A-Infos (en) Britain, class war: "Unproductives" demonstration against the architect of social cleansing fascism, 1pm 30 November EC1R 0BQ

1pm on Wednesday 30 November 2016 @ Zaha Hadid Architects, 10 Bowling Green Lane, EC1R 0BQ 
London ---- BRING POSTERS, BANNERS! Architect Patrik Schumacher wants to get rid of all 
affordable housing and remove the "unproductive" from London. Let's show him on Wednesday 
just what us "Unproductives" think about that! ---- This is PATRIK SCHUMACHER, director of 
Zaha Hadid Architects, hater of the working class, and social cleansing denier. And here's 
what he had to say recently about who ‘deserves' to live in London, in which he uses 
photos from an action against social cleansing that some of us did outside a posh 
prize-giving at the Royal Institute of British Architects. ---- His message is clear: the 
rich want London's council estates and they don't give a shit about what they have to do 
to the working class to get them.

(He actually came out of that event to have a go at us before getting chased back inside.)

Here's some of what Patrik had to say:

"You have this backlash against this so-called social cleansing, and we had a 
demonstration outside the RIBA during the Sterling Prize. I find it problematic to use a 
phrase like social cleansing, which alludes to genocidal ethnic cleansing when socially 
renting tenants are asked to move and offered a new place somewhere else.

They were given these houses for free, and now they're given another new[one]for free - 
what a tragedy for them! The fact that somebody has enjoyed the privilege of a subsidised 
central location for some time in my view does not and should not establish ownership over 
this public resource.

Is it not fair that now it's somebody else's turn to enjoy this central location? 
Especially if it is those who are better able to produce the support required for those 
who are subsidised all along and will continue to be subsidised?

I'm thinking about MY PEOPLE* who are working very hard and generating value having to 
commute or having flatshares when these spaces are left to people who[have been]freeriding 
for decades and supposedly for decades to come.

Central London locations are a precious productive resource that... should be allocated 
according to market principles, that is, to the uses most urgently demanded by the 
economically most potent and thus most productive users who serve us most effectively."

* Wealthy middle-class cunts

Schumacher's vision is one in which the rich use the rest of the world as their playground 
| 30 NOVEMBER, 2016 BY IAN RITCHIE | Patrick Schumacher's WAF speech revealed him as an 
apologist for the politics of disposability, with no respect for the registers of care, 
compassion, and democratic vision, says Ian Ritchie...

Architecture needs a spokesperson; don't let it be Patrik Schumacher | 29 NOVEMBER 2016 BY 
ELLIS WOODMAN | Zaha Hadid Architects' director may be able to grab headlines, but 
looney-tunes ideas would make him a problematic champion for the profession, says Ellis 
Woodman...

"It is time to stop listening to Patrik Schumacher" | Phineas Harper | 28 November 2016 | 
Patrik Schumacher's vision for a deregulated and privatised city is nothing more than a 
rehash of failed establishment ideas, and we shouldn't pay any attention, argues Phineas 
Harper in his latest Opinion column....

Poor Doors, Gentrification

http://www.classwarparty.org.uk/demonstrate-architect-fascism-30-november/
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