PICKET IN PROTEST AT VIOLENT ATTACKS ON ABAHLALI BASEMJONDOLO - WEDS 30 SEPT - LONDON

**** URGENT – PLEASE CIRCULATE WIDELY AND SEND TO LISTS **** PICKET TOMORROW IN PROTEST AT VIOLENT ATTACKS ON ABAHLALI BASEMJONDOLO 6pm Wednesday 30th September South African High Commission South Africa House Trafalgar Square London WC2N 5DP Abahlali baseMjondolo, the shack dwellers' movement in South Africa who sent representatives to the UK a couple of weeks ago, is under violent attack and fighting desperately to save their homes and their organisation from ANC supported "development" (ie demolition)- physical and political annihilation. Is this what the shack dweller kids of Soweto brought apartheid to its knees for? On Saturday night a group of about 40 men, heavily armed with guns, bush knives and even a sword, attacked a meeting of the Kennedy Road Development Committee (KRDC). The attacks have continued, causing 1000 people to flee the area. The attacks are a concerted effort by the local ANC in collaboration with land-owners and ethnic fascists to shut the movement down. Key activists have been arrested or are in hiding under death threats. More details of the attack: http://abahlali.org/node/5770 and on the Abahlali baseMjondolo website: http://abahlali.org Called by members of the London Coalition Against Poverty www.lcap.org.uk