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	<title>The Struggle for the City</title>
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	<description>linking struggles for the right to the city worldwide</description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:25:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>France: Immigrants strike for the right to work</title>
		<link>http://housingstruggles.wordpress.com/2008/07/22/france-immigrants-strike-for-the-right-to-work/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:23:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dollars and Sense
“They work here, they live here, they stay here!”
French immigrants strike for the right to work—and win.
By Marie Kennedy and Chris Tilly
France has an estimated half-million undocumented immigrants (8% of the population, compared to 4% in the United States), including many from France’s former colonies in Africa. The sans-papiers (literally, “without papers”), as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Washington: Shared Struggle Led Women to Political Action</title>
		<link>http://housingstruggles.wordpress.com/2008/07/21/washington-shared-struggle-led-women-to-political-action/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:20:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Domestic Workers Spurred Montgomery Protections
Washington Post
By Katherine Shaver
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, July 21, 2008; A01

Most Sundays for the past six years, about 25 live-in nannies and housekeepers from across the Washington area have gathered in Silver Spring to share stories of mandatory six-day workweeks, 14-hour days and salaries that amount to as little as $1 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>London: Wembley&#8217;s tent city</title>
		<link>http://housingstruggles.wordpress.com/2008/07/20/london-wembleys-tent-city/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2008 13:43:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>housingstruggles</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Claire Provost, The New Statesman, 16 July 2008
How a battle to save a football ground and stop an academy school prompted teachers and other citizens in London to make camp in Wembley
What happens when an “International Children’s Charity” funded by multi-billion pound hedge fund speculators, wants to a build new academy school in some of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Israeli settlers stake claim to abandoned West Bank military base</title>
		<link>http://housingstruggles.wordpress.com/2008/07/16/israeli-settlers-stake-claim-to-abandoned-west-bank-military-base/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 08:48:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Turkish Weekly, Tuesday , 15 July 2008

More than one hundred Israeli settlers, some of them armed, set up camp in an abandoned military base in the West Bank town of Beit Sahour on Monday night in what may be the establishment of an illegal settlement outpost.
 
“We’re here to build a Jewish city, with the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Greening of Istanbul</title>
		<link>http://housingstruggles.wordpress.com/2008/07/10/the-greening-of-istanbul/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 09:51:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Cihan Tugal, New Left Review, June 2008
Like its predecessors, Istanbul has always been positioned as a ‘world city’, as much by its geo-economic location—at the crossroads between Europe and the Middle East, Russia and the Mediterranean—as by its spectacular setting, straddling the wooded hillsides on both sides of the Bosphorus, with the perfect natural [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bombay: Hunger strike at conditions in relocation sites</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:18:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MUIP – MUTP Displaced starting Hunger strike protest at Vashi Nakka from July 2nd 

demanding restoration of livelihood and better amenities at rehabilitation sites.
MMRDA Vasahat Nagarik Seva Sangh, a federation of various housing cooperative housing societies resettled at Vashi Nakka, Chembur has decided to start a hunger strike protest demanding restoration of livelihood and demanding [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cape Town: Police Attack the Symphony Road Occupation</title>
		<link>http://housingstruggles.wordpress.com/2008/06/30/cape-town-police-attack-the-symphony-road-occupation/</link>
		<comments>http://housingstruggles.wordpress.com/2008/06/30/cape-town-police-attack-the-symphony-road-occupation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:22:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Western Cape Anti-Eviciton Campaign, 29 June 2008
Police Intimidate &#38; Assault Delft-Symphony Pavement Dwellers - American journalist pepper sprayed for taking photos
Delft-Symphony — Last night at 22h00, three police vans pulled up to Symphony Way dressed in riot gear. Without warning, they began pepper spraying people in the settlement and attempted to arrest a 58 year [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Durban: The pogroms - one month later</title>
		<link>http://housingstruggles.wordpress.com/2008/06/28/durban-the-pogroms-one-month-later/</link>
		<comments>http://housingstruggles.wordpress.com/2008/06/28/durban-the-pogroms-one-month-later/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 12:06:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Durban Action Against Xenophobia, 26 June 2008

Hi All
Its now a month since South Africans went on the rampage and starting attacking and killing foreigners. If you had to judge by the media or the accounts of municipality, Durban was largely unaffected and this have been well under control.
The reality is a bit more grim. At [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Delhi: Pride, Prejudice and Politics</title>
		<link>http://housingstruggles.wordpress.com/2008/06/28/delhi-pride-prejudice-and-politics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 08:34:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gautam Bhan, Kafila, 28 June 2008
A gay man is given two years of electroshock therapy in a major city hospital to “cure” him — the National Human Rights Commission refuses to file a complaint. A 2004 book on queer politics sees 34 contributors write under their full names, many for the first time. Lesbian women [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Delhi: People’s Declaration of Emergency and Pledge to Reclaim Democracy</title>
		<link>http://housingstruggles.wordpress.com/2008/06/28/new-delhi-people%e2%80%99s-declaration-of-emergency-and-pledge-to-reclaim-democracy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 08:25:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Delhi Solidarity Group, 26 June 2008
More than 200 people join the protest march from Shaheed  Park to Red Fort and hold a public meeting 

New Delhi, June 26 2008 : Remembering the Black Day of June 25/26th 1975 when a State of Emergency was imposed by the Indira Gandhi Government suspending all civil liberties, [...]]]></description>
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