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Abahlali baseMjondolo Launches a Report on Shack Fires in Advance of the City Wide Shack Fire Summit on 22 September 2008
Today we are launching an important report on shack fires. We asked for this report to be written and we worked closely with the writer at all stages. We are releasing the report today so that it can be widely discussed in the lead up to the http://abahlali.org/node/3882 called by the movement for Monday 22 September 2008. We will launch the isiZulu version of the report soon. We call on all organisations that are concerned with justice and that want a city in which everyone is safe to read and discuss the report. The report is on our website in http://abahlali.org/files/Big_Devil_Politics_of_Shack_F..._.doc and in http://abahlali.org/files/Big_Devil_Politics_of_Shack_F...e.pdf. Printed copies are available from the Abahlali baseMjondolo library in the Kennedy Road settlement.

By Chris Arsenault - September 07, 2008

Executives from Nexen energy, which has major investments in northern Alberta's heavy oil industry, and Tony Clement, chair of a Canadian cabinet committee on energy security, met with Democratic candidate Barack Obama's top energy advisor Jason Grumet late last week to cement the "energy partnership" during the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado...[T]here is no doubt that Canadian oil is among the world's most climate unfriendly fuels.

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