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

Tue Jul 25 09:23:55 UTC 2017

Hi,

Mayfirst could be an hosting option.

greetings
clara

On 2017-07-25 11:12, mark wrote:
> 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,
>>
>> ----------------------8<------------------------
>> -------- Forwarded Message --------
>> 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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