homelessness

Politics at stake: a note on stakeholder analysis

red jack — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:36:48 +0000

Mark Butler and David Ntseng, July 2008

Resistance from the other South Africa

red jack — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:37:08 +0000

The topic of this particular meeting was 'leadership'. While Abahlali has never stated that it is an anarchist movement many have drawn parallels between 'Abahlalism' and 'anarchism'. Certainly the movement considers both the state and the vanguardist left to be oppressors.

Neha Nimmagudda (2008-07-17)

Cape Town: two anti-eviction campaigners jailed for a year

red jack — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 11:52:16 +0000

The movement, and other militant movements in South Africa considers Daniels and Isaacs to be political prisoners and is mobilising support on this basis.

We are not all like that: the monster bares its fangs

red jack — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:48:52 +0000

The sms’s came fast and furious. As furious as the fiery images we were subjected to by our television and our daily newspapers. The front pages are a festival of beastly pictures of the victims of the negrophobic blood letting which has gripped South Africa in the past weeks.

Greenlake "Motel" attempted eviction - Seattle

888 — Wed, 21 May 2008 02:00:14 +0000

On Friday May 16, tenants at twelve apartments behind the Green Lake Motel on Aurora Ave got a surprise visit from their landlords - who also own the motel and a few others - saying they had two days to move out, or they'd be arrested. The motel's license was being suspended due to unsafe conditions, and the apartments had been operating (possibly wrongly) under the same license.

South Africa: Gangster landlord continues campaign of intimidation with police support

bomvu — Tue, 13 May 2008 15:14:35 +0000

[i]London anarchist, Antonios Vradis lived in the community for a while in late 2006 from and it was here that the anarchist magazine Voices of Resistance from Occupied London was conceived.

Abahlali baseMjondolo to host National UnFreedom Day

red jack — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:07:13 +0000

Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Release
Monday 21 April 2008

Abahlali baseMjondolo to Mourn UnFreedom Day Once Again

Time: 9:00 a.m., Sunday 27 April 2008
Venue: Community Hall, Kennedy Road Shack Settlement, Clare Estate, Durban

The Politics of Fire

bomvu — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 14:03:19 +0000

Friday, 15 February 2008
Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Release

City Escalates Its War on the Poor
Mass Disconnections from Electricity at Gun Point in the Kennedy Road Settlement

Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Release for the March on Mlaba, 28 September 2007

bomvu — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 13:49:01 +0000

[b]On 28 September 2007 around 3 000 Abahlali baseMjondolo members marched on the mayor of Durban, Obed Mlaba. In previous Abahlali baseMjondolo marches mock coffins were carried and local councillors symbolically buried as a rejection of their top down party authority over bottom up people's power.

Civil society, citizenship and the politics of the (im)possible: rethinking militancy in Africa today

imbokodo — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:11:35 +0000

by Michael Neocosmos

Abstract