France Rises Up Against the New Fascism - Vaccine Passports 23:57 Jul 21 3 comments George Floyd: one death too many in the “land of the free” 23:58 Jun 23 0 comments The leveraged buyout, exploitation and punishment beating of Greece as warning to others. 11:45 May 11 0 comments Red Banner issue 60 out now 13:18 Jun 22 0 comments Red Banner issue 59 out now 17:46 Mar 28 0 comments more >>Blog Feeds
Public InquiryInterested in maladministration. Estd. 2005RTEs Sarah McInerney ? Fianna Fail?supporter? Anthony Joe Duffy is dishonest and untrustworthy Anthony Robert Watt complaint: Time for decision by SIPO Anthony RTE in breach of its own editorial principles Anthony Waiting for SIPO Anthony
Human Rights in IrelandPromoting Human Rights in Ireland
Lockdown Skeptics
Year After Lockdown Saw Massive Spike in Attempted Child Suicides Mon Feb 03, 2025 09:00 | Richard Eldred
The Chancellor?s ?Growth Agenda? Is Full of Sound and Fury, but Signifies Nothing Mon Feb 03, 2025 07:00 | Ben Pile
News Round-Up Mon Feb 03, 2025 01:19 | Richard Eldred
Towards Post-Totalitarianism in the West: Some Warnings From the East Sun Feb 02, 2025 19:00 | Michael Rainsborough
Sky News Scrambles for Survival Amid Exodus of Viewers Sun Feb 02, 2025 17:00 | Richard Eldred
Voltaire NetworkVoltaire, international editionVoltaire, International Newsletter N?118 Sat Feb 01, 2025 12:57 | en 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp Sat Feb 01, 2025 12:16 | en Misinterpretations of US trends (1/2), by Thierry Meyssan Tue Jan 28, 2025 06:59 | en Voltaire, International Newsletter #117 Fri Jan 24, 2025 19:54 | en The United States bets its hegemony on the Fourth Industrial Revolution Fri Jan 24, 2025 19:26 | en |
Magpie Collective continue to resist eviction
dublin |
anti-capitalism |
news report
Wednesday March 24, 2004 13:48 by k magpie - magpie collective (personal capacity)
Here are a few pictures from inside the Leeson Street squat after it had been renovated. 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. |
View Comments Titles Only
save preference
Comments (20 of 20)
Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20Great tits
five more
the library
vegetable mural on the wall
Gives some idea of what the public reaction to this situation is..
http://www.p45rant.net/boards/showthread.php?s=827e653c5fad1819cb71fa9774ed80f2&threadid=55037
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....
have a sense of humour
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
we are resisting eviction too.
"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.
Kev,
Go home to your mother.
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
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 ....
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......
'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.
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.
more
more
from out the window.
and thats all she wrote. happy rent paying to all and sundry morons, keeping it 'ardcore. rent to the grave
Where is the second photograph from in the house, the long corridor??
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.
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. ;)