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Magpie Collective continue to resist eviction

category dublin | anti-capitalism | news report author Wednesday March 24, 2004 13:48author by k magpie - magpie collective (personal capacity) Report this post to the editors

Here are a few pictures from inside the Leeson Street squat after it had been renovated.
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Why have the Magpie Collective decided to fight against the evcition initiated by Dublin City Council... because when you put so much time, effort and love into a building it becomes a home. It becomes more than the sum of its parts - it takes on a life of its own and develops into a living, breathing space, instead of a dead building. Squatting this house is an affirmation of life over death.

Squatting is a direct action that calls into question the anti social practice of property speculation. Developers (and in this case, the city council) allow buildings to sit empty while a housing crisis exists. They fall into disrepair and crumble, which eventually leads to someone making a huge profit further down the line.

Autonomous Spaces need to exist because there is a need for difference. Everywhere, the state's tentacles wriggle their way into every facet of our lives - cataloguing us, monitoring us, taxing us, making sure we comply with their law and their ideology. If you live on this island of Ireland then you automatically have to comply with the culture of "The State", even if you do not agree with it.

Either automonotony - or autonomy. Autonomy means starting to take control of your own life.

bedroom
bedroom

kitchen
kitchen

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author by Royston Vaseypublication date Wed Mar 24, 2004 13:51author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Great tits

author by kpublication date Wed Mar 24, 2004 13:53author address author phone Report this post to the editors

five more

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the library
the library

vegetable mural on the wall
vegetable mural on the wall

author by pcpublication date Wed Mar 24, 2004 19:38author address author phone Report this post to the editors

it amazing how many people say
oh that terrible there prevent the council from doing it up and housing homeless there...

as if that actually happen !!!!

dunno maybe i used to or still do think like that on some issues

hope people are learning from hearing about the squat....

author by pcpublication date Wed Mar 24, 2004 20:47author address author phone Report this post to the editors

have a sense of humour

author by magpiepublication date Wed Mar 24, 2004 21:30author address author phone Report this post to the editors

that's the page opposite the article about the house from the Sun newspaper. the page 3 girl got dreadlocks, nipple piercings, tattoo's added. its a joke - deal with it. the girls in our house didnt seem to mind

author by raven - from the sunpublication date Thu Mar 25, 2004 15:49author address author phone Report this post to the editors

we are resisting eviction too.

author by Jack Dawpublication date Thu Mar 25, 2004 16:07author address author phone Report this post to the editors

"its a joke - deal with it."

Nobody said other wise. You 'full time' revolutionaries really should take chill pills now and then. Arguing with your shadow is not good for you.

author by uncle Gerpublication date Thu Mar 25, 2004 16:35author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Kev,
Go home to your mother.

author by Mrs. M. J. Listerpublication date Fri Apr 09, 2004 18:04author email moralminority at yahoo dot comauthor address author phone Report this post to the editors

there also was a tread on archeire.com but it was removed, as it was about a building in dublin, which is so off topic, ( hints to what shold be discused at archeire.com http://www.archiseek.com/content/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2875 ) this was posted at the same time and has survived.

http://www.archiseek.com/content/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2929
in true spirit of fostering debate, the moderator closed the post, so i could not respond to lies , thats right, only my posts were removed. the squat post ,the moderattor and other members replys were still there till just before i posted the freedom of speech message then the whole post was removed, so it could be said that the post was off topic, rather then censorship of my veiw as i didnt fall in with the archeire line of 'evict the smelly hippys.'

i apoligise in advance for making indymedia and extention of archeire and there concerns

author by pcpublication date Fri Apr 09, 2004 19:00author address author phone Report this post to the editors

i posted the article re the squat that was then closed down because

"Your comments was removed with the entire thread, as Archiseek is not going to become an extension of Indymedia and their concerns - you can take that to P45.net

If you don't like my editorial policies, tough.

i sent this pm to clerkin adking why

???
really i would like to know whats wrong with posting such a thread here, yes i was trying to get some publicity for the squatters but mostly information, and i though it was a _very_ relevant posting for this site as you discuss related issues all the time, i feel that theres more a dislike of our ideas then a lack of revelance and then you delete by concillatory posting, which i altough i posted to you i posted in the public forum purposely also, im really not trying to get your back up but i won't know use better in future if i don't get an answer from you

looking forward to a reply

-and indeed my posting has started a dicussion about empty buildings and their use -


i think the guy has a good deal of rights seeing as it his site and i had chosen not to go on about it cos in similar situations i found the more you protest the more defensive the person comes, seing the above person seperately to me has taken genuine grievance with his attitude i thought it needed explaination


arhiere is a deeply interesting site and among other sites i consider it along with indymedia.ie to be one of the sites that if you want to know whats happening in dublin you will read it....

but even though theres so much talk on it about demolition of protected buildings and specualtion, mention the politics and the wider issues behind it (from any angle ) and he deletes it... ?

a song was sung last night with the lyrics along the lines of "you can't save the world with ethical investment you have to get to the root of thing" now i don't agree with that as such i think some people would see worth in ethical investment and heh its start were not all going to be looking for a revolution but if people can't look at the widers issues behind things maybe they are lost ....

author by khpublication date Wed Apr 28, 2004 11:13author address author phone Report this post to the editors

there is always the option of paying your way and renting a place to live like everyone else.

someone owns a building and they aren't socially responsible to put it to good use?

they are wasting a good opportunity to make a difference to the homeless situation in Dublin but I fail to see how a crowd of D2/4/6 wannabe-misfits making it into a clubhouse is going to achieve anything......

author by ermpublication date Thu Oct 07, 2004 21:22author address author phone Report this post to the editors

'wannabe misfits' make a difference by demonstrating the possibility, creating a functioning reality in which they are not entirely dependent on the legislations of the capitalist regime which restricts our right and ability to live for ourselves, empower ourselves, free ourselves. The use of an otherwise empty and deteriorating building for the pooling and sharing of resources, ideas and information, motivation, inspiration, empowerment and self belief is in every way gonna make a difference. we don't have to ask permission to live on this planet, we don't have to get permission to live. we don't have to blindly follow rules that demonstrably oppress us.

author by have a guess - fuck them all.publication date Mon Aug 20, 2007 16:55author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Yours for the low, low rental price of €10,000 a month - a snip, sure you'd practically be fucking mad not to rent the place.

Some other (before) pix at the link below if you're bothered.

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Related Link: http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=63903
author by tra la la - must you askpublication date Mon Aug 20, 2007 16:57author address author phone Report this post to the editors

more

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author by forgetting people's names, even - no problemo...publication date Mon Aug 20, 2007 16:59author address author phone Report this post to the editors

more

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author by drink pink ink at the sink - (hic) no soup today sir, no thankspublication date Mon Aug 20, 2007 17:03author address author phone Report this post to the editors

from out the window.

and thats all she wrote. happy rent paying to all and sundry morons, keeping it 'ardcore. rent to the grave

leeson_street_037600x450.jpeg

author by InsideIntelpublication date Tue Aug 28, 2007 14:16author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Where is the second photograph from in the house, the long corridor??

author by hmm - whatever you want - they're all a pile of shite (personality incapacitated)publication date Tue Aug 28, 2007 20:01author address author phone Report this post to the editors

That'd be the basement corridor.

The house is now just a single 4-bed. Very nice it is too, you only appreciate a building like that when its got its original dimensions back, instead of having an extra storey squeezed into it by turning it into a fucking chinese puzzle of ridiculous floor permutations.

How they think anyone will pay the €10k rent a month though is beyond me. My bet is that it will end up as an embassy.

author by Acidpublication date Wed Aug 29, 2007 05:08author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Large companies often buy property like this for important employees transferring over from the States.
The price is right. Sure you're only a block away from the green. ;)

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