Two Articles
Dec. 30th, 2008 03:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Kenya, one year later:
I also found this article about activists in Miami moving homeless families into foreclosed homes interesting:
The tensions that were laid bare during one of the darkest moments in Kenya's history are still festering, a year after its election on Dec. 27, 2007 unleashed weeks of ethnic violence that killed more than 1,000 people.
The evidence is everywhere: in the displacement camps where tens of thousands of people still live; in the divided towns where ethnic groups had lived side-by-side since independence from Britain in 1963; and in growing disillusionment with a coalition government accused of ignoring the roots of the crisis.
I also found this article about activists in Miami moving homeless families into foreclosed homes interesting:
Rameau is an activist who has been executing a bailout plan of his own around Miami's empty streets: He is helping homeless people illegally move into foreclosed homes.
“We're matching homeless people with peopleless homes,” he said with a grin.