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Operation Murambatsvina - Countrywide evictions of urban poor - Index of articles
A
call to declare 18 May international anti-eviction day
Zimbabwe Social Forum
May 12, 2006
Background
The
campaign to declare 18 May International Anti-Eviction Day is part
of a series of campaigns and activities organized by Zimbabwe’s
social movements and organizations to mark the first anniversary
of Operation Murambatsvina ( drive out the filth) carried by the
government of Zimbabwe starting 18 last year. We seek to use the
time to rededicate ourselves to the struggle for social justice
and democracy in Zimbabwe at the same time eternally shame the exhausted
Robert Mugabe regime for the callous, barbaric and cowardly acts
it continues to visit upon poor Zimbabweans in the name of trying
to retain political power. We also want to refocus attention on
the emergency in Zimbabwe marked by a severely acute political and
socio-economic crisis characterized by 80% unemployment and slave
wages, 1000% inflation, spiraling crime and domestic violence, collapsed
health and education delivery systems, police brutality and draconian
legislation.
What you
can do
- Sign THE
DECLARATION in support of the International Anti-Eviction
Day ( please copy your solidarity to the email address given
below)
- Send protest
letters to the government of Zimbabwe and its embassies
- Programme
the theme of ‘Operation Murambatsvina’ and the criminalization
of poverty into your activities for the months of May and June
- Organize
public meetings to especially discuss how PEOPLE POWER can be
mobilized to make sure that ‘Operation Murambatsvina’ does not
happen again
- Organize
a picket or symbolic actions against the government of Zimbabwe
- Join commemorative
events organized through Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition, CHRA, Zimbabwe
Social Forum and other movements and organizations
- Give your
ideas and opinions on how to strengthen the campaign
THE DECLARATION
will be militantly presented to the Government of Zimbabwe and
its embassies on a date to be announced
For
more information contact:
Zimbabwe:
Sankara on + 263 91 929 231
South
Africa: Samora on 076 314 5193 or
Write to antievictioncampaign@yahoo.com
, campaign initiative by movements and organizations that are part
of the Zimbabwe Social Forum
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