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Solidarity with Ungdomshuset

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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. "

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Comments (3 of 3)

Address & Contact Details For Embassy

by pat c

Tue Nov 08, 2005 10:59

Embassy of Denmark 121-122 St. Stephen's Green Dublin 2 Ireland
Tel: 00 353 (1) 475 6404
Fax: 00 353 (1) 478 4536
E-mail: [email protected]

if u cant make the demo, email or phone the embassy to protest.

by Seamus Breathnach

Sat Nov 19, 2005 01:17

sbreathnach at eircom dot net

(01) 4060484

As a Danophile and 'gammle flibber' with fond memories of Saettedammen of the '70s and '80s , indeed, as a visitor to Christiania when it was unpopular to be such and as a supporter of the growth of communes as well as the development of Bjornemagd in Denmark, might I support the retention of Ungdomshuset.

I note the obvious return to the right in Danmark as elsewhere in the last few years, especially with the collapse of the Berlin Wall. Indeed, the triumph of fascism is on all fours with the religious militancy that marks the great enthusiams of the present era. One would like to think that Ireland can rrelate to Danish liberties, but , unfortunatly one fears that Ireland was never in the grip of anything but religion and has, therefore, never really had either a liberal or a humanist tradition upon which to call. So comparisons with Denmark are difficult -- and all the more confusing by the fact that superficially , in size, superficial attitudes, conversation, and more recently, economically, are easily comparable.

Where Denmark has had a return to the 'right', Ireland never left religion. Moreover, it seems to me that the return to the right is most poignant in a country like Danmark; for , unlike Ireland, it has long bid goodbye to organised religion and for decades has been most progressive in things humanist.

If we just take one comparison, namely, between Irish and Danish attitudes to WW 11, we acknowlege a world of difference and I am not surprised to see little or no responses to the appeal for support.

I am even sure that many members of the Danish Embassy in Dublin are perfectly in support of the old days.

Seamus Breathnach

www.irishcriminology.com

copenhagen rocks

by dunk

Sat Nov 19, 2005 12:41

few photos of the building

link to network of social centre
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gimme_space/files/arts%20night%20and%20links.doc

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