- Title:
- Free Hackney flyer
- Object name(s):
- flyer
- Brief description:
- This flyer promotes the with Free Hackney campaign. Across the bottom 'Free Hackney' and the Tibet flag and an Olympic logo is printed with a no entry sign over the top. The text explains that the Free Tibet campaign has handed over the Olympic protests to the Free Hackney campaign. They explain that the Olympics is nothing more than a 'money making opportunity for business and the government', and is cleansing the area of all character.
- Collection:
- Hackney Museum
- Associated date:
- August 2009
- Associated place:
- Hoxton Street - street party on Olympic handover day hoxton
- Inscription content:
- THE OFFICIAL OLYMPIC HANDOVER LET THE GAMES BEGIN The Free Tibet campaign will today be officially handing over the Olympic protests to the Free Hackney campaign! What is the FREE HACKNEY campaign all about and why are you a bunch of anti-olympic killjoy scrooges? We see the Olympics as nothign more than a money making opportunity for business and the government. Businesses and Residents in Hackney are having their livelihoods and homes compulsory purchased and bulldozed to make way for the games, council tax is going through the roof, public spaces are being closed, free sports facilities are being closed, rents in the area are going to go up and the character of our area is being bulldozed. It seems to us that the people are getting a raw deal from "the peoples games". Developers in East London have for years been ripping the heart out of the area, bulldozing buildings to make room for more 'luxury' flats. The Olympics seems nothign mroe than a huge cash injection into this spurious re-generation where existing residents are shoved out of the way to make room for city living loft apartments and second homes for city workers. How about some low cost housing, how about stopping buy to let purchases, how about improving the area instead of cleansing it of all character? Plus to be honest, does anyone actually expect Boris and London to build the thing on time for it not to fall over?
- Object name:
- flyer
- Object number:
- 2010.5
- Object production date:
- 2010
- Text reason:
- Collections online record
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/ffb241a9-3c81-352d-9c43-ac682de0dab7
Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/ffb241a9-3c81-352d-9c43-ac682de0dab7, Hackney Museum, CC BY-NC
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