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Sent: 19 November 2009 tlosier@uchicago.edu Thursday, November 19: The Brecht Forum @ 7:30pm "The post-apartheid moment: an evening of solidarity with Ashraf Cassiem of the Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign, South Africa" 451 West Street (between Bank & Bethune Streets), New York, NY 10014 (http://brechtforum.org/events/post-apartheid-moment) South Africa will be on the global stage as host of the 2010 World Cup. Yet, with one of the world's highest rates of economic inequality and social protest, it is likely that the country's glaring contradictions and its militant poor, perhaps more so than the "beautiful game," will be center stage next summer. For the past nine years, the Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign (www.antieviction.org.za ) has been one of the most prominent organizations of militant poor, fighting against evictions and police brutality as well as for free basic service and quality health care in South Africa's poor and working class communities. As a coordinating body of over 15 community organizations in the Western Cape Province, the AEC has been at the forefront of challenging the neoliberal economic policies that have been imposed since the fall of apartheid, recently helping to found the Poor People's Alliance as a national network of poor people's movements.
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