A new community of people since september 2007..
We offer a space to sleep for anarchists & activists & travelling freedom fighters from other countries but please, contact us when you will arrive and how long you gonna stay..we have also enough space for your trucks, vans etc..
If you come to visit us, we expect you to join the community life, not only to occupy our guestroom and do some fucking sight seeing:)
If you want to play in our house with your band or sound system, make a workshop, presentation, projection etc, please contact us in advance.
Here you can find actual events in the house
Here you can find the list of events me made since september07
Here are some maps how to get to the squat by car
if you arrive by public transport, go to train/metro/bus/tram station „Nádraží Holešovice“, than by bus 112 to the stop „Pelc-Tyrolka“. Milada is a villa next to two fucking high buildings - student´s houses - with a black-red flag on the roof:) look at this plan
Adress to the house, in case you would like to send us a letter: Na Kindlovce 1, Praha 8, 180 00
Our mail: milada@s.cz
NEWS:
Not invited guests, 27.2.08
We have behind us another (this time rather funny) visit, which is product of campaign with excuse-making title Akce Praha (Action Prague), which has been for around one last year proselytizing all the lovers of the action films to the possibility to drive a motorbike on the back wheel and carry a gun.And how was their ‘action’ passing?
Firstly, in the morning time they cut our new fake lock, which we welded yesterday to gate and we made a bet how long it would take until there will come some slow individual from their crew. Nobody expected that it is going to be so quick, therefore we had really good fun during the morning.
Around 2pm the boys stopped by again, this time they came with three shiny octavia cars. Firstly, they went to see the front door, which system of locking according to the appearances of their faces wasn’t understood by them for the second time. Thereupon they started at least to boss about those who were repairing the truck in front of the house. We found out that we are ‘mental’, ‘we couldn't finish even the elementary school’ and ‘obviously we have discontinuation symptoms’. If they secretly tried to sell us some drugs taken away from junkies of Holesovice, we didn’t find out.
What we found out later was the incident that happened before their visit. Tough guys from the city police broke light from the bus, that stays near by Milada and belongs to travellers, who stopped by for few months.
Prague squatter's estate agents
On the night of 6th and 7th February the web pages of the first Czech squatters real estate agency were launched. At the same time, the supporters of the squatters' movement were hanging out several dozens of banners from Prague houses that had been unused for a long time and had been falling into disrepair.The goal of this action is to point out the paradox that is typical for the capitalist society in developed countries of Europe: in every bigger city there are thousands of people who (because of various reasons) do not have a place to live and who are left to live in the streets. The very same streets are filled with uncared-for empty houses, whose owners do not show any interest in taking care of them. This is not just an issue of the homeless people. Except few privileged ones, this concerns practically all young people and students who would like to become independent from their parents, but they cannot afford to pay overcharged rents. The same problems are also encountered by artists who are looking for a foul territory for their creations: an acquisition of a studio in Prague remains an unreachable dream for most of them.
Nevertheless, it is required so little: to have a group of similarly thinking people and to have a desire to extricate from the experienced stereotypes and to start experimenting a bit. Anybody can try to make a deal with the owner of an empty house about its use for a symbolic rent or for maintaining it, and who will feel like it, can omit this part and move in straight away. We should not be beseeching anybody for the one of our primary rights the right to housing. Nowadays housing policy and financial crisis make squatting completely rightful.
The project of squatters' real estate should help everybody who will choose to take their life into their own hands. It is the time to come out from the isolation of your prefab flats, to say good bye to the terrible day-to-day job and to start looking for alternatives. This way the life is more fun and fully lived than if we unceasingly have to pay for it to somebody.
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News from Prague, 2.2. 09
After few undisturbed weeks around Christmas, we received a month full of activities. A presentation and a debate with the filmmakers of "69", a documentary on Copenhagen's Ungdomshuset, a succesful benefit gig in Cross Club and a Travesti Carnival at Milada squat, they have all been great events, that we will hopefully keep in mind for a long time.But with such an intensity, we'll remember the moment, when we learnt the news that UIV, the owner's administrator of our land, was going to catalogue Milada in the land register and by doing so, eventually, achieve legal eviction.
We don't know when exactly the attempted eviction would take place, maybe in few weeks, and maybe in few years horizon. But we know why we are here and what we are fighting for and that we won't give Milada away without consequence.
By all means available, we will defend our last space in Prague.
But if we want to keep the squatters' movement alive, we can't restrain ourselves to a sole space. Our streets are full of empty and neglected houses waiting for that moment, when someone comes and gives them life - by either creating a room for living or by organizing concerts, political discussions or setting up ateliers and galleries for independent artists. We have seen many examples in the past, let's get inspired for the future.
Police attacked the recently opened space Cibulka in Prague, 15.11.08
On Friday 14th November 2008, late in the night, police violently - and without any notice given to the owners - entered the building Cibulka in Prague. A part of the large building was inhabited by a group of autonomists, who had a sort of a verbal agreement to occupy the building and recently, they introduced the project to the public as a social and cultural space. Allegedly, the police was searching for a criminal who was supposed to be hidden in the yard. But according to people occupying the house, they haven't noticed them of anything like that. Three of the squatters, afraid of a nazi attack or an attempted eviction, climbed up the roof. The police started to smash the roofing tiles of the already neglected building and later reported that those on the roof attacked them with tiles and bricks. The situation got even worse when one policeman did a warning shot in the air, this was followed by verbal threatening and made the squatters come down, where other aggressive behavior continued. The supporters arrived quite early, some 30-40 people tried to blockade the police cars. Four other people were arrested. Then, the police left the place and they drove to the police station. When supporters arrived in front of the office to protest against the intervention, riot police was ready and some other police violence occurred without any reason, two people were detained. Some people were released after few hours, one stayed in custody until Sunday and the three squatters were released in the morning after the incident, but charged with an attack upon a public agent.A demonstration against repression and in support of the Cibulka space took place on Sunday with around 150 persons.
Though the owners stated that they were not informed of the intervention, they are not open to any further negotiations and social projects in the building. They want to sell it, but the place is empty since years and left to rot, and evidently, some roof joists had been cut off in the past. To help the building, a historical landmark, to fall down and give place to some luxurious nastiness.
Police intervention in the squat Milada, 2.11.08
15 police cars arrived during a party on 2th November 2008 to check the house, they explained that the reason was the loud noise of the party. But they didn't bother and solve the problem with the DJs, instead of this, they got into the house, waking people up and asking everybody to gather in front of the building. One of the squatters moved to the roof and refused to go down, until replaced by others, those already searched. This person was later detained in the police station for several hours and threatened e.g. with transport to the psychiatric hospital.The house is officially not existing, as it's not in the real estate register, but the parcel is, and as there are building plans for the near area, it seems that the whole place might become worth selling.
And with the state preparing for the EU presidency (january - june 2009) and thus increasing police forces and security measures, it's not surprising that the intimidation of any spaces and initiatives with a potential for confrontation is coming right now.
Please stay alert in case of an eviction attempt!
More news about Milada, 17.10.08
Milada squatter's announcement about the events of 16.10.08 To clarify all disinformation that emerged in the media and within our "sympathysants", we decided to summarize the event ourselves.So: around 9am arrives several clerks from the city hall office and ÚIV (office for information and education - owner of the land the officially non-existent Milada is standing on), accompanied by three police cars. After a while a waste-container truck arrives and hired workers start to clean the area around the Building: we are told that city hall called upon the land owner to clean out "his" parcel because of complaints of neighbours. We point out that we, inhabitants of the House, were not contacted about this matter by anybody. It would be enough to send us an e-mail (our address is displayed at our web-pages, milada.org) and arrange the date of clean up. There are enough of us to fill the waste container in no time, which, by the way, we have done several times in the past, at our own expense. On top of that, one ÚIV employee's behaviour was outrageous. After refusing to introduce herself several times, she commanded assisting police officers and forced clean-up company employees to load our personal belongings. Also, chairs and table standing in the garden were treated as a waste by her. A misinformation campaign against Milada in tabloid newspaper Blesk (which tries to portrait us as a group of drug addicts, systematically terrorising neighbours), unusually frequent police visits and another info from various sources led to our risen attention in the last few days, and seeing several police cars in front of the squat, we were afraid an eviction attempt is going on. We published this information, along with a plea for help on our web pages, and sent it to our long-term supporters. In following three hours, about a hundred of our supporters arrived, sadly most of them after the police and white-collars left, so we had to call it a false alarm. Also on site appeared a surprisingly high amount of journalists.
In conclusion, we would like to thank all our friends for their solidarity. We would also like to ask the landowner and the officials to resolve possible future problems directly with us, or at least inform us that any problems occurred. We would thus avoid any further complications.