if we see a big building that looks
expensive and it's empty we take
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it Welcome to our lovely uh 17 million
pound boat
so you're here for the grand toour yes
let's take you few this is our screening
room we're going have a nice projector
up here do some nice films documentries
in the meantime we might be through that
TV who knows we've got a fire alarm
which H you know everybody knows to ring
when the bay lifts or the police arrive
or whatnot we've opened a good 30 40
buildings in the past when you like
first opening a squ like the adrenaline
brush especially when you've been like
scouting out a building for age is a
really nice one that you've been wanting
and then you find an entry point like
boom like yeah it's beautiful we've been
eyeing this boing out for a while and
obviously we got evicted from the other
one and we came straight over to this
place and got home within a matter of
minutes you could probably fit about 100
people in here easily like safely as
well these are like the penthouse Suites
for the exclusive members of anal what
is well I mean it stands for the
autonomous nation of anak Libertarians
and we think it's just like really joke
symbolism of how we're taking the piss
out the system basically again such
massive massive rooms with
chandeliers and we've got lovely views
from
outside after the fascist attack in B
gravia if we want them to know we're
here you know come back
again we were having workshops on the
day we've got children families around
and the next thing you know we've got
people screaming that there's somebody
trying to break into the building so we
presumed it was Private Security like
the owner trying to get us out illegally
and then just Windows started
smashing then we learned after looking
outside you know they had fascist masks
on and they were pouring fascist salutes
one so yeah we knew then it was fascist
and at that moment we're like right well
then let's fight back so we grab fire
extinguishers none of us got injured
though definitely as a squad I've seen
there's a lot more squats popping up
they say that you know most Working
Class People are just two paychecks away
from being homeless it's a housing
crisis isn't it society as it is
nowadays is generating more and more
homeless and more poverty so is it
morally acceptable to have buildings
like this empty while people are dying
on the streets who needly you know
I'm lost here where am I going um not
through here still get lost in the bom
myself trying to think how to get roof
access th here
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it when it comes to Central to be fair
there is no group quite like anal I've
got to be proud to say you know anal do
penetrate deep into the heart of London
yeah
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about four years ago or so I left home
and eventually get on to London and
that's when I'm like introduced to the
squatting SC and then you know the more
squats you go to the more squats you
help open eventually you know you become
an expert
then damn it page 50 you know we're not
good enough yeah so squat is I up 17 mil
home as a community Hub and again it's
speaking about how the own as like a
katarian ex General um a all been
squatting buildings like this for about
3 years or so and uh criteria is just
any building which looks obviously empty
not used but also with some degree of
wealth like you know if if it's a
building which will get media attention
if it's a building which we think has a
greater use then we take it we think of
homeless being people who just sleep on
the streets but there's lots of Youth
nowadays especially who don't have a
home to go to they just have friends
sofas but they're still homeless even if
they have a sofa to sleep on they're
still homeless but you just don't see it
you
know and every day you see a different
room every day you find a different come
back in in 2015 I my family a good
life and drug was destroying it I didn't
understand what was happening the drug
was taking me I end up cheing my m at
time six times
later I came aband my property after I
moved way to a different address my this
is a work place it's no a family home
you know I
mean but it could be it could be it
could be me you
know it's just wrong man again we are
one big family we we're the biggest
family ever
and many of us are dying in a year of
the cold and nothing to day and taking
drugs and been stuck with what's my
trade in manology my trade manology is
homeless mental health and alcohol the
drugs issues yeah I can help the type of
people in an environment like this Jesus
you can see we're helping people know
some people are getting happier there
people coming off the streets are
getting cleaner they're getting
everything they need and they're getting
fed that's what us
today if you look at the Streets of
London now compared to high was 6 years
ago there were so many homeless now the
problem is getting so much worse there
is hundreds if not thousands of
buildings just like this or within
Central or within you know like a 5 10 m
radius that just left empty just like
this one