... FROM SQUASH: The Squatter's Action for Secure Homes internet blog blog working group want to do a series of posts on 'the history of squatting' >> the idea is to do regular posts on a different aspect of squatting's past. We want this representation of history to be as multilinear and diverse as the squatting movements have been. So if you know about, were there, or would like to do some research about a particular thread of this history, and can write something for this series that would be great. From the (medieval?) myth of the one night cottage that would spring up on common land, the diggers (st. georges hill is now a gated community), post war ex army people squatting the barracks, to the history of particular streets or squats, to the relationship between squatting and other housing movements and reform, squatting's relationship to particular music or art scenes, its relationship to particular eras of urban change. I guess we would really like to tease out some of the more hidden histories, maybe the role it's played for particular immigrant communities, and so on... The plan is to illustrate all the contributions and post them as regularly as possible on the blog, and so creating an archive of all of them. please forward this invitation to anyone you think would be interested, or has special knowledge about some part of squatting...
email research@squashcampaign.org
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