Rip Down the Ripper Facade! On Sunday nineteenth June 2016 after the ‘Jack the Ripper Museum’ vacationer attraction on Cable St had not but complied with the planning choice towards its facade and shutter, Class Warfare and supporters, together with London Fourth Wave Feminists in cat masks, protested exterior with toy plastic hammers providing to take it down for them.
The so-called museum is a cheesy vacationer attraction that glorifies the killing of working class girls however bought planning permission and attracted assist for promising to supply a museum selling the historical past of East Finish girls.
Earlier than going to the protest I’d been to a short lived exhibition being held in close by St George within the East church, which exhibits a few of the actual historical past of ladies within the space, and was moderately extra attention-grabbing than the gory hypothesis for prurient vacationers within the store.
I photographed the Class Warfare protesters, led by girls carrying the Class Warfare Womens Demise Brigade banner as they marched to the store. A number of had been carrying inflatable plastic hammers however the menace to take away the shutters was purely symbolic.
They crowded across the facade with their banner and several other caught Class Warfare Womens Demise Brigade stickers on the facade the place police had been defending the doorway and stopping them from coming into.
A number of black-clad protesters then arrived and the scene was enveloped in shiny pink smoke.
I moved again each as a result of taking photos contained in the smoke seldom works very effectively and in addition the smoke was getting in my lungs and it didn’t really feel good.
In contrast to at earlier protests there was no signal of the store proprietor, however the two girls employees he had employed to run the store watched out of the home windows. However one of many protesters was sporting a masks of his face.
London Fourth Wave Feminists had been sporting cat masks but in addition held posters expressing their opposition to the store and calling for an finish to male violence towards girls.
There had been a billboard reverse the store which promoting the actual exhibition in regards to the lives of East Finish girls however this had been vandalised, maybe by pals of the ‘museum’.
It wasn’t then clear when or how (or even when) Tower Hamlets council meant to implement their planning choice, and their said opposition to the grisly store appears to have been moderately half-hearted.
Though police had come to guard the store towards this protest, and had stopped any of the protesters from coming into, they’d largely stood and watched, and at instances some officers appeared moderately amused by what was taking place. By the point the protest completed the home windows had been pretty effectively lined by stickers and egg had been thrown onto one of many indicators the store had been requested to take away.
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