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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 / miscellaneous / non-anarchist press Wednesday February 18, 2009 - 22:52 by Coalition Against Water PriVAtisation
In its historic judgement handed down on the 30th April 2008, the Johannesburg High Court declared prepaid water meters both illegal and unconstitutional and ordered the City of Johannesburg (CoJ) to provide residents with 50 litres of free water per person/per day . Despite the judgement being celebrated by poor communities across South Africa and supported by a wide range of domestic and international unions, political parties and non-governmental organisations, Johannesburg Mayor, Amos Masondo – alongside Johannesburg Water and the Department of Water Affairs & Forestry (DWAF) – appealed the judgement. More recently, the National Treasury has applied to be an amicus in support of the appeal. And so, now into its sixth year, this landmark case to secure basic constitutional rights to water for all, heads to the SCA. ... read full story / add a comment 
venezuela / colombia / imperialismo / guerra / non-anarchist press Tuesday February 17, 2009 - 08:51 by Unidad investigatiVA.
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Miles de personas en Colombia esperan a sus familiares, amigos, compañeros o padres, presas del dolor que causaron y siguen causando los responsables de esta práctica. Frente a los masivos hallazgos de cadáveres en fosas señaladas por los jefes paramilitares contrasta la ineficiencia de parte de las instituciones encargadas de la identificación de los restos, lo que extiende sin parar el dolor de las victimas. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / repression / prisoners / non-anarchist press Wednesday February 11, 2009 - 22:24 by Anti-PriVAtisation Forum
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Old skeletons are trembling in their closets as the traditional weapons of South African political play are sharpened at this time of elections. The split in the ruling party has done little to pacify the grudge match between the IFP and the ANC in Nongoma in KwaZulu-Natal. Instead, Cope's emergence has opened another front for beatings and intimidation between the sparring partners. Cope members in East London have been left to wonder "if the ANC is declaring war on us." And amongst the APF's own affiliates, the office of the Kliptown Concerned Residents was broken into. Electioneering material for the organisation's 28 January by-election campaign in the ward were removed by unknown 'comrade tsotsis.' ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / gender / non-anarchist press Tuesday February 10, 2009 - 17:32 by Coalition Against Water PriVAtisation
POOR WOMEN IN SOUTHERN AFRICA HIT HARDEST BY CONTINUED LACK OF ACCESS TO ADEQUATE, AFFORDABLE AND CLEAN WATER. NOW IS THE TIME TO SPEAK OUT AND BE HEARD! MARCH TO MAYOR MASONDO’S OFFICE ON THURSDAY 12TH FEBRUARY. STARTING FROM JOHANNESBURG LIBRARY GARDENS @ 10H00 ... 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. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / miscellaneous / non-anarchist press Wednesday January 21, 2009 - 15:02 by Coalition Against Water PriVAtisation
PRESS STATEMENT Tuesday 20th January, 2009 Cholera Crisis in Zimbabwe (and now increasingly, in South Africa) calls for political will to confront the ultimate perpetrators and deliver clean, accessible public water supplies. ... read full story / add a comment 
mashriq / arabia / iraq / imperialism / war / non-anarchist press Tuesday January 20, 2009 - 01:58 by EVA Bartlett
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Eva Bartlett is a Canadian human rights advocate and freelancer who spent eight months in 2007 living in West Bank communities and four months in Cairo and at the Rafah crossing. She is currently based in the Gaza Strip after having arrived with the third Free Gaza Movement boat in November. She has been working with the International Solidarity Movement in Gaza, accompanying ambulances while witnessing and documenting the ongoing Israeli air strikes and ground invasion of the Gaza Strip. ... 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
venezuela / colombia / represión / presos / non-anarchist press Thursday January 15, 2009 - 07:03 by Iván Cepeda Castro
CARMELO AGÁMEZ ES DEFENSOR DE derechos humanos y líder del Movimiento Nacional de Víctimas de Crímenes de Estado en San Onofre, Sucre. Su vida ha estado consagrada a denunciar los crímenes cometidos por los paramilitares y los políticos corruptos, como la ex congresista Muriel Benito Rebollo. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / miscellaneous / non-anarchist press Tuesday December 09, 2008 - 21:24 by Coalition Against Water PriVAtisation
As the country waits anxiously for a probe into the arms deal, the African National Congress (ANC) government has approved a whopping R7.3 billion for the Lesotho Highlands Dam Phase 2. Water Affairs and Forestry Minister Lindiwe Hendricks, made the announcement after a cabinet briefing last Thursday. The government claims that the second phase of the Lesotho Highlands scheme will ensure water security for industry and consumers. During the struggle against apartheid, it was the African National Congress that launched a halt on the construction of Katse Dam. By 1996, at the same time as the ANC was adopting GEAR, the ANC-led government approved the project. The World Bank (WB) had already agreed in 1991 to finance this phase of the multi–dam water transfer scheme with a $110-million loan for the Katse Dam. The WB loaned a further $45-million for the completion of the first phase. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / community struggles / non-anarchist press Wednesday November 26, 2008 - 14:46 by eMacambini Anti-RemoVAl Committee
Tuesday, 25 November 2008 eMacambini Anti-Removal Committee Press Statement -- Date: Wednesday 26 November 2008 Time: 10:00 Route: From Isithebe airstrip to the Mandeni Municipal Offices ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / migration / racism / non-anarchist press Monday November 24, 2008 - 19:19 by Anti-PriVAtisation Forum
The Anti Privatisation Forum joined with the Coalition Against Xenophobia at the 'Lindela Repatriation Centre' in Krugerdorp yesterday/today (22nd November) for a 24 hour picket calling for Lindela to be shut down. Our struggle knows no borders and we extend our solidarity to our African brothers and sisters who are being grabbed on the street, chased out of their homes and abducted to the deportation camp. The existence of the camp is a long-standing shame of democratic South Africa. Whether the 'Congress of the People' rightfully belongs to anyone in South Africa is a question void of any meaning when there is a complete unwillingness to confront the glaring racism, Afrophobia and violence that is Lindela. If South Africa 'belongs to all those who live in it', the principals on the throne of the Freedom Charter would be joining the Coalition to demand its closure. ... read full story / add a comment
S. Africa: Political Parties Must Fight Prepaid Water Meters On The Ground In Practice, Not In Words
southern africa / community struggles / non-anarchist press Tuesday November 18, 2008 - 15:24 by Coalition Against Water PriVAtisation
Johannesburg (17th November 2008): The Johannesburg High Court ruling on 30th April 2008 declaring prepaid water meters to be illegal and unconstitutional was welcomed by many organisations including the Gauteng Province of the ANC, even though they are champions of the installation of those meters. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / community struggles / non-anarchist press Wednesday November 12, 2008 - 23:06 by Coalition Against Water PriVAtisation
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Tomorrow, Tuesday 11th November 2008, hundreds of residents of poor communities around Gauteng will be marching to the City of Johannesburg Mayoral office in Braamfontein to protest against the City of Johannesburg issuing of summons and fines (R1500.00) for “tampering/removing” pre-paid water meters in their yards that were forcefully installed by Johannesburg Water since 2003. Residents will gather at Beyers Naude Library Gardens at 09h00 in the morning and the march will commence at 10h00 to Mayor Masondo Office. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / community struggles / non-anarchist press Tuesday November 11, 2008 - 18:58 by Anti-PriVAtisation Forum
The Anti Privatisation Forum (APF) together with the residents of Mooiplaas informal settlement in Tshwane will be marching to the Union Buildings on Thursday 13th November 2008 to expose the housing allocation corruption scandal in Olivenhoutbosch Extension 36 (Ward 48) and demand the Minister of Housing Lindiwe Sisulu set up a formal inquiry. ... read full story / add a comment 
venezuela / colombia / represión / presos / non-anarchist press Sunday September 21, 2008 - 18:23 by Junta DirectiVA
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Lamentamos informar el asesinato del jóven Oscar Rodríguez Amaya, Hermano del camarada y amigo Mauricio Rodríguez. Por favor difundirlo lo más ampliamente posible. Agradecemos las voces de condolencias y solidaridad. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / community struggles / non-anarchist press Wednesday September 17, 2008 - 14:53 by Anti-PriVAtisation Forum
More than 63 residents were arrested yesterday morning for public violence and will be appearing today at the Veeriniging Magistrate court (they have sinced all been released without charge). A strong crowd of more than 2000 residents organised by the Orange Farm Water Crisis Committee took to the streets in the early hours of Monday morning, 15 September 2008, to
blockade traffic on the Golden Highway. Police opened fire with rubber bullets injuring demonstrators and arresting residents randomly. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / community struggles / non-anarchist press Wednesday September 10, 2008 - 15:36 by Coalition Against Water PriVAtisation
This morning at the Johannesburg High Court, the application for leave to appeal the decision of the High Court on the pre-paid water case by the City of Johannesburg, Johannesburg Water and the Department of Water Affairs & Forestry was granted by Judge M.P. Tsoka. ... read full story / add a comment
north america / mexico / crime prison and punishment / non-anarchist press Wednesday September 10, 2008 - 10:14 by Gustavo EsteVA
The "war on drugs" makes clear the nature of the dominant regime and the function of security as a justification for the illegitimate use of domination and control. ... read full story / add a comment |
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