Mazwi Nzimande
Discussion at Poverty Initiative after Dear Mandela work-in-progress screening
Submitted by Abahlali_3 on Wed, 2009-09-09 15:31. Mazwi Nzimande | Reverend Mavuso | Sleeping Giant Films | videoAbahlali baseMjondolo & the Rural Network in New York: Schedule of events
Submitted by Abahlali_3 on Sun, 2009-08-09 09:06. Mazwi Nzimande | Reverend Mavuso | Sleeping Giant FilmsClick here to read Reclaiming the Poor People's Campaign: Resources from Abahlali baseMjondolo & the Rural Network, a resource pack prepared for comrades that Mazwi Nzimande and Reverend Mavuso will be meeting in America.
THE SHACK DWELLERS MOVEMENT IN NEW YORK - SCHEDULE
Sunday, 16th August, 2009
Discussion & Screening at Bluestockings
Please join us for a very special evening of discussion and film about Abahlali baseMjondolo (the Shack Dwellers Movement) of South Africa. Two of their leaders, Mazwi Nzimande and Rev. Mavuso Mbhekiseni, will be in the United States building networks of solidarity with those engaged in similar struggles in this country. There will be a screening of DEAR MANDELA (15 min, 2009), a documentary work-in-progress about the Shack Dwellers Movement, directed by Dara Kell & Christopher Nizza.
A Living Politics (in Howick)
Submitted by Abahlali_3 on Thu, 2009-06-11 11:06. Elkartasun Bideak | howick | Mazwi Nzimande | Mnikelo Ndabankulu | S'bu Zikode | video | YouTube | Zandile Nsibande | Zodwa NsibandeTo see more short films by Elkartasun Bideak click here.
This film shows some of the first meeting between a community in Howick and AbM. Abahlali were invited to a meeting by the community as they are facing eviction and will have to struggle against the local chief and the state.
Examiner: The poor people of South Africa rise up and resist the Amerikkkan Style Slums Act
Submitted by Abahlali_3 on Mon, 2009-11-16 16:16. Lisa Gray-Garcia | Mazwi Nzimande | slums act | The ExaminerThe poor people of South Africa rise up and resist the Amerikkkan Style Slums Act
“I conclude that section 16 of the Slums Act is inconsistent with the Constitution and invalid.”..Statement from the Constitutional Court of South Africa
Poor Magazine: A new and unsettling force...
Submitted by Abahlali_3 on Thu, 2009-08-27 14:22. law | Lisa Gray-Garcia | Mazwi Nzimande | Poor Magazinehttp://www.poormagazine.org/index.cfm?L1=news&category=87&story=2306
A new and unsettling force..
Poverty Scholars from across the globe come together to re-ignite the revolution of Dr. Martin Luther King's Poor People's Campaign
Tiny aka Lisa Gray-Garcia, PoorNewsNetwork poverty scholar
Thursday, August 13, 2009;
"There are millions of poor people in this country who have very little, or even nothing, to lose, if they can be helped to take action together, they will do so with a freedom and a power that will be a new and unsettling force in our complacent national life" Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
The Examiner: A new and unsettling force: Poverty scholars meet in West Virginia
Submitted by Abahlali_3 on Mon, 2009-08-17 13:33. Lisa Gray-Garcia | Mazwi Nzimande | Poverty Scholars Program | The ExaminerThere are millions of poor people in this country who have very little, or even nothing, to lose, if the can be helped to take action together, they will do so with a freedom and a power that will be a new and unsettling force in our complacent national life. --Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
“In Durban, South Africa, it is not racism, it’s poverty that’s affecting us now," said Mazwi Nzimande.
Meet the Shack Dwellers' Movement of South Africa in New York City
Submitted by Abahlali_3 on Tue, 2009-08-04 19:50. Mazwi Nzimande | New York | Reverend Mavuso | Sleeping Giant FilmsAbahlali baseMjondolo and the Rural Network Will be in New York Later this Month
"A slow revolution from below fought day by day across the country."
- S'bu Zikode, President of the Shack Dwellers Movement
Please join us for a very special evening of discussion and film about Abahlali baseMjondolo (the Shack Dwellers Movement) of South Africa. Two of their leaders, Mazwi Nzimande and Reverend Mavuso, will be in the United States building networks of solidarity with those engaged in similar struggles in this country. There will be a screening of DEAR MANDELA (15 min, 2009), a documentary work-in-progress about the Shack Dwellers Movement, directed by Dara Kell & Christopher Nizza.
