Keyword: Kadamay

Kalipunan ng Damayang Mahihirap kicked off their #ZeroEviction campaign with several protests. They joined other groups trooping to the House of Representatives against the Emergency Powers Bill, while residents of Apollo, Tandang Sora who have been homeless since June painted and confronted the blockade to their homes and relocatees in Montalban who have been occupying vacant housing units held a ‘banig protest.’

March 8, the International Women's Day, Filipinos women and KADAMAY led a large contingent of those living in relocation sites/resettlement areas in Bulacan, to occupy about 5,280 vacant houses. The government has not responded kindly to the mass action.They have set up food blockades, harassment is non-stop, against urban poor Filipinos. On March 10, the government gave Kadamay and the thousands of urban poor Filipinos an ultimatum to vacate the premises within 7 days or they will evict all with extreme force.As a response about 20,000 people have so far occupied about 6,000 houses.The IAI stand up in solidarity and call for support Kadamay and the people for Zero Evictions Bulacan!

KADAMAY, a national alliance of urban poor Filipinos that last March 8 led a successful campaign to occupy thousands of idle homes in resettlement sites, with the support of IAI ha sent an urgent Appel to Leilani Fahra, the UN Special Rapporteur for the Right ton Housing, to take action in order to address the demands and concerns of the homeless and urban poor. There is an air of urgency as the eviction is imminent and the occupation itself is the largest organized occupation by poor Filipinos in recent history.

KADAMAY welcomes house probe into occupation. News Release 3/15/2017Reference: Michael Beltran 09554571061, Carlito Badion, Secretary General - 09283508777Kalipunan ng Damayang Mahihirap assailed the news reports which alleged NPA presence guarding the occupation and threatening violence. The urban poor group says the spread of this malicious news can be used as a justification to increase the military and police presence around the occupied areas. This would not be the first time, corrupt authorities have used or even posed as rebels for their own agenda.

Solidarity by Unione Inquilini, IAI member, with Zero Evictions #occupyBulacan at Eurostop march, Rome, Italy, 25 03 2017 We are writing to you on behalf of the International Alliance of Inhabitants (IAI), an international network of social organizations, which for many years has been committed to the defense of housing rights ‘without borders’. Moreover, we cooperate with the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing and UN-Habitat to defend the right to housing and fight evictions.