Anarcho-punk

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 32. Chapters: Squatting, CrimethInc., Crust punk, Geekfest, Black bloc, Food Not Bombs, Crass Records, Last Hours, Bullshit Detector, Guerrilla gig, List of anarcho-punk bands, Agit-Prop Records, Uno Laur, Chaos Days, All the Madmen, A State of Mind, Sky and Trees Records. Excerpt: Squatting consists of occupying an abandoned or unoccupied space or building, usually residential, that the squatter does not own, rent or otherwise have permission to use. Author Robert Neuwirth suggests that there are one billion squatters globally, that is, about one in every six people on the planet. Yet, according to Kesia Reeve, "squatting is largely absent from policy and academic debate and is rarely conceptualized, as a problem, as a symptom, or as a social or housing movement." Squatting, a squat and squatter all come from the noun "to squat", meaning to crouch on the heels. The word 'squatter' is attested from 1788. Squatter's symbol found in Málaga, Spain The Chien Rouge in Lausanne, a squat held in the old hospitalIn many of the world's poorer countries, there are extensive slums or shanty towns, typically built on the edges of major cities and consisting almost entirely of self-constructed housing built without the landowner's permission. While these settlements may, in time, grow to become both legalised and indistinguishable from normal residential neighbourhoods, they start off as squats with minimal basic infrastructure. Thus, there is no sewage system, drinking water must be bought from vendors or carried from a nearby tap, and if there is electricity, it is stolen from a passing cable. There is an important distinction to be made between squatting by necessity and squatting as political statement. In this period of global recession and increased housing foreclosures, squatting has become far more prevalent in Western, developed nations. Obviously, in some cases, need-based and politically motivated squatting go hand in hand. According to Dr. Kesia Reeve, who specializes in housing research, "in the context of adverse housing circumstances, limited housing opportunity and frustrated expectations, squatters effectively remove themselves from and defy the norms of traditional channels of housing consumption and tenure power relations, bypassing the