Transcripts For RT Documentary 20180109

Rest of our lives. We wont see any shots of the faithful not in this film we never want to see that again. Grenfell for local and good old reasons theres a Bigger Picture that i love more about every day we talk politics now and how we can take power because we learned that we have to look off to ourselves. Grand fell changed everything. It did the consequences we suffered it made the trains leaving the horizon and different morph anyways now i live in cannes in the chelsea its one of the richest areas in the his cousin chain comes to god for people like me its the same story the world over from butlins to rio majid to what we had to live through could be a warning for you all so i dont know about what a push everyone out to the outskirts in the suburb where you can easily control that would have taken over and you quite have a come to even going to be guy named is the. You go to work and do some menial task and come back out again and go back to the suburbs they look at this particular area as a gold mine and the thing thats brought is the presence of the people here are social housing they were they were cutting back and you know confirmation of our worst fears and that thats a very deterministic and unpleasant warfare against it both flowing in having seen many of us now see a wall fair by the rich in collusion with their mates in local government they didnt represent us they light the car they deregulated it and it killed. The councils representatives deny social plans and they tell us with a straight face they care about our community i dont feel that the issues are about social cleansing as you put it i can understand why people. Explain in those wise for me the issue is how down how is this Council Going to invest in that area and invest in ways that delivers Community Value for the people they are not. Moving the people they are out to somewhere else thats not on the gender its on socalled regeneration has hit our community we have wave after wave of gentrification for decades swept away homes and Community Spaces it replaced record shops with coffee shops music venues with bt. Where we feel like outside as the streets we want school are now full of tourists and the rich i cant tell you how many people ive seen move out because its just too expensive im you know whorish us were never felt such a difference between one of our off and them im talking cross on the ration if we hear regeneration we know it means the generation we know it means destruction of any community now with three of regeneration projects that exists now that every generation comes to your party would you best watch out because you look like if you dont battle against and stop them theyre going to wipe out everything that you all did basically you know everybody has been pushing the regeneration culture yet is actually part of including is that head we need to chop off because it is that beast that created the grandfather off land. Is that culture that created it and is hundreds of years old and they still see us especially the african caribbean population as their former slaves had a bitch an activist around here lived in dreadful tower he won countless times. About the regulation and the flour in the fire Safety Standards he said only a catastrophe would lead them to see and he was in the plan is not to have a plan and thats a great plan when youre trying to run something down into the ground you know because you just dont invest in it you dont you just its just not looked after as length west we know maybe just you know just they allowed it to i mean slum is a is a is a is a strong word but they are allowed it to sort of slip into a slum like status which is disgusting considering this power has a first of all had referred a billion pounds in reserves that weve been losing all of our public and public buildings in North Kensington. The people that are responsible for that at all because they see a small caballo of officers and senior and senior councillors. They should have been keeping us safe in Grenfell Tower on the rest of the Grenfell Tower used to live on the thirteenth floor. And rather than keeping us safe they spent their whole time in the whole concentration going around North Kensington and taking our library of lovely hundred twenty five year old North Kensington library of a Beautiful Information center underneath the fly over. And any other public assets they could get their hands on including this beautiful building behind us the building behind us a purchase of freehold for twenty five point three Million Pounds without any consultation without even the local labor councillors knowing about it i put some of accusations to barry cooke im not going to comment on that it seems to me that thats a very very strong statement all i can say is that ive looked at the issues that were dealing with in relation to fire safety on housing and making sure that weve got people that you know directing the team when were directing work ourselves to make sure that people are safe but obviously. Accusations directly at some of cooks colleagues like former Deputy Council leader look filled a million they had to massive mass the plans and some people praying in their expanse from elsewhere on the context the latest is a Property Developer and others who were just merely aspiring to be Property Developers like right field in maryland before the fire filled in mellon was working for a Property Development company slyly named socially Conscious Capital how socially conscious is it that while serving in Public Office he was also being wind ten times by dismantling. This guy rich convincing councils to sell off assets to his wealthy clients filled in million enjoy steves five star lunches with him and pinch pennies from us. To look out the window to the only thing you can look out of block at the school and your state so you would have been really really good as wake up earlier yet i want to go on that one that i saw. There in the uk now. Hopefully what happened to be a spray can be a fly. Filling crack there with no touching of the paper. I mean one of three things is true ive off after a big middle finger to the people on the if they or if theyre crazy want to get out of here and felling up which is what we needed today he said creativity like we need to we need to go now at least to go big money alone bankers have plans to where we live only we werent part of the. Local fight is against global enemies and structures. Eight guys have as much money as hostile world because it is systems we are fighting and it doesnt matter if youre in london if youre in their way and thats really. When you have a political blow off completely convinced that its the consensus among them that the most functional economic philosophy for society is neo liberalism whereby you have the big transfers of wealth and redistributions of wealth upward and the idea that. Cuts in touch with corporations that theres subsidizing of the arms industry subsidizing the banking sector. Who pays the price of those things because the people who are just by the backbone the heart and the lungs of the society is the people that really make it run. In two thousand and sixteen the Panama Papers shocked the world with a tax haven the secrets two trillion United States dollars pass through most often fake in the amount of time that we did then in the Panama Papers exposure thats what it shows a lot of money it really is. Journalism its an act of journalism looking at things that people want to keep secret and asking why would they want to keep these things secret. Millions of most like from psycho documents were examined. The all the people which basically have tried to get an advantage out of this sort of newspaper. And probably other politician which was tough attacking other politicians the media were quick to find their targets such as the kings of morocco and saudi arabia the president of argentina several prime ministers. And russian president Vladimir Putin of course. Oh my god ive had so i have sued so many newspapers for defamation some things dont just happen by chance it was very striking there were no one americans to go especially a lot of people from the brics countries specially brazil russia and china that this special project reveals what was missed in the media coverage. The panama chronicles. The everybody im steve involved in the task hollywood guy usual suspects every proud american first of all im just george bush and. Harvey to say this is my buddy max famous financial guru where hes a little bit different im not. One complainer no one knows up with all the drama happening in our country im shooting the brood have some fun meet everyday americans. And closely start to bridge the gap this is the Great American to. Heres what people have been saying about redacted the night with exactly just full on awesome well the only show i go out of my way to launch you know a lot of the really packed a punch to sleep yampa is the john oliver of hearty americans do the same we are apparently better than food. And see people you never heard of love right back to the night my president of the world bank paid to write me seriously you sent us an email. Which. Was to send the love all well its the whole of my estate. The file on june eighth two thousand and seven am but a hold in all. I couldnt believe it. And i couldnt believe the size of it as well because it was almost on the whole of this side almost i mean you could see that it was spreading quite far you could hear it you could see bits of the climbing kind of fooling around on the street. Brawl and i seen a towel on my side work on the obvious i was right but you could see the smoke circulating and thats when it was a brawl you know he lets out you saw it is so painful i dont even know if i at the time why i thought those people are going to get out it was so it was traumatic and at the un traumatic and were hoping that somehow something will come along and rescue them somehow we will not literally watch these people beg for help from ben for deaf in front of us and you know what happened a helicopter came and it came within one hundred fifty two hundred mi is of the building and turned back around now that turn around was the most heartbreaking thing ive ever seen in my life the fire that fertile happened because the state the government the local council felt us in the aftermath of the file to continue to fail us. And i was cern i was with a shock to the first few days at the total absence of the council until it was really shocking i saw and i saw the legion jeff zeleny being filmed on the first day looking at certain shell shocked as we all were and then that was it that gone and completely gone there was nobody there was no help we wait a day after day after day for the council to step in to say hello this is whats nice to happen this is what we need to do. Nobody to date has com and said actually this this this and this was their way and they had to register themselves. About residence the vibe is how to grow and document who survived or who never and that was going on for a day that you i dont know what the council thought was going on or how they fail to see and see but they seemed to in some way fail to see the emergency and that first day i remember thinking wow theyve been caught with a pounce on a bit here and like oh but then by the end of the day when nothing much had improved thinking. This is a this isnt this feels like more significant than incompetence or even by request from the council who seem less than impressed with their response i am concerned very concerned about its capability into the future and i think its important that the council make sure that we dont have a collapse of services and that we stand ready to manage to manage services if we have to if theres an economic fighting on the part. That theres a perception that the council in the field of the fire power. I i wasnt here in the in the week after the fire i came ten days later so i hear lots of comments and i hear lots of conversations particularly people in the air and so on but you also hear from staff you know and as i said there were there than did lots of stuff now maybe you know they werent aware of them but all i hear lots of different voices some from staff and counselors who were actually present at the time and did lot of work but we didnt see or feel the Council Presence off to the fire and wonder why they still had time for things that clearly could have waited they can so granted to a marriage and see planning applications the day after the fire. They werent around to take me in today even for the community but they were able to have a planning application me into grant Emergency Planning applications with no Committee Hearings while the community was dealing with the disaster and the count just tons of Aid Companies contracted by the council to carry out the bunch of innovation began deleting things on their websites there which u. K. Group believe it dissipates about their involvement in installing the small ventilation system in the towers main stairwell but we will began to help them out what did they have to hide there were fears the council were doing the same thing. These questions. As part of the Public Inquiry im not sure answers we get the ill explain later why commuters had to be safe from the Council Building and when offered up. If you were right if you are ethical come you know organization you know from up while working under seal the conservative leader of the council nicolas touchup announced his resignation he filled a million managed to reach innovation that so deadly kept in touch to grenfell now hes advised in big businesses how to profit from local authorities yeah ill give you the parts. He was actually hes made a business of tenant of accounts who this is how you do a budget night this is how you make money off a budget and he was making a living off this after he was he should be in jail he should be in jail. Projected office to respond to allegations made in this film a week after the fire to recently made it official she apologized in parliament calling grenfell a fatal state the support on the ground for families in the initial alice was not good enough that was a failure of the state local and national. But for those of us who disputed continues failings of state before and after the fire this was too little too late. Failure implies that there is a positive intention in the beginning to actually fulfill this toss what i think we have seen is yes incompetence on one hand but this stain and purposeful money speak of social housing in this bar in order to cleanse it and move its people out we know that people that campaigned against the council in there and with threatened with eviction vindicated. They were vindicated in death and that is the most tragic part of this situation that people were not heard. In life and even now theyre not heard and. Theres a strong sense that justice cannot be done to grant. The call for a just and humane response has food and on deaf ears to community and good but dignified has responded to the states failings was silent marches they have grown with every march taken place on the fourteenth of each month the date of the file. The lack of justice is never less obvious as when my streets are filled of grieving families and survivors. Is clear now there was no justice i had in my mind from three days after the fire that there was never going to see injustice this pill sadness song with some good stories were not going to say theres people that may be out there with their whole family and their life today and thats good and thats beautiful but. The problem with me happy about that because i know people are going to make out so this rage is back to rage. There will never be justice which is its i personally believe that and its just my own very own personal belief that that cut only game in town these. Public inquiry there are fears that the states failings will continue to move into Public Inquiry because it is being headed by more pick hes a judge with a history of controversial rudins in housing cases where he has been accused of social cleansing this guy couldnt be further from my state and why the Community People need to go to jump journey people lost their lives if we dont lease you need to be receipt we would be in question we would have you found the whole of the team ok Management Team need to go to geo what it would have been is to go and arrest the guys but mcfadden on that the guys are sold because i mean. And the guys who authorized the talent to go in there and for that wouldve been perfect justice for me perfect and a lot of these a lot of the main players in these organizations or got connections religious. They all have had direct relationships their paths that cross going right back to david cameron. Who deregulated fire safety and live within walking distance of grand felt our. It remains to be seen what the outcome of the Public Inquiry and Police Investigation will be. But one thing we know for sure we will never trust the state and its plan to sick to mates to keep us safe again. Since to the community continue to come together not just to pick up where the council fails but to china increase our power so that nothing like this ever happens again. That was a tragedy whats happened has happened to that and you said it was a lot of people up its woken him up it woke me up what a lot of people up and i believe if we continue to stand and make the noise and not shut people out we can change as can any way that. We know from observing whats going on that there is a more contemplated mood there is a more thoughtful mood amongst young people there isnt as much madness guy in the streets that was going on as before people off thinking about oh so. This is a divide and rule thing we are being pitted against each other how do we deal with that and i think there is the opportunity to actually turn a lot of stuff around history is key to understanding the struggle of working class people in North Kensington the area known as gold to people down here is the equivalent to new yorks harlem it was the setting of a Counter Culture from sound system to. After the war the fight against racism and fascism. The caribbean and the progressive White Working Class communities made history taken the far off the streets in the public space flow set the bar in many ways claiming disused lands from the council one of this for the benefit of the community the history of is one of never ending strong. Up until today where we have the biggest threat we have ever faced gentrification some locals think the only way forward for our community is to build on the way they came to give off to defile the state has filed the filed the papers have those kind of filed the paper the ground for it was voluntary. Wait soft was ok we did things for themselves and what we think is we can harness that spirit and make it a permanent thing but when you look at the numbers that they were able to get in the depositions with theres no reason why we cant put forward now pace yourself theres no reason why we cant put forward candidates that we know that we know will not sell us out because they are beholden to and receptive to the movements for social justice which exist within the rather beholden to Corporate Power in tightly enclosed time if we want to get rid of the tough from the south and about microsofts independence and then bring it on you know real directive wont proceed because the one good thing that could come out of the far one good thing is a total new model of working with these in the hauraki of things in the past is a great opportunity to do that build from the from the ground up again i think it would be a brilliant thing. A council tax. You know we all decide one quarter not to pay our council tax the council and the whole of North Kensington pays its council tax to a Community Organization and then you know facilitate all of those organizations are already in place doing away remember those millions that the council had in a bank they could have spent in that wasnt deadly while we were filming this report the council buckled under Community Pressure announcing that it would spend much of those three house in survivors in the local area were on track to purchase about three hundred properties before the second week in december were looking to try to make sure that we can offer People Properties a permanent were buying properties in the. Ten thousand and eleven who knows where we would be if it werent for the Community Standing up for five months people have been in hotels the vast majority still my state is being gutted. For us. Ive got my i wouldnt join my Residents Association up to campaigns to take. Its stuff only way we can survive me to realize that you have elected me we have. No one with real real power to shape our destinies and to be autisms of all faiths so we need to seize these opportunities and open eyes. And that if anything that is the phoenix that will come out of that is an increasingly Aware Community of its interests all of this not willing to be pushed around. By hamas. In the heart of the swiss alps this is a place probably more secretive than the pentagon more mysterious than the cia and better guarded than for knox ellis with customs are here permanently all the site is controlled by them and they impose the opening times. 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