tomorrow - Worcester social centre under threat of illegal violent eviction

[Gerrard Winstanley]

New social centre under threat of illegal & possibly violent eviction
tomorrow

Wet Paint | 21.10.2008 19:37 | Free Spaces | Birmingham
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/10/411315.html

This is to inform everyone as well as a callout for support - newly
occupied community and arts centre in Worcester threatened with
illegal and possibly violent eviction tomorrow.

This is a callout for support - if you can get here before midnight
tonight and want to stay here, and eat with us and have a merry night
then please do. After midnight, the last door will be fully
barricaded. Anyone wishing to show support for this illegal eviction
after this point please turn up at 13-17 Carden Street (off City Walls
Road), Worcester WR1 around 11.30 tomorrow (WEDNESDAY), bring banners,
cameras and camera-phones and provide positive public relations,
because if they are forcing their way into our home IT IS ILLEGAL and
we will not be scared by this bullshit.

So what happened...?
At about 15:30 today a bailiff arrived at the door with a letter on
behalf of Keather Properties Ltd. THE LETTER IS TRANSCRIBED AT THE
BOTTOM FOR ANYONE WHO WANTS TO READ THE BOLLOCKS NOTICE

We've been on the phone to the Advisory Service for Squatters, and
they have confirmed that this is a totally illegal eviction. They have
dealt with matters like this on a day to day basis for 30 years and
understand the law a lot better than most commercial lawyers. They
assure us any attempt to evict tomorrow will be criminal and we should
defend ourselves with numbers and physical barricades. The 'exercising
their rights' part applies to land, and not buildings. And seeing as a
tent can apply as a building, an 8000 square ft commercial building
certainly counts!

This would be a different story if we only lived here.. but for two
solid weeks we have been putting all our love and energy into this
place. We have had dreams become reality in creating a space where
anyone is welcome and can come and create anything, anytime they want.

Communal cooking, circuit bending and sewing workshops, music
practice, painting, and much much more was on the agenda - our gallery
covered with work from many different local artists, and now we have
been discovered we are being presented with illegal and violent threats.

This whole thing is new to us.. but the barricades are being
strengthened and people are getting ready for a potentially long day
of defending the Wet Paint building.

This is a callout for support - if you can get here before midnight
tonight and want to stay here, and eat with us and have a merry night
then please do. After midnight, the last door will be fully
barricaded. Anyone wishing to show support for this illegal eviction
after this point please turn up at 13-17 Carden Street (off City Walls
Road), Worcester WR1 around 11.30 tomorrow (WEDNESDAY), bring banners,
cameras and camera-phones and provide positive public relations
because if they are forcing their way into our home IT IS A CRIMINAL
OFFENCE and we will not be scared by this bullshit.

call us on 07965710354

Your friends at WET PAINT :)

.............blah blah blah

TAKE NOTICE

KEATHER PROPERTIES LTD (LANDOWNER) are the owners of the land on which
you are trespassing and require you to leave. You are here without
consent and are therefore trespassing and have no right to remain. You
should therefore leave together with all your vehicles and goods by
1200 hours on the 22 day of October 2008.

If you fail to do so, KEATHER PROPERTIES LTD (LANDOWNER) will exercise
its rights to self-help to remove you from the land and have
instructed Baliffs from Swift Credit Services Limited to do so on its
behalf. This right, under Common Law, is set out on Halsburys law of
England. The police will attend if necessary to ensure that there is
no breach of the peace.

Should this enforcement action by necessary , you will be held
responsible for all costs of your removal and transportation and
KEATHER PROPERTIES LTD (LANDOWNER) may take proceedings against you
for the recovery of these costs.

KEATHER PROPERTIES LTD (LANDOWNER) will be entitled to take such
action because you failed to respond to a request to leave the land on
which you are currently trespassing.

DATED THIS 21 DAY OF OCTOBER 2008
SIGNED
LANDOWNER KEATHER PROPERTIES LTD
ADDRESS C/O ROBERT DAVIES PARTNERSHIP LTD.

Wet Paint
- e-mail: wetpaint at riseup.net