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Report - Illegal broadcasts 14/12/1981

from Stukken betreffende de acties van krakers, waaronder illegale radio-activiteiten, in het gekraakte pand Het Poortgebouw Link in city archive

This report is written by the Rotterdam police and features a summary of the illegal radio broadcasts from the Poortgebouw on 14/12/1981. It mentions that the broadcast is live every monday from 17:00 till 00:00. The summary in the documents is based on a 7 hour recording on tapes. According to the Police the leader of the illegal broadcasts was J. Vooys ("known to the police").

Programs

• Radio Rotterdien 17:00 - 18:00

Program about emancipation and women's rights

• Radio Orange 18:00 - 19:30

A part was about Poland, and people were asked to support a protest meeting in the community centre. All left-wing political parties were invited, apart from the Labour Party. It was considered to right-wing.

• Radio P.D.K. (Political Military Service Refusal Collective) 19:30-21:00

Program about people imprisoned for refusing military service, including an interview with one of them

• A.K.D. (Anti Nuclear Movement Dodewaard) 21:05 - till...

Programs about people that were caught by the police during a protest in Dodewaard, and protests in Germany and Belgium. Call for protest during the courtcases of these people.

• Radio Junkie Bond

Program about police actions to find drugs in prisons. Interview with a prisoner about the actions of the police, including breaking furniture, throwing clothes of prisoners on jam and coffee. Interview with the prison director.

• Basta 81

Program from other squatting community. Tips and tricks for sabotage of eviction by the police. Call for protest, doing false calls to the police about riots in far a way places. Call to join the protest in Rotterdam against police violence. March from the Municipal theatre to the Poortgebouw.

• De vrije gek (The free idiot)

Program about a forum evening in a hospital, which was stopped because of a protest.

Copy of stencils from the Poortgebouw These stencils were distributed to inhabitants of Rotterdam. Announcement of the illegal radio broadcasts. Mentioning the frequency (104 mhz) and the times. Instructions to send your own programs are provided, using casette tapes. The author recommends to use both music and speech in the recordings, to make an entertaining programme. Then there is a call to donate to the radio station.

- Document with tips to get the best reception

Report - Illegal broadcasts 01/02/1982

from Stukken betreffende de acties van krakers, waaronder illegale radio-activiteiten, in het gekraakte pand Het Poortgebouw [ http://collecties.stadsarchief.rotterdam.nl/publiek/detail.aspx?xmldescid=175762949&tag=&view=lijst&volgnummer=0&positie=13&beschrijvingssoort=157879164%20162266950&doc_beschrijvingssoort=157879164&a_z=%255BARGS_PLACEHOLDER%255D Link in city archive]

This report is written by the Rotterdam police and features a summary of the illegal radio broadcasts from the Poortgebouw on 01/02/1982. It is based on a 4-hour recording. It states that Radio Orange is hosting the channel and other organisations get space on the station to broadcast there messages.

Programs

- 1- Radio Rotterdien 17:00 - 18:00 Program about emancipation and women's rights.

- 2- Radio Orange 18:00 - 18:20 A 20 minute recording from the El Salvador Comittee in Rotterdam. It features their goals and a call to donate to the committee. Next to that it announced an activity to protest the interventionist politics of the USA in Central America. It ends with the announcement that the committee will return on the radio station in the future.

- 3 - Radio P.D.K. (Political Military Service Refusal Collective) Various items, like an interview with a person working at the Dutch Secret Service (BVD, a recap of the PMC exhibition, suggesting that the army would be active in stopping social unrest in the Netherlands. Different ocassions of military action against squatters is mentioned.

- 4 - De vrije gek (The free idiot) In this programma the presenters unveil a plan for a 'Wegloophuis', a place that offers shelter to people who ran away from pshyciatric clinics.

Report - Illegal broadcasts 08/02/1982

from Stukken betreffende de acties van krakers, waaronder illegale radio-activiteiten, in het gekraakte pand Het Poortgebouw Link in city archive

This report is written by the Rotterdam police and features a summary of the illegal radio broadcasts from the Poortgebouw on 08/02/1982. It is based on a 5-hour recording. It mentions that multiple times there was a call to send your own radio programs to the P.O. Box of the station, to have them played on the station. Measurements of the strength of the signal performed by the police, indicated that the Poortgebouw was the source of the radio signal.

- 1- Radio Rotterdien Unlike other times, there was only music this time.

- 2 - Radio P.D.K. (Political Military Service Refusal Collective) A programme featuring an interview with Joost Duinhof, who got a 18 month prison sentence for refusing military service. After the interview the new issue of the magazine of military service refusers "Camouflage" is discussed. A squatter called Luc talks with a person from the neighbourhood community Heemraadssingel and it is suggested that this person wanted to use a group of thugs against the squatters. Another topic was infiltration in squatting communities by the secret service. A person called "N" is interviewed about burglars who got into his room and nothing was stolen, although folders with documents were opened.

- 3 - Radio Het Oude Noorden Programme about the activities of a group of squatters in the North of Rotterdam

- 4 - Radio Orange A program with pop music, after that a recording of a court case against an illegal radio station. The quality of the recording was so bad that the police couldn't understand anything.