RECLAIMING SPACES: housing the crisis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0zEXdDO5JU

Posted on May 11th, 2009 under downloads and documents. Tags: credit crunch, foreclosures, subprime. Comments: None

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.

Posted on April 5th, 2009 under campaigns & action, news. Tags: Deustche Bank, Germany, protests, solidarity, tent cities. Comments: None

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 [...]

Posted on February 21st, 2009 under downloads and documents, housing crisis. Comments: None

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 [...]

Posted on February 14th, 2009 under campaigns & action, debate, building alliances, downloads and documents. Tags: WSF. Comments: 2

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 -

Posted on February 12th, 2009 under campaigns & action, debate, downloads and documents, housing & financial crisis, housing crisis. Tags: Capitalism, Harvey, WSF. Comments Off

According to Reuters European Commission will present guidelines for dealing with toxic assets in the European Union in two weeks’ time after EU finance ministers agreed on 09/02/10 that they need a common approach to avoid distorting banking competition.

Posted on February 11th, 2009 under news. Tags: bad bank, toxic assets, European Union. Comments: None

“Europe’s time of troubles is gathering depth and scale. Governments are trembling. Revolt is in the air.” The Guardian (UK) published a story which tries to give a snapshot of credit crunch reactions across Euroape at a single day, January 30, - from Athens via Paris and Riga to Reykjavik.

Posted on February 2nd, 2009 under news. Tags: Paris, protests, Riga. Comments: None

MAPPING EU DECISION MAKING STRUCTURES ON FINANCIAL REGULATION AND SUPERVISION

Posted on February 1st, 2009 under downloads and documents. Tags: financial regulation, European Union. Comments: None

A Summary of Key Friends of the Earth Recommendations
“November 13, 2008—The current financial crisis offers a historic opportunity to create new
regulations, rules and architecture which create financial systems that support environmentally
sustainable and socially just economies. This issue brief summarizes many of Friends of the
Earth’s financial policy recommendations that have been offered over the past several [...]

Posted on January 12th, 2009 under downloads and documents. Tags: financial regulation. Comments: None