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DESCRIPTION:Ashraf Cassiem, chairperson, Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign (South 
 Africa)\nFriday, November 13, 2009\n10am-11:30am\n652 Barrows Hall\nUC 
 Berkeley\n\nSouth 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.\n\nFor the past nine years, 
 Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign http://antieviction.org.za/ has been 
 one of the most prominent organizations of those 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 South African poor people's movements.\n\nPlease join 
 us for discussion and solidarity with Ashaf 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.\n\n“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!”\n\nSponsored by: UCB Center for African Studies, The Onyx 
 Foundation\nMore information: info@onyxfoundation.org or 
 http://www.onyxfoundation.org \n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/11/09/18628170.php
SUMMARY:Struggles from Below for Housing and Public Services in South Africa
LOCATION:Dept. for African American Studies\n652 Barrows Hall\nUC Berkeley Campus\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/11/09/18628170.php
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