The point of the protest wasn’t to damage property or to frighten anyone. It was to highlight that gentrification is brutal,and is driving poverty in LondonAt the weekend I was one of hundreds of demonstrators who took to the streets of Shoreditch in London, in the third incarnation of course War’s fuck parade, or a protest-cum-street-party against gentrification. During the evening some paint and cornflakes were thrown at the Cereal Killer cafe on Brick Lane,which received a lot of attention, while the issues at the heart of the protest – inequality and social cleansing - were largely ignored.
While I sympathise with the workers who had to clean up on Sunday, and am deeply sorry that some children were intimidated by the protest,the petty vandalism that occurred pales in comparison to the brutality of the gentrification that is destroying the lives and demolishing the homes of some of London’s most vulnerable people.
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Source: theguardian.com