23 may 2009 gympie st evictions and gentrification

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Gympie Street residents have been fighting eviction for almost five years now. Slum Lord Dennis Robertson is trying to get them out of there to upgrade the building for the World Cup. But residents have nowhere else to go and vow to sleep on the pavement until the illegal eviction order is reversed

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Gympie St residents back on the pavement after being illegally evicted - again

The building owner, Pastor Roberston, has let the building fall into disrepair as a strategy for removing residents

Residents sleep in front of their

furniture to guard it from local

theives and the City's Anti-Land Invasions Unit

We need your solidarity!

Power to the Poor People!

Fight the gentrification of Woodstock!Fight rich developers like Pastor Dennis Robertson!

For more information and to support our anti-gentrification campaign in Woodstock, call Willy at 073 144 3619 or visit www.antieviction.org.za

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