Police constantly cornered the demonstraters of the occupation-festival this weekend, with helicopters, horses, black vans, and used pepper spray and batons. From the moment it began round 14.00 16/05, police vans were stationed across the city and they then closed in and pursued the demonstraters for 36 hours. The police action this weekend has been really nasty. Motkraft gives live updates from the festival.
200 police gathered from all over Sweden to thwart the aims of the festival that would take an empty house, in order to protest the severe housing shortage in Lund. However despite really shitty weather, about 600 people came in solidarity with students and workers who struggle to find decent housing here.
The housing catastrophe in Lund affects international students too, with many sleeping in the Train Hostel for most of a term, and then getting ripped of by the notorious International Housing Office here. Most international students are exploited, and double pay, or forfeit a months rent, simply because they cannot articulate their rights or make sense of the bureaucracy. In the last two years there have been law suits by international students against the IHO, but perhaps nothing so effective at drawing attention to the housing crisis as this occupation festival.
forms, forms of folding your hands in the wrong way, more papers, bent when they should be straight, handwriting belies unease. stamps border controls. checkouts and checkins security measures, metalic gates, sensors suits interviews,
