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A year since the riots, what's changed?
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On Monday 6th August it will have been a whole year since the summer riots that affected London, Manchester and Birmingham.
How do you feel about the riots one year on?
Our media team here at YouthNet are doing some work around this and would like to ask you guys if you feel that anything has changed in the last year?
Is it easier to share your thoughts and ideas about the issues that affect you on a political level?
Have you noticed any local opportunities for young people to get more involved and have their say?
We'd love to hear your thoughts and experiences :thumb:
How do you feel about the riots one year on?
Our media team here at YouthNet are doing some work around this and would like to ask you guys if you feel that anything has changed in the last year?
Is it easier to share your thoughts and ideas about the issues that affect you on a political level?
Have you noticed any local opportunities for young people to get more involved and have their say?
We'd love to hear your thoughts and experiences :thumb:
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http://www.channel4.com/programmes/teen-trouble/4od
I don't think we're any closer to understanding the cause of why the riots happened but then I don't believe there is one sole cause. A few articles I read pointed out the materialistic value of the things being taken.. widescreen tvs, trainers and I can imagine the people taking them thinking of it as a 'victimless crime'.
Found the attitudes of some of the tabloids to it pretty bizaare though. The whole 'naming and shaming' parade with particular attention being given to kids and teens from deprived backgrounds and labelling them 'the asbo generation'.
I do think an element of class hatred came out, still remember Ken Clarke blaming 'the feral underclass'. I still think that attitude continues.
Piccolo! About 37 mins in
Is that still around?! Curse you, 4od.
(I was in 3rd year at uni and volunteering for the Respect? campaign at the time, so it's about 5-6 years old!)
Yeah disappointed we only got one little soundbite from you! I was looking forward to seeing you in a hoodie the hood up
In the programme I liked the guy from the UN coming in and bringing the teenagers of the estate and the adults together. Having representatives from both seemed to work pretty well
I was there. Had some good conversations
Agree with a lot of that. I think it's a culmination of factors. It can't just be one.
At the time of the riots I was at the world scout jamboree, with 40,000 young people from all over the world showing what's best about youth.
Young people are still disenfranchised as ever.
Wealthy are still withdrawing their money into their caves.
Social support frameworks are progressively breaking down and having budgets cut.
I suppose we got a lot more young people in prison and without a future, though.