Entries from May 2023 ↓

How to live for free

Before starting with the tips and techniques we wanted
to talk about a few things that seemed important to us.
When making use of all these techniques, make sure to
remember that a lot of them work because of privileges
you might have. If you are white, wearing neat clothes
and looking clean, people will tend to be way less
suspicious of your behavior. Stealing, hitchhiking etc… will
work more easily.
So once you acquire these skills, don’t forget your friends!
We do not share these techniques so that people can
brag about how good they are at not spending any
money. Distribute the food you steal or skip, help other
people to squat, make sure those who do not have the
same privileges but struggle as well can also fulfill their
needs.
While this offers direct help to you and those around you,
these techniques are not an end in themselves. They are
a direct relief to materiel needs as they allow you to live
from the waste and leftovers of the capitalist system.
However, the life we envision is one where no one would
have to live from the trash. Capitalism still oppresses us on
a daily basis and there is the urgent need to organize
against it. Get together, join your local anarchist group,
take action. You can steal material for demos and
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actions, squat houses in order to have meetings and
social centers, use the money you save to pay your
friends’ fines. The techniques described in this zine can
make your life and organizing easier, but they are not an
end in themselves.
Also, continue to share these skills! We don’t want any
gatekeeping. Pass this zine around, copy it, modify it! We
would also love to keep it updated.
If you know any other techniques or have any addition to
any of them, you can email it to us:
livefree4free@protonmail.com
Have fun!!!

Squatting guide_2023

This guide is a short introduction to the different steps you can take
when you want to squat a building in the Netherlands.
We decided to make a guide that does not go too much into detail. We want to keep it
as straight to the point as possible. If you want more information you can go to your
local Kraakspreekuur (squatting advice hour, more info on page 4) or look at the links
that are at the end of the document.
This is just a compilation of how some people squat and have squatted (in Amsterdam)
over the past few years. Now it is up to you to see what you want to take from this. You
can always decide do to things differently. Squatting is a lot about trying, being
flexible and finding creative solutions.
Good luck and have fun squatting your house !!!