Film Screening Benefit for Durban Kennedy 5 Housing Activist Group
&
Fired S.A. UKZN Lecturer Fazel Khan
Breyani and The Councillor South Africa 2006 (26 min.) By Sally Giles & Fazel Khan
Six Percent or Nothing: A Video about UKZN¹s 2006 Strike By Giles and Khan.
& Other Labor Videos From South Africa
Sunday, May 20, 2007 7:00 PM
522 Valencia Street/16th St. San Francisco
$5.00 Donation (No one turned away due to lack of funds)
Despite the victory against apartheid in South Africa in 1994, millions of people still live in shacks in the townships in South Africa. The Freedom Charter which called for decent housing has been unimplemented. http://www.wwrp.org.za/documents/FCbookwww.pdf The award winning film “Breyani and The Councillor” made last year shows the struggle for decent housing and jobs in a township in Durban. The residents begin to struggle for justice and are met with repression.
Twelve years after the fall of apartheid the loyal and patient shack dwellers all over the country are mobilizing against what they perceive to be a new oppression. The shackdwellers movement’s Abahlali base Mjondolo evolved in Durban, a city on the east coast of South Africa. It incorporates various informal shacklands in and around the city. Using the might of their united numbers, Abahlali is mobilizing against slow delivery and relocations planned by Municipal councillors. Their struggle is ongoing. In order to repress this struggle, the government has framed 5 housing activists in Durban and the Durban Kennedy Five Defense Campaign is ongoing. Fazel Khan, one of the directors of the film “Breyani And The Councillor” has been not only an activist around the housing issue but for union and democratic rights and an organizer against privatization at the KwaZulu-Natal University in Durban. As a result of his union leadership with COMSA and community activism he has recently been fired and there is an international defense campaign ongoing. A website in support of Fazel Khan has also been established at http://fazel.shackdwellers.org. You can find out more about the housing issue by going to www.abahlali.org For an audio interview about the housing issue go to http://www.pambazuka.org/media/PZ0028.mp3
Sponsored by
Labor Video Project
P.O. Box 720027
San Francisco, CA 94172
lvpsf@labornet.org
(415)282-1908
http://www.sfbg.com/entry.php?entry_id=3626&catid=4&volume_id=254&issue_id=295&volume_num=41&issue_num=33
SUNDAY, MAY 20
Housing South Africans
Watch Breyani and the Councillor, a 2006 documentary by Sally Giles and Fazel Khan about housing activists in the South African township of Durban. The film follows local shack dwellers who are demanding that the African National Congress government make good on its 1994 promise to house the country’s poorest citizens.
7 p.m., $5 donation requested
522 Valencia, SF
(415) 282-1908, www.abahlali.org
Friends – You remember how during the February 7th, 2007 International Day in Solidarity with Haiti, one of the 75 protest events on 5 continents was held in Durban, South Africa, at the Kennedy Road shackdweller settlement, organized by the Abahlali movement – “in solidarity with the shack dwellers of Haiti.”
*** In Durban, South Africa, nearly 300 members of the Abahlali shack dwellers movement traveled from 34 settlements to hold an event at the Kennedy Road settlement Feb. 7 “in support of the shack dwellers of Haiti.” They saw video footage of the heavy-caliber killings of Haitian children, men and women in Cite Soleil by an invasion force wearing the Blue Helmets of the U.N., and expressed “hope that networks of solidarity could be developed between shack dwellers under pressure in different countries.”
Well, this film showing Sunday in SF is about that movement. Please make it if you can.
-Dave
Film Screening Benefit for
Durban Kennedy 5 Housing Activist Group
&
Fired S.A. UKZN Lecturer Fazel Khan
Breyani and The Councillor
South Africa 2006 (26 min.) By Sally Giles & Fazel Khan
Six Percent or Nothing
A Video about UKZN¹s 2006 Strike By Giles and Khan.
& Other Labor Videos From South Africa
Sunday, May 20, 2007 7:00 PM
522 Valencia Street/16th St. San Francisco
$5.00 Donation (No one turned away due to lack of funds)
Despite the victory against apartheid in South Africa in 1994, millions of people still live in shacks in the townships in South Africa. The Freedom Charter which called for decent housing has been unimplemented. http://www.wwrp.org.za/documents/FCbookwww.pdf The award winning film “Breyani and The Councillor” made last year shows the struggle for decent housing and jobs in a township in Durban. The residents begin to struggle for justice and are met with repression.
Twelve years after the fall of apartheid the loyal and patient shack dwellers all over the country are mobilizing against what they perceive to be a new oppression. The shackdwellers movement’s Abahlali base Mjondolo evolved in Durban, a city on the east coast of South Africa. It incorporates various informal shacklands in and around the city. Using the might of their united numbers, Abahlali is mobilizing against slow delivery and relocations planned by Municipal councillors. Their struggle is ongoing. In order to repress this struggle, the government has framed 5 housing activists in Durban and the Durban Kennedy Five Defense Campaign is ongoing. Fazel Khan, one of the directors of the film “Breyani And The Councillor” has been not only an activist around the housing issue but for union and democratic rights and an organizer against privatization at the KwaZulu-Natal University in Durban. As a result of his union leadership with COMSA and community activism he has recently been fired and there is an international defense campaign ongoing. A website in support of Fazel Khan has also been established at http://fazel.shackdwellers.org. You can find out more about the housing issue by going to www.abahlali.org For an audio interview about the housing issue go to http://www.pambazuka.org/media/PZ0028.mp3
Sponsored by
Labor Video Project
P.O. Box 720027
San Francisco, CA 94172
lvpsf@labornet.org
(415)282-1908