Diary of an activist day 4 in the big motherhouse occupation of the royal mint
It has been a long day with as usual not enough sleep we have been seiged in now for a few days yet have been managing to get people and food in a variety of ways.Big up the night time ninjas.
We were served court papers this afternoon at 3 o'clock for a court date tomorrow at 10:30 AM they have given us less the required 48 hours notice for this case which is very unreasonable.
They are claiming that we have coming here early to do a rave,when in fact it is very clear from the numerous media articles that this is a housing protest.
Raising awareness of the 105,000 children classified as homeless in temporary commendation over Christmas (Shelter figures ) while 1.5 million empty buildings in the UK sit unused this is totally unacceptable state of affairs.
The housing crisis is a lie,there are nearly 1,000,000 empty residential buildings in the UK and half that many residential non-residential buildings.
The rent and housing prices are being falsely inflated to such a state that even ordinary Londoners on good wages can now not afford to rent or buy somewhere.
It seems that people aren't as bothered when things are hard for the travellers,The squatters ,homeless or the trade unions which are currently having their rights removed.
But now middle England and people on good wages are feeling the bite of the austerity robbery programme.
The property market,bank inflated money printing machine that is falsely forcing up property prices to turn homes into land banking,buy to leave properties.
A home is no longer a home it is just an investment piggybank for someone within an offshore tax haven,tax avoiding money to invest in the overinflated property market that is no longer fit for purpose.
Many people,skills talents and projects are leaving London because they cannot afford inflated rates of rent and property prices.
Even in New York and Berlin they have rent controls.
A performing friend told me recently that his rent on A one bedroom flat in London was around £250 a week, he had moved to Berlin and the same one bedroom flat as well as his transport costs were £50 a week.
He said that the London International School of performing arts had actually moved from London to Berlin because the institution and its students could no longer afford to live in London.
There was a meeting a couple of months ago at the GLA which was discussing and complaining that so much culture arts music and theatre ideas and projects were leaving London to move to other cities on the continent or around the world,why was this?
One of my friends who went to the meeting said its because you have criminalised residential squatting and because you are closing down so many grassroots venues like the five bars in Soho including the 12 bar.
It is out of these grassroots places that so much of our arts music and culture has come,many of the bands as many performers and artists,have come through Squats and Grassroots venues.
We need a major rethink we need a fundamental system change before our present short term system of recklessly consuming the planet and wasting resources brings us to the edge of catastrophic climate disaster.The floods in the north of England Are just the tip of the iceberg and Our government has a similar attitude from Housing to Climate Change.
We need to take action whereever we are to change the system to a more sustainable cooperative and create a future that looks after people and planet.
Night night tired phoenix
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