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

[bou]

Hi,

thanks Charlie. I thought it was that they just went with wordpress.com
; at least there is a blog there with regular updates from there. So
maybe not the same people then?

http://justice4grenfell.org/

b.

On 04/10/17 15:28, Charlie Harvey wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Thanks for all the people who kindly offered time and skillz to work on
> this and sorry for not following up sooner.
>
> It turns out that the folks who were involved in the campaign needed to
> step back from it as they're struggling with events. So it's not likely
> to happen any time soon.
>
> Cheers,
>
> On 24/07/17 16:12, Charlie Harvey wrote:
>> 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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>> -------- 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.
>>
>>
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