S’bu is calling.
The third force is the suffering of the poor. El poder es nuestro. May 25, 2009
Primera parte de un crimen atroz (1st chapter of another atrocity case)
Otra vez Siyanda, Uyishayile
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Videos about Abahlali baseMjondolo
28 05 2009The third force is the suffering of the poor. El poder es nuestro. May 25, 2009
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Tags: demolitions, eThekwini, KZN, Mashumi Figlan, Mazwi Nzimande, Mpume, S'bu Zikode, shacks, Siyanda
Categories : Archives, Espanol, Poor People's Alliance, Video, isiZulu
Video and Photos of AbM, LPM and AEC at the Constitutional Court
17 05 2009Video: ‘From Shack to the Constitutional Court’
Photographs of the Poor People’s Alliance at the Concourt (click here for more):
The PPA marching to the Concourt
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Tags: Abahlali baseMjondolo, Concourt, Constitutional Court, march, Slums Act
Categories : Archives, Photo, Poor People's Alliance, Video
Video: Abahlali challenges the slums act
14 05 2009
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Tags: Slums Act, War on Want
Categories : Archives, Poor People's Alliance, Video
Photos + video of Gugulethu No Land! No House! No Vote! Protest
30 04 2009
Gugulethu residents protest on election day declaring No Land! No House No Vote!
See this Sowetan article on the protest for more info
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Tags: 2009 Elections, boycott elections, No Land! No House! No Vote!, No Vote!, protest
Categories : Anti-Eviction Campaign, Archives, Photo, Video, gugulethu
Video: Brother Alfred Arnolds explains why he is refusing to move into his new house
8 12 2008Brother Alfred Arnolds and his family have refused to move into his new house. He explains that he has made a commitment to everyone on Symphony Way that he will continue to occupy the road with them until the last family has received the keys to their house.
For more information about the families’ refusal to move into the houses, click here
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Tags: N2, Solidarity, Symphony Way, thubelisha
Categories : Anti-Eviction Campaign, Archives, Delft - evictions + resistance, Video
Solidarity ~ Foreclosure Nation: Squatters or Pioneers?
2 12 2008News: Take Back the Land installs homeless families in foreclosed Miami-Dade County properties. Here’s what the neighbors think.
Above Video: Take Back the Land’s Umoja Village Shantytown
Mamyrah Prosper steps gingerly over ankle-high grass strewn with plastic bags and empty soda bottles in the yard of a vacant redbrick house in Miami’s Liberty City. She peers through a gap in a boarded-up window. “It looks in good shape,” she says. “I mean, the walls aren’t falling down. This is definitely one of our stronger options.” Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: foreclosures, Solidarity, squatting
Categories : Archives, Mainstream and Other News Articles, Solidarity, Video
AbM Dear Mandela video (8min)
19 11 2008
Dear Mandela tells the story of shack dwellers coming together amidst epidemic levels of poverty and inequality in the new South Africa.
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Tags: Abahlali baseMjondolo, evictions, fire
Categories : Archives, Video
The tanks roll in…
30 10 2008For the AEC press release, click here.
Symphony Way terrorised by the police – again!
Our Word is Our Weapon: While the city of Cape Town intimidates residents with shotguns and tank-like vehicles, the people of Symphony Way respond with their words – and a round of applause.
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Tags: intimidation, Land Invasions Unit, police brutality, police state, state terrorism
Categories : Anti-Eviction Campaign, Archives, Delft - evictions + resistance, Photo, Video
Pictures and Video: Backyard dwellers march on MEC’s home
8 09 2008
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Tags: backyard-dwellers, gugulethu, Housing MEC, occupy, protest, toyi-toyi
Categories : Anti-Eviction Campaign, Archives, Delft - evictions + resistance, Joe Slovo, Langa, Mainstream and Other News Articles, News & Press Release, Photo, Video, gugulethu
SACSIS: Joe Slovo Residents Protest
25 08 2008Source: South African Civil Society Information Service
Threatened with mass eviction, the residents of the Joe Slovo settlement in Langa, Cape Town gathered outside of the South African Constitutional Court in Johannesburg on 21 August 2008 to appeal the judgement of High Court Judge Hlophe that would forcibly remove them to Delft, a township on the outskirts of Cape Town, to makeway for the completion of the N2 Gateway Housing Project.
The featured clip below (part one), is of an earlier protest at the Cape High Court where residents air their grievances with government’s plans for them. See Part 1 and Part 2 below:
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Tags: Constitutional Court, evictions, joe slovo
Categories : Archives, Joe Slovo, Mainstream and Other News Articles, Video
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