Reply to some of the comments in the Guardian article below.

Hi fully appreciate many of the comments above especially Rosie Canning and Ginger girl.
We have been occupying disused buildings for over 20 years to create community projects,all we can do is buy some time with direct action,so that local people can force the council to carry out its responsibilities.We are all paying for the bankers crisis and illegal foreign wars,with our public services.
Squatters are human beings who could be any of you,your chidren or cousin fallen on hard times,made redundant then out on the street.The govt last week pushed some final stages of the enclosure acts.They are now prepared they state in a recent report to round up an imprison 4,200 people per year,for the new crime of sheltering in an empty/abandoned residential building.This is Tyrrany.
There has been 1 year of propaganda and media fabricated lies to bring in this law.To bring in extreme laws the groundwork of creating scape goats and hated groups must be laid.
You can only squat an empty building.The 1977 Displaced residential Occupier law meant the police could arrest people immediately for squatting someones home.Yet MPs (Mike Freer MP for Barnet) and Govt ministers Grant Schapps lied continually to bring in this law. A law that is already causing much suffering as people wait for their doors to be kicked in in dawn raids,on abandoned properties that some have used for months or years.
The government is trying to force many onto the housing benefit system,raising rents and property prices,for their property developer friends.Who donated 3million to Tory party funds in the last 3 yeras.
Public libraries are a public resource a community centre,there is no way a voluntary system can replace the wealth of facilities provided by a properly funded library.Which the councils have a statutory obligation to run.The community librarian is the angle the journalist wanted to write it was not my words.
We need to reclaim our community spaces from this government of millionaires.Repeal the Laspo act that criminalises the homeless in a housing crisis.Take the money back from the banks and corporations and put it into our public services.Note well the people of iceland removed their government,put bankers and the government ministers in prison and wrote of their illegally created debt.Then created a new much more democratic constitution.
All are welcome at the Barnet Library to plan how we can save this vital community resource and work towards a better future.next monday 10 am we have a meeting with the council in the library and 6pm the same day we have a community organising meeting,to work on how we run the library in the interim period.Together we can win a small victory in a long campaign.