13 May, 2009
Two photographers and a lawyer, nattering about their common interests.
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13 May, 2009
Amazing!! Have just learned from the Nokia E71 blog, that I can make a blog posting here, direct from My Nokia 71, here in the street. Simply by send this as an email.
So, just checking
Testing, testing 123 ……
Cool eh!
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note added afterwards:
Post to blog by Email
http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/05/12/post-by-email
7 May, 2009
What is wrong here?
Perhaps I should start a competition … but sadly, there is no prize 😦
This is a Nottinghamshire Police vehicle, parked on double yellows, while his mate goes into Sainsbury’s. If you or I did this, and we’re spotted, then we can expect a ticket. If on an emergency call, then fair enough, but for their convenience while shopping ….. no.
You might consider it petty of me, but I have made and official complaint. Like most folks, in the past, I would have just let it go, that’s the police for you. But the links below, show an increased belligerence in dealing with photographers and I have hundreds of other examples. They show that I might have been arrested in the attempt to shift blame. I might have been assaulted, my camera kit seized as ‘evidence’ with months of arguement, to get it back. So if this is the atmosphere, then I think we should all note these kind of matters and do something about it, until ‘they’ stop being so bloody awkward to us. So there!!!
Police apologise to Bristol man arrested for taking photo – 19 August 2008
Police arrest man for photographing them – 19 August 2008
No snapping: Photographers get collars felt – The Register 23rd August 2008
7 May, 2009
The G20 Protests: Global Economic Meltdown – Video
http://current.com/items/90015124_the-g20-protests-global-economic-meltdown.htm
1 April 2009 – Financial Fools Day: As the 29 G20 leaders gathered in London, thousands came out on to the streets of the financial district to protest a wide range of issues from climate change to the failing capitalist system and tax payers bailout of the international banking system.
10,500 police were drafted in, at an estimated cost of £10 million, to police the protests and protect the banking institutions from what the police had deemd “the summer of rage”. The end product was two policers suspended, scores injured and hospitalised and one man dead after being attacked by an unidentified member of the TSG (Territorial Support Group) riot squad.
Please watch it!
Film By JasonNParkinson [NUJ & IFJ Freelance Investigative Video & Print Journalist]
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Policing of the G20 Summit 2009 :: Metropolitan Police Authority Report
Operation Glencoe was the largest security operation mounted by the Metropolitan Police for many years and had to be planned in just a three month period ………
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Court says police can be challenged on ‘stop and search’ powers : Guardian
NUJ pursue police over harassment – 29 April 2009
VIDEO: MP takes up case of trapped photographer
released video footage of a journalist detained within the police cordon at one of the G20 protests in London earlier this month.
tash @ riseup.net
Tashs’ Festival, Travellin’ and Environmental
Photographic Archives.
I am a photographer with a special interest to document the lives of travelling
people and those attending Festivals, Stonehenge etc, what the press often describe
as ‘New Age Travellers’. With my photography, I have tried to say something of the wide variety of people
engaged in ‘Alternatives’, and youths’ many sub-cultures and
to present a more positive view. I have photographed many free and commercial events and have, in recent years,
extended my work to include dance parties (’rave culture’), gay-rights
events, environmental direct actions, and protest against the Criminal Justice
Act and more recently, issues surrounding the Global Capitalism. Further, police surveillance has recently become a very important subject for
me! In recognition of this work, received a ‘Winston’ from Privacy
International, at the 1998 ‘Big Brother’ Awards. The citation reads:
“Alan Lodge is a photographer who has spent more than a decade raising
awareness of front-line police surveillance activities, particularly the endemic
practice of photographing demonstrators and activists”. I am currently involved with the setting up and administration of Nottinghamshire
Indymedia. An ‘open-publishing’ system which is part of an international
‘alternative media’ network. I am based in Nottingham, UK.
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