Updates for February 2014:
1] Police Evict Protest Squat Camden
2] Lambeth Renters Refuse to Meet Chuka Umunna
3] Questions Raised on Parliament on Squatting
4] Homes Not Jails Demo Report
5] Calais Squats Attacked by Fascists
6] North Devon Pub Occupied
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Also tagged Calais, calais migrant solidarity, Camden Housing Action Group, Camden squat, Damian Green, Homes Not Jails, Housing Action Lambeth & Southwark, lambeth renters, LASPO s144, Mary Macleod, North Devon Occupation, Priti Patel
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November 21, 2013 – 10:30 am
Article by John McDonnell, Labour MP for Hayes and Harlington, on squatting and Britain’s housing crisis, reproduced from an article in the latest STRIKE! Magazine (Autumn 2013). McDonnell, a staunch supporter of squatting, rips apart the current housing system, the criminalisation of squatting through s144 LASPO and even his fellow Labour MPs who called for the extension of the law to commercial premises. Read more here….
September 24, 2013 – 3:33 pm
On the 2nd September 2013, Labour politicians, Chuka Umunna, Tessa Jowell and Lib Peck wrote a letter to Secretary of State for Justice, Chris Grayling, asking that squatting in commercial premises be criminalised. SQUASH responded with an Open Letter, which was picked up by media commentators, prompting further investigation and responses from two of the politicians.
September 17, 2013 – 6:12 pm
SQUASH Newsround August – September 2013 contains the following stories: Letter from Chuka Umunna, Dame Tessa Jowell and Lib Peck re: squatting; Chuka’s response; Owen Jones’ Independent article defending squatting; Vice “expose” Weatherley for being two-faced (shock!); Made Possible By Squatting Exhibition in London comes to a close; Legal Aid Protest; “Using research to expose dodgy dealing” Training
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Also tagged 111 Westminster Bridge Road, commercial premises, Dame Tessa Jowell, Lambeth Council, legal aid protest, Lib Peck, Made Possible By Squatting, Mike Weatherley, Owen Jones, parliament, Patmos Lodge, training, Vice
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