Brixton news, rumours and general chat: Autumn 2019
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If they were serious about sorting out their plastic crap they would regenerate this formerly standard means of distribution (prior to locomotion)
GarveyLives
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The article states:
Therefore, whoever commissioned Sir David Adjaye OBE to design the memorial will be best placed to provide a factual response to your query.
Hopefully, they will respond to you.
Gramsci
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What point are you making?
Do you have any views on the Adjayes plans for the further gentrification of Brixton market?
Or anything to say on the 1985 riot?
Gramsci
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Really tired of your posts on this forum.
I've had a long week working and trying to do things for my local neighborhood of Loughborough Junction. Re housing and the Adventure playground. In an area of high deprivation with a large amount of people from ethnic minorities.
You take no interest in these issues.
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BusLanes
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Looks like things are heating up - I see that Labour are now out canvassing a bit more - they had Khan down end of last week in Clapham with all the councillors and a stall on Brixton Hill (although I was away when they canvassed our door). Then Vauxhall Labour has got every man, woman and Lord out doing a canvassing session in order to bolster their credentials to replace Kate. Lib Dems of course have been out as well.
No sign of the Tories doing canvassing recently, or even, surprisingly, the Greens.
No sign of the Tories doing canvassing recently, or even, surprisingly, the Greens.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
Do they post here?
friendofdorothy
Solidarity against neoliberalism!
There was someone giving out 'free positivity' this lunchtime near KFC - in a red leotard with pompoms in their hair dancing to 'Girls just want to have fun'.
Cheered me up - shame I was rushing to work and didn't have time to go over and find out what it was about. There was a poster but I could only read the 'free posivity' headline.
Cheered me up - shame I was rushing to work and didn't have time to go over and find out what it was about. There was a poster but I could only read the 'free posivity' headline.
RubyToogood
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Great news! The temple by the walled garden in Brockwell Park is going to be a yoga studio!
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hiraethified
That'll help allay the critical shortage of private yoga studios around Brixton!
snowy_again
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It's been closed for ages - last time I saw the side that links to the walled garden open was over 8 years ago.
jimbarkanoodle
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Doesnt sound too wise. No pubs leave takings in the till overnight, and the area is covered in CCTV with a police station just down the road, ready to send out squad cars.
Perhaps they thought with the estates nearby they could nip in there on the (probably stolen) mopeds and scatter without a lengthy police chase.
Cool Ford Granada being used!
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Brazen moped thieves attempt two break-ins at Brixton’s Market House
Brazen moped thieves attempt two break-ins at Brixton’s Market House
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I was at the Acre Lane Lidl earlier this afternoon and there were loads of support lorries and TV crew etc. I asked one of them what was going on. They said they were filming for a programme of shorts and this was a feature about the Black Power movement in Brixton.
Not quite sure what it had to do with Acre Lane. Maybe it was to do with Supertone Records - for this is the stretch (and round the corner) occupied by all the equipment, including catering I might add). Seems I should've read upthread on this!
Not quite sure what it had to do with Acre Lane. Maybe it was to do with Supertone Records - for this is the stretch (and round the corner) occupied by all the equipment, including catering I might add). Seems I should've read upthread on this!
Gramsci
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I'm glad Steve McQueen is doing a series set in and about this country. I was thinking he was going to end up working in US.
Been following his work since his days as an installation artist.
His other film about this country was Hunger about the IRA Hunger strike. Very good film.
His arts background makes him good at using images to portray story rather than purely dialogue.
jimbarkanoodle
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So they were probably after the DJ gear, makes more sense. Proper cheeky them coming back half an hour later!
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Yeah, they tried to get their thieving hands on the CD decks and mixer
theboris
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Was it the Disco Bunny? He makes me smile: The Disco Bunny | Spreading Joy on The Streets
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I photographed him in Brixton a while ago.
urbanspaceman
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To be clear, the police shooting of Cherry Groce was an appalling act of unfathomable incompetence, aggravated by the ridiculous 29 years it took for the Met to apologise.
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Cherry Groce was an ordinary person. As the BBC website says, “She died in April 2011 having spent 26 years in a wheelchair, but little else is known about Mrs Groce”. She left little in the way of a “legacy”, as supporters of this memorial claim. Is it proportionate to erect a memorial 35 years after the event to commemorate this one tragedy ?
Perhaps it would be more fitting to erect a more inclusive memorial in the shape of a stone plaque, bearing a commemorative roll of the names of everybody who has died in Brixton as a result of gun or knife violence over the past 35 years, while leaving sufficient space for future victims.
As a secondary consideration, before adding more features to Windrush Square, Lambeth Council should attend to some of the existing problems:
1) failed rising bollards facing Rushcroft Road
2) failed fountain
3) failed strip lights set into steps of the plinth surrounding the plane tree
4) failed lights on the lighting poles
5) yellowing, damaged and dying turf
6) subsiding and broken paving
7) bent cycle racks and abandoned bikes
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"Red Guard"(NLYL)
This turned up on Google today - Michael Groce's impact statement to the Observer in 2003. What happened next?
As Wittgenstein put it: "Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen" [Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.]
When you say 'very good', I guess that something which provokes a strong reaction is obviously powerful.
But that film led me to levels of depression where I have never been before with a film. It has been about five years, and your mention of it has me shaking my head and shuddering.
DietCokeGirl
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I'd quite like to see a memorial to all the people who have died after contact with the police or in custody, in that square right outside the police station.
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