An officer suffered a minor injury to his face as a result of a thrown bottle.
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The movement seemed to be against “cutesy boutiques and coffee shops”, and claimed Shoreditch was the “belly of the beast” of gentrification. “The staff were absolutely terrified”.
Alan Keery, who runs the Cereal Killers café with his twin Gary, told the Evening Standard newspaper that customers had used chairs to barricade the door.
Gentrification is as much a problem in East London as it is in Redfern and Fitzroy, and real solutions are necessary to protect local communities and cultures from rent-raising and profiteering.
So what was this angry mob’s motto? Why are they wearing pig masks?…
“I think it’s an absolute joke, a bunch of people attacking us”.
Meanwhile, the other side of this protest is sticking up for small businesses in this or any other area of London.
On Saturday night, around 200 protesters wreaked havoc through East London carrying torches, paint and missiles, in a violent and misdirected anti-gentrification riot that coalesced under the #fuckparade hashtag.
He said he believed his cafe had been targeted as recent publicity had tagged his premises the “poster boy” for gentrification in the area.
“London as a city is growing and Shoreditch is no different”. It feels like it’s been taken back to the Dark Ages – an angry mob with fire – it’s a bit of a witch hunt.
The window of an estate agent was also smashed.
. “We’re an independent business, we’ve got two shops, we’ve only been open months”. The one that sells extortionately priced bowls of cereal (£3.20) to punters in one of the most economically divided areas in the country?
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If you have not heard of the wonderful cereal cafe that was started last November in London, then you are not a true lover of the breakfast goodness that is cereal. Emma Raffle Idzikowska, who goes by the old adage that no publicity is bad publicity, said on Facebook that she never heard of the Cereal Cafe until the unique place that is considered a hipster cafe was attacked for being too cool and too pricy.
