World Zero Evictions Day 2008
We are launching an appeal to organise a World Zero Evictions Days 2008 throughout the month of October 2008 as a concrete follow-up of the Global Campaign: Act together - housing for all! This is also a collective preparatory exercise for the World Assembly of Inhabitants.
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Press Release. Harmonious cities once and for all - free them from neo-liberalism!
On World Habitat Day , celebrated by UN-Habitat on October 6, 2008, under the motto “Harmonius Cities”, the International Alliance of Inhabitants, a global network for housing rights without borders, released a very critical document proposing a new Urban Social Pact supported by the World Zero Evictions Days.
Russia's Social Mobilisation Day
There will be demonstrations in more than 32 towns in Russia on Saturday 25 October 2008, around the "Day of Social Anger". This day, for which preparations by a huge network of social movements in several regions, has been undertaking for months, marks the entry of basic social mobilisation actions on Russia's public scene. For the first time, the Russian media has widely covered the events and noted the beginning of an up to now non-identified phenomenon: people who are neither henchmen of the Kremlin nor party tools, "people like any other people" demonstrated together on the same day, for the same causes and in under the same slogan: "power under the control of the citizens!"
Markets alone cannot ensure housing for all, says UN expert
Press release Raquel Rolnik, 23 October 2008
The following statement was issued today in New York by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on adequate housing, Raquel Rolnik:
The belief that markets will provide adequate housing for all has failed.
The current crisis is a stark reminder of this reality. A home is not a commodity - four walls and a roof. It is a place to live in security, peace and dignity, and a right for every human being.
UN's Habitat Engages with Angola Despite Evictions, UNICEF Irregularities and in Nairobi
Byline: Matthew Russell Lee of Inner City Press at the UN: News Analysis
UNITED NATIONS, October 27 -- Criticized for holding its World Habitat Day celebration this month in Angola, widely known for mass evictions, the UN housing agency responded by calling the site selection a case of "constructive engagement." Inner City Press had asked about the criticism back on October 6, but was told by the UN Spokesperson that HABITAT director Anna Tibaijuka stood with Angola and had no comment on eviction.
Galería: Vigilia en República Dominicana
Vigilia en el Congreso Nacional, 15 de Octubre del 2008
After the Zero Eviction Days, inhabitants prepare for the 2009 World Social Forum in Belem
More than 80 events were organised during the 2008 edition of the World Zero Eviction Days, which saw the participation of tens of thousands of people. The events strengthened participants’ awareness of being the central figures in a common struggle whose aim is to present a united front against the disastrous effects of neo-liberalism on cities and their inhabitants, with resistance and alternatives being the tools of choice.
Inhabitants are using the same approach as they prepare to participate in the Belem WSF.
Lundi 27 octobre 2008 à 10h30
103 BOULEVARD DE WATERLOO
1000 BRUXELLES
Il y a deux ans, nous occupions le bâtiment situé au 103 boulevard de Waterloo. Depuis notre expulsion, ce bâtiment est toujours vide alors que la crise du logement et la crise économique ne font que s'accentuer.
Le gouvernement belge, par l'intermédiaire de son Ministre des Finances Didier Reynders, débloque 16 milliards d'Euros pour sauver les banques et leurs actionnaires. Mais rien pour augmenter les salaires ou les allocations sociales, rien pour le logement à l'heure où des milliers d'immeubles vides
sont à l'abandon. Pendant ce temps, Monsieur Reynders, ministre de tutelle de la « Régie des bâtiments », ne daigne même pas recevoir des représentants de locataires, malgré de nombreuses demandes de le rencontrer, afin d'occuper des logements vides de la Régie.
Arrêtons de nous indigner de l'attitude des politiciens !!!
PASSONS À L'ACTION !!!
Defend the rights of plight of Intentionally Displaced Persons
Monday October 20th will mark the kickoff of events in New York City around our right to housing. The United Nations Rapporteur on Housing will visit NYC on October 24th.
The People UNITE And Fight!!
Dag Hammarskjold Plaza
East 47th St & 1st Ave.
4:30pm-7:30pm
The people who were living in the Porur lake area were forcefully evicted without any prior notification or announcement from 23 to 25 of Nov’06. Though the Government has provided rehabilitation and replacement area in Nallur and Kudapakkam villages in Kancheepuram and Tiruvallur districts respectively, still the replacement places lack basic facilities for life such as electricity, road, transportation, free water distribution, school, proper sanitation facilities , burial ground etc. the displacement area is not safe enough for human living. The main disadvantage about the displacement area is that it is 28 km far away from city and most of the people were dependent on urban employment.
Pour le moment déjà 42 régions ont répondu à l’appel et mis en place des comités d’organisation. La géographie est plus que large : de Kaliningrad à l’Ouest à Sakhalin à l’extrême-orient, de Saint-Pétersbourg au Nord à Astrakhan et Sotchi au Sud.
Moscou, Région de Moscou, Tomsk, Toula, Penza, Toliatti, Perm, Izhevsk, Irkutsk, Saint-Pétersbourg, Omsk, Kurgan, Saratov, Voronej, Ufa, Tambov, Kaliningrad, Barnaul, Nijni Novgorod, Tiumen, Kirov, Samara, Novosibirsk, Krasnoobsk, Astrakhan, Iaroslavl, Ekaterinbourg, Iuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Oulianovsk, Krasnodar, Tchita, Surgut, Sotchi, Petrozavodsk, Syktyvkar, Iakoutsk, Krasnoiarsk, Blagovechensk, Ivanovo, Orenbourg, Rostov sur le Don, Tcheliabinsk
En el Boletín anexo se muestran las actividades desarrolladas en Bolivia por la Red Nacional de Asentamientos Humanos - RENASEH Bolivia y sus instituciones afiliadas, todo esto en el marco del Día Mundial del Hábitat 2008, como parte de la campaña nacional por el Derecho Humano a la Vivienda y Hábitat adecuados que se inició años atrás y que hoy continua en la mira de poder lograr mejores condiciones de vida para tod@s l@s bolivian@s.
De Pau à Paris du 14 octobre au 2 novembre.
La Caravane contre la crise du logement et pour le droit au logement : Accueil des participants le 12 octobre à la communauté Emmaüs de Lescar / Pau. « Tour de chauffe » et préparatif le 13. Départ le 14 de Pau pour Hendaye-Irun. Villes étapes : Bayonne, Dax, Bordeaux, La Rochelle, Nantes, Tours, Orléans, Poissy et arrivée et manifestation à Paris le 26 octobre...
El domingo 12 de octubre los asentamientos urbanos y rurales que componen CAES, inquilinos, sindicatos junto a organizaciones fraternas invitadas para el evento hemos programado un debate abierto en de la ciudad de asunción sobre el derecho a la tierra y la vivienda.
Han sido invitados a participar autoridades nacionales.
El debate no será no para buscar las causas de la falta de tierra, vivienda, trabajo y todos los derechos imaginables de que este pueblo carece, porque las causas son más que conocidas y sufridas por todos, en este debate abierto vamos a buscar entre todos y todas las soluciones y vamos a exigir al gobierno de turno QUE ACABE QUE EMPIECE
EXIGIMOS AL ESTADO Y AL GOBIERNO DE FERNANDO LUGO EL CESE DE LOS DESALOJOS, QUE EL DERECHO A Y NO CUESTE MÁS VIDAS A ESTE PUEBLO.
DECLAREMOS AL PARAGUAY ZONA LIBRE DE DESALOJO.
Istanbul which is the most crowded city of Turkey has very crowded slums. After the immigration starting from villages to the cities since 1950s, slums which cluster around of industrial basins occurred. These slums increasing covered the considerable part of the city. Once there was neither any transportation nor infrastructure, working people constructed all these slums by themselves. However, these slums are considered as an annuity zone under the international urban transportation project and are wanted to destroy. The Government and local authorities wanted to destroy these houses many times under police and gendarme. Slum people resist to the end and defense their housing rights. BEKSAV Cinema Workshop has recorded destruction events experienced in these slums and resistance against these destructions for long years. And it talked one to one and interviewed with many people living there. This film is a short document of the slum reality.
Stop Ethnic Cleansing in Italy - London Protest
Support Roma Communities in Europe
Peaceful Vigil outside Italian Embassy - Wednesday 17 Oct 08, 12:00pm - 3:00pm
Come to the peaceful vigil outside the Embassy of Italy, 14 Three Kings Yard, London, W1K 4EH on Friday 17th October 2008, 12 noon - 3 pm.
The far right alliance of Silvio Berlusconi s Forza Italia, anti-immigrant Northern League and the Fascist Northern Alliance, has unleashed an unprecedented wave of racism and xenophobia against the Roma Gypsy people in Italy.
The climate of fear and racial hatred against the Gypsy Roma Traveller population in Italy has been steadily rising for some time and the actions of the Italian government seem to have contributed.
Non Government Organisations continue to report arrests, evictions and attacks on GRT communities of Italy.