- Blitz (movement)
Blitz is an anarchist, communist and socialist youth community in
Oslo ,Norway , founded in 1982. [cite web | url = http://www.dagbladet.no/nyheter/2007/04/27/498992.html | title = Politiet stormet Blitz-huset | publisher = Dagbladet | author = Ralf Lofstad, Harald S. Klungetveit, Øistein Norum Monsen
date = 2007-04-27 | accessdate = 2007-04-28] The group has often been criticized for their use of violent methods of political protest. [cite web | url = http://www.dagbladet.no/nyheter/2007/04/27/499063.html | title = -Ser ikke forskjell på Blitz og nynazister | publisher = Dagbladet | author = Eiliv Frich Flydal
date = 2007-04-27 | accessdate = 2007-04-28]During the 1980s the people around Blitz were involved in many violent demonstrations, e.g. during the visits of the British prime minister
Margaret Thatcher in 1986 and US Secretary of StateCaspar Weinberger in 1987.cite web | url = http://www.liberaleren.no/arkiv/001778.php | title = Ensidig om Blitz | publisher = Liberalen | author = Per Aage Pleym Christensen | date = 2004-11-14 | accessdate = 2007-04-28] The demonstrations turned into street battles between Blitz sympathisers and thepolice . During the 1990s Blitz often obstructed legal meetings of right-wing political parties such as the Progress Party, the minor Patriotic Party andDemokratene .The house
The Blitz House (Norwegian: Blitzhuset) is an autonomous house in the centre of
Oslo ,Norway . It started out as a squatted building in Skippergata 6 in downtown Oslo in the 1981 and has since been a centre ofsocialist ,communist andanarchist activism. [cite web | url = http://www.blitz.no/info/historie.html | title = Historien om Blitz | publisher = Blitz | accessdate = 2007-04-28]In 1982 the movement were kicked out of Skippergata and moved in to Pilestredet 30C, where an agreement was made between the city and the squatters. They were allowed to rent the house for a symbolic rent, and in return they would maintain the building. In 2002 the city council, then led by the Conservative Party, put the Blitz house on sale. The activists responded with a massive action and, among other things, battered the entrance part of the
Oslo City Hall , and the sale was stopped. [cite web | url = http://oslopuls.no/nyheter/article1677338.ece | title = Lang strid: Blitz år for år | publisher = Aftenposten | date = 2007-03-07 | accessdate = 2007-04-28]Among the activities of the house are a bookshop with political literature, the Anti Fascist Action (AFA) network, a group supporting
Mumia Abu-Jamal , afeminist group, aChildren's Power group, a non-profit printing office, a photo group and a feminist radio station,radiOrakel . Blitz also has a café specialised in vegan food. The practice rooms, sound studio and concert facilities are a centre forska , hardcore andhip hop music . Multiple concerts are held within the house from time to time, and the price for entrance to these shows is NOK 50. [cite web | url = http://www.blitz.no/ | title = Blitz (home page) | publisher = Blitz | accessdate = 2007-04-28]See also
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Autonomism
*Social centres
*Squatting
*Ungdomshuset References
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