Future of Brick Lane Area is under serious threat: warns, Osman Gani a founder of Spitalfields Housing Coop

Future of Brick Lane Area is under serious threat: warns, Osman Gani  a founder of Spitalfields Housing Coop

By © Muhammad Haque 

Action SEMINAR on the Future of the Community in Brick Lane London E1 Area 2 PM Local time [1300 GMT] Saturday 06  July 2013. 

The SEMINAR Supporters: “Osman Gani has been a frequent contributor to a number of Bangla language outlets over the years, mainly as part of his involvement with various initiatives in the late 1970s and during the 1980s that were taken by the many active people concerned for and actively engaged with one another in creating the structures for the protection of the community as a whole...”

The © Muhammad Haque Daily Ethical Commentary:

UPDATING on the run up to FUTURE OF THE COMMUNITY, the Action Seminar in Defence of the Brick Lane London E1 Area in the East End of London: How the ethnicity-linked Media, some of whose “trade operators” “celebrated” 20 years of their trading grouping called “London Bangla Press Club” at a venue on the Mile End Road London E1, in the Borough of Tower Hamlets which is the subject of one of the most severe brazen take-over programmes taking place with the active collusion of the “local” Tower Hamlets Borough Council as the “planning” Authority. The other side of the toxic coin of dysfunction affecting the ordinary people in the East End is the numerically very present “ethnicity-linked” “Media” whose sole preoccupation seems to be to supplicate to the status quo of pro-Empire, pro-racist, State and sub-state Agencies while being in contemptuous and brazen denial of the very Community in whose name they, these “ethnicity-linked” “Media” claim their relevance when approaching the many sources of patronage, funding and “official validation and affiliation [4]

2224 Hrs GMT

London

Monday

01 July 2013

The Future of the Community Action SEMINAR on Saturday 6 July 2013 is being supported by a number of local campaigners in the East End of London.

One of them is Mohammed Osman Gani who spoke to me outside the water Lily Centre where the London Bangla Press Club was holding its Fund-raising Function celebrating 20 years of its existence.

Osman Gani has been a frequent contributor to a number of Bangla language outlets over the years, mainly as part of his involvement with various s initiatives in the late 1970s and during the 1980s that were taken by the many active people concerned for and actively engaged with one another in creating the structures for the protection of the community as a whole. 

He has never really belonged to any media outlet as a full time “member of staff” or as part of the "proprietors" or "businesspersons" who happened to start the out;let at any given time but has been well connected with many of the outlets which appear to be mushrooming at an inexplicable rate from addresses in the East End of London.

So he is well placed to comment on what those outlets are doing now as we approach the First Action Seminar of Saturday 6 July 2013 in the East End to defend the Community in the Brick Lane London E1 Area:

Here is a sample of what he told me in his response to the questions that I had put to him in the Mile End Road yesterday:

“.... taking over part of Tower Hamlets, particularly Banglatown, Brick Lane Area...

“ In a way, the Community is under real threats and there is no-one [who is defending the Community which is feeling] defenceless.

And our Media, particularly the ethnic Media and the mainstream Media are failing.

They are pandering to the developers.

And the developers are ruthless.

Twenty years ago, the got rid of [the] Spitalfields Market and the whole Market has been taken over ..

It is a matter of time... Brick Lane, Bangla Town will be non existent.”

[To be continued]

Seminar supporter Osman Gani [pictured by © Muhammad Haque on 30 June 2013] tells Muhammad Haque how the very future of the Brick Lane London E1 area is threatened with extinction in 10 years...