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for people like me it's the same story the world over from burlington real madrid to new york but maybe because we're in 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 more due. here where they push everyone out to the outskirts in a suburb where you can easily control that outside of of the inner circle where they have taken over and you go i have a income to even be there i was the only reason you're going to be going in is to commute go to work 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 are social housing they were they were cutting
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back on on all the repairs and maintenance and i've been told nothing is quite literally in this process we call managed to climb and i think data is praised as we'll as we'll believe that a cheap job was done if that's praised but i think it probably will be pan that will be and when it comes confirmation of our worst fears in that that's a very deterministic and unpleasant war factually against both flowing and having seen 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 deregulated it and it killed. the 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 of. explain in those wise for me the issue is how though how is this council going to invest in that area and invest in ways that delivers community value for the people they are
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not. moving the people they are out to somewhere else that's not on the gender it's on so called regeneration has hit our community we've wave after wave of gentrification for decades it swept away homes and communities spaces it replaced record shops with coffee shops music venues with. 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 i've seen move out because it's just too expensive and you know whorish are so we're never felt such a difference between one of us 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 can look
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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 head we need to chop off because it's that beast that created the green felt our fire. is 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 flour in the fire safety standards he said only a catastrophe would lead them to see and he was the 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 off as length west we know maybe just you know just they allowed it to i mean slum is
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a is 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 because they see 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 first same floor. and rather than keeping us safe they 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
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building behind us they purchased a freehold for twenty five point three million pounds without any consultation without even the local labor councillors knowing about it i put some of it 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 on making sure that we've got people that you know directing the team when we're directing work ourselves to make sure that people are safe but obviously emma. accusations directly at some of cook's colleagues like former deputy council leader look field in maryland they had to massive mosque the plans and some people praying in their expense from elsewhere in the context the latest is a 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
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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 ten times by dismantling. this guy got 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 i think you can you can look out of luck if the school and your state so you would have been really good as woke up yet i want to go on that i want that i saw. later in the op now. hopefully what happened to the estate nothing happens if they. crack doing. touching up the paper. i mean one of three things is true. after a big middle finger to the people in the
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a fight or if they're crazy once they get out of here any setting up which is the right thing to do he said very very like we need to we need to go now at least to go big money alone bankers have plans to where we live only we will. 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 i wish to live in london if you have india way this and that for you. when you have a political clout who are completely convinced that it's the consensus among them that the most functional economic philosophy for society is neo liberalism whereby you have been big transfers of wealth and redistribution of wealth. and the idea that they. are poor brae sions that there is subsidising of the arms industry subsidizing the banking sector. who pays the price but i think. the
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people who are just by the backbone the heart and the lungs of the society is the people that really make it run. the best. place for many clubs over the years so i know the game and so i got. the ball isn't only about what happens on the pitch to the final school it's about the passion from the families it's the age of the super manager kilian a loan to spend spend each image of the twenty million album fly a. book it's an
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experience like nothing else only because i want to share what i think of what i know about the beautiful game like great so what more chance for. peace it's going to. about your sudden passing i've only just learned you were a south and taken your last wrong turn. your attitude up to you as we all knew it would i tell you i'm sorry for me i could so i write these last words in hopes to put to rest these things that i never got off my chest. i remember when we first met in my life turned on each breath. but then my feeling started to change you talked about more like it was a cave in still some are fond of you those that didn't like to question our arc and
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i secretly promised to never be like it said one does not leave a funeral in the same as one enters my mind it's consumed with death this one quite different person to speak to now because there are no other takers. to claim that mainstream media has met its maker. wealth concentration they bureaucratic concentration is sapping the economic vitality strongest entrepreneurial nation called america and the machinations and the costs associated their way of keeping this year's prison population a place are draining loni away from all aspects of society and you've got the problems that you would normally associate with the ghetto like people nodding out of the middle of the day in the middle of the street. and the gun some is not so there's no dark and cold places called good good good
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country. truly a dusty to minister to live a show of almost all of the storms. the music of this little bit as a disco that is blue. listed with the photo. of the home of his sure it was blue. i shall be interested yes. falling into just what i learn best found the soul of a fellow muslims often beaten at a. full scale mistrustful. play almost anything for the members only lasts a lot of they come out like that or john said and i stand on my shoulder as i have no one can i do not the last i would least like a strong catholic matter how not a case amish out of time and cannot. shouldn't fucking and i cannot use i'm honest feel now with the fact the monitor. could not see this original thought enough i was very shy he able to sit out on a go to the cities and i found places in his or the one of the street. sas
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a cinema bar gather you have a lot of risk to see all these laws go. straight . to. the center of all worlds my estate the file in june two thousand and seventeen but i hold and. i couldn't believe it. i couldn't believe the size of it as well because it was almost. the whole of this site almost. you could see that it was spreading quite far as you could hear it you could see bits of the cloud being kind of fooling
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around on the street. a mock up brought on our feet a towel on my side only. i was right but you could see the smoke so clearly and nash when it was a brawl you know you know. you saw it is so painful. well i don't even know if i at the time why i thought those people are going to get out it was so it was traumatic you know it was beyond 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 burn to death in front of us and you know what happened a helicopter came and it came within one hundred fifty two hundred mi is of the building and turned around now that turn around was the most heartbreaking thing i've ever seen in my life. because the state the government the local council felt us in the aftermath of the file to continue to feed us.
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and i was so shocked in the first few days that the total absence of the council of the it was really shocking i saw them i saw the leader and the lady being filmed on the first day looking at city shell shocked as we all were and then that was it that's gone completely gone there was nobody there was no help 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 wants to date has calm and said actually this this this and this was their way and they had to register themselves . right risen to survivors how to grow and document who survived. and that was going on for a very i don't know what the council thought was going on or how they fail to see an emergency but they seemed to in some way fail to see the image and see and that first day i remember thinking wow they've been caught with their pants down of
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a hand like oh 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 shock even by request from the council who seem less than impressed with their response i am concerned 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 counsel in the field after the fire. 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 you know and as i said there were there than did
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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 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 the day 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 she would have a she began deleting things on their websites there with u.k. group delete it dissipates about their involvement in installing the small
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ventilation system in the towers main stairwell but we all began to hook 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 answers we get the i'll explain later why commuters are to be safe from the council building it was offered up. if you were right 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 med and managed 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 parts. 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 after he was he should be in jail he should be in jail.
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projected office to respond to allegations made in this film a week after the fire to recently made it official she apologized in parliament calling grenfell a spade of state the support on the ground for families in the initial alice was not good enough that was a failure of the state local and national. but for those of us who disputed continue feedings 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 its people now we know that people that campaigned against the council in there and with threatened with
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eviction vindicated. they were vindicated and that is the most tragic part of this situation that people were not heard. 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 a just and humane response has food and on deaf ears to community and good but dignified has responded to the state's failings was 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 list some good stories were not going to save those people that made it out of there with their whole family and their life today and that's good and
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that's beautiful but. the problem with me happy about that because i know people are going to make out so this rage is back to rage. there will never be justice which is it's i personally believe that and it's just my own very own puzzle belief that that cut only game in town is moving public inquiry there are fears that the state's failings will continue to move into 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're going to be receipt we would be in question we would have to download 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 then the guys are sold because i mean. and the guys who were
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for the curtains ago reform that would have been perfect justice for me perfect and a lot of these a nod to main players in these organizations or got connections religion. they all have had direct relationships their paths have crossed going right back to david cameron. who who who deregulated fire safety and live within 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 has played a sick to mates to keep us safe again. since to the community continue to come together not just to pick up where the council fails but to child increase power so that nothing like this ever happens again. that was a tragedy what's happened has happened to that person and you said it was a lot of people it's woken him up it woke me up what a lot of people up and i believe if we continue to stand and make
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a noise and not shut people out we can change this community to that way it was going on that day is the mood there is a more thoughtful mood amongst young people there isn't as much madness going on the streets that was going on as we pull people off thinking about oh so. this is it the thing about 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 kens in the area known as gold to people down here is the equivalent to new york's harlem it was the setting of a counter culture from sound system to. after the war the fight against racism and fascism. the caribbean and the progressive white working class communities made history taken to far off the streets in the public space flow set the bar in many ways claiming disused lands from the council one of them for the benefit of the
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community the history of is one of never ending struggle up until today where we have been 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 file the state has filed the filed the papers of north kind of filed the paper the ground for it was voluntary. wake software's people did things for themselves and what way fingers we can harness that spirit might get a permanent thing when you look at the numbers that they were able to get in the depositions when there's no reason why we can't put forward now and pace yourself 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 enclosed time if we want to get rid of the tough from the south
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and about microsoft's independence and then bring it on you know real direct and not proceed because the one good thing that could come out of the thought was the thing is a total new model of work and he's in the haruhi of things in the past is a great opportunity to do that build from the from the ground up again i think it would be a brilliant thing. and a council tax and. you know we all decided one quarter 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 work remember those millions that the council had in the bank they could have spent in that wasn't deadly while we were filming this report the council buckled on the community pressure announcing that it would spend much of those sweet house in survivors in the local area where on track to purchase about three hundred properties before the second week in december we're looking to
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try to make sure that we can offer people property is a permanent way of buying properties in the local arundhati ten and 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 the reality for us not about will stop i've got my eye on a boom of joy my residents' association party can paint to take back what is ours maybe it's the only way we can survive to realize that you had electively we have we all know what we will we will power to shape our destinies and to be artisans of all faiths that we need to seize these opportunities and organize. and that if anything that is would be mix that will come out of these that is an increasingly aware community of its interests. is not willing to be pushed around.
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the only palestinians is who gets the most help from its jerusalem counterparts i don't think some of those who were under the oak vision didn't know who could give us. i know it is all of us not just doctors plenty of the muslims i know if you kill tedium it doesn't seem to do more. don't piss off. it's a. wonder when they hit a car on the city of new day. this
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