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

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

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 [...]

The “Dignified” Destruction of Calais Refugee “Jungle”

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 [...]

Violence at the hearing over the Gazprom-tower in St. Petersburg

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 [...]

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