This Is OURS.

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Whole article really worth reading.

Last paragraphs:

« It's almost summer. As its name suggests, the Autonomous Winter Shelter has significantly outlived its own life expectancy. As residents brace for a court battle, the shelter is training them to be - as its name also suggests - autonomous: to scout and open squats of their own.

"The Autonomous Winter Shelter was designed to be part of an autonomous network of shelters, says A*, another AWS organiser. "It's introducing people to squatting, and referring them to ASS, who have so many resources to teach people how to legally and practically squat.

In this sense, the fate of AWS is not in the Sister of Mercy's hands. Relying on neither the church nor
the state's help, this group of anarchists is doing it for themselves; "we take care of us," says M. In fact, suggests Scribbles,

"I think the government should look at us as a model for how stuff should be done."  »