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i was born into a full tower it was my home for twenty five years. off to sea in the heart of my state i can't see. that night will follow me and my peoples for the rest of our lives. we won't see any shots of the faithful not in this film we never want to see that again. going full for local and good old reasons there's a bigger picture that i love more about every day we talk politics now and how we can take power because we learned that we have to look off to ourselves. changed everything. that did the consequences we saw fit to make the cranes loom in the horizon and different morph anyways no i live in cannes in the chelsea it's one of
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the richest areas in the whole country but the north where we live has one of the highest concentration of people of low incomes. go it inequality is pushing so many out the area it's obvious global capital has no regard for people like me it's the same story the world over from butt into rio madrid to new york but maybe because we're having such prime real estate what we had to live through could be a warning for you all so i set out to learn from those who are in the know about here and tell you about it. they want to paris want to. hear what it push everyone out to ask us in a suburb where you can easily control that outside of the of the in a so when i've taken over and you quite have a come to even beat it i was the only reason you're going. is to commute to work
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and do some menial task and come back out again and go back to the suburbs they look at this particular area as a gold mine and the thing that's preventing them from being able to mine that gold is the presence of the people here for social housing they were they were cutting back on on all the repairs and maintenance and the been done nothing has by deliberately in this process we call managed to climb and i think data is proved as we'll as we all believe that a cheap job was done if that's proved what you think it probably will be banned that will be you know confirmation of our worst fears and that that's a very deterministic and unpleasant warfare against it both flowing in from the scene many of us now see a wall fair by the rich in collusion with their mates in local government they didn't represent us they lied they car they deregulate it and it killed. the
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council's representatives deny social plans and they tell us with a straight face they care about our community i don't feel that the issues are about social cleansing as you put it i can understand why people. explain in those ways for me the issue is how don't how is this council going to invest in that area and invest in ways that delivers community value for the people they are not. moving the people they are out to somewhere else that's not on the gender it's all so-called regeneration is here our community we have wave after wave of gentrification for decades swept away homes and community spaces it replaced record shops with coffee shops music venues we'd be cheeks and be where we feel like outside as the streets we want schools are now full of tourists and the rich i can't tell you how many people are see move out because it's just too expensive and you know whorish are so we're never felt such
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a difference between one of our off and them i'm talking cross on the ration if we hear regeneration we know it means the generation we know it means destruction of any community now we think it's three of regeneration projects that exists now that every generation comes to your party would you best watch out because you look like if you don't battle against and stop them they're going to wipe out everything that you all did basically you know everybody's been pushing the regeneration culture yet is actually part of an polluting is that had we need to chop off because is that beast that created the grain for itself i'm. just that culture that created it and is hundreds of years old and they still see us especially the african caribbean population as their former slaves. of bitch and activists around here lifting grenfell's our he won countless times. about the regulation and the
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fire safety standards he said only a catastrophe would lead them to sea and he was in a plan is not to have a plan and that's a great plan when you're trying to run something down into the ground you know because you just don't invest in it you don't you just it's just not looked after as length west we know maybe just you know just they allowed it to i mean slum is a is a is a is a strong word but they are allowed it to sort of slip into a slum like status which is disgusting considering this power has a first of all had referred a billion pounds in reserves that we've been losing all of our public and public buildings in north kensington. the people that are responsible for that at all be casey a small caballo of officers and senior and senior councillors. they should have been keeping us safe in grenfell tower on the rest of the grenfell tower used to live on the thirteenth floor. and rather than keeping us safe they
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spent their whole time in the whole concentration going around north kensington and taking our library of lovely hundred twenty five year old north kensington library of a beautiful information center underneath the fly over. and any other public assets they could get their hands on including this beautiful building behind us the building behind us a purchase of freehold for twenty five point three million pounds without any consultation without even the local labor councillors knowing about it i put some of its accusations to barry cooke i'm not going to comment on that it seems to me that that's a very very strong statement all i can say is that i've looked at the issues that we're dealing with in relation to fire safety on housing and making sure that we've got people that you know directing the team when we directing work ourselves to make sure that people are safe but obviously. accusations directly at some of
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cook's colleagues like former deputy council leader look field in maryland they had to massive master plans and some people praying in their expense from elsewhere on the contactee latest his property developer and others who were just merely aspiring to be property developers like right field in maryland before the fire filled in mellon was working for a property development company slightly named socially conscious capital how socially conscious is it that while serving in public office he was also be unwind then tined by dismantling. this guy rich convincing councils to sell off assets to his wealthy clients filled in million enjoy steve's five star lunches with him and pinch pennies from us. to look out the window. and you can look out a block in the school and you state so you would have been really really good as wake up earlier yet i want to go on that one that i saw. later in the uk now.
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hopefully into the state nothing top of the state. feeling crack they would. touch on the paper. i mean one of three things. i thought big middle finger to the people on here. or if during a crazy want to get out of here and he fell in up which is the writing today he said very very like we need to we need to go now at least to going up big money alone bankers have plans to where we live only we went part of the. local fight is against global enemies and structures. eight guys have as much money as hof the world because of the systems we are fighting it doesn't matter if you're in london if you live in the way it's a rat free. when you have a political blog who are completely convinced that it's the consensus among them that the most functional economic philosophy for society is neo liberalism whereby
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you have been big transfers of wealth and redistribution of wealth. and the idea that. the corporations that the subsidizing of the arms industry subsidizing the banking sector. who pays the price that i think it is the people who understood by the backbone the heart and the lungs of the society is the people that really make it run.
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what politicians do something that. they put themselves on the on the big get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president or injury. or somehow want to preserve. it's a right to be for us this is what the for last three in the morning can't be good that i'm interested always in the waters about how the. question.
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could fuck him on a cool lets see this original song enough i was going to show you go to sleep i don't want to go to the susan the micra voices in this or do whatever the stupid the. tsunami of our gather you know that allows us. to see others who are supposed to. be everybody i'm stephen baldwin task hollywood guy usual suspects a very proud american first of all i'm just george washington and r.v. and do some stuff this is my buddy max famous financial guru and well he's a little bit different i've hunted abraham lincoln high not knowing no one knows up with all the drama happening in our country i'm shooting the brood have some fun meet everyday americans. and hopefully start to bridge the gap this is the great american people which.
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was the center of all worlds the whole of my state. the file on june eighth two thousand and seventeen but a hold in. i couldn't believe it. and i couldn't believe the size of it as well because it was almost on the whole of this side almost. i mean you could see that it was spreading quite far you could hear it you could see bits of the cloud and kind of food around us on the street. and i see the towel on my side work on the other side i was right but you could see the smoke circularly and i'm not sure when it was. you know he looked up.
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you saw or it is still people i don't even know if i at the time when i saw those people are going to get out it was so it was beyond traumatic in at the un traumatic and we're hoping that somehow something will come along and rescue them somehow we will not literally watch these people beg for help and then for a different front of us and you know what happened a helicopter came and it came within one hundred fifty two hundred meters of the building and turned around now that turn around was the most heartbreaking thing up ever seen in my life the fire that fertile happened because the state the government and local council filled us in the aftermath of the file they continued to fail us. and i was so obvious what a shock to the first two days of the title absence of the council and it was really shocking i saw and i saw the legion deputy leader being filmed on the first day looking absolutely shell shocked as we all were and then that was it that gone and
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completely gone there was nobody in the business how we wait a day after day after day for the council to step in and say hello this is what needs to happen this is what we need to do nobody to date has common said actually they stiff the sunnis with the way and they have to register themselves. right resident survivors how to grow and. document who survived or who didn't have all and that was going on for and barry richard i don't know what the council thought was going on or how they fail to see nugent c. but they seemed to in some way fail to see the emergency and that first day i remember thinking wow they've been caught with their pants down a bit here and like both but then by the end of the day when nothing much had improved thinking. this is a this isn't this feels like more significant than incompetence or even by request from the council who seem less than impressed with their response i am concerned
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very concerned about its capability into the future and i think it's important that the council make sure that we don't have a collapse of services and that we stand ready to manage to manage services if we have to if there's an economic fighting on the part. that there's a perception that the council in the field of the fire power. i i wasn't here in the in the week after the fire i came ten days later so i hear lots of comments and i hear lots of conversations particularly people in the air and so on but you also hear from staff in our organization that were there then did lots of stuff now maybe you know they weren't aware of them but all i hear lots of different voices some from staff and counselors who were actually present at the time and did lot of work but we didn't see or feel the council presence off to the
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fire and wonder why they still had time for things that clearly could have waited they can so granted to a marriage and see planning applications that die after the fire. they weren't around to take me in today even for the community but they were able to have a planning application me into grant emergency planning applications with no committee hearings while the community was dealing with the disaster and the count just tons of aid companies contracted by the council to carry out the but when of a ship began deleting things on their websites there with u.k. group deleted disk page about their involvement in installing the smoke ventilation system in the towers main stairwell but we will began to hold them up what did they have to hide there were fears the council were doing the same thing. these questions. as part of the public inquiry i'm not sure where answers may get the i'll explain later why computers are to be safe from the council voting it went off
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and on. if you were a if you are ethical can you know organization you know from up while working on this film the conservative leader of the council nicholas patch of ground announced his resignation he filled a million manage to reach innovation that so deadly kept in touch to grenfell now he's advise in big businesses how to profit from local authorities yeah i'll give you the parchin. he was actually he's made a business of tenant of accounts who this is how you do a budget night this is how you make money off a budget and he was making a living off this off that he was he should be in jail he should be in jail. projected office to respond to allegations made in this film a week after the file to resubmit a made it official she apologized in parliament calling grenfell a fatal state the support on the ground for families in the initial alice was not
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good enough that was a failure of the state local and national. but for those of us who disputed continue statements of state before and after the fire this was too little too late . failure implies that there is a positive intention in the beginning to actually fulfill this toss what i think we have seen is yes incompetence on one hand but this stain and purposeful money speak of social housing in this bar in order to cleanse it and move its people out we know that people that campaigned against the council in there and with threatened with eviction vindicated in that. they were vindicated in that and that. is the most tragic part of this situation that people were not home. in life and even now they're not heard and there's a strong sense that justice cannot be done to grant. the call for
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a just and humane response has food in and def is to community and good but dignified has responded to the state's failings the silent marches they have grown with every march taken place on the fourteenth of each month the day of the file. the lack of justice is never less obvious as when my streets are filled of grieving families and survivors. is clear now there was no justice i had in my mind from three days after the fire that there was never going to see justice this pill sadness song with some good stories were not going to say there's people that made it out of there with their whole family and their life today and that's good and that's beautiful by. far was me happy about that because i know people that didn't make it out so it's rage it's back to rage. there will never be justice which is it's i personally believe that and it's just my own very own personal belief that the kind of only game in town these moving public inquiry there are
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fears the state's failings will continue within the public inquiry because it is being headed by more big he's a judge with a history of controversial rudin's in housing cases where he has been accused of social cleansing this guy couldn't be further from my state and why the community people need to go to jump journey people lost their lives if we don't nice we need to be receipt we would've been questioned we would have been found the whole of the team ok management team need to go to geo what would have been if they go and arrest the guys but not sat in on that the guys are sold the credit. and the guys who authorized the cabin to go in there and for that would have been perfect justice for me perfect and a lot of these a lot of the main players in these organizations or got connected. it is really each other they all have had direct relationship step off that cross going right back to david cameron. who deregulated fire safety and live within
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walking distance of ground felt our. it remains to be seen with the outcome of the public inquiry and police investigation will be. the one thing we know for sure we will never trust the state and his plight is sick to mates to keep us safe again. since to the community continue to come to give a not just to pick up where the council fails but to child increase all power so that nothing like this ever happens again. that was a tragedy what's happened has happened to that and you said it was looking for its woken up it woke me up what a lot of people up and i believe if we continue to stand and make the noise and not shut people out we can change as can any way that. we know from observing what's going on that day is a more contemplated move there is a more for food amongst young people there isn't as much madness guy in the streets
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that was going on as before people off thinking about oh so. this is a divide in roofing we are being pitted against each other how do we deal with that and i think there is the opportunity to actually turn a lot of stuff around history is key to understanding the struggle of working class people in north kensington the area known as gold to people down here is the equivalent to new york's harlem it was the setting of a counter-cultural sound system. after the war the fight against racism and fascism . the caribbean and the progressive white working class communities made history taken the far off the streets in the public space flow set the bar in many ways claiming disused lands from the council one of those for the benefit of the community the history of is one of never. and then struggle up until today where we have the biggest threat we have ever faced gentrification some locals think the only way forward for our community is to build on the way we came to give off to
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file the state has filed the filed the papers of those kind of filed the paper the ground for it was voluntary. wake software's people did things for themselves and what way things we can harness that spirit and make it a permanent thing when you look at the numbers that they were able to get in the depositions with there's no reason why we can't put forward now the pace yourself that there's no reason why we can't put forward candidates that we know that we know will not sell us out because they are beholden to and receptive to the movements for social justice which exist within the bar rather than beholden to corporate power in tightly closed time if we want to get rid of the tough from the south and about microsoft's independence and then bring it on you know real direct to vote procedure because the one good thing that could come out of the thought one good thing is a total new model of work and he's in the hauraki of things in the past is
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a great opportunity to do that build from the from the ground up again i think it would be a brilliant thing. a council tax. you know we all decide one course in not to pay our council tax to the council and the whole of north kensington pays its council tax to a community organization and then you know facilitate all of those organizations already in place doing the way remember those millions that the council had in a bank they could have spent in that wasn't deadly while we were filming this report the council buckled under community pressure announcing that it would spend much of those sweet house in survivors in the local area we're on track to purchase about three hundred properties before the second week in december we're looking to try to make sure that we can offer people properties a permanent way of buying prop. it says in the local arundhati ten and up eleven who knows where we would be if it weren't for the community standing up for five months people have been in hotels the vast majority still my state is being gutted
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the reality for us the battles won't stop i've got my eye of joy my residents' association a part the campaign to take back what is. it's the only way we can survive to realize that you get elected leader we have will power with real real power to shape our destiny and to be authors that is about it so we need to seize these opportunities and organize them. and that if anything that is the phoenix that will come out of these that is an increasingly aware community of its interest. this not willing to be pushed around.
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