Sign now for Zero Evictions for the Pom Mahakan Community!
The caption on the poster erected by the Bangkok city authorities said, "Thank you for giving back Pom Mahakan, a historical monument for all people. But the authorities plan to begin the eviction of about 300 people this coming 3 September.
Please sign right now by clicking here to support the Pom Mahakam community as it resists that horrendous vision of the future.
» Sign now for Zero Evictions for the Pom Mahakan Community!Pom Mahakan, a harmonious and well-run local community under siege in the heart of old Bangkok
Pom Mahakan, a community of approximately 300 people in the heart of old Bangkok, has been repeatedly threatened with forced eviction over a period of some 25 years in the name of a project of so-called “beautification” that violates the community’s human rights, especially as per art. 11 of ICESCR (to which Thailand is a signatory). The city authorities have shown no willingness even to consider the several highly constructive land-sharing projects that have been proposed; have defamed the community; and have offered only inadequate compensation.
» Pom Mahakan, a harmonious and well-run local community under siege in the heart of old BangkokIAI message solidarity with Pom Mahakan community
25 July 2016
To:
Governor M.R. Sukhumbhand Paribatra, Governor of Bangkok
Police General Aswin Khawnmuang, Deputy Governor of Bangkok
173 Dinso Road, Phra Nakhon
Bangkok, Thailand 10200.
Fax: +66 2-621 0878
» IAI message solidarity with Pom Mahakan communityThe International Alliance of Inhabitants is a global network of associations and social movements of inhabitants, cooperatives, communities, tenants, house owners, homeless, slum dwellers, indigenous populations and people from working class neighbourhoods. The objective is the construction of another possible world starting from the achievement of the housing and city rights.