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https://alanlodge.co.uk/index.php/product/drawing-on-festivals-travellers-and-tings“Radical Landscapes, Tate Liverpool. Reviews: http://alanlodge.co.uk/blog/?p=6196
One Eye on the Road Slideshow https://youtu.be/or68GXDk4D0 via @YouTube
Next Tuesday May 24 marks the 3rd month of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
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Details at https://www.facebook.com/events/724921605415438
Join our campaign in protest at the invasion in Nottingham at 6pm outside the Council House.
For a free, united and victorious Ukraine!UCPI Evidence Hearings | Tranche 1 (Phase 3) | Day 7 - (17 May 2022) - AM https://youtu.be/SKc51wb_zn4 via @YouTube
The Independent@Independentstill looking for a publisher for this evergreen concept yeah? https://twitter.com/Independent/status/1526472400291909635
Piers Morgan got called a 'c**t' live on his own show https://www.indy100.com/tv/piers-morgan-uncensored-trans-activist?utm_content=Echobox&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Main&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1652773231
EXPLAINER: The Public Order Bill 2022 https://netpol.org/2022/05/17/public-order-bill-2022/ via @policemonitor
The Guardian@guardianPriti Patel trails plans to arm the hobby bobbies https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1526316477661560838
Special constables to be given access to stun guns in new crime measures https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/may/16/special-constables-to-be-given-access-to-stun-guns-in-new-measures?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1652737079
Priti Patel lifts restrictions on police stop and search powers https://www.theguardian.com/law/2022/may/16/restrictions-on-police-stop-and-search-powers-permanently-lifted?CMP=share_btn_tw
A controversial measure announced on Monday will allow officers to stop and search people without reasonable grounds .... The government announced that changes to stop and search without suspicion, so-called section 60 stops, would now be made permanent. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/may/16/special-constables-to-be-given-access-to-stun-guns-in-new-measures?CMP=share_btn_tw
UCPI Evidence Hearings | Tranche 1 (Phase 3) | Day 6 - (16 May 2022) - AM https://youtu.be/PmWxPh1bqTc via @YouTube
DiY on Snapchat : Vice report http://alanlodge.co.uk/blog/?p=6189
Castlemorton, May 1992 https://youtu.be/e7k_1gLwGU0 via @YouTube
Taken together with the PCSC Act, these new powers the Home Secretary is trying to have [ie a power grab], will mean Patel will have more option to direct police activity against protest / action the government simply don't like! https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/may/15/priti-patel-accused-of-power-grab-over-new-policing-proposals
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- Irina Speech on Russia 'Victory Day' in Nottingham
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An ongoing diary of stuff, allsorts, and things wot happen ……
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’ and many social concerns.
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 based in Nottingham, UK.
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Recent Posts
- “Radical Landscapes, Tate Liverpool. Reviews: 18 May 2022
- DiY on Snapchat : Vice report 15 May 2022
- Free Party Exhibition – A Retrospective, Bristol 15 May 2022
- Halcyon days at an ’80s Summer Solstice Festival, Huck Magazine 12 May 2022
- Democracy shrivels in silence. We must protect our right to protest. 12 May 2022
- The shiny new Public Order Bill 11 May 2022
- A Succession of Repetitive Beats 11 May 2022
- Leader of Nottingham City Council Cllr David Mellen, Speech on Russia ‘Victory Day’ in Nottingham 9 May 2022
- Irina Speech on Russia ‘Victory Day’ in Nottingham 9 May 2022
- FREE PARTY: A RETROSPECTIVE – The Exhibition 20-28th May 8 May 2022
- Bristol venue to host legendary 90s rave sound systems and DJs at ‘free party’ exhibition 8 May 2022
- BBC Click – Virtual Raving 8 May 2022
- Etienne Stott MBE, Speech of Extinction Rebellion XR 7 May 2022
- Nadia Whittome MP [Nttm East] Speech. Mayday Event 7 May 2022
- Radical Landscapes : Art, Identity and activism Tate Liverpool 6 May 2022
- My video : Radical Landscapes Exhibition, Tate Liverpool 6 May 2022
- Radical Landscapes | Trailer | Tate 6 May 2022
- Tate Liverpool launches its summer 2022 exhibition | The Guide Liverpool 6 May 2022
- Another Guardian review : Nukes in the brooks: the artists who weaponised landscape art 6 May 2022
- Guardian Review – Radical Landscapes 6 May 2022
Quotes & Thoughts
“Cowardice asks the question, ‘Is it safe?’ Expediency asks the question, ‘Is it politic?’ Vanity asks the question, ‘Is it popular?’ But, conscience asks the question, ‘Is it right?’
And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because one’s conscience tells one that it is right.”
Martin Luther King Jr.“In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance.
In Switzerland they had brotherly love – they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock!!”
Harry Lime [Orsen Wells] The Third Man 1949“Civilization will not attain to its perfection, until the last stone from the last church, falls on the last priest.”
Emile Zola“….I have an important message to deliver to all the cute people all over the world.
If you’re out there and you’re not cute, maybe you’re beautiful, I just want to tell you somethin’- there’s more of us ugly mother-fuckers than you are, hey-y, so watch out now…”
Frank Zappa
Monthly Archives: February 2004
Trial of Fairford Five will put pressure on Goldsmith
Clare Dyer, legal correspondent Saturday February 28, 2004 The Guardian http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,1158257,00.html The attorney general, Lord Goldsmith, will come under new pressure to disclose his full advice on the legality of the Iraq war in the run-up to a five-day hearing … Continue reading
Moustaches-for-cash for the police :-)
For those that don’t know, my nickname is TASH. I am called this, not just because I’ve got one. But originally, and while still at school, I applied and was accepted for a commission in the Royal Air Force. Friends … Continue reading
Solstice at Stonehenge on BBC4 & BBC2
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/features/nationaltrust5.shtml NATIONAL TRUST: THE STONES BBC FOUR Wednesday 3 March 2004 10.30pm-11pm (part 1), Wednesday 10 March 2004 10.30pm-11pm (part 2) and/or BBC TWO Wednesday 10 March 2004 10pm-10.30pm (part 1), Wednesday 17 March 2004 10pm-10.30pm (part 2) Officially designated … Continue reading
Climate Change: Secret report warns of rioting and nuclear war
Oh no, this is such a case of ‘I told you so ….! Modern industrial methods, together with the associated consumption that is implied, has serious implications for our world. Further, the dehumanising effects of such methods of production, results … Continue reading
MI5 are taking on more staff. Are you up the the challenge?
Security Service home page (MI5 Official site) http://www.mi5.gov.uk Information on graduate and administrative careers with the Service are held on the recruitment microsite: http://www.mi5careers.info I have covered some of the activities of these folks, as they pertain to my tribe … Continue reading
Tash in the Observer, today
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/magazine/story/0,11913,1151750,00.html What happened next? Tom Templeton Sunday February 22, 2004 The Observer Name: Alan Lodge :: Date: 1 June 1985 :: Place: Wiltshire Facts: Photographer and ambulanceman Alan Lodge was in a convoy of travellers heading for Stonehenge when 1,600 … Continue reading
Fairford Protest: The Judgement
B e f o r e : THE RT HONOURABLE LORD JUSTICE MAY THE HON MR JUSTICE HARRISON ____________________ Between: The Queen on the application of JANE LAPORTE [Claimant] – and – (1) CHIEF CONSTABLE OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE CONSTABULARY [Defendant] (2) … Continue reading
Freelance Photo-Journalist Issues List
As a ‘Freelance Photo-Journalist’, issues of concern are very different to those ‘office based’ workers The main issues of concern to me, at the moment, are primarily in ‘Public Order’ matters. · Press card recognition by the authorities, the police … Continue reading
Tibetan Ukranian Moutain Troupe
There is finally a web presence, being got together for the Tibetan Ukranian Moutain Troupe. About time to ….. This guys were a mainstay on the free festivals circuit. Entertainments and action ….. Check out developments at: http://www.datasafe.gi/tumt
Fairford Coach Action
http://www.fairfordcoachaction.org.uk The Judicial Review ruling in our favour was delivered at 10am on Thursday 19 February 2004. The Fairford Coach Action have released a press release about the ruling. http://www.fairfordcoachaction.org.uk/press/ruling.doc * * * * * * HIGH COURT VICTORY FOR … Continue reading
Protesters were held unlawfully, court rules :: The Guardian
120 people prevented from attending demonstration against Iraq war at RAF Fairford will claim £3,000 each Rebecca Allison Friday February 20, 2004 The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1152164,00.html Anti-war protesters are to claim thousands of pounds in damages after a high court ruling … Continue reading
RAF Fairford Judicial Review: Gloucestershire Constabulary
http://www.gloucestershire.police.uk/news/629.html The High Court has today published its judgement in relation to a claim by Ms Jane Laporte that on the 22 March 2003 Gloucestershire Constabulary acted unlawfully in preventing her from travelling to a demonstration outside RAF Fairford and … Continue reading
Police ‘abused power’ during demo: High Court have just ruled.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/gloucestershire/3502199.stm Protesters have won their High Court battle over a police decision to detain them on their way to RAF Fairford for an anti-war demonstration. Lawyers for half the 120 passengers, stopped from protesting last March, accused Gloucestershire Police of … Continue reading
Court to rule on Iraq protesters
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/gloucestershire/3502199.stm The High Court is due to rule on whether police were guilty of an “abuse of power” after barring protesters from demonstrating against the war on Iraq. Lawyers for half the 120 passengers stopped from protesting at RAF Fairford … Continue reading
More photography, LYING!!
Take one part Kerry, one part Fonda … … and try to whip up a political row Suzanne Goldenberg in Washington Wednesday February 18, 2004 The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1150472,00.html A new dirty tricks campaign to embarrass the Democratic frontrunner, John Kerry, … Continue reading
Inquiry into Stonehenge road plan: Begins Salisbury Guildhall, today
Plans to restore area around Stonehenge face public scrutiny I wonder where they’re going to put the ‘hippy compound’ and the festival space? I guess not, perhaps a drive in MacDonald’s might be more appropriate. http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/video/39868000/rm/_39868499_stonehenge06_hirsch_vi.ram Inquiry into Stonehenge road … Continue reading
Continued Traveller hassle
First they closed down most of the Council traveller sites and told them to buy their own land…..then they told them they couldn’t have planning permission so they should all….what?….vapourise??….they can’t ….so now there’s a concerted drive to evict them, … Continue reading
BBC film “National Trust – The Stones”
This is the film that went out on BBC Chan4 last year. It is to be re-broadcast on BBC2. Here are the details: The BBC film “National Trust – The Stones” is being shown in two parts on BBC2 on … Continue reading
Eviction Alert!: Sherwood Tree Camp
Support is vital over the next couple of days. 07050 656410 http://mysite.freeserve.com/sherwood_camp Newgroup: of the latest news http://groups.msn.com/SherwoodForestSupportersGroup * * * * * * http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/02/285188.html Bellway Homes are attempting to destroy a group of ancient trees and a natural meadowland … Continue reading
Protesters dig in to save landscape from quarry: ‘It’ll cost millions to get us out’
John Vidal, environment editor Saturday February 14, 2004 The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1148059,00.html One of Britain’s most historic landscapes is about to become the scene of a passionate encounter between conservationists, local communities and industry as protesters start to flock to a … Continue reading