Hey all, sharing some really exciting news about Seven Sisters Market and Wards Corner. In the next few weeks, we will be launching a major £100k crowdfunding campaign for a Community Resource Hub for market traders, small businesses and the community at Wards Corner in Tottenham (https://www.spacehive.com/wards-corner-community-hub).  

The Hub will bring the ground floor of the Wards building back into use on a temporary basis, providing access to crucial services to Latin American, BME, low-income and other communities particularly affected by COVID-19 as well as other longstanding inequalities. It will provide access to start-up support, business development, online training, housing support, legal advice and translation services. The Hub is urgently needed following the closure of Seven Sisters Market in March 2020 following an electrical outage, leaving the Latin American community and others without access to the specific community and business support services and cultural activities usually available there. It also represents an opportunity to test and develop some of the ideas from our long-term community plan to restore the whole building and bring it back into full use, delivering a new market space, retail, cafe and office space, and community space (see  https://www.wardscornerplan.org/). 

Before we launch our campaign on social media, we need as many friends and family to pledge to support the project, so that when it goes live our supporters have the confidence to back the project. Early backers will also help us to secure funding of £25k or £50k towards our target from the Mayor of London. 

We'd be really grateful if you could make a pledge - it doesn't matter how small or large. Every pledge we get will make a difference as we get ready to launch the campaign.

To make a pledge, visit https://www.spacehive.com/wards-corner-community-hub. 

Thank you so much for your support everyone ❤

Love & solidarity, 

Save Latin Village

Dear Supporters, 

The Latin Village still remains closed and TfL has now advised that cooking will be prohibited on-site. A devasting blow for restaurateurs, the local community, and the Village.

This comes on top of their policy decision to indefinitely close the mezzanine floor, which represents around 50% of our trading space. 

Of course, we're challenging both of these decisions but we need your help to do so. 

please visit one of the below social media posts and like/comment/share so that we can spread the word about what's happening. 

• Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/tv/CFc6NG_hOZz/?igshid=ri2j6zxm1flg

• Twitter:https://mobile.twitter.com/LatinVillageUK/status/1308457557439242245

• Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/watch/?v=347020319778660&extid=xCim2MDHx4Q8iNGf

Together we can #SaveLatinVillage.

Thank you so much. 

Un abrazo,

Victoria Alvarez 

Dear Supporters,

The Latin Village|Pueblito Paisa is closed despite shops in England reopening today after three months of lockdown see why https://savelatinvillage.org.uk/2020/…/09/covid-19-timeline/

Meanwhile, we are fighting to reopen the Latin Village through legal action. Please donate and/or share via this Crowdjustice page https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/latinvillagepueblitopaisa/.

The reason the Latin Village is closed is due to the public-private partnership denial of the continued discrimination that has helped perpetuate racism and forestall essential works. 

Kind wishes

Mirca 

The photo is of Fabian and his family. Fabian is named with Victoria on our main case page. 

The last time I spoke to Fabian was on his birthday on the 24 March when he told me he was concerned that his unit would be excluded in the restoration of the power supply to the Latin Village due to the pattern of discrimination of the private-public partnership, a week later he was admitted to intensive care because of the COVID-19.

With your help through this CrowdJustice page, Fabian filed a race discrimination claim in 2017 under the Equality Act against the agent of Transport for London, Haringey Council, Mayor of London, Grainger plc.

Leading up to his admission to intensive care, they tried to evict Fabian, they cut off his electricity in February, threatened to remove fixtures and fittings from his unit, just before he got ill with COVID-19. Many believe the severe stress he was under was not helpful.

He is the main breadwinner of his family, and his wife and dependents are really struggling with this tragedy.

We celebrate him and his immense contributions to our community.

We also want to call out the constant discrimination, harassment, victimisation and total injustice Fabian faced in the lead up to COVID-19. Fabian is one of the few Afro-Colombian licensed traders and has traded within the village for over 10 years. 

COVID-19 disproportionately affects the minority ethnic population and we have been fatally let down by the public-private stakeholders and landowners: Mayor of London, Haringey Council, Transport for London, and Grainger PLC.

Please donate to help us seek justice for Fabian and the Latin Village: Pueblito Paisa, and share the page with your friends and family through social media.

We celebrate and pray for our local hero, Fabian, from unit 53. The Latin Village has been a Mutual Aid centre for decades, we will continue to protect and celebrate community. 

Haringey Council investigations have proved that the former Mayor of London Boris Johnson's Section 106 agreement, which was formulated to mitigate the discriminatory impact against the wider Latin American population, (reason Planning Permission was granted) identified in Equalities Impact Assessment; has been breached and is not fit for purpose.

Moreover, the key measure which it was hinged upon, namely the "facilitator" role meant to "promote the interests of the Spanish speaking traders" has been antithetical. Fabian's race discrimination claim was filed under the Equality Act 2010 against the facilitator which the Haringey Council investigations concluded had a clear conflict of interest. 

We are taking legal action to address this issue.

The private-public partnership is using COVID-19 as a shortcut to drive through its agenda and quash dissent. They are implementing intrusive measures that are not proportionate, necessary, and non-discriminatory. 

In relation to COVID-19 the United Nations has stated that: "At this time, we need to push back against those who seek opportunistically to use the crisis to further their position". 

COVID-19 has changed everything and shown that our Community Plan which incorporates most of the UN Sustainable Development Goals is the blueprint for this new shift. 

"When we recover, we must be better than we were before".

Please donate and share the page with your friends and family through social media.

COVID-19 and the Latin Village - We are all in this together. 

Dear Supporters,

Haringey Council is conducting three investigations into complaints made through Bindmans, which were funded by this Crowdjustice campaign. Thank you for making this possible.

Our solicitor John Halford attended a Wards Corner Policy Advisory Group meeting yesterday at Haringey Council to make the case yet again.

However, the Crowdfunding campaign funds have been depleted and we need an extra push to keep things going. There is no fuel in the tank at moment for Bindmans to support these investigations!

Please could you make a further donation, and/or share the Crowdjustice campaign with a friend or through social media.

Thanks again for your solidarity and support

Mirca

Haringey Council 3 reviews

1. Scrutiny Review on the Wards Corner regeneration –Wards Corner https://www.haringey.gov.uk/sites/haringeygovuk/files/hr_-_project_scoping_draft_v3.pdf
2. Wards Corner Policy Advisory Group  https://www.haringey.gov.uk/sites/haringeygovuk/files/wards_corner_policy_advisory_group_terms_of_reference.pdf
3. Section 106 Review (no terms of reference available)

Dear Supporters,

Thanks to your support, our solicitor John Halford delivered a spellbinding presentation to the Haringey Council Wards Corner Scrutiny Panel yesterday. Although he was unwell, he never cancelled, and soldiered through a jaw-dropping session that was effective enough to hopefully spare the campaign from the death sentence of the Section 106 agreement. Alongside minority rights leading expert Prof. Alexandra Xanthaki, they destroyed the false premise that the Section 106 agreement protects the Latin Village.

Another thing to point out is that thanks to you, not only are we represented, but we have the very best lawyer. As John Halford is not only a partner at Bindmans, and a specialist at challenging abuse of power by public authorities. He is a genuine advocate for fighting for the underdog. John is renowned for his involvement and contribution in the campaign for over a decade. And that is why the campaign cannot stop relying on his support, despite having to fight a separate case to challenge the CPO decision of the Secretary of State.

This is because we need him to expose these serious equality issues; and John Halford is certainly someone you do not want to come up against in court. One of his famous achievements for the campaign was the Harris case which taught Haringey an important lesson about the importance of its legal public sector equalities duty. Yet, it seems that not only Haringey, but the Mayor and TfL are still falling very short in their duty to have due regard to "eliminate discrimination, victimisation and harassment" experienced by BME traders at the hands of their agent.

Yesterday he also exposed the "hollow" words of the statement by the leader of Haringey Council which states, " We remain committed to a successful and sustainable Seven Sisters Market, supporting the market's traders and their future success". 

Despite the fact that they have done nothing to remove their agent that as received complaints of discrimination, victimisation and harassment. The same agent that under the Section 106 agreement is ironically supposed to "promote the interests of Spanish speaking traders". 

Instead their agent, has had a race discrimination claim filed against them by an Afro-Colombian, disabled, ex-refugee trader. And has subjected leading human rights defender Victoria Alvarez to victimisation and harassment. Victoria has had to fight for 13 years to save the Latin Village: Pueblito Paisa. It should be noted that Victoria was a Colombian refugee that also had to deal with the traumatic issues of displacement.

To say that this is unfair is a huge understatement, as the fight continues. And thanks to you, significant developments have been made. After too many legal letters to count, Haringey Council has finally accepted their public sector equalities duty! However, we still need our solicitor to make Haringey to actually do something about it.

As Haringey Council's lawyers even had the audacity in their initial response to the Bindmans letter in August 2018 reporting complaints of race discrimination, victimisation and harassment that Haringey Council: 

• "does not have evidence of [Section 106] non compliance" 
• "the Market continues to operate successfully and the traders are continuing to receive assistance from [Quarterbridge/MAM]" 
• questions raised by traders were "irrelevant" 
• and that the Council was being asked to undertake an "exercise in pointlessness."

Please continue to support us as John Halford's work, although separate to the CPO appeal, he is crucial to the campaign. He forms part of our dream team of lawyers. Vicky explains this issue: "when you have various medical conditions, it is necessary to have different specialists". Well the cancer has spread, hence the need for other specialists, and John is treating the root cause of these symptoms. 

Haringey Council has paid for Grainger PLC's to have a team of crème de la crème lawyers and QC's funded by the public purse. Without your support, this inequality of arms will mean that an under resourced BME community will not be able to access the legal protection it desperately needs, to fight the corporate giants that are in bed with the public authorities. 

Thank you for your solidarity. 

Dear Supporters,

The United Nations has just released a new public statement about the Latin Village which states:

"The experts expressed concern that the closure of the market in its current form would leave people of Latin American origin and descent without their cultural hub. This could have a detrimental effect on their right to practice their culture, and as such could constitute indirect discrimination".

Also, that "local authorities involved in the project had failed to adequately assess and mitigate the impact of the project on the cultural rights of minorities, including children".

https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=24409&LangID=E

Latest update: silence from TfL, but a shift in Haringey’s position

As discussed in previous updates, part of our legal strategy has been to expose the grave and systemic maladministration by TfL and Haringey in failing to properly investigate the way the market is being ‘managed’ and its future ‘facilitated’. Traders’ representatives and our solicitor have met with London City Hall Assembly Member Joanne McCartney and submitted detailed evidence and submissions to the Haringey Scrutiny Panel. Our solicitors have also made very detailed, evidence-based complaints to TfL and to Haringey stressing the need for each to conduct a thorough planning and equality law-complainant investigation into what is happening.

TfL has failed to deliver such an investigation and has yet to even to respond to complaints about this inaction. We will now ask for an independent investigation by the Local Government Ombudsman.

But there has been a breakthrough of sorts with Haringey. Our solicitors had warned its ‘monitoring officer’ Bernie Ryan that there was serious maladministration and illegality in Haringey’s refusal to examine Grainger’s compliance with its s.106 promises to ensure the market has a future. In a letter of 22 March 2019, the deputy Monitoring Officer Raymond Prince has conceded:

• the section 106 and deed of variation obligations to protect the market have been activated;
• the Council’s equality law obligations apply to its assessment of whether Grainger and its agents - MAM and Quarterbridge – have complied with the section 106 agreement (or, as we claim flagrantly breached it);
• the Council asked Grainger to sack Quarterbridge as ‘market facilitator’ which Grainger has done (but MAM remains running the market);
• the Council will take ‘reasonable steps’ to ensure the section 106 commitments are complied with;
• there will be a full investigation into traders’ allegations; and
• enforcement action will be considered.

Our solicitors are seeking more information about what is planned, but this could be a breakthrough. After months of evading ultimate responsibility for the way the market is being undermined and its traders oppressed, Haringey appears finally willing to consider whether Grainger, MAM and Quarterbridge are acting as they should.

But we should not be complacent. To keep up the fight, ensure TfL is made accountable and make sure Haringey’s belated investigation is meaningful we need your support.

This is a critical moment. Please contribute to the fighting fund today!

In a shocking turn of events on 27/2/19, traders at the Latin Village at Wards Corner have seen this as deliberately intimidating. Haringey Council has used the very market operator accused of serious bullying and racism towards them to hand deliver sealed envelopes with Individual Compulsory Purchase notification letters, which is completely out of the ordinary as the market operator has staff that usually deliver the post.

Traders are now calling for a full investigation to take place into why this happened and who signed it off. Haringey Council also needs to stop sitting on the fence when it comes to Transport for London's poor handling of bullying and racism complaints and join calls for a new independent investigation into the market operator to take place.

At the Haringey Council Scrutiny Panel meeting at the Civic Centre on the 21st February 2019, Vicky Alvarez, head of one of the main groups of traders, claimed she had been the victim of harassment and bullying because she stood up for their rights. She says:

"The stress we have been under has been simply unbelievable and Haringey Council has just ignored our concerns about bullying and racist behaviour, pretending nothing is wrong whilst carrying on with their misguided plan to bulldoze the market in favour of a plan that has no affordable housing and which we will not survive in. They just won't listen to us." 

The Stephen Lawrence inquiry highlighted failures into investigating racism.

20 years on it’s still happening: in the case of TfL investigation into reported racism at the Latin Village. It is a mockery of the Public Sector Equality Duty under the Equality Act 2010.

Trustee Stefanie Alvarez, tells Metro News https://metro.co.uk/2019/02/17/race-against-clock-to-save-uks-last-latin-american-market-8649591/ that traders have been ‘racially discriminated’ against by management.

Doing nothing about racism is not an option please donate/support our Crowdjustice legal campaign to fight racism.

Dear Supporters,

Notwithstanding the upsetting news about the CPO decision, we and Bindmans have been hard at work over the past few days to defend the market, making your support all the more important at this critical time. 

We have:

1. Met with and fully briefed our London Assembly Member, Joanne McCartney
2. Made a detailed submission to the Haringey Scrutiny Panel through Bindmans;
3. Given evidence to the Haringey Scrutiny Panel;
4.   Made and chased a response to our maladministration complaint about Haringey’s refusal to investigate s106 agreement compliance by Grainger;
5. Made a maladministration complaint to TfL about their fundamentally flawed investigation into traders’ complaints about the way the market is managed; and 
6. Got specialist advice on and challenged an unlawful Enforcement Notice that targets one of the traders.
7. Held another public protest against discrimination, victimisation and harassment

Our lawyers’ input into all this is critical but we need your support to cover some of the costs. Please help save the market by donating now!

Dear Supporters,

Thanks to your support our solicitor has been able to review the outcome of TfL's second investigation into complaints about Quartebridge/MAM. The extent of TfL's impartiality towards Quarterbridge/MAM and Grainger PLC, plus other serious shortcomings have been legally reviewed; and found to be totally unlawful.

Also, the fact that almost 32% of the traders were charged erroneous electricity charges of 1000%, has been whitewashed and twisted around: making Quarterbridge/MAM the victim. Quarterbridge/MAM has rebutted accusations by making unproven allegations towards the traders which, has been blindly accepted by TfL. In contrast, the 1000% extortion is indeed proven and the mistake in overcharging admitted by Quarterbridge/MAM.

Another important development is yet another incident which evidences how Victoria Alvarez (face of the Crowdjustice campaign) has been singled out by Quarterbridge/MAM and has been subjected to victimisation and harassment. We recently held a successful protest (see video below). And now Victoria Alvarez is facing disciplinary procedures by Quarterbridge/MAM for exercising her human right of association and expression (see letters below)

Victoria is a Colombian refugee that has escaped traumatic experiences in Colombia which, is a country that was ranked first for internal displacement in 2015 by the UN Refugee Agency, ahead of Syria and Iraq. This makes the harassment, victimisation and discrimination of this refugee community even more inhumane.

Enough is enough. The abuse has to stop now! Also the key question is have TfL, Haringey Council and the Mayor given Quarterbridge/MAM a carte blanche to treat this community in this inhumane manner? For failing to act, or turning a blind eye, is in an act in itself.

Thanks for all your support. With your solidarity we have hope.

Mirca

Dear Supporters,

Thanks to your support, the legal letters than you helped to fund have been covered today in the Guardian.

Victoria Alvarez (quoted above) is featured in the article https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/10/corbynism-work-government-borough-haringey

Also, last night at 23:10 on Newsnight highly acclaimed journalist Aditya Chakraborty stated: 

"Latin Village ..complete magic. UN love it they want to preserve it. If this were New York half of Brooklyn would want to be there. And it would be subject to its own Netflix series."

Sorry to ask but please pretty please share the Crowdjustice and donate. 

Mirca 

Newsnight link on BBC iplayer

Dear Supporters,

Thanks to your support Bindmans has sent an almost 30 page letter to TfL and to Joseph Ejiofor the new leader of Haringey Council. 

However, the abuses continue.... The deliberate neglect of the market is causing health and safety concerns. BME & Latin American children that use the Latin Village as a youth centre are playing in the dark because of regular power outages due to neglect of the electrical system. And there is no emergency lighting.  Traders are still being overcharged for utilities as an obvious ploy to price them out. Haringey Council sent a team of inspectors and shut a business down owned by a young Colombian pregnant mother. BME traders can't work because they literally have no power. 

Please share the Crowdjustice campaign on your social media networks and with your friends. We are in survival mode and we need your support more than ever.

Wishes of solidarity

Mirca

Dear Supporters,

Its been an incredible week and to issue an update on a day that is so sacred to Colombians I thought it would be important to share the latest developments. The developer and the developer's agent (and so called market facilitator) attempted to exclude Colombian traders from the planned celebrations. Due to numerous complaints made by the traders the developers plans for their celebrations (that excluded Colombian traders) had to be cancelled. 

Its symbolic that Colombian traders celebrating their historic Independence Day - managed to fight to maintain their independence of their celebrations at the Latin Village: El Pueblito Paisa.

This week we made a deputation to Haringey Council's new administration in their first cabinet meeting https://haringey.public-i.tv/core/portal/webcast_interactive/363372 (at 28 minute section). We asked for the CPO to be withdrawn and Haringey Council's partnership with the developer's agent to be annulled because of the seriousness of the complaints which is what this Crowdjustice campaign is all about.

The Section 106 agreement is being breached every day. The CPO cannot go ahead as the plan is for the developer's agent to be the new market owner in Apex House and then in the new market. What kind of future is that based on our current experience? Our Community Plan is the best plan for the community.

Please can you make a further donation and/or share the Crowdjustice campaign with your networks.  

Thanks to your donations we have been able to maintain our lifeline with our solicitors and share all these latests developments with them and they will be writing to Transport for London and Haringey Council very shortly.

Wishes of solidarity

Dear Supporters,

Thank you for your support which has given us the legal support to keep battling against the abuses from Quarterbridge/MAM, who was appointed by Transport for London (freeholders) and Haringey Council. 

Some of the traders are referring to the so-called market facilitator as Donald Trump. Would Donald Trump be a suitable leader and future owner of this Latin Village? Would this Latin Village survive this type of leadership in the future? Please donate and ask your colleagues to donate. Time is running out and we need to raise just under £4k to reach our Crowdjustice goal.

I have also complained again about another incident of further discrimination this week; copying in the freeholder of the site - Transport for London (TfL); and the Mayor of London, the new leader of Haringey Council, the Guardian, MP David Lammy and local Haringey Councillors.  

I have been victimised and harassed by the so-called facilitator; since TfL awarded the market lease in 2015 to Quarterbridge/MAM. TfL failed to tender this contract. Grainger PLC acted as the guarantor to this lease contract with Quarterbridge/MAM. 

I was singled out for reprisals from the start of the above-mentioned appointment: because was one of the main founders of this campaign. I am an ex Colombian refugee who fled extremely challenging circumstances in Colombia where my father was murdered. I rebuilt my life as a single mother in the Latin Village where my daughter was able to play safely while I worked. Many of the traders are also ex Colombian refugees. Colombia was ranked 1st for internal displacement in 2015 - ahead of Syria and Iraq - by the United Nations Refugee Agency. 

Haringey Council, Grainger PLC and Quarterbridge announced their partnership in 2012 http://www.haringey.gov.uk/news/specialist-support-seven-sisters-market. The Section 106 agreement that secured the protection of the market was signed with the Mayor of London, Haringey Council and Grainger PLC was also signed in 2012. 

The community N15 Development Trust offered TfL £100k for the market lease in 2015. However, TfL accepted Quarterbridge/MAM’s offer of £60k. The signing of the lease was stalled because of the numerous complaints of gross negligence by Quarterbridge/MAM. Despite, a race discrimination claim being filed against the so-called market facilitator (Director of Quarterbridge/MAM) and Quarterbridge/MAM in Nov 2017: the lease was signed and Quarterbridge/MAM is the planned future market leaseholder of the new market. 

The cosy TfL and Quarterbridge/MAM relationship continues with Haringey Council while the community continues to be discriminated. Afro-trader Fabian has been recently excluded by Quarterbridge/MAM in participating in the planned market Colombian Independence day celebrations on 20th July 2018. 

Quarterbridge/MAM has excluded many traders from participating in a huge event, which is hugely significant to Colombian traders. They have planned this event in secrecy as a PR exercise, without the involvement of the market's steering group, and yet have managed to obtain support from TfL, Haringey Council and Grainger PLC. 

Thanks again for your solidarity x

Victoria Alvarez

Dear Supporters,

Thanks for your support. And a huge thank you to the Stop HDV campaign and Our Tottenham for their solidarity!

Trader Paula Rocha had her licence terminated by the so-called Market Facilitator (developer's agent and proposed new market leaseholder) appointed by Grainger PLC, Haringey Council, TfL and the Mayor of London. Paula is currently trading in her unit without a licence. She is in a similar situation as trader Fabian.

Please watch Paula's interview where she makes many salient points.

She asserts that "This shop here is a means of survival for here in London. As you know life in London is becoming more and more expensive. When you see the market it doesn't have chandeliers...but here is a place were families come actually dress (up) themselves and come every weekend...to spend time with their family. I became part of the Crowdjustice campaign because of a situation ...in my shop."

Trader Paula Rocha became sick with "life threatening issues". The so-called market facilitator terminated Paula’s trading licence, instead of helping Paula during a difficult time. 

Paula says that he is “supposed to be a market facilitator..... Instead he wants to break what we had to build here alone. He sees us as nothing. And that’s why we are doing this Crowdjustice campaign. Because we are not nothing. We are something. I think this Crowdjustice will make justice for me, for Fabian, for other traders that are here that complained several times to Grainger, ... Haringey Council, ...Transport for London, but no one seems to do nothing. Its like because you are a minority, its like you don't have no rights. I'm sorry there is life here, life." 

Please share the Crowdjustice campaign on your social media networks. Without your support the developer's agent, etc will continue to believe that we are nothing.

Dear Supporters,

Thanks to your support we were able to appoint a barrister that specialises in discrimination.

Traders like Daniel were overcharged 1000% by so-called Market Facilitator - appointed by Haringey Council & TfL. Our lawyer describes him as the anti-thesis of a Market Facilitator. Afro-Latin trader Fabian has been the most impacted the extortion of 1000%. Traders affected by these extortionate rates were all Colombian. 

Public bodies have a duty to prevent discrimination under Section 149 of the 2010 Equalities Act. Its unfortunate that it takes legal action for these duties to be taken seriously.

We have just under £4k to raise. Please post a link to Facebook asking your friends to pledge support for this Crowdjustice campaign. Without your support we're stuffed x

Dear Supporters,

Thanks to your generosity we have raised £2k this week!

Nicholas in the video below has been a trader in the market for the last 10 years and says the Latin Village is a home from home for Latinos. He promotes our Community Plan that would restore our Edwardian building to its former glory. Culture erasure and economic displacement can be avoided through the Community Plan. It would protect London's Latin Village - a real destination for culture - not another clone town development. Nicholas says the Crowdjustice campaign gives the poor person a voice where big business usually prevails and there is no limit to what people can achieve when people come together. 

Please help #SaveLatinVillage by sharing our Crowdjustice link bit.ly/2CK29rB and/or donate £5 or more.

Thanks to your generosity we have reached £8k!

Please watch Viviana's video where she asserts the importance of the Latin Village to young people in Tottenham and the community. 

Viviana has grown up in the Latin Village since she was 4 or 5. Viviana wants her little brother to have the childhood that she enjoyed in the Latin Village because “its fun". She wants him to enjoy genuine play rather than always be on a phone or a tablet. Please help #SaveLatinVillage by sharing our Crowdjustice link bit.ly/2CK29rB and/or donate £5 or more

Dear Supporters,

Our next planned action is to send a legal communication to Transport for London (TfL) who is the freeholder of our site. TfL awarded the market lease to the so-called Market Facilitator despite numerous complaints. We are awaiting a response to the 2nd investigation about the complaints made about the so-called Market Facilitator. 

A Freedom of Information request was recently made and TfL revealed that they had received 13 complaints since the so-called Market Facilitator's appointment. The UN communication to TfL also referred to the abuses that the traders have had to endure since his appointment. We have also filed a race discrimination claim against the so-called Market Facilitator. 

Migrants, long-term residents, refugees should be treated with dignity and respect. This was the message that was given to TfL. Yet the matter remains unresolved. 

"The history of Haringey as an ethnically, racially and religiously diverse Borough in London is built, in part, on the strength of its migrant communities, and all should have their rights respected." #HaringeyWelcome

Please share our Crowdjustice page with your friends, colleagues, and family, also on your social networks. According to Crowdjustice each share on Facebook is equivalent to a £26 donation.

Dear Supporters,

Thanks to your help Bindmans have sent a letter, to one of the defendants and developer's agent MAM/Quarterbridge, following up an awaited response to the filing of the race discrimination case.

Also, we've had 962 shares so far!  We had £1.3K shares last year. Please help us reach at least £1k shares or more.

Our stretch target is £15k. Please donate £5 or more. We can Save Latin Village with your solidarity. Only £180 to go to reach £8k!

Please see video below of Leonardo who was raised in the Latin Village (Pueblito Paisa) and explains why it is important to Save Latin Village. 

Dear Supporters,

Oh my! Thanks to YOU for helping us score our first goal in this uneven game of corporate interests vs community interests. 

In this game Victoria Alvarez is contesting developer Grainger PLC as well as Haringey Council, TfL, and Mayor of London. She is contesting big players for ignoring race discrimination, victimisation and harassment by the developers agent against the traders at the Latin Village in Seven Sisters Market.

Together we can score another goal and win this game. £5k has been transferred to the solicitor and the the target has been stretched to £15k. We've had 884 shares. Please keep sharing the link to the page on social media to make this a hat trick.

Golazo for the community!

Gracias, Obrigado, Thank you xx

Mirca 

From the traders at El Peublito Paisa, Seven Sisters we thank all those who have shared and pledged so far!

We still have a long way to go so please continue to share and donate! Only 23 days to go!

Here are just some of the traders you're donation is making a difference to --

 Nicholas who is of Nigerian and English heritage and manages a Money Transfer business

Ben from Uganda who manages a state agency

Fernando who owns a multi-cultural grocery and general merchandise store

And the lovely Portuguese ladies Paula and Helena who manage a hair-dressers

Remember to share and donate if you haven't already -- help us reach our target so we can continue our legal fight to keep the market!