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De Blauwe Aanslag was a squat and self-managed social centre in the Dutch city of
De Blauwe Aanslag housed 200 people. The building contained a cinema, a concert venue and a restaurant.
A magazine called de Schijnbeweging was published from the building. It was the first home of Radio Tonka, an ongoing free radio project. The Bunker record label came out of parties at De Blauwe Aanslag, releasing artists like Legowelt and Unit Moebius.
Archived website of De Blauwe Aanslag
History of De Grote Pyr
Radio Tonka
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The Hague
The Hague ( ; nl, Den Haag or ) is a city and municipality of the Netherlands, situated on the west coast facing the North Sea. The Hague is the country's administrative centre and its seat of government, and while the official capital o ...
. The oldest part of the building was built in 1886. The large building formerly housed tax offices and was occupied in 1980. When the local council took over the ownership of the building, it was agreed to renovate
Renovation (also called remodeling) is the process of improving broken, damaged, or outdated structures. Renovations are typically done on either commercial or residential buildings. Additionally, renovation can refer to making something new, ...
it in three stages, with the squatters living there. However the plans changed and since 1995 the council decided to widen the roads next to the building; for this reason the squat needed to be demolished. After many efforts to block the demolition with lawsuits, the squatters were evicted by military police on 3 October, 2003.
Occupation
With the Dutch squatters movement regularly in the news for events such as the Vondelstraat eviction resistance and theAmsterdam coronation riots
The Amsterdam coronation riots ( nl, Kroningsoproer) refers to major violence and rioting in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on the day of the accession of Queen Beatrix, 30 April 1980. It was one of the biggest episodes of such disturbances in the ...
, De Blauwe Aanslag was occupied in 1980. The owner, the Dutch state, tried to evict the squatters
Squatting is the action of occupying an abandoned or unoccupied area of land or a building, usually residential, that the squatter does not own, rent or otherwise have lawful permission to use. The United Nations estimated in 2003 that there ...
by turning off the electricity but eventually sold the building to the Hague council. At first, the council was more conciliatory in approach and in 1986 agreed with the squatters that the building should be protected. However, by the mid1990s, the council had decided that the building needed to be demolished in order to widen the road at its front, the Buitenom.
Name
In English, the name De Blauwe Aanslag means 'The Blue Attack' and refers to the blue envelopes in which the Dutch tax administration sends its mail, since the building was formerly a tax office.Activities
De Blauwe Aanslag housed 200 people. The building contained a cinema, a concert venue and a restaurant.
A magazine called de Schijnbeweging was published from the building. It was the first home of Radio Tonka, an ongoing free radio project. The Bunker record label came out of parties at De Blauwe Aanslag, releasing artists like Legowelt and Unit Moebius.
Eviction
De Blauwe Aanslag was evicted on 3 October, 2003, with an operation of 450 riot police. Ninety people were arrested. After the final legal challenges failed when the permissions for the eviction and demolition orders were judged to be in order, two police water cannons were used to force the squatters on the roof to go back inside. Then a shipping container full of police was lifted to the roof with a crane, so that they could gain entry to the building. Later a JCB was driven into a side entrance in order to gain access at ground level.De Grote Pyr
Some inhabitants of De Blauwe Aanslag and some friends of theirs were offered the opportunity by the Hague council to buy an old school on Waldeck Pyrmontkade and renovate it. This then became De Grote Pyr.Recent developments
In 2013, ten years after De Blauwe Aanslag had been evicted and demolished, Joris Wijsmuller from the Haagse Stadspartij (a political party in the Hague) asked the council why the ground had still not been built on. He suggested it would be good to give it to the people of the Hague for new initiatives.See also
* De Vloek *Huize Ivicke
Huize Ivicke is a monumental building in Wassenaar, the Netherlands. Constructed in 1913 for A. F. J. van Hattum, it is a replica of the Eremitageslottet hunting lodge in the Jaegersborg Dyrehave in Denmark. It was inhabited until the mid-1980s ...
References
External links
Archived website of De Blauwe Aanslag
History of De Grote Pyr
Radio Tonka
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