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SQUATTING INFOSHEET - Information for Squatters

This information was current February 2012

Figure 1: Squatter’s gather secretly to share food and plan resistance to government attacks on housing

As you might have heard, the U.K. government wants to pass a new law to make some types of squatting illegal….

Don’t Panic! Squatting is Still Legal

• The law has not changed yet.  It is still going through parliament and will have to be voted on in Parliament , first in the House of Commons (that vote happened at the end of last year;  they gave us just six days of notice!) and then it has to be reviewed by the House of Lords (that’s happening now in Early 2012).  If the House of Lords change it at all then it has to go back to the House of Commons.
• If the law passes in both houses of Parliament then the earliest it could begin is April 2012.  Even then the law will still have to be tested in court against human rights standards.
• As it is now written the proposed law would only affect squatting in residential buildings.  Squatting in commercial buildings like empty warehouses that are not in use will still be legal.

Remember that in most parts of the world all types of squatting is outlawed but it still happens. 

For more information see http://www.schnews.org.uk/archive/news794.php

How to beat the proposed anti-squatting law?  Step 1. Head it off in Parliament by letting people know why this law is unnecessary, unfair, and unaffordable.  This means putting a good face on squatting and outmanoeuvring the nasty newspapers.  Three KEY MESSAGES and some basic facts that the public needs to know about the proposed anti-squatting laws

• “The new law being proposed is completely unnecessary. The laws that already exist are fully adequate to deal with squatting. It is already a criminal offence to squat an occupied home”
• Even the Police and the Law Society have stated the existing laws are adequate and the new laws are media driven.
• “New law will effectively criminalise the homeless in the middle of a housing crisis. Criminalisation of squatting will keep properties empty which will make matters worse for empty homes and the homeless.”
• There are seven hundred thousand empty properties in England and Wales while homelessness is currently increasing because of cuts to public services and housing support.
• “The proposals will be really expensive and unaffordable and will place a financial burden on the government, the Police, the judiciary and homelessness and housing providers. All during a time of austerity measures.”
• SQUASH estimates the cost of criminalizing squatting could be one billion£ over five years.

Step 2. Take direct action.  Join up with your fellow squatters to plan dramatic action that lets government, the police & landlords know we won’t be made homeless! Tips: cooperate, link up, share plans with others to build better actions.  Remember, more than just squatters are threatened so let’s link up with others who are losing their housing. 

Step 3.  Resist evictions and build stronger squatter networks.  In many places around the world squatting is totally illegal and yet it still happens!

Organisations, tips, web links, and advice for squatters

Advisory Service for Squatters

Angel Alley

84b Whitechapel High St

London E1 7QX

Phone: 020 3216 0099

Fax: 020 3216 0098

email: advice@squatter.org.uk

     http://www.squatter.org.uk

Squatter’s Action for Secure Homes (SQUASH) is a campaign group of squatters working to stop the criminalisation of squatting.  To get involved see their website http://www.squashcampaign.org

Squatters call Info phone 07895107544.  Send journalists to Press Phone 07415516105.

Squattastic is a London-wide meeting of Squatters usually happening on a Sunday afternoon with information, discussion, and workshops.  Usually there is a dinner party in the evening.  For information on when the next meeting will happen see http://squattastic.blogspot.com

To get on the squattastic email list contact squattastic@riseup.net or come to a dinner party.

Practical Squatters Evenings happen on most Tuesday evenings.  These are a chance to meet people, find squats, find squat-mates, get information, and get practical advice (plumbing, legal support, etc.)  On the 2^nd and 4^th Tuesday of the month they happen in South London at 56a Infoshop [56 Crampton Street, London SE17 3AE (near Elephant & Castle)] and on the 1^st and 3^rd Tuesday of the month they happen in North London at LARC 62 Fieldgate street whitechapel, London E1 1ES

  North London  http://nelsn.wordpress.com

  South London  http://www.56a.org.uk/squatpract.html

Squatters on Facebook

  “I used to squat and I don’t want it criminalized” Link http://on.fb.me/xFT5cJ

Other webinfo for squatters

  Squatters Network of Brighton and Hove http://network23.org/snob

  Bristol housing action movement: housingaction@yahoo.co.uk

Squatter bulletin boards allow squatters to leave messages, meet squat mates or find squats.  There are Squatter bulletin boards at these Social Centres in London:

• ASS, 84b Whitechapel High St, London E1 7QX http://www.squatter.org.uk
• 56a Infoshop,  56 Crampton Street, London SE17 3AE  http://www.56a.org.uk
• Pogo Café, 76 Clarence Road, London, E5 8HB http://www.pogocafe.co.uk/

Get a copy of the Squatter’s Handbook (available at the above locations).

South London Squatters THURSDAY 8TH DEC

(south) SCUM DINE WITH ME ! thursday 8th december
7.30pm 
2 EVELYN ST. next to MacDonalds, close to Surrey Quays.
knock on 3rd window past wooden gate

ALLEY CATS THIS SATURDAY 10TH, 6PM NATIONAL THEATRE

BRING UR CREW

• MEAT AT SOUTHBANK OUTSIDE NT AT 6PM ON SAT
• EACH GANG NEEDS TO BE DISTINGUISHBLE, MAKE YUSELFS DISTINGUISHED. 

• OBVS U NEED 2 BRING BIKE. 
• THEN WE FIND OUT WHUR THE FIRSS LOCATION IS , GET WITH UR GANG AND GO THUR. AT EACH CHECKPOINT WE FIND WHER THE NEX 1 IS, UNTIL IT IS THE END. 

IT AINT NECESSRLY BOUT THE FASTES GANG COS EACH CHECKPOINT U AV 2 DO THINGS. AND U GET POINTS FOR DOING THIS THINGS. POINTS ARE SCARRED ONTO GANGMEMBERS UPPER ARMS WITH HOT AXE 2 AVOID CHEATING.


LUK AFTER UR CREW, THEY R MOST IMPORTANT THING. BEST BRING LITES, BRING CRASH HAT AND SAFE GOGGLES. 


PASS IT ON. MAY WORST SQUATTERS WIN
p.s if youdont lik biks / cant sikle whatev meat at 6pm stil at southbank or call squattastic fone for detels of final locaton whur we burn things drink win. fone is 07757009150. rit now it is lost but we hop found by sateday.
pps ALSO if u want to hilp on a chekpont/ do a chikpint email squattastic@gmail.com SOON, asap, ta thank y bye. x

from UP AGAINST THE WALL MOTHERFUCKERS:

Affinity groups exist within revolutionary organisation, but cannot be organised. A few people come together out of the kind of  friendship and trust that maximises security on every level. Relying on each other, the individuals in an affinity group increase their potential for action and decrease the dangers of isolation and/or infiltration. The necessity for these relationships should be obvious at this stage of our struggle … Affinity groups are not cliques – they are created for the purposes of security and activity, not simply for the  exclusion of other people . Affinity groups are formed for both specific and general purposes, and will find both the needs and means for working together with other affinity groups within their own collectives and locals.

from CALL//TIQUINN:

We are not afraid of forming gangs; and can only laugh at those who will decry us as a mafia.

…

From now on all friendship is political

Solidarity with the Edinburgh Squatters!

A diverse group of autonomous people are currently squatting(1) 3 Bristo Place in central Edinburgh. The 3-storey building has stood empty and unused for over 3 months since August 31st 2011. The non-hierarchical group are taking direct action to reclaim this space for use by the community. See the website: http://peoplescafe.noflag.org.uk/

The squatting of the building began yesterday afternoon with more than 100 people including families occupying the space, cleaning, organising a kitchen area and discussing how the building could be used for the benefit of the community. Banners were painted including 'The Peoples' Cafe' and displayed in the front windows.

3 Bristo Place has previously been utilised by The Forest Cafe as a volunteer-run, collectively-owned, free arts and events space. After Edinburgh University Settlement the owners of the building went bankrupt(2), it was appropriated by Price Waterhouse Coopers to administrate and The Forest Cafe were forced to vacate on 31st August 2011 despite a high profile and popular campaign to retain the space(3). Those currently squatting the building are not directly affiliated with The Forest Cafe but recognise that its closure is part of an ongoing eradication of free, non-corporate spaces in Edinburgh City Centre. Direct action has been taken to ensure that the space is not left unused but can be reopened for the benefit of the local community.

The action deliberately coincided with the November 30th UK-wide strikes over pensions. Amy Douglas, a 32 year old youth worker from Edinburgh who has been in the building since yesterday said, “While massive cuts are being made to public services and workers bear the brunt of these through much diminished pensions, the banks responsible for the financial crisis continue to profit. Cuts to public services also threaten community spaces and the same banking system is responsible for the detrimental impact this has had on communities across the country(4). By squatting and reopening 3 Bristo Place we resist the banks' continued profiting at the expense of those who are already suffering from the cuts.”

Today there will be meetings to organise a programme of participatory events which will be open to the public. It is hoped that the building can be used as an organising space for community projects.

For Access Call: 07799737995

(1)While there is no legal right to squat in Scotland, squatting in this context means to settle on or occupy property, especially otherwise unoccupied property, without any title, right, or payment of rent.

(2)Edinburgh University Settlement were declared bankrupt and forced into administration in October 2010.

(3)http://blog.theforest.org.uk/savetheforest

(4)For more information on the impact of cuts-related community centre closures see http://www.guardian.co.uk/edinburgh/2010/may/18/edinburgh-community-centres-saved-gorgie-mem-colinton-mains-longstone-council and http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/mar/25/public-sector-cuts?intcmp=239