Solidarity with Ungdomshuset

dublin | rights, freedoms and repression | event notice Monday November 07, 2005 14:01 by - Solidarity with Ungdomshuset

2pm Friday November 25th

Protest outside the Danish Embassy on St. Stephens Green.

Ungdomshuset is a squatted social centre in Copenhagen
that is currently under threat of eviction.



www.ungeren.dk

Dates for the upcoming trial against Ungdomshuset 13 Jan 2005
The court is in session...

The danish High Court has decided the following dates for the upcoming trial
that the christian sect “Faderhuset” is leading against Ungdomshuset: the
21,22,25,28,29 nov. and 1st of dec. 2005 in Østre landsret 21. afd. Bredgade
42 at. 09.30am.
Ungdomshuset is now facing the biggest and most concrete threat in the
history of the house...

Yet again we are up against a trial that we are forced to act on, no matter
what the outcome will be. This does not mean that we recognize the
foundation of the trial; we believe this whole circus could have been
avoided if the Copenhagen City Council would have kept the promise they gave
back in 1982 when the house was given to the Squatter-movement.
We stick to the belief that the right is on our side and that there is a
necessity for a cultural institution like Ungdomshuset.
Ungdomshuset has a great historical and social signifigance for alternative
Copenhagen. Not only for the greater part of the alternative music-scene,
but also on other social and cultural levels where the house creates a
setting for various groups and individuals that wouldn’t fit in elsewhere in
Copenhagen.
Therefore we see it as the City Council´s responsibility to provide the
facilities on Jagtvej 69 to the youth of Copenhagen that needs a free
alternative space created by the people that use it. The City Council
abandoned their responsibility the minute they decided to sell the house to
the highest bidder.
It is important for us to make it clear that this process cannot be reduced
to an insignificant legal-battle between a group of “anti-social radicals”
on one side and a group of “mentally deranged rightwing fanatic christians”
on the other.
This, for us, is a very fundamental struggle to defend the right to cultural
alternatives in a society that hails conformity and intolerance.
Ungdomshuset and Christiania are fighting the same struggle and we encourage
everyone that believes in a widespread political and cultural diversity to
support this appeal.
If they evict Ungdomshuset, Copenhagen will be without this unique
alternative.

We have now started a campaign to organise the struggle for the continuous
existance of Ungdomshuset. This campaign will be workig on different levels;
on one side we will try to make our cultural activities more visible through
a series of shows, performances and live acts with bands/performers/artists
that will promote the idea of Ungdomshuset and aknowledge the existance of
an alternative non-commercial music scene in Copenhagen.
On the other side we will try to be more offensive in our political
activities on street-level. So from now on you can look forward to more
activism from us and at the same time an increasement in our other
activities on all fronts.
So keep your eyes and ears open...

More information can be found on a regular basis here on this website
(hopefully also in english...) www.ungdomshuset.dk or you can try to contact
our campaign-office mon-fri from 10.00-17.00 pm on 0045 35839611 or send us
an e-mail to info@....

On behalf of Ungdomshuset
The Pressgroup

We will never surrender!

* 22 years of counterculture!
* Against culturael and political unification!
* For the right to alternatives!
* Solidarity with Christiania and Blitz!




http://www.ungdomshuset.dk/english.php?subaction=showfull&id=1109683069&archive=\&start_from=&ucat=5&

http://indymedia.dk/newswire.php?story_id=242



www.denmark.ie

"The Embassy is on the 4th Floor of the Royal College of
Surgeons Building. The Building is halfway along the west of St. Stephen's
Green on the corner of York Street and St. Stephen's Green. It is a light
grey building with blacked out windows. The entrance is 4 steps up to a
revolving door. Ask at the security desk for the Embassy of Denmark. "