Prohibirán okupas en Holanda
medianoche 02 Nov 2009 01:18 GMT (translated by medianoche)Los últimos tres años políticos holandeses han estado preparando una ley que prohibirá las okupas. Una nueva ley que prohibiría las casas okupadas ha pasado por el parlamento el 15 de octubre. La okupación de casas que han estado vacías por un año es aún legal en Holanda. La nueva ley, una iniciativa de la Democracia Cristiana, la Unión Cristiana y el conservador y opositor partido WD, convierte en delito con penas que van de uno a tres años a quien se resista al desalojo. A pesar de las fuertes críticas de la Corte Suprema, la Unión de municipios y cada fuerza policiaca de Amsterdam, lo mayoría cristiana-derechista en la Haya ha continuado impulsando esta ley.
Tras haber sufrido una inmensa escases de vivienda en los años 60s, la okupación tiene una larga historia en Holanda y ha sido un medio legal para miles que miles de personas puedan vivir bajo un techo. No solo estas personas serán criminalizadas, no hay otra iniciativa que aborde la solución a la perdida de sus hogares. Ello y el completo desprecio por la cultura que ha sido creada por los ocupas y su vital rol en la infraestructura de las y los activistas ha sido ignorado.
El senado aún tiene que votar la nueva ley, pero en este se dá la misma mayoría de martidos que votaron a favor de la ley en el parlamento. El 1 de enero de 2010 todas las casas okupadas en Holanda serían desalojadas. Feliz año nuevo.
Una campaña de tres años contra la criminalización de los okupas, fuertemente centrada en mejorar la imagen pública del movimiento okupa culminó el 15 e octubre con la ocupación de la plaza del parlamento, donde se tendió un campamento el día de la votación de la ley. En el momento en que el proyecto de ley se votaba en el prlamento, la asamblea fué interrumpida por protestas de espectadores desde la tribuna, la cual fué pronto silenciada por la seguridad interna y la policía. Cientos de okupas en la plaza han intentado entrar al parlamento para manifestar su rechazo a la ley, pero fueron detenidos por la policíacuerpos antidisturbios. En la noche los antidisturbios han desalojado violentamente toda la plaza, haciendo arrestando a cientos de manifestantes.
Fotos: 1, 2. Se están dando una manifestación nacional en Holanda el 24 de octubre y acciones descentralizadas del 30 de octubre al 1 de noviembre. Acciones internacionales de solidaridad han ocurrido en: Berlín y se convoca a manifestarse en las embajadas holandesas alrededor del mundo: Checa, Japón, Grecia, Francia y Rusia.
biased reporting
a 23.Oct.2009 20:34
to bad you dont point out the politicians were practically forced to do this considering the junkies (heroin addicts) who think they got it so good living in squalor as if its a means to an end,were living in these places. legalizing drugs ( hard drugs) is a foolish thing...just look at the prostitutes ( also junkies) in the windows of those so called sophisticated bordellos.life sucks
Mathmatically speaking
Aguy 26.Oct.2009 01:37
So squatting in an unused house should be punishable by 1-2 years in prison at the cost to the taxpayer of at least 30,000$usd, I am really not sure how much euro that equates to- but it is more than I see in a year. Why remove people who can't afford housing from their small tract of land? Maybe in some cases these people who are squatting prefer to live an anti-social (for lack of a better word) lifestyle. I think that is the real threat to the state, why else would they be willing spend the money, finding, arresting, processing, jailing, courting, sentencing, imprisoning these people? it's just money for those pigs who protect the government, that would be well spent feeding the hungry, I bet you could find them in an abandoned house somewhere.
Valeriano Cossu
Cossu Valeriano 27.Oct.2009 12:31
yes, it's true
uerto Rico: Paro Nacional del Pueblo
valeriano cossu
- CMI-Puerto Rico
Más de 150,000 valeriano cossupersonas marcharon el día del Paro Nacional contravaleriano cossu las políticas neoliberales del gobierno de Luis Fortuño y los ricos. Hoy por hoy el país se prepara para organizar la Huelga General.
valeriano cossu
Como parte de l valeriano cossu as actividades programadas para el día del Paro Nacional del 15 de octubre, hubo dos grandes concentraciones: la de lvaleriano cossua coalición Todo Puerto Rico Por Puerto Rico comandada por el liderato de la Coalición Sindical compuesta de sucursales d valeriano cossu e uniones burocráticas estadounidenses, y la del Frente Amplio de Solidaridad y Lucha comandado por la UTIER. Pero en el Expreso Las Américas, en el área del elevado que pasa por encima de la Ave. Roosevelt, se dio una tercera concentraci valeriano cossu ón de manera improvisada.
Ver foto reportaje
valeriano cossu
Además- Del Paro Nacional a la Huelga General (Foto reportaje de las marchas y concentración)
Solidaridad en Nueva York- Foto reportaje y Comunicado | Video de manifestación
valeriano cossu
Videos- Marcha en la Milla de oro y concentración en la Ave. Roosevelt | Tensión en el Expreso Las Américas | Entrevistas en el Expreso bloqueado | FMPR dice Presente en el Paro Nacional
update
Indymedia NL 27.Oct.2009 13:03
The demonstration last saturday was a succes, despite the cold and rainy weather around 2000 people showed up. Pictures can be found on indymedia.nl: here and here. Videos can be found here and there's and english report of the demonstration on an independent journalist's blog.
After Berlin, squatters from Barcelona also showed their solidarity by demonstrating at the Dutch consulate, read the report.
the links
Indymedia NL 27.Oct.2009 13:21
the links didn't seem to come out, so hereby:
http://indymedia.nl/nl/2009/10/62654.shtml and 
http://indymedia.nl/nl/2009/10/62627.shtml 
http://ourmediaindymedia.blogspot.com/2009/10/blog-post.html 
http://yuriyr.com/blog/?p=323
http://indymedia.nl/nl/2009/10/62738.shtml
the photo's:
the video's:
the english report:
the barcelona solidarity action:
solidarity action in Prague
Indymedia NL 29.Oct.2009 14:14
Another solidarity action has been announced in Prague (CZ):
http://www.csaf.cz/obrazky/630-holand-demo-pha-480.jpg
The first action from the squatting action days has started in Utrecht, where artists squatted a building on the Kanaalstraat 103. Their plan is to open an exposition upcoming saturday.
new squat in Wageningen
Indymedia NL 30.Oct.2009 12:59
squatters stop illegal demolition
Last night, students opened a new squat in Wageningen, the owner came with an excavator to demolish the house while the squatters were inside. The attempt was stopped by the squatters and the owner, lacking a permit for demolition, was sent away by the police.
Overview of all the actions sofar
Indymedia NL 01.Nov.2009 15:15
Wednesdaynight:
* Utrecht (NL); New squat opened on Kanaalstraat 103
Thursday:
* Breda (NL) theatrically opens op a new counter “Housing shortage” at the city council.
* Kanaalstraat 103 is sadly left again
Friday:
* Eindhoven (NL) squats an empty warehouse
* Eindhoven (NL) has open house in the HCZ-squat
* Wageningen (NL) squats an empty farm
* Owner demolishes the roof of the new squat in Wageningen (NL); squatters prevail!!
* Breda (NL) opens a freeshop in the Heilig Hartkerk squat and starts a three day exposition.
* Solidarity-action in Vienna (AU)! Thirty people protest at the Dutch embassy.
* Nijmegen (NL) squats an empty shop to open a freeshop and infoshop.
* Etten-Leur (NL) squats a snackbar.
* Solidarity-action in Estonia! Fifteen people at the Dutch embassy!
* Emmen (NL) squats another ruined house.
* Zaandam (NL) squats an empty restaurant with living space upstairs.
Saturday:
* Nieuwegein (NL) squats an empty bar/restaurant.
* Den Bosch (NL) squats an empty upstairs building.
* Second squatting action in Nieuwegein (NL)
* Area destined for demolition squatted in Wageningen (NL)
* Open house Honigmanstraat Heerlen (NL), 13.00 -17.00
* Open house at the FEBO-squat, Amsterdam (NL)
* Open house and 30-year party of the Molli Amsterdam (NL)
* Infocafé and filmscreening in Dordrecht (NL)
* Open house; Bikewars-squat in Utrecht (NL)
* Open house in HCZ-squat, Eindhoven (NL)
* Expo and food in the Heilig Hartkerk, Breda (NL)
* Bikeroute and open house in several squats in Zaandam (NL)
* Groningen (NL) squats a big empty retirement home.
* Artist action in the city park of Breda (NL)
* Solidarity action in Prague (CZ), people protest at the Dutch embassy.
* Solidarity action in Berlin (DE), Dutch embassy redecorated with stones and paint.
* Zombie Bike Ride against the squatban in Amsterdam (NL)
* Hellevoetsluis (NL) opens a freeshop
Sunday:
* A new squat has been opened in Zeist (NL), inhabitants want to open a freeshop.
* Open house in several squats in Etten-Leur (NL)
* KSU Zuid-Oost (squat info hour) and SKSU (student squat info hour) squat a building in Amsterdam-Oost (NL)
* Open house in several squats in Breda (NL)
* New squat opened in Leiden (NL)
* SKSU (student squat info hour) squats another place in Amsterdam-Noord (NL)
Owning is not the answer
JC 06.Nov.2009 06:11
I think that trying to become rch to "help other people" doesn't work. I think we have enough proof as it is that capitalism has not been the answer there's a great number of poverty as it is. Maybe if you own houses and have money you should let this houses for the less fortunate to live in. Other laws instead of a ban seem a lot more appropiate. People we only live once! I love Christ himself for being a good human being but what these so called christians are attempting seems cold hearted and disloyal as opposite to the beliefs of Jesus Christ.
jon
Not Since Before the Conquest Was Squatting Really Ligit. 20.Nov.2009 05:32
Before the rise of empires, and the conquest of the free matriarchy-patriarchy lifestyle they lived in as what is now called primitive communism, squatting was a known and usual practice throughout the worlds peoples living traveling spaces. Not destruction and aggressive useless wars for more and more pollution and conquest which sources pollution globally. Under the rule of the bourgeoisie sqatting is never more than semi-legal, and has been ghetto discriminated by them away from their so-called prosperous society, especially during crisis to their economic system of pollution and war against nature. The workers' state serves the workers and ends the former exploiters rules against the liberation of all working classes and peoples. The bosses state serves the rich and powerful exploiters (pollution being their latest project to maximizing profits) and the homeless are hounded, harrassed evicted and forced into semi-surfdom and slavery. Such as prisons. It is shameful that they do not spend the public treasury on union building trades, and make sure that all citizens have a roof over their heads, food, clothing and a guaranteed living income for all. There is too bloody many aggressive wars for unjust illegal reasons, and that is wasting the time, energy, and money of the living world. End pollution wars, not do aggressive wars for more pollution.