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THIRD THURSDAYS
An Evening of Solidarity with the Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign
Ashraf Cassem & Jean Rice
South Africa will be on the global stage as host of the 2010 World Cup. Yet, with one of the world's highest rates of economic inequality and social protest, it is likely that the country's glaring contradictions and its militant poor, perhaps more so than the "beautiful game," will be center stage next summer.
For the past nine years, Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign has been one of the most prominent organizations of militant poor, fighting against evictions and police brutality as well as for free basic service and quality health care in South Africa's poor and working class communities. As a coordinating body of over 15 community organizations in the Western Cape Province, the AEC has been at the forefront of challenging the neoliberal economic policies have been imposed since the fall of apartheid, recently helping to found the Poor People's Alliance as a national network of poor people's movements.
Please join us for an evening of discussion and solidarity with Ashraf Cassiem, the chairman of the Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign, as he calls attention to the problem facing South Africa's poor and draws connections between the struggles being waged in his country and those now being taken up here in the midst of the Great Recession.
“As coordinators of the anti-eviction campaign, we are not leaders In
the traditional authoritarian sense. Instead, we are like a set of
cutlery. We are the tools that are there to be used by poor
communities fighting against the cruel and oppressive conditions of
South African society. Power to the poor people!”
Ashraf Cassiem is an organizer with the Western Cape Anti Eviction Campaign
Jean Rice is lead organizer and board member of Picture the Homeless
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Monday November 16 - Discussion at Red Emmas
Tuesday November 16 - Discussion at Africa Action at 12pm-2pm and at 5:30pm-7:30pm
Thursday, November 19 - Brecht Forum at 7:30pm
Friday, November 20 - Massachusetts Institute of Technology at 12:30pm-2pm and Emerson College at 3pm-5pm
Saturday, November 21 - Alliance to Develop Power at 12pm
** For more information about the tour, contact Toussaint Losier at toussaint.losier@gmail.com or +1-215-837-4071 **
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Folks,
I hope this message finds you well. Over the past few month, I have been helping to organize a visit to the U.S. by a South African social movement activist from the Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign (www.antieviction.org.za).
South Africa will be on the global stage as host of the 2010 World Cup. Yet, with one of the world's highest rates of economic inequality and social protest, it is likely that the country's glaring contradictions and its militant poor, perhaps more so than the "beautiful game," will be center stage next summer.
For the past nine years, Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign has been one of the most prominent organizations of militant poor, fighting against evictions and police brutality as well as for free basic service and quality health care in South Africa's poor and working class communities. As a coordinating body of over 15 community organizations in the Western Cape Province, the AEC has been at the forefront of challenging the neoliberal economic policies have been imposed since the fall of apartheid, recently helping to found the Poor People's Alliance as a national network of poor people's movements.
This month, one of the Anti-Eviction Campaign's coordinators, Ashraf Cassiem, is going around the U.S., speaking at college campuses and meeting with activist to share information about post-apartheid community struggles, particularly with the forced removals and the resulting protests taking place in the run up to the 2010 World Cup. He is also here to witness the work being done in the U.S. around layoffs, foreclosures, and other issues that have come to the fore with the current recession.
I know this is short notice, but I wanted to make sure you knew about our events. Please feel free to come and bring your friends if you can.
Peace, Toussaint
215-837-4071
Monday, November 16 :
Red Emma’s Presents an Evening of Discussion and Solidarity with Ashraf Cassiem at 7pm at 2640 St. Paul Street (http://redemmas.org/uploads/posters/aec.jpg)
Tuesday, November 17 :
Lunch at the Institute for Policy Studies hosted by Africa Action, ”Housing Struggles World Wide” 12-2 pm at Institute for Policy Studies, 1112 16th St. NW, Suite 600, Washington, DC 20036 (http://www.africaaction.org/events/index.php?op=view&eventid=2051)
“Housing Struggles World Wide” Panel Discussion, 5:30-7:30pm, Real Time Africa, 4000 Chesapeake St NW Washington, DC 20016
(http://www.africaaction.org/events/index.php?op=view&eventid=2071)
Thursday, November 19 :
Brecht Forum @ 7:30pm, “This is not the freedom we fought for: Poor Peoples movements in post-apartheid South Africa” 451 West Street (between Bank & Bethune Streets), New York, NY 10014 (http://brechtforum.org/events/post-apartheid-moment)
Friday, November 20 :
Massachusetts Institute of Technology @ 12:30-2pm, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Room 10-485, Cambridge, MA 02138
Emerson College @ 3-5pm, Walker Building Rm 233, 120 Boylston St, Boston, MA
Saturday, November 21 :
Alliance to Develop Power @ 12pm, " South African activist to share strategies with ADP leaders," 130 Union Street, Springfield, MA
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The Badil Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights
is pleased to announce the publication of issue the Autumn 2009 issue of
al-Majdal (issue #42), titled Nakba Education on the Path of Return. The
issue looks at Nakba education: education in its various forms on the
history, culture, geography and society of Palestine over the past sixty
one years.
The authors in this issue of al-Majdal, are directly involved in the
process of Nakba Education in various places, directing their work at
different communities, and cover various aspects of the topic. Rami
Salameh looks at education in Palestinian elementary and high-school
classrooms and the need to develop the pedagogical methods in
Palestinian Authority schools. Said Barghouti examines the way Israeli
history textbooks over the past forty years have presented the history
of the land to Palestinian students. Dan Walsh examines the way the
“Middle East Conflict” is taught to U.S. high school students,
suggesting that Palestinian poster art can be used to present this topic
in a more accurate and student-empowering way. Also in the U.S., members
of the Palestine Education Project describe their work with students in
Brooklyn to learn about the experience of Palestinians and draw
connections with their own lived experiences. Nidal al-Azza shares his
reflections on teaching Palestinian refugee rights under international
law to Palestinian law students. Also looking at education in the
classroom, Amaya Galili describes How do we say Nakba in Hebrew? a
recently launched resource packet developed by Zochrot in Hebrew for
teachers wishing to engage Jewish-Israeli students about the Nakba.
Other authors focus on Nakba education outside of the classroom. Khaled
al-Azraq, a political prisoner for the past twenty years, tells us how
the Palestinian prisoners' movement has educated its cadre. Mo'ataz
al-Dajani looks at the efforts of al-Jana Center in Lebanon to engage
Palestinian children and youth in the writing of their own history by
engaging with older generations and with their surroundings, while Rich
Wiles describes the educational activities of refugee community centers
in the Bethlehem district.
While the articles in this issue provide a small sample of the forms
that Nakba education can take, the experiences and work described by
these authors offer a useful guide for others engaging in this field.
Sharing and learning from the experiences of others is one of the ways
educators can learn, and this issue of al-Majdal aims to be a
contribution to this shared learning process.
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Read this issue of al-Majdal online at:
http://www.badil.org/en/al-majdal/itemlist/category/158-nakba-education-on-the-path-of-return
Or download the pdf of the complete issue at:
http://www.badil.org/en/documents/category/35-publications?download=623%3Aal-majdal-issue-42-autumn-2009
Visit the al-Majdal page at:
http://www.badil.org/al-majdal
For more information, contact info@badil.org
Labels: Israel-Palestine, Middle East, Palestinian people, Warfare and Conflict
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Hindus have strongly urged newly elected mayor of Sofia (Bulgaria) Yordanka Fandakova to improve the plight of Roma people residing in Sofia, who are reportedly facing apartheid like conditions.
Rajan Zed, acclaimed Hindu statesman, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, said that mayor Fandakova should make Roma upliftment her first priority as their maltreatment was a dark stain on the face of Sofia and Bulgaria.
Zed, who is the president of Universal Society of Hinduism, stressed that it was simply immoral to continue staying apathetic and silent spectator ignoring Roma plight, who reportedly regularly faced social exclusion, racism, substandard education, hostility, joblessness, rampant illness, inadequate housing, lower life expectancy, unrest, living on desperate margins, stereotypes, mistrust, rights violations, discrimination, marginalization, appalling living conditions, prejudice, human rights abuse, etc.
Commissioner for Human Rights of Council of Europe Thomas Hammarberg, who recently concluded a three-day visit to Sofia, visited a Roma settlement in the Republika district of Sofia where he assessed the living conditions as inhumane. “No one should live in these conditions in today’s Europe” he declared.
Capital and largest city of Bulgaria, Sofia is the second oldest city in Europe whose roots can be traced back to about 7000 years. Lonely Planet has described Sofia as "city waking up after decades of slumber".
References to Roma people in Europe, who are believed to have their roots in the Indian subcontinent, reportedly went as far back as ninth century AD.
ENDS
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