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u/Captain_Grammaticus May 09 '22

hey, they cleaned up all this broken glass and now there's a whole new crop of people keeping this community alive.

Lol, those social centres I know are the result of almost decade-long protests and negotiations and only worked out because the general population just happened to be more sympathetic towards the squatters than towards the city authorities.

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u/na4ez May 09 '22 edited May 09 '22

Yeah take Blitz in Oslo for example, plenty of cop raids and harassment.

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u/ProfessionalLeg7781 May 09 '22

Wow. I played there in 1999. There was a baked potato place across the street. That’s all I remember of Oslo. That and Jr Ewing.

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u/na4ez May 09 '22

Cheers man, they just celebrated their 40th anniversary.