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For us, we really took like a multi-pronged approach. Step 1, of course, was raising awareness. So social media was a really important tool for that. And that was a way for me to engage friends, family, acquaintances, people I knew, people who knew people that I knew, and to really shed some light on what had happened. Step 2 was then me joining a local union. And that was great because it was like-minded people-- like-minded engaged people who were already doing so much work on housing but had really cared about what had happened and really took an interest. Step 3 was then moving beyond working with people in the housing union to really engaging people from other social movements. We needed to engage people who worked on race and inclusion and diversity. And so through that, we really engaged people beyond the initial network and really generated a lot more interest. Stage 4 was then reaching out to media. So by now, we had a petition with thousands and thousands of signatures from people all across the UK and beyond and different countries in the world. And then the next stage, stage 5, was really taking everything that had happened, using all the interest that we generated to speak to power, to engage local politicians, to get councillors, MPs from the Green Party and Labour Party on our side. And we managed to pique the interest of the mayor of Bristol, managed to get some agreements with him and the council as to their various housing and policing policies.