(Thanks, Katie!)
Abahlali baseMjondolo (Shack Dwellers) Movement uses a Drupal-based website (including user-contributed media content) and
Indymedia South Africa to help the poorest of the poor organize, demonstrate, and influence policy:
The Abahlali baseMjondolo (Shack Dwellers) Movement began in Durban, South Africa, in early 2005. Although it is overwhelmingly located in and around the large port city of Durban it is, in terms of the numbers of people mobilised, the largest organisation of the militant poor in post-apartheid South Africa. Its originary event was a road blockade organised from the Kennedy Road settlement in protest at the sale, to a local industrialist, of a piece of nearby land long promised by the local municipal councillor to shack dwellers for housing.
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Post apartheid South Africa is dealing with a number of issues, perhaps most significantly the displaced millions of people who live in these shack or “shanty towns”. For everyone in the nation to be living equally will take the efforts of everyone, black & white, rich & poor. By using a web based medium, the movement is reaching a much broader & wider audience and are more likely to plead their cause to those who can be most influential in crusading for the neccessary changes to be made. I can only hope this lifts the organisations profile and helps them gain the support they deserve.