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3 unusual facts about Squatting


Boff Whalley

Together with his fellow members of Chimp Eats Banana, Midge and Danbert Nobacon, he moved to Leeds in 1981 and studied at the University of Leeds, dropping out after a year before moving into the South View House squat in Armley.

Georg von Rauch

The squatters of the Bethanien Hospital in Berlin-Kreuzberg renamed it to Georg-von-Rauch-Haus to his honour.

University of the Philippines Cebu College

It occupies a 12-hectare site which was donated by the Cebu Provincial Government in 1929, however, a fraction of the land is occupied by informal settlers.


30 Days in Sydney

Meanwhile Carey's own narrative digresses into history and anecdote, touching on Sydney's uneasy race relations and a horrific recurring dream involving the Harbour Bridge, and culminating in a dramatic late night incident in a rooftop squat.

Androids of Mu

Emerging from associations with the hippy-orientated Here & Now, Nik Turner, Gong's Daevid Allen and Gilli Smyth, the Androids of Mu gathered together under the apron of the Frestonia squatter community in Notting Dale, West London, notable in its time for producing non-conformist music.

Charkop

But the worst example of congestion by people is at the Gorai bridge where the lake has been filled with faeces and rubbish and is a popular squatting ground.

Childbirth positions

People have promoted the adoption of these birthing positions, particularly squatting, for Western countries, such as Grantly Dick-Read, Janet Balaskas, Moysés Paciornik and Hugo Sabatino.

Eric Drooker

During the 1980s, Drooker was further radicalized by his experiences with the police, due to their actions against squatters in the rapidly gentrifying Tompkins Square Park area and their increasing intolerance of unlicensed street artists and musicians.

Kisses

Kylie and Shane seize on the idea that they will attempt to find Dylan's brother, but all they know of his last whereabouts is that he was living in a squat on Gardiner Street.

Lake Burrumbeet

European settlement came in 1838 when Thomas Learmonth and his brother took up the Ercildoun squatting run to the north of the lake.

Laura Oldfield Ford

In Leeds and later in London, she became involved in the punk, rave and squatting scenes and produced zines and posters influenced by Raymond Pettibon, Linder Sterling and Jon Savage.

Murrumbidgee District

The Murrumbidgee District was a district (also called a squatting district, pastoral district or grazing district) used in New South Wales in the nineteenth century to refer to the land between the Murrumbidgee River and Murray River, that is now mostly known as the Riverina region.

Mutoid Waste Company

In the early 1990s the Mutoids moved to Santarcangelo di Romagna, where they set up a scrap village called Mutonia and continued working, displaying and performing at squats and libertarian celebrations in the Emilia Romagna region.

Norm Ellenberger

Ellenberger can be seen briefly in the 1994 movie, Blue Chips, squatting in a timeout huddle next to Bobby Knight.

Someday Came Suddenly

The video is infamous for starting the Internet meme "crabcore", which shows one of the band members squatting in a "crab-like" stance whilst nodding his head and playing the guitar.


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