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Fuck Gentrification - Join the Fuck Parade...Part 3!

The organiser of an anti-gentrification protest in east London has accused the owners of a breakfast cereal cafe targeted by protesters of “milking” the publicity.

Ian Bone, the founder of Class War, the anarchist group behind Saturday evening’s Fuck Parade event in Shoreditch, also vowed to continue focusing on independent businesses at similar protests planned nationwide.

The Cereal Killer Cafe attackers should seek out the real villains of gentrification

Bone defended those who attacked the Cereal Killer Cafe with paint bombs and graffiti because they had helped publicise the movement across the globe. “Everyone on that march, who are so pissed off with the lot they’ve got in life, was fighting back. I totally understand and support it,” said Bone, who founded Class War in 1982.

He promised the movement, which has so far organised three Fuck Parade protests in London, would seek to expand. He said: “They’re going to take place all around Britain. I’m going up to Scotland now to talk to some people in Glasgow and Edinburgh about possible ones there.”

The cafe’s owners said the protest left some customers terrified for their lives, and that they had received subsequent threats.

Given the publicity over Saturday’s protest, future events would most likely be aimed at independent businesses seen as spreading gentrification, rather than chains.

Bone said: “I think it will. We’d be mad to go for Pret a Manger and Foxtons. A broken window at Foxtons isn’t going to get any publicity at all, whereas we’ve seen what happens with independent shops. We’d be stupid not to.”
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Class War accuses Cereal Killer Cafe owners of ‘milking publicity'
 
Ah well I will leave you all to it, you don't need me tonight you have another far more willing and able fool than me to torment.
But of course before I go, I wonder how many of the cocoa pop gang made it all the long way to Colchester on Saturday?
There could have been very easy pickings there as well I am told. But then again there would still have been some kind of response which would have scared off the gimps, wizards, witches and clowns that have tried to steal the strong working class tradition of anti fascism and turn it into some kind of.....
 
littlebabyjesus said:
I think there's some confusion here about what gentrification is.

My definition of gentrification would be the driving out of an existing demographic over time through increases in house prices and rents. Such social cleansing might happen in an unplanned way over a number of years, as has been happening in Hackney, or in a brutal, planned way far more quickly, as is happening in Elephant now.

What doesn't happen is for shops, restaurants and bars to open up that then drive poorer people away from an area. If they have affordable rents in social housing, people stay put during gentrification processes and there are generally plenty of places within their price range as well in the area even post-gent, although the disappearance of markets etc to be replaced by avaricious chains is a big problem. Cereal Killers and their ilk - little places replacing other little places - have driven nobody out.
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Cereal Killers is an example of businesses opening that reflect the desires of the new social class moving into the area pushing the WC out. It may be a symptom rather than cause, but those doing it have nailed their colours to the mast of the process.
 
treelover said:
One blogger, is swearing blind the protesters kicked and hurt a small dog, this is hard to believe, but she claims she saw it, baffled by that sort of behaviour

then again, RTS used to attract some dubious characters.
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There was no dog ripped limb from limb. No we didn't feast on it's still warm flesh. The only dog I saw all night was our mates who was having a grand old time.
 
ClassWar2015 said:
You're a troll.
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Not at all. I am contacting Citizen Smith and will be seeing him soon in person.
Just because I look at things with a logical and not emotional brain does not make me a troll.
Anyway thanks for that I can add it to the long list of names I have been called on these forums.
 
goldenecitrone said:
They'll probably make enough money off the back of this to open up a third cereal café down in Pop Brixton.
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Yeah pretty much. It must be doing ok business as it is, saw in one of the articles they have 12 staff, which seems like a huge amount for what looks like a small place that mixes cereal with milk.
 
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