Same story the world over from butlins to rio madrid to new york but maybe because were 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 want to. Hear where they push everyone out to the outskirts in a suburb where you can easily control that outside of that of the in a circle where they have taken over and you quite have a income to even be there i was the only reason youre going to be gardening is to commute and 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 thats preventing them from being able to mine that gold is that the presence of the people here. Social housing they were they were cutting back on on all the repairs and maintenance and ive been to nothing has quite deliberately in this process we call managed to climb and i think data is proved as well as we all believe that a cheap job was done if thats proved what you think it probably will be then that will be you know confirmation of our worst fears and that thats a very deterministic and unpleasant war factually against both flowing in from the scene many of us now see a warfare by the rich in collusion with their mates in local government they didnt represent us they lied they caught they deregulate it and it killed. The councils representatives deny social plans and they tell us with a straight face they care about our community i dont 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 thats not on the gender its on socalled regeneration has hit our community we have wave after wave of gentrification for decades it swept away homes and communities spaces it replaced record shops with coffee shops music venues would be teak simply she was where we feel like outside as the streets we want schools are now full of tourists and the rich i cant tell you how many people are see move out because its just too expensive im you know whorish our sewer ive never felt such a difference between one of our off and them im 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 its three of regeneration projects that exists now that the regeneration country youre part of would you best watch out because you can look like if you dont battle against and stop them theyre going to wipe out everything that you all did basically you know everybodys 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 grain for itself land. 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 grenfells our he won countless times. About the regulation and in the fire Safety Standards he said only a catastrophe would lead them to see and he was right and plan is not to have a plan and thats a great plan when youre trying to run something down into the ground you know because you just dont invest in it you dont use it it just is just not look soft as languished were not i mean it just you know just they allowed it to i mean some is it isnt 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 weve been losing all of our public and public buildings in North Kensington. The people that are responsible for that at all because i see a small caballo of officers keeping us safe they spent their whole time Nation Center underneath the fly over comment on that it seems to me that ban on housing on making sure theyre directing the one with direct leaks like former Deputy Council leader what field in maryland they had to massive master plans and some people bring in their expense from elsewhere when the Current Deputy leader says a Property Developer and others who were just merely aspiring to be Property Developer their board of fire filled in million was working for a Property Development company slyly named socially Conscious Capital how socially conscious is it that while serving in Public Office he was also be unwind ten times by dismay and. This guy got rich convincing councils to sell off assets to his wealthy clients filled a million injuries these five star lunches with him and pinch pennies from us. To look out the window thats the only thing 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 one that i saw. There in the. Now so i hope they what happened to the estate nothing happens the estate. Selling crack doing with no touching of the pain. I mean one of two things is true ive all i said big middle finger to the people on the f. B. I. Or is doing pretty want to get out of any felony which isnt even today he said no and i feel like you need to we need to go no need to go no big money and land bankers have planned so where we live only we wont part in. Our local fight is against global enemies and structures eight guys have as much money as hearts the world because it is systems we are fighting and it doesnt matter if youre in london if youre in their way. When you have a political blow up completely convinced that its the consensus among them that the most functional economic philosophy for society one is in whereby you have the big transfers of wealth and redistribution of wealth upward and the idea that. Cuts in touch with corporations that theres 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. Our. Job was selling you on the idea that dropping bombs brings police to the Chicken Hawks forcing you to fight the battle for food stores. To stock for the tell you the lobby gossip the public works well for the most Important News today. For the hoth about advertising telling me you are not cool enough to buy their product. All the hawks that im on the board with one. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely and they color the matter over their heads up saudi arabia these days is as corrupt as the day is long and hes just stealing money from folks and with us right to be had but america is like that free for a while ok already there actually are in the process of reform but that somehow evil. In the heart of the swiss alps 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. It is from is all plus the procedures in place of the strictest in all europe must to pieces by artists like pecan so and modigliani i cant boards and soon inside this warehouse thats where the report comes in it covers up deals which are naturally discreet commercially discreet felt but also discreet because they concern fraud of some of those paintings a link to dark secrets nobody knows how many of these secrets a kept inside the Geneva Freeport system youll 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 worlds black box of the art business. It was the set of all worlds the whole of my estate. The file on june eighth two thousand and seven am but a hold in all. I couldnt believe it. And i couldnt 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 climbing kind of fooling around us on the street. Brawl on our own davos i was right but you could see the smoke circulating and thats when it was a brawl you know he lets out you saw it is so painful i dont even know if i at the time what i thought those people are going to get out it was so it was traumatic and at the un traumatic and were hoping that somehow something will come along and rescue them somehow we will not literally watch these people beg for help from 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 ive 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 they continued to feed us. And i was sand i was with a shock to the first two days at the title absence of the council and that it was really shocking i saw and i saw the leader and feeling of being filmed on the first day looking at certain shell shocked as we all were and then that was it thats 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 whats nice to happen this is what we need to do nope its a date has. Com and said actually this this this and this was the way they have to register themselves. About residence the vibe is how to grow and document who survived who never and that was going on for a day which you i dont know what the council thought was going on or how they failed to see the image and see but they seem to in some way fail to see the image and see and. That first day i remember thinking wow theyve been caught with their pants on a bit here like oh but then by the end of the day when nothing much has improved thinking. This is a this isnt 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 its important that the council make sure that we dont have a collapse of services and that we stand ready to manage to manage services if we have to if theres an economic fighting on the part. That theres a perception that the council in the field of the fire power. I i wasnt 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 lots of stuff now maybe you know they werent aware of them but all i hear lots of different voices some from staff and counselors who were actually present at the time and didnt work but we didnt 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 werent 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 a disaster and the count just tons of Aid Companies contracted by the council to carry out the but should have a ship 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 hope that. There were fears the council were doing the same thing. These questions have been as paul. The Public Inquiry im not sure will answer is we get the ill explain later why not to be safe from the Council Building i went off and on. If you were right if you were african you know organization youd offer him up while working on this film the conservative leader of the council nicolas touchup wound announced his resignation he filled a med and managed to reach innovation that so deadly kept in touch to grenfell now hes advising big businesses how to profit from local authorities yeah ill give you the parts. He was actually hes 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 rescind me 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 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 distain and purposeful money speak like a 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 eviction vindicated that. They were vindicated in that and that is the most tragic part of this situation that people were not hurt in life and. When now theyre not heard and. Theres 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 states 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 they were never going to see justice this pill sadness song list some good stories were not going to say theres people that made it out of there with their whole family and their life today and thats good and thats beautiful but. The problem was me happy about that because i know people that didnt make it out so its rage its back to rage. There will never be justice which is its i personally believe that and its just my own very own personal belief that that kind of only game in town is moving Public Inquiry there are fears that the states failings will continue to move into Public Inquiry because it is being headed by more big hes a judge with a history of controversial rudins in housing cases where he has been accused of social cleansing this guy couldnt be further from my state and why the Community People need to go to jail journey people lost their lives if we dont nice we need to be rest eat 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 them for gisors sold the credit. And the guys who authorized 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 with each other there. All of had direct relationships their paths are crossed going right back to david cameron. Who who who deregulated fire safety and they 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 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 whats happened has happened but he said it and he said it was looking for its 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 this community to that way and that. We know from observing whats going on that there is a more contemplated mood there is a more thoughtful mood amongst young people there isnt as much madness going on the streets that was going on as before 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 Kensington the area known as gold to people down here is the equivalent to new yorks harlem it was the setting of a countercultural 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 those for the benefit of the community the history of is one of never ending struggle up until today. Where we have faced gentrification some lot of papers of north county in the depositions with theres no reason why we cant put forward now and pace yourself theres no reason why we cant 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 than beholden to Corporate Power in tightly enclosed time if we want to get rid of the tough from the south and about like ourselves independent and then bring it on you know real direct to point christie because the one good thing that could come out of the thought one good thing is the total new model of work in which hes 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 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 wasnt 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 were looking to 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 werent 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 not about will stop of got my island of joy my Residents AssociationParty Campaigns to take back what is outs maybe its the only way we can survive to realize that 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 has been the mix that will come out of that is an increasingly Aware Community of its interest. This not willing to be pushed around. May. 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. Im facing christmas alone out on the streets of london oh you look fabulous on a couple of italy like. You know just not in the still give up food for the have the same. As you dont really feel like you have the big you know. And then. The guy just came over to me saw me and gave me a change of this book. Its a new year but the same stories persist out front as the chaotic Trump White House followed by the steel dossier and a possible breakthrough with north korea. In two thousand and sixteen the Panama Papers show the world with the tax haven secrets two trillion United States dollars passed through most. 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