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Helsingin Sanomat reported on Saturday 28th of September about the Huvila occupation that started the day before. You can read the article in Finnish here. In addition to the hateful and misleading title, it contains numerous factual errors.

Already in the title, the concerns of the city’s technical director about the “irreversible” effects of the occupation on the property’s condition are raised without question, even though keeping it empty is clearly the worst threat to the preservation of the building heritage. The city itself knows very well that its negligence has probably caused so much irreversible damage to the beautiful villa that a miracle should happen for somebody to come and fix it up. This kind of attitude in reporting is of course basic oats when talking about us anarchists, but the amount of complete confusion that came later surprised even us.

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On Sunday evening, September 29, we said goodbye to Wikström’s villa, which was the location of the Huvila event. The house was left in neat condition for the next squatters. We hope that the beautiful villa remains standing for a long time in the otherwise dreary middle class area, and doesn’t rot away while the City of Helsinki waits for it to be demolished as uninhabitable so the plot could be sold.

Many thanks to all visitors, performers, artists, workshop organizers, distro and other friends who provided us with help and support! <3

The Huvila people can now rest happily for a while – until the next shenanigans!

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Huvila will open its doors in a couple hours! Here are some practical things to keep in mind when arriving at the house:

– we appreciate the spirit of the old house so plz don’t paint or put stickers on the house
– There will be free vegan food available
– Donations are still needed to support the activities, so BRING CASH!
– There is no running water so byob for water too
– Luckily there is a toilet on site
– buses run also at night, the nearest bus stop (Kallvikinniemi) is about 20min walk in a seaside forest landscape
– if you see any officials or other outside parties harassing the house, please let the organizers know and let them handle the situation

Unfortunately, the space where the event will take place is not accessible. You will have to climb steep stairs to get to the venue. If you need help getting to or around the venue, please contact us and we will help where possible!

Huvila uses Makamik’s principles, i.e.:
– No authoritarian symbols (e.g. swastika, sickle and hammer, Finnish lion, national flags, symbols of political parties and their youth organisations, etc.).
– do not photograph people without permission
– respect the physical and emotional space of others
– do not make disturbing comments about the body or appearance of others
– no discrimination (racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, ageism, etc.)
– do not assume or generalise (background, gender, sexuality, life situation, etc.)
– clean up after yourself

There is Makamik’s freeshop in the house where you can bring and take away clothes and other items in good condition free of charge 🖤️️️️️️

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Today, September 27, we squatted Wikström’s villa in Kallahdenniemi for an anarchist and anti-capitalist art happening, Huvila.

This weekend, the empty house owned by the City of Helsinki will be filled with art. It reaches through keyholes and gaps in the walls, spreads out into the yard, explores closets and settles down. Here you can find shelter from the wind.

Times are extremely austere. Under the ruthless government, it’s chilling what the future may hold. Let’s get together to celebrate what can’t be taken away from us!

The event is organized by Makamik and a group of young artists.

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In the spirit of last week’s piece about communication, we are publishing new information channels, we now have both a blog and a public telegram channel!

At least all of our longer texts that are not event invitations will be published here on the blog (and sometimes maybe even those, but usually they go to our event calendar in Radar). For example, this and last week’s text belong here with other considerations, communiques and statements.

Following the Telegram channel is the surest way to stay up to date with Makamik’s news! Basically, we put summarized information about all our publications there and links to either the blog or Radar for the entire text.

Blog: makamikenglish.noblogs.org
Tele: t.me/squatmakamik
Radar: radar.squat.net/en/helsinki/makamik

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This text discusses social media in general, its effect on the communication of anarchists and other radicals, and Makamik’s own social media practices.

The spread of social media has revolutionized the way people communicate with each other in the last fifteen years. The same applies to the information activities of anarchists and others working for a freer world; wheatpasting posters, press releases, takku.net and e-mail lists have changed to a bunch of projects’ and individuals’ own accounts on commercial social media platforms.

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