Der Brunnenplatz in der Hustadt soll schöner werden

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Ruhr.2010
22.2.2010

Petition for the water and the electricity in the Community Pavilion

Aktionsteam organised signing a petition for water and electricity in the Community Pavilion to hand in to the City of Bochum. The City was namely trying to spare money by sizing down the project as much as possible. However, we believed that water and electricity were essential for the successful functioning of the Community Pavilion in the future. This action provoked the city to organise an extraordinary meeting in SUB for all the people involved and take a decision about this matter. After a long negotiation we managed to persuade the City to plan the installation of water and electricity within the Community Pavilion. Another major victory for us.

”Happy New Beginning” – invited public event

”Happy New Beginning” – invited public event My idea at this point was to take a step back and participate at the Aktionsteam meetings as a regular member of the group not leading the meetings as I had been doing till now. That was also what we agreed upon: UmQ with Philipp Unger and some other people should take over the responsibility for organising actions around and for the Community Pavilion. I was delegated to take care of extra funding since we would have to finish a great deal of the building ourselves. The “Happy New Beginning” was therefore a small symbolic gesture: I was handing over the project to Aktionsteam and people who wanted to work with the project in the future. We were celebrating our victory that we managed to get permission to build the Community Pavilion in Hustadt. Therefore I organised an event were everybody who had worked with me in the last year and a half could select and take a few photos from my documentation collection of the Hustadt Project as a memento. However, the project was not yet finished or even close to the end. I stayed in Hustadt for almost another 2 years. Meanwhile the City Administration had sent to Querenburg Ms. Gullan from “Ordnungamt”, the office that takes care of order and safety, clean streets and engaging citizens. She organised a group of people who named themselves “Kümmererteam”, which was an interesting initiative after the Aktionsteam. A lot of the same people were involved, but only Germans again.