local struggles in world of crashes
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/
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…
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 [...]
Action day at the occasion of the global financial summit (G 20) , within the global action week against crisis and war: ATTAC Germany, some social movements networks, some trade union departments and left parties are calling for national demonstrations in Berlin and Frankfurt at March 28.
Seeking for larger and more effective cooperation among organisations active in the alter-globalisation movements has been an issue at the WSF in general. This approach at the WSF was called “convergence”. During the World Social Forum January 2009 a number of urban movements and networks agreed on some common framework for cooperation in the context [...]
Original transcript appeared on a Brian Mier article, reporting from the WSF in Belem for Vice Magazine :
BELEM - INTRODUCING DAVID HARVEY (LITERALLY), NOW FIND OUT WHY YOU LOST YOUR JOB
http://vice.typepad.com/vice_magazine/2009/02/belem—introdu.html#more
- editor note : Thanks to Patrick Bond for sharing this article -
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“No vamos a pagar por la crisis, que la paguen los ricos”
We will not pay for this crisis. The rich have to pay.