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DESCRIPTION:Struggles from Below for Housing and Public Services in South 
 Africa\nAshraf Cassiem, chairperson, Western Cape (S.A.) Anti-Eviction 
 Campaign \nSaturday, November 14, 2009\n2-4pm\nNiebyl-Proctor Marxist 
 Library\n6501 Telegraph Ave, Oakland, CA\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: The Onyx Foundation\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/11/12/18628530.php
SUMMARY:Struggles from Below for Housing and Public Services in South Africa
LOCATION:Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library\n6501 Telegraph Ave, Oakland, CA\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/11/12/18628530.php
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