Tag Archives: evictions

[en] Last remaining housing occupation in Bologna has been evicted

Posted on 2016/10/15 by Struggles in Italy

The eviction of the last remaining housing occupation in Bologna – around 100 people, 34 of them children, living in a building in Via Mario De Maria, in the working-class neighborhood of Bolognina – started at dawn on October 11. … Continue reading →

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[en] Renzi’s EU election victory fuels wave of evictions and arrests

Posted on 2014/06/05 by Struggles in Italy

A wave of evictions and arrests of militants from radical and housing rights movements began just a few days after the notable victory of Matteo Renzi’s Democratic Party in the European elections. The operation’s goal is clear: to evict and … Continue reading →

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[en] Ancona’s centre-left city council evicts housing occupation

Posted on 2014/02/28 by Struggles in Italy

On 5 February 2014 Ancona’s centre-left city council evicted refugees and homeless people from the Casa de Nialtri housing occupation. The Casa was a former infant school (disused for three years) which had been occupied on 22 December by people from a … Continue reading →

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[en] Wave of housing occupations in Bologna

Posted on 2013/11/19 by Struggles in Italy

Over the last month Bologna has been shaken by a wave of housing occupations. These occupations should be seen in the context of the nationwide weeks of action which culminated in 19 October’s national demonstration in Rome. The occupiers justify … Continue reading →

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[en] Demo for the right to housing in Rome ends in clashes, one injured

Posted on 2013/07/03 by Struggles in Italy

A 20-year old young woman lying on the ground with her face covered in blood: this happened yesterday in Rome, when a rally demanding more public housing was brutally charged by the police. The movement for the right to affordable … Continue reading →

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[en] ExCuem bookshop eviction in Milan

Posted on 2013/05/10 by Struggles in Italy

Ex Cuem was founded by a group of students at the University Statale di Milano. They reopened the CUEM, an independent 40 year-old bookshop that went bankrupt in October 2011 due to debt and false accounting, closing its 150m2 premises. … Continue reading →

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[en] Bologna: from culture to evictions

Posted on 2013/01/25 by Struggles in Italy

Bologna, once a city of culture, is now a city of evictions. For many years, the city of Bologna has been an icon of good administrative practice and culture. After 50 years of almost uninterrupted left-wing governments (first under the … Continue reading →

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