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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
In Sulukule, after heavy public pressure it seems that the responsible housing administrations (TOKI) now give the solidarity groups the chance to propose a an alternative plan. We urgently need international support at this critical moment.
Attached please find the urgent call and sample letter.
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Thanks for your kind solidarity.
Aysim Turkmen
6 August, 2009
URGENT CALL FROM [...]
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.
G20 Resistance Roundup
http://submedia.tv/stimulator/2009/04/03/g20-resistance-roundup/
A call from Berlin for an autonomous demonstration against expulsion and repression and for more self organisated life in Berlin and worldwide!!!!!
Thanks to Cuz for this.
Right to the City Alliance disrupts Bloomberg conference with businessmen.
[Bloomberg] stood stone-faced as the protesters filed in and surrounded several of the tables packed with bankers, developers and other business leaders who had paid up to $249 a head to hear him and others speak. (The mayor might have perfected his [...]