london diary

July 2017

Haringey Residents protest housing sell-off

Wood Green, London. Mon 3 Jul 2017

 

 people kept shouting and some were banging hard on the glass which was flexing by around half an inch

 

 I was worried the glass would break and moved back

 

 

 Finally police and security arrived and stood in front of the glass

 stopping most of the banging on it, but the shouting continued

 

 

 and people were banging on bins and pan lids

 

 After I while I went back to the front of the building

 where a rally was taking place

 and Unite London regional secretary Pete Kavanagh came to speak
    
As well as a number of the other campaigners

 Others shouted or blew vuvuzelas

 

 

The rally was continuing noisily when I left, and would have been very noticeable in the council meeting which
was taking place outside - and where the council voted to go ahead with the scheme to give away around £2billion
of public property to the developers Lendlease, an Australian company already invovled in various dubious
schemes of social cleansing the capital. It seems inevitable there will be legal challenges as well as further protests.

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