Talk:Community centre

message: I would also agree that social centres should retain their own entry. Anyone with even a passing knowledge of Italian centri sociali (social centres) would know they have a very different history from community centres. The main point of differentiation is political. Italian social centres emerged primarily out of the autonomist-workerist political tradition. THis more radical line sought, by definition, autonomy from state formations. Social centres were a way of reclaiming community space for autonomous social and political practice.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.113.179.98 (talk) 18:14, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Social centres should remain separate from community centres 

message: Why does this article use the British spelling? isn't US English the wikipedia standard for articles relevant to many english-speaking countries?
Dialectric (talk) 21:06, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spelling 

message: It is clear from the discussions above that the concept of a (semi-) illegal joint community use of an (abandoned) building has been collected in another article Social Centre.  It is also clear that an attempt to merge that page with this one for community centre was aborted.
So would you please move all the talk about squatting an associated political theories out of this page, so the traditional non-revolutionary and rarely illegal community centre movements can get its page back.  I will be bold and do some initial non-destructive editing in which I simply move the out of place stuff closer to the end of the page. 77.215.46.17 (talk) 10:04, 16 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Please move the revolutionary/squatter stuff out of this page 

message: The following text was on this page prior to June 2013, but really belong on the Social Center page.   It has been preserved down here temporarily until someone working on the Social Center page can move it.
Some community centres are squatted, sometimes rented buildings, mostly in Europe, which have been made into organizing centres for community activities, support networks, and institutional initiatives such as free kitchens, free shops, public computer labs, graffiti murals, free housing for activists and travelers, recreation, public meetings, legal collectives, and spaces for dances, performances and art exhibitions. Those in a more established setting may be directly connected with a library, swimming pool, gymnasium, or other public facility.
Community centers have various relationships toward the state and governmental institutions. Within the history of a given institution they may move from a quasi-legal or even illegal existence, to a more regularized situation.
In Italy, from the 1970s, large factories and even abandoned military barracks have been "appropriated" for use as community centres, known as Centri Sociali, often translated as social centres. There are today dozens of these across Italy. The historic relationship between the Italian social centres and the Autonomia movement (specifically Lotta Continua) has been described briefly in Storming Heaven, Class Composition and Struggle in Italian Autonomous Marxism, by Steve Wright.
Social centres in Italy continue to be centres of political and social dissent. Notably the Tute Bianche and Ya Basta Association developed directly out of the social centre movement, and many social forums take place in social centres.
In the United Kingdom there is an active Social Centre Network, which aims to link up "up the growing number of autonomous spaces to share resources, ideas and information". This network draws a very clear distinction between the many autonomous social centres around the country and the state or large NGO sponsored community centres.
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NB: This text was moved from here from the article by Ruby Murray 10:58, 6 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Supplemental text that really belongs on the Social Center page

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message: 'Day centre' redirects to here, but in Britain a day centre is something altogether different. 31.52.254.181 (talk) 15:59, 29 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Day centre