The Q and A session at the premiere screening of Outside The Law, can now be viewed on the Spectacle website. Former Guantánamo detainees Moazzam Begg and Omar Deghayes, directer Polly Nash and author Andy Worthington take questions from the audience on issues raised in the film and the on-going battle for justice for the prisoners.
http://www.spectacle.co.uk/Outside-The-Law-Stories-From-Guantanamo
Lance Forman is managing director of H Forman & Son, a salmon smoking factory, that has been based in East London for over 100 years. In these interviews he speaks about the obstacles his business has had to overcome in connection with the Olympics.
After having build a brand new factory with a grand by the LDA, H Forman & Son were faced with a compulsory puchase order by LDA and the task to relocate, along with 250 other businesses.
Part 1 deals with the history of the factory and the bad luck the company has faced during the past 10 years.
Part 2 is an account of the negotiations and dealings with the LDA
Part 3 takes a different view on the Olympic Legacy
Part 4 talks about the public presentation of the Olympics
Part 5 is the story of the search for a suitable site for a new factory
Part 6 tells about the last obstacles that had to be overcome when building the new factory
The bare bones of a tiny section of Battersea Power Station, 20 Oct 2009
“Nine Elms regeneration will strengthen capital’s role as greatest world city”, promises London Mayor Boris Johnson. In a press release outlining housing, business and transport redevelopment schemes, the Mayor announced that “this vision represents the final piece of the jigsaw that completes the central area of London. The regeneration of Vauxhall and Nine Elms now is hugely significant in allowing us to support the economic growth of the whole of the capital”.
The plans and policies for the site are detailed in the Vauxhall and Nine Elms Battersea Opportunity Area Planning Framework. Copies can be downloaded from here
And if these upbeat statements from the Mayor were not enough, there is also news of a sensational, sensual theatre experience running from 23rd September 2010 to 23rd October 2010.
“The message of the project WILD MIRACLES is very sensational and unusual… The work shows how feminine sensuality can be lived and experienced in synergy with masculinity, and shows – through the stage plot – new possibilities to transform drama and fear into happiness and complete joy of life”.
Stage design mock-up
“WILD MIRACLES utilises…an interactive stage design of light and video installations, giving the audience the impression of being involved in the act”.
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Inside the BPS, 20 Oct 2009
A spiky piece sent to the Evening Standard by Conservation Architecture & Planning office Jack Warshaw caught our eye recently. In the piece he denounces the redevelopment plans in Nine Elms and lambastes proposals for the new US Embassy.
“The projected new embassy’s security requirements…assume a “worst case” scenario of armed terrorist attack. The resulting stockade mentality… will contribute nothing towards making the area a more accessible, human-scaled place. Americans like me will be embarrassed by it. Londoners will shake their fists at it.”
“The Power Station was doomed when Wandsworth Council failed to safeguard it from the collapse of John Broome’s scheme and English Heritage washed its hands of it… Regeneration? Don’t make me laugh… Just more examples of “regenicide”- killing off a place in the name of regenerating it.”
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If you would like to object to these plans you have until January 31st 2010 click here for more details.
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A mini-documentary exploring the ongoing Battersea Power Station battle is now live and on-line… featuring powerful testimony from community group members, politicians and social representatives, this mini film touches upon the issues, thoughts and emotions surrounding the station and its precarious future.
Watch it here: Battersea Power Station – The Story so far
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Levellers perform Exodus live – Exodus benefit Concert at Stopsley Recreation Centre, Luton, 1999. Watch video…
The Luton based Exodus Collective came into existence in 1992 as part of the growing DIY culture which arose in response to unemployment, poverty and frustration amongst young people. They offer working, viable solutions to many of society’s stated ills, poverty, crime, drugs, unemployment and the break down of community. Exodus blend a volatile mixture of rastafarianism, new-age punk and street smart politics. ‘We are not drop outs but force outs.’
Spectacle also produced the music video Cracklife, in collaboration with Marsh Farm Community members about the effects of Crack on their lives and community, Exodus Movement Of Jah People, a documentary that was shown on Channel 4, and in an extended version on ARTE (available in Italian and German and with French subtitles), as well as Exodus from Babylon (Channel 4), and documented the journey from Luton to Zurich as the Exodus movement take their raves to Switzerland (SF – Swiss TV).
Planning Alerts a web-based service that sends you e-mails to alert you of any planning applications granted near to where you live, have recently been threatened with legal action by Royal Mail unless they pay a £4000 yearly fee to access the postcode database.
There are several forms of action that can be taken towards this:
Write to your MP:
Tom Watson MP has tabled an Early Day Motion in Parliament calling on
the Royal Mail to allow non-profit organisations to use the postcode
database for free. Please write to your MP asking them to sign this
Early Day Motion (number EDM 2000) and protest at the actions of The
Royal Mail.
You can write to your MP here
Sign the petition:
There is a petition up on the Number 10 website regarding this situation:
Sign the petition here
Battersea Power Station Community Group urge you to take the chance to nominate Battersea Power Station landmark to be used as the design on a set of commemorative pin badges. We here at Spectacle thought about just how great an opportunity this is to raise awareness about Battersea Power Station and the current state it’s in.
You are able to submit one vote on the landmark of your choice, and so this is a very good chance to kick-start some action dealing with the Battersea Power Station problems!
The website can be found here
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Thank you to all those who came to the Silwood Video AGM last month.
We hope to see current and new members on 7th and 21st October 6.30-9.30pm
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You can now check out what planning applications are pending in your local area through a new website PlanningAlerts. This is useful for those interested in monitoring ‘regeneration’ of urban and rural areas.
It also is possible to monitor the progress Tesco, one of Britain’s biggest planning monsters. To find out what they are up to look at Tescopoly a site dedicated to monitoring all things Tesco.
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