Bingo and Dancing for Elephant & Castle
Southwark Council offices,London. Tue 30 Jan 2018
Rahul Pater, a trade unionist from the Unitversity of the Arts (London
College of Communication) where students
and staff are opposed to the UAL support for the redevelopment which
includes a new LCC campus
Several of the protesters wore elephant masks
'The London LatinXs - Protect our Barrios - #Fight Gentrification'
Elephants hold the banner against displacing the market traders
'Latin Elephant'
Class War's banner 'Labout Councils - The Biggest Social Cleansers
in London' with well over a hundred council estates
destroyed or under threat, including the Aylesbury estate in Southwark
where Aysen Dennis lives
and is fighting to save.
Homes for people Not for Profit' . At least one building on the replacement
for the Heygate estate has been sold entirely to overseas investors
Aysen Dennis talks with Lib-Dem Councillor Maria Linforth-Hall through
the door of Southwark Council offices
The dancing begins
Tanya Murat introduces the speakers
including April Ashley from Southwark Trades Council
'Scab Councillors ... Drag 'em Out!'
a speaker for the traders, many of whom would be put out of business
by the development
and very unlikely to be able to afford rents to return after a long
closure
Claudia Turbet-Delof from the Latin community and the United Voices
of the World trade union
The students at the LCC occupied the building in opposition to the
UAL's support of the redevelopment
Marion Roberts of Southwark Momentum
Rahul Patel, trade unionist from LCC
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