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 cant see. That not will follow me and my peoples for the rest of our lives. We wont 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 theres 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 saw fit make the cranes loom in the horizon and different morph anyways no i live in cannes in the chelsea its 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 its obvious Global Capital has no the god for people like me its the same story the world over from but into rio madrid to new york but maybe because we havent such prime real estate well. We had to live 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 that outside of. Where they have taken over and you go i have a income to even be there i was the only reason youre 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 thats 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 theyve been told nothing is going to literally in this process be called managed to climb and i think data is proved as well as well believe that a cheap job was done if thats proved what you think it probably will be penned that will be and when it comes confirmation of our worst fears and that thats a very deterministic and unpleasant warfare against an imposed flowing and have seen many of us now see a wall fair by the rich in collusion with their mates in local government they didnt represent us they lied they car they deregulated it and it killed the councils representatives deny social influence 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 of. Explain in those wise for me the issue is how do how does this Council Going to invest in that area and invest in ways that delivers Community Value for the people theyre not. Moving the people they are out to somewhere else thats not an agenda. Socalled regeneration has hit our community with wave after wave of gentrification for decades it swept away homes and Community Spaces it replaced record shops with coffee shops music venues we. 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 ive seen move out because its just too expensive and you know whorish are so rare 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 every generation comes to grow apart who would you best watch out because you 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 an polluting is that head we need to chop off because its that beast that created the grain 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 grenfells our he won 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 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 lang west 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 to the 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 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. 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 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 these asians to barry cooke im not going to comment on that it seems to me that thats a very very strong statement all i can say is that ive looked at the issues that were dealing with in relation to fire safety on housing on making sure that weve got people that you know directing the team when were directing work ourselves to make sure that people are safe but obviously level accusations directly colleagues like former Deputy Council leader look feel demille and they had massive master plans and some people bring in their expense from elsewhere on the Current Deputy leader says a 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 being wind ten times by dismantling bingle this guy rich convincing councils to sell off assets to his wealthy clients filled in million enjoy steves five star lunches with him and pinching pennies from us. He took out the window and the only thing you can look out of luck if the school and your state so you would have been really good as wake up and well yeah i want that gun then i got that on that i saw. Later in the uk now. Hopefully what happened to the estate nothing happens if they. Fill in crack do it with no touching up the paint what i mean one of three things. I thought big middle finger to the people on the effect or hes doing great he wants to get out of here and he said enough which is a meeting today he said really about you like you need to we need to go now at least im going up big money alone bankers have planned so where we live only we went part of the. Local fight is against global enemies and structures. Eight guys have as much money as hostile world because it is systems we are fighting and it doesnt matter i will show in london if you are in their way. When you have a political blow up completely convinced and its the consensus among them that the most functional economic philosophy for society is neo liberalism whereby you have the big transfers of wealth and redistributions of wealth upward and the idea that. Cuts in touch with corporations that there is 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. Unfortunately it appears that wants people learn that you have reported a Sexual Assault or may have been involved in an incident that they become scared of you instead of being scared of the perpetrator. 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 the a list with customs are here permanently and all the science is controlled by them and they impose the opening time so if youre up with it it was a duty from his office the procedures in place of the strictest in all europe must to pieces by artists like pecan so and modigliani kept boards and sold inside this warehouse thats where the report comes in that it covers up deals which are naturally discreet commercially discreet 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 the surface of it and that 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. Join me every thursday on the alec simon show and ill be speaking to us from the world of politics sports business im show business ill see that. Size of it as well because it was almost an hour see the tower on my side was right but you can see the smoke so i can meet him and thats when it was a. You know he looked up. You saw or at you saw people i dont even know a fight at the time like i thought those people are going to get out it was so it was traumatic you know it was beyond traumatic and were hoping that somehow something will come along and rescue them somehow we will not literally watch these people beg for help and burn for 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 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 to continue to feed us. And i was i was with a shock to the first few days of the total absence of the council until it was really shocking i saw and i saw the leader and 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 completely gone there was nobody there was no hell we wait a day after day after 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 common said actually they stay for this and this was the way in that 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 dont know what the council thought was going on or how they fail to see an agency but they seem to in some way fail to see the image and see and. That first day i remember thinking wow theyve been cool with that pounce on a bit here like oh but then by the end of the day when nothing much has improved thinking. This is it this is significant and incompetence or even by requests from the council who seem less than impressed with their response i am concerned very concerned about. It i hear lots of comments and i hear lots of conversations particularly people in the area who were actually present at the time and didnt. But we didnt see or feel the council presence. And wonder why they still had time for things that clearly could have waited the council granted to a marriage and see planning applications that die off 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 the disaster and the count just tons of Aid Companies constructed by the council to carry out the bunch of innovation began deleting things on their websites u. K. Group delete it dissipates about their involvement in installing the small ventilation system in the towers main stairwell but we will began to hold them up what did they have to hide there were fears the council was doing the same thing. These questions have been as part of the Public Inquiry im not sure were on his way get the ill explain later why. From the Council Building it was offered up. If you were a kid if you were african you know organization you know while working on this film the conservative leader of the council nicolas pacha announced his resignation he alongside phil demand 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. That you know. He was actually hes made a business of tenant of accounts because how you do. The things now. You make money off a budget and he was making a mint not who live in office after he was he should be in jail he should be in jail padgett project an 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 at the state local and national. But for those of us who disputed continue to fade into a state before and after the fire this was too little too late. Faily 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 managed to collide 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 vindicated in that. They were vindicated in death and that is the most tragic part of this situation that people were not hurt in life and even 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 the 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 there was never going to see injustice as people sadness song theres some good stories were not going to say the. 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 we 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 more and more bakes Public Inquiry there are fears of the state failings will continue within the 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 had to lose for me to be rest eat we would have been questioned we would have been found the whole of the team ok Management Team need to go to geo what would have been if they go and arrest the guys that mix that in on that the guys who sold the credit. And the guys who authorized the cabin to go in there and for that would have been perfect justice for me perfect and a lot of these law demain players in these organizations all got connections with each other they all have had direct relationships their paths have crossed going right back to david cameron. Who 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 employees 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 whats happened has happened that sort of an. It was a lot of people its woken a lot the it woke me up what a lot people up and i believe if we continue to stand and make noise and not shut people out we can change is khamenei said ok is it. 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 in the streets that was going on as before people are thinking about all. This is a divided 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 yorks harlem it was the setting of account the cultural sound system to. After the war the fight against racism and fascism. The caribbean and the progressive White Working Class communities made history taken to far off the streets in the public space flow set the bar in many ways claiming disused lands from the council one of them for the benefit of the community the history of is one of never ending struggle up until today where we have been 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 north kind of filed the paper the ground for it was voluntary. Wake soft was ok we did things for themselves and what we think is we can harness that spirit and make it a permanent thing but when you look at the numbers that they were able to get 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 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 microsofts independent and then bring it on you know really directing focusing because the one good thing that could come out of the thought was the thing is a total new model of work and hes in the hierarchy of things in the past theres a great opportunity to do that build from the from the ground up again i think. It would be a brilliant thing to organize a council tax. 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 that while we were filming this report the council buckled on the Community Pressure announcing that it would spend much of those was a sweet house in survivors in the local area were 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 Properties a permanent were 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 will stop ive got my eye on a pool of joy my Residents Association a Party Campaign to take back what is outs maybe its the only way we can survive to realise that elected me we have. A war with real real 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 would be mix that will come out of that is an increasingly Aware Community of its interests. Not willing to be pushed around. Altie we have a great team we need to strengthen before the free float world cold and your bets a bit so i took a back. In one thousand nine hundred to the month qualify for the european championships at the very last moment no one believed in us but we won and im hoping to bring some of that waving spirit to the r. C. C. Recently i had a lot of practice so i can guard see you that Peter Schmeichel will be on the best full since my last will call on that story as we. Both in the euro zone here i call russia. Strike strike left left left more or less ok stuff thats really good. 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