Necessity Still Breeds Ingenuity - Archive of SQUALL MAGAZINE 1992-2006
Squall 9

Squall 9

'Folkasing'

'Magazine for Assorted Itinerants'
Winter (Jan-Feb) 1995 (48pp tabloid)

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The State It's In / Critical Mass / Agenda 21 / Claremont Road eviction special / Sexual harassment against women protestors / Mental health and human rights / Life after the Criminal Justice Act / Grass roots housing / Exodus Collective public enquiry / Hyde Park CJA demonstration / Land ownership / Road Wars / International SQUALL / Actors of Parliament / News Of The Skews / Pedalling across the Atlantic / Letters / Contacts, regulars and more...


Contents

4. The State It’s In
- assessing the early impact of the Criminal Justice Act

News Shorts & Other Busyness

6.
Westmaladminister City Council

- new bribery allegations surface from district auditor's report

Get Lost - You're From The Daily Mail
- live animal export protesters refuse to talk to scum newspaper

McLibel
- the infamous trial re-starts after new-year recess

Stressville UK
- Britain has highest average working week in Europe

Compensation And Apologies From Twyford Down Police
- protesters quids-in after pay-off for unlawful arrests

7.
Get Off Your Land

- travellers refused permission to live on land they own

Travellers Get Compensation For Discrimination
- Littlewoods pay travellers out-of-court settlement for discrimination

Squash
- squatters occupy posh property opposite Kensington Palace owned by Sheikh

Travellers Abroad
- exodus of travellers from Britain avoiding the CJA

8.
Police Cameras

- increasing use of police surveillance cameras at demos

Alternative Media Reveals The Truth And Saves Protesters
- activist media footage gets protester off police assault charge (in fact shows that the opposite happened)

Hackney TAT Man Suspended
- sordidness inside Hackney Council

Road-Building HQs Occupied
- road-protesters surprise Highways Agency with office occupation

Spike On The Mic
- Spike Milligan does impromptu comedy show for live animal exports protesters at Shoreham

9. Actors Of Parliament
- the latest gobble from Westminster

10. News Of The Skews
- photo of Hyde Park CJB demo used by mainstream photo-editors skews perspective on a year of protest

12. Shuffle Shuffle Snuffle
- The opposition Labour Party led by Tony Blair are no friend of the homeless, particularly new shadow housing spokesperson Nick Raynsford. By Kit Nash

13. Working The Net
- campaigners go global on the internet, by Ben Schneider

14. Critical Mass
- Patrick Field writes about Critical Mass - the bike-powered effort to end car domination

15. Local Agenda 21
- two articles about the new ground-claiming cry for sustainability

Local Agendas
- how protesters, squatters and travellers can work with it - by Anna Makismow

What Is Agenda 21?
- what is this buzzword sweeping through grassroots organisations? by Andy Johnson

Road Wars

SQUALL's road protest round up and down the country

16.
No M77 Battle Hots Up In Scotland
- 'Free State Of Pollok'

Policy Shift or Shifty Policy?
- is public opinion swinging away from tarmac?

17.
A30 Honiton-Exeter On The Back Burner
- protest camps building with clearance work done

The Third Battle Of Newbury
- pitched against vested interests

No M65 Campaign
- the 'Sky Village' at Stanworth Valley in Lancashire against the M65

18.
Towers Of Strength
- Claremont Road, East London; inside Europe's longest eviction. Report and interviews with protesters against the M11 Link Road. By Jim Carey

23. Jewel In The Mud Award
- this issue's selection of printed matter

Squall - a poem by John Hegley

24. Remember Remember

27. And Here Is The News...
- review of Undercurrent 2 video collection

28. Under Cover Of Eviction
- security guards, bailiffs and sexual harassment against female protesters, by Debbie Shaw

29. Support Or Coercion For The Mentally Ill?
- new legislation on mental health to target the already disadvantaged and discriminated against. By Andy Porter, Brighton regional director of MIND

30. Forget Politics - Let's Talk Homes
- facile follies and new initiatives in housing, from long-serving member of the Advisory Service for Squatters, Jim Paton

32. The Pharaoh's Men Drowning Again
- the latest underhand political manoeuvring designed to halt Exodus and smother the public enquiry

International SQUALL

34.
Western Promise?

- the market forces a new revolution in Russia

35.
Caught In The Croatian Crossfire

- homelessness caused by the war in Croatia

Weiderdam Development Protest
- squatters take wood and marsh land in Germany earmarked for flats

Zaire's Street Children
- drop-in centre for kids in Kinshasa who have been thrown out of home after being accused of sorcery (sic).

36.
World Bank Evictions

- World Bank projects are leading to millions being dispossessed or re-settled

Yangtze Homeless
- the immense consequences of the monster Three Gorges Dam in China

Chirac Changes His Spots
- empty offices in Paris to be used for winter shelters

Unicef Report
- reveals startling numbers of human casualties from wars just in the past decade

37.
Letter from Asia

- Glyn Walters writes back from South East Asia

37. Lofty Tone’s Column
- Tony Allen on dead pigeons and other sculptures

38. Past Plots And Future Fields
- Shim Solomon looks at the continual erosion of access to land and enclosures in Britain over centuries, right up to today's CJA

41. Below The Sod
- underground houses

42. Pedal For The Planet
- cycling across the oceans 'nutter stylee'

44. Consultation Exorcise
- "the widest possible public debate"?

44. Life After The Criminal Justice Act
- public order monitoring by Liz Parratt, Campaigns Officer, Liberty

46. Letters To Squall

Love & Rage - critical response to CJ Stone's article about the Anti-CJB Demo in Squall 8

Mutual Respect? - people keep squatting this guy's house

Solidarity - The Key - letter from visiting Italian squatter

Banking On Depression - MP writes in

Sheffield DIY Conference - report from the event held Dec 1994

47. Contacts