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South Africa: Party Politic Vs Living Politic in Kennedy Road
University of KwaZulu-Natal Forum Lecture Thursday 22 October 2009 Party Politic Vs Living Politic in Kennedy Road The Kennedy Road settlement, like all other Abahlali baseMjondolo settlements, has be… more →
The Struggle for the City
Campaign for Arts in Ireland (update).
poethead wrote 6 days ago: The petition which is linked on this blog twice has garnered +9,000 signatures to achieve change in … more →
Anne Bronte (with Umlaut apologies)
poethead wrote 3 weeks ago: It’s Monday and it’s cold in Dublin, am so glad I got a new all-weather but mostly Mount … more →
South Africa: Party Politic Vs Living Politic in Kennedy Road
Keep on Keeping On wrote 1 month ago: University of KwaZulu-Natal Forum Lecture Thursday 22 October 2009 Party Politic Vs Living Politic i … more →
Dispossession
lucyshena wrote 1 month ago: “Let’s face it. We’re undone by each other. And if we’re not, we’re mi … more →
Excerpt from Essays From Tula: Leo Tolstoy.
poethead wrote 1 month ago: I have published a small excerpt from Tula before this on Poethead. Leo Tolstoy: Essays from Tula, w … more →
South Africa: Abahlali baseMjondolo Attacked by ANC Militia
Keep on Keeping On wrote 1 month ago: Abahlali baseMjondolo has been attacked in the Kennedy Road settlement by an ANC militia chanting fa … more →
Accra: Let Them Eat Cake
Keep on Keeping On wrote 2 months ago: Squatter City The Accra Metropolitan Assembly now argues that the 50,000 people living in Sodom and … more →
Nairobi: Kenya begins huge slum clearance
Keep on Keeping On wrote 2 months ago: Kenyan authorities have begun to move residents out of Africa’s largest slum – the Kiber … more →
Luanda: ‘They came like animals’
Keep on Keeping On wrote 2 months ago: ‘They came like animals’ NIREN TOLSI – Sep 14 2009 06:00 ‘They came like cabrito [goats] … more →
The Google Book Settlement and the European Commission.
poethead wrote 2 months ago: I refer in short to the Google Book Settlement as the GBS throughout this series of posts, the links … more →
GBS Charm Offensive: Google Book Settlement and Privacy.
poethead wrote 2 months ago: Some of the broadsheets, though mostly UK based have had positive blogs on the Google Book Settlemen … more →
Homeless and Struggling in New Orleans
Keep on Keeping On wrote 3 months ago: By Jordan Flaherty, Colorlines Crawling through a hole in a fence and walking through an open doorwa … more →
French police exploit scabies epidemic to clear migrant camps
Keep on Keeping On wrote 3 months ago: Press release from CALAIS MIGRANT SOLIDARITY FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE : 21.08.09 A squat in Calais, occ … more →
High Court stops move to upgrade Kibera slum
Keep on Keeping On wrote 3 months ago: by Judy Ogutu, 21 August, The Standard A move by the Government to upgrade Kibera slums has suffered … more →
GBS: The Google Book Settlement , Resources and Links.
poethead wrote 3 months ago: I am publishing here the Poetry Ireland GBS (Google Book Settlement) pages, replete as they are with … more →
Fighting Foreclosures, ACORN Defends Homeowners
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Keep on Keeping On wrote 4 months ago: New America Media, 27 July 2009 OAKLAND, Calif.–On the morning of Monday, July 20, Tosha Alber … more →
People evicted from Chak Shahzad slum demand shelter
Keep on Keeping On wrote 4 months ago: The News Monday, July 27, 2009 By Our correspondent Islamabad The people evicted from Chak Shahzad ‘ … more →
Ephemera VI: The Google Book Settlement (Links at the base of Piece)
poethead wrote 4 months ago: The Google Library and Partnership projects: barely covered by the Irish Times. I attended the Googl … more →
Urgent call for solidarity with migrants in CALAIS
Keep on Keeping On wrote 4 months ago: URGENT CALL OUT for activists, legal observers, journalists and video activists to support migrants … more →
