Monthly Archives: December, 2013

New squat distro based in Pittsburgh

SQ Distro is a media distribution hub focused on the issues and tactics of squatting, housing, property resistance, and land struggles.

Here you will find many resources, from books and zines to DVDs along with some other related ephemera.

Keep an eye out for us at various events such as bookfairs and conferences around the US.

http://sqdistro.com/

Quibble – Critique of Industrial Society

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Quibble – Critique of Industrial Society

Issue One Version One of a new radical journal.

Features two articles, one long, one short:
*Authenticity, Music and False Needs – Critique of the Industrial Society from the Frankfurt School to Anarcho-Primitivism
*On Bloom – some comments on a talk made by Clive Bloom in Brighton

Details:
– 28 numbered pages inc. cover
– Cover is red
– Black and white inner pages
– Photocopied on recycled paper
– Produced 2011
– A5

To get:
PDF for printing is free from us -the zine is 13 pages, page 1 is a cover and 2-13 can be printed double-sided. Or you can get it from zinelibrary.
Or you can buy it from etsy with a lovely red cover.

#usingspace seven – a zine about squats, social centres and alternative ways of living

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Using Space 7

Contents:

* Callout for a mass squatting action in Brighton
* Short update on criminalisation in England and Wales
* When glitter thugs attack
* Interview with a Seattle squatter
* Keeping occupied – on the Ocean Estate, London

Details:

* 28 pages including cover
* produced august 2o12

You can mail us about getting a paper version or download a print-ready PDF

Squatting in Europe: Radical Spaces, Urban Struggles

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Squatting in Europe: Radical Spaces, Urban Struggles

Squatting in Europe aims to move beyond the conventional understandings of squatting, investigating its history in Europe over the past four decades. Historical comparisons and analysis blend together in these inquiries into squatting in the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, France, Germany and England. In it members of SqEK (Squatting Europe Kollective) explore the diverse, radical, and often controversial nature of squatting as a form of militant research and self-managed knowledge production.

Contents:

Hans Pruijt: Squatting in Europe
Pierpaolo Mudu: Resisting and challenging Neoliberalism: the development of Italian SocialCentres
Gianni Piazza: How activists make decisions within Social Centres? A comparative study in an Italian city
Miguel A. Martínez: The Squatters’ Movement in Spain: A Local and Global Cycle of Urban Protests
Claudio Cattaneo: Urban squatting, rural squatting and the ecological-economic perspective
Andre Holm, Armin Kuhn: Squatting and Urban Renewal: The Interaction of Squatter Movements and Strategies of Urban Restructuring in Berlin
Linus Owens: Have squat, will travel: How squatter mobility mobilizes squatting
Florence Boullon: What’s a ‘good’ squatter? Categorization’s processes of squats by government officials in France
Thomas Aguilera: Configurations of Squats in Paris and the Ile-de-France Region: diversity of goals and resources
E.T.C. Dee: Moving towards criminalisation and then what? Examining dominant discourses on squatting in England

Available from Minor Compositions, AK Press, AKUK, Active and all good radical bookshops.
Also available as a free PDF download from SqEK or here.

278 pages, 6×9
US: $24 / UK: £16
ISBN 978-1-57027-257-8
Available direct from Minor Compositions now for the special price of £10.
Release date Fall 2013