From social media campaigns to street protests and occupy movements, activists are fighting for housing and urban justice across the world. Following a special Australian premier screening of the film ‘ Mother City’, this panel of activists and scholars from Australia and South Africa discuss how local struggles – often shared through music, art, film, and media – build global solidarity.
Mother City (dir. Miki Redelinghuys & Pearlie Joubert, 2024) is an award winning documentary about the inequalities of housing and continuing spatial apartheid that exists in urban and housing planning in Cape Town and the campaign run by activists from local townships and the community occupying a public hospital in the city.
Tour leads
Amanda Tattersal, University of Sydney
Nkosikhona Swaartbooi, campaigner for justice and equality in South Africa
Justine Humphry, University of Sydney
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