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Reclaim Brixton movement - meetings and April 25th protest planned
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You don't need to have a degree to have a class analysis either.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
It's not "repeating itself". Some things are similar, some are not.
Kindly slow down and take the trouble to read my posts properly!
Your skimming and apparent misreading (deliberate or otherwise) does you no credit, and makes you look less bright than you probably are.
"Them" referred to the recurring "things" ("phenomena and events", if you prefer longer words) which need to be prevented, reduced, or stopped.
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Front page of today's SLP too.
299 old timer
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Which can only be a good thing, because when one stops to think about it, the 20/30% rise in house prices across London over the last couple of years (with all the subsequent increases in rent by greedy landlords looking to make a quick buck thus forcing tenants out) can not have happened purely by chance. I'm of the opinion that this has been deliberately steered by the Tories, with able assistance from their Liberal and Labour poodle chums, to make large short term profits for those who could be in the position to make that killing. Absolutely no coincidence that that prick Boris "look a me, I'm so wacky" Johnson was giving planning permission left right and centre.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
The "deliberate steering" is more a malign ignoring of the house price bubble and the effects it has on housing. The motivation to ignore is that the current stability of our economy is partly based on the price bubble - burst the bubble and see Osborne's "recovery" turn belly-up. Labour and the Lib-Dems go along with this because they face exactly the same predicament.
Monkeygrinder's Organ
Dodgy geezer swilling vapid lager
You make it sound a little bit like a conspiracy theory there, like they're doing it on the quiet. All the major parties have been quite open about pushing house price inflation AFAIK.
David Clapson
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And today we're told that the housing crisis means the UK "is in breach of its own United Nations human rights commitment to provide people with adequate homes". A very well timed announcement - Brixton leads the way http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/apr/28/uk-housing-crisis-in-breach-of-human-rights
So how do we maintain our position at the centre of the debate?
I saw a C4 news guy at the Ritzy earlier- I hope he's doing a housing story.
So how do we maintain our position at the centre of the debate?
I saw a C4 news guy at the Ritzy earlier- I hope he's doing a housing story.
Jesus wept. He should stick to what he's good at, although I can't quite remember what that is; is this person supposed to be a regular journalist? Perhaps Brixton Bugle will allow him on their team, just to see how he gets on...
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
i dunno, he has a point about smashing the windows at tory and labour hqs tho in addition to, rather than instead of, foxtons.
David Clapson
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Apart from the snobbery about modern social housing and his ignorance of the Barnardo's issue he makes lots of good points and describes what we're up against.
Drowned out by his accusation of a few hundred people doing what only one twunt did. He also got the order of events the wrong way around - the day began with marches converging at Windrush Square (and the Arches) - what followed was entirely peaceful and non violent apart from a few very minor events which have been blown out of all proportion.
I am not looking forward to explaining to my relatives why what they'll have seen in the media is nothing at all like what happened on the ground.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
I just left a sarky comment. Fucking Tory knobshine.
David Clapson
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Ah, so you're one of the people in denial about the violence. As for getting the order of events wrong...who the hell cares? He got the big picture right..."The protests in Brixton will achieve very little as long as there are so many vested interests at work in the capital." That's what we need to be thinking about.
Tricky Skills
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Blimey, that's bad. I thought he was supposed to have sound economics?
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
standard journos
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
it seems to me i have to repeat myself and say that the only violence i observed in brixton on the weekend came from the police.
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
I saw no violence. Smashing a window isn't violence. Storming a building isn't violence.
Tear gassing some protestors is violence.
Tear gassing some protestors is violence.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
yeh and that's what i saw.
stethoscope
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A couple of smashed windows and steaming the town hall gates isn't 'violence'.
The actions of bailiffs, councils, the government, and the police are though.
Social media will soon render him redundant. Then he may be finding himself smashing windows too.
editor
hiraethified
I care because he's describing an entirely inaccurate and misleading set of events that bears little relation to what happened. It's a bag of lies, basically, designed to misrepresent the the aims of the protest and the vast majority of protesters.
If that's what you look for in a paper, then I'm sure you'll have no problem finding a publication that suits you, mind.
Do yourself a favour and shut up or fuck off now, for your own safety. Because if you mouth off in real life, like you've done in this bit of urban, I really don't fancy your chances.
The order of events matters because a lot of people were not there to make anything resembling trouble - all they wanted was to show solidarity and make themselves heard in a peaceful protest.
David Clapson
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Ooh, threats now, I should report you to the polis.
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