The Anti-Fascist Nuclear Bunker Under Amsterdam You Didn’t Know Existed

Now, isn't that a grabber of a title?

For those of you new to anarchism, you must know that squatting empty buildings has long been the thing to do.

Why pay with wages from a slave job when you can squat an unused building?

It's a no brainer, to me.

By Andrew Neef, Unicorn Riot
September 13, 2019
Amsterdam, Netherlands

An old nuclear bunker, hidden underneath Vondelpark in the city center of Amsterdam, has been transformed into a shelter for independent culture.

In 2019, a collective of volunteers maintain the Vondelbunker as a meeting space to sustain and explore counter-culture activities.
The bunker hosts a variety of events within its walls, from yoga, art shows and concerts, to film screenings, underground BDSM shows, and a “Kontra Bar” where visitors can enjoy a coffee and converse with the friendly staff.
The bunker now also has a craft brewery called “Bunkerbier", but don’t bother searching this fallout shelter for bottle caps because Bunkerbier uses aluminum pull tabs.

To fully understand how this unique cultural center came to exist, you have to understand the history of Vondelpark, the Cold-War, and the squatters movement in Amsterdam.

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It took me some time to get over the biases fed to me by the economic overlords that controlled my indoctrination.

Living under a bridge is much better when it is a building, instead.

Life itself may be more dangerous because the powers that rule us by force only protect their good little slaves, but if you want to know freedom, you will need to spend some time in a squat.

If you haven't experienced life outside the wage slave paradigm, if you have always had the monthly rent, you don't know what it is like to be down and to continue to get kicked.

If you have never missed a meal because you have always been able to maintain employment, then you have no idea how hard it is to gain traction in a world that has turned its nose up at you.

Once you cross the rubicon of living outside the norm, the normies can spot it on you.
They know that you are not normal.
It is written all over you.

Well, join us down at the squat, dear reader, what we lack in accommodations we more than make up for in camaraderie.

You can see what a competitive world has given us.
Forever wars, child 'protective' services, taxes out the wazoo.
Bums on the street corners.

What is to love?