Creativity is not born from money- making schemes but comes out of grassroots activity. In the last fifteen years squatting has become more and more difficult, but the need for affordable housing, affordable working spaces, places for young people, social resources and cultural centres only increases. They are evicting people instead of working with them, destroying areas of beauty, demolishing instead of renovating, creating new laws to further crush any opposition. The squatted OLVG buildings are a good example. Despite great public opposition to their plans, and despite the fact that a large group of people are using the buildings in a really positive way, the Hospital and the local authority are determined to go ahead with eviction and demolition.
Financial interest seems to be their only consideration.
This will then be followed by a funeral procession through the city to the Town Hall, to mourn the loss of our thriving community.