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

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

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

The world faces a global emergency created by the confluence of an unprecedented financial crisis, rising food prices, climate change and growing inequities. Civil society groups from around the world show in this report how human rights are being violated as a direct consequence of the same global economic order that created this chaos.  After [...]

Posted on December 2nd, 2008 under downloads and documents, news. Comments: None

See this paper by Peter Wahl, WEED, raising inspiring strategic questions:
Which approach to the upcoming era of reforms?
The acceleration and deepening of the financial crisis in mid September 2008 has led to a qualitatively new stage of the process. Also governments and the financial main-stream had to learn, that the crisis was more than a [...]

Posted on November 9th, 2008 under downloads and documents, housing & financial crisis. Tags: G 20, "Bretton Woods 2". Comments: None