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		<title>Going Nowhere or Staying Put?</title>
		<link>http://housingstruggles.wordpress.com/2009/12/28/going-nowhere-or-staying-put/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 10:42:20 +0000</pubDate>
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By Neil Gray, Mute Magazine


Forced out of the areas they occupy, the involuntary subjects of urban gentrification confront a double challenge: the need for housing, and the need to radicalise campaigns beyond the parliamentary liberalism of rights discourse &#8211; writes Neil Gray in his extended report of last August&#8217;s Right to Stay Put conference in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=housingstruggles.wordpress.com&blog=3345284&post=536&subd=housingstruggles&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Squatting Ban in the Netherlands Approaching</title>
		<link>http://housingstruggles.wordpress.com/2009/12/19/squatting-ban-in-the-netherlands-approaching/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 11:42:35 +0000</pubDate>
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Dutch Indymedia
For the last three years a ban on squatting has been in preparation in Dutch politics. A new act that is to ban squatting in the Netherlands has passed through parliament on October 15th. Squatting empty houses that have been empty for over a year is currently still legal in the Netherlands. The new [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=housingstruggles.wordpress.com&blog=3345284&post=534&subd=housingstruggles&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Harare: Victims of Zim blitz struggle to build houses</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:32:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[REAGAN MASHAVAVE &#124; 				HARARE, ZIMBABWE									- 						Dec 15 2009 07:46, Mail &#38; Guardian
Four years after her house was demolished in a blitz by Zimbabwe&#8217;s government, Chipo Chama still lives in a grass thatched shack struggling to find a better home for herself and her two children.
Though she is married to a builder, the 27-year-old housewife has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=housingstruggles.wordpress.com&blog=3345284&post=528&subd=housingstruggles&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Warsaw: Tenants Burn Law, Declare War</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 07:54:33 +0000</pubDate>
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Warsaw tenants fight on, taking direct action, challenging the law and giving the politicians a hard time, Libcom



Things are getting hot for bureaucrats, property speculators and thieves as Warsaw tenants take more and more action. Yesterday tenants protested at the parliament, burning the Law on the Protection of Tenants which they claim is meaningless and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=housingstruggles.wordpress.com&blog=3345284&post=526&subd=housingstruggles&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Durban: Police attack the Pemary Ridge settlement</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 10:04:35 +0000</pubDate>
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Emergency Press Update from Abahlali basePemary Ridge
14 November 2009
Police Attack on Pemary Ridge &#8211; 13 arrested, at least 15 injured
The attack on Abahlali baseMjondolo continues.
The first van from the Sydenham Police Station arrived at the Pemary Ridge settlement at 8:00 p.m last night. The police officers went to a woman&#8217;s tuck shop and kicked down [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=housingstruggles.wordpress.com&blog=3345284&post=523&subd=housingstruggles&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cape Town: Hundreds protested yesterday in Mandela Park after assault by Chippa security guards. Demostrations to continue…</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:45:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anti-Eviction Press Release On behalf of Mandela Park Thursday 12 November 2009
Yesterday morning, two Mandela Park residents were assaulted by four Chippa security guards at the instruction of the local SANCO chairperson.  The two residents along with 7 witnesses went to the police station to lay a charge against the guards.  As retribution, the local [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=housingstruggles.wordpress.com&blog=3345284&post=521&subd=housingstruggles&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Driven From Below&#8221;: A Look at Tenant Organizing and the New Gentrification</title>
		<link>http://housingstruggles.wordpress.com/2009/11/07/driven-from-below-a-look-at-tenant-organizing-and-the-new-gentrification/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:12:01 +0000</pubDate>
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by Andrea Gibbons
From Institute for Anarchist Studies
This essay is the beginning of an attempt to combine theory and practice for radical organizers and activists working to combat gentrification and displacement in cities across the United States. Based on the premise that all real change has to be driven by those most affected by injustice, it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=housingstruggles.wordpress.com&blog=3345284&post=519&subd=housingstruggles&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Algiers: Police fire on slum protest</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 13:06:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Algiers police fire on slum protest 
People living in a slum district of the Algerian capital have taken to the streets for a second day to protest against job and housing shortages.
Residents of the Diar Echams area, frustrated over high unemployment and inadequate housing, clashed with police on Wednesday having started their protest on Monday night.
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		<title>South Africa: Party Politic Vs Living Politic in Kennedy Road</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 10:20:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[University of KwaZulu-Natal Forum Lecture
Thursday 22 October 2009
Party Politic Vs Living Politic in Kennedy Road
The Kennedy Road settlement, like all other Abahlali baseMjondolo settlements, has been embarking on a living politic.
This politic is a living politic because it talks about the realities of our democracy – a democracy that serves the interests of a minority [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=housingstruggles.wordpress.com&blog=3345284&post=515&subd=housingstruggles&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Battle in Rio Favelas</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 14:19:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Twelve dead and helicopter downed as Rio de Janeiro drug gangs go to war
Host city of the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics shaken by violence as
warlords battle for control of the cocaine trade.
&#60;http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/oct/17/rio-favela-violence-helicopter&#62;
Two weeks after Rio de Janeiro celebrated winning the 2016 Olympic Games,
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