i'mnotsofast
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I just cycled past and saw a big crowd outside. "Another busy night at the Foundry", I thought. And then, remembering it had been closed down then squatted, "Oh fuck! Awesome!"
Foundry to be turned into Luxury Flats and Art'otel...
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If this is your page or you know the person who set it up, could you make it viewable by people who aren't on facebook? Ta.
i'mnotsofast
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If this is your page or you know the person who set it up, could you make it viewable by people who aren't on facebook? Ta.
It's not my page. Yeah, looks like you need an account to see it, but you could always take a couple of minutes to set up a fake one.
Or, you could just turn up at the Foundry at 8pm on Tuesday for their film night.
i'mnotsofast
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They're having a band night on Wednesday including a performance by the fantastic 52 Commercial Road!
http://www.myspace.com/52commercialroaduk
http://www.myspace.com/52commercialroaduk
winjer
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i'mnotsofast
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Anyone coming down tonight? Should be great!
i'mnotsofast
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From IndyMedia:
"The highlight of the week was the Fury Squat, aka The Foundry, the former art venue recently closed down by our friends at Park Plaza hotels.
The Foundry's squatters are a responsible group of anarcho-vegans who had been having a nice skillshare and vegan cafe through out the evening, when it got last they closed the doors, and the crowd went out into the street... and out in the street there was a random bloke with a 12-volt soundsystem.
Me being old i've seen this before... many times... but this being Old Street at 11pm, a hoarde of revellers and clubbers swamped the soundsystem, which at this point was heading towards Shoreditch, the mob picked up strength and soon had 350 people dancing to drum n bass and a load of dubstep.
Amazing!
If your a Daily Mail reader your proberly scared at the idea of people enjoying themselves in public without sponsourship, luckily Old Bill soon stepped in, and realised he wasn't getting paid enough and decided to step back and wait for backup and listen to the chants of that old classic:
"Who's Streets? Our Streets!"
We only bothered chanting when the 12-volt rig stopped working, but it was Class-A mental, like imagine Criticial Mass, but everyone's had their bikes stolen.
Clubbers, football hooligans and "normal civilians" joined in the party, no violence at all! perfect!
At the Junction of Shoreditch High Street, we went off down Commerical Street, then the first attempt of police inferrence appeared, but some Essex lad's quick thinking sent us (all 350 of us) all down an alleyway toward the back of the Truman brewery, where the Meat Waggon shot round the block and tried to block our exit, which led to a quick u-turn, and some local hoodies leaving some rubbish bins in the street to slow them down (good work lads!) and out on to Brick Lane, we then ended up sitting down near that car-wash near Great Eastern Street, and the Police (by now we counted 40 of them) looked just as confused as when they started!
here's a video...
http://london.indymedia.org/articles/5027
"The highlight of the week was the Fury Squat, aka The Foundry, the former art venue recently closed down by our friends at Park Plaza hotels.
The Foundry's squatters are a responsible group of anarcho-vegans who had been having a nice skillshare and vegan cafe through out the evening, when it got last they closed the doors, and the crowd went out into the street... and out in the street there was a random bloke with a 12-volt soundsystem.
Me being old i've seen this before... many times... but this being Old Street at 11pm, a hoarde of revellers and clubbers swamped the soundsystem, which at this point was heading towards Shoreditch, the mob picked up strength and soon had 350 people dancing to drum n bass and a load of dubstep.
Amazing!
If your a Daily Mail reader your proberly scared at the idea of people enjoying themselves in public without sponsourship, luckily Old Bill soon stepped in, and realised he wasn't getting paid enough and decided to step back and wait for backup and listen to the chants of that old classic:
"Who's Streets? Our Streets!"
We only bothered chanting when the 12-volt rig stopped working, but it was Class-A mental, like imagine Criticial Mass, but everyone's had their bikes stolen.
Clubbers, football hooligans and "normal civilians" joined in the party, no violence at all! perfect!
At the Junction of Shoreditch High Street, we went off down Commerical Street, then the first attempt of police inferrence appeared, but some Essex lad's quick thinking sent us (all 350 of us) all down an alleyway toward the back of the Truman brewery, where the Meat Waggon shot round the block and tried to block our exit, which led to a quick u-turn, and some local hoodies leaving some rubbish bins in the street to slow them down (good work lads!) and out on to Brick Lane, we then ended up sitting down near that car-wash near Great Eastern Street, and the Police (by now we counted 40 of them) looked just as confused as when they started!
here's a video...
http://london.indymedia.org/articles/5027
i'mnotsofast
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Foundry squatters going to court on Thursday, good till then!
i'mnotsofast
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Defend the Foundry from eviction,from 7.30am tomorrow!
i'mnotsofast
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Maybe this should be in the Protest forum?
The occupation is still going strong, with many of the squatters camped outside for the last week.
The occupation is still going strong, with many of the squatters camped outside for the last week.
winjer
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It's an open newswire.
i'mnotsofast
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They're still going, anybody care?
They still seem to be going - !?? - Every time I walk past - which was last Thurs and then again tonight... really hope so - wanna go there tomorrow. Does anybody know when they are gonna get kicked out? Thought it was meant to happen a few weeks ago. Depressing, anyway.
it was good fun - would recommend! think the new squatters will be there for a while
it was good fun - would recommend!
think the new squatters will be there for a while i'mnotsofast
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They were evicted this morning! This lunchtime nasty men were boarding it up, while the couriers were sitting around their bags outside.
Here's a video from one of the last nights the courier squatters put on: http://www.talawa.fr/media/lt-bones-mighty-red-foundry-friday-13th--E2Byo
Here's a video from one of the last nights the courier squatters put on: http://www.talawa.fr/media/lt-bones-mighty-red-foundry-friday-13th--E2Byo
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roof's about to blow ♩♪♩♬ ♬♩♪♩
I just had a confusing conversation about a different the foundry. http://www.arsenal.com/thefoundry 
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