Squatting Protest Ends In Arrests
Government plan to criminalise squatting angers protesters.
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Squat Protests Target Ken Clarke’s Home
Ministry of Justice’s plans to criminalise squatting provokes a pointed response.
Weekend Round-Up
Sleepin’-in-the-Sunday-sun news. We round up the weekend’s stories to make livin’ that little bit easier for you.
Really Free School Squat Guy Ritchie’s Fitzrovia Pad
‘Fluffy’ squatters take up residence in a former language school, undergoing renovation for celebrity occupation.
Review: The Attic @ The Oubliette Arthouse
In the dying days of 2010, twisted duo EastEnd Cabaret held a mini-cabaret festival in a recently squatted building on Shaftesbury Avenue. Were you there?
Crime & Punishment In A Mayfair Squat
Perfectly in tune with the austerity and chill of January after the lush indigestion of an all consuming Christmas, a site specific theatre company are presenting a new stage adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s classic novel, “Crime and Punishment” at the Oubliette Collective Mayfair Squat – …
Oubliette Open On Leicester Square
The formidably artsy and sophisticated ‘squatters’ the Oubliette today announce their new ‘interim base’ at 42 Leicester Square. The building has been empty for 20 years since the last tenants – ironically, a wealth management company, moved out. To celebrate a remarkable 6 months which …
Opportunistic Occupation
By Amanda Farah With another collective of imaginative, resourceful and caretaking people making an empty property their temporary home and turning it into something amazing it seriously seems to be time to come up with a new word for what they do – Atom Tom …
Lambeth Opens Up To Squatters
By D. de la Pena Well they didn’t have much choice. Confronted with a Freedom of Information request from the Advisory Service for Squatters for a list of all the council’s empty properties they had to comply as the list was in the public domain. …
Interview With A Squatter: Atom Tom
Atom Tom’s front door and front room. If you’re looking for somewhere to live, a squat may not be top of your des res list. Yet Mayfair and Park Lane squats have brought squatting into the news Daily Mail recently. Unconvinced that all squatters are …
EAR Interview: Nila Raja
16 artists are being nurtured by the Southbank Centre as Emerging Artists in Residence in what they’re styling an “eclectic hub for music and performance”. Keeping you ahead of the curve, we’re getting closer to this multi-talented bunch of singer-songwriters, rappers, MCs and beatboxers, spoken …
