[HacktionLab] Anyone able to offer (voluntary, I guess) web for Grenfall Tower justice campaigners help [Was: Fwd: could I ask you advice please?]

[mark]

We could easily offer them a network23 blog, but seeing as it'll be
quite high-profile, I think we'd also need a dedicated volunteer to help
them run it.

So if anyone here is thinking "I'd love to help them run a website but I
don't have suitable hosting arrangements," we could team up?

Mark


Charlie Harvey:
> Hi all,
> 
> Thought that there might be some people on the list who were up for
> helping relatives of people killed at Grenfall Tower setting up their
> website (or any of the other stuff that is mentioned).
> 
> Cheers,
> 
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> Subject: 	could I ask you advice please?
> Date: 	Thu, 20 Jul 2017 10:36:38 +0100
> From: 	George Monbiot <george at monbiot.info>
> To: 	'Dan Raymond-Barker' <danrb at newint.org>
> 
> 
> 
> Hi Dan,
> 
> 
> I hope you are very well. I wonder whether I might be able to ask you
> for some advice.
> 
> 
> I’ve begun working with two of the relatives of the victims of the
> Grenfell Tower disaster, Nazanin and Shahrok Aghlani, who lost their
> mother and aunt in the fire, to assist their search for justice.
> 
> 
> They are remarkable people. Nazanin is highly articulate, clear and
> determined. Here’s a clip of her on Newsnight:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eANrDnyecSw
> 
> It has become clear to her that none of the existing groups are
> providing either representation to the bereaved families or an effective
> voice in holding the public inquiry, the judicial process and other
> forms of official response to account. She feels strongly (and I agree)
> that the bereaved families need their own representation, that ensures
> their concerns are not muddled up with other issues, and that their
> voices are heard in the crucial forums and the media, under the
> principle of Nothing About Us Without Us.
> 
> 
> Below is the brief description she’s drafted of the objectives of this
> organisation, that she proposes to call the *Grenfell Bereaved Families
> Association*.
> 
> 
> Obviously, she can’t take all this on by herself. She needs all the help
> she can get. She needs organisational and media assistance and other
> forms of support. I have offered to try to find the people who can help.
> But – as I spend most of my time sitting at home reading and writing –
> my first-hand contacts are quite limited.
> 
> 
> So I wonder whether you might be able to advise me on people I could
> approach who could help her with:
> 
> 
>  1. setting up a website and other forms of public visibility
>  2. media work and
>  3. organisation building.
> 
> 
> What we are looking for are energetic people who can give some of their
> time for free and are prepared to keep helping out when needed over the
> next few years, during what is likely to be a major and sometimes
> bruising search for justice.
> 
> 
> Any thoughts and contacts you have would be invaluable.
> 
> 
> Thanks so much.
> 
> 
> See you soon I hope.
> 
> All the best, George
> 
> 
> 
> From Nazanin:
> 
> 
> Objectives of the Grenfell Bereaved Families Association:
> 
> 
>   * Our main aim will be to ensure that the people we have lost in this
>     tragedy are not forgotten about, and our fight for justice is not
>     over before it has even begun. We will do whatever we can to ensure
>     that the high price we bereaved families have paid in this tragedy
>     is not simply forgotten about. Other survivor and community campaign
>     groups are voicing out the problems which the survivors and the rest
>     of the community are facing, and rightly so! However we as the
>     bereaved families must also have a loud and clear voice and to do
>     this we must come together and fight in solidarity
> 
> 
>   * We will put pressure on the progress of the public inquiry and the
>     police criminal investigation by acting as a watchdog. We can use
>     independent bodies to comment on procedures and events (that of the
>     police, the LFB, the council, the contracting companies… etc).
>        * Carefully use our united voice through media to put pressure and
>     bring awareness where lawyer’s hands are tied. We will have 2-3
>     articulate media spoke persons (from the bereaved families) who will
>     with great dignity and care reach to the public and organizations
>     through media when necessary.
> 
> 
>   * Use our power and unity to challenge decisions and reject them where
>     suitable. For example we agree between ourselves what we want the
>     scope of the public inquiry to cover and if it does not meet this,
>     together we can distinguish it as illegitimate and reject it.
> 
> 
>   * We can make our own record of what the witnesses have seen on the
>     night of the tragedy and use that to fight propaganda. For example
>     the LBF is broadcasting a three-part documentary about their work,
>     which also covers the tragedy at Grenfell Tower.  My brother and I
>     have met many eyewitnesses over the past 5 weeks who have stories to
>     tell about the response and actions of the LFB that night, which I’m
>     sure will not be included in this ‘documentary’. As an association
>     we can film/document these witness stories with a aim to broadcast
>     on TV or spread on social media, as a response and challenge to the
>     documentary by LBF.
> 
> 
>   * For those families who will not get any remains of their loved ones
>     back, we can come to a decision together as to what we want to do in
>     terms of burial of ashes.
> 
> 
>   * Be involved and have a strong word in what we as a association agree
>     the future of the site should be. (i.e a memorial).
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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