eviction-barbecue @ marcopolostraat 225
maat - 21.07.2010 00:23
police is coming at the door of our place on the 22 of july from 06 till 18 to try to evict us be we will stay !!!
Marcopolostraat 225
Thursday 22nd of June from 07am till 06pm the bailiffs and their police support will try to evict us from our squat on the ground floor of the Marco Polostraat 225. It is clear that this eviction will not be followed by renovation , let alone legitimate use of this former coffee shop. The owner , housing corporation DE Key, apparently prefers to have it empty, rather than being a roof and a home to people like us, minly and only we are the ones who seed doubt about what the building as a whole would become eventually. A bunch of unfordable apartments for the rich and the a posh shop. We will resist, come and help!
The building on the Maro Polostraat 225 is owned buy the formerly social housing cooperative de Key. The ground floor we have squatted used to be a coffee shop, closed in 2005. The apartments above are social housing units the Key would rather see emptied of renters, in order to be able to be sold. In fact the second floor is guarded by anti-squatter already!
Although we have squatted the ground floor foremost because we need a roof above our head, we still feel outraged by the fact, that our upstairs neighbors are put under pressure to leave and to sign petition against us. Not only have we made our solidarity clear to them and the owner, we have also invested our workforce, time (and some money) to make the ground floor a acceptable place. For us to have a nice home, but also as a sign to the hood, that we care, and that the building as a whole is not just ready for the take for profit before people.
The official reason for our eviction is not even any plan for future use, but 'safety'. As if we would not already have done our best to make the place much safer than de Key has left it behind!
We want therefore to invite everybody (and each one of you) to come and help us to resist this senseless eviction! So be in my place tonight or from tomorrow morning 07 am till 6pm we don't know when they gone come, meet people, eat together, and lets counter attack for our basic right in all the city !!
Because we will not leave our neighbors and comrades behind!
Because housing is a right!
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