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October 2012, World Zero Evictions Days – for the Right to Housing. All Together!

The first step of joint agenda established established by the Urban Social Forum is on October, the World Zero Evictions Days – for the Right to Housing, in order to unify the Global Campaign for the right to housing and to land.

The central focus is the struggle against expulsions, evictions, the foreclosures, the land grabbing and the persecution of activists: these matters involve all the inhabitants, both urban and rural.

The targets are the neoliberal policies: the roots of the urban and global crisis, corruption and real estate and land speculation, they exclude more than a billion people from a home and throw tens of millions more out on the street every year.

This way we support the USF Call to defend the common goods for the future of cities and territories.

We hereby denounce the principal authors of the global and housing crisis

Among those in the dock are the nameless or ‘sovereign’ hidden parasites behind funds such as the IMF, the World Bank, the European Troika, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank, i.e. the principal authors of the crisis. They don’t have any legitimacy to propose their neoliberal suggestions, which are based upon the market and war, to overcome it.

Also in the dock are governments, at every level, and occasionally certain supranational institutions, like UN-Habitat who, in principle, should be allies in the struggle for the rights to housing and to land, but become accomplices to such violations due to the ambiguous role played when proposing partnerships to subordinate states and local authorities to the private market, giving the keys of the cities and territories tho whose want to speculate.

Thanks to the USF, again all together

The joint drive of the USF 2012 relaunched the federating spirit of the World Assembly of Inhabitants 2011: the main international networks for the right to housing are convinced that only with a united struggle can they effectively face the global and housing crises. By doing so, they can defend the most threatened inhabitants and thoroughly tackle the roots of inequality, such as social and environmental non-sustainability. This decision means actions and concrete initiatives (marches, occupations, the defence of threatened people and communities, forums, etc.).

Just to let you know, amongst other things, about the launch (together with Amnesty International, PALC and Urbamonde) of the Evictions Tribunal (Geneva, 27 September) , and the Zero Evictions Days (Italy, 10 October) , which should count on dozens actions throughout the country.

Consolidating the collaboration for winning battles

For these reasons, all organisations of inhabitants are invited to join the World Days and bring their own experience to strengthen the struggles of themselves and others, via shared platforms for action, asking other organisations to refer to the Days in their plans for those days (actions against spending cuts, land grabs, mining projects or megaprojects, or supporting the social function of property or the right to the city, defending common goods, etc).

For these same reasons, the invitation is extended, with the aim of consolidating the collaboration thanks to the constitution of the “Joint Anti-Evictions Task Force” at local level, as well as the development of dialogue and the convergence towards the “Urban and Community Way”. In effect, we are trying to jointly construct a global and common space for organisations and networks of inhabitants, the aim of which is to exchange experiences of struggle and of alternatives, share strategies and put into specific practice g-local solidarity.

Thus the beauty of the World Days 2012: all together for winning specific battles and reaching ‘another possible world’.

The organisations of inhabitants challenges governments

From the World Days the organisations of inhabitants will from now on challenge governments at every level (local, national, regional, supranational) to obtain urban and social housing policies based on a social urban pact which is an alternative to the neoliberal paradigms, i.e. the individual and collective rights and the rights of inhabitants to be creators of a community which respects diversity, a basic condition for a future living in harmony with nature, non client-users of the territories.

First of all, to obtain “Zero Evictions” public policies for land and housing.

With the objective of opening the possibility of a true dialogue about these topics with opposing parties, the organisations of inhabitants and their networks, along with the support of allies and associates, are marching together.

It follows that governments should respond positively to these proposals, rejecting any repressive measures.

It follow that social organizations should follow their commitment, to unify and struggle, preparing the next global stage, the World Assembly of Inhabitants (WSF Tunis, 23-28 March 2013).

How participate in October 2012’s World Zero Evictions Days - for the Right to Habitat

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