OPEN FORUM ON SPECULATION
HOUSING & LAND



London Social Forum as part of international
support for World Habitat Day on Monday 2nd October 2006.

Day of Direct Action on Housing & landrights in London.

See also list of other activities over the weekend in association
with the Habitat International Coalition , World Habitat Day and
London Tenants Federation including talk on Kings Cross development
Think again Campaign


Open Forum on speculation, housing, land, civil and social rights

Sunday October 1, 2006, 12.30pm-6 pm

Limehouse Town Hall,

646 Commercial Road, London E14 7HA



Organised by the London Social Forum




The Programme:



> 12.00 Doors Open Food and Refreshments


> 12.30 Key Note Panel Discussion. Invited speakers :

Doreen Massey (Open University)
London as Financial Hub

Ana Sugranyes (Habitat International Coalition)
Social Impacts on Habitat

Sebastian Mueller (Dortmund University)
Impacts of privatisation and speculation

Fred Harrison (Land Research Trust)
The Property Bubble


Open discussion



> 14.00 Privatisation, Development and Large-Scale Speculation.

Chris Shirley Smith (Independent Water Consultant)
Thames Water

Speaker from World Development Movement (WDM)

Martin Slavin (Journalist)
Impact of 2012 Olympics on London

Knut Unger
European global investments


Open Discussion


> 14.45 Workshops


- The Lea Valley, impact of the Olympics, Gentrification and Displacement

- Networking on Housing Rights and Finance


> 15.45 Workshops


- London Effect on Property Markets

- A Right to Land



> 16.45 Open Forum

-Urban Watch,Violation Database and Real Estate Corporate Watch

Greek Initiative for the Right to the City.


- London Campaign Roundup

Introduction to Mapping (Citymine(d), NodeL), L-Atlas, Cartograhy of
Resistance


- The Democratic Deficit

Democratic Audit (Manchester Open City) and London GLA/LSF,

Sustainable Communities Bill (Steve Shaw)


-Inclusive dialogue on rural public lands, inhabitants and farmers.

The European Agro-countrisde(Simon Fairlie)

Middle East - Asia South America and African countryside
HLRN Cairo(Angie Balata)



> 18.00 Summing Up and Close



Other events over the weekend include:

> Saturday September 30th

10.30 am-4.30 pm Friends Meeting House, Euston, London Tenants'
Federation Conference, Tenants's Vision for Housing in London
(please book in advance: , 020-7874 5464).


> 8pm til 10.30pm Somerstown Community Centre
HOUSING IS NOT ENOUGH with Rob Inglis, artistic director of
Jellicoe-Neville Performing Arts. Featuring discussion on the KX
Cultural Interchange and the work of the local grassroot community
re-evaluating the King's Cross development.
with Somalian - Bangladeshi food & refreshment .



> Monday 2nd October 2006
Day of Direct Action on Housing & landrights in London,
as part of World Habitat Day 2006