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ourselves. changed everything. they did the consequences we suffered make the trains lehman the horizon and different more fairways now 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. 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 berkeley into rio 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 the of the in
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a 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 where they were cutting back on on the leverage has a maintenance and having to nothing is quite a liberally in this process because manage decline 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 not wealthy and when it comes confirmation of our worst fears and that that's a very deterministic and unpleasant war factually against the info flowing and having seen many of us now see a wool fair by the rich in collusion with their mates in local government they
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didn't represent us they lied they cut they deregulate 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 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 it's on 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 will be cheeks. where we feel like outside as the streets we want schools are now full of tourists and the rich i can't tell you
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how many people i've seen move out because it's just too expensive and you know whorish our sewer i've 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 he's 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 head we need to chop off because it is that piece that created the grandfather our family. is that culture that created it and is hundreds of years old and they still see us especially the
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african caribbean population as their former slaves had a bitch an activist around here lived in grenfell tower 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 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 loike 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.
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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 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 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
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got people that you know directing the team when we're directing work ourselves to make sure that people are safe but obvious there emma. level accusations directly at some of cook's colleagues like former deputy council leader look filled in mel and they had to massive mass the 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 to 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 being wind ten times by dismantle. 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
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and. you can you can look out of luck if the school and your state so you would have been really good as well yeah i want to go on that one that i saw. later in the uk now. hopefully what happened to the estate if they. crack do it with no touching of the paper. i mean one of three things is true. after a big middle finger to the people on the if they or he's doing great he wants to get out of here and felling 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 in the big money alone bankers have plans to where we live only we will. local fight is against global enemies and structures. guys have as much money as hostile world because it is systems we are fighting and it doesn't matter if you're in london if you're in
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a way that free. when you have a political blow off completely convinced that it's the consensus among them that the most functional economic philosophy for society is neo liberalism whereby you have the big transfers of wealth and redistribution of wealth upward and the idea that the. cuts in touch with corporations that there's subsidizing of the arms industry subsidizing the banking sector. who pays the price of those things it is 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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our. i had a great education a good job and a family that loved me. i never had to worry about how i would eat some where i would sleep. i'm facing christmas alone out on the streets of london. for you not to be honest because i thought the other boy like you. you know just not in the still give up food for the homeless. but you don't really feel like human being in that. and then. the guy just came over to me saw me and gave me the idea of this book.
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about your sudden passing i've only just learned you were a south and taken your last to bang turn. your at the top to you as we all knew it would i tell you i'm sorry 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 fret. but then my feelings started to change you talked about war like it was again still some are fond of you those that didn't like to question our arc and i secretly promised to never again like it said one does not leave
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a funeral the same as one enters the mind gets consumed with the death of this one different person i speak to you now because there are no other takers. to claim that mainstream media has met its maker. to set the. stage. the file on june eighth two thousand and seventeen but i hold in. couldn't believe it. 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 he could hear it you could see it so because i've been kind of fooling around on the street. a mock up brought on i'll see the tower on my side work
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on the other side i was right but you can see the smoke so i can make a mash when it was a brawl you know you know the top. is sore it is so painful 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 there's a total absence of the council until it was really shocking i saw and i saw the leader and the leader being filmed on the first day looking at certain shell shocked as we all were and then that was it that gone completely gone there was nobody there was no help we wait a day off the day off the day for the council to step in a state hello this is what needs to happen this is what we need to do nobody to date has common said actually they stay sticks and this was their way and they had to register themselves. right risen to survivors how to grow and document who survived to who never are 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 the 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 of a hand like oh but then by the end of the day when nothing much had improved
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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
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different voices some from staff and counselors who were actually present at the time and did not 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 we can so granted to emergency 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 bunch of innovation began deleting things on their websites there which u.k. group believe it dissipates about their involvement in installing the small ventilation system in the towers main stairwell but we will began to help them out what did they have to hide there were fears the council were doing the same thing.
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these questions. as part of the public inquiry i'm not sure answers we get the i'll explain later why computers had to be safe from the council building it was offered up. if you were a if you are ethical come you know organization you know from up while working under seal the conservative leader of the council nicholas patch of announced his resignation he filled a million 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. projected office to respond to allegations made in this film
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a week after the fire to recently 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 continues failings 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 were vindicated in that. they were vindicated in death and that.
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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 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 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 with 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 are going to make out so this rage is back to rage. there will never be
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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 these movie makes public inquiry there are fears the state's failings will continue we've been to 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 go to jump journey people lost their lives if we don't lease you need to be receipt we would have been questioned 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 mix that in on that the guys who sold the credit. and the guys who were for at the time to go reform that would have been perfect justice for me perfect and a lot of these are lauda main players in these organizations or got connections
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religion. they all have had direct relationship there prof have cross right back to david cameron. who deregulated fire safety and 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 his plight is 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 china increase our 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 a lot of people up it's 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
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going on that there is a more contemplated move there is a more thoughtful mood amongst young people there isn't as much madness guy in the streets that was going on as before people off thinking about oh so it 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 is one of never ending struggle up until today where we
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have fight in the biggest rip. we have ever faced gentrification some locals think the only way forward for our community is to build on the way they came to give off to defile the state has filed the filed the papers have those kind of filed the paper the ground for it was voluntary. wait software 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 and pace yourself that there's no reason why we call 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 rather beholden to corporate power in tightly enclosed time if we want to get rid of the tough from the south and about microsoft independent and then bring it on you know really direct and won't proceed because the one good thing that could come out of the far one good thing is a 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 and not to pay our council tax the council and the whole of north kensington pay six 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 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 apartment we're 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.
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still my state is being gutted. reality for us but will start of got my island of joy my residents' association a party campaign to take back what is outs maybe it's the only way we can survive me to realize that you had electively we have we all know what we will have real power to shape our destinies and to be authors out 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 you know that is an increasingly aware community of its interests all this not willing to be pushed around.
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in the heart of the swiss alps this is a place probably more secretive than the pentagon more mysterious than the cia and better guarded than for knox swiss customs are here permanently all the science is controlled by them and they impose the opening times so if. it was adopted from the top us the procedures in place of the strictest in all europe must to pieces by artists like picasso and modigliani i can't boards unsold inside this warehouse that's where the report comes in it covers up deals which are naturally discreet commercially discreet felt but also discreet because they concern fraud. some of
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those paintings are linked to dark secrets nobody knows how many of these secrets a kept inside the geneva freeport system position that you'll never obtain an inventory of all the works in the freeport who knows how many there are three hundred three thousand three hundred thousand is it a matter of confidentiality only is it the world's black box of the art business. in two thousand and sixteen the panama papers show the world with a tax haven the secrets two trillion united states dollars passed through most. in the amount of time that we've been in panama papers exposure that's what it shows a lot of money it really is. journalism it's an act of journalism looking at things that people want to keep secret and asking why would they want to keep these things secret. millions of. documents were examined.
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the all the people we basically have tried to get an advantage out of this thought it was newspaper. and probably other politicians of which were. other politicians the media were quick to find targets such as the kings of morocco and saudi arabia the president of argentina several prime ministers. and russian president vladimir putin of course. oh my god i've had so i have sued so many newspapers to defamation some things don't just happen by chance it was very striking there were no more americans to go specially a lot of people from the brics countries specially brazil russia and china that this special project reveals what was missed in the media coverage. of the panama chronicles.
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the two thousand and eight economic crisis turns some countries into pigs these are the countries with weaker economies that needed austerity policies if you are in a situation of even the recession austerity is a very bad idea it doesn't work and it makes millions of people very unhappy those who are unemployed see their wages decline. decade how good are the results. by the people gathered in greece to watch people to see what i. believe will be she was i mean to for legal. challenge nice to.
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