the role that Frontex plays, and highlight a case study from the Balkans region.

Thursday 22 August – 2:00 pm – Open Assembly NOBORDERint
Open Assembly of the new media we are developing to gather and spread information on struggles at borders in and leading to Europe. We will quickly explain how we aim to organise, answer questions and think together of how to run this long-time from a distance! If you have skills in social media, graphic design, translation, or the project just speaks to you in any way, come to get in touch.

Thursday 22 August – 4:00 pm – Support for political prisoners in Palestine and all over the world – By: Sam, a Palestinian international queer activist and artist
Talk in support for political refugees and queer refugees.

Thursday 22 August – 4:00 pm – Helpfordunkirk – By: help4dunkerque
Lecture about French association Help4dunkerque and their work in Northern France around Dunkirk people on the move encampments.

Thursday 22 August – 5:00 pm – Housing Advice Hour at No Border Camp – By: Bond Precaire Woonvormen
The right wing wants to blaim migration for the shortage of housing. Aside from the fact that only a small part of housing goes to this demographic, everyone has the right to adequate housing. Instead of falling for scapegoating tactics we should take the fight to where the real problem lies: investors, landlords and government policy. Here we see that migrants and refugees are among the most exploited people. Often landlords will assume they do not know the law and thus act illegally or discriminate against them. While many renters have precarious circumstances due to short term contracts or intimidation, this is often multiplied by the precarious circumstance of migration.

Thursday 22 August – 5:00 pm – Mapping connections of the military and border industrial complex and beyond – By: Stop the War on Migrants
Interactive workshop about mapping out activities and partnerships of companies and institutions – using the example of arms company Damen – as a base for strategic and tactical discussions on how to target them.

Thursday 22 August – 5:00 pm – Mobi-talk Geef Tegengas – By: Geef Tegengas action camp
Huge ships, filled with liquid gas (LNG) from all over the world dock in the Rotterdam harbour. Gas imports escalate the raging climate crisis, make people sick and reinforce authoritarian regimes and warmongers. In this talk we will cover how fossil fuel dependence makes our government forgiving towards regimes in cases of war crimes, ethnic cleansing and genocide – and, maybe even more important: what we can do about it.

FRIDAY 23 AUGUST

Friday 23 August – 2:00 pm – Universities and the border industrial complex – By: Stop Wapenhandel, Solid Sustainability Research and European Legal Support Center
The ties between universities and Israeli partners has been a focal campaigning issue for the movement against Israel’s genocide in Gaza, in the Netherlands as well as in many other countries. With encampments, occupations and other actions student and staff activists demand that their universities break these ties to end their complicity. Similarly, there have been many actions against the ties between universities and the fossil fuel industry. While university boards haven’t met the demands to break all ties, policies have been shifting.

Friday 23 August – 2:00 pm – Wheelchair use in activism – By: wonko / anarcho capableism
Informative talk about wheelchair use in activism and how we can use prejudices to our advantage: the police are there to ‘help’ you and as a wheelchair user you are absolutely dependent so you cannot do illegal things independently.

Friday 23 August – 3:30 pm – Border & Policing tech in Europe – digital migration control infrastructure and organising – By: Justice, Equity and Technology Project
Session to unpack the use of border tech to criminalise and police racialised people, and share strategies to push back.

Friday 23 August – 3:30 pm – ¡No pasarán! – organise ourselves to protect our communities – By: a group of antifascists
Due to increasing violence and normalisation of hate-montering by the far-right and a government rather encouraging than condoning it, we must organise ourselves to protect our communities. With this meet-up we aim to get together to talk about how we want to do this. One thing the facilitators of this meet-up have come up with is to set up an emergency mobilisation list with the aim of facilitating fast mobilisation when people and/or locations are under direct threat/attack by the far-right.
We propose to (also) build (local) networks to share information and alarm quickly.

Friday 23 August – 3:30 pm – Civil Search and Rescue in the central Mediterranean and the challenges posed by current political developments – By: SOS Humanity
This talk will focus on the work of SOS Humanity, a civilian search and rescue organisation, and the political challenges currently affecting their work. A former crew member and human rights observer will share firsthand experiences from two rotations on board, detailing the direct impacts of these challenges on rescue efforts and the people in distress.

Friday 23 August – 5:00 pm – Stop deportations – By: MiGreat
In this workshop you will learn how you can resist a deportation on passenger flights, by standing up and hindering the departure from within the plane.

Friday 23 August – 5:00 pm – Abortion solidarity network / Laws aren’t real – By: Abortion without Borders / Abortion Network Amsterdam / S.A.F.E.
Join us for an empowering workshop on abortion solidarity networks, where we explore the growing grassroots movements dedicated to ensuring access to safe abortions worldwide. Despite increasing restrictions in some regions, these networks are thriving, with activists tirelessly working to improve abortion access and support. We will talk about collaborative efforts driving this progress, share experiences and lessons learned from the ongoing fight for equitable abortion access.

SATURDAY 24 AUGUST

Saturday 24 August – 11:00 am – Chanting in groups – By: Pieternel
Chanting is fun, let’s talk about how to make it more interesting
and dynamic, with zine with examples.

Get in touch for more information about the camp via nbc-2024 [at] riseup [dot] net and https://nobordercamps.eu/

No Border Netherlands
https://radar.squat.net/en/no-border-netherlands
https://nobordercamps.eu/

Some squats in the Netherlands: https://radar.squat.net/en/groups/country/NL/squated/squat
Groups (social center, collective, squat) in the Netherlands: https://radar.squat.net/en/groups/country/NL
Events in the Netherlands: https://radar.squat.net/en/events/country/NL

We are not gone, we are still here! After the many threats and an attempt at eviction by the police, they decided to leave because we were ready to resist the eviction with a lot of people. We are still here the next day, and we are not planning on leaving.

Join us in the struggle against capitalism, the state, and all forms of oppression!
Yesterday, we revealed that we have been living at the unused school on Catullusweg 11.

Aside from being a living space, it will also be a space to gather, meet each other, share and sharpen skills, and host events. It will be a place to learn outside of institutionalised education.
We want to create a space where everybody can feel safe, no matter the colour of your skin, sexual orientation, gender, class, or any such characteristic. Our house and common spaces are vegan, because we are also against the oppression of other species.

This is an invitation to come by and organise!

Catullus
Catullusweg 11
3076 KB Rotterdam, Netherlands
https://radar.squat.net/en/rotterdam/catullus

Some squats in the Netherlands: https://radar.squat.net/en/groups/country/NL/squated/squat
Groups (social center, collective, squat) in the Netherlands: https://radar.squat.net/en/groups/country/NL
Events in the Netherlands: https://radar.squat.net/en/events/country/NL

By squatters for squatters!

Join us for evenings of practical squatting knowledge, skillshares, and meeting squatters new and old. Whether you’re looking to join a crew, looking for more people to join your crew, or just coming along to skill up, we hope that Practical Squatters Evenings can provide something for everyone, and bring together people in the squat scene in London.

After a recent meeting, the Practical Squatters Network has decided on some changes to make the network and monthly sessions more useful to people looking to know more about squatting or to share and improve their skills in many of the aspects of squatting life.

The Practical Squatters Network has been operating for countless years running regular sessions to introduce people to squatting, and to help those already squatting to meet others and share skills. The frequency of meetups along with the content has changed over years according to the changing landscape of squatting in the UK, but currently runs once a month on the 3rd Monday. It fluctuates between being hosted at Decentre, above Freedom Bookshop, and on alternate months in a local squat.

Going forward all Practical Squatters Evenings will take place in a local squat, only using Decentre or other anarchist social centres as backup venues in the case a squat falls through for whatever reason. They will continue to run regularly on the 3rd Monday of the month.

Each session will also take a particular focus on a topic or skillshare, to make sessions of more use to people who have already attended previously and heard the usual introductory speil. There will still be fair focus given to anyone who is new and ensure they are not left behind with questions about the basics of squatting.

Practical Squatters Evening at a local squat https://squ.at/r/9w6l
Practical Squatters Network, London, UK, https://squ.at/r/8hlk

Some squats in London https://radar.squat.net/en/groups/city/london/city/london/squated/squat
Groups in London: https://radar.squat.net/en/groups/city/london
Events in London: https://radar.squat.net/en/events/city/London

Some squats in UK https://radar.squat.net/en/groups/country/GB/country/GB/squated/squat
Some Groups in UK: https://radar.squat.net/en/groups/country/GB
Events in UK: https://radar.squat.net/en/events/country/GB

At dawn this morning – July 9, 2024 – the former occupied wash-house in Corso Benedetto Brin 21 in Turin was evicted and subjected to a search. During the eviction, various materials were seized for investigative purposes.

Bombastic media fanfares communicate the eviction of the “den of violent anarchists” and the politicians on duty congratulate themselves on the umpteenth eviction, while workers at the service of the police and the municipality wall up and smash the building, giving it back to abandonment and oblivion.

The Ex Lavatoio was occupied on December 9, 2022 as part of a citizen mobilization in response to the eviction of the Edera Squat. In those months, many considered it essential to claim and practice the instrument of occupation – certainly not that of municipal bargaining and co-planning tables – so, in solidarity with the comrades of the Edera, three occupations were born one after the other (Ex-Lavatoio occupato, Polisportiva Occupata Iris Versari, Circolo Occupato La Crepa).

The Ex Lavatoio was an instrument of struggle.

A tool to be in the city, in its neighborhoods and in its streets. A tool for cultivating alliances capable of wedged into the fractures of the present with the heart stretched out to subvert the order of things and its suffocating everyday life marked by the rhythms of neoliberal capitalism.

From the Ex Lavatoio we organized ourselves to fight against prisons, against CPRs, alongside Alfredo Cospito on hunger strike against 41bis and life imprisonment and next to the inmates in revolt in administrative detention centers.

In that place we gave ourselves the opportunity to build paths of struggle with those who suffer the violence of borders, systemic racism and detention. We went out of that space into the street, because it is in the street that we want to be, where the contradictions of the present are revealed in their brutal violence, where the construction of the internal enemy in a war and genocidal landscape is shown in its evidence.

We are not interested today in crying over yet another walled place, although it seems necessary to remember how, once again, power has shown itself in the city to split, weld and cement yet another place to be destined for abandonment or speculation.
What we want to reiterate today is that while a genocide is underway sent to world vision, through which the concept of internal enemy is normalized, built around those who place themselves, by choice or by necessity, on the margins of a world determined by the logic of neoliberal capitalism and its value paradigms; while justicialist and criminogenic mechanisms are reinforced, reaffirming the hard fist of the punitive and prison power to be imposed on those who are labeled as enemies; while this is happening, not only is it decided here in Turin to wall up an occupied place, but investments are being made to renovate a new prison for people without European documents.

It is now known to most that the renovation works of the CPR in Corso Brunelleschi are underway and that the reopening is imminent.

That place, closed by the courage of the rebels, MUST NOT REOPEN. From that courage and power of revolt, many comrades of the Ex Lavatoio have drawn inspiration, strength and food for thought to fight.

Sequestering and walling up a space, that space, will not put an end to these struggles. Like the many-headed hydra, when one of them is cut off, two sprout in its place. Attempts to eradicate the struggle for freedom will only strengthen it.

Against jails and CPR.
In solidarity with the people revolting in prison.
With our hearts to Jamal, deported by the State, our comrade who could not be with us today.
Solidarity and love for prisoners.
A smile to the neighbors who supported us and who told the cops without hesitation what they had to say.
Free Palestine!

Ex Lavatoio Occupato, Turin
https://squ.at/r/9f8d

Some squats in Turin: https://radar.squat.net/en/groups/city/torino/city/torino/squated/squat
Some groups in Turin: https://radar.squat.net/en/groups/city/torino
Some squats in Italy: https://radar.squat.net/en/groups/country/IT/country/IT/squated/squat
Some events in Italy: https://radar.squat.net/en/events/country/IT