Brixton Clifton Mansions former squats - background, 2011 evictions and latest news
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wemakeyousoundb
hopefully not gimboid
Perhaps you'd like to make that visit to the docs sooner rather than later.
I'm going to have a wash first, not nice on them having to smell me otherwise
just got a quick report on what happened to me though: instead of going home I went back into the mansions to find a room to crash in, went through a gang of youth and they jumped me in the stairs, that must have been outside my friends flat as they apparently got involved which explains why one of them has my bank card.
wemakeyousoundb
hopefully not gimboid
well, whoever made it a public event on farcebook hadn't quite thought it through I guess
Who goes to a squat party, especially one to celebrate one of the oldest community squats - to fucking jump people 
wemakeyousoundb
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girasol
Addicted to handstands!
Probably people who read about it on Facebook and are also local opportunists? I remember this one party in Brixton a few years back, open door policy (but before Facebook existed), lots of things stolen
London_Calling
Pleasant and unpatronising
OMG! I can't believe we're, like, in Brixton yeah. At a squat party yeah. Like, just us four.
Definitely Facebook, even local chancers were shocked at some of the behaviour.
London_Calling
Pleasant and unpatronising
No one in the photo is 20 are they? Half of them wouldn't get a drink across the road, but I bet they've all got 300 friends on Facebook.
Winot
I wholeheartedley agree with your viewpoint
"Hi, yeah, Franco Manca, do you like, deliver?"
Gramsci
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Im going to put some of my photos up tonight. Yes u can use any of them.
Gramsci
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Yes it felt like a watershed. Clifton was for many years London & Quadrant Short Life. There was as stable community there. With all the legal battles about trying to become official Council tenants dragging on most S/L left. The building started to be squatted.
Its sad to see its decline and ending in , from reports, a crap party.
This is nearing the end of an era. Eventually all the squats and S/L will have gone. An important part of Brixtons history. And not that well documented. Which is why the history of it (see thread on Railtion road and Gay squats "Brixton Fairies") is important.
This wouldnt happen to Bankers.
smileandsubvert
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We helped a friend move his stuff out of his flat while the 'party' was in progress. He told us today he had 2 Polish friends who lived there. They'd moved most of their stuff out in the last week but were hanging out in their flat last night, laying on the mattresses. Two guys kicked their front door down, pinned them down and nicked their bikes and laptops
fuckit
We helped a friend move his stuff out of his flat while the 'party' was in progress. He told us today he had 2 Polish friends who lived there. They'd moved most of their stuff out in the last week but were hanging out in their flat last night, laying on the mattresses. Two guys kicked their front door down, pinned them down and nicked their bikes and laptops
FFS
OMG! I can't believe we're, like, in Brixton yeah. At a squat party yeah. Like, just us four.
Or the blokes on the left "Yeh blud, manz gonna get merked, gotta make the dolla bills"
Tbf most of the young uns downstairs were alright, not braying at all, and nothing like some of the divvy captions people are coming up with here. It was the fucking dickheads running round the building and roof trying to smash everything up that were the real problem.
ddraig
kicking against the pricks...
more pics on demotix
post eviction 'clean up'
http://www.demotix.com/news/753753/post-eviction-clean-brixtons-squatted-clifton-mansions
feeling any better drew? what a fuckin nightmare
post eviction 'clean up'
http://www.demotix.com/news/753753/post-eviction-clean-brixtons-squatted-clifton-mansions
feeling any better drew? what a fuckin nightmare
Mind was totally sarcastic (sorry if that wasn't conveyed well) point being that they all look fine and the kind of people who do a party no harm.
Sadly it's not uncommon at squat parties at all. There are known gangs who prey on them for that very reason. It's a tough one for the police as well, they'd neither have wanted to go in nor would they have been welcomed, especially given the reason for the party. It's an environment that needs to be self policed. Fortunately in the case of wemakeyousoundb it sounds like it was to an extent.
Sorry to hear about the two victims on this thread, hope they are OK and that everyone else had a better time.
gaijingirl
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This makes for really depressing reading.
The fire brigade turned up in their special Inter Agency Liaison bibs, but didn't have anything to do.
The usual suspects couldn't resist an excuse to get extra pissed, extra early. They goaded the police for a remarkably long time before they were given the taxi to Canterbury Crescent.
The usual suspects couldn't resist an excuse to get extra pissed, extra early. They goaded the police for a remarkably long time before they were given the taxi to Canterbury Crescent.
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hiraethified
That one almost begs a 'caption competition'!My pics are rubbish, but here they are.
On the roof:
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