Since a couple of weeks there are some rumors regarding the date of an eviction and the dismantling of our house. First: We are not evicted yet🎉
There are new informations coming every day but this is what we know so far:
1. The complaints are still being dealt with. If the Kommune sticks to their decision the complaints will be forwarded to the statsforvalter.
2. On the 11.08. the Kommune asked the police again to help with an eviction.
Those are the points we know for sure are true. We are working on confirming more information regarding the situation.
We don’t have a concrete date of eviction but the Kommune is clearly working towards our eviction. Also, the contractor can chooose to demolish our house at their own risk at any time. Lets make sure that they dont take that risk! Support the AFS with organising actions and demonstrations at the demolition companies offices. If you need more info for this, please contact us.
Other things you can do is to Print and wheatpaste flyers, tag the cities (especially oslo) with knus krigsmaskinen, organise infotalks, fundraising events and come to the valley (its beautiful!!).
Of course you are also welcome to come around and help us prepare for an eviction and building up the resistance!
What is the signal light system? The signal light system is used to give people an easy impression on the danger of the AFS being evicted or not. Further, the meaning of the colors will be explained:
🟢GREEN: There is no danger of the AFS getting evicted. Neither Asker Kommune nor the police infomed us that they want to evict us.
🟡YELLOW: Asker Kommune and/or the police wants to evict us. There are still ongoing legal processes. There is no eviction notice/date of eviction yet. Please be aware that the situation can change within a day and the signal light can change to RED quickly.
🔴RED: There is an eviction notice, OR all legal processes of putting the eviction/destruction of our house on hold are finished. There might be an explicit date of eviction but not neccessarily.
This Saturday, August 15th at 18:00 there will be the panel discussion Compost the Colony hosted at Rosa Bøker in Oslo. Find more info about the event here.
We stand in Solidarity with the Ulm 5! For taking direct action against Elbit System.
As we are here to prevent the construction of a Chemring Nobel site to sabotage the war machine the Ulm 5 targeted Elbit Systems in Ulm. This German producing site of the international Isreali company is developing and selling weapons and tech used in the genocide in Gaza.
The five peace activists (Crow, Daniel, Leandra, Vi, and Zo) trying to uphold international law, have been held in pre-trial detention since 08 September 2025, and are facing a show trial since April 2026 that was extended until January 2027.
We want to hold Elbit accountable for their complicity in genocide. Weapon factories should be a thing of the past, put THEM behind a glass cage and get the Ulm 5 out of there. PUT ELBIT SYSTEM ON TRIAL!!!!
Knus Krigsmaskinen! and the local resistance stand together against Chemring’s new explosives factory in Hurummarka
On Friday, 17th of July, the fire department visited us together with an electrical inspector. Due to the successful cooperation between us from Knus Krigsmaskinen and the fire department, the municipality was excluded from the visit. As expected, our house was declared fire safe, which shows again that we do not need any authority to take care of us and that all claims of worrying for our safety are a only a pretext for the municipality to increase pressure on us before they try to demolish the house.
Today also made one thing very clear: That we in Avgrunnsdalen stand together with the local resistance against Chemring’s war factory. We may have different ways of doing things, but this diversity of tactics is what makes us strong and resilient. Together with Folkeaksjonen for Hurummarka and individual locals we despise the municipality’s wish to demolish our house in Avgrunnsdalen. This blatant attempt to silence the growing resistance in Hurummarka and to distract from the political content of our occupation is yet another example of Asker Kommunes lack of integrity.
Instead the Kommune administration has fast tracked the permitting process for demolition and contracted Stener Sørensen AS of Drammen for the job. They now work together in the service of building this factory whose products we know are essential for the perpetuation of genocidal and imperial wars. We promise their work will not go according to plan.
Companies like Lockheed Martin and Northrup Grumman, currently supplied by Chemring Nobel, profit off the US’s latest attacks on Iran. Chemring and their politicians like to deny this reality by referring to Norway’s high export regulation standards. But while Norwegian export practices do not usually license export to military supplies for Israel, export to the US is treated as export to allies, even though the products end up in the missiles fired on Gaza. Ny Tid, Electronic Intifada and BDS Norge have made this chain transparent.
All publicly available information on Chemring’s war economy is collected at stopchemring.com.
If the municipality and the state want to demolish, we must build up. We invite everyone to join us next week, from 20th-26th of July for our building days. You can sleep here, eat and cook together with us, and be part of making Avgrunnsdalen impossible to evict.
When one can profit on war, how can there ever be peace in a capitalist world?
Knus Krigsmaskinen!
Knus Krigsmaskinen! og den lokale motstanden står samlet mot Chemring’s nye sprengstofffabrikk in Hurummarka
Fredag 17. juli besøkte brannvesenet oss sammen med en elektrisk inspektør. På grunn av det vellykkede samarbeidet mellom oss fra Knus Krigsmaskinen og brannvesenet, ble kommunen ekskludert fra besøket. Som forventet ble huset vårt erklært brannsikkert, noe som igjen viser at vi ikke trenger noen myndighet til å ta vare på oss, og at alle påstander om bekymring for vår sikkerhet bare er et påskudd for at kommunen skal øke presset på oss før de prøver å rive huset.
Idag gjorde også én ting veldig klart: At vi i Avgrunnsdalen står sammen med den lokale motstanden mot Chemrings krigsfabrikk. Vi kan ha ulike måter å gjøre ting på, men dette mangfoldet av taktikker er det som gjør oss sterke og motstandsdyktige. Sammen med Folkeaksjonen for Hurummarka og enkeltpersoner fra lokalbefolkningen forakter vi kommunens ønske om å rive huset vårt i Avgrunnsdalen. Dette åpenbare forsøket på å tie den økende motstanden i Hurummarka og å avlede oppmerksomheten fra det politiske innholdet i vår okkupasjon er nok et eksempel på Asker Kommunes mangel på integritet.
I stedet har kommune-administrasjonen fremskyndet tillatelsesprosessen for riving og engasjert Stener Sørensen AS fra Drammen til jobben. De jobber nå sammen for å bygge denne fabrikken, hvis produkter vi vet er essensielle for å opprettholde folkemord- og imperialistiske kriger. Vi lover at arbeidet deres ikke vil gå etter planen.
Selskaper som Lockheed Martin og Northrup Grumman, som Chemring Nobel for tiden leveres til, tjener penger på USAs siste angrep på Iran. Chemring og deres politikere liker å benekte denne virkeligheten ved å vise til Norges høye eksportreguleringsstandarder. Mens Norsk eksportkontrollpraksis gir normalt ikke lisens til direkte eksport av forsvarsmateriell til Israel, behandles eksport til USA derimot som eksport til en alliert, selv om produktene havner i missilene som avfyres mot Gaza. Derfra er norsk kontroll med videre bruk langt svakere. Ny Tid, Electronic Intifada og BDS Norge har fulgt kjeden.
All offentlig tilgjengelig informasjon om Chemrings krigsøkonomi er samlet på stopchemring.com.
Hvis kommunen og staten vil rive, må vi bygge opp. Vi inviterer alle til å bli med oss neste uke, fra 20. til 26. juli, for våre byggedager. Du kan sove her, spise og lage mat sammen med oss, og være med på å gjøre Avgrunnsdalen umulig å kaste ut.
Når man kan tjene på krig, hvordan kan det noen gang bli fred i en kapitalistisk verden?
Yesterday the demolition of our house got accepted. The demolition company that was hired to tear down the squatted house of the AFS is Stener Sørensen AS.
To ask the company to drop out of the agreement with Asker kommune please send them the following message. The companies email address is firmapost@ssas.no.
View the English version of the letter here
Dear management and employees,
We are writing to you because we hope you will take a moment to think about what role you can play in what is now happening in Hurummarka.
You are asked to demolish the house that activists have used as a symbol of their opposition to the plans for a new weapons factory. For many of us, this is about far more than a house. It is about which direction we want Norway to take.
We believe that the world does not need more weapons, more weapon parts or greater production capacity for war. Every day we see images of civilians affected by armed conflicts – children, families and local communities who lose everything. At the same time, we are in the middle of a natural crisis, where valuable forests and biological diversity are constantly being destroyed.
We therefore ask you to ask yourselves: Must this be your mission?
No one can bear responsibility for the world’s conflicts alone. But every company and every person can make choices about what they want to contribute to. By refusing this assignment, you can send a strong signal that conscience and ethical responsibility must sometimes outweigh a contract.
If the demolition is carried out, many will feel that it will become a symbol of economic interests being put before nature conservation, democratic engagement and opposition to increased weapons production. We sincerely hope that you do not want to be remembered for having contributed to this.
We therefore ask you to withdraw from the assignment and let other solutions be considered. It takes courage to say no, but precisely such choices help to define who we are – both as people and as businesses.
We hope you listen to your heart before the excavators are started.
With hope for consideration and humanity,
Greetings, one of many who want to preserve Hurummarka and work for a more peaceful future.
Kjære ledelse og ansatte,
Vi skriver til dere fordi vi håper dere vil ta et øyeblikk til å tenke over hvilken rolle dere kan komme til å spille i det som nå skjer i Hurummarka.
Dere er bedt om å rive huset som aktivister har tatt i bruk som et symbol på motstanden mot planene om en ny våpenfabrikk. For mange av oss handler dette om langt mer enn et hus. Det handler om hvilken retning vi ønsker at Norge skal ta.
Vi mener at verden ikke trenger flere våpen, flere våpendeler eller større produksjonskapasitet for krig. Vi ser hver dag bilder av sivile som rammes av væpnede konflikter – barn, familier og lokalsamfunn som mister alt. Samtidig står vi midt i en naturkrise, der verdifull skog og biologisk mangfold stadig bygges ned.
Vi ber dere derfor om å spørre dere selv: Må dette være deres oppdrag?
Ingen kan bære ansvaret for verdens konflikter alene. Men hver bedrift og hvert menneske kan ta valg om hva de ønsker å bidra til. Ved å avslå dette oppdraget kan dere sende et sterkt signal om at samvittighet og etisk ansvar noen ganger må veie tyngre enn en kontrakt.
Dersom rivningen gjennomføres, vil mange oppleve at den blir et symbol på at økonomiske interesser settes foran naturvern, demokratisk engasjement og motstand mot økt våpenproduksjon. Vi håper inderlig at dere ikke ønsker å bli husket for å ha bidratt til dette.
Vi ber dere derfor om å trekke dere fra oppdraget og la andre løsninger bli vurdert. Det krever mot å si nei, men nettopp slike valg er med på å definere hvem vi er – både som mennesker og som virksomheter.
Vi håper dere lytter til hjertet før gravemaskinene settes i gang.
Med håp om omtanke og medmenneskelighet,
Hilsen en av mange som ønsker å bevare Hurummarka og arbeide for en mer fredelig fremtid.
Asker Municipality has now applied to tear down the house, the fire department is assessing fire safety. We see this as clear preparations for a possible eviction. That’s why we need you now: Have strategic debates with us about whether evictions are a meaningful strategy. Make plans for how to keep this struggle alive even after possible destructions. Co-create ways of living in harmony with all these wonderful beings around us.
