#slumdwellers

[apenitentialprayer]

While independent India had been founded by high-born, well-educated men, by the twenty-first century few such types stood for elections, or voted in them, since the wealthy had extra-democratic means of securing their social and economic interests. Across India, poor people were the ones who took the vote seriously. It was the only real power they had. [...] To the excluded Annawadians, political participation wasn't cherished because it was a potent instrument of social equality. The crucial thing was the act of casting a ballot. Slumdwellers, who were criminalized by where they lived, and the work they did living there, were in this one instance equal to every other citizen of India. They were a legitimate part of the state, if they could get on the rolls.

Katherine Boo (Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity, page 217, 231)

[outofcontextargumate]

expect the slumdwellers of Paris to sound Cockney or whatever, not Valley Girl

[enefaa]

Tarkwa Bay Fisherman #tbt #archive • Had to spend a while watching him work before he was okay with me taking photos of him. I’m hoping he wasn’t affected by the recent government evictions that displaced thousands from their homes. • • #tarkwabay #tarkwa #lagos #fisherman #fishingnet #beach #portrait #artsymoments #evictions #displaced #slumdwellers #fishingports https://www.instagram.com/p/B9Eajd8pic7/?igshid=1eb7otey54783

[rajennair]

I visited these kids ( known to me ) at thier slum houses located along railway tracks, when i came to know thier slums were demolished. As usual periodically thier illegally built shanties get demolished by BMC squad and later once again these slum dwellers has to pick up bits of left over bamboos and clothes to rebuilt thier huts. These kids, though they put up brave smiling faces but I could sense thier sadness seeing thier huts pulled down and has to live on open under scorching sun till a roof comes up over their shanties. Once I asked Gul ( girl on left of pic) what she would like to become when she grows up, she replied she would like be a police officer so that she could stop her hut from being pulled down @rajennair #slums #slumdemolition #slumdwellers #demolition #shanties #housing #everydaymumbai #gettyimages #gettyreportage #reportage #reportagespotlight #24hoursproject #streetphotography #children #girls #mumbai (at Shiv shrusti ground)

[latestbreakingnewsupdates]

No slum-dwellers will be removed along the rail tracks in Delhi till the decision: SC from the center. India News - Latest Breaking News

No slum-dwellers will be removed along the rail tracks in Delhi till the decision: SC from the center. India News – Latest Breaking News

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NEW DELHI: Center informed about this Supreme court Not on monday Slum dwellers Has a length of 140 km Rail tracks It will be removed until the final decision is taken by the government in Delhi. A bench headed by Chief Justice SA Bobde was informed by Solicitor General Tushar Mehta that a final decision would be taken in consultation with the Railways, the Government of Delhi and the…

[blrtimes]

Karnataka Bengaluru Coronavirus June 17 Highlights: Govt decides to begin random testing; slum-dwellers, delivery boys to be under scanner Karnataka Bengaluru Coronavirus June 17 Highlights: Govt decides to begin random testing; slum-dwellers, delivery boys to be under scanner…

[chemburstudio]

#stopbeingpoor Embroidery on a larger than life T shirt 2018 “ STOP BEING POOR” 2020 #migrantworkers #dailywageworkers #slumdwellers #capitalocene #exodus https://www.instagram.com/p/CB6Rbenjoem/?igshid=1bis1kqsn5vfp

[chiisana-sukima]

So many awesome choices on my bingo card! “Slumdweller Content” is my fave lol. I can’t wait to get writing.

[myshaliach]

'More than half of Mumbai slum-dwellers had Covid-19'

‘More than half of Mumbai slum-dwellers had Covid-19’

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Image caption The population density in Dharavi slum is more than 10 times that of Manhattan

More than half the residents of slums in three areas in India’s commercial capital, Mumbai, tested positive for antibodies to the coronavirus, a new survey has found.

Only 16% of people living outside slums in the same…

[ill-will-editions]

OATHS OF BLOOD, OATHS OF WATER - Phil A. Neel (2018)

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This zine collects two chapters from Phil A. Neel’s fine study, Hinterland. America’s New Landscape of Class and Conflict. It’s the first in a new series by Reaktion Press and Brooklyn Rail, which also includes Pavlos Roufos’ new book on the Greek crisis. A recent interview with Phil Neel can be found here. 

From the text: 

“Leftists demand a program as a necessary preface to ‘political’ action, or simply presume that one will emerge naturally out of the activity of particular demographics. The absence of such a program is seen as an inherently fascistic elevation of might in the place of morality. It’s true that the oath has no such program, since it is an oath to shared action within the many political rifts that are just beginning to open. But, unlike the far right, what we might think of as the proto-communist oath is not unified by identity but by a reflective fidelity to the unrest itself. It was the universal character of this oath that was able to bring juggalos together with indebted college graduates in Occupy and to unite football hooligans with slumdwellers in Egypt. The unity of this oath is therefore the inclusive, flowing unity of those who wish to push the rift open, to spread it further, to extend it longer, or to ensure that the potential spreads. Instead of an oath of blood, it is therefore an oath of water, the ‘party of Anarchy’ that seems to seek nothing but further erosion, the growth of the flood.”

[cateringisalie]

Renegade Aeris x Cloud Week Day 7

Finally! Written for the prompt ‘Rescue’ and me with the certainty that I had to stop redoing this scene in different configurations. Has any of Cloud/Aeris/Tifa not had Cloud’s role in one of these now?

Aeris stirred with a groan. Above shafts of brighter light stabbed down, whorls of dust drifting in random movements. Sunlight? Or one of the floodlights Shinra used. What had? The memories came in a rush; the second reactor assault, the lack of resistance or security. The alarms silently deactivated before they ventured inside. Everything going a little too well. Shinra troops waiting for them on the way out, President Shinra gloating before a helicopter whisked him away.

The robot. The explosion, the fire and intensity catching them all of guard. Aeris left hanging over the slums. Tifa reaching desperately for her, Barret trying vainly to keep her anchored. The plummet, the fire vanishing above, the wind whistling in her ears- Mercifully she could not remember hitting anything. And while she hurt from head to toe, somehow nothing was broken. Mako treatments. A furtive motion nearby. With a grunt, Aeris forced herself up onto her hands. A slight, blond man with spiked hair and a pony-tail peered at her curiously. “You’re alive.” Aeris grinned. “I am.” She winced as she sat up. “Might not be so glad I did though.” Should be sector five – or at least she fell from over the dividing line between the lower plates. Pews, stained glass windows, huge space with exposed beams above- “Am I in a church?” The old ways were apparently gone, the places of worship and the iconography long since disposed of. Supposedly. This place escaped the cleanse it seemed. “Yes.” The man ventured closer. He frowned. “You didn’t come here for me?” “You?” Unless the man was a secretive Shinra operative, or some underworld associate – neither of which seemed likely – why should he-? The uniform. Needed to ditch that at some point. Tended to make people nervous. “Shinra’s after you?” “Aren’t you?” “I’m-“ Complicated. “-not with Shinra.” No need to overwhelm him. The man did not seem inclined to believe her. “But. You’re a SOLDIER right? Your eyes...?” “Was a SOLDIER. Not anymore. Now I’m-“ Trying to save the world? Helping a terrorist group? “-not.” The man hummed, but did not flee. What would Shinra want with this man that he could make such an assumption? “Why are Shinra interested in you.” He tensed and glanced to the ground. “Not completely sure.” Suspicious. “Guess they want me for my gardening.” “Gardening?” He smiled. “Yeah. The flowers.” “Flowers-“ Beneath her was an island of colour, yellows and reds and violets with green beneath. Apparently the trick to her survival. “Flowers.” She murmured the word. Flowers in Midgar was supposedly impossible, or at least ruinously expensive. But here in the slums was a riot of colour unlike anything else in Midgar. Out in the slums the world was harshly lit, tinged in places by the piercing glow of neon. How long since she had seen any flowers? “I’m… I’m sorry.” She scrambled up, bent stalks and smashed petals clear where she had lain. “It’s okay.” He knelt and ran a loving hand across the broken stem. “Rather not have dealt with another dead body today.” Slum humour. “Okay, so I think I can see why Shinra might be interested. That’s quite a trick.” Aeris circled the flower patch, the man still tending to the impression she left. “No trick. They just… grow.” The man sighed. “Did you use materia in SOLDIER?” “All the time.” Spells loosed with a thought, muscles strengthened and sleep banished with cure spells, the existing, devastating blade of the Buster Sword made more dangerous with lightning channelled through it. The man fumbled with his pony-tail and held out a white sphere. Smaller than even newly compressed materia and of no colour Aeris recognised. She reached for it- “May I?” “Go ahead,” the man said. “Doesn’t do anything.” It would be easy to dismiss the comment as the conclusion by an inexperienced materia-wielder, but Aeris bit her tongue and plucked up the sphere. Nothing. Still that near spark when making contact with the materia’s surface, but no spell or invocation at the back of her mind as if always there. Nothing. The sphere was inert. If not for that first sense, it would be hard to believe the sphere was even materia. “Never seen anything like it.” She handed it back and the man fumbled with his hair again. “Where did you get it?” “It’s a memento from my mother. She-“ Rusted hinges screamed, and down the other end of the church, one of the huge wooden doors swung open. An all too familiar blue-suited figure stepped into the church. Turks. The man beside her tensed up. “Kept me distracted while back-up arrived?” His confidence evaporated when the red-headed Turk frowned at Aeris; his eyes widening a moment later. He recognised her. So much for any hope of sneaking out of this situation. “I want to assure you, I’m not with Shinra,” Aeris murmured. The Turk muttered something into a radio and leant against the other church door. Was there another way out of here? “Then can you help get me out of here?” The man stared into her eyes. “Whatever you want. Anything.” Slumdwellers had little money – Avalanche’s pay was tiny. But there was something there, the sudden openness about the materia, and at a closer glance, those eyes were wondrous and blue. Maybe. Should be getting back. Should be focusing on the mission. But how long since someone attracted her attention. “Anything? How about a date?” “A date?” “Would that be a problem?” She shot him a side-eye. “You rather I demanded gil?” The man shook his head. “I’ll go out with you. Once.” That would depend entirely on how the occasion went. “Deal. What’s your name?” “Cloud,” the man replied. He stepped closer. “I’m Aeris.” She heaved the Buster Sword from her back; a squad of Shinra troops pushed in through the doors. So much for post-mission downtime.

[rajennair]

Illegal slums located near railway track was demolished by Mumbai BMC, once the officials leave the scene, with in no time the slum dwellers rebuilt thier huts, this farce keep happening umpteen times. Demolition undertaken at our cost is nothing but a hogwash due to close nexus between land sharks and local politicians and people's apathy. I was verbally abused by anti social elements from the slums, am aware of the risk involved in clicking such pics, but some one has to do the job @rajennair #slums #slumdemolished #BMC #Mumbailocals #demolition #slumdwellers #gettyimages #gettyreportage #reportage #reportagespotlight #everydaymumbai #_insomumbai #streetphotogtaphyinternational #streetphoto_bw #streetphotography #photojournalism #Mumbai (at Shiv shrusti ground)

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'More than half of Mumbai slum-dwellers had Covid-19'

'More than half of Mumbai slum-dwellers had Covid-19'

Image caption The inhabitants density in Dharavi slum is extra than 10 instances that of Manhattan

More than half the residents of slums in three areas in India’s industrial capital, Mumbai, examined optimistic for antibodies to the coronavirus, a brand new survey has discovered.

Only 16% of folks residing exterior slums in the…

[freddielocks]

The white gurl chroniclezzz!

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'More than half of Mumbai slum-dwellers had Covid-19' #covid19 #mumbai #slumdwellers https://world-update.com/more-than-half-of-mumbai-slum-dwellers-had-covid-19/?feed_id=24597&_unique_id=5f2101978cd4c