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		<title>Durban: Police attack the Pemary Ridge settlement</title>
		<link>http://housingstruggles.wordpress.com/2009/11/14/durban-police-attack-the-pemary-ridge-settlement/</link>
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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; 11 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>
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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,
the Brazilian city was tonight bracing itself for a further night [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=housingstruggles.wordpress.com&blog=3345284&post=513&subd=housingstruggles&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>South Africa: Abahlali baseMjondolo Attacked by ANC Militia</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 07:09:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Abahlali baseMjondolo has been attacked in the Kennedy Road settlement by an ANC militia chanting fascist ethnic slogans. The police refused all requestes to intervene and instead arrested the local leadership of the movement. At least a thousand people are currently homeless and Abahlali baseMjondolo leaders are in hiding due to ongoing death threats &#8211; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=housingstruggles.wordpress.com&blog=3345284&post=510&subd=housingstruggles&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>South Africa: Relocation, Relocation &amp; Demonstration</title>
		<link>http://housingstruggles.wordpress.com/2009/09/25/south-africa-relocation-relocation-demonstration/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 09:42:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Simon Saunders, The Morning Star, 9 September 2009
Many activists in South Africa&#8217;s largest shack dwellers&#8217; movement Abahlali baseMjondolo (AbM) have been fighting over the issue of housing rights for 15 years now.
After the fall of apartheid in 1994, the new ANC government wrote into the constitution that the shack dwellers, living four or five [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=housingstruggles.wordpress.com&blog=3345284&post=508&subd=housingstruggles&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Accra: Let Them Eat Cake</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:56:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Squatter City
The Accra Metropolitan Assembly now argues that the 50,000 people living in Sodom and Gomorrah, as the Ghanaian capital&#8217;s most notorious squatter community is called, are stalling an environmental project that will clean the waters of Accra&#8217;s lagoon. Peacefm quotes AMA Chief Executive Dr. Alfred Vanderpuiye: &#8220;We are pumping money [into this project] and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=housingstruggles.wordpress.com&blog=3345284&post=506&subd=housingstruggles&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nairobi: Kenya begins huge slum clearance</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:49:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kenyan authorities have begun to move residents out of Africa&#8217;s largest slum &#8211; the Kibera settlement in Nairobi. BBC News 

Officials expect to take from two to five years to clear the slum, which is home to about one million people.
The first people to move are being rehoused nearby in 300 newly built apartments, each [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=housingstruggles.wordpress.com&blog=3345284&post=505&subd=housingstruggles&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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