Displacement
The real environmental impacts of holding the Olympics in East London
from Corporate Watch
Submitted by Steve Dowding on Mon, 06/08/2012 - 09:03.
Article | Contamination | 2012 Legacy | 2012 Sustainability | Bully Point Nature Reserve | Environment | Habitat and wildlife | Hackney Marsh User Group | Lammas Land | Manor Gardens Allotments | Transport | Travellers
Preparing London for the Corporate Games: the Docklands Planning Model
from Corporate Watch
Submitted by Steve Dowding on Wed, 01/08/2012 - 14:28.
Article | Displacement | Planning & Development | Regeneration | Thames Gateway
Tourist numbers in London down 30%
David Cameron is giving upbeat press conferences about how well the Tube system is working despite the influx of 100,000 Olympic visitors. Transport for London say passenger numbers on the Tube on Monday were up 4%.
Submitted by Martin Slavin on Tue, 31/07/2012 - 08:40.
Article | 2012 Arts & Culture | 2012 Business | 2012 Sustainability | 2012 Transport | Displacement | Economics | Government | Public transport | Tourism
Open Our Towpath Demonstration
Next to the guarded barrier by the Eastway bridge over the Lee Navigation in Hackney
Submitted by Martin Slavin on Sun, 29/07/2012 - 14:16.
Blog | 2012 Transport | Cycling | Displacement | Human Rights | Protest
Local Heroes
By Leah Borromeo
The motto of the Games is "inspire a generation". However, not everyone is enthused. Londoners from the poorest parts of the city facing major upheavals from losing their homes, livelihoods and public spaces to the mercy of a few weeks of medal-chasing over the summer. They believe that the Olympics gave local councils and big business an excuse for a land grab - in which the community had little or no say. When they voice their opposition, they are hushed by the machinery of bureaucracy, the suppression of protest and the reality of losing the roofs over their heads. But their concerns are as real as the Games itself, which have received some £9.3bn in UK public funding. Community life will continue long after the athletes, the fans and the confetti have gone. I spent a week listening to and gathering the stories of Londoners shouting at the walls of an Olympic Jericho.
Photo: Leah Borromeo
Joe Alexander, 38, is in property maintenance. He lives on the Carpenters Road estate and is vice chair of the local campaign group Carpenters Against Regeneration Plans. I spent the day with Joe - a quiet, eloquent divorcee and father who moved to Stratford in London's East End in the hopes of starting a new life
Submitted by Carolyn Smith on Sat, 28/07/2012 - 15:51.
Article | Contamination | 2012 Legacy | Clays Lane | Compulsory Purchase | Displacement | Environment | Human Rights | Legacy | Protest | Regeneration
Look what they did to my home, Ma! Clays Lane - A brief memorial
Clays Lane - completed 1982 closed 2007
Daly Courtyard from garden outside Community Centre
July 23rd was the day they closed the Clays Lane estate for good...
Daly Courtyard from outside Community Centre after closure of Clays Lane Estate
ResonanceFM Radio marked the day with a broadcast of a series of talks and walks with local people from 2007 to be followed by Against the Olympic Myth: a Memorial to Clays Lane in three broadcasts on Tuesday 24th, Wednesday 25th and Thursday 26th July all at 10am. This will be followed by a programme of events - 'Clays Lane Archive' - put together by Adelita Husni-Bey, starting on 11th August until 19th, at Supplement Gallery and Bethnal Green Library.
Submitted by Julian Cheyne on Tue, 24/07/2012 - 01:09.
Article | Clays Lane | Compulsory Purchase | Displacement | Human Rights | London 2012
In search of legacies lost
The former Arena Field, site of the Media Centre, in 2008
Runners are sent ahead to drum up excitement; the circus rolls into town, and the people pay. Show over and profits taken, the circus pulls out, leaving behind mere memories and mess.
The five ring circus works on similar lines over a longer eight-year timescale. Why did London agree to host this circus? The time to reject a London Olympics was during the bid stage
Submitted by Steve Dowding on Wed, 18/07/2012 - 08:49.
Article | 2012 Arts & Culture | 2012 Finance | 2012 Jobs | 2012 Legacy | 2012 Sustainability | Displacement | Hackney | Legacy | Protest | Regeneration
Historic Olympic Protest Torch Relay in East London
Historic Olympic Protest Torch Relay in East London
(Contact Julian Cheyne after 1pm on 020-3560 4064 and 07988 401216)
Press Release from Counter Olympics Network – 16th July 2012
Submitted by Julian Cheyne on Tue, 17/07/2012 - 01:46.
Article | Compulsory Purchase | Displacement | Human Rights | IOC | Legacy | Local groups | London 2012 | Mega Events | Planning & Development | Protest
Unhappy Campers - Lee Valley Park's Olympic Campsite Con
The Advertising Standards Authority has stepped in and required advertising for the Lee Valley Regional Park Authority (LVRPA) to tell the truth about the walking time to the Olympic Park.
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Submitted by Charles Batsworth on Mon, 16/07/2012 - 08:18.
Round and Round and Round in Leyton
Leyton is becoming a hot spot for security guards harassing camera crews. Another film crew wanted to film the site of the former Clays Lane estate. We were standing on the same steps next to Draper's Field when once again a team of security guards came over to 'question' us about what we were doing. After some banter in which we told them it was none of their business they retired to call the cops.
Submitted by Julian Cheyne on Sat, 14/07/2012 - 00:08.
Blog | 2012 Media | Clays Lane | Displacement | London 2012 | Security
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