As a part of encouraging solidarity and links between different campaigns for common struggle against capitalism in Britain and Latin America, we are having a screening on gentrification in Britain followed by a discussion.

This Thursday 19 of April at 8pm

Rampart Social Centre, 15 to 17 Rampart St, London E1, 2LA, off Commercial Road, nearest tube Whitechapel, buses 25, 254, 15, 115.


Regeneration Game, a documentary by Mike Lane, 2006, 75min.
Mike Lane is a filmmaker and activist based in Liverpool

We live in a city that has third world conditions in many of our communities and in this day and age, in the 21st century, that is fundamentally wrong.
This documentary film is about ordinary who had their lives adversely affected by our civic leaders within the Liverpool city council, and by various local and central government agencies and rich property developers. It is also about people and how they empower themselves, how they stood up and said no, about local democracy or the lack of it.
Regeneration Game shows how the Liverpool city council, housing associations, property developers, and various central government agencies with the help of the local media actively strive to force their agendas onto Liverpool local communities. It has always been accepted by many informed people that the local media would fall over themselves to promote regeneration and nothing must be said or done that can harm the long term existence of regeneration funding in Liverpool. It matters little whether poverty or social exclusion and all the negative byproducts of regeneration are still in abundance in our poor communities. Community activists always knew that regeneration funding would be redirected away from Liverpool poor areas and put into the pockets of the rich.


The Battle of Broadway Market, a documentary by Emily James, 2006, 60 min.
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 traveled 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.