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From the columns:
Calls Wed, Jun 06 2007 Rostock, MS Stubnitz, Stadthafen by and with:
WG Habitat at Forum Environment and Development - Mob e.V./Strassenfeger (Homeless, Berlin)- Habitat International Coalition (HIC)- International Network of Urban Research and Action (INURA) - Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) - Local Organizers of Community Organizations in Asia (LOCOA) - MNML, Brazil - Osaka Homeless Associations - Droit au Logement(DAL) - NO VOX
and (6 pm) Miloon Kothari, UN Special Rapporteur for the right to housing
>> Read more >> zur Rubrik Corporate Campaigns AIMCO (Apartment Investment Management Company) is the largest Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) in the rental housing sector in the USA, currently owning or managing more than 240,000 apartments. Tenants Organizations in the U.S. accuse AIMCO for replacing scarce low income subsidized housing with luxury market rental or condominium developments and for violating basic housing rights. Habitat Netz and Ruhr Tenants Forum support U.S. campaigners who try to put an end to the evictions. >> To the Dossier >> zur Rubrik Urban Movements at G8/07 Heiligendamm Since decades the policies of G7/G8 in favour of their own economic growth, multinational companies and global financial markets build a main reason for the world wide plundering of nature and labour, for the destruction of local economies and independent developments, for the undermining of market regulations and social standards, for the privatisation of collective resources and public services.
The prize for this development has to be paid by all the people who become victims of financial speculation, special economic zones, unequal trade agreements, privatisations and large-scale development projects. While a minority is becoming richer, the prize paid by the poorer populations in the cities and at the countryside, in informal settlements and deprived urban areas, by the exploding number of people who live in the slums, barrios and favelas of the world. The prize is even paid by the global climate change, which again affects poor dwellers in poor regions most seriously.
Besides some talks about aid for Africa and the world climate we cannot see any change of policies of G8. Their strategies are not based on any democratic legitimacy and they are not based on human rights and international law.
For these reasons we support the protests against the policies of G8 in Rostock and Heiligendamm.
With a series of events in the frame of the alternative G8 summit we want to raise awareness on the relevance of economic globalisation for local developments and local livelihoods. We want discuss common strategies, how local social movements can internationalise their struggles against evictions, speculation, privatisation, for the right to housing, city, water and land.
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