Monday 18th August 2024
Asia Giuliani
“One thing I’ve learnt from an East End community is that they bury working class history- they bury it. But when you’re dead they might talk about you, ‘cus’ you can’t do anything then.”
Global Routes Project was inspired by a day out taking pictures on the 12th August 2017 in Bow, London. Asia Giuliani and Anastasia Kyria met Swopon, a Bengali/Italian pizzeria owner, who was frustrated by local customers’ tastes of eating pizza with ketchup and garlic sauce; Anees, a worker at Bow Tyres who had just had his cash box stolen; and Peter Etchells,who was blasting music outside his house - a well known Eastender who once drove a lorry through Buckingham Palace gates in protest to his friend being unlawfully imprisoned. ‘George Davis is Innocent OK’ became a well-known and successful campaign for justice. The late Peter Etchells’ story, which is soon to feature in a Sky History Documentary, using the audio and images from that day, is shown here. Thank you to Peter’s family for supporting this project.
Read Peter’s story:
![Stages of Half Moon, 1975. George Davis is Innocent, OK. [online] Available at:](https://images.spr.so/cdn-cgi/imagedelivery/j42No7y-dcokJuNgXeA0ig/037ac90e-0f4e-4a8f-9054-7d575d7344df/newspaper/w=3840,quality=90,fit=scale-down)
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