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from city from below conference .interview with David Harvey

S'bu is calling
The third force is the suffering of the poor. El poder es nuestro

Eva Davids from the Anti-Eviction Campaign (AEC) in South Africa talks about the impact of the 2010 Football World Cup on her community in Athlone.

War on Want works with the AEC - find out more a...

On May 14, Abahlali baseMjondolo traveled from the shacks of Durban to South Africa's Constitutional Court in Johannesburg. In a landmark case they argued that a provincial law known as the 'Slums...

Muthappa Rai is an Indian real estate power broker. He used to be a mafia don, wanted for murder by the Indian police. Wired's Scott Carney talks to the Bangalore land baron.

Nearly 15 years since apartheid ended, millions of South Africans still live in rustic self-built shacks. We hear from the shack dwellers as they eloquently argue their case for real citizenship rights.

An Iraqi journalist threw two shoes at President Bush during a news conference Sunday with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. The president was not hurt in the incident. (Dec. 14)

Louis Theroux Law and Disorder in Johannesburg ...

Greek riot pictures from December 2008. Studen...

“When large numbers of people live in abject poverty, a handful of people living in comfort and luxury amounts to a kind of violence.” Mahatma Gandhi

http://angryindian.blogspot.com/2007/08/whenua-fenua-enua-vanua-apartheid-south.html

"Farid Esack, a visiting professor at Harvard Divinity School, is the author of Qur'an, Liberation and Pluralism: An Islamic Perspective of Interreligious Solidarity against Oppression and On Being a Muslim: Finding a Religious Path in the World Today. A former national commissioner on gender equality appointed by President Nelson Mandela, Esack was active in the struggle against apartheid in the United Democratic Front an