Revd Sue Brittion has warned the authorities that the church is watching them and it will remember when the time comes for the truth to be told.
Revd Brittion was speaking at a prayer service organised by Diakonia Council of Churches for the ‘Kennedy 12’ outside the Durban Magistrates’ Court on Friday 5 February 2010. Read the rest of this entry »
Jan. 27 2010 – 1:00 pm – Megan Cottrell – TrueSlant
Image by Getty Images via DaylifeAmong young black men in America, about 10 percent are currently incarcerated. It’s shocking, but we’ve almost grown used to it.
But while those young men are in prison, what’s happening to their wives, girlfriends, mothers and sisters?
Eviction. A new study coming out of Milwaukee shows that eviction is for black women what incarceration is for black men. One in 20 households there are evicted every year. In predominately black communities, that rate doubles to 1 in 10 families.
Cabrini Green Town Hall
Over 150 people packed into the Park Community Church near Cabrini Green on Thursday night for a Town Hall Against Displacement and Evictions. While most of those in attendance were residents of Cabrini Green, many supporters from around the city were also in attendance to show solidarity. Dozens of people got up to share their own experiences with evictions, mistreatment by management, displacement, police harassment and many other issues. As sad and infuriating as many stories were, a common thread of inspiration ran through the evening as every speaker pledged to fight back and join together. As one woman who was evicted from Cabrini Green and now lives in a nursing home said, “I don’t care how, I’m going home. Steel doors can’t hold me back from my community.”
The town halls are going to continue as weekly or bi-weekly events to build momentum and organization for the Anti-Eviction Campaign in partnership with the Cabrini Green LAC. The crowd pledged to support an action next Thursday by Anti-Eviction Campaign member group Southside Together Organizing for Power, who is protesting at the City Plan Commission meeting against slumlord Leon Finney, Jr.’s disrespect, neglect and intimidation of tenants of the Kimbark Tenants Association in Woodlawn. The action will start at 12:30pm on the second floor of City Hall (121 N. LaSalle) Thursday January 21st.
While the momentum is strong, at the end of the day Lenise is still homeless and 50 other families at Cabrini Green may soon join her if the powers that be have their way. It is up to all of us not to let them. Get involved in the Anti-Eviction campaign by emailing antieviction@gmail.com.
It’s Not Just A Game
The World Cup is arguably the most popular sporting event in the world. Fans from all over the world rally around their home countries, all eyes on the month long football tournament (seeing as this is an international event, I am going to try to avoid referring to the sport as soccer. My apologies if I fall back into it). The World Cup is exciting—there is no doubt about it. Stadiums get full of crazy, screaming football fans. Those who cannot attend will stay up throughout the night to watch their national team live. People take to the streets to celebrate big wins. If you are like me, and thrive off of collective excitement, it is hard not to get swept away. I don’t even particularly like football. Sure, I can get down with a pick up game every once in a while and I will always come prepared with a soccer ball when working with kids (especially if we don’t speak the same language. This has proved to be a lifesaver time and time again). But please don’t ask me to name a football player who is not Beckham or Ronaldinho. So why choose the World Cup as the focus for this article if I don’t know a damn thing about soccer? Because, as per usual with international sporting events (see: just about every Olympics ever) there is another story that needs to be told. A story about the people whose country is being invaded by contractors and rich tourists. A story about the political and social upheaval that often accompanies such events. In this case, a new story about South Africa. Read the rest of this entry »
January 26, 2010 Edition 1
KOWTHAR SOLOMONS Staff Reporter – Cape Argus
SIXTEEN families evicted from the Blikkiesdorp relocation area for the illegal occupation of houses say they will have to sleep on the streets until they get a lawyer to argue their case in court.
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One of a human being’s most private acts is a daily ordeal for these families
Jan 30, 2010 8:25 PM | By Buyekezwa Makwabe – Sunday Times
Ntombifuthi Mdibaniso dreads answering the call of nature. The matric pupil has been cleaning up human excrement for the past decade – often with only plastic bags to cover her hands – to earn the right to use a neighbour’s toilet.
The humiliating ritual has become a way of life for the 19-year-old, who lives in a shack with her parents in a section of the sprawling township of Khayelitsha in Cape Town. Read the rest of this entry »
2010-01-29 06:13:19 – VOCFM
The plight of informal traders in the Western Cape came under the spotlight on Wednesday morning at a meeting held at the Epping Market during which concerns were raised about the strict by-laws which the City of Cape Town has implemented. Approximately 60 hawkers from the Western Cape came together at the market to discuss various areas of concern to them. Read the rest of this entry »
In the Backstage area of Langa a policeman has illegally evicted a woman from her house and is now living in it. (Backstage is near the cemetery and the railway station). Mrs Rhulashe, the former owner, now has to sleep under the bridge between Bonteheuwel and Langa. On Saturday 30th January at 10am a joint demonstration by the newly-formed Vukani ma-Afrika and the Gugulethu Anti-Eviction Campaign will reinstall Mrs Rhulashe in her house.
For more information contact Mncedisi at 078-580-8646
28 January 2010
Anna Majavu – Sowetan
By-law threatens traders’ livelihood
ANGRY Western Cape hawkers and fruit farmers say they will take the city to the Constitutional Court over a new by-law they fear will put many of them out of jobs. Read the rest of this entry »
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