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Feb 2002 Location: University of Warwick Posts:
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Does anyone
know what happened to the big social centre on Railton Road in
Brixton, which I remember reading about in the Big issue a
couple of years back - perhaps it had/has links to u75, both
being Brixton based?
As I recall the police/local
council were trying to fiddle the history books to claim that
it had been in the property for less than the 12 yrs needed to
get "squatters rights" and thus be declared the legal owners
of the property - they were trying to say they had only been
there 11 yrs 10 months or something, and thus close down the
centre.
Also I think there were rumours about them
trying to abolish the "squatters rights" law itself, claiming
it was an ancient loophole that no longer applied to present
day society, or some such bollox.
This probably sounds
incredibly ignorant, i suspect this is something that all of
you, and every self-respecting anarchist, knows every intimate
detail of... a text book case maybe... please enlighten me!
Its one of those things that I read about, think "wow, this is
some major conflict between us and the powers that be, what
happens next", and then never hear about again, as presumably
it has been hushed up, or just forgotten by the depressingly
fickle media machine (like the Kurdish thing with the
threatened execution of Abdullah Ocalan, also back in `99 - I
just realised I never found out if he was freed, executed,
still in prison, or what..)
Anyway, social centres are
a fantastic idea - and something I am seriously considering as
a career option (one of my mates, also an anarchist, is in his
final year of uni, and is going thru a big moral dilemma about
what he can do that is not feeding the capitalists when he
leaves, and it got me thinking about the decisions I will be
making in 2 years time). There was one in Italy (I forget
which city) with a fantastic library, which was shut down by
police not long after the Genoa protests... shudder to think
about what happened to all the books...
If I was not a
student, or even if I drop out (may have to for financial
reasons ), i would probably, as a rootless person stuck in
the middle of capitalist society, head for a place like this
so I could be living on the front line, doing something
genuine to help fight oppression rather than just talking
about it... although I guess getting educated has its place in
the fight too...
If a nationwide network is being
planned, please let me know...
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