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RSS FeedHaiti: Rebuilding a just country
2010-11-15, Issue 505
Other Worlds is working to document the ways that communities and social movements, together with their allies around the world, are working to build just economic, environmental, and political alternatives out of the ruins of the earthquake. You ca...
South Africa: ANCYL burnt vehicles, not us, says ABM Western Cape
2010-11-16, Issue 505
'We have just heard that three vehicles were burnt during a protest in TR Section, Khayelitsha, today. One of them contained stationery for the matric exams. We want to make it absolutely clear that this protest was organised by the ANC Youth League ...
South Africa: Social justice organisations hit back at ANC claims that conference was a plot
Statement by the TAC and SECTION27, co-hosts of the Labour/Civil Society conference
2010-11-04, Issue 503
'The Civil Society Conference held on 27-28 October 2010 will hopefully come to be seen as a historic turning point in South Africa. It may mark the revival of co-ordinated community based activism that aims to achieve social justice and better the l...
South Africa: Cape Town protests spread
2010-10-28, Issue 502
A four-week service delivery protest in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, has spread to Philippi, with hundreds of residents barricading busy roads with burning tyres over the weekend. The protest was set to continue last night, according to Eric Notana, chair...
South Africa: Conference of the Democratic Left supports Abahlali baseMjondolo
2010-10-21, Issue 501
Last week Pambazuka News carried a number of statements about protest action in Cape Town under the banner of Abahlali baseMjondolo. The latest statement is from the Conference of the Democratic Left in the Western Capem which has come out in support of Abahlali baseMjondolo.
South Africa: Cape Town protest tactics sparks debate between social movements
2010-10-14, Issue 500
Four NGOs have criticised a social movement for disrupting ordinary life in Cape Town with a protest campaign aimed at highlighting a lack of service delivery in informal settlements. But Abahlali baseMjondolo, which has launched the strike in inform...
South Africa: Unemployed to march on Zuma
Unemployed People's Movement (UPM) press statement
2010-10-04, Issue 499
On the 8th of September 2010 the UPM in Durban sent a letter of demands to Jacob Zuma. His office acknowledge reciept of that letter (which is pasted in below this email) but he has never given us the courtesy of a response to our demands. Therefore ...
South Africa: Poor alliance calls for investigation of Cape cop violence
Solidarity Statement by the South African Poor People's Alliance
2010-10-04, Issue 499
'We call on government to listen to the demands of the poor in Hout Bay. We call on government to immediately end all evictions of poor people in Hout Bay. We call on government to upgrade all homes of poor people in Hout Bay to proper housing. We ca...
South Africa: Update on the call for a week of informal settlement strikes
2010-10-07, Issue 499
'During the last week of October we want everything to stand still in Cape Town, and possibly through out the country. And we are calling upon all people who are living in informal settlements to support the call by taking to the streets and making s...
Kenya: Mapping peace with The Peace Council
2010-09-30, Issue 498
The Peace Council, a club at the Kenya Methodist University, helped launch the organisation known as "Sisi ni Amani" (We are Peace) at the Baba Ndogo slum estate in Nairobi, Kenya. Sisi ni Amani organisation is focused on interviewing and peace mappi...
Africa: Appeal for solidarity for debt week petition
2010-09-30, Issue 498
On 7 - 17 October 2010, ZIMCODD will join social movements across the globe in commemorating the Global week of Action against Debt and International Financial Institutions, commonly known as the Debt Week. ZIMCODD is calling on individuals, grouping...
South Africa: Construction suspended, still no official response
Mandela Park Backyarders
2010-09-09, Issue 495
Mandela Park Backyarders have continued to stop the construction of houses in our community. Because of our efforts, construction has been unable to proceed for over two weeks - since the 17th of August. We have demanded that the MEC for Housing, Bon...
South Africa: Another devastating shack fire in the Kennedy Road settlement
2010-08-13, Issue 494
The Kennedy Road shack settlement burnt once again at about 10 pm on Sunday, 08 August 2010 - two hours before women’s day. As of today thousands of residents in Kennedy are homeless in this cold winter weather. If the municipality had given them hou...
Africa: Dakar launches a public consultation on the thematic axes for the 2011 edition
2010-08-13, Issue 494
The International Council of the World Social Forum and the African Social Forum and the Senegalese Organizing Committee launch a public consultation until September 10th to finalize the thematic axes of the centralized edition of the WSF, to be held...
Africa: Africa Youth Forum 2010
2010-07-23, Issue 491
From 17 to 19 July 2010 in Uganda, more than 120 delegates from across the continent, joined by President of Uganda Yoweri Kaguta Museveni and other participants, attended the African Youth Forum (AYF) in the city of Entebbe, near Kampala, the capita...
South Africa: Tragic fire in Durban destroys hundreds of homes, 2 dead
2010-07-08, Issue 489
Durban - Situated not that far from the FIFA World Cup competition, the Durban informal settlement has seen more than its share of strife and hard times. A press release from the Abahlali baseMjondo, an organization made up of residents of informal s...
South Africa: Landless movement welcomes violence report
Landless People's Movement
2010-07-08, Issue 489
As the Landless People's Movement in Gauteng we welcome the independent research report by Jared Sacks into political violence against our movement in Gauteng. We have been suffering from serious repression in Protea South, in Harry Gwala and in eTwa...
Global: US Social Forum: Statement on Food Sovereignty
2010-07-09, Issue 489
Over a half-century ago, Mahatma Gandhi led a multitude of Indians to the sea to make salt—in defiance of the British Empire’s monopoly on this resource critical to people’s diet. The action catalyzed the fragmented movement for Indian independence a...
Southern Africa: The SADC People’s Summit 2010
2010-07-03, Issue 488
As the SADC Heads of State will be meeting in Windhoek, Namibia in August 2010, the ordinary peoples of Southern Africa will also converge at the Catholic Cathedral Hall in Windhoek on the 15th – 16th of August 2010 under the auspices of the Southern...
Homeless World Cup selection tournament
Kenya Homeless Street Soccer Association (KHSSA)
2010-06-25, Issue 487
Kenya Homeless Street Soccer Association (KHSSA) is glad to take this opportunity to invite member organizations to the grand finals of our selection tournament for Kenya national street soccer team to the Homeless World Cup 2010 in Rio, Brazil from ...
Global: Connecting the dots from Detroit to Dakar
2010-06-25, Issue 487
Africa's continued struggle for political and economic independence in many ways mirrors the very own struggles of communities in the U.S. that are now being tabled at the 2010 U.S. Social Forum in Detroit. Africa advocates and progressive foreign po...
Haiti: 10,000 Peasants March against Monsanto
2010-06-18, Issue 486
An estimated 10,000 peasants gathered for a massive march in Central Haiti on June 4, 2010, to protest what has been described as “the next earthquake for Haiti” – a donation of 475 tons of hybrid corn seeds and vegetable seeds by the US-based agribu...
South Africa: Report on the Return to Kennedy Road Campaign
2010-06-18, Issue 486
The historic meeting at the Kennedy Road settlement on Sunday went well despite the intimidation from the local ANC. The background to this meeting, and its importance, is that in September last year Abahlali baseMjondolo(AbM) and the Kennedy Road De...
South Africa: The Return to Kennedy Road Campaign
Abahlali baseMjondolo
2010-06-11, Issue 485
For lies to continue to hide the truth they must be constantly sustained and maintained. For truth to be able to emerge from under the lies we have to constantly remember what has really been said and done, by whom and for what purpose. We have often...
South Africa: Activists released
2010-06-11, Issue 485
All of the Protea South Five, arrested after the electricity war in Protea South, Soweto, have been released on the grounds that 'there is no evidence against them'. None of the five were harmed while in detention. A sixth person from Protea South (w...
Global: Canada’s foreign aid community risks losing strong voice for world’s poor
2010-06-04, Issue 484
CIDA funding to the Canadian Council for International Co-operation (CCIC), Canada’s pre-eminent coalition to end global poverty, is in doubt. A critical and well-respected voice for the world’s poor risks being silenced if funding to CCIC is cut off...
The attack on the LPM Continues - 5 More Arrests in Protea South
2010-06-04, Issue 484
On the night of 3rd June 2010, the police went from door to door with an informer in the shacks of Protea South, Soweto. They arrested five members of the Landless People’s Movement (LPM). Three of the people that they arrested are children of Maure...
South Africa: A poor man’s view on Freedom Day
2010-05-28, Issue 483
Mostly South Africans celebrate freedom day. Some they feel free but some do not feel free. Some are told that they are free and get excited because they trust those who tell them that they are free. They still have hope that one day the politicians ...
South Africa: Group warns of shacks outside Cape Town Stadium
2010-05-28, Issue 483
A local group representing informal settlements has warned plans to erect shacks outside Cape Town Stadium unless proper housing is given to the poor. Abahlali Basemjondolo demanded the underprivileged be allocated housing within the city but authori...
Haiti: Farmers commit to burning Monsanto hybrid seeds
2010-05-21, Issue 482
"A new earthquake" is what peasant farmer leader Chavannes Jean-Baptiste of the Peasant Movement of Papay (MPP) called the news that Monsanto will be donating 60,000 seed sacks (475 tons) of hybrid corn seeds and vegetable seeds, some of them treated...
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