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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 [...]
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 [...]
In one of the poorest shack settlements in Durban, South Africa, armed thugs have been reported to have killed settlement residents and destroyed their home in a coordinated and racially motivated attack. Local police appear to be entirely complicit in these attacks, as do local members of the African National Congress. This petition asks President [...]
Donald Trump has asked Aberdeenshire Council to use their power to force families out of their homes. He wants to clear people from the land to build a controversial housing and golf complex. He expects the council to help by using Compulsory Purchase powers which are meant to be reserved for public infrastucture like schools, [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
Three months before the opening of the Universiade, Belgrade’s City Secretariat for Inspections decided to destroy the Roma slum settlement located right next to the athlete’s village “Belleville”. On April the 3rd 2009 all of a sudden a couple of bulldozers showed up at the settlement and demolished 40 houses. As the demolition was carried [...]
The rampART is one of a number of autonomous spaces around London .
During the G20 demonstration, Rampart, the London Housing Action Now network and others
decided to call for a Land, Housing and “social spaces” block during G20 summit.
Southwark Council closed a community project in in Peckham. Read the article and call:
KEEP IT SPIKEY
(original from : http://www.schnews.org.uk/archive/news6666.php )
The past one, was a sad and angy week for people living in Milan/Italy. Milan’s social and cultural life was stricken hard once again. At 7am on january the 22nd around 100 policemen entered the squatt COX18 (http://www.cox18.noblogs.org), which include in its premises the social center created more than 33 years ago, the Calusca City [...]