The Battle for Broadway Market documentary - 11 Feb LDN

The Battle for Broadway Market documentary - public screening

At the end of November 2005 an occupation was started by local residents at 34 Broadway Market to prevent it being knocked down for luxury flats. Over the next few months support multiplied and the news travelled around the world. It's a story that brings in corrupt property developers, an incompetent council, rampant gentrification and the question of just what sort of community we want in 21st century London.
This is the definitive film of the event.

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3pm, Sunday February 11, Sebright Arms, 31-35 Coate Street, London, E2 9AG
£2 entry

HACKNEY INDEPENDENT FILM SHOW

The Battle for Broadway Market

At the end of November 2005 an occuption was started by local residents at 34 Broadway Market to prevent it being knocked down for luxury flats. Over the next few months support multiplied and the news travelled around the world. It's a story that brings in corrupt property developers, an incompetant council, rampant gentrification and the question of just what sort of community we want in 21st century London.
This is the definitive film of the event.

Dir: Emily James, 2006, 62 minutes

Also...

The 43 group

After the Second World War Jewish ex-serviceman found once again Oswald Mosley and his Blackshirt pals spreading their anti-semitic message on the streets. This documentary recounts the anti-fascist battles fought in the East End and all over London in the years immediately after 1945.

Dir: Graeme Kennedy, 2000, 25 minutes

SMOKE AND MIRRORS: FIGHTING HOUSING PRIVATISATION

An inspirational documentary showing how tenants in Edinburgh fought against council housing privatisation.

3pm, Sunday February 11, Sebright Arms, 31-35 Coate Street, London, E2 9AG

£2 entry

Sunday lunch is served in the Sebright Arms from 1-4pm at £7 per head onwards

More info:
http://www.hackneyindependent.org/

This weekend

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See you there if so!

shameless bump.

Spirit's case is still ongoing, as are the generous efforts of the London reggae soundsystem community to pay his legal fees etc.

The occupation of 34 Broadway ended some time ago and it is now a hole in the ground. And yet, that story isn't quite over either...

It might sound cheesy but one of the things that the film clearly shows is that the occupation generated a whole wealth of questions and relationships which are all very much in existence and gaining momentum.

There have also been some knock on effects in terms of how Hackney Council deals with the sale of properties, not that this has stopped them embarking on a plan to flog off supposedly "unused" spaces on council estates to build private flats [link].

And of course the Olympics.

Copies of the DVD should still be available from Spirit's shop, with the proceeds going to him.