The Special Rapporteur Raquel Rolnik will participate in a panel on Housing Rights in the Left Forum annual conference, in New York, on March 17, from 10ham to 11:50am (Session 1, room LHS). See below more details about the panel and the hole conference. To register, you must access the website of the event. The panel will also be streamed live on the web.
Panel: Housing as Human Right; is it Real or Imagined?
Abstract: This round-table discussion will engage the audience and a panel of international organizers and grassroots organization members from Budapest Hungary, South Africa, Rio de Janiero Brazil and the US in a discussion around the human right to housing. In certain countries the human right to housing is realized. In the US,there are numerous treaties signed that guarantee the human right to housing, yet homelessness is at an all time high. Can we actualize the human right to housing by using international law? Why is it, countries considered less progressive in comparison to the US have a human right to housing? Can the human right to housing be actualized in a market based society?
Participants:
Chair: Robert Robinson
Speakers: Liz Theohrais, Bandile Mdlallose, Janis Rosheuvel, Max Rameau, Tessza Udvarhelyi, Csaba Papp, Peter Sabonis, Raquel Rolnik and Veronica Medina-Matzner.
The Left Forum will host its annual conference at Pace University on the weekend of March 16-18. As it has done for many years, the conference will gather civil libertarians, environmentalists, anarchists, socialists, communists, trade-unionists, black and Latino freedom fighters, feminists, anti-war activists, students and people struggling against unemployment, foreclosure, inadequate housing and deteriorating schools from among those active in the U.S. and many other countries, as well. We will again share our activities and perspectives with special attention to all that has changed in 2011 and what it means for the prospects of progressive change in 2012 and beyond.
Once a year, the Left Forum creates a space to analyze the great political questions of our times. Activists, intellectuals, trade unionists, movement-builders and others come together to identify new strategies for broadening the “anti-corporate capitalist” movement. In the wake of a persistent crisis of the international economic and political system, a new left politics in the United States and around the world is taking shape. Will the mass movements in Egypt, Greece, Latin America, the United States and elsewhere further extend their participatory democratic, community-building, non-capitalist, and caring forms of struggle into the institutions of everyday life? Will the movements confront and disrupt the complicity of neo-liberal state elites with corporate capital? Are there alternatives to the increasingly brutal capitalist system on the horizon?
Join us in exploring such questions and moving forward left agendas for social changes.
Source: Left Forum
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