Failed attempt to evict The Bolt squatted hostel July 3rd
Channel: Workers Solidarity Movement
Date: 2015-07-09

Video report from the attempt to evict the new squatted emergency family accommodation center in Bolton street in Dublin on July 3rd.  The building is now being referred to as The Bolt

Organisers said "'Housing is a right' are empty words in this society. We have reclaimed an abandoned homeless hostel, which Dublin City Council has left to rot for 3 years, in order to house families in need of emergency accomodation – its rightful purpose.

In a world of plenty, poverty is a crime. There are over 302,000 empty housing units in the south of Ireland, yet there are 5,000 people sleeping rough, [hidden homeless, and over 90,000 on the social housing waiting list. This is the absurd and cruel mathematics of capitalism.