Everywhere the Olympics go, the poor are evicted. Ask any resident of previous holders. In Athens, they evicted Roma http://www.omct.org/escr/urgent-interventions/greece/2002/02/d934/ …
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Oh I can testify to Olympic evictions and social sanitising. Artists were used to add value to the area as artists are "cool", we were broke
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Good term. I lived opposite from the park, suddenly white folk in smart suits on expensive bikes appeared as Bangladeshi folk were rehoused
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It's been going on for years and years. Drop- drip. The Olympics sped everything up. Again marginalised people made invisible and ignored.
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The Olympics gave the programme a deadline for gentrification. Bow Arts trust unwittingly was an agent for this change acceleration.
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unwittingly?
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Hhhh I am being diplomatic initially intentions were good but as a former Bow Arts resident I saw things change for the worse dramatically
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you'll know all this stuff then of coursehttps://50percentbalfron.tumblr.com/
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That's true almost anywhere where rampant inequality reigns. Also, of mainstream journalism, unless you actively/staunchly plan around it.
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