Keyword: International Alliance of Inhabitants
USA-Canada Alliance of Inhabitants Launched
Launching the USACAI at the whole of USSF
In the context of historic levels of homelessness, displacement, forced evictions, and foreclosures, some 100 housing activists from many parts of the USA and Canada voted unanimously to create the USA-Canada Alliance of Inhabitants (USACAI). They had come to a June 24 session at the US Social Forum entitled How to Claim the Right to Housing and the City: Take Over, Take Back, and Take It to the World
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Canada, Gathering for Housing, November 4th 2011
Participate in discussions and a presentation by Mary Bricker – Jenkins, the co-Chair of the USA-Canada Alliance of Inhabitants comprised of a number of affiliated organizations including Food Not Bombs, Take Back the Land, National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty, and the Zero-Eviction Campaign.
Mumbai, WHD: Rally, Memorandum and Joint Anti-Evictions Task Force announced
WHD, Rally from Mahim Phatak to Pivla Bunglow in Dharavi (Mumbai, October 31 2011)
A new alliance of inhabitants organizations organized the World Habitat Day. About 500 grass-root communities submitted a Memorandum to the State Chief Minister demanding to Stop Forceful Evictions and open a dialogue with Local Communities, NGOs and CBOs to find appropriate solutions to the Mumbai’s housing crisis in full compliance with the ICESCR. To support the demands, it was announced setting up of the Joint Anti-Eviction Task Force involving all the stake-holders.