🚨 Read our Victory Statement on the withdrawal of the Hondo Tower 🚨

Absolutely shameful decision, solidarity with the communities struggling to save Shepherd’s Bush Market ✊

#OtD: 21st July 2023, #Brixton celebrates The Fall of #HondoTower. This was a huge achievement of @save_nour #FightTheTower campaign & local communities' struggle against further #gentrification of the neighbourhood. 💥See how that frantic week unfolded:

Yesterday I found out that a single landlord owns hundreds of homes and shops in Brixton, including the majority of Brixton market. Over the last 10 years many people have been driven out of Brixton including shop owners and market traders because of soaring rental costs. It

@BlackEquityOrg I hope this is something that you are interested in halting. The erosion of the Black community in this importance space, should be challenged! There is a need to reclaim this space & address the wider inequalities being inflicted on Black residents and businesses

‼️ CALL FOR LEGAL HELP ASAP ‼️ Suleiman is facing eviction from Brixton Market. Lawyers who can support should contact @save_nour 👇👇 This is intentional displacement and retail gentrification. Landlord repeatedly targets shops that don't cater to his 'preferred' customers.

I think we’ve lost enough in Brixton and if we loose this I don’t know how certain members of the community will cope because this shop has been here for YEARS!!

@BrixtonBlog @brixtonbuzz @southlondonpres @Freedom_Paper @TheVoiceNews

We are doing our best to support Suleiman in his fight to get back his shop but need your help as a community. Any local lawyers interested in supporting independent small Black-owned businesses, please reach out to us so we can connect you with Suleiman!

There is a repeated pattern of targeting shops who don't cater to Taylor's preferred audience in the market (white, middle-class folks). We have seen this treatment before in the failed attempts to evict Nour Cash & Carry, and Phil's Fruit + Veg & successful evictions of others..

Suleiman's health challenges have been met with indifference by a callous landlord. Suleiman's shop is his livelihood and an important part of our community's fabric. To have him evicted under the cover of night during his time of need is beyond reprehensible!

Suleiman has been facing health struggles & had fallen behind on paying the extortionate rates in Brixton Market, run by multi-millionaire Taylor McWilliams. He had an outstanding £17k, £10k of which he scraped together & was ready to pay ASAP - only to be told it didn't matter

🚨 EVICTION UNDERWAY IN BRIXTON - LEGAL HELP NEEDED 🧵 Anyone who lives in Brixton knows Suleiman's Village News. Suleiman, who has been struggling with his health, has been trading in the shop since 2016. He woke up today to find his shop boarded up and surrounded by security.

💻The fall of the #HondoTower was a huge achievement of @save_nour #FightTheTower campaign. Read an account of the frantic two weeks of July when the victory against further corporate #gentrification was won. #Brixton Gentrification Struggles Timeline👇🏼 https://t.co/sKtoJNSJ8r

📻 Really enjoyed this oral record of @save_nour & #FightTheTower campaigns in #Brixton. A very compelling story about how #HondoTower fell before it was built. Told in a passionate manner by two core activists, it’s an ace record of grassroots organising against #gentrification.

On @DissidentIsland ep 267! --> https://t.co/BlmUCESQQE <-- - the amazing @save_nour / #FightTheTower campaign in Brixton - Legal updates from @haltACAB #KillTheBill #PoliceBill #StopDSEI and a tasty, bassy dj set from Lastboss of @badsekta fame to finish!

Community objectors & their lawyers will be at the planning enquiry into Lendlease's office block tomorrow! ✊ Made possible thanks to the generosity of donors – still some funds to raise so pls consider sharing & donating to stop this inappropriate development in the ❤️ of EC

Please share especially if UK based https://t.co/Y4NY6HFXKK

Brilliant day at 'Learning from East End Street Markets' conference. Great to meet campaigners from @FoQMarket @SaveRidleyRoad @LatinElephant @save_nour @markets4people @justspace7 & more.

New today: UK - London news: ‘The Tower has fallen’ – A Win For Brixton’s Anti-Gentrification Movement The proposed construction of what’s been called Hondo Tower, or Taylor Tower, has been withdrawn. https://t.co/XQWLo9UYCp

with 6% provision of affordable housing & no community support, this scheme is a test of the @luhc guidelines & a violation of the #LondonPlan. @MayorofLondon has 2 weeks to tell us what he thinks @BreweryMortlake @justspace7 @save_nour @NickRogersLDN