[kraken] Kraak-ontbijt Jacob Catskade donderdagavond/vrijdagochtend 29/30 sept. [am*dam]

From: <arendsoogje_at_squat.net>
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 18:18:43 +0200

Doorgestuurd bericht (En kan iemand het vertalen voor ouwesiem?) :

The residents of the Jacob Catskade 37-41, Amsterdam, received a letter
yesterday (Wednesday) from the lawyer representing Ymere, with the threat
that action will be taken to evict the houses if the occupants don't leave
within the ridiculous period of 2 days.

Among the occupants are a family and a renter who is refusing to submit to
Ymere's bullying. Ymere is fully aware that their demands will not be
heeded.

Ymere has gotten rid of all the other renters, and is now pushing plans to
convert these historic (social rent) buildings into luxurious (free sector)
apartments. Squatters, renters and the entire neighbourhood are united
against their greedy motives and their bullying tactics.

*Therefore we invite you for a sleepover tonight (Thursday) so we can give
our uninvited visitors a good old-fashioned Amsterdam welcome tomorrow*

The neighbourhood "Stop the Sloop Coalition" has lodged objections against
Ymere, based on possible monumental status of the house, the changes in the
bestemmingsplan which Ymere is trying to slam through the Stadsdeel, and the
fact that their friends in the Stadsdeel "forgot" to publish the
sloopvergunning in the usual publication.

Ymere responded by suing the spokesperson for the Stop the Sloop Coalition
for 8.000 euros in "damages" because he dared to file formal objections
against their bouw- and sloopvergunning requests.

In July, Ymere installed some young people in a few of the flats under the
misnomer of "anti-squatters", who make detailed reports about what time the
occupants come home and leave, what they wear, what they look like, which
bicycles they use and who they were seen with: a nice foretaste of the
atomized surveillance society we are hurtling towards.

Ymere is welcome (as they know) to start a civil procedure against the
occupants, who will use the occasion to make their unpopular plans and
intimidation tactics as public as possible.

Otherwise, they might hire the police to try a summary eviction, which (as
they know) would be a violation of the human rights of both renters and
squatters, if that matters, based on the European Convention on Human Rights
and confirmed by the Gerechtshof in Den Haag last year.

They are free to try. But they should not consider themselves welcome to
show up in front of the door tomorrow or any other day and threaten or try
to evict any of the occupants.

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