NEWS & LINKS

A Squatter's Tale Presents:  VIA GEANME | 16 min. | color |
08/08 @ 8pm Director in Attendance at El Jardin De Paraiso
E. 4th Street (North Side) bet. Aves. C & D New York, NY 10009

"the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space (MoRUS) will present for its Second Annual Film Fest a selection of films by and about women who have shaped the history of the Lower East Side. "

 

 

When Brooklyn juries gentrify, defendants lose

Brooklyn ‘gentrification’ is changing juries who decide cases: “There were very few minorities on the jury. It was a real white-bread jury. It’s a whole different ballgame.” 

LATimes Story - California lawmakers pass historic foreclosure protections. Homeowner Rights 2012 

 

Homeless Family Occupies Foreclosed Home in Brooklyn (Inside Story)  

Free School squatters evicted from Guy Ritchies 6m home
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/8335343/Squatters-evicted-from-Guy-Ritchies-6m-home.html

Squats, Social Centers and Autonomous Spaces.
Saturday - April 9, 2011 at the Anarchist Book Fair 11am
Elmer Holmes Bobst Library/ Tamiment - 10th floor
70 Washington Square South 10012-1019 New York, NY
Conversation on housing and community building in the city => 

invented house from Adriana Varella on Vimeo.

For the complete article click here -> guardian.co.uk

Squatters on the Skyline

Facing a mounting housing shortage, squatters have transformed an abandoned skyscraper in downtown Caracas into a makeshift home for more than 2,500 people.

A 45-Story Walkup Beckons the Desperate

By SIMON ROMERO and MARÍA EUGENIA DÍAZ

Published: February 28, 2011

An unfinished skyscraper occupied by squatters is a symbol of Venezuela’s financial crisis in the 1990s, state control of the economy and a housing shortage.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/01/world/americas/01venezuela.html

Torre David Trailer

IIn Geneva, Counterculture Pushes Back
By MATTHEW SALTMARSH

Published: February 22, 2011

GENEVA — Geneva’s counterculture may not be dead, but it is looking distinctly bruise

The city, known internationally for diplomacy, private banking, watches and highbrow culture, was for much of the last decade a hub for squatters, anarchists, electronic music and impromptu theater.


But recent years have not been kind to the alternative-culture scene.

Lawmaker Says "Be a Squatter"



The Squatter Paradaise I've seen is much broader and diverse one.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/10/06/nyregion/album-squatters