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We Are The Poor - Cardiff Event

Adam Johannes | 26.10.2012 13:03

7 pm, Thursday 1 November, Wallace Lecture Theatre, Main Building, Cardiff University, Park Place (opp. Student Union)

WE ARE THE POOR:
BUILDING A MOVEMENT TO END POVERTY, LED BY THE POOR
Come and learn more about the plight, fight & insight of the poor -
From Breadline Britain to the Shack Dwellers of South Africa

Keynote Speaker - LINDELA FIGLAN,
Chair of Abhlali baseMjondolo (South African Shack Dwellers Movement)

Lindela will be discussing organising poor people’s campaigns. AbM is the largest radical poor organisation in post-apartheid South Africa, their key demand is ‘Land & Housing in the City’. They fight to end forced removals, evictions, for access to education & the provision of water, electricity, sanitation & health care, as well as bottom up popular democracy. In the aftermath of the Marikana massacre he will discuss how we make another world possible.

He will be joined by activists from local poor people's campaigns such as Cardiff Homelessness Solidarity, Disabled People against Cuts & Cardiff's popular Unemployed Daytime Disco for a roundtable discussion on how poor people can not only organise their own struggle, but offer direction and leadership to the whole of society.

Free admission. All welcome.

Adam Johannes
- e-mail: thomas_muntzer_cardiff@hotmail.co.uk

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better

26.10.2012 21:09

Off under white rule harsh fact.

oldboy

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so what's so good about being 'THE POOR'

26.10.2012 21:36

'I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.' Matthew 19:23-24

that's just some religious shite that is suposed to make you pay your taxes and be joyous.

Do not honor the state! This is a struggle for poor, and rich (by fair gain), alike.

anarchist

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hard life

26.10.2012 22:18

I was born in a counil flat 49 years ago i still live on the same estate. Im unemplyoed im white english and i got no hope.

suffreing

Any report on this?

02.11.2012 22:40

Is there anywhere I can see a report or account of what happened at this event? I would like to repost it, or put an account on my blog. Accounts of self-organisation are inspiring, but don't get written about often enough.

owl
- Homepage: www.owlsotherblog.blogspot.com

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