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(inconspicuousness; the vacancy inside is recognized. And the decision is made. We're going to ) Tj
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(Then the heroes appear. They've already part of the other reality, to which we are still en route. They) Tj
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(give us a hand as we cross. Their matter-of-fact D-I-Y attitude can be more closely read about in the) Tj
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(guide, available at the squatters' consultation hour. We've been waiting for this for ) Tj
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(years.) Tj
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(The group, ready to step inside the shadow-reality once squatting, saw these figures appear in the form) Tj
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(of the handymen. Every neighborhood had a few. They knew how to break open a door, install gas,) Tj
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(water and electricity, barricade a building, what you had to say to a ranting muscleman or the lady) Tj
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(next door, or what to do in case of club-waving flat hats. They brought out stories of unbelievably) Tj
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(wild events from times long past. They had know-how, tools. They knew what could be done. The) Tj
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(heroes didn't see squatting as a protest action, but taught you that a building should only be squatted) Tj
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(for immediate use. After a few days they vanished ) Tj
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(again.) Tj
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(Sometimes nothing more happened after that; squatting ended in domesticity, lease, residence permit.) Tj
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(But for the same money it could become a treacherous journey that cut straight through the curriculum) Tj
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(vitae. Radical naivete, just do it, aggressive innocence, the future to the winds, topical indignation, not) Tj
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(a care for the law, disbelief in their violence...Only like this could you really start exploring the space) Tj
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(outside the existing order, whether of free will by placing yourself on the emergency phone tree, or) Tj
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(\273alarm list,\253 and being at the neighborhood meeting, or under pressure of circumstances: a gang of) Tj
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(thugs sent by a property owner, court action, or a sudden en masse visit by squatters from your ) Tj
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(street.) Tj
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(In the middle of the city, amid the concrete shapes of the daily tedium, you stepped into a space of) Tj
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(unlimited possibilities. The point was not to create something new, but to use the old to depart for) Tj
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(somewhere ) Tj
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(else:) Tj
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(\273Oscar, Wouter, Bear and I knew each other from the Stuttel Bar, where we spent the evening when) Tj
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(we had nothing better to do. We were all looking for a place to live and squatting seemed like fun.) Tj
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(Oscar had seen an empty house in the Spuistraat. That was nearby, so after an evening in the Stuttel) Tj
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(we went to have a look. We looked at the corner building after I'd kicked in the door and were) Tj
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(enthusiastic about the space. The next day we got hold of some mattresses and blankets. We slept in) Tj
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(the building next door, which we'd also found empty when we entered this house on the roof via the) Tj
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(window and ) Tj
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(gutter.) Tj
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(After further exploration over the roof, the four of us found out we had a gigantic complex at our) Tj
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(disposal, with all kinds of weird-looking rooms where here and there the lights were still on. We) Tj
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(intended to keep it among friends, so that you'd always meet people in the building who you knew) Tj
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(and who had the same attitude - I mean we four thought living was something subordinate; that you) Tj
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(have fun is much more important. We picked out the best rooms and bombarded the NRC into a) Tj
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(general gaming den.\253 The former NRC Handelsblad building, now legalized, rent-paying and) Tj
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(renovated, is still a landmark, and an empty section of it was resquatted in 1991 after sitting empty for) Tj
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(too ) Tj
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(found, with here and there \273the lights still on.\253 Even stronger, it was the only thing the assembled) Tj
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(actions.) Tj
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(with crowbar and hammer resounds through the street and puts you even more on show. Then the) Tj
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(moment of the running, a spurt of 50 or 100 meters which, necessary or not, you always make: the) Tj
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(door was the sucking-point through which you're pulled across the border into the other space. The) Tj
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(violence against the door was the transgression of the law which gives life its fixed form. This primal) Tj
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(door.) Tj
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(renovation door was immediately replaced by its massive, solid wood predecessor. This replacement) Tj
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(of the door was a consequence of the fact that breaking open the door was the only prosecutable) Tj
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(home.) Tj
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(existence. Even if the space to be squatted was full of drafty holes, if the window was open, the door) Tj
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(minimally furnished for weeks, the door was equipped with the most elaborate accessories, from) Tj
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(builders' props to armorplate. Even if the building was legalized, a strict door ritual might be observed) Tj
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(for years after. The door, which in open society was declared trash, was rediscovered, and even when) Tj
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(squatters went breaking through walls and tearing down portals, they stayed friendly with the door. It) Tj
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(did multifunctional service as tabletop, bed, back wall, barricade material, shield, or was put away for) Tj
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(awhile in the ) Tj
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(meantime.) Tj
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(Everyone places the beginning and end of \273the squat movement\253 somewhere else. This is because) Tj
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(everyone stepped into the collective space at a different place. For one this happened with the) Tj
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(breaking open of the door to his or her own flat, for the other while wandering around in the) Tj
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(immeasurable emptinesses of the complexes which were squatted city-wide. Every squatter can point) Tj
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(to the place where she or he personally crossed the threshold and stepped inside a collective space.) Tj
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(Something happened which was qualitatively different from \273standing up for your housing rights\253 or) Tj
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(\273resistance against the repression of the state,\253 something other too than the unleashing of the rage) Tj
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(built up over the years over speculation and failing ) Tj
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(policy.) Tj
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(The space was not opened as the result of objective social circumstances. If the house got symbolic) Tj
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(value, that happened almost by accident, in the course of the squat itself and not beforehand. It took) Tj
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(the residents by surprise, left them wondering astonished how they could get out of it again. The) Tj
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(longing for space can no better be explained with psychological drives; there is no reason why people) Tj
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(housemates to eviction notice. S/he who takes justice into her/his own hands lives as no other. But) Tj
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(that's part of the pleasant side of the collective space; it is also an exemption from the prospect of) Tj
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(having to lead one\(ITAL.\) existence of your own. How the space was left, days or years later, is) Tj
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(overdose...Some drift further in other circuits, from Alpine meadows to cyberspace. Others just) Tj
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(ignored. But simultaneously the \273Western Civilized Shame\253 was parasitized, without anyone) Tj
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(used.) Tj
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(\273Their legal order\253 was unable to captivate anyone much. You had \273your\253 attorneys for that, who) Tj
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(tried to arouse interest for their employ with slogans like \273Justice is whoever can lie the best.\253 The) Tj
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(squat groups became engrossed in the development of their own pro deo system. Attacks on it were) Tj
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(paired with righteous indignation and justifiable rage: \273I accuse the speculators, the city, the police) Tj
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(Grave Personal Injury, the Destruction of Human Happiness, Perjury and Corruption. How dare a) Tj
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(prosecutor subpoena us?\253 Your own game could flourish through a gay innocence towards the malice) Tj
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(that!\253) Tj
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(Inside the space of squatting there was no talk of historical development; as it wandered it only) Tj
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(cropped up in more and more places, to the strangest out-of-the-way corners of the city. After entry) Tj
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(came the surprise that there were so many more people in the same place, just as crazy as you, just as) Tj
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(out.) Tj
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(The space was to be found literally in and outside the \273dominant system.\253 \273The city is ours,\253 because) Tj
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(it's assimilated into an inside topology with secret beacons: houses, cafes, leaders of the packs, bicycle) Tj
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(routes, streets and bridges, symbols, signals, posters, style of dress and coiffure. The smell of clammy) Tj
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(leather jackets and showerless houses, cat piss, plastic bags with car mirrors, ripped-loose traffic signs,) Tj
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(meetings, demos, \273manis,\253 advance meeting points, alarm lists and gangs of thugs, incomprehensible) Tj
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(break-ins, helmets and clubs, breaking tiles, vans and wagon-bikes, posts and visits to the neighbors.) Tj
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(the fruits of working on yourself. \273The crisis of Marxism is not ours.\253 The taboo on the immediate) Tj
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(viewpoint the squat wave as an opposition to the vacancy law, which had to be averted or changed.) Tj
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(\273The worst of all are the rightists disguised as leftists. They're worse than the rest - avoid them like) Tj
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(the plague.\253 That slogan too fell outside the space experience of the fresh squatters; every political) Tj
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(current was, when push came to shove, part of \273their\253 parliamentary democracy. Making social) Tj
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(conflicts manageable wasn't our problem. No one dreamed of revolution or strove for the general) Tj
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(good. One's own housing problem was much simpler to ) Tj
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(solve.) Tj
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(The term \273politics\253 had been denied its monopoly on the public sphere by feminist criticism and since) Tj
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(then penetrated to the most intimate places. Everything quickly became political and the word thereby) Tj
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(lost its action-inspiring charm. The squat contribution to the waning political culture limited itself to) Tj
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(screaming, smoke bombs, stolen documents and scale models set ablaze. The \273primacy of politics\253) Tj
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(of.) Tj
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