NIEUWE NIEUWSMARKT, initiated by Werker Collective
talks on JAJAJANEENEENEE from 5—7pm, launch and drinks at San Serriffe from 7—9pm
Saturday May 25, 7pm
tune in for talks on JAJAJANEENEENEE from 5—7pm
drop by for launch and drinks at San Serriffe from 7—9pm
Nieuwe Nieuwsmarkt (NNM) is a biannual magazine for, about, and from the Nieuwmarkt neighbourhood. NNM is an initiative of Werker Collective and aims to address urgent matters affecting our lives in Amsterdam. By presenting stories, documents, and photos from both the past and the present, we create space for new collective actions.
NNM takes its name from Nieuwsmarkt, a bulletin issued between 1971 and 1972 by the Action Group Nieuwmarkt in protest against the municipality’s plans to demolish the Nieuwmarkt and Lastage neighbourhoods to build a highway and metro line.
In this first issue of NNM, we tackle the HOUSING STRUGGLE! We live in times where access to housing is becoming increasingly difficult in Amsterdam. Social housing is being sold to the private sector, while the waiting list for social housing is absurdly long and unbearable. Apartments for students and artists are scarce and unaffordable. After a 4.1% increase in 2023, rents will rise again by 5.5% in 2024. According to the International Rent Index, as of April 2024, Amsterdam is the most expensive city in the EU to rent an apartment, studio, or room. While many buildings remain empty, the law protecting the right to housing over property was abolished in 2010, and squatting was criminalised.
Nieuwe Nieuwsmarkt 1: HOUSING STRUGGLE pays tribute to the original Nieuwsmarkt bulletin. How did citizens of the past resist homelessness and speculation in Amsterdam? What resources does the new generation of Amsterdammers have? This first edition includes, among other things, a fold-out poster by Experimental Jetset (EJ) featuring 8 contact sheets
by Rob Stolk, father of Marieke Stolk of EJ. Ex-Provo Rob Stolk was an active member of the Nieuwmarkt Action Group, and with Buro De Kraker (founded by him
in 1969) responsible for the press, and the printing
of the original Nieuwsmarkt bulletins in the 1970s.
And it also includes the shortest squatting manual
by Spookstad and housing crisis testimonies from Amsterdammers.
NNM can be seen as a toolkit to thoroughly remodel the neoliberalism that has sold our city. NNM is for all Amsterdammers who collectively want to create
a more caring, diverse, fair, and sustainable city.
!!! WE DEMAND AFFORDABLE HOUSING FOR EVERYONE !!!
NNM is edited by Femke Dekker (Loma Doom) with Werker, and designed by Hasan Halilov with Werker.
Nieuwenieuwsmarkt.online