From: glevy@PRATT.EDU
Date: Fri Mar 09 2007 - 14:45:24 EST
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Nikolaj Heltoft, "Ungdomshuset and the Copenhagen Youth Rebellion" | http://info.interactivist.net/article.pl?sid=07/03/09/045206 +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ Ungdomshuset and the Copenhagen Youth Rebellion Nikolaj Heltoft From workers stronghold to social center, placed in the neighbourhood of Nrrebro historic, Ungdomshuset has been the epicentre of political contestation and social protest in Copenhagen. Today the Youth House is no longer. It was first evicted the torn down. The kids and their supporters hit the streets. History crashing down The house from 1897 which stood in the centre of the conflict, originally named Folkets Hus (the People's House), was the result of the early workers movements. In 1910, The Second International and the German Socialist Clara Zetkin declared March 8 an International Women's Day of Struggle from the house. Vladimir Lenin and Rosa Luxemburg spoke there and in 1918 the great demonstration against unemployment when workers stormed the Danish Stock Exchange started in the house. After the war, the house gave shelter to German refuges for a while, but as the Socialist movement's social texture in Copenhagen changed, the house was abandoned in the 60's and stayed that way until a group of young squatters from Nrrebro decided to squat the empty building as a part of their year long campaign for a self managed youth house in Copenhagen. In 1982, the mayor of Copenhagen Egon Weidekamp gave the house for the young use and the house was named Ungdomshuset (the youth house). "They get a house, and we get some peace", the mayor said before handing over the keys. Those words were to become very significant 25 years later. This story continues at: <http://info.interactivist.net/article.pl?sid=07/03/09/045206>
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