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2nd Anniversary of Hastings Pier Fire: "HastingsTube", "The Investigation So Far" & "What I did that led to Hastings Pier Fire"

For my money, the most informative and interesting Google Search about Hastings Pier Fire and it's aftermath is: What I did that led to Hastings Pier Fire. Not only is this blog -and it's videos well-represented- but you also get a David Icke Forum on the topic

Tony May here recommends that you come to the events on 5th October 2012 at the Southwater Area Community Centre:

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Booking for all these events is by phoning/texting me (Paul Crosland) on Zero7807066202 and receiving a confirmation text message or on a 'click here and fill in the form at the bottom of the page' basis.
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The programme is as follows

Friday 5th October
10am-5pm -HastingsTube Workshop1

Lunch provided; £10 deposit to secure

Fuller programme here

(A draft proposal for HastingsTube Playlists here)

7pm for 7.30pm "The Hastings Pier Fire Investigation So Far"

(Films recapping the meeting with Sussex Police and local residents last year will be shown from 7.10pm-7.30pm and correspondence with the Ministry of Justice handed out, as well as copies of requests for the HPWRT)

Also covered in the evening will be "What I did that led to Hastings Pier Fire"; a plea to examine and refine all of our ethics in interacting with Hastings & St Leonards youth.

Saturday 6th October 11am-5pm HastingsTube Workshop2

(The programme will be approximately as per Friday 5th; particularly for those who struggled to be available on the Friday daytime, or who wanted to go into the matters raised on the Friday 5th workshop again whilst the issues are still fresh)

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Booking for all these events is by phoning/texting me (Paul Crosland) on Zero7807066202 and receiving a confirmation text message or on a 'click here and fill in the form at the bottom of the page' basis.
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The intended play has been postponed to the 3rd anniversary -so save Saturday October 5th 2013 in your diary now!

Instead of "naming & shaming", I'm asking for support to "n*me & (re)integrate the arsonists"

& JOIN http://www.facebook.com/groups/hastingsjustice/ + read/watch/subscribe to http://hastingsjustice.blogspot.co.uk

Hastings Pier Fire Whodunit- much of what I've been told

How long until we process our stuff?

Our heritage includes how community develops and how it processes its tensions does it not?

It's my view, and probably not my view alone* that the Hastings Pier fire, just like the following summer's riots elsewhere in the country, is an important part of our community's heritage.
My questions to the HPWRT and to anyone entrusting the trust are:

"1) Aren't you interested in finding out how the pier got burnt down?

2) What would make this issue important enough for you to address?"

By tomorrow, three weeks will have gone by since the Hastings & St Leonards Observer published the letter from the St Leonards Sharing Consortium that was asking questions along this line.

The core values being asked to be upheld by all involved in the recent history of the pier (& it's possible redevelopment) are truth, community action, inclusivity, choice, reparation and re-integration into peaceful existence. These values ring so strongly for me that I moved here to help foster and support them.

Three weeks will have gone by since the latest restatement of the mission for inclusive regeneration in Hastings & St Leonards that starts with the pier fire. To date there has been no contact made from the HPWRT to any of the member organisations of the consortium, though they do know where to find us.

And preparations for the second anniversary of the pier fire are well underway; I hope that the following people in particular are keeping their diaries free on 5th October to join in:

Jeremy Birch, CEO, Hastings Borough Council
Ray Chapman, Hastings Pier & White Rock Trust
Simon Opie, CEO, Hastings Pier and White Rock Trust
Maria, CEO, Centre for Peaceful Solutions
Glynis Jacques, St Leonards Town Team Regeneration Project
Tony May, (Maybrick 44 YouTube Channel)
Chris Gidlow, biographer to "Paul Crosland, the famous playwright"

Any of the above -or any member of the public- can book in to attend via this link to the "Ethical Outings" (in Hastings & St Leonards) blog.

*To verify if this is just my view alone, why not ask the Hastings Justice Facebook Group, for example or ask others and add a comment below this blog post letting me know what they said.

In the Hastings Pier Trust we trust?

For those who haven't seen the article from the Hastings & St Leonards Observer that launches this discussion (below), click here

Meanwhile:

On the 9th May it was reported in the Hastings Observer online that there is an official objection received to the Hastings Pier Compulsory Purchase Order
To register your interest in the community share issue by the HPWRT, click here
Other forms and key information sheets for securing a future for the pier have been placed on a wiki site (like wikipedia) run by Mediation Support Ltd; that site being here
To read how restorative justice work produced remarkable outcomes for a woman whose house was burned down (arson) & was uninsured -read here
To book for the major event that marks the 2nd anniversary of the pier fire -which is the focus of a further year's work by Paul Crosland, trained Criminologist, Mediator and Community Development Worker (as well as being the famous playwright!), click here
Click here to get a sense of the Community Development work that took place on the 1st Anniversary
The press release that followed that event is here
And a copy of the "Harmonisation Policy" which the HPWRT commissioned from Mediation Support Ltd is here