Reparations, North Woolwich & LouLou’s: Thursday 1st August 2019 was an extended and busy day for me with an Afrikan Emancipation Day protest, ending a stroll in North Woolwich I’d begun six months earlier and photographing a night protest exterior the unique Mayfair membership LouLou’s.
Afrikans demand reparations – Brixton, London.
Individuals of African origin met in Windrush Sq. within the morning to demand an finish of the Maangamizi, the persevering with genocide and ecocide of African peoples and Africa on Afrikan Emancipation Day.
After speeches & libations they marched from Brixton to Westminster with a petition calling for an finish to acts of violence by Britain, the misuse of taxes and the stolen legacy plundered from Afrika underneath the British Empire and European Imperialism and demanding reparations.
The protest was supported by Extinction Riot XR Connecting Communities who marched in an Ubuntu Non-Afrikan Allies bloc.
I left the march because it went previous Brixton Police Station on its solution to protest exterior the Homes of Parliament so I might have some lunch earlier than going to take photos elsewhere.
Many extra photos on My London Diary at Afrikans demand reparations.
DLR – Financial institution to North Woolwich
I’d taken the tube again into central London to have a fast lunch earlier than taking the DLR from Financial institution to London Metropolis to King George V Dock station for the ultimate part of the stroll I had begun in February however had run out of time to complete as a result of I’d needed to take a roundabout path to get there because the direct DLR providers have been suspended following an accident.
This time the trains have been operating correctly. They begin from Financial institution and so come into the station empty and I used to be capable of selected my seat and for as soon as I discovered myself sitting subsequent to a clear window on my solution to North Woolwich and took plenty of photos.
In a while my means again to Canary Wharf from King George V I used to be much less fortunate and the home windows have been somewhat dirty, however I nonetheless made a number of photographs.
Extra at DLR – Financial institution to London Metropolis Airport.
North Woolwich, Royal Docks & the Thames
I took a number of photos as I walked from the elevated King George V station at North Woolwich to the King George V Dock entrance and joined the trail by the river.
The lock right here is large, 243.8m lengthy and 30.48m broad. I’d first photographed the realm again within the Eighties as part of a wider venture on the Docklands following their closure, each in color however primarily in black and white – within the album 1984 London Images. Though the docks themselves stay, a lot round them has modified, though there are nonetheless some derelict areas.
The riverside path right here is a part of the Capital Ring, and continues north and over lock on the Albert Dock entrance to the curiously desolate Armada Inexperienced Recreation Space.
Right here the trail ends, with past it the previous website of the Beckton Gasoline Works, used as a location for at the least 17 movies and TV collection since its closure, although greatest generally known as a stand-in for Vietnam within the 1987 Full Metallic Jacket. Previous that’s the Beckton Sewage Therapy Works, arrange in 1864 as a part of Joseph Bazalgette’s scheme to deal with London’s sewage and nonetheless receiving it from all of London north of the Thames.
I needed to flip inland, by more moderen growth and the refurbished Gallions Lodge round Alber Dock Basin. I went briefly underneath the brand new bridge to see once more the East London College scholar residences, then went again and throughout it, taking extra photos from the bridge and the highway on my means again to King George V station.
Many extra photos at North Woolwich Royal Docks & Thames.
LouLou’s cease exploiting your employees – Mayfair
Lastly I joined the IWGB Cleaners and Services Department exterior the unique Mayfair personal membership LouLou’s the place they have been picketing and protesting for kitchen porters to be paid a dwelling wage, be handled with dignity, respect and given respectable phrases and circumstances together with correct sick pay, holidays and pension contributions. Not too long ago outsourced to ACT, porters need to be returned to direct employment.
Amongst these supporting them have been Class Warfare, and within the image above Ian Bone confronts a police workplace asking why they shield and help the wealthy. Evidently the officer had no reply to the query. Basically the protesters have been fairly behaved and performing throughout the legislation, however police and safety employed by the membership labored collectively to try to stop their protest being efficient.
There have been offended scenes as employees escorted rich purchasers of the £1800 a 12 months membership previous the picket, notably when some roughly pushed the protesters. Police repeatedly warned the protesters however not the safety males or clients who had assaulted them. The safety additionally tried to forestall the picket from handing their flier to the purchasers.
As at earlier protests exterior of the membership, not one of the safety employees have been carrying the seen SIA door supervisor licences required underneath the Personal Safety Trade Act 2001, however the police refused to take any motion over this.
Extra photos at LouLou’s cease exploiting your employees.
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