Reclaim Brixton movement - meetings and April 25th protest planned
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BigMoaner
What A Load of Old Bollocks
Blagsta
Minimum cage, maximum cage
Fairynuff
I've already back pedalled and prepared to say I'm wrong on that. I've heard it on and off on quite a few demos though. After a while they become a blur.
Really? Tbf I think I've been to Brixton twice in the last ten years.
Gramsci
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Do you have any contacts for any of the groups affected by large private rents (such as Dorcester Court?)
Southwark and Lambeth Housing Action
As for more info on groups. This has been all covered by Brixton Buzz and other media.
As Greebo says there is only so much that can be done. This last week I have been on three protests - Guinness Trust, Clapham eviction resistance and helping out on Reclaim Brixton.
The thing is how much coverage does it get to make the authorities listen?
With regards to the bike sound system. Who are they and can we help.
Nice little rig they had. Fairly clear sound with a fair bit of a punch, bass wise. They were well up for random people chatting over the mic and even sticking their own phones to play tunes ( cant think of many rigs that open lol )
I for 1 would certainly contribute to see them back on the road and to celebrate to completion of this i may post some photos of flying hats
Not sure of the damage caused to it but at the point this picture was taken its not totally trashed.
http://www.demotix.com/news/7446548/dancing-streets-brixton-reclaim-brixton-protest#media-7446662
The bass speaker, amplifier, crossover etc (inside the box) are the most expensive parts. I cant see (in the photo) if the tweeter and midrange horns are damaged. The tweeter is a Wide Dispersion Piezo Horn Tweeter ( £15 i remember getting several from maplins years ago ). The midrange is a bit of a mashup but prob not expensive to replace.
Its the time and hassle. If the police have their bike and rig, then they have to get it back. Hopefully without going down a long process/added expense etc
Going by the stickers they get about so someone will know them. When i spoke to 1 of them (about what set up they were running, sound wise) he said it wasn't his but suggested it had a website called peddle...... something ( he wasn't sure what it was )
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I also have some vids of them in the street halfway between the Town Hall and the Square. May stick them up with the hat pics if this is successful. Someone has already post a clip up in this thread. Quality stuff.
As mentioned, who are they?
Are they ok?
Do they need help?
I may even have a small round piezo tweeter and an 8ohm 8in driver they can have (guess they whant 4ohm ideally ). Maybe if i can find it i have a JBL tweeter but it needs a new diaphragm JBL 2404H . A bit over kill for this set up tho.
Nice little rig they had. Fairly clear sound with a fair bit of a punch, bass wise. They were well up for random people chatting over the mic and even sticking their own phones to play tunes ( cant think of many rigs that open lol )
I for 1 would certainly contribute to see them back on the road and to celebrate to completion of this i may post some photos of flying hats
Not sure of the damage caused to it but at the point this picture was taken its not totally trashed.
http://www.demotix.com/news/7446548/dancing-streets-brixton-reclaim-brixton-protest#media-7446662
The bass speaker, amplifier, crossover etc (inside the box) are the most expensive parts. I cant see (in the photo) if the tweeter and midrange horns are damaged. The tweeter is a Wide Dispersion Piezo Horn Tweeter ( £15 i remember getting several from maplins years ago ). The midrange is a bit of a mashup but prob not expensive to replace.
Its the time and hassle. If the police have their bike and rig, then they have to get it back. Hopefully without going down a long process/added expense etc
Going by the stickers they get about so someone will know them. When i spoke to 1 of them (about what set up they were running, sound wise) he said it wasn't his but suggested it had a website called peddle...... something ( he wasn't sure what it was )
I also have some vids of them in the street halfway between the Town Hall and the Square. May stick them up with the hat pics if this is successful. Someone has already post a clip up in this thread. Quality stuff.
As mentioned, who are they?
Are they ok?
Do they need help?
I may even have a small round piezo tweeter and an 8ohm 8in driver they can have (guess they whant 4ohm ideally ). Maybe if i can find it i have a JBL tweeter but it needs a new diaphragm JBL 2404H . A bit over kill for this set up tho.
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hiraethified
It's way older than that. It was definitely in use in the early/mid 2000s
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=r9XGjh4eypcC&pg=PT303&lpg=PT303&dq=reclaim+the+streets+"whose+streets+our+streets"&source=bl&ots=wHIy7lrvn1&sig=uENY22RRpyUhigJlO0WcWTxN2mo&hl=en&sa=X&ei=1Dc9Vff_MNfUapy8gLgO&ved=0CCAQ6AEwADgK#v=onepage&q=reclaim the streets "whose streets our streets"&f=false
Gramsci
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I was there from 10am.
I was talking to people throughout the day who asked what it was about.
I disagree it was a narrow cross section of communities. It was Council tenants, shopkeepers, private renters and local political activists among others.
It was kept peaceful on Windrush sq.
There are a lot of younger people out there across London who are frustrated and have had enough. What I did notice was the number of younger people protesting. They are not listened to. They have had the worst of it in this recession.
As I hope to show in my photos the attempt to take over Town Hall was not just a few militants but a large crowd. What does surprise me is the growing anger that I see when I talk to people about what is happening to London.
Gramsci
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Did I see anyone attacking individuals? No
Some people attacked symbols of what is wrong with London- Foxtons.
Secondly I did talk to a young professional for example on the day - a Doctor- she said she finds it difficult to afford to live in London.
On the day when I was stewarding the Guinness Trust march to square I made sure a car got through that had two women who wanted to get to the new building next to Clifton Mansions. Invited them to the event on square. Those flats are owned by Lexadon so they will be rented out. They arer therefore paying through the nose for it to fill greedy Lexadon coffers.
Reclaim Brixton is a loose group. Some , as one said recently , are reasonably well off, but being reasonably well off is now not enough in central London.
I do however think there is a section of the middle class who are complacent. They know what the problems are but do not what any changes in reality. It does not affect them much.
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Gramsci
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I try not to. I use my photos to show more about what happens. My side rather than the mainstream news media.
Miss-Shelf
I'll meet you further on up the road
I am very well off compared to many who were there. I am a university lecturer and earn a decent amount of £. (housing still takes a massive % of my income though)
I was there for a number of reasons -
-solidarity with others who are not in secure housing positions (those I know and those I don't know )
-solidarity with all of us in London who feel that £ has flowed upwards to a small % of individuals and business who have increasing power to shape the fabric of spaces and homes to the detriment of many
-solidarity with my young adult daughter and her generation of renters - she's already been evicted once (suspect that her very low rent was the main factor) and cannot now afford the flat she is in (estate agents making loads of money out of getting her in and out of the contract)
I was there for a number of reasons -
-solidarity with others who are not in secure housing positions (those I know and those I don't know )
-solidarity with all of us in London who feel that £ has flowed upwards to a small % of individuals and business who have increasing power to shape the fabric of spaces and homes to the detriment of many
-solidarity with my young adult daughter and her generation of renters - she's already been evicted once (suspect that her very low rent was the main factor) and cannot now afford the flat she is in (estate agents making loads of money out of getting her in and out of the contract)
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
More accurately, perhaps, "we don't want London turned into a rich white ghetto".
Use some identification-skewing software then.
newbie
undisambiguated
your memory is obviously less shot than mine
anyway, 'whose streets' or 'whose Brixton'. There's a difference.
your memory is obviously less shot than mine
anyway, 'whose streets' or 'whose Brixton'. There's a difference.
Only if you're inward looking and with no class analysis.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
And like Hoxton, the roots spread further afield, seeking out the little corners where gentrification hasn't yet fully taken root. The Brixton Foxtons wanker mentioned in the New Statesman web article who said "soon it'll all be private housing" has a point, however much of a vapid cunt he is - if the working class (and the renters are mostly w/c IME) on the estates no longer feel welcome in Brixton, then there's very little disincentive for them to do a deal with Foxtons w/r/t exercising RtB, taking the money and heading north with their cut, and very little incentive bar need for staying in the borough beyond family ties.
Which then fucks over those who *do* very much want to stay there as being *awkward*.
newbie
undisambiguated
I didn't suggest anything like that happened, in the bit you quoted I was on about chanting, nothing else.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
I think C66 was referring to the photos reubeniz posted, which were showing a lot of faces.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Yep.
Fortunately there appears to be a lot of solidarity among estate-dwellers in Lambeth, with people wanting to "fight the power" rather than yielding to it, but how long that'll last in the face of rampant demographic change is anybody's guess.
Well it's two things really. Those who have a camera in their hand as an action happens aren't involved in that action as they're more a 'witness'.
Their choice to publish the images may well hamper, rather then help, their campaign and those whose front doors get put through won't be thankful for their 15 mins of fame.
I loathe the fact everyone has a camera nowadays.
Their choice to publish the images may well hamper, rather then help, their campaign and those whose front doors get put through won't be thankful for their 15 mins of fame.
I loathe the fact everyone has a camera nowadays.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Letting agencies and agents are a cancer. If people really want to know why Foxtons' window being smashed was a great symbolic act, they don't need to go any further than the inflated "fees" charged for everything from hand-over to AST renewal to "paperwork". Leeches need to be burned off.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Or various high-ranking members of the Met.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
People who whine about divisiveness often (oddly, given their whining) don't do "class analysis".
newbie
undisambiguated
tosh.
'Our streets' is a reasonable chant from a bunch of people who've occupied the streets in protest, whether about cars, student fees or something else. The street(s) have been taken over and the people who've taken them are right in claiming they're 'our streets'.
'Our Brixton' is very different.
and while there are aspects of class involved here I don't think deploying class as part of this discussion will achieve anything other than division. Neither existing communities nor any of the wave after wave of incomers are delineated by class, and this notion that all incomers are m/c is just lazy stereotyping.
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