Picket Tomorrow In Protest At Violent Attacks On Abahlali BaseMjondolo
ABM Solidarity | 29.09.2009 14:34 | Anti-racism | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements
Abahlali baseMjondolo, the shack dwellers' movement in South Africa who sent representatives to the UK a couple of weeks ago, is under violent attack, and fighting desperately to save their homes and their organisation from ANC supported "development" (ie demolition)- physical and political annihilation.
6pm
Wednesday 30th September
South African High Commission
South Africa House
Trafalgar Square
London WC2N 5DP
On Saturday night a group of about 40 men heavily armed with guns, bush knives and a sword attacked a meeting of the Kennedy Road Development Committee (KRDC). The attacks have continued, causing 1000 people to flee the area.
Is this what the shack dweller kids of Soweto brought apartheid to it's knees for?
The attacks are a concerted effort by the local ANC in collaboration with owners and ethnic fascists to shut the movement down. Key activists have been arrested or are in hiding under death threats.
More details of the attack:
http://abahlali.org/node/5770
and on the Abahlali baseMjondolo:
http://abahlali.org
Called by members of the London Coalition Against Poverty
Wednesday 30th September
South African High Commission
South Africa House
Trafalgar Square
London WC2N 5DP
On Saturday night a group of about 40 men heavily armed with guns, bush knives and a sword attacked a meeting of the Kennedy Road Development Committee (KRDC). The attacks have continued, causing 1000 people to flee the area.
Is this what the shack dweller kids of Soweto brought apartheid to it's knees for?
The attacks are a concerted effort by the local ANC in collaboration with owners and ethnic fascists to shut the movement down. Key activists have been arrested or are in hiding under death threats.
More details of the attack:
http://abahlali.org/node/5770 and on the Abahlali baseMjondolo:
http://abahlali.org Called by members of the London Coalition Against Poverty
ABM Solidarity