Word: eviction
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...move off private and government land. But landowners say they will not retreat. The Bhindi Brothers property company owns dozens of hectares in the Kumars' settlement. While they have tolerated squatters for years, a $20 million development is now planned for the area and Bhindi Brothers have issued eviction notices. General manager Sashi Dhanji says the company had negotiated with the government and had obtained a promise that all the genuine squatters on the block would be rehoused. "We have allowed them to stay on the land because we were not using it," he says. "And we have relocated some...
...discrimination. In a scene that belied fifty years of progress on American college campuses, 23 of the 35 women of the DePauw chapter of the Delta Zeta (DZ) sorority, including every overweight member, and the only black, Vietnamese, and Korean members, were summarily uprooted from their house and effectively evicted from their chapter, by many accounts part of an image makeover mandated by adult officers of DZ’s national organization. We use the term “adult” loosely. For the national organization’s seeming obsession with image—reminiscent of middle schoolers...
...leaders as well as the Oaxaca governor. The strife in Oaxaca erupted with a teachers’ strike this past May. The strikers and their allies accuse Governor Ulises Ruiz of corruption and want him to resign. The conflict turned violent on June 14, when police tried to evict the demonstrators from the city’s central plaza. At least eight others have died in the conflict, according to the Associated Press. Yesterday’s protest coincided with the Mexican holiday known in Spanish as “el Día de los Muertos...
...small, unarmed band of Iranian rebels dedicated to toppling the regime in Tehran; it had been confined to a single base outside Baghdad and was monitored by the U.S. Nobody had accused the Mujahedin-e-Khalq of any atrocities on Iraqi soil, and al-Maliki's decision to evict the group smacked of tokenism. Sunni politicians seized on the eviction as proof that al-Maliki was doing Tehran's bidding...
...long time. Meanwhile, after the 1992 riots in South Central, the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank, whose offices are adjacent to the land, decided to temporarily use it as a community garden. Then, in 2003, Horowitz won his land back. Last month he won another court case to evict the squatting farmers, which have banded together under a radical leader named Tezozomoc who gets along with neither the city government not Horowitz, but is well-loved by far-left protestors. They, it turns out, are the weirdest thing here...