{"id":1259,"date":"2006-01-21T12:19:18","date_gmt":"2006-01-21T16:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=1259"},"modified":"2006-01-21T12:19:18","modified_gmt":"2006-01-21T16:19:18","slug":"property-is-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=1259","title":{"rendered":"Property is Theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Cohen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nickcohen.net\/?p=67\">reviews<\/a> Vanessa Engle&#8217;s documentary, <em>Property is Theft<\/em>, a film on the squatters&#8217; movement in the UK during the 1970s.  It&#8217;s the first of three in a series called <em>Lefties<\/em> that BBC4 begins airing 8 February.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blink.org.uk\/pdescription.asp?key=9870&#038;grp=21&#038;cat=94\">Long-standing residents<\/a> of St. Agnes Place in Kennington (South London),  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indymedia.org.uk\/en\/2005\/11\/328686.html\">the oldest squatted street in London<\/a>, were evicted by hundreds of riot police [<a href=\"http:\/\/stagnesplace.net\/media\/agneseviction.ram\">Video<\/a>] on 29 November 2005.  &#8220;The last resisting squatter had been removed from the remaining occupied house in an ambulance, as the eviction was brutally completed [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.indymedia.org.uk\/media\/2005\/11\/328902.wmv\">Video<\/a>]&#8221;. Ex residents were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stagnesplace.net\/index.php?name=News&#038;file=article&#038;sid=87\">searched by police<\/a> when they attempted to register as homeless a few days later.  When people attempted to take photographs of the searches they were ordered to cease and desist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Cohen reviews Vanessa Engle&#8217;s documentary, Property is Theft, a film on the squatters&#8217; movement in the UK during the 1970s. It&#8217;s the first of three in a series called Lefties that BBC4 begins airing 8 February. Long-standing residents of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=1259\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-kj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}