Update on the Shackdwellers Movement of South Africa

On August 20, 2009 the Poverty Initiative at Union Theological Seminary hosted an evening of discussion and film about Abahlali baseMjondolo (the Shack Dwellers Movement) of South Africa. Two of their leaders, Mazwi Nzimande and Reverend Mavuso, presented along with filmmakers Dara Kell & Christopher Nizza from Sleeping Giant Films. Watch a video clip of that discussion:

The Shackdwellers were attending the Poverty Scholars Program Leadership School and prepared a document called "Reclaiming the Poor People's Campaign: Resources from a Living Politics of Abahlali baseMjondolo, the Shackdweller’s Movement, and the Rural Network," sharing their analysis of the struggle of the poor in South Africa and the connection to the struggle of the poor in the United States.