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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 peoples for the rest of our lives. you won't see any shots of the faithful not in this film we never want to see that again. going forward but 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. grenfell changed everything. it did the consequences we suffered it made the cranes 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 got the people like me it's the same story the world over from butlins to rio madrid to new york but maybe because we're having such prime real estate well. we had to leave 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. they want to paris more due. here where they push everyone out to the outskirts in a suburb where you can easily control the 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 back on on all the repairs and maintenance and they've been told nothing has quite deliberately in this process we call manage decline and i think data is proved as we'll as we all believe that a cheap job was done if that's praised but i think it probably will be pan that wealthy and confirmation of our worst fears and that that's a very deterministic and unpleasant war factually against the post flowing in from the scene many of us now see a wool 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 think 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 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 on so called regeneration has hit 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 with bt. where we feel like outside as the streets we want school i'm 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 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 including 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 fire safety standards he said only

a catastrophe would lead them to sea and he was in 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 after as length west we know maybe just you know just they allowed it to i mean slum is 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 building behind us a 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 actually is asians to bury cook 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. level accusations directly at some of cook's colleagues like former deputy council leader look filled

a million they had to massive mass the plans and some people praying in their expense from elsewhere like this one the current deputy leaders his property developer and others who were just merely aspiring to be property developers like mellon before the fire filled in million 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 in why and then times by dismantling. this guy got rich convincing councils to sell off failing crack do it with no touching of the pay what i mean one of three things which true. after a big middle finger to the people on the estate or if during a crazy want to get out of here and selling up which is a really decent very very likely need so we need to go now at least to go the big money alone bankers have planned so where we live only we weren't part of the.

local fight is against global enemies and structures. 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 this and that 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 you have been big transfers of wealth and redistributions of wealth upwards and the idea that there. are corporations that there is subsidizing the arms industry subsidizing the banking sector. who pays the price for those being. the people who are just by the back the heart and the lungs of the society is the people that really make it run.

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they call me a useful idiot i'm useful idiot you called me a useful idiot a useful idiot and useful idiots were expressing my opinions on t.v. there's two things missed doing it behind his record is a simple strategy we attack persons instead of talking about the arc of what's next why stop will feel banned me from getting this close to the white house i'm with a group code pink why not ban the color pink one hour stretch beyond the rock i should be sent to the town because i'm going to try to break me on the wheel i have put up with a long time of this sort of nonsense you don't scare me want to scare us and i'll continue to voice my opinion i'll continue to speak out i'm in good company i'm in good company you're going to scream you want to us because we're free thinkers.

palestine is getting international recognition with the help of israel at least in the world of zoos remember wolf it was dismissive to do loving to you like you know that this isn't my cup of tea is going up to sunny all mediated you know john without a doubt over the ship the only palestinians it gets the most hopeful is jerusalem counterparts i don't think there's some of those who in the world under the oak vision not only could give us. and the earth is all of us not just the heart of this lady of the muscle that you had an identical t.v. in the doesn't seem to do more commitments also don't put this off. it was the set of all well it's the whole of my est. the file on june eighth two thousand and seven am but a hold in all. 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 club in kind of fooling around on the street. brawl and i see the tower but my side were on the other side i was right but you could see the smoke circulate in a mass when it was a. you know you know the top. you saw or it is so painful i don't even know if i at the time i thought those people are going to get out it was such it was traumatic and i l.s.b. on 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 ben 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 turn 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 cern i was with a shock to the first two days of the total absence of the council until it was really shocking i saw and i saw the legion jeff zeleny being filmed on the first day looking at it and shell shocked as we all were and then that was it that gone and completely gone there was nobody there was no help we waited day after day off the day for the council to step in to say hello this is what needs to happen this is what we need to do. nobody to date has com and said actually this this this and this was the way in they had to register themselves. about residents the vibe was

how to grow and document who survived who didn't have all and that was going on for a day which i don't know what the council thought was going on or how they failed to see the image and see but they seemed to in some way fail to see the emergency and that first day i remember thinking wow they've been cool with that pounced on 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 seem less than impressed with the 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 after 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 to 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 bunch of innovation began deleting things on their websites there with u.k. group delete it dissipates about their involvement in installing the small 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 computers have to be safe from the council voting it went off and on. if you were right if you were african you know organization you'd offer him up while working on this film the conservative leader of the council nicolas patchett announced his resignation he filled a med and managed to reach innovation that so deadly kept in touch to grenfell now

he's advising 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. projected office to respond to allegations made in this film a week after the fire to resubmit a made it official she apologized in parliament calling grenfell a failure 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 the shooter 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 its people now we know that people that campaigned against the council in there and with threatened with 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 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 justice 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 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 puzzle belief that that kind of only game in town is moving public inquiry there were fears of the state's failings will continue we've been the public inquiry because it is being headed by more pick 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 hit on this you need to be rest eat we would be in question we would have been down 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 who sold the credit. and the guys who were for the current 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 all got connections religion. they all have had direct relationships their paths have crossed going right back to david cameron. who deregulated fire safety and they live within walking distance of grand felt tower. 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 has played a 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 power so that nothing like this ever happens again. that was a tragedy what's happened has happened said about it and he said looking full up 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 the noise and not shut people out we can change as can any way and. we know from observing what's going on that there is a more contemplated mood days or more for food amongst young people there isn't as much madness going on the streets that was going on as because people are 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 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 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 is one of never ending strong. up until today where we have in 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 those kind of filed the paper the ground for it was voluntary. weeks afterwards but we would do 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 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 directive not proceed 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 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 decided one course to 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

are already in place doing away remember those millions that the council had in the bank they could have spent untold 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 where 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 properties in the. collaring dumping ten and eleven who knows where we would be if it weren't for the community stand alone for five months people have been in hotels the vast majority still my state is being gutted the reality for us but will start of got my island of joy my residents' association a party campaign to take back what is outs may it's the only way we can survive me to realize that you have elected me we have we all know what we will we will power

to shape our destinies and to be autism's of office so we need to seize these opportunities and overnight. and that if anything that is the phoenix that will come out of these that is an increasingly aware community of its interests on this not willing to be pushed around. done some is not so is not i can quit places not good country and. true just to get the minister there bunch of family as well above the storm. as

it goes but that's a disco that is glued. to the culture. of the cold which is less sure of the tragedy of christmas. falling just little the embarrassment of a soldier from the moment of oneself to be little. mostly helpless forceful. play almost anything for the member for the base the dot of a coward that john said i'm based on the other side no one can i do not believe as i would miss rice from that mic matter how not eating. from michelle cannot. confront him on the canal he was almost you and now we're going to fuck him on a. cool red sea resort in a sort of not hard to show you go to sleep i don't want to go to the cities in the michael are poisonous or do whatever the street. facing imo bhargava you have a lot of this.