notaslave
04-10-2007, 02:38 PM
Let’s support a united international Housing and Land Rights Campaign 07 – 08 !
By diverse international meetings and networks is was proposed to launch an international, decentralized campaign for housing and land rights, against exclusion and evictions, against privatisation and speculation from October 2007. We – a small initiative of locally rooted but internationally orientated activists in Europe – committed ourselves to the task to promote the campaign idea, look for the enlargement of supporters in Europe and assist the building of tools for internal and external communication.
We like to encourage all groups, movements, networks which are active for housing, city and land rights to plan action and join forces for a strong decentralized but interrelated campaign from October 2007 (World Habitat Day) via 27th January 2008 (World Social Forma action days) & March 2008 (international real estate fair MIPIM in Cannes/France).
In solidarity local groups and organizations are asked :
Organize an action, a meeting, a conference in your city, region or neighborhood according to your local priorities!
Tell your allies around the world about your plans, your action, it’s reasons, goals and targets.
Let’s get in contact for exchanging ideas and sharing plans! Inspire others and let you be inspired by examples and experiences around the world!
Help to communicate the forms and contents of decentralized action to the global levels. Make our parallel action more visible!
Let’s build an open international group for the promotion, communication and reflection of our action!
Promote the idea of the campaign! Reasons to act
Evictions, privatisations, unaffordable rents, speculation, urban cleansing, criminalisation of the homeless, pro-speculative policies, pollution, repression against organizers… There are so many issues, so many reasons to act - local, regional, global - … Let’s get in exchange to map them, to express them, to share them and to internationalise them. This way we will produce one or many political calls for action…
Ways to act
There are even many ways to act and any group must decide on it’s own. There can be: STREET ACTION against the destruction of local vendors as planned for India. TESTIMONIES which the Ruhr tenants organizations plan to organize with victims of privatisation. CONFERENCES: The German relief organization misereor will organize a conference on strategies against forced evictions. PRESS CONFERENCES which should take place at various places, best if they even communicate action in others countries. ART ACTION, an idea for instance in Zurich. VIDEO SHOWS with films about violations of rights and resistance. TARGET ACTION: Why not organize an action directly at the offices of companies and state departments which are directly responsible for housing rights violations in your country or others? INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY ACTION: Our campaigning will not become really international as long as we do not reach or accuse the responsible international institutions. At low intensity you could just publicly hand over a petition to a bank which is profiting from housing speculation or unsocial foreign investments. Good if you could combine international solidarity with action for your own demands.
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By diverse international meetings and networks is was proposed to launch an international, decentralized campaign for housing and land rights, against exclusion and evictions, against privatisation and speculation from October 2007. We – a small initiative of locally rooted but internationally orientated activists in Europe – committed ourselves to the task to promote the campaign idea, look for the enlargement of supporters in Europe and assist the building of tools for internal and external communication.
We like to encourage all groups, movements, networks which are active for housing, city and land rights to plan action and join forces for a strong decentralized but interrelated campaign from October 2007 (World Habitat Day) via 27th January 2008 (World Social Forma action days) & March 2008 (international real estate fair MIPIM in Cannes/France).
In solidarity local groups and organizations are asked :
Organize an action, a meeting, a conference in your city, region or neighborhood according to your local priorities!
Tell your allies around the world about your plans, your action, it’s reasons, goals and targets.
Let’s get in contact for exchanging ideas and sharing plans! Inspire others and let you be inspired by examples and experiences around the world!
Help to communicate the forms and contents of decentralized action to the global levels. Make our parallel action more visible!
Let’s build an open international group for the promotion, communication and reflection of our action!
Promote the idea of the campaign! Reasons to act
Evictions, privatisations, unaffordable rents, speculation, urban cleansing, criminalisation of the homeless, pro-speculative policies, pollution, repression against organizers… There are so many issues, so many reasons to act - local, regional, global - … Let’s get in exchange to map them, to express them, to share them and to internationalise them. This way we will produce one or many political calls for action…
Ways to act
There are even many ways to act and any group must decide on it’s own. There can be: STREET ACTION against the destruction of local vendors as planned for India. TESTIMONIES which the Ruhr tenants organizations plan to organize with victims of privatisation. CONFERENCES: The German relief organization misereor will organize a conference on strategies against forced evictions. PRESS CONFERENCES which should take place at various places, best if they even communicate action in others countries. ART ACTION, an idea for instance in Zurich. VIDEO SHOWS with films about violations of rights and resistance. TARGET ACTION: Why not organize an action directly at the offices of companies and state departments which are directly responsible for housing rights violations in your country or others? INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY ACTION: Our campaigning will not become really international as long as we do not reach or accuse the responsible international institutions. At low intensity you could just publicly hand over a petition to a bank which is profiting from housing speculation or unsocial foreign investments. Good if you could combine international solidarity with action for your own demands.
source and more ... (http://campaignblog.habitants.de/)