Cape Town – The Liesbeek Action Campaign (LAC) is this week hosting a string of demonstrations including an interfaith service and a picket outside the River Club, ahead of their Western Cape High Court hearing on Wednesday. The campaign has made several attempts to stop the R4.6 billion River Club development project by the Liesbeek…
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Amazon, solidarity doesn’t scare easily
There’s no doubt that the workers, advocates, and elected officials coming together to #MakeAmazonPay have captured the world’s imagination and are changing the way the public perceives Amazon. As much as Amazon is trying, solidarity doesn’t scare easily. Since a group of strikers, labour, environment, tax, data, privacy, and anti-monopoly activists from every corner of our planet and every link in Amazon’s supply chain formed #MakeAmazonPay last…
Mancomm meeting
Our next Mancomm is on Tues 30 November 2021 Date: Tue 30 November 2021 Time: 18h00 Venue: via Zoom at home
LAC letter to all political parties
This morning the Liesbeek Action Campaign sent the letter linked below to all 52 parties contesting in the Cape Town municipal elections. READ LETTER HERE
Save the Date!
Advance Notice Creating a Peaceful Observatory – Let’s Do It Together Social issues conversation facilitated by Andrew Boraine – residents, businesses, street dwellers, landlords, OBSID, OCA, ONW. Saturday 23rd October 2021 10h00 Venue to be announced For more information, contact Kiki ([email protected]) or Carolyn ([email protected])
Vision of a future Cape Town
WATCH YOUTUBE VIDEO HERE
OBSID safety report – July 2021
OBSID safety report – July 2021
Cape Town’s heritage for sale: Brownwashing The River Club
If greenwashing is disinformation disseminated to present an environmentally responsible public image, what the developers of The River Club project are engaging in might be called brownwashing — falsely presenting themselves as promoters of indigenous rights. Liesbeek Leisure Properties Trust claims “the majority of the Cape’s Khoi and San leaders and representatives” are in support…
Indigenous land dispute dogs Amazon’s Africa expansion
DURBAN, Aug 9 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Over 500 years ago, South Africa’s indigenous Khoi and San population fought off a Portuguese attack in one of the first, and most successful, anti-colonial battles in Africa. Today, some descendants of the Khoi and San view U.S. retail giant Amazon’s attempts to build an Africa headquarters on…
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