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Olympic Tent Village: Behind the Scenes of the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics

Thanks to Nick Vivion for this Video
Share it widely !
You can also listen to Harsha Wallia talking about the housing right movement, social housing, the tent city, role of the allies…
CLICK HERE FOR AUDIO
http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/audio/2860

Chronicles of the Olympic Tent Village, Vancouver 2010

Chronicles of the Olympic Tent Village
by Harsha Walia for The Dominion Paper
Published on the 28th February 2010 on Vancouver Media Coop
[Written with the memories of Laurie P. in the minds and hearts of many of us at the Olympic Tent Village– Laurie was an active member of the DTES Power of Women Group [...]

Why we didn’t apply for the Deutsche Bank Urban Age Award?

PRESS RELEASE FROM SULUKULE STUDIO :
Why we didn’t apply for the Deutsche Bank Urban Age Award?
THOSE WHO CAUSE FORCED EVICTIONS SHOULD NOT GIVE URBAN AWARDS!
As the Sulukule Studio, we didn’t apply for the Urban Age Award, both due to Deutsche Bank’s role in the mortgage crisis, which triggered the current global crisis, and also [...]

Déclaration : Pour une politique du logement en Europe, sociale, solidaire et écologique !

Sorry, this entry is only available in Français.

Growing repression against housing activists and social spaces resistances

The London rampART Social Centre was evicted at 5:30am this morning by 45 police, bailiffs and a priest.
After over 5 years and many eviction scares it has finally happened… 3 people and a dog were inside when police attempted to chanisaw the door. They also had climbers going up to the roof conjuring up [...]

Call for the European camp “Reclaim the Fields”

European Coordination Via Campesina
Reclaim the Fields
European Camp To Cultivate Alternatives
30th of September - 4th of October 2009, Minerve (France)
The young people of European Coordination of Via Campesina are organizing an European camp to gather people who wish to settle in agriculture, who are young peasants, landless peasants and/or who want to recover food sovereignty.
The [...]

Climate Camp successfully set up in London on the footsteps of the Peasants’ Revolt

Climate Camp Site Taken at Blackheath, Greenwich in London.
http://qik.com/climatecamp
http://twitpic.com/photos/climatecamp
http://www.youtube.com/user/climatelife

http://london.indymedia.org/articles/1978
On the 26 August 2009 hundreds of Climate activists converge on Blackheath in Greenwich for the set up of the 2009 London Climate Camp. Groups gathered at locations across the city for midday, awaiting instructions to be sent by SMS which led them in stages towards the [...]

G20 Climate Crush:hugs vs thugs (VIDEO)

By now we all know about the mess that was the eviction of the Climate Camp In The City, which was Climate Camp’s genuinely novel idea to set up home in Threadneedle Street - the heart of London’s banking district, over the G20 summit.

Life After the G20- Reflections on the police raids on Rampart Social Centre and the Convergence Space during the G20 Summit.

Reflections on the police raids on Rampart Social Centre and the Convergence Space during the G20 Summit. http://info.interactivist.net/node/12540

Housing March @ G20 Meltdown 1 April

TEAR DOWN THE WALLS! RAISE THE ROOFS!
HOUSING MARCH @ G20 MELTDOWN 1 APRIL … meet at Cannon Street at 11AM
On April the 2nd the world’s leaders are meeting in London for the G20 summit. In the wake of the banking crisis, they are meeting to try to salvage a tottering system, which is aimed at [...]