Inhabitants of Americas
Friday 28 March 2008
Perú: Huáscar Residents March
More than 5 thousand inhabitants of the Human Settlements of “UPIS Huáscar”, “Villa Hermosa”, “9 de octubre”, and “10 de febrero” of San Juan de Lurigancho, marched to demand the expropriation sentence. The Federation of Organizations of the Neighborhoods of Lima and Callao – FOVELIC ( Federación de Organizaciones Vecinales de Lima y Callao
) showed its solidarity with the mobilization summoned by the Human Settlements of “UPIS Huáscar” , “Villa Hermosa”, “9 de octubre”, and “10 de febrero” that took place on Wednesday, march 26th towards the seat of the Judiciary on Abancay avenue. The inhabitants, who have occupied this land for 32 years, claim their property title through the sentence to be released by the 15th Court for contentious administrative proceedings – File 133-2000, and that the National Assets Superintendence ( Superintendencia de Bienes Nacionales
) carries out the Exchange of lands, in accordance with the law no. 28576 and the D.S. 029-2006 E.F.
Considerations on the massive evictions in Mexico
The 1994 economic crisis caused many small businesses, farmers and families of workers, who had mortgage loans with privatisated banks, to go bankrupt. This then caused major inflation of over 100%. This meant that debts doubled from one day to the next and, with late interests, they were unable to pay back their loans. The ’94 economic crisis is known in Mexico as the ‘December Mistake’, but it also took place just after the crisis involving the transition from one Priist government to another.
Villa 31-Retiro, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Seventy years of urban struggle for the right to housing, land and liberty Villa 31/Retiro was amalgamated in 1930 on public land near downtown, the port of Buenos Aires and one of the large train stations serving the northern part of the country. At first, it housed the families of dockworkers who lost their jobs in the economic crisis of 1929. In the Forties, European immigrants arrived and worked laying the rail system extension. In the Fifties, the amalgamation was organized as six neighbourhoods with a coordinating committee of neighbourhood delegates.
The Mortgage Crisis - Out of Sight, Out of Mind
People in Communities of color have lost billions of dollars in home equity, and today they are losing their homes on a massive scale
After the International IAI Days
The aim was to contribute to the training of the emerging leaders of urban social movements; to rethink the city, citizens’ rights and the processes of self-management in social habitat production and the social function of property; and to take on the threats that neoliberalism poses to towns and the environment.
The First National Truth Commission on poverty in USA
On July 15 and 16, 2006, the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign (PPEHRC) made history in Cleveland, Ohio by holding the first National Truth Commission on Poverty in the United States of America.