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southern africa / community struggles / non-anarchist press Monday March 23, 2009 - 22:00 by Landless People's Movement   text 1 comment (last - friday march 27, 2009 - 15:13)
The Landless People's Movement (LPM) in Protea South is thankful for all the support that organisations and individuals have provided over the past week especially as we seek to revive the LPM across Gauteng and hopefully reunite it with the landless people in South Africa and around the world. Your solidarity has given us strength and encouragement and we are as determined as ever to push forward the struggle of the poor in our battle against injustice. No amount of threats by the government, the police or by individuals will stop us from fighting for our rights. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / community struggles / non-anarchist press Monday March 23, 2009 - 18:53 by Anti-Privatisation Forum
After a community meeting that was held yesterday, 19th March, by the residents of Sebokeng Zone 20 called by the Radical Youth Network (RYN), the police again arrested a community member Malefafane “Search” Letsele. He was arrested for an incident that happened on the 17th March 2009, when members of the community visited the house of the Community Police Forum (CPF) patrol officer, Thulani Bam, who arrested was arrested (and given free bail) for the murder of a community member Teboho Tsotetsi. They wanted to burn his house down but the RYN intervened and managed to calm the situation. The angry crowd left Thulani’s house in peace but promised to put more pressure on the police to ensure a fair trial. ... read full story / add a comment
Nuevo tipo de munición real, bala del calibre "0,22"
mashriq / arabia / iraq / community struggles / non-anarchist press Monday March 16, 2009 - 16:25 by Acció Palestina   image 3 images
Desde el inicio de los ataques en Gaza el pasado 27 de diciembre de 2008, las Fuerzas de Defensa Israelies han estado probando nuevos tipos de armas en diferentes localidades de los territorios ocupados palestinos en Cisjordania. Las nuevas armas consisten en dos nuevos tipos de balas y un nuevo proyectil de gas lacrimógeno. ... read full story / add a comment
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internacional / community struggles / non-anarchist press Monday March 16, 2009 - 16:21 by Acció Palestina   image 3 images
Un ciudadano americano ha sido gravemente herido en el pueblo palestino de Ni´lin, noreste de Ramallah, después de que el ejército israelí disparara contra él, y directamente a la cabeza, un proyectil de gas lacrimógeno. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / community struggles / non-anarchist press Monday March 16, 2009 - 15:26 by Bongani Xezwi & Luke Sinwell
As a single mother of five and a prominent activist who has come under threat by the police, government and now even the middle-class in her own community, Maureen Msisi asks for solidarity and advice to give her more courage to push forward the struggle of the poor. This is not the first time that Maureen’s life and family has been in danger because of her campaigns for the interests of poor people. In 1995, Maureen formed the branch of the ANC in Protea South hoping it would bring about a change that would better our lives. But members of the local civic at the time felt that she was challenging their power and they responded violently by attacking her. She was shot in the back and stabbed 3 times with a machete, breaking her leg and scarring her neck and hand. Almost 15 years into our new democracy, she continues struggling for the same changes in the lives of her people in Protea South, but now under the banner of the LPM. Today, she fears that if she continues on with the struggle, her life and her children’s futures will be in danger. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / community struggles / non-anarchist press Thursday March 12, 2009 - 18:57 by Coalition Against Water Privatisation   text 1 comment (last - thursday march 12, 2009 - 20:57)
Helen Zille and the City of Cape Town need to stop trying to score cheap political/elections propaganda points and be honest with the people of Cape Town (see press statement of City of Cape Town below). The so-called ‘water management devices’ are simply pre-paid meters in drag. Like the pre-paid meters which have been declared unconstitutional and illegal by the Johannesburg High Court, these devices dispense the 6000 ‘free’ litres per month/per household and then automatically cut off. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / community struggles / non-anarchist press Tuesday March 03, 2009 - 17:26 by Coalition Against Water Privatisation
Last week the ANC-run Emfuleni Municipality, together with its water utility - Metsi A Lekoa - called a community mass meeting at Kwa Masiza hostel in Sebokeng. Residents came in their droves thinking that an announcement would finally be made about kick-starting the municipality’s long awaited water provision project for the hostel. Instead, local ANC councillor M. Maqutyana and municipal official responsible for water and sanitation, Jonny Thabane told residents that even those residents who are accessing municipally-supplied piped water must “conserve’ that water and not use more than 25 litres of water per person/per day. When residents protested, they told them to vote for the ANC again (for a fourth time) if they wanted to have long-term and sustainable access to water. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / community struggles / non-anarchist press Monday February 23, 2009 - 20:11 by Woodstock Anti-Eviction Campaign
Anti-Eviction Campaign Solidarity Press Release
Monday 16 February, 2009 - For Immediate Release

Over 50 people in Cornwall Street, Woodstock, are under threat of evictions. ... read full story / add a comment
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southern africa / community struggles / non-anarchist press Monday February 23, 2009 - 16:36 by Zakheni Land Defenders Organisation   image 1 image
We, the people of De-Duer, have been forgotten by the government. We have been abandoned and left to die in the same conditions in which some of us grew up in, on these racist white farms, decades ago. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / community struggles / non-anarchist press Friday February 13, 2009 - 15:04 by Landless People's Movement
Over the years we, the Protea South branch of the Landless People's Movement, have marched many times and we have been arrested, beaten and tortured. Tomorrow will meet the City of Johannesburg in the High Court.
Our demands to the court are the same demands that we have taken to the streets: ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / community struggles / non-anarchist press Monday February 09, 2009 - 19:53 by Gugulethu Anti-Eviction Campaign   text 1 comment (last - tuesday february 10, 2009 - 15:22)
Earlier today, Sunday 8 February, Gugulethu SAPS burst into an Anti-Eviction Campaign mass meeting, tear-gassed and beat residents, and then arrested two AEC leaders, Mncedisi Twalo and Mbulelo Zuba. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / community struggles / non-anarchist press Thursday January 29, 2009 - 17:26 by Coalition Against Water Privatisation
On November 2008, the Emfuleni Mayor, Mr. Mushutudu addressed angry residents of Kwamasiza who have been without water and sanitation for the past seven years. The mayor, like many others promised that first thing as soon as his office opens, there will be different contractors working in the area and that Kwa-masiza hostel will be his priority this year. When he was told by members of the CAWP that this is just one of those false promises, he guaranteed residents that they will see change this year.
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international / community struggles / non-anarchist press Tuesday January 27, 2009 - 06:45 by balconaggio
southern africa / community struggles / non-anarchist press Friday January 23, 2009 - 20:14 by Nic
The Soweto Concerned Residents (SCR) held a community mass meeting in Orlando East at the A.M.E church to discuss the 2009 national elections and the state of the poor working class in the country. The meeting is normally attended by elderly pensioners and unemployed residents who are receiving various state support grants, many of whom were in the forefront of the struggle against apartheid. The meeting took a resolution to go and pay R5.00 zonke for basic services to their ward councillor, Ruby Mathang, on the 21st January 2009 at his office. This is a defiance campaign against market related charges for basic services for the poor and unemployed. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / community struggles / non-anarchist press Thursday January 22, 2009 - 15:15 by Gugulethu Anti-Eviction Campaign
Gugulethu - Mr. Gquma, a poor resident, gets evicted and threatened by ANC Youth League to make way for a local businessman's new tourist empire. ... read full story / add a comment
bolivia / peru / ecuador / chile / community struggles / non-anarchist press Thursday January 22, 2009 - 06:50 by Infolatam
Infolatam.- Al menos cuatro policías han resultado heridos y una decena de campesinos fueron detenidos durante la protesta convocada por la Confederación de Nacionalidades Indígenas de Ecuador (Conaie) contra la Ley de Minería impulsada por el Gobierno.

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greece / turkey / cyprus / community struggles / non-anarchist press Wednesday January 21, 2009 - 18:52 by Agence France-Presse
Agence France-Presse
Published: Tuesday, January 20, 2009

THESSALONIKI, Greece - Two months after her kiosk was torched in local riots an elderly woman from Thessaloniki has received an unlikely cash gift from anarchists to rebuild her life, a press report said on Tuesday.

"As anarchists, we felt we should support a fellow human victimized by blind violence," an organization calling itself Anarchist Initiative said in a statement sent to Eleftherotypia daily. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / community struggles / non-anarchist press Thursday January 15, 2009 - 23:01 by Coalition Against Water Privatisation
Since November last year, the Coalition Against Water Privatisation (CAWP) has heard complaints from residents of Kliptown that the City has been sending many people statements saying they should pay for services to avoid cut-offs or face legal action. These are the very same people who do not have running water or taps in their yards but make use of communal taps and at the same time use paraffin to cook. All 7 people who came to report this matter to the CAWP said that they owe the City R194. Is this a flat rate or a coincidence based on estimations? ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / community struggles / other libertarian press Thursday January 15, 2009 - 20:25 by Toussaint Losier
This article is published in the current issue of Left Turn magazine in the United States of America. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / community struggles / non-anarchist press Thursday January 15, 2009 - 19:41 by Abahlali baseMjondolo
In this film, shot in the vast shack settlements in and around Durban, members of Abahlali baseMjondolo, the grassroots shackdwellers' movement, lay out their case – against forcible eviction and for decent services – with passion, eloquence, and sweet reason. The film captures the horrible conditions in which shackdwellers live – but it also captures Abahlali's bravery and resilience, in a political climate where grassroots campaigners like them are more likely to be met with rubber bullets than with offers to talk. ... read full story / add a comment
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