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Calais: new squat in town, evicted same afternoon by riot cops

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UPDATE: The squat was evicted this afternoon by 12 vans of riot police, a few hours after being announced in the morning. See report on the eviction here. 8 people have been arrested. The Calais authorities clearly intend to enforce their “zero tolerance” clampdown on migrant and other autonomous spaces in the town centre, and with hundreds of CRS now stationed in Calais they have the force to do so.

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Bruxelles: présentation du squat de meufs La Sale Coiff’

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Ça fait 6 mois que nous avons ouvert un squat de meufs à Bruxelles, un ancien salon de coiffure dont nous avons relancé l’activité quelques dimanches par mois.
Durant ces permanences coiffures des gens du quartier, des punks queer, des anarcha-féministes, des personnes “sans-papiers”, des enfants, des militant.e.s,… se croisent, se rencontrent autour d’une permanente, d’une décoloration ou d’une coupe destroy.
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La OkupaChe: Defending an Autonomous Space

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There’s a liberated territory on the campus of the National Autonomous University of Mexico – UNAM). It’s called the Che Guevara Auditorium. Known as the Justo Sierra Auditorium half a century ago, its name was changed by students in the 1968 strike, and three decades later, it was taken over in the 1999-2000 student strike. Briefly lost when 2,500 federal militarized police invaded the campus on February 6, 2000, the auditorium was recovered a few months later. Since then, several different groups have taken responsibility for maintaining the space at different times.
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