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Home | Friday 24th April 2009 | Issue 673

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BRUM PUNCH

To defend one eviction may be considered fortunate – but two in one morning is pretty darn impressive, so congrats to Justice Not Crisis (JNC) who repelled simultaneous attempted evictions at squatted social centres in Birmingham on Tuesday (21st). Getting people barricaded on the roofs proved insurmountable to bailiffs and police on the day and the centres – one being the Beechwood Hotel, which houses homeless people as well as the Birmingham People’s Library project, and the other running permaculture training in the previously run-down nature reserve in the grounds – remain open but are still under imminent eviction alert and need support to get mobilised.

* See http://justicenotcrisis.wordpress.com

Keywords: birmingham, justice not crisis, squatting


 
 

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Added on 6th May 2009 at 09:14 by Optima Watch

Justice not Crisis are hierarchically run and are directly linked to Optima, a housing association who made lots of people homeless when they 're-developed' a working class estate near the city centre. Members of Optima's board (who lead JNC) voted for the stock transfer of council housing. They also have a supermarket development in the pipeline and another development that will only see 13% of the housing being built for social rent. They bulldozed the estates shops, mature parkland, and setup CCTV everywhere.

see the comments here: http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/birmingham/2009/05/429120.html?c=on#c222355


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