[Anarchafeminists] Meeting Sunday re MIPIM housing action in March

[nickdrake]

Hi all,

You are invited to come to a meeting this Sunday at 2pm at ULU about
planning action around the 25th annual MIPIM event in March (11th- 14th)
in Cannes, France.

This is a call for participation in planning action around MIPIM from
the London Radical Housing Network in association with the European
Action Coalition for the Right to Housing and the City.

MIPIM (The International Real Estate Show for Professionals) is one of
global capitalism's major annual events for all aspects of the real
estate business - including the buying and selling of land, the
planning, construction, financing, facilitation and management of
housing and commercial property around the world. Around 20,000 people
will take part, with an entry fee of EUR1,600 per person. At MIPIM the
planet is for sale. See: http://www.mipim.com/ [1]

Also for information - the first ever similar event to be held in the UK
will be this October 15th-17th. See: http://www.mipimuk.co.uk/ [2].

The meeting will brief attendees on MIPIM, discuss strategies for
organising around it, and then get down to it.

Let us know if you are vaguely interested and want us to keep you posted
so we don't spam email lists.

Contact londonnotforsale at gmail.com for further information, or to get 
involved
in organising for March.

Where and when:

Sunday 19th January 2pm Room 3C at ULU on Malet Street, near Russell
Square. It is wheelchair accessible.

We hope to see you there or hear from you if you want to get involved
but can't make it on Sunday.

See below for some background and a list of some of the corporations,
housing associations and councils that will be going to MIPIM in 2014.
We are especially keen to hear from you if you're already campaigning
around or researching of these.

Contact/Reply to: londonotforsale at gmail.com




Background to MIPIM and plans/ideas so far

In December housing rights activists from a number of European cities
met in Paris to discuss ideas for joint actions in 2014. One of the main
outcomes was a general plan for decentralised action at the occasion of
the international real estate fair MIPIM.

MIPIM 2014

http://www.mipim.com/ [1]

MIPIM will take place from 11th til 14th March in Cannes in the south of
France. This is one of global capitalism's major annual events for all
aspects of the real estate business, including the buying and selling of
land, the planning, construction, financing, facilitation and management
of housing and commercial property around the world. Some 20,000 people
will take part, with an entry fee of EUR1,600 per person. At MIPIM the
planet is for sale.

Some of those attending the MIPIM real estate market will come from
public municipalities and councils around the world. They will be
seeking to sell public land and infrastructure, directly, as part of
development projects or in "private-public-partnerships" (PPPs), the
collaborationist approach of UN-Habitat's "Manifesto for cities". They
will be approving 'regeneration' plans that respond to the interests of
speculators: hotels, offices, luxury housing, shopping centres. Here,
they will make contact with possible business partners to sell the
commons in order to escape their financial crisis. The ordinary people
who will be affected often know nothing of these deals until it is too
late. We are coming together to disrupt this process.

The inhabitants of capitals across Europe will be targeting political
representatives travelling to MIPIM to sell off our cities. Over 20 UK
and London councils are already confirmed, including the Greater London
Authority, with overall responsibility for housing in London. A teaser
list of councils, developers, estate agents, banks and investors
attending is below, along with a link to Boris' keynote speech at last
year's MIPIM.

Please scan the list for any corporations you are struggling against,
and let us know the projects they are involved with, and demands you
have of them. Our actions will be successful if we can bring together
diverse groups already organising against attendees, and make the links
across the city and internationally. We will be acting not just on our
own behalf, but also in solidarity with organisers in Southern Europe,
whose domestic housing policies are controlled solely by the Troika and
international big business. If we have enough local case studies we will
present a dossier at a tribunal in Cannes during MIPIM in addition to
the London action.

The Radical Housing Network is pulling together a coalition to take
action against our political representatives selling off London - we are
calling a meeting for all constituencies who are affected by
transnational real estate, especially those whose enemies are named
below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ykrf5YEqvhY&noredirect=1 [3]

Corporations and related (e.g. Housing Associations)

Savilles

Harrow Estates - Redrow PLC

Exemplar

Knight Frank

Helical Bar

Barclays

Wilmott Dixon

Albany Homes Developments

A2 Dominion

Travelodge

Blackrock

Morgan Sindall Group PLC

Muir Group

Muse Developments

British Land

Neat Developments

Capita

One Housing Group

Cowell Group

Pembroke Real Estate

Generation Estates

Great Portland Estates

Kier

Skanska

London District Housing Association

M and G Investments

UBS

United House Group

Quadrant

University of Oxford

Axa

British Property Federation

British Airways Pension Fund

Presidential Capital

Pricewaterhousecoopers

CLS Holidays PLC

Bloomberg

Reed Elsevier

Genesis

Goldman Sachs

Hamptons

Curson Real Estate

Shaftesbury PLC

ICM Wealth Management Ltd.

Hilton

Jeffries International

Land Securities

Langham Estate Management Ltd

Landmark

Capital and Centric PLC

Carillion

Logicor Europe Ltd.

Royal Mail Group

Residential Land Ltd.

Terence O Rourke

Transport for Greater Manchester

London and Continental Railways
Lendlease

UK Councils

Bath, Somerset

Bolton

Bristol

City of London

York

Derby

Glasgow

Greater Lincoln

Greater London Authority

Leeds City Region

Leicester

Ealing

Hounslow

Scottish Cities Alliance

Sheffield City

South Gloucestershire City

Cardiff City

Wakefield

Coventry

Southwark



Links:
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[1] http://www.mipim.com/
[2] http://www.mipimuk.co.uk/
[3] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ykrf5YEqvhY&noredirect=1