Abahlali baseMjondolo (Shackdwellers Movement of South Africa) and DEAR MANDELA documentary: touring United States & Haiti

New York, Boston, Burlington, Ithaca, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Detroit, Chicago, Haiti

This October, two youth leaders from Abahlali baseMjondolo (Shackdwellers movement of South Africa) are visiting 8 American cities and Haiti to share their experience and analysis of the largest social movement of the poor in post apartheid South Africa and to screen the new award-winning film Dear Mandela. They will meet with leaders of grassroots organizations and engage with young people in a conversation about leadership, bottom-up democracy and building a movement to end poverty. The tour is hosted by the Poverty Initiative, the National Economic and Social Rights Initiative and the Center for Constitutional Rights, and supported by a dozen organizations including Amnesty International, Vermont Workers Center, United Workers (Baltimore), Media Mobilizing Project (Philadelphia), and the Michigan Welfare Rights Organization amongst others. The tour will end with a visit to Haiti, hosted by the Housing Collective, to meet earthquake survivors living in displacement camps and to screen the new Kreyol version of Dear Mandela.

For more information and media requests, please contact Dara Kell (+1 917.749.8002) or write to dara@dearmandela.com.

For more information about the Abahlali baseMjondolo movement, please visit http://abahlali.org//////

For more information about Dear Mandela, please visit
http://dearmandela.com/

Please see the attachments for more details on the schedule