Backyard Bridge, Housing, Home Violence, Migrants & Police Killings; Saturday ninth July 2016 started for me in Waterloo, the place proper wing Labour celebration members had been attending a convention. Then I travelled to Hackney for a Sisters Uncut protest over home violence and housing, again to Downing Road for a rally in opposition to the scapegoating of immigrants and went briefly to a Brexit debate in Inexperienced Park after which south of the river once more to a protest in opposition to police murders within the UK and US.
Backyard Bridge protest at ‘Progress’ convention – Coin St
Lambeth Council had been supporting the ‘Backyard Bridge‘, a non-public inexperienced area to bridge the River Thames near Waterloo Bridge, an costly self-importance venture with a costing over £200 million with little public acquire.
Lambeth residents got here to protest as Lambeth councillors and council chief Liz Peck had been attending the Labour Occasion ‘Progress’ motion ‘Governing for Britain’ convention.
The Backyard Bridge venture was lastly deserted in August 2017, by which period it had value £53m, together with £43m of public cash.
Backyard Bridge ‘Progress’ protest
Housing Protest at ‘Progress’ convention – Coin St
Additionally protesting outdoors the Progress convention had been housing protesters in opposition to the demolition of council estates and their substitute by luxurious flats beneath ‘regeneration’ schemes by London Labour councils together with Southwark, Newham and Lambeth.
The protesters had been from the Revolutionary Communist Group, Focus E15 ‘Houses for All’ marketing campaign and Architects for Social Housing who had been concerned in numerous campaigns to cease the demolition of social housing in these boroughs.
They are saying that New Labour insurance policies, now accelerated by the Tory Housing and Planning Act, makes London too costly for peculiar employees resulting in social cleaning, whereas making extreme income for builders, together with housing associations and property brokers Savills.
Housing Protest at ‘Progress’ convention
East Finish Sisters Uncut on Home Violence – Hackney City Corridor
Sisters Uncut got here to Hackney City Corridor to demand the council abolish all plans to demolish council houses, refuse to implement the Housing Act and make investments cash into council housing and refuges for victims of home violence.
They quoted a Ladies’s Support report for 2013-5 which discovered that over 60% of functions to girls’s refuges in Hackney are refused as no room is out there.
East Finish Sisters Uncut-Home Violence
Europe, Free Motion and Migrants – Downing St
The Brexit vote had been adopted by an increase within the scapegoating of immigrants and Islamophobia, and ‘One other Europe Is Doable’ organised a rally at Downing Road to maintain Britain open to migrants, and for insurance policies and media which recognise the optimistic contribution that migration makes to the UK.
Audio system got here from a variety of teams together with Motion for Justice, Left Unity, Associates of the Earth, Newham Monitoring Challenge, Stand Up To Racism and Syrian activists.
Many from the rally had been going to the Brexit picnic and dialogue in Inexperienced Park afterwards, and I did too.
Europe, Free Motion and Migrants
Inexperienced Park Brexit Picnic
Most of those that got here to the picnic felt cheated by a vote that was based mostly on lies and false guarantees, however they got here wanting to search out methods to make it into one thing optimistic for the nation.
There have been additionally some who had come to counter the protest with their very own picnic for democracy organised by Spiked journal, and when the folks from the Downing Road rally arrived with their placards a few of them came to visit to choose an argument.
Issues bought a bit of heated when a girl from the ‘Spiked’ group accused these holding the placards of being unwashed, and there was some vigorous talking in response. However folks from either side stepped in to chill issues down.
Inexperienced Park Brexit Picnic
Brixton stands with Black victims
Native black organisers in Brixton known as a rally and march in reminiscence of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile and to indicate solidarity with these murdered by police brutality, each within the US and right here within the UK.
Alton Sterling was murdered by law enforcement officials on July 5, 2016, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, shot at shut vary after police had pinned him to the bottom the place he was promoting CDs outdoors a grocery retailer. In Could 2017 the US Justice division introduced there was inadequate proof to help federal legal prices in opposition to the officers involved – regardless of the various movies of the incident and different sources.
Philando Castile was fatally shot at shut vary after has automotive was stopped by police in he Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan space. There was video of the incident and the officer was charged with second-degree manslaughter and two counts of harmful discharge of a firearm. A jury acquitted him of all prices in June 2017.
There have been many speeches each about these and different US instances and people within the UK, the place Sean Rigg, Wayne Douglas and Ricky Bishop died after being held in close by Brixton Police Station. One of many organisers spoke carrying a t-shirt itemizing only a few of those that have been killed by police within the UK. An annual protest is held yearly in Whitehall in opposition to the various custody deaths within the UK, and in 2015 whereas this was going down police took benefit of this to strip the tree in entrance of the police station of its deaths in custody memorials
A while after I left the protesters marched round Brixton, bringing visitors to a halt for a number of hours.
Brixton stands with Black victims
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