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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Monday,
September 08, 2008</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><a name="2212371939886434363"></a><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Against Neoliberal Urban Transformation </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">@ <a href="http://tanpelin.blogspot.com/2008/09/against-neoliberal-urban-transformation.html">http://tanpelin.blogspot.com/2008/09/against-neoliberal-urban-transformation.html</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">We are meeting together in European
Social Forum at Malmö to discuss urban social movements and the future of
concrete urban actions and collaboration.<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.reclaiming-spaces.org/events/archives/6#more-6">Seminar:
RECLAIMING THE CITY</a><br>
Resisting evictions, demolitions, gentrification, privatization, speculation…<br>
<br>
* Seminar at ESF Malmö, Rosengård Värner Rydénskolan<br>
* Thursday, Sept. 18 2008, 9:30-12:30<br>
<br>
<br>
Neo-liberal policies, financial globalization and global city competition
heavily affect urban life and struggles. Millions of people from lower classes
get pushed out of their neighborhoods and houses. Based on an exchange of
recent experiences with struggles against neo-liberal urban transformations in
Istanbul, Germany, and Russia we want to discuss options for internationalized
resistance.<br>
<br>
<br>
The financial market driven globalization as well as the globalized competition
between places and regions heavily affect urban development, urban life and
urban struggles across Europe . As a consequence millions of people from the
lower classes get pushed out of their original neighborhoods and houses. Among
the reasons are post-fordistic urban transformations and renewal projects in
favor of the wealthy, rocketing rents and reduced subventions for housing costs
of unemployed, gentrifications and the cleansing of "slums", privatizations and
real estate speculation, mega projects, tourism and big events, racist
exclusions, the control of informal forms of work and housing, the
disciplination of unconformity…<br>
<br>
>From our experiences with struggles against these processes many questions
arise:<br>
<br>
How can local struggles against the consequences of these processes develop
effective international networking, advocacy and targeted campaigning? How to
achieve the RIGHT TO HOUSING in an Europe of workfare and privatization, of
house demolition and social exclusion, of speculation and real estate violence?
Which role does the EU play or should it play? How to link alter-globalization
with community organization in the neighborhood? Which solidarity vision for
the relations between territories and regions? Which role can urban issues and
local movements play within a rescaling of anti-hegemonial struggles? What can
be common claims among urban struggelers related to the global financial
sector? How to build land/housing rights and urban campaigns targeted at
trans-national financial investors, banks, institutions? How to
internationalize our struggles?<br>
<br>
Based on an exchange of recent experiences with struggles against neo-liberal
urban transformations we want to try to discuss some of these questions.<br>
<br>
ASSEMBLY OF URBAN SOCIAL MOVEMENTS<br>
<br>
* Saturday, Sept. 20 2008, 9:30-12:30at Enskifteshagen, Tält 2<br>
<br>
This ASSEMBLY, open to all activists for urban/housing/land rights, will
discuss concrete steps for improved international cooperation on urgent action,
campaigns and reflection. It should try to fix the implementation of agreements
built during ESF meetings. Let's develop effective, targeted and transparent
international networking! Let's build a roadmap for unity of urban social
movements ! </span></p>
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