Interviews and audio from before, during and after the eviction (English & French)

PRESS RELEASE

4 pm, May 30th, 2009 - for immediate release. Riot squads brutally evicted the people occupying a building at the corner of St-Patrick and Atwater this afternoon. Yesterday night, about a hundred people took this building in order to set up the Autonomous social center in a permanent space. At the present time, everyone who was inside has managed to exit the building and to join the support demonstration. The demo, a few hundred people strong, has now taken to the streets.

Point St. Charles – may 27th. This Friday May 29th will be a historical occasion as the first ever Autonomous Social Centre in Montreal will be throwing a large support demonstration to go occupy an abandoned building that will become its permanent space. The demonstration will start at 5:30 p.m. in Saint Gabriel Park, right outside of metro Charlevoix, and will proceed to reclaim the neighborhood as the festive crowd will find its way to the mystery building.

A powerful exposé of the politics swirling about mold, safe housing questions and public health, highlighting the human costs this politics has meant. Assorted illnesses, disability, and even cancer have all now proved among the consequences - before us remains the question of solutions. The links at the article's end provide an excellent resource - knowledge is indeed power!

Today capitalism is much more interested in having an acquiescent working class than a prosperous working class. For one thing is certain: not only has this particular financial crisis some way to run but the deeper, long-running crisis of post-war capital accumulation of which it is part has reached a more dangerous level.

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===A History of Squatting in the UK===

Jim is a resident of London, England, and a long-time organizer with the Advisory Service for Squatters, A.S.S. Here he speaks about the history of squatting in the UK, going as far back as the 1300's. This interview looks at squatting's relationship to the anarchist movement in the UK, the changing legal framework around squatting, and squatting within a framework of other social movements in the country.

The Advisory Service For Squatters is a collective of unpaid workers who have beenrunning a daily advice service for squatters and homeless people since 1975. It grewout of the former Family Squatters Advisory Service, which was founded in the late 1960's. ASS publishes The squatters Handbook, the twelfth edition of which is the current one, and has sold in
excess of 150,000 copies since 1976. ASS offers advice on how to squat, legal help to squatters and helps fight evictions and challenge police abuse of the homeless.

The staggering debt of the States, the resorting to the banknote plate [printing money] to try to prevent that the current phase of the crisis is prolonged and deepened, the war of the currencies between the US dollar and the Euro, aim firstly, for each national capital, to place best - or the least badly possible - while making the other States bear the maximum of the load.

Thousands of people took the streets in a new call from the assemblies for a decent home. They propose the massive movilizations, the disobedience, and the squattering, as tools for fighting against speculation.

VHeadline.com en Español editor Jesus Nery Barrios writes: Regarding Jesus D. Romero's letter to the editor: "Bottom line: the lack of housing for the poor is the result of poor leadership" and his very particular way to respond and "refute," there are a few things I would like to say, since as a Venezuelan living in the country since I was born 39 years ago ... and given the fact I've never left ... I know the facts that Mr. Romero is writing about very well and it gives me "witness authority" to refresh his memory and the chance to help VHeadline.com readers become aware of "other" facts he "forgot" to mention...

The Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP-CC) today said that the New People's Army (NPA) is becoming stronger by intensifying the revolutionary armed struggle.

27 March 2006. A World to Win News Service. Every year on 16 March, there is a ceremony in the town of Halabja in the eastern part of Iraqi Kurdistan in memory of the 5,000 people killed in 1988 when Saddam Hussein sent aircraft to drop poison gas in an effort to deter Kurds from rebelling against his regime. Saddam was supported by the US then, and Washington prevented the UN Security Council from denouncing this crime, even though the US was later to use this incident as one of its pretexts for invading Iraq.

From March 12-27, throughout neighborhoods across Tijuana, San Diego, Santa Ana, Los Angeles, and San Francisco—covering over 241 miles—the Caminata por la paz (March for Peace) is protesting the war and bloodshed in Iraq and the escalating attacks on immigrants.

On March 7, 30,000 to 40,000 Latino immigrants streamed out of subway trains and dozens and dozens of buses from every corner of Washington, DC, and the surrounding area. Groups from workplaces came in uniform. Day laborers, hotel workers, construction workers, church congregations, high school and college students, and families from Maryland and Virginia were there.

In the last few weeks, immigrants and their supporters have launched a nationwide wave of resistance against the repressive attacks on them. Last issue we covered both the massive march in Chicago on March 10 and militant streetcorner, grassroots resistance in L.A. In this issue we bring you news of a demonstration of 30,000 to 40,000 in DC and an anti-war march that went from Tijuana to L.A., crossing more borders than just the physical one in doing so. On this page we bring you excerpts from a statement by the Chicago branch of the RCP which puts the struggle in the larger context of revolution, communism, as well as a basic and brief analysis of what is up with the anti-immigrant bills.

On February 14, Walid and I and several others left Houston well before dawn to make the seven-hour drive to New Orleans. That afternoon, Walid and I walked through the deserted St. Bernard Development -- the largest housing project in the city. Walid grew up and lived here until he was a young man. Between then and now, he has been to Angola Prison farm, learned a skill as a cabinet maker, and lived in California for several years. He was forced out by Katrina and now lives in Houston.