Support PPA
The Poor People’s alliance is a South African network of democratic and radical poor people’s movements that are committed to self organised social transformation from below and from the left. I was fortunate to spend some time with activists from a couple of these organisations in the townships of Cape Town in 2009 and cannot speak more highly of what they do. Often shunned by NGOs for refusing to let them speak on their behalf, they are always in need of support, financial and otherwise. Anything we can do to help keep the PPA, and their struggles, in the public domain, makes it more difficult for the authorities to ignore them. Much more information can be found here. Contacts for all organisations can be found here. The Western-Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign, where I spent most time, can be followed here.