JUL 05. 2005
Pakhuis Afrika Eviction

Cultural free space Pakhuis Afrika in Amsterdam was suddenly evicted on 17 June. Because of this many autonomous initiatives and the inhabitants ended up on the streets... MORE

APR 19 . 2005
The Silent Procession

NL – From our recent pursuits of freespaces in Holland, the densest populated region on the planet, we've gotten the clear feeling that freespaces are really not desired element. Especially not in the urban centers like Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Den Haag and Utrecht. There are increasingly more reports of municipal governments and owners taking actions to evict... more

JAN 25. 2005

12 February 14.00-19.00 at Plantage Dokland

Amsterdam – A one-day series of forums and workshops examining the precarisation of everyday life within and beyond the Netherlands Ð intersecting the changing nature of work (flex/temp/contingent) and production (knowledge-based and immaterial), migration and informal economies, and new strategies for metropolitan struggles. Issues include: flexibilisation, social exclusion, migration and illegalisation, urban regeneration and gentrification, tactics for re-appropriating the city, organising toward MayDay 2005 and demanding social rights to open citizenship, housing, income and more.

De Vrije Ruimte, Okia, Eurowatch (tbc), Sash (tbc), De Bovengrondse (tbc), Respect (tbc), Next Genderation (tbc), Vrouwenbond (tbc), Domestic Workers Netwerk (tbc), Wijkcentrum de Pijp (tbc), StudentenKraakspreekuur (tbc). Precarias A La Deriva (Madrid, tbc), Maurizio Lazzarato (Paris, tbc), The London Particular (London, tbc), P2P Fightsharing (Rome)

http://www.precairforum.nl

SEPT 11. 2004
Het Poortgebouw:
Why It May Be The Last Party

Rotterdam – For the Vereniging Poortgebouw, a living group and the legal renters of this monumental port building in Rotterdam for the past two decades, a much anticipated moment is at hand. The new owners de Groene Groep, who bought the building for the mere price of a single family home in 2001 (± 350.000 euro), have announced the termination of the rent contract per February 2005. With the 25th anniversary of a unique social experiment approaching, the Poortgebouw is now threatened to be emptied out to make way for a redevelopment into commercial office space.

http://www.poortgebouw.nl/news/0911_depoort.html