#EWLinkHouses : End The Rot /// Squat The Lot

bendigostreet

Hey0,

For the last few weeks, good folk have been occupying empty housing in Bendigo Street, Collingwood. The houses — previously scheduled to be demolished in order to make way for another fucking highway — have been left standing empty since the Victorian government cancelled the billion-dollar East-West Link road project in December 2014. As for the private developers responsible, they were left laffing at the cancellation, the previous, Tory government having agreed to pay them massive compensation if the project was scrapped … and if the rich are happy, who could ask for anything more?

Well, the Homeless Persons Union of Victoria, among others. March 31, 2016:

After a long-fought day, protesters have successfully occupied an empty domestic property on Bendigo St this morning.

This is despite being informed late yesterday afternoon, after weathering a 3-hour holding pattern conducted by Victoria Police officers and an anonymous party of three, that their occupation of 18 Bendigo St, Collingwood, constituted an act of unlawful trespass on private property …

Since then, the occupation has been ongoing. See :

Squatters stage protest occupation in Collingwood, Marika Dobbin, The Age, March 30, 2016
Homeless women ‘told they had 10 minutes to leave’ East West Link home, Aisha Dow, Benjamin Preiss, The Age, April 1, 2016
Homeless retake houses in protest, Jacob Andrewartha, Green Left Weekly, April 6, 2016
Still no clarity on East West Link houses, Kieran’s Review, April 14, 2016
Homeless Persons Union holds state to account, Ellena Savage, Eureka Street, April 14, 2016
A Day With the Squatters Protesting Melbourne’s Housing Crisis, Chris Shearer, VICE, April 18, 2016
Party time for occupiers of East West Link homes in Collingwood, Clay Lucas, The Age, April 20, 2016

Tomorrow — SUNDAY, APRIL 24 @ 2pm — there’s a PARTY in Bendigo Street and YOU are invited!

bendigoparty

See youse there!

See also : Australian Museum of Squatting | Yarra Campaign for Action on Transport (YCAT).

About @ndy

I live in Melbourne, Australia. I like anarchy. I don't like nazis. I enjoy eating pizza and drinking beer. I barrack for the greatest football team on Earth: Collingwood Magpies. The 2024 premiership's a cakewalk for the good old Collingwood.
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