Refurbish don’t demolish
London council estate residents should automatically be given the chance to have their say on estate refurbishment versus demolition.
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A message from Grenfell United to the United Kingdom government
Grenfell United residents’ respond to the publication of the Grenfell Tower fire inquiry report (Phase II). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoqrtEaYKp8
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Barbados: Jupiter, Drax, and Slavery
The Prime Minister of Barbados wants Britain to pay reparations for slavery. Research & Writing by Paul Coleman
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Historical Amnesia and Gaza: Lest We Forget
‘Historical amnesia lays the groundwork for crimes that still lie ahead,’ says Noam Chomsky. We must never forget the killing of Palestinian people in Gaza. Issa’s placard echoes Chomsky’s warning against historical amnesia. Our schools and colleges will never pour this history into our children’s heads. The media will conceal historical truths with blurry complexity and propaganda.
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Elephant and Castle residents to fight Lendlease office tower plan
“I’m outraged that Lendlease want to build an office block, when the original plan was for new homes and open space,” says Jerry Flynn, a former resident of the Heygate council estate.
Elephant and Castle residents and community groups are fighting against a giant office block being built right in the middle of the new residences of Elephant Park, the private housing development that replaced the demolished Heygate council estate.
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Grenfell United: Truth, Justice, and Change
But Justice? Daffarn says there has not yet been “a single clink of handcuffs” on those who should ultimately be held accountable by the criminal justice system for the Grenfell Tower fire. “We want the criminal justice system to do its job.”
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A deadline passes sixty-nine months after Grenfell
Hisam Choucair, who lost six family members at Grenfell, says the failure to prosecute feels like “a dagger to my heart”. But Choucair, tenants, residents and housing campaigners are trying to persuade government and property developers to make sure a Grenfell-type fire tragedy does not happen again.
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BALLOTS: Residents pressure the ‘council estate boy’
Elected members of the London Assembly have formally called on Mayor of London Sadiq Khan to provide public funds to council estate residents campaigning to save their homes from being demolished by developers and local councils. But, for many of these residents, the LAM’s plea to Mayor Khan to ‘level the playing field’ smacks of too little, too late.
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BALLOT BIAS: ‘Democracy’ used to destroy people’s homes
“I don’t believe it was a true vote,” says Agnes Thomas, an east Londoner who has lived on the Carpenters Estate in east London for 52 years. Thomas criticises the ‘Yes’/No’ estate demolition and ‘regeneration’ ballot held by Newham Council in December 2021.
Read moreDEPRIVED OF CHILDHOOD: London’s 84,450 homeless children
The human rights of thousands of London children are being violated as they remain forced to live in substandard and uninhabitable ‘temporary’ accommodation often for years.
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