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Steven. — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 10:31:57 +0000

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Cape Town: two anti-eviction campaigners arrested

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.

On the pogroms in South Africa

red jack — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 12:47:01 +0000

The industrial and mining towns on the Eastern outskirts of Johannesburg are unlovely places. They’re set on flat windswept plains amidst the dumps of sterile sand left over from old mines. In winter the wind bites, the sky is a very pale blue and it seems to be all coal braziers, starved dogs, faded strip malls, gun shops and rusting factories and mine headgear.

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

Taking Poverty Seriously: What the poor are saying and why it matters

bomvu — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 07:18:36 +0000

A commitment to justice and democratic governance requires that we listen carefully as much as we speak loudly and act decisively.

The University of Abahlali baseMjondolo

bomvu — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 15:17:36 +0000

Since 2004 South African cities have been convulsed by a series of municipal revolts organised from shack settlements. They have most often taken the form of blockading roads with burning barricades and have generally targeted municipal party councillors. Across the country many of the more militant settlements have refused electoral politics and declared 'No Land, No House, No Vote'.

Neither the march nor the money are ours

bomvu — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:52:36 +0000

[b]Slum Dwellers International (SDI) is a global NGO strongly supported by the World Bank, USAid and the Gates Foundation. In South Africa the state, which is highly repressive to shack dwellers and their organisations, has a formal partnership with SDI.

All charges dropped against Kennedy 6

bomvu — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:14:55 +0000

Abahlali baseMjondolo began in the 7000 strong Kennedy Road shack settlement and it is here were the state has concentrated repression. One year and one week ago six key activists in the settlement were arrested on a trumped up murder charge (the same tactic was used against the Landless People's Movement in Johannesburg the year before).

Democracy in my experience

imbokodo — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:54:06 +0000

People have different definitions of democracy.

Some people say that democracy means freeing everyone to do whatever they want, regardless of rule or controls, with no instructions or boundaries, no importance to whether what is done is wrong or right.

When choices can no longer be choices - S'bu Zikode

imbokodo — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:49:50 +0000

When Choices Can No Longer Be Choices

by S'bu Zikode

The 'No Land, No House, No Vote' campaign still on for 2009

imbokodo — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:46:43 +0000

The No Land, No House, No Vote Campaign Still on for 2009

by M'du Hlongwa

From party politics to service delivery to the politics of the poor

imbokodo — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:42:45 +0000

I hope that one day it will be realised by our government officials how much betrayal they have served to the floors on which they stand and where they belong. It is very sad that our politicians forget that their power started with people like us, people like the red shirts.

We are the restless majority - S'bu Zikode

imbokodo — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:26:16 +0000

[i]This article by S'bu Zikode appeared in Durban's elite bourgeois newspaper, the Mercury, in July 2006. After Abahlali baseMjondolo put twenty thousand people on the streets in support of a boycott of the February 2006 local government elections in the face of major militarised state intimidation the middle classes began to concede some space to the voices of the militant poor.

The police and Abahlali baseMjondolo

imbokodo — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 14:33:56 +0000

The Police & Abahlali baseMjondolo

A List of Key Incidents of Police Harassment Suffered by Abahlali baseMjondolo
- compiled by Stephanie Lynch and Zodwa Nsibande