yesterday a member of the rampART collective talked to a guy outside rampART, who introduced himself as stuart who was also present at court on the 20th of december. he said that the council building control department had been hassling them and he'd narrowly avoided them slapping a court order on them last week in relation to dangerous parts of the building such as slates hanging off etc.

they have been trying to get us evicted since March and got therefore a warrent from the high court, which means they are using the high court bailiffs, the police say they need 80 officers and demanded £25,000 for the costs. so the owner took the police to court and the police backed down. the hold up is still the police who have not given a date yet...

so....

basically the rampART could be evicted any time and it's just the police being the ones that has held it up. we will not get notice of the date of the
eviction and we will find it difficult to hold off 80 cops and bailiffs on a suprise 5am eviction. we do need to proactively find another building as a backup. we won't give in without resisting the eviction to make a statement against gentrification and the eviction of free spaces in east london.

we invite you to come and get creative in its defence. this thursday we are launching an ongoing time of action.

we'll start building and cooking @ 3 pm, then danish activists will share experiences froom the youth house @ 6 pm, dinner arround 7.30 and building and direct action skillsharing after that. we need tools for making the barrikades efficient and beutiful, so if you have access to tools or materials please bring them along.

when we fight for Rampart we are not just fighting to defend the space. we are part of a world wide struggle against the capitalist world order.

we are fighting for everyones rights to learn and educate, share, live and love without autorities.

we are fighting for our dreams.



now is the time to show London and the rest of the world that the struggle continues...