{"id":401209,"date":"2011-04-27T07:27:40","date_gmt":"2011-04-27T07:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/27\/for-the-poor-there-is-no-freedom\/"},"modified":"2011-04-27T07:27:40","modified_gmt":"2011-04-27T07:27:40","slug":"for-the-poor-there-is-no-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/27\/for-the-poor-there-is-no-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"For the Poor There is No Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"32.705066345\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign (Cape\u00a0Town)<\/p>\n<p>27 April 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>press release<\/p>\n<p>Today from 10am till 2pm, the movements will come to QQ Section Informal Settlement for an UnFreedom Day rally.\u00a0 QQ was the victim of a huge shack fire just before Christmas in 2010 so the location is fitting for our Shack Fire Summit<\/p>\n<p>The Anti-Eviction Campaign, Abahlali baseMjondolo, the Backyarders, the Landless People&#8217;s Movement, and other community of people living in poverty throughout South Africa are not going to celebrate Freedom Day.\u00a0 Instead, we are going to mourn it.\u00a0 The 27th of April, to the poor, is a day of mourning.<\/p>\n<p>We live in shacks, in other people&#8217;s backyards, in rotting council homes and other urban and rural ghettos.\u00a0 But its not only about where we live or what services we receive.\u00a0 UnFreedom Day is also a call for dignity.\u00a0 Because we are poor, the government treats us as though we are less than human.\u00a0 This is why we are forced to hold UnFreedom Day &#8211; to asert our right to dignity.<\/p>\n<p>Today, our focus will be the scourage of urban informal settlements: The shack fire.\u00a0 For the past 17 years of &#8216;democracy&#8217;, our communities have been ravaged each and every year by easily preventable shack fires.\u00a0 The solution to shack fires?\u00a0 Simple: houses and electrification now!<\/p>\n<p>We demand special attention from government for our communities (especially our children) which are victims of shack fires.\u00a0 We also demand statistics from government as to the extent of our victimisation from these fires.\u00a0 We demand a moratorium on the selling of land to rich foreigners from Europe and the US and for that land to be given to us for the building of houses.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>See the original post:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201104270264.html\" title=\"For the Poor There is No Freedom\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">For the Poor There is No Freedom<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign (Cape\u00a0Town) 27 April 2011 press release Today from 10am till 2pm, the movements will come to QQ Section Informal Settlement for an UnFreedom Day rally.\u00a0 QQ was the victim of a huge shack fire just before Christmas in 2010 so the location is fitting for our Shack Fire Summit The Anti-Eviction Campaign, Abahlali baseMjondolo, the Backyarders, the Landless People&#8217;s Movement, and other community of people living in poverty throughout South Africa are not going to celebrate Freedom Day.\u00a0 Instead, we are going to mourn it.\u00a0 The 27th of April, to the poor, is a day of mourning. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-401209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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