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This October, two youth leaders from Abahlali baseMjondolo (Shackdwellers movement of South Africa) are visiting 8 American cities and Haiti to share their experience and analysis of the largest social movement of the poor in the post apartheid South Africa and to screen the new award-winning film Dear
Mandela.

They will meet with leaders of grassroots organizations and
engage with young people in a conversation about leadership, bottom-up democracy
and building a movement to end poverty. The tour is hosted by the Poverty
Initiative, the National Economic and Social Rights Initiative and the
Center for Constitutional Rights, and supported by a dozen organizations
including Amnesty International, Vermont Workers Center, United Workers (Baltimore),
Media Mobilizing Project (Philadelphia), and the Michigan Welfare Rights
Organization amongst others. The tour will end with a visit to Haiti,
hosted by the Housing Collective, to meet earthquake survivors living in
displacement camps and to screen the new Kreyol version of Dear Mandela.