International Tribunal on Evictions - Session on tourism - 28-30 September 2017
28-30 september 2017
Italy, Venice
Sala San Leonardo, Cannaregio 1584
The International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development will be the subject of the 6th Session of the International Tribunal on Evictions, at the opening of the World Zero Evictions Days,to give the floor to the inhabitants who are the victims of tourism-driven property speculation around the world:
● India: Expropriation and evictions to make room for a third airport for the national capital, New Delhi
● Sri Lanka: Land grabbing for tourism development, Panama Village
● Argentina: Evictions and gentrification in the historic neighbourhood of La Boca, Buenos Aires
● Kenya: Violent evictions of the Masai in the name of protecting wildlife to support elite tourism
● Italy: Fake tourist rentals on the Island of Pellestrina, Venice
The accused on the bench will be those who evict people and turn them into tourism extras as they convert cities and landscapes into museums and parks.
The Tribunal Jury, made up of activists and experts from around the world, will analyse each case, draft a verdict and make recommendations.
A People’s Jury, composed of members of the social organisations that seek to defend the inhabitants of Venice, will contribute to the debate and to the decisions.
PARTICIPATE: THIS TRIBUNAL IS ON YOUR SIDE!
Program of the International Tribunal of Evictions
The Programme includes the 6th Session of the Tribunal, meetings and exchange of experience in working-class neighbourhoods, cultural activities and debates.
Thursday 28/09/17
Site: Santa Marta ACTV vaporetto (water bus) stop - Dorsoduro
14.00 - 17.00 : "Venice that resists" visits Venetian places of civil resistance, areas saved from deterioration and abandonment, virtuous residence projects.
Centro Sociale Morion, Salizada S. Francesco della Vigna, Sestriere Castello, Venezia - Italy
18.00-22.00 : Videos on the struggle for housing in Venice. Pizza dinner and music at km 0.
Friday 29/09/17
Sala S. Leonardo, San Leonardo, Cannaregio 1584, Venezia - Italy
9.00-13.00 : Public Session
Lunch break
14.30-18.00 : Public Session
19:30 : Videos on housing struggles from around the world
21.00 : "Urban transformations in Venice through the maps of abandonment and trade". Laura Fregolent. Prof. Università IUAV Venezia. Alessandra Longo, Dalila Quartucci (Laboratorio di Analisi urbana e territoriale del Corso di laurea in Urbanistica e pianificazione del territorio)
Saturday 30/09/17
Sala S. Leonardo, San Leonardo, Cannaregio 1584, Venezia - Italy
9.00-12.00 : Open debate session with the People’s Jury
12.15 : Opening of the Monument / Installation / Murales Zero Evictions
12.30 : Public reading of preliminary Recommendations
Lunch break
14.30-18.00 : Debate between local authority officials, social organisation representatives and housing experts: ‘The resistance of the inhabitants in the center: transforming tourism with Alternative Social Compacts based on human rights, sustainability and responsibility towards future generations.’
Translation: English, Spanish, Italian (bring your smartphones!)
Organising bodies
The 2017 Session of the Tribunal is the follow-up to the People's Social Forum Resistance at Habitat III (Quito, Ecuador, 2016). It is being organised as part of the events marking the World Zero Evictions Days by the International Alliance of Inhabitants, together with social organisations from Venice engaged in the struggle for housing and against the depopulation of the city:
International Alliance of Inhabitants
Unione Inquilini
Assemblea Sociale per la Casa Mestre-Marghera-Venezia
Venessia.com
Garanzia Civica
Generazione ‘90
Eddyburg
No Grandi Navi
Gruppo 25 Aprile
With the participation of Tourism Watch
Support
The Session will take place thanks to those who share their social capital, the voluntary participation of organisation representations and the cooperation of other volunteers, such as the interpreters.
It has the support of the Breadh for the World Protestant Development Service, MISEREOR German Catholic Development Agency and the municipality of Venice, Murano and Burano.
Georeferences
The Volunteer translator for housing rights without frontiers of IAI who has collaborated on the translation of this text was: