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De arrestantengroep heeft het druk gehad dus even een niet al te precieze update van iemand die geen AG doet. Er zit nog 1 persoon die NN gebleven is vast op strafrechtelijke gronden. Verder zijn een stuk of 17 NN'ers de afgelopen uren vrijgelaten (zij waren aangehouden op grond van het overtreden van de APV...) en ook een aantal personen die wel bij naam bekend zijn en op strafrechtelijke gronden waren aangehouden zijn vanmiddag vrij gekomen.

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Artikel 2.2 Samenscholing, ongeregeldheden, ordeverstoring en samenkomsten

Bericht vanuit de AG:

Inmiddels zijn alle arrestanten vrijgelaten. Een aantal van hen is NN gebleven, een aantal niet. Een deel van de groep is aangehouden op grond van de APV omtrent samenscholing, een ander deel voor andere vergrijpen.

The police used excessive force to beat us away from the place that was to become our new home. From the moment we arrived at the demonstration, certain activists were excessively monitored by the police and even arrested for wearing an anti-Nazi symbol. From the beginning, the police were out to suppress and catch activists. Police brutality escalated as soon as we arrived at Dam Square. We were beaten up, dragged out of the crowd by plain clothes policemen and some of us were even beaten to the ground and run over by policemen until we were bleeding. The police deliberately chose to escalate and we even heard them say that they deliberately “went full on”.

Squatting IS housing protest and we were active participants in the demonstration today. The false statement put out into the world by the police that we are disconnected from the main group of protesters is ridiculous. The protest stood for the same values as we do. Squatting has traditionally been one of the most important, if not the most important, part of addressing the housing crisis. Housing is a basic necessity to live and if it is not provided by the state and society, then we will take it. Today the police and the state showed that they don’t give a fuck about affordable and good housing but would rather arrest and beat people up.

We live in a city where every house is needed. Instead, speculators like Rogier Thewassen are allowed to let houses rot instead of letting people live in them. We believe that squatting is a more than legitimate way to fight the housing crisis. On the very day of the housing protest, we must take matters into our own hands. Housing is a basic necessity of life and should be available to everyone. And if we don’t get it, we’ll take it!

The properties on Gravenstraat are owned by speculator Rogier Thewassen who is CEO of temporary employment agency Young Capital and owns 116 properties. The houses have been empty for more than two years and are boarded up. We find it unacceptable that houses are empty while we are homeless and looking for affordable housing. We are being arrested and beaten away while speculators like Rogier Thewassen get away with their dirty speculation games.

Green Left Mayor Femke Halsema systematically chooses the side of the speculator and has had countless buildings evicted for vacancy in recent years. Meanwhile, property owners are hardly dealt with and can continue to speculate by offering precarious contracts, in addition to the Law on Squatting and Vacancy, through profitable companies that provide so-called ‘vacancy management’. These contracts are stripped of all rental rights. Policies such as “Good Landlordism” are therefore a wash. Today it has once again been proven that the municipality of Amsterdam always sides with the speculators and uses its repressive police apparatus to prevent us from finding a new home.

But housing shortages breaks rules! Squatting will continue. Squatting will continue because otherwise young people and other people looking for housing will become even more of a playground for property owners, housing corporations and anti-squatting agencies. Squatting will continue because you have to take a right when you don’t get it. Squatting continues because property is not a basic necessity of life, but a roof over your head is. Against speculators, policy makers and wolves in sheep’s clothing the message must always be clear: if we don’t get it, we take it! Squatting will continue!

Today, on the day of the Housing Protest, there has been an attempt to squat the buildings on Gravenstraat 26 and 28.
Thousands of people had come to demonstrate against the so-called housing crisis - the lack of affordable housing, the exploitation, the disproportional rise of rent prices.

The police have used disproportional violence to beat us away from the place that was going to be our new home. From the moment we arrived, certain activists were being watched and followed by the police in an exaggerated manner, and even arrested for wearing a symbol against nazis.
From the start of the protest on, the police was eager to repress the activists, beat them and arrest them. The police violence escalated when we arrived to Dam square. We were beaten up, dragged away from the crowd by undercover cops and some of us were even beaten to the ground until bleeding, and the cops ran over them while they were lying on the ground.
The police deliberately chose to escalate and we even heard them say that they would "go full on, against us".

Squatting IS a housing protest and we were active participants of the demonstration today. The false statement that has been issued by the police, saying that we didn't belong to the larger group of protesters, is ridiculous. The protest carried the same values as we do. Squatting has always been one of the most important tactics of tackling the housing crisis, if not the most important one.

Housing is a basic necessity of life and if this isn't given to us by the state and by society, then we will take it. Today, the police and the state have showed that they don't give a fuck about affordable and proper housing. They have showed that they would rather arrest people and beat people up.

We live in a city in which every house is necessary. But instead, speculators such as Rogier Thewassen are allowed to let houses rot away instead of providing living space to people.
We believe that squatting is a perfectly legitimate way to attack the housing crisis. And on the day of the Housingprotest, we must take matters into our own hands.

Housing is a basic necessity of life and it must be available for everybody!
If we don't get it, we will take it!

The buildings on Gravenstraat 26 and 28 are officially owned by speculator Rogier Thewassen, who is also the CEO of the employment agency YoungCapital and who owns 116 buildings. The houses have been empty for two years already now and are boarded up.
We think it's unacceptable that houses are being left empty while we are homeless and we are looking for an affordable place to live.

We are getting beaten up and arrested while speculators like Rogier Thewassen get away with their dirty speculating games.

The mayor of Amsterdam, Femke Halsema - member of GroenLinks party, consistently takes the side of the speculator and has evicted many buildings in the last couple of years, only for those buildings to remain empty again. Meanwhile, these owners are barely being criticized and they can continue to speculate, because of the law which bans squatting (Wet Kraken en Leegstand) and by offering precarious contracts through profitable businesses that specialize in so-called "vacancy management". These contracts are stripped of all basic tenant rights.
So "being a good tenant" is fake. Again, today it has been proven that the municipality of Amsterdam always chooses the side of the speculator and uses the repressive police force to prevent us from finding a house, to beat us until we bleed.

But housing is a necessity of life, and this necessity knows no laws! Squatting will continue. Squatting cnotinues because young people and other people who are looking for a home, will otherwise increasingly become the toy of landlords, housing corporations and anti-squatting agencies. Squatting continues because we should take our rights when they aren't given to us.
Squatting continues because private property is not a necessity of life, but to have a roof over your head, that's necessary.
Against speculators, against policy makers, and against wolves in sheep's clothing, the message must always remain clear:

if we don't get it, we will take it! Squatting continues!

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