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Opened tonight..Sorry I didn't post about this earlier today,I forgot.It opened this eve.It's nice place,they seem to be doing alright with it :cool:

Anyways they are open and ready to go now so get down there when you can..Come support the city's newest social centre and the future of autonomous spaces in London!

Hackney Social Centre
231 Lower Clapton Road, Hackney (go around the back and ring the bell!)
(at the last stop of the 38 bus route)

:)

Squat the fuckin rot boys!
 
Well, best of luck and all that, but I can't help noticing the following.

FREE! (bring extra skipped food, music, friends)
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If that means what I think it means, the squatters and the people they are inviting to their 'social centre' are what I have very recently learned to call 'freegans' - people who eat by collecting discarded food from other people's bins.

It's an interesting - and very odd - social phenomenon.

If that's what you want to do, get on with it - but I feel I have to tell you a simple truth that you may not want to hear.

Eating out of bins is something desperate people have to do. Destitute people do it. They have no choice. Doing the same out of choice (or principle) is very unattractive to most people. To normal people, it very off-putting.

You can call your squat a 'social centre' or a 'community centre', but I don't believe for a moment that you will attract 'the community'. You will be tolerated - live and let live, eh? - but you will repel most people.

When you are finally evicted, most people in the neighbourhood will not mind in the slightest.

Sorry, but that's how it is.

Squat and bin-dive all you like - but without illusions, please!
 
went past it twice on the bus today - couldn't see any activity from then bus...not sure how long it will last, tend to agree with JHE, not sure what sort of support they'll get from the locals tbh
 
Don't see what the big deal with cooking with skipped food is. I presume most of this will come from supermarkets who daily waste loads of perfectly good food.
When I used to have decent skips near me, I'd say less than 5% of the people raiding them could be described as desperate or destitute. It was a lot less hassle than shopping and saved me a lot of dosh at the time. Don't think anyone described themselves as freegans though.
If you can provide cheap or free healthy meals, there will be interest from local people to eat there.
Having said that, I reckon a lot of locals would rather the place was razed to the ground..
 
JHE said:
Eating out of bins is something desperate people have to do. Destitute people do it. They have no choice. Doing the same out of choice (or principle) is very unattractive to most people. To normal people, it very off-putting.

You can call your squat a 'social centre' or a 'community centre', but I don't believe for a moment that you will attract 'the community'. You will be tolerated - live and let live, eh? - but you will repel most people.

When you are finally evicted, most people in the neighbourhood will not mind in the slightest.

Sorry, but that's how it is.

Squat and bin-dive all you like - but without illusions, please!
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To be honest, people with your opinions repel me infinitely more than bin divers.
 
JHE said:
Well, best of luck and all that, but I can't help noticing the following.



If that means what I think it means, the squatters and the people they are inviting to their 'social centre' are what I have very recently learned to call 'freegans' - people who eat by collecting discarded food from other people's bins.

It's an interesting - and very odd - social phenomenon.

If that's what you want to do, get on with it - but I feel I have to tell you a simple truth that you may not want to hear.

Eating out of bins is something desperate people have to do. Destitute people do it. They have no choice. Doing the same out of choice (or principle) is very unattractive to most people. To normal people, it very off-putting.

You can call your squat a 'social centre' or a 'community centre', but I don't believe for a moment that you will attract 'the community'. You will be tolerated - live and let live, eh? - but you will repel most people.

When you are finally evicted, most people in the neighbourhood will not mind in the slightest.

Sorry, but that's how it is.

Squat and bin-dive all you like - but without illusions, please!
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I don't see skipping as that weird tbh - it's much weirder that supermarkets chuck masses of perfectly good untouched food every day!

But I agree that most "normal" people aren't massively interested in squatted social centres.
 
Measures that reduce waste and societal inefficiency (living in uninhabited buildings, consuming food that would otherwise go to waste) should be applauded not stigmatised imo.
 
Right, local history time, that building was originally a pub called the White Hart... it was your standard Georgian façade til a gas explosion around 1900 where upon the brewery redid the exterior adding grand details which transformed it into the shape today. During the 70s it was still a pub but eventually became Chimes, a nightclub associated with several murders in Murder Mile... I can remember the full details but I know locals wanted it to close down and the guy who owned it said, well it keeps the gangs off the street. Next door is/was a club called the Pavilion - there is a campaign to turn that back into a cinema ( which is what it was originally).

Clapton Pond is a conservation area ( which I think my include that building) so hopefully it wouldn't get pulled down.
 
i moved to clapton just shortly before chimes closed down pretty much everyone was happy. then the palace pavilion next door started getting a fair bit of trouble too. the chimes building looked like it was rotting away to nothing over the last 5 or so years i wouldn't have been surprised if there was a "developers fire" there.
 
For the record im personally not squatting that building.The skipped food was only wanted for the opening evening to help cook for other people that might want it and I think it's a decent thing to do with food that is ok,that would have been thrown away otherwise.All of the social centres i've been to in the last year or so,had been doing freegan style food..so i don't think it's as radical as you seem to think.

I only posted it on urban because it doesn't seem like too many others care about the lack of squatted social centres or they come and go and get no fucking support whatsoever.also some people don't know where to go,but wanna get involved with the community.Whether it lasts or not doesn't matter,im just trying to spread the word :)
 
DapperDonDamaja said:
To be honest, people with your opinions repel me infinitely more than bin divers.
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Fair enough, doesn't mean JHE isn't right though....

.... although you might not like it, reality will be that your neighbours are unlikely to be queing to get in, and anyone who has the irony free chuzpah to declare "Come support the city's newest social centre and the future of autonomous spaces in London!" will probably end up in advertising... :D
 
Good luck to yous.

As for skipping, it's just living off the waste of capitalism. Up to you if you want to do it (I suppose it's an alright way of getting free food), but not really that useful politically.
 
In Bloom said:
Good luck to yous.

As for skipping, it's just living off the waste of capitalism. Up to you if you want to do it (I suppose it's an alright way of getting free food), but not really that useful politically.
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Not terribly hygenic, though... :(
 
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