local struggles in world of crashes
Interview to Manuel Castells by Occupied London at http://www.occupiedlondon.org/castells/
An article by Laura Burkhalter and Manuel Castells explores the urban dimension of the current economic crisis at http://www.archinect.com/images/uploads/Beyond_the_Crisis_-_Towards_a_new_Urban_Paradigm.pdf
German Alliance “We do not pay for your crisis!” is an open organization launching an action/day the 17th of September 2009 to discuss local possibilities and initiatives for solidarity against the crisis.
Text in German
http://www.kapitalismuskrise.org/
Lecture by David Harvey at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, april 2009
The Urban Roots of the Fiscal Crisis
How many fiscal disruptions over the last thirty years have been urban/property led?
Why does this particular one takes the form it does?
In what ways does this fits into a Marxist theory of urbanization under capitalism?
Spring/Summer 2009 Issue 12 in urbanism
As the housing liberation movement grows, Take Back the Land is featured in many US and International news / watch the videos here:
At April 2 - parallel to G 20 in London - we did a small protest camp in front of the municipality in Witten/Germany, protesting against the crisis and underlining the need to get back social control over real values, especially land and housing.
At the occasion of G 20 protests in London, March/April 2009, the group “London Housing Action Now” produced a leaflet about the current housing and financial crisis, focussing on the U.K. Read
HOUSING IS A RIGHT, NOT A COMMODITY…
Two US comrades investigate the tent city in Sacramento, California
I’ll be around in the dark. I’ll be ever’where. Wherever there’s a fight so hungry people can eat, I’ll be there. Wherever there’s a cop beatin’ up a guy, I’ll be there. I’ll be in the way guys yell when they’re mad…An’ when our folks [...]
Report of the Special Rapporteur on adequate housing - Current crisis in the housing and financial sector
The present report is the first one presented to the Human Rights Council by the new mandate holder, Raquel Rolnik, who took up her position on 1 May 2008. In view of the current crisis in the housing and [...]
The German network of local movements against privatization - APRI - demands to stop all ongoing processes of privatization and deregulation. In a declaration so far signed by local campaigns and groups, tenants associations and the national campaign against railway privatization “Bahn von unten” the network argues that the crash of the finacial markets had [...]