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Following the death of the owner in 2002, the city of Nijmegen bought the building and a legalisation process began. Negotiations were made between the occupiers and a housing corporation, Standvast Wonen. The squatters therefore became renters and the renovations were completed in 2009.
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In 2018, an extreme right group was offended by the Grote Broek organising a 'Refugees Welcome' picnic. The group demonstrated for the closure of the centre, which they termed "a violent breeding ground for extreme leftism".
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The building was first used by two newspapers, the Provinciale Geldersche and the Nijmeegsche Courant. Afterwards it was a furniture shop before becoming derelict in the 1980s.
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and has entrances on both Van Broeckhuysenstraat and Tweede Walstraat. The project consists of two separate housing co-operatives living above a cafe on one side and
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The cafe is called De Klinker and serves vegan food. It actually began in another squat in the 1970s. There is also an anarchist library called De Zwarte Uil (
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because the previous day she had been at a demonstration in Amsterdam and had sung "If you want to shoot Thierry dead say pow!" (
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In 2019, someone was arrested near the Grote Broek and charged with making a death threat against politician
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In the same time period there were also scuffles outside the Grote Broek between right wing supporters of
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in the Netherlands. It was occupied in 1984 and legalised from 2002 onwards. It spans two sides of a
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and a music venue on the other. Groups with shared political objectives are hosted at the centre.
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The Grote Broek celebrated 30 years of existence in November 2014.
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PhD: Punk Lives: Contesting Boundaries in the Dutch Punk Scene
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on November 4, 1984. At first it was called De Grote Karel (
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Depiction of building
Coordinates
51°50′38″N 5°51′58″E / 51.8438°N 5.8660°E / 51.8438; 5.8660
grotebroek.nl
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squat
self-managed social centre
Nijmegen
city block
Extrapool
squatted
English
Louis Sévèke
English
English
Extrapool
artist-run initiative
Anarchist Black Cross
Zwarte Piet
Thierry Baudet
Dutch
Landbouwbelang
Vrankrijk
Vrijplaats Koppenhinksteeg
Anarchism in the Netherlands


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