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Call: Zero Evictions for 20,000 people, Bulacan, Philippines

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Call for international solidarity for Zero Evictions Bulacan!

We call our friends of the international community in publicly supporting this historical occupation. Thousands of lives and homes are at stake.

To stop the evictions in Bulacan, Philippines, we call upon international solidarity which is why we are asking everyone:

  • to sign the Call to Action
  • send letters of protest directly to the Embassies of Philippines  in your country. 

Please find: Directory of Philippines Embassies worldwide

You can use  the Call to Action as sample.

Important: send your message + photo so they can be published by nicolas@habitants.org


» Call for international solidarity for Zero Evictions Bulacan!

Urban poor Filipinos make history: #OccupyBulacan 6.000 vacant houses

March 8, the International Women's Day, Filipinos women and KADAMAY led a large contingent of those living in relocation sites/resettlement areas in Bulacan, to occupy about 5,280 vacant houses. The government has not responded kindly to the mass action.They have set up food blockades, harassment is non-stop, against urban poor Filipinos. On March 10, the government gave Kadamay and the thousands of urban poor Filipinos an ultimatum to vacate the premises within 7 days or they will evict all with extreme force.

As a response about 20,000 people have so far occupied about 6,000 houses.

The IAI stand up in solidarity and call for support Kadamay and the people for Zero Evictions Bulacan!

» Urban poor Filipinos make history: #OccupyBulacan 6.000 vacant houses

Open letter: Solidarity against evictions in Bulacan and for new policies for the right to housing throughout the Philippines

Solidarity against evictions in Bulacan and for new policies for the right to housing throughout the Philippines

Solidarity by Unione Inquilini, IAI member, with Zero Evictions #occupyBulacan at Eurostop march, Rome, Italy, 25 03 2017

We are writing to you on behalf of the International Alliance of Inhabitants (IAI), an international network of social organizations, which for many years has been committed to the defense of housing rights ‘without borders’. Moreover, we cooperate with the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing and UN-Habitat to defend the right to housing and fight evictions.

» Open letter: Solidarity against evictions in Bulacan and for new policies for the right to housing throughout the Philippines

An urgent appeal to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Housing: support #OccupyBulacan from eviction

KADAMAY, a national alliance of urban poor Filipinos that last March 8 led a successful campaign to occupy thousands of idle homes in resettlement sites, with the support of IAI ha sent an urgent Appel to Leilani Fahra, the UN Special Rapporteur for the Right ton Housing, to take action in order to address the demands and concerns of the homeless and urban poor. There is an air of urgency as the eviction is imminent and the occupation itself is the largest organized occupation by poor Filipinos in recent history.

» An urgent appeal to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Housing: support #OccupyBulacan from eviction

The International Alliance of Inhabitants is a global network of associations and social movements of inhabitants, cooperatives, communities, tenants, house owners, homeless, slum dwellers, indigenous populations and people from working class neighbourhoods. The objective is the construction of another possible world starting from the achievement of the housing and city rights.