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  • Angry Squatters and Burning Barricades Aren't Halting the Yuppification of Brixton

    I watched bailiffs and police evict a 32-year-old squat community yesterday.

  • Zurich's Infamous Binz Squat Is No More

    On Friday morning, Zurich authorities entered the Binz, Switzerland's most infamous squat, with the intention of ending its seven-year run. However, when they turned up, instead of being met by a horde of Molotov-wielding anarchists, they discovered a...

  • Too Binz to Fail

    Almost seven years ago, a group of squatters called the Schoch family took over some former factory buildings in Zurich's Binz neighborhood. Last February, the city announced that they were planning on massacring the party by converting the building...

  • Pooping in Trash Bags with London's Squatters

    Will the cultural vibrancy of squatting, which offers many young Londoners the "economic amnesty" to pursue their art, be crushed by "Weatherley's Law," which bans squatting in residential properties? We met a bunch of urban homesteaders to find out.

  • White Girl Immigration Problems

    The oppression of a language barrier is not to be underestimated. As privileged white American people who idly study Spanish as a second language in public school, we take this for granted. Especially if you are, like me, decently educated and...

  • Waiting for the Cops at a Squat Resistance Party

    The laws may have changed, but it doesn't seem like the battle between the Met and London's squatters is gonna end any time soon.

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  • The Big-City Communes of Barca

    Since social services are scant, hippies and punk rockers have stepped in to provide for Barca’s swelling population of working-class homeless people.