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Legal fees of our home and squatted social center

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Hello, we are trying to gather money to pay for the legal fees of the squats on Amstelveenseweg 852 and Ferdinand Bolstraat 14 in Amsterdam. At the end of May, with 10 people who were in a precarious living situation we decided to squat a house whose owner possesses many empty buildings in Amsterdam. A month later we decided to squat another building that had been empty for years, owned by the municipality. We decided to squat in the Pijp, a highly gentrified area of the city, to organize politically with more people and in a place open for everyone to come and meet their needs by having access to free food, washing machines and a free shop with clothes. On the 1st of July a new law passed, making any squat evictable 3 days after being publicly revealed. This got us worried about our possibility to find a new home and a new place to organize politically in the future if we were to get evicted from those buildings. A few days later, we received the eviction notice for both places. Following the bad advices of our lawyer who thought we had high chances of winning the court cases and being able to stay in the buildings, we decided to go to proceed with the court cases. On the 28th of July we received the negative verdict with an immediate eviction notice. In addition to losing our home and this social center we now have 1700€ of fees to pay for each building, so 3400€ in total, that we have to pay within 3 weeks.

Organizer and beneficiary

Ac Ab
Organizer
Amsterdam
Lieve Cleach
Beneficiary

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