Messages on broken windows reveal Londoners’ love and hate
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LONDON — In riot-hit London, locals have started leaving messages on the boarded-up shop windows, voicing their opinions on the looting, arson and vandalism that has rocked their neighborhoods.
For some it’s a form a group therapy, venting their emotions and reaffirming their faith in their district, while others shrug at the “hypocrisy” of “white liberals” for their part in it.
One such board has become the focal point for messages in Clapham Junction, an area named after Britain’s busiest railway station, which is often sold in glossy property magazines as the heart of south London’s “nappy valley.”
While mothers with strollers normally fill the streets, Monday night saw feral mobs running amok, looting shops, torching buildings in an orgy of violence.
Hundreds of messages have been scrawled on a board put up over one shattered shop window..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110816com3.html
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