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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

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 [...]

Violences urbaines : la police s’empare de la rénovation des quartiers

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Repression against the movement for housing in Rome

http://www.archive.org/details/MaglianaResiste

Squatted arrested, after a search on the “8marzo” houses (Magliana zone, in Rome).
The raid came after the evaquation of an other squotted house - “Regina Elena” - on the 1st of September.
The whole operation is part of a mediatic and politic campaing in progress in Rome, against the movement for housing.
here (in Italian)
http://roma.indymedia.org/node/12128

Una trentina di [...]

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 [...]

Petition against the Construction of the Okhta Center Tower (Saint Petersburg)

http://bashne.net/
Petition against the Construction of the Okhta Center Tower (Saint Petersburg)
We, the undersigned, would like to express our opposition to the planned construction of the 396-meter-tall Okhta Center skyscraper in Saint Petersburg.
We believe that construction cannot be allowed to go ahead. Erecting a building of this height would irreversibly ruin the Petersburg cityscape, which is [...]

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

NYC// New school// Students return to building they occupied last december to reclaim student space

NEW YORK, NY – At 4pm Tuesday, March 10th, in direct defiance of the New School administration, students will return to the Graduate Faculty building at 65 Fifth Avenue they occupied last December. That action prevented the President Bob Kerrey from demolishing the building as planned. On February 17th, the building was re-opened after being [...]