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Raquel Rolnik is an USP urbanist, a major academic figure in Brazilian urban studies... called a loopy leftist in the british press
Via la la liste de géographie critique
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Outrage as ’loopy’ UN inspector lectures Britain: She’s from violent, slum-ridden Brazil, yet still attacks us on housing and human rights | Mail Online
▻http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2418194/Outrage-loopy-UN-inspector-lectures-Britain-Shes-violent-slum-ridden-Br
Outrage as ’loopy’ UN inspector lectures Britain: She’s from violent, slum-ridden Brazil, yet still attacks us on housing and human rights
Iain Duncan Smith said Raquel Rolnik undermined impartiality of the UN
Work and Pensions Secretary wants UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon to investigate
Tory MP Stewart Jackson said Miss Rolnick was a ‘loopy Brazilian leftie’
Her country has 54million living without clean water or sanitation
There are an estimated 30million homeless in the city of Sao Paulo and 625,000 live below the poverty line
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Raquel Rolnik: A dabbler in witchcraft who offered an animal sacrifice to Marx | Mail Online
▻http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2418204/Raquel-Rolnik-A-dabbler-witchcraft-offered-animal-sacrifice-Marx.html
Raquel Rolnik: A dabbler in witchcraft who offered an animal sacrifice to Marx
Academic brought up a Marxist and offered an animal sacrifice to Karl Marx
The architect appears to follow Candomble, an African-Brazilian religion that originated during the slave trade
Libby Porter, Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the School of Geography and Environmental Science in Monash University, Australia
"Well, these are outrageously disgusting and insulting media reports of a highly respected activist and voice for housing rights for the poor. We should note in particular, the use of ’loony leftie’, ’raised in violent slums’ and ’witchcraft’ as a means to denigrate and undermine Rolnick along class, gender and political lines. Rolnick is quite right to launch a significant attack on Britain’s housing policy, because that policy is frankly appalling, just as she mounts similar cogent arguments and critiques in countless other places and has done so for years"
#racisme #royaume-uni #arrogance
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- Fil @fil 13/09/2013
  
  je suis son blog ▻http://raquelrolnik.wordpress.com mais comme je ne lis pas le brésilien, c’est juste pour avoir une idée des mouvements #bidonvilles
  
  Fil @fil
- Reka @reka CC BY-NC-SA 13/09/2013
  
  Une réaction de David Featherstone de l’université de Glasgow sur la liste des géographes radicaux :
  « I think for me what is more important is situating the vilification of Rolnik within the Coalition’s vicious assault on the poor in Britain in the current conjuncture. I think it would perhaps be more accurate to see the Mail’s piece in this context, rather than assuming it is somehow an ‘outlier’ in a context of otherwise reasonable debate. I also suspect that some of the Coalition are rather rattled by this criticism from Raquel Rolnik and the UN…
  
  But for me the broader context for this is statements by Michael Gove (who in a Question Time appearance earlier in this year –cited Rita Gardner and the RGS as someone who backed his education policies- nice one RGS) blaming the ferocious increase in use of food banks in Britain on the people who use them- implying they are to blame- nothing to do with Coalition’s job cuts in the public sector etc. It is also a context where the Labour Party seems more interested in a sustained bout of union bashing than mounting anything like an effective opposition. »
  
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  Ceci à voir aussi :
  Bedroom tax row: UN official hits back at Tory MPs - Channel 4 News
  ▻http://www.channel4.com/news/bedroom-tax-shapps-un-tory-video
  Bedroom tax row: UN official hits back at Tory MPs
  UN official Raquel Rolnik puts up a feisty defence against Conservative condemnation and accusations from MP Nadhim Zahawi that she is being used as a “political football”.
  
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- Reka @reka CC BY-NC-SA 14/09/2013
  
  Et finalement ceci aussi :
  Full statement from special rapporteur on housing Raquel Rolnik | World news | theguardian.com
  ▻http://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/sep/11/full-statement-special-rapporteur-raquel-rolnik
  Full statement from UN special rapporteur on housing Raquel Rolnik
  Statement from Rolnik on her conclusions following her visit to the UK
  
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grommeleur @grommeleur 4/04/2013

This petition calls for Iain Duncan Smith, the current Work and Pensions Secretary, to prove his claim of being able to live on £7.57 a day, or £53 a week.
On Monday’s Today Programme David Bennett, a market trader, said that after his housing benefit had been cut, he lives on £53 per week. The next interviewee was Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith, who was defending the changes. The interviewer then asked him if he could live on this amount. He replied: “If I had to, I would.”
▻https://www.change.org/petitions/iain-duncan-smith-iain-duncan-smith-to-live-on-53-a-week
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