#OtD 14 Nov 1990 six weeks after the unification of Berlin, the social democrat city government evicted a large anarchist squat using 1000s of police on Mainzer Strasse, Friedrichshain, following hours of street-fighting stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8614...
Working Class History
Christina de Bellaigue: reading the book as an historian researching downward social mobility ("as taboo subject")
Alex
The once abandoned buildings of Prosfygika were squatted in 2011 and the residents organized various initiatives including collective bakeries & kitchens, a children's shelter, a space for self-education as well as health structures which provide for the needs of the residents and wider community.
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Join us for a Rent Cultures Network screening of Alexander Mackendrick’s The Ladykillers (1955), followed by a discussion with Dr Chloë Pieters and Prof Ushashi Dasgupta.
Wed 17 June, 5:30–7:30pm
Pichette Auditorium, Pembroke College, Oxford
All welcome!
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Radical Graffiti
This is happening next week. A rather different event organised by the #RentCulturesNetwork … funny and gentle… I guess most of us need some of that these days