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June 17, 2013 01:16 pm PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/N5liGY5MHbE/story01.htm
Life imitates art: Swiss police brutally crack down on squatters who inhabit fake "artfavela"
Richard sez, "The Swiss riot police have taken a page out of the Turkish authorities' book. After occupiers ('critics'?) responded to the 'irony' of Tadashi Kawamata's cafe/boutique in the form of a favela by occupying it, moving in and throwing a down-home favela house party, the Swiss police forcibly evicted them from the art installation using real, unironic tear gas and batons." Polizei rumt Favelabesetzung auf dem MesseplatzOriginal Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/N5liGY5MHbE/story01.htm
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