The British anarchist group "ANAL" are resisting homelessness by reclaiming unused spaces throughout the UK *WATCH NEXT*: Meet the Cuban Punks Who Infected Themselves with HIV in Protest: bit.ly/2kXEa2N
I agree with the homeless crisis, but fuck dudes grow the fuck up and show you deserve a place to live. When you have a home you have to show it love, not writing on the walls and destroying the fucking place. Fucking work for your shit as well, even if it isn't a nine to 5 or a legit job, just show you are fucking dedicated to making your own life better. Cause when i watch this I see a bunch of lazy, ignorant kids who think they know it all. I was like you once, and then I realized its all just a bunch of bullshit. Our system is far from perfect, and yours is even farther.
If a man who squatted and lived in the apartment building could still get lost it, the rich Quatari living halfway across the world wouldn't be able to recognize the property either.
Qatar guys just own the property as a store of wealth or an investment with a higher percentage payoff than a savings account. They rarely care about who actually lives or uses the building-that's why they don't bother renting them out for the rental return.
@@_cloudface_ Exactly this. If the interst rate was 5% or so about this guy would never buy this building probably. If he sees this he probably won´t care until the day he has to sell it.
It's a bad excuse to squat and do drugs. I bet you all those hobos are collecting government benefits. There are plenty of ways to make rent. Just look at the Mexicans that come across the border with nothing, and get 5 bedroom houses with half a dozen trucks in front.
200,000 buildings empty? And they just let people sleep in the slums like slugs... wow what has this world become. Happy Valentines day by the way everyone!!
people choose drugs and alcohol themselves and end up on the street. Providing them with food and place to live - is against their own will. How can you not respect someone's own choices!
they are not anarchists, you have to respect property rights which these scum do not, they did not create that house, or created anything on that land it is not there's, without capitalism there wouldn't be buildings like this for them to steal
@@voluntarism335 tHEy ArE nOt aNArChIsT! Tell me, where does the word anarchist come from? Cuz ancaps only came about in the 60s, we have our roots in the 1700s.
That’s just envy, and it leads nowhere but a Hellish dystopia. It never ends well when a government that doesn’t protect property rights, you ignorant petulant children…..
It's sad to see their essentially capitalists though not actually anarchists. I was disappointed to see anarchist libertarian in the description Anarchism is about cooperation and they exemplify this perfectly, which makes it strange they contradict themselves by proclaiming their eventuality as an individualist one
What about the people who own these houses? Now they can’t sell it. Maybe planned on waiting for a housing boom to then sell it. They’ve been forced to waste a lot of money because of these assholes.
@Charlie Speary We hate the rich because the do shit like abandon their hotel-mansions for 6 months as people die from exposure out in front of them. Plus, no rich person was harmed in the making of this documentary. I'm assuming you're also a super rich, otherwise you'd be just another fucking loser like the rest of us 99%ers.
I find it strange that all these career squatters say it's their god given right to live on the earth for free when the bible don't say anything about combi boilers, electricity, plumbed water coming out a tap or needing to be 10 minutes from a train station. They are indeed correct about having a right to live on the land for free, but what they fail to realise is that "land" they don't mean a man made structure that cost many, MANY thousands to build and is entirely artificial. If they want to love for free they should build their own place or live in a tent on the commons.
These houses aren't homes to their owners, they are just money generators. This isn't a place that someone will come home to from holiday and I reckon the owners have never even seen the place with their own eyes before.
Obviously people with more money have access to better education than some dude raised by drug addicts. If you can't see that the society shapes people IQ you might want to study more and raise your own before judging other people.
Personal property is different to private property. The owner of those properties only care about the money they get off of them, they are wasting possible homes to get rich.
Vice, I think I'm speaking for a lot of people here, anyway I subscribed to this channel for the long 40 minute documentaries like this. Please, please bring them back
Whenever I complain about our homelessness issues, people normally say that it's the homeless's fault fault for becoming druggies. First of all, that is a massive generalisation. Secondly, even if they are druggies, they deserve to be helped and not just left behind as insignificant and forgotten people left to live in the cold winters on the streets and what we have in place to help the homeless is simply not enough. And thirdly, most people that become homeless come from a working class family which is struggling financially and possibly (but again not necessarily) also has background of drugs which would influence them into using and they would be unable to get help financially from their family because of the family situation. And about my last point, there may not be quite as many rich upper class people that are into drugs, but there are still many and we wouldn't know about them because unlike people from working class families, they do get financial support from their families and don't end up being driven to homelessness. The system we live in IS unfair and we really need to wtfu and tackle the issue. Knowledge is power and most people are so ignorant about the issue. That said, perhaps many of them don't care because we are living in a country which elects the conservative party and will inevitably soon be run by that idiot Boris Johnson who seems to be more interested in cutting taxes on the rich than helping the homeless, or in fact as he promised - Adding funds to the NHS through money we gain from leaving the EU. And people still like him. So, actually we probably won't fix the homelessness issue. Unless as I said earlier, people wtfu.
I hate those social darwinists who are like "Oh, poor people are just lazy drug addicts". Those idiots are making the problem worse by pushing the poor further away from society!
A bunch of people who actually are doing something concrete for humanity. Rest of commenters here would rather lick the ass of the rich and get paid below the living wage.
The problem is, what these people are doing is only a temporary solution, and a bad one at that. They should be working to fix the economy, but they're anarchists, so they won't do anything inside the system.
At least there is one news outlet talking about the homeless crisis. In America I see abandoned buildings and homes all over the place, particularly in Chicago. The shelters are awful and military like was my experience when homeless which is why many choose to sleep on the streets. But hey, lets build a wall instead of tackling the homeless crisis and either fix up old buildings and building more and better shelters while cutting funding for mental health programs!
I hear you. I took a walk around my city, New Orleans today. So many homeless and starving people who are overjoyed just to get people's left over food. At least they are unlikely to freeze to death here (unlike Chicago!), but they still have to sleep on benches. And they sleep on those benches, surrounded by homes that people will use maybe 2 weeks of the year for Mardi Gras.
The wall will temporarily help slow down the drug flow while causing more fear and division. Drugs get into this country in many ways and on many shores. There is no wall that can stop our own corrupt forces like the CIA from bringing/allowing them in. Alcoholism is one of the biggest problems in the United States and booze is readily available nearly everywhere. We still allow advertising for it and can even be seen on giant digitized billboards when you drive even though drunk driving causes huge amounts of accidents. Addiction is essentially promoted! Factor in the addiction to legal synthetic pharmaceutical opiates and psychiatric anxiety pills readily available in the United States and it gets much worst. People often combine them for an even bigger high. While all of this is occurring the budget for addiction and mental health programs have been drastically cut so people who want help cant even get it unless they go to AA or NA. All of these things contribute to the homeless crisis in America which is why they need addressed immediately before the money to build a wall is spent. “If we value life like we claim.” Hardly anyone is talking about these issues in the political arena. What I mentioned is only scratching the surface and goes much deeper. Truth is, we create these problems by advertising and promoting them while not having a solid foundation to deal with the problems. Much more money to be made on addiction than curing it. These same forces capitalize on the illegal drug trade and mostly privatized prison system. They want us sick, depressed, unconscious and hardly able to function. It is a great way to influence and control people. Ultimately, we are talking about slavery through promoted legal addictions. I recently wrote about some of the core problems in the United States you can find on my blog if you wish: lucidvibration.blogspot.com/2017/01/does-trump-know.html ICBM
Rising Sun I understand that the pharmaceutical industry has everyone addicted to drugs as well. I just don't see how securing our borders as a sovereign nation is going to cause fear and division? Most legal Mexicans I know are for the wall. More people just walk into the US than by boat. Most drugs from mexico go straight across the boarder by mules AKA illegals. This fear and division crap is fueled by the mainstream media by the false narratives they constantly push.
We do need a better way of securing our borders but I am not shure a wall is the best way to approach it with all the technological advances we have made. Walls ultimately fail and come down so why invest in another one particularly if the money is desperately needed to clean up our own backyard first? If the goal is union a wall is not going to help. However maybe it is just wishful thinking on my part and we are not yet ready for that type of union. Might be another generation or two before something like that happens.
Same in Ireland; HUGE homelessness crisis, massive amounts of buildings in the heart of Dublin completely abandoned, owned by people who have office in the government... and a middle class who's incredibly shallow and sheltered and thinks it's a crime to occupy a building that's sitting abandoned so you don't die during winter.
This is the stuff I love to see. Homelessness is more of an issue here than most people realise. I'm glad you're shinning light on the problem & bringing it to the attention of the masses. I was homeless for a period myself as a teenager & ended up squatting a small holding by myself. I can tell you I slept with one eye open at all times. I feared for my safety most of the time & it was terrifying. If Id have been part of a group or collective like this it would have been such a better situation.
I'm surprised how many of the comments are condemning the homeless and calling them imoral for "stealing" when all their doing is trying to survive the night, you YOU, you should check your moral compass before telling the homeless to die on the street because you'd rather they didn't exist.
Roraigh Price So you're saying that the homeless and junkies deserve nice houses more than the people who worked hard and earned the money to buy them? No wonder there are so many a scumbags. People like you think they should have everything handed to them.
you know what i say to these poor fucks? i grew up piss poor now i'm making better money than most. I don't want to think i am better than these people but something in me must result in my success and something in them must result in their failure. These people may be like this because they are poor but i bet you if you offered any of them a $1million they would take it in a heartbeat and use a good portion of it on themselves.
they dont need to take someone's private property, nor does being needy justify taking it. they could easily break into a public building, a school or government building, or stain in a train station. instead they go into a privately owned home, who's family could be away on vacation or just being unlivable, and effectively put hard working people out of their home. what do you think happens if squatters take someone's home? the guy said, at 1:47; he assumed it was ''the owner trying to kick us out illegally", but that dude who owns the home, is now homeless; check your critical reasoning, making another person homeless doesnt solve homelessness, it makes the homeowner a few grand poorer and a long eviction process. dont look at these people as standing up to the government, they are robbing people of their homes
That’s just envy, and it leads nowhere but a Hellish dystopia. It never ends well when a government that doesn’t protect property rights, you ignorant petulant children…..
Well, if you agree with their values, you can try and find someone like that. Just try and stick to your principles. Some people who join political organizations like this end up getting radicalized.
I think this is great. Our government acts like it owes us nothing, but they are the ones we voted for to run our country. They owe us everything they can do to alleviate the struggling in Britain.
Joel Schembri Hate to break it to you, but working for ANAL some of the hardest working people end up homeless, whilst many who own these houses simply pay other people to work hard for them and don't work an honest day in their lives. I've no sympathy for rich people who can afford more than one mansion, funnily enough
Joel Schembri So, you don't understand anything about how wage exploitation. Where there's riches, exploitation has come before. To become rich you have to exploit people. Period.
Commies are the most entitled people I have ever come across. Seriously if you want to live in communism go to the desert and make yourself a little fucking commune and see how far you get. But considering you have the G-man as your profile picture I imagine you like the computers, video games and other luxuries provided by living in a capitalist society.
indexHTML Hey bitter man. dont worry, everything will be fine :) shhh. I just want you too calm down, look at your paycheck and then ask yourself if you belong to the super rich. If no thrn shut the hell up and wake up out of your dream land and realise that we are also fighting for you. And please for god sake stop calling people communist who obviously are not jesus please have you never come near any politics lesson in school or was the cold war raging back then? Please go ahead and tell me why you hate 'communism' what I think you call all and every 'left' ideology.
I am not angry, funny I am not the one with the fist of revolution as my profile picture. You have proven my point about how entitled Commies and other brands of Socialists and Marxists are. If you are a factory worker you do not belong in the richest 1% or even top 25%. If you work your way up the business you can then be at the top, but if you are doing a job that pretty much anybody can do, you are not as valued as the programmer or CEO as they are much more specialized jobs that take years of experience or training. Capitalism isn't perfect but it gives us the most fairness (being people who have skills have more and lazy fuckers have less) yes you can point to the odd person like Nikola Tesla or your local genius who as been fucked over by bad luck. But in general Capitalism around the world has bread success and prosperity where as any time a Marxist-esque theory has been attempted it ultimately leads to lack of wealth, prosperity and massive amounts of poverty/starvation, not even mentioning the likelihood of genocide to happen like in the soviet union. But I guess that is #notrealcommunism
These people seem like great people but flying an ANTIFA today tends to not just say you are against fascism but you are a violent person who attacks political dissidents
Wow, fuckin galaxy brain levels of ideology there. You're either a fascist or some poor centrist fooled into following fascist talking points because I have not heard of a single case of any person identifying as ANTIFA attacking anyone who wasn't a fascist.
Urethral Implosion if you’re against fascism you’re antifa if you’re just hurting random people then you’re much closer to being a fascist then antifa the only people antics tend to attack are fascists/neo nazis the idea of antifa is to defend tolerance by silencing the intolerant
I was lower middle class, that's just above poverty in the states. I dont think people understand nearly 29 percent of people are one paycheck away from the street. $8400 for yearly rent at 700 a month. let's say you make $23000 after electric, gas, water, food, gas for your car, cell phone, medical expenses, and medicine you would be lucky to be left with $4000 to $5000, you milage may vary. But wait that's not all at once that's over 12 months which is about 333 to 416 a month. What happens if In one month you need tires and another you need repairs for your car? What if that happens in the same month? I didn't even calculate in a social life. It blows my mind how people blame the homeless for being homeless. Housing, rent, car, phone, utility and food costs are so fucking high it's the economic equivalent of a muscle head juicing. At what point is further gain flat out masterbation? 🤔
When the law is unjust we are morally obligated to break it, respect to these fine upstanding law-breaking citizens! Its fitting that the only people opposed to them doing good is the fascists and the police, those two have always been on the same side.
Keep up the hard work in speaking out against homelessness. Its artificially induced to provide maximum profits, while denying homes for working class people.
They see us as terrorists who set streets on fire because it’s so unfathomable to them that the proper way to happier live is through not being held hostage by a government and society
@@exkdvs I don't watch Fox news, it's liberal propaganda, I'm saying the government who bombs innocent kids are bigger terrorists than Anarchists. If anything, the word "terrorism" is thrown around so much that it's lost its meaning.
how can people be against squatting? it's not like the owners need the buildings (why would they let them be empty?) or that any noticeable damage is done to anyone's property. all anarchists do is breaking the law, and for most people it's just this fact which makes them have a negative opinion on them without even considering whether the laws that are broken are unjust or not. it's this dumb concept of property and state which is way too deep-seated in this society's collective brain.
jli136 Squatting laws can be abused though. For example let's say you and your family go on vacation for like a month, you come back and you find a squatter in your home, in some states you have to go through the full eviction process to get the squatter out, which can take months. plus squatters can do property damage.
If only this were true, the problem is that there is damage being done and the squatters have no idea what the situation is for the owner. I would have more respect for them if they chose other means to achieve the same goal, for example occupying government buildings or reaching out to property owners to get consent to use the building for homelessness charity work. As it stands they take what doesn't belong to them, decrease its value until the owner is forced to pay large sums to have them removed, rinse and repeat.
haha they tried that shit in cleveland oh at my home. 800k off the lake and i got 3 black dudes and 2 junkie bitches in my home sayin u need to evict. HUH i'm the resident and owner evict u what. so i kicked my back door in, 2 of my marine buddies ran to my basement where i had a hidden safe room behind my book shelf door. we went in and suited and booted like we were in iraq again. 2004 came RIGHT BACK . we ran up stairs and bam ar 762 in the big gang bangers face click clack IS THIS GOOD ENOUGH EVICTION. dont say a word or ill blow your head clean smooth off your shoulders as my 2 marines grabbed the other idiots and threw em out, then they watched as we burned all their unlawful property that was left. don't like it dont break in. thats what the cops told em. you don't have rights if you don't own it..
Let me rummage through your house, take all the shit that I think you're not going to use, bring it back in any condition i see fit. I swear I'll take care of it.
the people in the video are black bloc Ancoms (which stands for Anarchist-Communists) when they "squat" they aren't squatting in empty abandoned building Ancoms don't believe in property ownership they instead believe that if you want to keep a particular building or dwelling secure you should hire security while you are away if not then they have a right to claim it and yes that means that if you went away for say a week they feel they have the right to take control of your home and your belongings because you did not hire some one to protect it Vice should not be encouraging this behavior
jacob f As if these empty homes and they owners were doing anything about the homelessness epidemic in London? Oh wait, they aren’t, they’re the cause of it.
@@frocco7125 i dont think so well there is for sure some antifascist or anarchist group in massachussetts which would probably help doin this that'd be great
@@frocco7125 you need o know that ANAL isnt probably an organization as you expect it you can join them you know but its not like a big organisation its more local some guys are calling themselves anal. but its not like an international group. or atleast i wouldnt know it.
1:45 To all of you saying that it is illegal, squatting in commercial buildings in London is still legal, only residential buildings are illegal. I know because I have done it in London earlier this year.
these people seem so wonderful :”) I’m so, so disgusted by the amount of empty mansions and shit in London (just outside myself and we have a similar problem where I am) it’s just so, so gross when there are so many people that need places to stay. Mad respect for ANAL. Brilliant name, too
wouldn't say trump is a true fascist (economically he is) but his supporters are dumb enough to vote for someone who believes this fascist-like economy that we have. And they have a view on this social fascism where this nation has to be unique in a certain way. So trump supporters are the real nazis while trump is good at using them.
blesssed beats Yes breaking and entering is okay when the 'house' isn't being used 90% of the year yet millions of people are homeless. we have more housing space than homeless people
They make a good point. Buildings like that of that size, with that much room shouldn't be left empty, they could be used as shelter for the homeless people. But instead they just get left empty
So if you owned a larger building and were away, you think that you should be mandated to fill it with people, otherwise it’s fair for people to break in an squat in it?
@@hickorysocks2628 yes. If I had that much wealth, I'd be donating it to help homeless. Just admit you hate the homeless and move on, it's all over your argument
@@matthewjones4423 Lol. I hate the homeless? I literally let a homeless person who suffered from mental illness live in my one bedroom apartment with me. Have you done that? Im sure you have a roof over your head right now, why don’t you let a homeless person stay there with you if you’re so much better than me? Oh you’re just waiting until you’re wealthy to give them shelter, then it will happen. Right…….
@@hickorysocks2628 probablly because I'm what's called sofa surfing, and maybe if I'm lucky I may finally get accepted for a flat... So when you're done making assumptions about me, it'd be nice if you could stop being so negative about anyone's idea to help the homeless, if you care so god dam much about them. People like you really need to stop trying to take the moral high ground, anytime someone thinks empty buildings like hotels should be used as housing to help the homeless. You try and act like you're so much better, yet you're nothing but a negative narcistic 'im holyer than thou type'
@Lê Sơn the have an antfaschiste aktion flag but many groups who associate with antifa are not antifa members - but youre correct american antifa just bash innocents most of the time
EXCELLENT IDEA! here in the states it's VERY common for single families to own 5, 10 or 15 homes. they don't live in them. they're mainly just tax right-offs and they'll sit unoccupied for years, even decades. meanwhile we have families living out of their cars or in makeshift "tent" cities. I just moved from L. A. to a small rural town and BOTH places are inundated with empty stores and unused business property. this is what capitalism does - IT WASTES EVERYTHING! the elite would rather something go unused than to let it be used for free to help people. capitalism produces a throw away society. something breaks; its cheaper to throw it away and buy a new one rather than fix or upgrade the one you have. and the cost of everything you buy is 75% throw away packaging with no purpose other than to make it harder for those who can't afford it to take it without paying. but if anyone in the states tried to do what these british anarchists did SWAT Teams would invade and cordon off the area, surround the building and ATTACK!
here's the problem, most homeless people aren't good-hearted people. If those who bought the houses opted to let the homeless live there, most likely the homeless individual(s) would trash the house. And it's not like the houses did nothing. the house provided jobs for building it, provided jobs to keep it in good maintenance, provided shelter for people who rented the house, etc
Ik it's illegal according to the law, but considering the government doesn't want to tax the rich like everyone else ie middle and lower class and doesnt care about homelessness, i changed my mind.
What's crazy is that this kinda thing is happening across the world. Rich people are driving up the cost of rent and homelessness is exploding. It's all over the US.
Only right-wing libertarians believe in property. Left-libertarians think that property is theft, and we need to steal it back and give it to everybody. Ever heard of Robin Hood? Great guy. Awesome guy.
look up the distinction between private and personal property to understand where anarchists are coming from. they believe in the abolishment of private property, but personal property is different.
Steadly Not really. Squatting is easy as fuck in America. Abandoned houses are everywhere and no one REALLY cares enough to seach them. That, and if anyone tries to shoot them, they know how to fight back.
Point blank, if you can afford 17 million dollar home, you can afford the securities and provisions needed to be taken to protect it lmaoo. Also, you can't be shocked when somebody is putting your waste to use. There is NO way it is justified to have multiple homes in which you do not put to use, so much excess, when there are people who have nothing and trying to find a means of survival that the system (more often than not) does not provide. Even people who work their asses off! How is it that intensive labor isn't rewarded in the same way that the "work" of the Kardashians would be? People who do nothing have everything, and people who do everything have nothing. This movement is completely justified, in fact, necessary!
God forbid people travel a lot and can’t stay in one place to avoid having it destroyed by squatters. Maybe some owners don’t have the funds to renovate a place yet. Maybe they had money when they bought it but no longer do. There are plenty of reasons why a building would be empty for extended periods of time. None justify having it stolen and destroyed by a bunch of entitled brats and junkies. Squatting wouldn’t be anywhere near as bad a problem if they didn’t destroy the buildings. Want an emergency place to stay? Fine. Stay the night and leave. But why cause damage? Envy? Resentment? Entitlement? Blaming the players not the game?
@@t.c.6920 To rent out it helps people who can't actually afford the house to have somewhere to stay or for people that come to the country for long periods of time to work
+NachT Aktiv So it's morally right to steal from someone? I'm sorry but there is no excuse for being parasite. Those people are dying because of their own decisions. Aka decided to use drugs and alcohol in excess. Most of them have low IQ and are even violent. Only rare are good individuals who simply suffer from depression. They are not homeless because of those rich people, therefore you have no right to steal or harm them.
I'm guessing you never had to fear where you slept next, eh? Sometimes it's really hard to save money for rent in London, hardly to pay off your first house deposit when you're paying most of your money for rent. Squatting can be a great way to save money and get yourself together again. Not to mention the lovely people you meet there!
we can afford to house these people and about a million fucking more if the rich would pay their fucking taxes, and money was allocated by a fair system of government. Why would you kick down and the weak and powerless when the people to blame are at the top?
Sean do your research on what would happen if you took all the 1%s money, it wouldnt even make a dent, didnt you watch bernie get destoyed by cruz the other say?
I'm so fucking happy that are People like him who are helping the homeless. But looking at the comments section is really upsetting. Why do so many people care about the rich and they big unused House's over the homeless. And I've seen so fucking many people demonize the homeless and say awful shit about them, they are real people who need help and anyone can become homeless for any reason so stop shit talking and looking down on the homeless because its fucking awful.
When the buildings owner is an absentee oligarch Qatari general... it's kind of hard to argue against these people occupying the building to prevent homelessness
@@bz.27k15 is it the generals house though, I mean the dude doesn’t even live in it. For him it’s just a way to make money by exploiting the housing market.
@@bz.27k15 If you don't ever live at the home, you're just an ass buying up land so people who need it can't have it. The anarchists are helping people who need help, the rich jerk can go live at one of their other mansions and suck it up.
@@dingusmyers Being homeless doesn’t give you automatic rights to break into someone’s property just because they aren’t currently using it 😂😂 what happens when the owner comes home with their family & there’s 30 people living in there and they’ve ruined their carpet & every other thing they’ve paid for.
Totally justified. If the government won’t provide for its people and encourage foreign investment for more money, then anarchy will ensue until a system is in place that provides for the basic needs of a human - food, shelter, community, love, strong and wise leadership, involvement in community issues, security, support, stimulating work, a balance of work and community/family life, and a sense of liberty. These are basic needs if an atmosphere of realising potential is to be created. Continuing with the greed-fuelled plutocracy will create pandemics of depression, poverty, abuse, suicides etc. The rich people are equally depressed and tend to have poorer family and community environments. Wealth is isolating. Stop chasing it.
@@ashesfromtheheavens3716 Yes this is alt left propoganda. A communist who online has said kill trump supporters and that gender dosent exist are alt left genocidal ideals opposed by orwell. Sorry but my siblings were ones and i know more than you ever woll about your terrorist "Comrade" cult.
Tech Guy so basically you see one person who is a leftist and wants to kill a rapist homophobe tyrant and instantly believe that all leftists are bad I’m an anarchist myself with plans of helping with squats or joining communes I don’t want to hurt no one I want to help the people around me not dying under a flawed capitalist system
great idea!!!! im glad they figured it out because being homeless while greedy millionaires sit in there 10 houses is just sick. i live on my moms couch for years i would rather die than sleep another day on her couch
Thats fucking amazing! Super smart way to have a real impact on the world without having big cash. Those persons are really changing the situations of a lot of peoples. Seriously, thats straight heroism
@@jeanniemaycrawford4466 Man, for someone who acts like they understand the complex corporate world and social woes, you really seem like you're having a hard time understanding something that's super basic...
Everybody should have the right to sleep under a roof, I respect what they're doing because like he said it's really sad to see such large empty buildings while there is so much homeless people in the street.
I will admit that the situation is much different from anywhere else. Basically 300 landlords own almost the own country. Even local parks get privatized in the UK but still this isnt the solution.
I'm glad people are using these empty buildings. I hope they respect the property, and can't believe that group of people who smashed the windows. 🤦🏼♀️🤷🏼♀️
So brave. So revolutionary. I've come from the very bottom, I've spent seven years in state prisons and a few more years added up in various county jails. I got out with a bit over one grand after saving my "state draw", the money you get from working in prison which is anywhere between 17 and 50 cents an hour. The last three years in prison I didn't speak to a single person on the outside. When I got out I didn't have any network of people that could help me. Not many years later I had a house and three decent cars that were paid for. I'm not college educated and I have nineteen felonies, all thefts. I also had no marketable skills either. Oh and I've got PTSD from being sexually and physically abused for years when I wqs a child So I'd love to know how it is I managed to "make it" while tons of other people spend years or decades being homeless. Outside of someone who has schizophrenia please give me an example of someone who remains homeless for years and has a worse story than me. Yes there are a few people who through no fault of their own who become and remain homeless, but the vast majority of them put themselves there and refuse to do what it takes to get off thw streets. For the few truly blameless I give my sympathy. For the rest I have none. Don't think I haven't battled drug addiction either. I've been physically addicted to opiates. I know full well thry hell of being dope sick. There's really nothing anyone who is homeless can tell me as an excuse as to why they've been homeless for years. These idiots "combatting homelessness", well, they're just idiots. Squatting isn't doing anything at all. If you're doing that you're a jackass.
This is a horrendous solution!! The homeless need a house, of course; the government and society need a solution for them!! BUT is the solution for a drug addict to find an empty mansion to the sleepover and not get treatment for his drug addiction which is the core of the problem? Who pays the rent and the taxes of all the mansions appropriated for these anarchist groups? It blows my mind that this is the solution of mercy that they're getting in London!!!!!!! Solutions must come from the core of the problem and not overtaking other people's rights and properties!!!! I can not believe the world that I'm witnessing today!!! It's too easy to be merciful to homeless people, occupying empty buildings from somebody else!!! Either the British government pays for the taxes of those buildings or this can not be an existent situation, because the property must be paid to be occupied. I'm sorry, I'm not involved with the real London problem on this issue. This is only my humble opinion. London, a beautiful city!!! It's not fascist thinking that people from London won't be happy about this solution of expropriating mansion for homeless occupation!!! This is not a fascist way of thinking!!! This is the way the world works in this part of the Western societies!!! not fascist thinking!!!! There must be other solutions for homeless people that are not definitely a patch solution of sleeping in empty mansions belonging to other people. A suggestion would be: these guys getting buildings to be occupied for homeless individuals, should work hard to pay for all those taxes that they're expropriating from owners or not owners, but handle title of properties; revenues are collected for the good of all society, ( at least that's the original intention before the corruption of the State) even if mansions are empty. Occupying other people's properties for homeless, diminish the rights of the rest of society. It's not a solution to the problem!!!!! Anarchism doesn't get core solutions, solutions come from people with a planned strategy to get solutions in the name of all participants of society. Not paying taxes will result in more poverty for regular working-class people, the millionaires won't be affected, they have enough in London, all the rest of the population will become homeless too!!!! including these benefactor guys in London!! My humble opinion here.
I can easily join the movement. I do feel that government taking piss all the time and no matter how hard I work , how many hours or how many jobs at the same time, it is always ending up same or worse... I am tired of the bullshit
Stan Robinsom Society is fucked and dont pretend it is not. Anarchists are the ones trying to defeat oppression, the corrupt and control for a better life for us all
The only thing more sad for society the recently empty buildings are empty buildings so long abandoned that they are unsafe to live in such as rotting wood.
The British anarchist group "ANAL" are resisting homelessness by reclaiming unused spaces throughout the UK
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VICE You guys should've told them to change their name at the very least
Fuck. You.
I agree with the homeless crisis, but fuck dudes grow the fuck up and show you deserve a place to live. When you have a home you have to show it love, not writing on the walls and destroying the fucking place. Fucking work for your shit as well, even if it isn't a nine to 5 or a legit job, just show you are fucking dedicated to making your own life better. Cause when i watch this I see a bunch of lazy, ignorant kids who think they know it all. I was like you once, and then I realized its all just a bunch of bullshit. Our system is far from perfect, and yours is even farther.
I was homeless down town Vancouver and shot dope for 10 years of my life, so don't say i don't know what its like.
VICE thank you guys
“working class people are two pay checks away from being homeless” 5 years later and now it’s down to one pay check.
if plenty of people occupy, that's awesome - gigantic places totally abandoned
That's not the problem of good families who own property.
@@richmrstonestoneGood families don't own 17 million pound buildings.
@@richmrstonestone "Even if you're a millionaire, you're closer to being homeless than you are to being a billionaire"
Imagine being the rich dude sitting in Qatar watching this and realising it's his house LMAO
@Abu Omer haha funny number
If a man who squatted and lived in the apartment building could still get lost it, the rich Quatari living halfway across the world wouldn't be able to recognize the property either.
Qatar guys just own the property as a store of wealth or an investment with a higher percentage payoff than a savings account. They rarely care about who actually lives or uses the building-that's why they don't bother renting them out for the rental return.
@@_cloudface_ Exactly this. If the interst rate was 5% or so about this guy would never buy this building probably. If he sees this he probably won´t care until the day he has to sell it.
who cares
When there are more empty houses than homeless people we got a problem.
Correction when there are more homeless people than houses there is a problem think about it there is no shelter for an overgrown population.
@@funny.gon-12 Overpopulation in modern times is a myth. We have plenty of space and produce more than enough to feed and house everyone.
But I'm saying Ethier way it would be bad
It's a bad excuse to squat and do drugs. I bet you all those hobos are collecting government benefits. There are plenty of ways to make rent. Just look at the Mexicans that come across the border with nothing, and get 5 bedroom houses with half a dozen trucks in front.
@@TowerMemoir stfu
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200,000 buildings empty? And they just let people sleep in the slums like slugs... wow what has this world become.
Happy Valentines day by the way everyone!!
The Lux Yeah, it's called capitalism and it needs to be destroyed. Establish worker control over the means of production!
So what are you going to steal from me to feed the homeless by raising taxes?
people choose drugs and alcohol themselves and end up on the street. Providing them with food and place to live - is against their own will. How can you not respect someone's own choices!
Valentines day is consumerism at its finest.
People shouldn't be allowed to own more than one house while there are still homeless people.
last 3 years? Anarchists have been squatting big buildings for decades
they are not anarchists, you have to respect property rights which these scum do not, they did not create that house, or created anything on that land it is not there's, without capitalism there wouldn't be buildings like this for them to steal
@@voluntarism335 tHEy ArE nOt aNArChIsT!
Tell me, where does the word anarchist come from? Cuz ancaps only came about in the 60s, we have our roots in the 1700s.
@@voluntarism335 Fuck off, AnCaps aren't anarchist.
They mean the group, ANAL.
@@voluntarism335
>you have to respect property rights to be anarchist
thanks for demonstrating the oxymoron that is ancapistan
When there are more empty houses than homeless people, do you ever stop and think, "Gee, maybe our system doesn't work?"
Brett Wolff nope. just think gee what pathetic criminal drug addict losers.
N7 Tags duh, this ain't nothing new
"Dah free market will fix it, just you wait!"
1000 years later...
You can't get welfare or any form of government service if you have no home address.
Brett Wolff Nope.
i love that they do this, super inspiring, i used to be homeless and it breaks my heart to know people are still going through it
when the government won’t house the homeless, it’s good to see that ordinary people will do it themselves.
That’s just envy, and it leads nowhere but a Hellish dystopia. It never ends well when a government that doesn’t protect property rights, you ignorant petulant children…..
It's sad to see their essentially capitalists though not actually anarchists.
I was disappointed to see anarchist libertarian in the description
Anarchism is about cooperation and they exemplify this perfectly, which makes it strange they contradict themselves by proclaiming their eventuality as an individualist one
@@WhyGodbythey mean leftist libertarianism not rightist libertarianism
@@WhyGodbysome anarchists use the term for themselves in a different meaning than the one you think
Respect to ANAL they seem to genuinely care about the homeless problem, I hope they keep doing what they do.
What about the people who own these houses? Now they can’t sell it. Maybe planned on waiting for a housing boom to then sell it. They’ve been forced to waste a lot of money because of these assholes.
@@dusk1234567890 oh boo hoo, some poor millionaires/billionaires are going to lose a bit of money, what a tragedy
@@dusk1234567890 fuck em. Do you expect me to care about them when there are people with no homes ?
@@dusk1234567890 of they could afford to have a building empty without renting it, then they are not in need of money.
"Respect to ANAL"
Screwing the rich and helping the needy at the same time.
I love everything about this
me too comrade ! :)
It doesn't even really screw the rich though, from no moral standpoint can this be bad. Even from stupid ones
@Anonymous Person Reactionary deserves the gulag
Anonymous Person why?
@Charlie Speary We hate the rich because the do shit like abandon their hotel-mansions for 6 months as people die from exposure out in front of them. Plus, no rich person was harmed in the making of this documentary. I'm assuming you're also a super rich, otherwise you'd be just another fucking loser like the rest of us 99%ers.
The problem is more people care about the rights of private property more than the rights of people.
MUH PRIVATE PROPERTY THAT I'LL NEVER VISIT THO
Private property and the rights of someone who owns it falls under the category of "people"
I find it strange that all these career squatters say it's their god given right to live on the earth for free when the bible don't say anything about combi boilers, electricity, plumbed water coming out a tap or needing to be 10 minutes from a train station. They are indeed correct about having a right to live on the land for free, but what they fail to realise is that "land" they don't mean a man made structure that cost many, MANY thousands to build and is entirely artificial. If they want to love for free they should build their own place or live in a tent on the commons.
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Rights for your own property is right for the people.
4,1 million homeless people and 11 million empty houses in europe! more people schould do this!!!
No because the homeless will just destroy those places and become homeless agian
Reality Bullshit.
Look what they did to this place in the video.
let homeless to your house every time you go on vacation. your house should not stay empty!
These houses aren't homes to their owners, they are just money generators. This isn't a place that someone will come home to from holiday and I reckon the owners have never even seen the place with their own eyes before.
Great work by the anarchists! Empty houses that are this big should all be used for the good of the community.
MasalaCult Agreed, comrade. ☭
Obviously people with more money have access to better education than some dude raised by drug addicts. If you can't see that the society shapes people IQ you might want to study more and raise your own before judging other people.
MasalaCult typical of you to piss on others property. ..
Personal property is different to private property. The owner of those properties only care about the money they get off of them, they are wasting possible homes to get rich.
Bornstellar377 they own the houses regardless - you either respect everyones rights or nones.
Expropriating private property and administering it to the proletariat.
Nice.
Zach Rodriguez indeed
jacob f very nice
jacob f and what do you believe
jacob f I never said you were, I just questioned the fact that you might be
jacob f you already answered that question
Vice, I think I'm speaking for a lot of people here, anyway I subscribed to this channel for the long 40 minute documentaries like this. Please, please bring them back
I subbed when vice wasnt sjw, they suck now
Thomas Dyson i unsubscribed from vice thank god after years of following it.. then it got bought out and turned full libtard garbage
Thomas Dyson they unfortunately moved from that to political crap and 5 min teasers and that you need to pay for them now .....
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yet I see your comments everywhere in this vice video comment section.
You have to pay for HBO to see them because capitalism is evil. /sarc
I know that in Texas if you squat in an empty/abandoned building for 6 months, you legally own it.
Texas is fucking great.
think my area is like 10 years of uncontested occupation
Good system lol
Loooool this is bullshit
it's ten years here in Colombia
Whenever I complain about our homelessness issues, people normally say that it's the homeless's fault fault for becoming druggies.
First of all, that is a massive generalisation.
Secondly, even if they are druggies, they deserve to be helped and not just left behind as insignificant and forgotten people left to live in the cold winters on the streets and what we have in place to help the homeless is simply not enough.
And thirdly, most people that become homeless come from a working class family which is struggling financially and possibly (but again not necessarily) also has background of drugs which would influence them into using and they would be unable to get help financially from their family because of the family situation.
And about my last point, there may not be quite as many rich upper class people that are into drugs, but there are still many and we wouldn't know about them because unlike people from working class families, they do get financial support from their families and don't end up being driven to homelessness.
The system we live in IS unfair and we really need to wtfu and tackle the issue. Knowledge is power and most people are so ignorant about the issue.
That said, perhaps many of them don't care because we are living in a country which elects the conservative party and will inevitably soon be run by that idiot Boris Johnson who seems to be more interested in cutting taxes on the rich than helping the homeless, or in fact as he promised - Adding funds to the NHS through money we gain from leaving the EU. And people still like him. So, actually we probably won't fix the homelessness issue. Unless as I said earlier, people wtfu.
I hate those social darwinists who are like "Oh, poor people are just lazy drug addicts".
Those idiots are making the problem worse by pushing the poor further away from society!
@@frocco7125 that's the nature of capitalism
@@Zen-rw2fz
Woke and breadpilled.
99% drugs 1% sit
@@frocco7125 Exactly.
A bunch of people who actually are doing something concrete for humanity. Rest of commenters here would rather lick the ass of the rich and get paid below the living wage.
Dee Rayolia exactly
Preach
The problem is, what these people are doing is only a temporary solution, and a bad one at that. They should be working to fix the economy, but they're anarchists, so they won't do anything inside the system.
nowhere are they damaging anything they need a warm dry place to live that's it
Don't be ignorant. Do you really think they leave the property without damaging anything?
At least there is one news outlet talking about the homeless crisis. In America I see abandoned buildings and homes all over the place, particularly in Chicago. The shelters are awful and military like was my experience when homeless which is why many choose to sleep on the streets. But hey, lets build a wall instead of tackling the homeless crisis and either fix up old buildings and building more and better shelters while cutting funding for mental health programs!
I hear you. I took a walk around my city, New Orleans today. So many homeless and starving people who are overjoyed just to get people's left over food. At least they are unlikely to freeze to death here (unlike Chicago!), but they still have to sleep on benches. And they sleep on those benches, surrounded by homes that people will use maybe 2 weeks of the year for Mardi Gras.
The wall will help stop the drug flow. So technically it will help with the homeless crisis, since most people who are homeless are on drugs.
The wall will temporarily help slow down the drug flow while causing more fear and division.
Drugs get into this country in many ways and on many shores. There is no wall that can stop our own corrupt forces like the CIA from bringing/allowing them in. Alcoholism is one of the biggest problems in the United States and booze is readily available nearly everywhere. We still allow advertising for it and can even be seen on giant digitized billboards when you drive even though drunk driving causes huge amounts of accidents. Addiction is essentially promoted!
Factor in the addiction to legal synthetic pharmaceutical opiates and psychiatric anxiety pills readily available in the United States and it gets much worst. People often combine them for an even bigger high. While all of this is occurring the budget for addiction and mental health programs have been drastically cut so people who want help cant even get it unless they go to AA or NA. All of these things contribute to the homeless crisis in America which is why they need addressed immediately before the money to build a wall is spent. “If we value life like we claim.”
Hardly anyone is talking about these issues in the political arena. What I mentioned is only scratching the surface and goes much deeper. Truth is, we create these problems by advertising and promoting them while not having a solid foundation to deal with the problems. Much more money to be made on addiction than curing it. These same forces capitalize on the illegal drug trade and mostly privatized prison system. They want us sick, depressed, unconscious and hardly able to function. It is a great way to influence and control people. Ultimately, we are talking about slavery through promoted legal addictions.
I recently wrote about some of the core problems in the United States you can find on my blog if you wish:
lucidvibration.blogspot.com/2017/01/does-trump-know.html
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Rising Sun I understand that the pharmaceutical industry has everyone addicted to drugs as well. I just don't see how securing our borders as a sovereign nation is going to cause fear and division? Most legal Mexicans I know are for the wall. More people just walk into the US than by boat. Most drugs from mexico go straight across the boarder by mules AKA illegals. This fear and division crap is fueled by the mainstream media by the false narratives they constantly push.
We do need a better way of securing our borders but I am not shure a wall is the best way to approach it with all the technological advances we have made. Walls ultimately fail and come down so why invest in another one particularly if the money is desperately needed to clean up our own backyard first?
If the goal is union a wall is not going to help. However maybe it is just wishful thinking on my part and we are not yet ready for that type of union. Might be another generation or two before something like that happens.
Same in Ireland; HUGE homelessness crisis, massive amounts of buildings in the heart of Dublin completely abandoned, owned by people who have office in the government... and a middle class who's incredibly shallow and sheltered and thinks it's a crime to occupy a building that's sitting abandoned so you don't die during winter.
This is the stuff I love to see.
Homelessness is more of an issue here than most people realise.
I'm glad you're shinning light on the problem & bringing it to the attention of the masses.
I was homeless for a period myself as a teenager & ended up squatting a small holding by myself.
I can tell you I slept with one eye open at all times. I feared for my safety most of the time & it was terrifying.
If Id have been part of a group or collective like this it would have been such a better situation.
For you
What about the people who built their life and riches from scratch
People like this are selfish
@@ninofromkitchennightmares1497 bootlicker
I'm surprised how many of the comments are condemning the homeless and calling them imoral for "stealing" when all their doing is trying to survive the night, you YOU, you should check your moral compass before telling the homeless to die on the street because you'd rather they didn't exist.
Roraigh Price So you're saying that the homeless and junkies deserve nice houses more than the people who worked hard and earned the money to buy them? No wonder there are so many a scumbags. People like you think they should have everything handed to them.
the people who worked hard? So you're suggesting that the workers seize the houses and take them away from bourgeois parasites?
So 100s of homeless people living in a mansion is your idea of a good time? seems like a prepped up soup kitchen to me
you know what i say to these poor fucks? i grew up piss poor now i'm making better money than most. I don't want to think i am better than these people but something in me must result in my success and something in them must result in their failure. These people may be like this because they are poor but i bet you if you offered any of them a $1million they would take it in a heartbeat and use a good portion of it on themselves.
they dont need to take someone's private property, nor does being needy justify taking it. they could easily break into a public building, a school or government building, or stain in a train station. instead they go into a privately owned home, who's family could be away on vacation or just being unlivable, and effectively put hard working people out of their home. what do you think happens if squatters take someone's home? the guy said, at 1:47; he assumed it was ''the owner trying to kick us out illegally", but that dude who owns the home, is now homeless; check your critical reasoning, making another person homeless doesnt solve homelessness, it makes the homeowner a few grand poorer and a long eviction process. dont look at these people as standing up to the government, they are robbing people of their homes
We carry a new world in our hearts, and that world is growing in this moment.
Absolute respect to these guys, not only pleasing their egos by doing this but also for fighting back against the spooks
nice to see a fellow egoist in these here parts :)
Hi there fellow egoist:)
Yeah! Another Egoist!
That’s just envy, and it leads nowhere but a Hellish dystopia. It never ends well when a government that doesn’t protect property rights, you ignorant petulant children…..
Stirner.
I actually really wanna join these people
Do it. What's stopping you?
Well, if you agree with their values, you can try and find someone like that.
Just try and stick to your principles. Some people who join political organizations like this end up getting radicalized.
It should be pretty easy to find groups like this near you online. I’m sure they try to have as much outreach as possible.
@jacob f Yes
@jacob f Thanks dude
I actually think what they're doing is really noble.
They primal objective its survival. Dont get fooled.
Really i think they are a bunch of arseholes
@@x3_2.0 then why do they target wealthy buildings u moron
No it’s stupid
@@iyousefq8684 because expensive buildings have much more space in them than cheaper ones.
I think this is great. Our government acts like it owes us nothing, but they are the ones we voted for to run our country. They owe us everything they can do to alleviate the struggling in Britain.
Not all heroes wear capes
I'd say housing the homeless and 'sticking it to the rich and bourgeoisie' is pretty heroic
Joel Schembri Hate to break it to you, but working for ANAL some of the hardest working people end up homeless, whilst many who own these houses simply pay other people to work hard for them and don't work an honest day in their lives. I've no sympathy for rich people who can afford more than one mansion, funnily enough
Joel Schembri So, you don't understand anything about how wage exploitation. Where there's riches, exploitation has come before. To become rich you have to exploit people. Period.
Joel Schembri They do have jobs. Alongside working for ANAL, and housing homeless people, they do have day jobs
Joel Schembri Also, it shows a tremendous ignorance, or bigotry, to think everyone who is homeless or unemployed is lazy
Solidarity to our comrades across the pond. Squat the world, mutual aid forever.
tolbiac comrades...commie scum detected
Commies are the most entitled people I have ever come across. Seriously if you want to live in communism go to the desert and make yourself a little fucking commune and see how far you get. But considering you have the G-man as your profile picture I imagine you like the computers, video games and other luxuries provided by living in a capitalist society.
He didn't make an argument, so neither did I.
indexHTML Hey bitter man. dont worry, everything will be fine :) shhh. I just want you too calm down, look at your paycheck and then ask yourself if you belong to the super rich. If no thrn shut the hell up and wake up out of your dream land and realise that we are also fighting for you. And please for god sake stop calling people communist who obviously are not jesus please have you never come near any politics lesson in school or was the cold war raging back then? Please go ahead and tell me why you hate 'communism' what I think you call all and every 'left' ideology.
I am not angry, funny I am not the one with the fist of revolution as my profile picture. You have proven my point about how entitled Commies and other brands of Socialists and Marxists are. If you are a factory worker you do not belong in the richest 1% or even top 25%. If you work your way up the business you can then be at the top, but if you are doing a job that pretty much anybody can do, you are not as valued as the programmer or CEO as they are much more specialized jobs that take years of experience or training. Capitalism isn't perfect but it gives us the most fairness (being people who have skills have more and lazy fuckers have less) yes you can point to the odd person like Nikola Tesla or your local genius who as been fucked over by bad luck. But in general Capitalism around the world has bread success and prosperity where as any time a Marxist-esque theory has been attempted it ultimately leads to lack of wealth, prosperity and massive amounts of poverty/starvation, not even mentioning the likelihood of genocide to happen like in the soviet union. But I guess that is #notrealcommunism
I don't support anarchy but boy do I respect these guys for improving the situation while governments every so often refuse to at least see problem
These people seem like great people but flying an ANTIFA today tends to not just say you are against fascism but you are a violent person who attacks political dissidents
Wow, fuckin galaxy brain levels of ideology there. You're either a fascist or some poor centrist fooled into following fascist talking points because I have not heard of a single case of any person identifying as ANTIFA attacking anyone who wasn't a fascist.
Plus they’ve got a mint name
Urethral Implosion if you’re against fascism you’re antifa if you’re just hurting random people then you’re much closer to being a fascist then antifa the only people antics tend to attack are fascists/neo nazis the idea of antifa is to defend tolerance by silencing the intolerant
@@sirrodney61 maybe it was different two years ago, but it's happened by now.
I was lower middle class, that's just above poverty in the states. I dont think people understand nearly 29 percent of people are one paycheck away from the street.
$8400 for yearly rent at 700 a month. let's say you make $23000 after electric, gas, water, food, gas for your car, cell phone, medical expenses, and medicine you would be lucky to be left with $4000 to $5000, you milage may vary.
But wait that's not all at once that's over 12 months which is about 333 to 416 a month.
What happens if In one month you need tires and another you need repairs for your car? What if that happens in the same month? I didn't even calculate in a social life.
It blows my mind how people blame the homeless for being homeless. Housing, rent, car, phone, utility and food costs are so fucking high it's the economic equivalent of a muscle head juicing. At what point is further gain flat out masterbation? 🤔
Bless them, they're doing good work.
When the law is unjust we are morally obligated to break it, respect to these fine upstanding law-breaking citizens!
Its fitting that the only people opposed to them doing good is the fascists and the police, those two have always been on the same side.
Such a dumb comment, just so dumb...
There's nothing unjust about trespassing laws.
Lmao so it’s “fascist” to not want random people living in the house you bought?
The law is corrupt
Okay communist go to China if you support this type of Radicalism so much
Just nationalize every single house
Keep up the hard work in speaking out against homelessness. Its artificially induced to provide maximum profits, while denying homes for working class people.
This is anarchism.
Popular language makes you think it's setting streets on fire.
They see us as terrorists who set streets on fire because it’s so unfathomable to them that the proper way to happier live is through not being held hostage by a government and society
@@isaacbenson1631 These are the same people who bomb children for money too.
@@ace-anarchy9324 what? Been watching to much fox news there bud.
@@exkdvs I don't watch Fox news, it's liberal propaganda, I'm saying the government who bombs innocent kids are bigger terrorists than Anarchists. If anything, the word "terrorism" is thrown around so much that it's lost its meaning.
@@ace-anarchy9324 oh i thought you meant anarchists did, were on the same page.
how can people be against squatting? it's not like the owners need the buildings (why would they let them be empty?) or that any noticeable damage is done to anyone's property. all anarchists do is breaking the law, and for most people it's just this fact which makes them have a negative opinion on them without even considering whether the laws that are broken are unjust or not. it's this dumb concept of property and state which is way too deep-seated in this society's collective brain.
jli136 Squatting laws can be abused though. For example let's say you and your family go on vacation for like a month, you come back and you find a squatter in your home, in some states you have to go through the full eviction process to get the squatter out, which can take months. plus squatters can do property damage.
If only this were true, the problem is that there is damage being done and the squatters have no idea what the situation is for the owner. I would have more respect for them if they chose other means to achieve the same goal, for example occupying government buildings or reaching out to property owners to get consent to use the building for homelessness charity work. As it stands they take what doesn't belong to them, decrease its value until the owner is forced to pay large sums to have them removed, rinse and repeat.
haha they tried that shit in cleveland oh at my home. 800k off the lake and i got 3 black dudes and 2 junkie bitches in my home sayin u need to evict. HUH i'm the resident and owner evict u what. so i kicked my back door in, 2 of my marine buddies ran to my basement where i had a hidden safe room behind my book shelf door. we went in and suited and booted like we were in iraq again. 2004 came RIGHT BACK . we ran up stairs and bam ar 762 in the big gang bangers face click clack IS THIS GOOD ENOUGH EVICTION. dont say a word or ill blow your head clean smooth off your shoulders as my 2 marines grabbed the other idiots and threw em out, then they watched as we burned all their unlawful property that was left. don't like it dont break in. thats what the cops told em. you don't have rights if you don't own it..
Let me rummage through your house, take all the shit that I think you're not going to use, bring it back in any condition i see fit. I swear I'll take care of it.
the people in the video are black bloc Ancoms (which stands for Anarchist-Communists)
when they "squat" they aren't squatting in empty abandoned building Ancoms don't believe in property ownership they instead believe that if you want to keep a particular building or dwelling secure you should hire security while you are away if not then they have a right to claim it
and yes that means that if you went away for say a week they feel they have the right to take control of your home and your belongings because you did not hire some one to protect it
Vice should not be encouraging this behavior
2:50 lmao what a quotable dude..
squatter myself, so what can i say, nice building u got there
Nice , from where ?
join em
help me im in need of a squat but dont know where to find and im alone...
Good insight, should have been longer.
I don't always agree with Antifas methods, but I can't deny that they are compassionate.
@jacob f
What do you mean?
This vid is literally about them protecting poor people in a shelter.
That's really empathetic of them.
jacob f As if these empty homes and they owners were doing anything about the homelessness epidemic in London? Oh wait, they aren’t, they’re the cause of it.
@jacob f When did material possessions become worth more than people's lives?
@jacob f well then i hope you know that youre just a shitty human being
Compassionnate my ass they are insane
Brilliant work. Would love our anarchist group in MAssachussetts to give it a go
Is ANAL also active in mASSachussetts?
@@frocco7125 i dont think so well there is for sure some antifascist or anarchist group in massachussetts which would probably help doin this that'd be great
@@frocco7125 you need o know that ANAL isnt probably an organization as you expect it you can join them you know but its not like a big organisation its more local some guys are calling themselves anal. but its not like an international group. or atleast i wouldnt know it.
Plenty do. They work alone bc MA is a police state. Too many trespassing charges if prosecuted can be a life sent in prison
"Squatting Mansions"? *IS SLAV MANSIONS?* (hardbass intensifies)
1:45 To all of you saying that it is illegal, squatting in commercial buildings in London is still legal, only residential buildings are illegal.
I know because I have done it in London earlier this year.
@Manuj Madan
It means that you live in a property without any permission/deed
Go anarchists!!!
VIVA ANARCHIA! THATS THE WAY COMRADE
Yes!
communists*
@@LOLgamerLOL I support all leftists. (Except for stalinists)
@@personperson4328 based
these people seem so wonderful :”) I’m so, so disgusted by the amount of empty mansions and shit in London (just outside myself and we have a similar problem where I am) it’s just so, so gross when there are so many people that need places to stay. Mad respect for ANAL. Brilliant name, too
Fuck fascists. These people are helping the homeless, they're legit heroes for their efforts. Respect.
Balsac Teabaghar hahahahaha cringe 😂
Noah Dancaster so breaking and entering is ok lol i dont think so
wouldn't say trump is a true fascist (economically he is) but his supporters are dumb enough to vote for someone who believes this fascist-like economy that we have. And they have a view on this social fascism where this nation has to be unique in a certain way. So trump supporters are the real nazis while trump is good at using them.
blesssed beats Yes breaking and entering is okay when the 'house' isn't being used 90% of the year yet millions of people are homeless. we have more housing space than homeless people
@@blesssedbeats6568So breaking the windows of another's building is alright?
The Scottish fella's eyes just looked so dead.
in scotland we all look that, i think its the weather
They make a good point. Buildings like that of that size, with that much room shouldn't be left empty, they could be used as shelter for the homeless people. But instead they just get left empty
Housing reform needed,until then let ANAL do their job
So if you owned a larger building and were away, you think that you should be mandated to fill it with people, otherwise it’s fair for people to break in an squat in it?
@@hickorysocks2628 yes. If I had that much wealth, I'd be donating it to help homeless. Just admit you hate the homeless and move on, it's all over your argument
@@matthewjones4423 Lol. I hate the homeless? I literally let a homeless person who suffered from mental illness live in my one bedroom apartment with me. Have you done that? Im sure you have a roof over your head right now, why don’t you let a homeless person stay there with you if you’re so much better than me? Oh you’re just waiting until you’re wealthy to give them shelter, then it will happen. Right…….
@@hickorysocks2628 probablly because I'm what's called sofa surfing, and maybe if I'm lucky I may finally get accepted for a flat...
So when you're done making assumptions about me, it'd be nice if you could stop being so negative about anyone's idea to help the homeless, if you care so god dam much about them.
People like you really need to stop trying to take the moral high ground, anytime someone thinks empty buildings like hotels should be used as housing to help the homeless.
You try and act like you're so much better, yet you're nothing but a negative narcistic 'im holyer than thou type'
Antifa's side people don't know about.
*the side the media doesn’t report on.
@Lê Sơn this isnt antifa though, antifa are separate from the Uk squatting groups
@Lê Sơn the have an antfaschiste aktion flag but many groups who associate with antifa are not antifa members - but youre correct american antifa just bash innocents most of the time
youareaspook no ones a member of antifa that’s not a thing and people squat buildings in the us too
@@imdead1922 wrong - there arent mny but there is actually a core group who organise this stuff - ever heard of aragorn?
EXCELLENT IDEA! here in the states it's VERY common for single families to own 5, 10 or 15 homes. they don't live in them. they're mainly just tax right-offs and they'll sit unoccupied for years, even decades. meanwhile we have families living out of their cars or in makeshift "tent" cities. I just moved from L. A. to a small rural town and BOTH places are inundated with empty stores and unused business property. this is what capitalism does - IT WASTES EVERYTHING! the elite would rather something go unused than to let it be used for free to help people. capitalism produces a throw away society. something breaks; its cheaper to throw it away and buy a new one rather than fix or upgrade the one you have. and the cost of everything you buy is 75% throw away packaging with no purpose other than to make it harder for those who can't afford it to take it without paying. but if anyone in the states tried to do what these british anarchists did SWAT Teams would invade and cordon off the area, surround the building and ATTACK!
Underrated comment
You understand the World , comrad
here's the problem, most homeless people aren't good-hearted people. If those who bought the houses opted to let the homeless live there, most likely the homeless individual(s) would trash the house. And it's not like the houses did nothing. the house provided jobs for building it, provided jobs to keep it in good maintenance, provided shelter for people who rented the house, etc
@@nhoe9288 bash
Ik it's illegal according to the law, but considering the government doesn't want to tax the rich like everyone else ie middle and lower class and doesnt care about homelessness, i changed my mind.
I've just became an Anarchist this year, and these guys have common sense and pure of heart.
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What's crazy is that this kinda thing is happening across the world. Rich people are driving up the cost of rent and homelessness is exploding. It's all over the US.
and all over the world
A libertarian that don't respect private property?
Renan Cunha they're pseudo-libertarian
Renan Cunha Tudo soça
Only right-wing libertarians believe in property. Left-libertarians think that property is theft, and we need to steal it back and give it to everybody.
Ever heard of Robin Hood? Great guy. Awesome guy.
look up the distinction between private and personal property to understand where anarchists are coming from. they believe in the abolishment of private property, but personal property is different.
christophercantwell.com/2014/04/18/libertarianism-brief-introduction/
Great work, comrades! Antifascist greetings from Austria :)
Sorry your "Comrade" slogan is the same term usrd by communists that commited mass genocides. Greetings fron your victims.
@@techguy5302 "Comrade" Is not only a thing for Communism.
@@techguy5302 when the aboriginals seized my fentanyl factory i was forced to flee my country :(
Sneg Mann You and your people are fucking pussies
Greetungs from Austria as well!
fight the good fight my friends
Fuck yea Direct Action!
Ice Cream Socialism illegal *
shot in the face in America *
Steadly Not really. Squatting is easy as fuck in America. Abandoned houses are everywhere and no one REALLY cares enough to seach them. That, and if anyone tries to shoot them, they know how to fight back.
CrackedLogic Politics real hobos in abandoned crack house vs butthurt rich white commie kids squatting in a mansion.
@@sassycassgames3158 true but I wouldn’t do it since I already have a house and good rent
Point blank, if you can afford 17 million dollar home, you can afford the securities and provisions needed to be taken to protect it lmaoo. Also, you can't be shocked when somebody is putting your waste to use. There is NO way it is justified to have multiple homes in which you do not put to use, so much excess, when there are people who have nothing and trying to find a means of survival that the system (more often than not) does not provide. Even people who work their asses off! How is it that intensive labor isn't rewarded in the same way that the "work" of the Kardashians would be? People who do nothing have everything, and people who do everything have nothing. This movement is completely justified, in fact, necessary!
God forbid people travel a lot and can’t stay in one place to avoid having it destroyed by squatters. Maybe some owners don’t have the funds to renovate a place yet. Maybe they had money when they bought it but no longer do. There are plenty of reasons why a building would be empty for extended periods of time. None justify having it stolen and destroyed by a bunch of entitled brats and junkies. Squatting wouldn’t be anywhere near as bad a problem if they didn’t destroy the buildings. Want an emergency place to stay? Fine. Stay the night and leave. But why cause damage? Envy? Resentment? Entitlement? Blaming the players not the game?
Put a tax on uninhabbited buildings or a Land Tax. Make the rich pay for their second inner city holiday mansion.
It should be illegal to even own more than a single house. It’s disgusting. Why would someone require a house they don’t even use.
@@t.c.6920 To rent out it helps people who can't actually afford the house to have somewhere to stay or for people that come to the country for long periods of time to work
Tom Jessop No it doesn’t. Rent is extremely expensive. The bourgeois steal are hard earned money
@@t.c.6920 Well it depends where you live as some cities aren't as expensive as others
Tom Coates ok commie
My type of people!
retarded people?
Север the welder, *Look at me I am a dumb fuck afraid of books*
If they damage the property then they can be beaten out the front door. I hate squatting but at least not fuck anything up while you're freeloading.
+pedro 2560
Implying that Antifa members have ever read a single book.
+NachT Aktiv
So it's morally right to steal from someone? I'm sorry but there is no excuse for being parasite.
Those people are dying because of their own decisions. Aka decided to use drugs and alcohol in excess. Most of them have low IQ and are even violent. Only rare are good individuals who simply suffer from depression.
They are not homeless because of those rich people, therefore you have no right to steal or harm them.
The people on here commenting about this being wrong don't understand what's wrong with this outdated zombie-led system...
Love Kiosk And I bet you've read The Conquest of Bread, Mutual Aid, The Ego and Its Own and many other pieces of Anarchist literature.
Yeah totally fine to destroy and vandalize something, others worked for...
I'm guessing you never had to fear where you slept next, eh? Sometimes it's really hard to save money for rent in London, hardly to pay off your first house deposit when you're paying most of your money for rent. Squatting can be a great way to save money and get yourself together again. Not to mention the lovely people you meet there!
@@gergana5634 Those lovely people seemed very violent to me..
Marco
Becuase communism worked out SO great
Yeah, some people are poor and in need of help
But breaking the law isn't going to help
Letting in more refugees should fix the homeless problem.
we can afford to house these people and about a million fucking more if the rich would pay their fucking taxes, and money was allocated by a fair system of government. Why would you kick down and the weak and powerless when the people to blame are at the top?
Sean Warmington why bring more refugees into a country that cant even help its own people living on the streets?
Sean Warmington SOCIAL JUSTICE WARRIOR
This right here
Sean do your research on what would happen if you took all the 1%s money, it wouldnt even make a dent, didnt you watch bernie get destoyed by cruz the other say?
Jeff bezass has decided to not end world hunger today
I'm so fucking happy that are People like him who are helping the homeless. But looking at the comments section is really upsetting. Why do so many people care about the rich and they big unused House's over the homeless. And I've seen so fucking many people demonize the homeless and say awful shit about them, they are real people who need help and anyone can become homeless for any reason so stop shit talking and looking down on the homeless because its fucking awful.
Full support from France.
When the buildings owner is an absentee oligarch Qatari general... it's kind of hard to argue against these people occupying the building to prevent homelessness
Tbh not too sure it is, it’s someone’s house & you’re breaking in and letting homeless people trash it, it’s rude af & I’m by no means rich
@@bz.27k15 is it the generals house though, I mean the dude doesn’t even live in it.
For him it’s just a way to make money by exploiting the housing market.
@@bz.27k15 If you don't ever live at the home, you're just an ass buying up land so people who need it can't have it. The anarchists are helping people who need help, the rich jerk can go live at one of their other mansions and suck it up.
@@bz.27k15 yeah it's so rude of the homeless to want to seek shelter! i'm sure the owner of the building lived there daily before they broke in!!!1!
@@dingusmyers Being homeless doesn’t give you automatic rights to break into someone’s property just because they aren’t currently using it 😂😂 what happens when the owner comes home with their family & there’s 30 people living in there and they’ve ruined their carpet & every other thing they’ve paid for.
We need a social housing revolution. Homelessness is utterly disgusting
God bless the homeless all over the world , take care Rita rose from the north
Totally justified. If the government won’t provide for its people and encourage foreign investment for more money, then anarchy will ensue until a system is in place that provides for the basic needs of a human - food, shelter, community, love, strong and wise leadership, involvement in community issues, security, support, stimulating work, a balance of work and community/family life, and a sense of liberty. These are basic needs if an atmosphere of realising potential is to be created.
Continuing with the greed-fuelled plutocracy will create pandemics of depression, poverty, abuse, suicides etc. The rich people are equally depressed and tend to have poorer family and community environments. Wealth is isolating. Stop chasing it.
I heard about people like this and have always supported them and those who did it in Australia in the 90s
These guys are metal as hell. Props.
Absolute legends!
This makes me so happy! !!!! ❤❤❤❤❤
So awesome! Do more documentaries on Anarchists 🏴💚 and Antifas 💚🏴
@@ashesfromtheheavens3716 Yet funny enough,m Vice is fake news and is a far left communust site funded by comunism. Your fake nees failed.
Yes you love terrrosits and ansrchists which have commited and caused mass genocide in most countrys!
@@ashesfromtheheavens3716 Yes this is alt left propoganda. A communist who online has said kill trump supporters and that gender dosent exist are alt left genocidal ideals opposed by orwell. Sorry but my siblings were ones and i know more than you ever woll about your terrorist "Comrade" cult.
@@techguy5302 Orwell was a socialist
Tech Guy so basically you see one person who is a leftist and wants to kill a rapist homophobe tyrant and instantly believe that all leftists are bad I’m an anarchist myself with plans of helping with squats or joining communes I don’t want to hurt no one I want to help the people around me not dying under a flawed capitalist system
I love this ✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 🏴🚩
great idea!!!! im glad they figured it out because being homeless while greedy millionaires sit in there 10 houses is just sick. i live on my moms couch for years i would rather die than sleep another day on her couch
unfathomably based
Based
Squatters rights now ✊🏽Land to serve a social function
no ❤
knowing how well brown people run countries, i don't think anyone should be listening to your political opinions
Thats fucking amazing! Super smart way to have a real impact on the world without having big cash. Those persons are really changing the situations of a lot of peoples. Seriously, thats straight heroism
Huh?
@@jeanniemaycrawford4466 Man, for someone who acts like they understand the complex corporate world and social woes, you really seem like you're having a hard time understanding something that's super basic...
Everybody should have the right to sleep under a roof, I respect what they're doing because like he said it's really sad to see such large empty buildings while there is so much homeless people in the street.
Hit close to home because I was homeless for a part of my life, hope these guys go far!
I will admit that the situation is much different from anywhere else. Basically 300 landlords own almost the own country. Even local parks get privatized in the UK but still this isnt the solution.
What is the solution?
People of the isles keeping it real as usual!
Red salute from the continent!
I'm glad people are using these empty buildings. I hope they respect the property, and can't believe that group of people who smashed the windows. 🤦🏼♀️🤷🏼♀️
So brave. So revolutionary. I've come from the very bottom, I've spent seven years in state prisons and a few more years added up in various county jails. I got out with a bit over one grand after saving my "state draw", the money you get from working in prison which is anywhere between 17 and 50 cents an hour. The last three years in prison I didn't speak to a single person on the outside. When I got out I didn't have any network of people that could help me. Not many years later I had a house and three decent cars that were paid for. I'm not college educated and I have nineteen felonies, all thefts. I also had no marketable skills either. Oh and I've got PTSD from being sexually and physically abused for years when I wqs a child So I'd love to know how it is I managed to "make it" while tons of other people spend years or decades being homeless. Outside of someone who has schizophrenia please give me an example of someone who remains homeless for years and has a worse story than me. Yes there are a few people who through no fault of their own who become and remain homeless, but the vast majority of them put themselves there and refuse to do what it takes to get off thw streets. For the few truly blameless I give my sympathy. For the rest I have none. Don't think I haven't battled drug addiction either. I've been physically addicted to opiates. I know full well thry hell of being dope sick. There's really nothing anyone who is homeless can tell me as an excuse as to why they've been homeless for years. These idiots "combatting homelessness", well, they're just idiots. Squatting isn't doing anything at all. If you're doing that you're a jackass.
For the love of god someone please start doing this in LA.
I'm pretty there is someone
These guys are doing amazing work. They should start a daily/weekly video blog on TH-cam.
This is a horrendous solution!! The homeless need a house, of course; the government and society need a solution for them!! BUT is the solution for a drug addict to find an empty mansion to the sleepover and not get treatment for his drug addiction which is the core of the problem? Who pays the rent and the taxes of all the mansions appropriated for these anarchist groups?
It blows my mind that this is the solution of mercy that they're getting in London!!!!!!! Solutions must come from the core of the problem and not overtaking other people's rights and properties!!!!
I can not believe the world that I'm witnessing today!!! It's too easy to be merciful to homeless people, occupying empty buildings from somebody else!!!
Either the British government pays for the taxes of those buildings or this can not be an existent situation, because the property must be paid to be occupied.
I'm sorry, I'm not involved with the real London problem on this issue. This is only my humble opinion. London, a beautiful city!!!
It's not fascist thinking that people from London won't be happy about this solution of expropriating mansion for homeless occupation!!! This is not a fascist way of thinking!!! This is the way the world works in this part of the Western societies!!! not fascist thinking!!!!
There must be other solutions for homeless people that are not definitely a patch solution of sleeping in empty mansions belonging to other people.
A suggestion would be: these guys getting buildings to be occupied for homeless individuals, should work hard to pay for all those taxes that they're expropriating from owners or not owners, but handle title of properties; revenues are collected for the good of all society, ( at least that's the original intention before the corruption of the State) even if mansions are empty. Occupying other people's properties for homeless, diminish the rights of the rest of society. It's not a solution to the problem!!!!! Anarchism doesn't get core solutions, solutions come from people with a planned strategy to get solutions in the name of all participants of society.
Not paying taxes will result in more poverty for regular working-class people, the millionaires won't be affected, they have enough in London, all the rest of the population will become homeless too!!!! including these benefactor guys in London!! My humble opinion here.
Amazing people, inspiring.
How is this inspiring?
There's definitely more than 4,134 rough sleepers
I always imagined I would do this if I ever ended up homeless.
I can easily join the movement. I do feel that government taking piss all the time and no matter how hard I work , how many hours or how many jobs at the same time, it is always ending up same or worse... I am tired of the bullshit
I have started something called the Eco-Socialist Organisation, and have made a Discord server, would you be interested in joining the server?
@@rickdingenenzo not using discord mate
@@KainisDarc okay
Anarchists are awesome tbh.
Eris Lecter Uhh no.
Eris Lecter Trumped Up millennial pricks who ruin our society!
Stan Robinsom Society is fucked and dont pretend it is not. Anarchists are the ones trying to defeat oppression, the corrupt and control for a better life for us all
With Anarchism you would have nothing. Anarchist is just a fancy word for little pests who make trouble for the real big players. Nothing more.
Unlimitedpower its mostly people who want change in a corrupt system
The only thing more sad for society the recently empty buildings are empty buildings so long abandoned that they are unsafe to live in such as rotting wood.
We are doing the same thing here in Ireland 🇮🇪
Anarchism is beautiful.
why do so many people think like this. its illogical and almost everyone would hate it in reality.
@@Isaac-iv2kl lol except all of nature is an ecosystem of different anarchist economics.
@@shawn8847 i’m not sure if this was an actual argument for anarchism. i’ll assume it wasn’t as to not insult your intelligence.
@@Isaac-iv2kl Open-source software is a form of anarchist organization. Lol.
@@shawn8847 ok cool?
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Yellow people?
@@Supernimo735Martians in the future will have yellowish-orange to adapt to the low sunlight exposure. So, yes.
@@somerandommenno they'd just get cancer from the UV light and all the dust on Mars
Cool guys. Respect for their doing!
respect for breaking into a property and being a parasite?
@@marcl3763 yeah the people taking the problem of homelessness into their own hands are definitely the parasites, not the 1%
@@marcl3763 I don't see parasites. I see folk trying to survive and give others a hand.
Respect to these people, making the world a better place and loving the Sea Shepherd jumper
Yes better place for promoting genocide and communism!
Tech Guy when you don’t know what communism is so you call every leftist movement communism
@@techguy5302 That isn't communism