local struggles in world of crashes
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.
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.
“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.
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 [...]
As a result of the crises of gentrification, housing and now foreclosures, Take Back the Land has been liberating public and foreclosed land and homes since 2006.
From: Bretton Woods Project
Despite being billed as a ‘Bretton Woods 2′ meeting, the first G20 heads of state meeting in Washington in mid-November agreed little of substance, and was criticised for an opaque, closed preparation process.
The next G20 Heads of State meeting will be in London on 2 April 2009.
Under the following five headings, immediate [...]
In light of the shifting implementation of the $700 billion financial bailout legislation, the Partnership to Preserve Affordable Housing wants to renew our call to federal legislators to address the more than 60,000 units of affordable multi-family re!ntal housing that have been overleveraged in New York City.
I am just coming back from “Right to the City” conference in Berlin, a meeting of leftist urban resarchers from (mainly) Germany, Britain, the U.S. and Canade at the occasion of Peter Marcuses 80th birthday celebration.
It was very dense and important meeting with numerous research reports of highest interest for [...]
See this initial response from individuals, social movements and non-governmental organisations in support of a transitional programme for radical economic transformation
http://casinocrash.org/?p=235
It covers a lot of common points regarding the needed reforms.
The following statement was issued today in New York by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on adequate housing, Raquel Rolnik:
The belief that markets will provide adequate housing for all has failed. The current crisis is a stark reminder of this reality. A home is not a commodity – four walls and a roof. It is [...]