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Comment on Tell your MP to oppose further criminalisation of occupations by Anti-squatting laws and the coming crackdown on occupations – Squash Campaign

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 05:33:32 +0000

[...] what they think, so it’s worth trying to get your one to respond. There’s a sample email here. 2) If you are a member of a student union, trade union or anti-cuts group, talk to your group [...]

Comment on The Case Against Section 144 by Brighton: Support for three squatters on trial | Squat!

Brighton: Support for three squatters on trial | Squat! — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 01:19:22 +0000

[...] arrests across the UK with 13 convictions. Three of these have resulted in custodial sentences. A SQUASH report analyses these figures in greater [...]

Comment on Early Day Motion Tabled – Write to your MP by Stop Staring Up, Repeal the Squatting Ban | STIR

Stop Staring Up, Repeal the Squatting Ban | STIR — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 20:14:25 +0000

[...] In support, Labour MP John McDonnell has tabled an Early Day Motion echoing this demand, and SQUASH are urging people to write to their MP asking them to add their name to McDonnell’s proposa…. This comes mere weeks after Tory MP Mike Weatherley tabled his own EDM calling for an extension to [...]

Comment on The Case Against Section 144 by Stop Staring Up, Repeal the Squatting Ban | STIR

Stop Staring Up, Repeal the Squatting Ban | STIR — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 20:14:08 +0000

[...] and as such, now sadly moot. However, in order to mark the six months since LASPO’s introduction, Squatter’s Action for Secure Homes (SQUASH) has released a report which analyses the effects that the legislation has had, calling into question its efficacy and [...]

Comment on 40 top lawyers sign Guardian anti-squatting law repeal letter by Homeless Man Dies of Cold Just Inches From Shelter After Squatting Ban | the void

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 14:55:03 +0000

[...] there were already more than adequate laws to prevent this from taking place. A letter recently published by The Guardian and signed by 40 top lawyers claims that of the 33 known arrests so far not a single one has been due to someone being displaced [...]

Comment on Homeless Man Prevented From Squatting Dies by Early Day Motion Tabled – Write to your MP – Squash Campaign

Early Day Motion Tabled – Write to your MP – Squash Campaign — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 10:27:07 +0000

[...] people are being disproportionately affected. Some have gone to jail and even worse it looks like someone may have died outside an empty bungalow as a direct result of the new [...]

Comment on The Case Against Section 144 by Do the maths…an update… | Ideas & images from Portsmouth and beyond

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 20:13:07 +0000

[...] Squatters Action for Secure Homes (Squash) has just published an analysis of how the law has been used in the past six months since the offence of squatting in a [...]

Comment on The Case Against Section 144 by SQUASH speaks out: how anti-squatting laws saw Daniel Gauntlett freeze to death | Media Darlings

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 01:29:44 +0000

[...] Action for Secure Homes – who just yesterday released their own damning report on Weatherley’s law - were however available for comment and their responses are printed below. I’m not going to [...]

Comment on SQUASH NewsRound: Mid-January 2013 by transition heathrow » Blog Archive » Next stop: legal limbo

transition heathrow » Blog Archive » Next stop: legal limbo — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 19:57:38 +0000

[...] 24 MPs signed a parliamentary petition in January that would criminalise Grow Heathrow. It threatens to criminalise all homeless who are forced to live in empty abandoned commercial building… amid housing and economic crises, by making it illegal to squat commercial buildings. Recent [...]

Comment on Cost of new squatting law could be £790m by What Next? The Rise of Authoritarian Housing «EcoLabs EcoLabs

What Next? The Rise of Authoritarian Housing «EcoLabs EcoLabs — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 17:07:46 +0000

[...] conducted by the Squash Campaign indicates that the criminalising squatting will cost £790 million over five years (even if newly criminalized squatters are not sent to jail). The government did no research of [...]