Inhabitants of Europe

Eviction blockade in Budapest (May 13 2010)

On July 22, 2010 the newly elected center-right Hungarian government declared a ban on almost all forms of eviction until April 15, 2011. The only and yet very significant exception to this ban are squatters who continue to be unprotected from forced eviction by either private or public bodies.

Concert to support the struggle against the Khimki forest destruction and for freedom (Moscow, 2010)

Evguenia Tchirikova, leader du mouvement de défense de la forêt de Khimki (banlieue de Moscou) n’aurait jamais imaginé se retrouver devant pareille foule et parmi de telles personnalités, lorsqu’elle a commencé son combat, presque en solitaire, il y a deux ans désormais. Alors qu’elle se promenait avec ses deux enfants en bas âge, elle avait alors été choquée par les panneaux annonçant les futurs abattages dans la forêt de Khimki pour permettre la construction d’une autoroute reliant Moscou à Saint-Pétersbourg.

Proposal for 'oasis' to clean up city image sparks fury

Plans under consideration to place homeless people "in an oasis" in the Prague suburbs have been slammed as nothing more than setting up "a concentration camp" and putting people in a "ghetto."

On July 30 two antifascist activists, were arrested in Moscow without formal charges of any kind. Maxim and Alexei are well-known public spokesmen of the growing movement of young people against neo-Nazi violence, and in recent years they have done much to expose the connections amongst government agencies, the police, and ultra-rightists in Russia. Their arrests came on the heels of a series of dramatic events that unfolded in July around protests against the destruction of a forest in Khimki, outside of Moscow. Because they have a stake in clear-cutting the forest to make way for a multimillion-dollar toll highway between Moscow and Petersburg,big business and state bureaucrats have unleashed a full-scale campaign of violence against the local residents and environmentalists who make up the protest group.

Le Front Commun SDF profite de l’Année européenne de lutte contre la pauvreté, ainsi que de la décision de l’Union européenne de se préoccuper des sans abri, pour organiser une vaste consultation des anciens et actuels SDF dans les pays de l’Europe.

Eviction La Courneve, Paris (July 21 2010)

A video of a forced eviction in la Courneuve on July 21, a method introduced by the new prefect. Jean Baptiste Eyraud, the president of Droit au Logement (DAL - Right to Housing Association) is outraged. He says "Dragging women with their babies, I have never seen that! When they are dealing with people in trouble, they must act differently. An intervention like that leaves marks on the minds of children. The adults were scared for them. Then I was taken into custody because I stayed at the scene after the warning from the police. "
DAL, with support from the International Alliance of Inhabitants, requests for relocation of those who were evicted and, as a joined force, demands regularization of undocumented persons.

Los habitantes de Khimki, cerca de Moscú, acampan desde hace una semana para impedir a la firma francesa Vinci la construcción de un tramo de carretera que destruiría el bosque. El proyecto está sustentado por el Primer Ministro Vladimir Putin pero se gana la ira de los habitantes de Moscú y alrededores. El movimiento para defender el bosque de Khimki conduce la lucha contra este proyecto ecológicamente devastador desde hace más de dos años. Una nueva batalla comenzó el 15 de julio último con la deforestación inesperada de siete hectáreas, en los alrededores del aeropuerto internacional de Sheremetevo.

Viernes 2 de julio 2011, en el Centro Cívico de Bon Pastor (Barcelona), a partir de las 17.30, se presentarán las propuestas que participaron y que ganaron el Concurso de Ideas Repensar Bon Pastor "para una remodelación con cero desalojos del barrio de Bon Pastor en Barcelona".

En Île-de-France, la crise du logement bat son plein: plus des deux tiers des expulsions avec intervention de la police ont lieu en région parisienne. Cette situation alarmante touche aussi les demandeurs DALO, expulsés au mépris de la décision préfectorale qui les reconnaît prioritaires pour un relogement. Le RéSEL exige du Préfet d’Ile-de-France qu’il prenne au plus vite des dispositions pour que cessent les expulsions sans relogement.

19 de junio 2010

Después de varios días en que en el barrio del Bon Pastor de Barcelona la tensión subía alrededor del problema de las casas cerradas, sábado 19 de junio explotó la rabia de los habitantes. Durante más de cinco horas muchísimas familias del barrio salieron a la calle con martillos y mazas y abrieron la mayoría de las 35 casas que el Patronato mantiene cerradas.