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  Free party at AllExperts
Squat parties are usually advertised either by word of mouth, postings on internet bulletin boards, flyers handed out at other similar events and through phone lines set up by the sound system(s) organising the event.
Squat parties are typically either free or charge a small donation on the door.
Squat 'eviction' parties occur when the squatters residing in a building have been given a final date for their eviction, and as a final act of resistance organise a large scale party and protest in order to try and withstand the police or bailiffs.
en.allexperts.com /e/f/fr/free_party.htm   (1836 words)

  
  Squatting - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Squatting is the act of occupying an abandoned or unoccupied space or building that the squatter does not own, rent, or otherwise have permission to use.
To squat in many countries is in itself a crime; in others it is only seen as a civil conflict between the owner and the occupants.
Squatted social centres are often a combination of many things that happen in one space with the main aim of creating a space for people to meet in a non-commercial setting, whether it be for a party, political workshop, to see a film, have a drink or have breakfast.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Squatter   (1769 words)

  
 squat
Because squatting can both strengthen and enhance the coordination of all these muscle groups, it is an exercsie which appears to offer - to use American slang - a 'lot of bang for your buck', i.e., lots of benefits for such a simple movement.
As mentioned, during squats, the anterior cruciate was very lightly loaded at knee angles up to 50 degrees, after which it was the posterior-cruciate's turn to bear the brunt of the activity, with top forces going up to 3.5 times body weight at the deepest end of the squat.
Squats and leg presses produced more activity in the vastus medialis and vastus lateralis components of the quadriceps muscles (the inside and outside portions of the quads), compared with leg extensions, suggesting that squats and leg presses would be superior to extensions for 'vasti' strengthening.
www.pponline.co.uk /encyc/squat.html   (2391 words)

  
 Inside the secret raves | News | This is London   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Squat parties - the modern generation's answer to the more Utopian world of Eighties raves - are on the rise.
They have found out where the party is by calling one of several secret numbers or from being part of a growing "database", friends of friends of friends of the organisers, whose mobile phones are texted with the venue, just hours before the party kicks off.
Once parties are under way, we'll tend to monitor them and deal with local complaints, but realistically it's a question of assessing what you can do.
www.thisislondon.co.uk /news/article-1862149-details/Inside+the+secret+raves/article.do   (1935 words)

  
 worldofb - life stories and inspirations
She had found some wonderful squatting partners who she had connected with, but not a lover- the guys in the squat were frigid, terrified of women.
Another squat was in jeopardy due to emergency services having been called out to it, and the bod who had cracked this (and their last place) was the latest casualty.
She was a girl he had met at the London squat parties over a year ago who he had never told how much he had come to care for her.
www.freewebs.com /worldofb/thisinsanelifenovella.htm   (23083 words)

  
 Squat
Squat will be performing at ST. James United Methodist Church in Athens on November 20 at 6:30 p.m.
Squat has been added to the lineup for a special benefit for hurricane victems at the UGA School of Music Hugh Hodson Hall on Sunday, October 23.
Squat CDs are now available at Wuxtry Records and Schookids in Athens and Decatur CD in Atlanta as well as itunes, www.athensmusic.net, cdbaby.com, and the homegrown music network!
www.squatme.com /news2.html   (532 words)

  
 Forums - Messy goes Global on Queens B'day weekend!!!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
We are very excited to announce that we have secured a very, very special warehouse, sure to put a smile on the dial of even the most jaded party goer out there (and to bring back some fond and trashy memories of the 94' till early 97' vintage).
The squat and free partys have been wicked to but its not the same as when messy goes dose the full show.
Although we love our squat partys and the opportunity to collaborate with crews such as AKA, Virus, My Left Booty, Dysfunct, Kronic etc. This is a one hundred percent messy mission.
www.inthemix.com.au /forum/printthread.php?t=50248   (864 words)

  
 Exodus Free Spirit Festival, September 2000
Me and Sid went (Sid having been a regular at Bionic Soup parties in Norwich over the past year and who had done his first squat party a few weeks ago and was now doing his first tent party), we arrived on Friday night.
There was one very big difference between this festy and any squat party I've been to - basically it wasn't a squat and there was this general "feeling" that we were in someone else's property (which we were of course) and that we had to take care of it and respect it (which we did).
Throughout the night I meet some London party people, one of whom has lost his tent and disn't have a clue where it was, we go look for it, but it's a lost cause.
www.users.paston.co.uk /derek/Section23/Exodus2k.htm   (992 words)

  
 Paj's Home: About Me: Acid Techno: Memories
This was a massive squat party in an old office block in the East end.
The party was in a club called Mass, which is in a converted church in Brixton.
This address is a five storey derrilict office block, which was squatted by six or so systems for a really kicking party.
pajhome.org.uk /aboutme/rave/memories.html   (1075 words)

  
 Barbelith Underground > Radio & Music > Free parties/squat parties any thoughts?
At least at free parties you've usually got a DJ who's not got the bar manager eagle-eying him/her to make sure they play the same staid, boring, commercial crap you hear everywhere else.
Funnily enough at the last beach party I was at down here, I spent ages chatting to a couple of guys from Belfast who just came down for the weekend for the party.
Squat parties have groups of friends, but are basically a collection of strangers because the word goes out that somethings happening and random punters turn up from all over.
www.barbelith.com /topic/6930   (1078 words)

  
 The Brick Lane party, 3/4 April 1999
First, we called at a squat I'd been to a couple of weeks before and arranged to crash there between parties, and that was where we went on Saturday after Triology.
I'd been to a squat party the last time I was down in London, Paj had taken me along - that had been my first squat and this one was to be the first I took myself to....
The party was in full swing and the whole building resonated to the combined sound of the systems which produced a sort of "banging rumble", especially impressive in the stairwell.
www.pastonroot.co.uk /derek/Section23/aldegate.htm   (1316 words)

  
 Malfaiteurs Sound System - Squat Clubbing in South Ease @ That nice club by the rye
Last weekend party is being reported as magnificent.
This is all thanks to Malfaiteurs, Manic, Random and Fubar who found a suitable venue and made it safe for you to party.
Now, and many of you will agree with us since you noticed it during the party and spoke to us about it, the reason why the rigs (and not just Malfaiteurs, Manic said that their was even worse) were rattling is not because of the sound engineers but the fucking ceiling tiles that were loose.
www.malfaiteurs.com /party_det.asp?partyID=3   (242 words)

  
 Roger Goode
The answering machine is the flyer, and it tells you where the party is going to be.
Party all night and then come out and watch the sun rise.
In Fischoek once a month you'd hear of a party that was going to happen in a field somewhere.
www.mio.co.za /printpage.php?id=166   (1159 words)

  
 Squat or Die
The Woodwards Squat made national headlines for weeks, and helped carry the city’s nominally leftish party to victory in the 2003 Vancouver civic elections.
In Victoria, a squat in solidarity with the APC lasted only a few hours before riot police lobbed tear gas into a vacant building to evict a single remaining protestor.
Victoria, the capitol of British Columbia, is facing a housing crisis similar to Vancouver’s, along with a similar lack of funding from the provincial and federal govenment to address the shortfall.
www.gnn.tv /articles/2682/Squat_or_Die   (2002 words)

  
 Chris Liberator On The White-Washing Of Rave Culture - Buzzlife Message Board
And with parties ranging in size from hundreds of revellers to literally thousands (such as when crews would team up for bigger events), a thriving word-of-mouth culture developed, attracting non-conformists, ravers and international pleasure seekers.
They¹re usually fantastic parties and it¹s still a fantastic scene but the other side of it is all the work involved in doing all the labels.
For example, there was a party in Camden recently where there were loads of complaints about noise and litter afterwards and those are the kind of parties they want to stop and they will.
www.buzzlife.com /forums/showthread.php?t=47955   (2810 words)

  
 Acid Phonk, for your ass...
We got to the party around noon on Sunday.
By the time we got there, Jerome was at the decks, and Parker, Gordie, Russ and Zeb had already gone on.
The party lasted until six, with sets by Julian, D.A.V.E., and Bruiser (Mara Branco) and a live act by DDR.
www.truelove.co.uk /acidphonk/parties/pics/usjanpics   (60 words)

  
 WOMBLES: Previous actions 2003   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
A year ago we were prepared to defend it by any means neccesary; a year later with no electricity and no heating a party is organised as a celebration of it's achievements; hundreds attend.
The squat was evicted a few days later.
Over 2,000 people attend: some say it was the best organised squat party in years.
www.wombles.org.uk /background/chronology2003.php   (705 words)

  
 Squat or Die
The Woodwards Squat made nationwide headlines for weeks, and helped carry the city’s nominallly leftish party to victory in the 2003 Vancouver civic elections.
A building was squatted in downtown Victoria in solidarity with the APC squat and to demand that the regional governments and provincial governments build social housing.
The squat began Sunday, the last day of Homeless Awareness Week, to protest against what it sees as city council’s inaction on increasing homelessness in the city.
zoeblunt.gnn.tv /blogs/19394/Squat_or_Die   (3278 words)

  
 Advisory Service for Squatters - Barcelona Squat Repression   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Special because it’s location was a squatted house in the city centre, in a barrio that’s already seen years of police repression, rampant, greed-inspired gentrification, and racism against a largely immigrant population.
At some point one of the cops was seriously injured (rumour was he’d died, but now it appears he’s in a coma) and when this happened, the other cops flipped out even more, calling for reinforcements and closing down the entire area, arresting and beating the shit out of anyone who looked like a squatter.
There had been another squat party going on nearby, so a lot of people were on the streets at 6am that morning: people on their way home, or on their way to another party.
www.squatter.org.uk /index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=69&Itemid=2   (705 words)

  
 Free tekno Information
Free tekno is the name given to the music predominantly played at free parties in Europe.
The spelling of the word tekno is made to deliberately differentiate the musical style from that of techno.
Since the free party movement is very large in France in terms of numbers, there are many French artists and records labels.
www.bookrags.com /wiki/Free_tekno   (416 words)

  
 Brent Cross free party   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Still, the thought that we'd always made it to the party kept us going and eventually we arrived at the road and heard the distant boomboomboom sound and ahead lay a boarded up building.
I've caught these guys a few times at parties, the room they did in the millennium bash was good, but this had a better atmosphere in my book.
I think it was something to do with the venue, it looked right, a big warehouse building with a soundsystem in one corner, the vans parked up alongside and a bar in the other corner it looked like what it was.
www.pastonroot.co.uk /derek/Section23/timegd.htm   (649 words)

  
 hackwriters.com - Squat Party - Graham Attenborough
It was true that the noise of the drips clanging all night was a bloody nuisance but he was nothing if he wasn’t stoical and gradually he had got used to the random, disharmonious music that played in his room both day and night.
As Colin went back to work Keith pondered his strange friend, for despite being incredibly selfish, he did worry about his companions here in the squat and tried, after a fashion, to cheer them and to bring a little happiness to their otherwise boring, pointless lives.
Eric, it turned out, was the guy who had escaped from prison with Andy a few weeks earlier but since they had gone their separate ways no one in the squat had ever met him or had any idea where he might be.
www.hackwriters.com /party1.htm   (2746 words)

  
 Europe '96: Madrid: Okupa
The squatters moved in at the beginning of April and are trying to turn it into a combination dwelling and community center.
The party was great, equal parts rent party, tertulia, cabaret, and dance bar.
This is in no way said to censure, just very different than any other squat I've known in the US and any but one in the UK, hence worthy of note.
www.speakeasy.org /~jmabel/travels/okupa.html   (680 words)

  
 [squat!net] - Projects we do!
After nearly all squats were evicted or legalised there were some quiet years but a new generation came up.
Since then we have provided demonstrations with techno music and have organized a number of non-commercial parties, sponsoring projects like an international conference on neo-liberal policy, a squatted house, or an archive on revolutionary movements around the globe.
Our primary aim is to overcome the division between political commitment and partying, thus weÆve been trying to transform the problematic relationship between left-wing politics and rave culture into something productive.
www.squat.net /projects.html   (871 words)

  
 Squat Party - Direct Action party - Bristol The Media - Bristol Indymedia
Taken in consideration the amount of conditions that it had (publicity, finding space, logistics, etc) the party was a mayor success.
The aim was to raise funds for a few causes among them the Thessaloniki prisoners fund (http://indymedia.org.uk/en/2003/07/274081.html), legal fees for local activists arrested in London DSEI protest and other direct action (more in next Bristle).
The party managed to provide top quality entertainment, uncompromising politics and over £500 for those aims.
bristol.indymedia.org /newswire.php?story_id=8512&print_page=true   (215 words)

  
 Brixton rave, squat and DIY free party rave guide with reviews and rankings, listing party lines in the Lambeth, London ...
Brixton rave, squat and DIY free party rave guide with reviews and rankings, listing party lines in the Lambeth, London SW9 and SW2 area.
Brixton's got a great reputation for putting on some of the finest squat parties in town.
Naturally, these events aren't publicised in advance and the only way to track them down is to keep your ears open and talk to likely party-going candidates in pubs beforehand...
www.urban75.org /brixton/clubs/squats.html   (149 words)

  
 RECENT EVP NEWS
EVP has been booked to play music at a small brighton based party run by good friend Jason Enlightenment on the 10 may. EVP will be providing a CD based set of all the most recent tracks.
I don't think I've been to a party by these guys that hasn't been kicking, keep up the good work guys and gals, and big thanks to Andy and Zoe for all their driving.
To think that their reaction to the music being stopped and everybody at the party turning to face them with the chanting of "f**k offffff home we dont want you here - your ruining a good thing" was to stand up and shout "come on then I'll have all of you!!" was just unbeleivable.
web.ukonline.co.uk /evp/resources/htm/news.htm   (1553 words)

  
 Jungle Ravers forum -> SQUAT PARTY Drum'n'Bass, on Sat 12/03/05, Beckam   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
if it was a squat party mate u probably wont find anything.
theres always parties and raves in the brixton area, check the 'events' section on here to find out about other raves.
u fuckers, u just come over here 2 london and hit these squats and blatantly get robbed in 1 way or another.
www.jungleravers.com /forums/index.php?showtopic=10161   (851 words)

  
 Green Party News :: Political Notebook: The Force is Not with Yoda
The party in the last four years has not enforced what I like to call the YODA rule ' your only Democratic alternative.' That rule requires party clubs that are chartered with the Democratic Party to endorse only Democratic candidates for partisan and nonpartisan races.
Democrats from the reform (mostly progressive) wing of the party have defied the YODA rule.
For example, two clubs chartered with the local party have openly endorsed Green Party candidates, including Sarah Lipson and Green Party converts such as Matt Gonzalez and Mark Sanchez.
web.greens.org /news/displayarticle.php?mediaId=1111   (331 words)

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