i was born to go full time it was my home for twenty five years. off to sea in the heart of my state i can't see. that not will follow me and my people whose 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. grenfell 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. it did the consequences we suffered it made the trains loom in the

horizon in different morph anyways no i live in cannes in the chelsea it's one of the richest areas in the whole country but the north where we live has one of the highest concentration of people a low incomes the growing inequality is pushing so many out the area it's obvious global capital has no the god for people like me it's the same story the world over from butt into rio madrid to new york but maybe because we have as such prime minister 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 a push everyone out to ask us in a suburb where you can easily control that outside of the of the in a way to have taken over and you quite have a come to your. 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 back on on all the repairs and maintenance and they've been to nothing has quite 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 and when it comes confirmation of our worst fears and that that's a very deterministic and unpleasant war factually against an imposed following in 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 of 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 wise for me the issue is how do 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 of. so-called regeneration of our community we have wave after wave of gentrification for decades swept away homes and community spaces replace record shops with coffee shops music venues with beach. where we feel like outsiders streets we want school 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. you know whorish our sewer never for such

a difference between want to free us and them i'm talking cross not only racial if we hear regeneration we know it means the generation we know it means destruction any community now would take us three of regeneration projects that exists no doubt every generation comes to your party who 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 is actually part of including is that head we need to chop off because is that beast that create. new ground for itself and. 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 grateful tower he won't countless times about deregulation and the

flowers 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 use it it just is just not look soft as length west we're not i mean it just you know just they allowed it to i mean some as it is is a is a is a strong word but they are allowed it to sort of slip into a slum loike status which is disgusting considering this power has a first of all had referred of 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. live on the first same floor. rather than keeping us safe they spent their

whole time in the hole concentration going around north kensington and taking our library of lovely hundred twenty five year old north kensington library. 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 i 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 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 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 obvious that emma level accusations directly

colleagues like former deputy council leader look field in maryland they had to massive master plans and some people bring in their expense from elsewhere on the current deputy leaders his property developer and others who were just merely aspiring to be property developers go to maryland before the fire filled in million was working for a property development company slowly named socially conscious capital how socially conscious is it that while serving in public office he was also b m y and then by dismantle. this guy got rich convincing councils to sell off assets to his wealthy clients filled a million enjoy steve's five star lunches with him and pinch pennies from us. to look out the window and the only thing you can look out of luck if the school and your state. he would have been fairly unique in his wake up i'm going to get i

want to go on then i got that i want that i still got. later in the uk now. hopefully when it happens to be a state nothing happens to be a state. filling crack there in the window you're touching on the paper. i mean one of two things is true i've asked after a big middle finger to the people in your state or if during christie wants to get out of here and he fell enough which is what we needed today he said very very like we need to we need to go now at least to go big money alam bankers have plans to where we'll is only we weren't part of the. local fight against global enemies and structures eight guys have as much money as hostile world because of the systems we are fighting in it doesn't matter if you're in london if you're in their way this and that free. when you have a political bloc 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 upwards and the idea that there is. a syntax for corporations that there is subsidizing of the arms industry subsidizing the banking sector. who pays the price for those things the people who are just by the backbone the heart and the lungs of the society is the people that really make it run.

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to set of all worlds the whole of my estate the file in june of two thousand and seventeen but i hold in all world. couldn't believe it. and i couldn't believe the size of it as well because it was almost on the whole of this size almost i mean you could see that it was spreading quite far as you could hear it you could see bits of the climbing kind of food around us on the street. cop brawl and i see the towel on my sidewalk on the other side i was right but you can see the smoke so i can meet him and that's when it was a. you know he looked up. you saw or at you saw people i don't even know if i at the time 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 bend for deaf 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 back around now that time around was the most heartbreaking thing i've ever seen in my life the fire that fertile happened because the state the government the local council felt us in the aftermath of the file to continue to feed us. and i was so i was with a shock to the first few days that there's a total absence of the council i thought it was really shocking i saw and i saw the legion jeff zeleny being filmed on the first day looking at city shell shocked as we'll and then that was it that's gone and completely gone there was nobody there was no help we wait

a day after day after day for the council to step in to say hello this is what's nice to happen this is what we need to do nobody to date has common said actually they stay states and this was their way and they had to register themselves. right risen to the virus how to grow and document who survived to who never and that was going on for and believe i don't know. the council thought was going on or how they failed to see the new agency 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 a bit here and 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 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 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 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 smoke ventilation system in the towers main stairwell but we all 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 answers we get the i'll explain later why i can be as not to be safe from the council building i went off and on. if you were right if you were african you know organization you'd offer him

up while working under seal the conservative leader of the council nicholas patch of 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's 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. projected office to respond to allegations made in this film a week after the fire to resign maine 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 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 people out we know that people that campaigned against the council in there and with threatened with eviction were vindicated in that. they were vindicated in that 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 the silent marches they have grown with every march taken place on the fourteenth of each month the date 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 injustice this pill sadness song list some good stories we're 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 but. the problem was we 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 that kind of only game in town is more and more bakes public inquiry there are fears of the state failings will continue to move in 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 try to jump journey people lost their lives if we don't nice we need to be rest eat we would be in question we would have been found the whole of the team ok management team need to go to geo where it would have been if they go and arrest the guys but not sat in on that the guys are sold because i mean. and the guys who were for at 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 connections religion. they all have had direct relationships their paths are crossed right back to david cameron. who deregulated fire safety and live within walking distance of grand felt our. it remains to be seen what the outcome of the public inquiry and

police investigation will be. but one thing we know for sure we will never trust the state and its plight are sick to mates to keep us safe again. since to fire the community continue to come to give a not just to pick up where the council fails but to china increase our power so that nothing like this ever happens again. that was a tragedy what's happened has happened to about it 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 this community to that way and. we know from observing what's going on that there is a more contemplated 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 before people off thinking about oh so. this is a divide and rule thing 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 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 the far off the streets in the public space flow set the bar in many ways claiming disused lands from the council one of this for the benefit of the community the history of quo is one of never ending strong. up until today where we have in the biggest fit 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 the file the state has filed the filed the papers of those kind of filed the paper

the ground for it was voluntary. wait software's the people did things for themselves and what we think is we can harness that spirit and make it a permanent thing when you look at the numbers that they were able to get in to depositions with 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 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 hauraki of things in the past there's 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 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 facilitates 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 that while we were filming this report the council buckled on the community pressure announcing that it would spend much of those reserves we 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 we're buying properties in the local air and up in the 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 but will start of got my island of joy my residents

association of particular pains to take back what is outs maybe it's the only way we can survive to realise that elective leigh we have we all know what we will we will power to shape our destinies and to be artisans of all faiths and we need to seize these opportunities and organize. and that if anything that is being mix that will come out of that is an increasingly aware community of its interests. not willing to be pushed around. town. join me every thursday on the alec simon show

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