From 8.30am around 70-80 people, the majority local residents, turned out to support the resistance to the threatened eviction of the Vortex Occupied Social Centre. The owner, Richard Midda, a well known thug and property developer threatened to use force to evict the occupiers if they did not leave by 9.00am.
But like the saying goes "they make plans we make history"! After seeing such a response, composed of all age ranges and faced with no fewer than 15 film and video cameras the police intervened and thereby starting a debate on the finer points of law. With the cops in the middle of this legal debate a decision was made to send one person from the Social centre and the owner, midda, to Stoke Newington Police station where independent legal advise is now being sort.
This is current as of 9.50am.
This occupation has its roots in both the trajectory of occupations from the Radical Dairy (Stoke Newington) in 2002 and the subsequent spaces (Occupied Social Centre - Kentish Town,Ex-Grandbanks - Tufnell Park, Institute of Autonomy - Bloomsbury, The Square - Bloomsbury), BUT also in last years occupation of "Francesca's Cafe" on Broadway Market - Hackney and Daslton theatre in Dalston.
It shows that radical political interventions in the form of occupied social centres can resonate with pre-exisiting social tensions and antoganisms, especially around gentrification and "community" issues and activate people to self-organise and take some control on how their environment(and quality of life) are shaped.
If your in the area come down, we have now occupied both sides of the pavement due to numbers.
one of the Vortex Anarchists
This is current as of 9.50am.
This occupation has its roots in both the trajectory of occupations from the Radical Dairy (Stoke Newington) in 2002 and the subsequent spaces (Occupied Social Centre - Kentish Town,Ex-Grandbanks - Tufnell Park, Institute of Autonomy - Bloomsbury, The Square - Bloomsbury), BUT also in last years occupation of "Francesca's Cafe" on Broadway Market - Hackney and Daslton theatre in Dalston.
It shows that radical political interventions in the form of occupied social centres can resonate with pre-exisiting social tensions and antoganisms, especially around gentrification and "community" issues and activate people to self-organise and take some control on how their environment(and quality of life) are shaped.
If your in the area come down, we have now occupied both sides of the pavement due to numbers.
one of the Vortex Anarchists
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