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http://www.fahamu.org/publications/item/a_place_in_the_city/
A Place in the City[/lang_en]

Posted on June 26th, 2010 under Right to the City, movements, repression, South Africa, evictions & demolitions, action, transactions & privatisations. Comments: None

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

Posted on March 5th, 2010 under Canada, Olympics, Right to the City, Uncategorized, Vancouver, movements, action, homless action. Comments: None

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 [...]

Posted on March 5th, 2010 under Canada, Olympics, Right to the City, Vancouver, movements, action, homless action. Tags: Capitalism, housing, Resistance. Comments: None

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 [...]

Posted on November 4th, 2009 under Foreclosure, Right to the City, Uncategorized, Urgent calls and petitions, movements, Germany, Turkey, evictions & demolitions, transactions & privatisations. Tags: Deutsche Bank, Istanbul, Resistance, Sulukule, Urban Age, Turkey. Comments: None

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Posted on October 20th, 2009 under Right to the City, movements, evictions & demolitions, action. Tags: call for solidarity, DAL, Right to the City. Comments: None

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 [...]

Posted on October 15th, 2009 under Right to the City, Urgent calls and petitions, movements, repression, evictions & demolitions, action, squats. Tags: Police, Resistance, Social Centre, repression. Comments: None

The “Dignified” Destruction of Calais Refugee “Jungle”

22/09/2009: At 8am in the morning some 600 CRS riot police moved on the Calais refugee “Jungle”, under the orders of French immigration minister Eric Besson, to destroy the camp and arrest all the remaining refugees.
The camp usually held up to 1500 people, but many had fled and [...]

Posted on September 25th, 2009 under Right to the City, Uncategorized, France, UK, repression, evictions & demolitions, action. Tags: calais, Capitalism, immigration, repression. Comments: None

Line in front of the business-centre “Karelia”, where the the public hearing over the planed “Gazprom city” took place
See more photos:
Photo reportage part 1
Photo reportage part 2
The pubic hearing on “Gazprom city” in St. Petersburg was scheduled on Sept. 1st, the traditional begining of the russian school year. But neither this important day for Russian [...]

Posted on September 14th, 2009 under Right to the City, Russia, transactions & privatisations. Tags: Capitalism, Right to the City, urban speculation. Comments: None

Climate Camp Site Taken at Blackheath, Greenwich in London.
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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 [...]

Posted on August 27th, 2009 under Climate Camp, Right to the City, movements, UK, repression, action, squats. Tags: Access to Land, Capitalism, G20, reclaiming spaces, Resistance, Right to the City. Comments: None