Copenhagen's Christiania squatters, famed for their anti-free market ways, are selling shares in their community so they can buy it from the government. What do you get for your investment: "a symbolic sense of ownership in Christiania and the promise of an invitation to a planned annual shareholder party." As one squatter calls it, "ownership in an abstract form."
According to the Copenhagen Post, after striking a deal with the state this summer, Christiania residents now need to raise 76.2 million kroner (almost $13 million) to buy the majority of the area’s properties and an additional six million kroner to rent adjoining green spaces. The first 43 million kroner (or approximately $8 million) is due on 15 April 2012. Several prominent people have purchased Christiania Shares, including Margrethe Vestager, minister of the economy and interior, and Mogens Lykketoft, president of parliament. The shares are available for purchase online (
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posted by infini
on Jan 17, 2012 -
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The Third World Squat (Some images not 100% safe for work)
When it comes to training someone who's new to the world of squats, deadlifts, and the fine art of picking up heavy stuff, I've found a substantial disparity in the learning curve between North Americans and those from third-world countries . . . There are a variety of possible reasons for this, but there's one dominant variable that's a great predictor of a trainee's immediate potential before they even step foot in the gym: The third-world squat.
posted by jason's_planet
on Dec 29, 2007 -
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Three days of rioting and protest across Denmark, fueled by an
influx of supporters from outside the country, was the result of the
Danish police's sudden eviction of long-standing squat
Ungdomshuset (
"Youth House"). It was the last such social centre in Denmark, whose self-governed municipality of
Christiana also began as a
squat (though its future remains
in question).
Squatting, the act of taking over abandoned property (sometimes surreptitiously as a way to secure housing for the homeless, sometimes
publically as a way to exert political pressure) has a long history, and often meets with intense repression, though has sometimes been instrumental in city-building. In New York City's early days,
homesteading was how many neighbourhoods began, and the
squat movement which birthed the now-legal
ABC No Rio community centre is linked to the city's
community gardens, as well as its independent arts culture through publications such as
World War 3. (WW3's co-founder Seth Tobocman receives
continued attention for his graphic novel
War In The Neighbourhood.)
Demolition of
Ungdomshuset has already begun.
posted by poweredbybeard
on Mar 5, 2007 -
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