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If you do one thing this week, watch Sherwood by Notts’ own @mrJamesGraham.
It exposes the ongoing injustice of spycops and long-term damage inflicted on communities when governments try to divide us for their own short-term gain.
Best TV I’ve ever seen.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/29/sherwood-communities-divided-miners-strike-brexit-rail-disputeBBC's Sherwood: Five-star reviews from critics as season finishes
https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/celebs-tv/bbcs-sherwood-five-star-reviews-7272973In today's Guardian, our @AlisonSpycops writes about the BBC drama #Sherwood:
"...the #spycops scandal has hit the mainstream. It’s not going away and neither are we."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/29/sherwood-spy-cops-police-undercover-officer-tv-seriesHappy National Camera Day!
Here's a shot of war photographer Ernest Brooks pictured on the Western Front, 1917 with the camera he used in action.
Image: Crown copyrightSteve Bray 'could have played more dubstep', agrees parliament https://www.thedailymash.co.uk/politics/steve-bray-could-have-played-more-dubstep-agrees-parliament-20220629222754
Our @DrLConnelly https://ayeright.scot/this-land-the-rooting-of-gypsies-and-travellers/
Why walking fish, knights fighting snails and mischievous monkeys give us so much insight.
https://bbc.in/3njbrUKJubilee Beacon. Woodthorpe Park Nottingham https://youtu.be/gt-3XqC6-bI via @YouTube
Been watching the BBC Drama 'Sherwood' There was 2 murders in Nottinghamshire. Thus resulted in one of the biggest manhunts in Britain.
Anyway , I covered these event in reality back in August 2004. Here is a selection of my piccys from that operation.
https://bit.ly/39X7K3ONew police powers to crack down on unauthorised encampments come into force https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-police-powers-to-crack-down-on-unauthorised-encampments-come-into-force
Help @netpol monitor the impact of the new anti-protest laws https://twitter.com/netpol/status/1541733159443759104
📢 CALL-OUT: the Police Crime Sentencing and Courts Act comes into force today. Help Netpol monitor the impact of new anti-protest laws on our freedom to dissent! https://netpol.org/2022/06/28/pcsc-act-call-out/
Find out how the new #PolicingAct affects your protest rights 👇
https://www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/advice_information/pcsc-policing-act-protest-rights/Bindmans : Right or no right to protest? The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022
https://www.bindmans.com/insight/updates/right-to-protest-the-police-crime-sentencing-and-courts-act-2022Equipment of Stop Brexit Man seized as new law comes into force https://youtu.be/SCIIZoutg9s via @YouTube
Do you feel safer then ?
Public safety boost as major justice reforms come into force https://www.gov.uk/government/news/public-safety-boost-as-major-justice-reforms-come-into-forceRIP - the right to protest https://twitter.com/snb19692/status/1541697952149807104
They have started already…. This is Parliamentary police just now.
"You can also report police incidents surrounding the act to Netpol, who will be monitoring exactly how the police enforce their new powers. Netpol is also running a campaign to #DefendDissent to resist the new legislation" https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2022/06/28/priti-patel-must-be-rubbing-her-hands-with-glee-as-the-police-crime-sentencing-and-courts-act-finally-comes-into-force/ @TheCanaryUK
Police swoop on Stop Brexit Man under new anti-protest law https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jun/28/police-swoop-on-stop-brexit-man-under-new-anti-protest-law?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1656427955
If you want to relive the #Glastonbury2022 come to #Bristol on Thursday night 6-8pm at the Martin Parr Foundation, I'll be showing work from @ShangrilaGlasto #GlastonburyonSea along with my mums Sheelagh Hunter photos from the 1970 Isle of Wright #festival #photography free drink
Nude photo series recaptures the spirit of the original Glastonbury https://www.creativeboom.com/inspiration/where-have-all-the-flowers-gone/ via @creativeboom
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- Free Party, A Retrospective. Film and Panel discussion at Lost Horizon, Bristol
- Jubilee Beacon Burning. Woodthorpe Park Nottingham
- Jubilee Beacon. Woodthorpe Park Nottingham
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- Stand with Ukraine... 3 months on
- Large 'billboard' prints outside the show
- Free Party Exhibition and Show. A Retrospective
- Projection Art Installation in the Bonington Gallery, Nottingham Trent University
- Leader of Nottingham City Council Cllr David Mellen, Speech on Russia 'Victory Day' in Nottingham
- 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
- Free Party. A Retrospective. Party party 7 June 2022
- Free Party, A Retrospective. Film and Panel discussion at Lost Horizon, Bristol 7 June 2022
- Police chiefs shift on protest guidance a partial success, but still a missed opportunity 26 May 2022
- National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) Protest Operational Advice Document. Version 3.3 (April 2022) 26 May 2022
- Stand with Ukraine… 3 months on. Protest in Nottingham 25 May 2022
- “It’s never too far” : The inside story of Castlemorton – History’s most infamous rave 24 May 2022
- The 1992 gathering led to a wave of controversial legislation targeting free parties, Roma and New Age travellers. 24 May 2022
- 30 years ago this week was a rave so chaotic that it shook Middle England to its core – DJMag TikTok 24 May 2022
- Tash on festivals, free party, rave, Castlemorton, Stonehenge, Beanfield etc etc … and so on…. DJ Mag 24 May 2022
- An earlier example of pictures for a DiY article in DJ Mag 1992 24 May 2022
- DiY Sound System: Anarchist Ravers of Castlemorton : Vice Video 23 May 2022
- BBC Tash Interview about Castlemorton 23 May 2022
- Free Party, A Retrospective Exhibition, at Lost Horizons. Bristol 23 May 2022
- Free Party, A Retrospective Exhibition, at Lost Horizons. Bristol 23 May 2022
- Free Party Exhibition and Show. A Retrospective 20 May 2022
- Projection Art Installation in the Bonington Gallery, Nottingham Trent University 18 May 2022
- “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
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: June 2004
Tash and the Home Office ID trial.
Well, it all comes another step forward then. Bloody heck! over the last few years, we have had this 4 or 5 times a year, while we keep thinking an argument got one, and oh no, round it goes again … Continue reading
The forgotten festival – I was there
http://www.telegraph.co.uk 28/06/2004 A world away from today’s money-spinning Glastonbury, the Windsor Free Festival of 1974 was illegal, drug-happy and absurdly idealistic, recalls Mark Hudson Staggering across Windsor Great Park with my rucksack, I caught sight of a great encampment of … Continue reading
Stonehenge 2004 NEWS collected
BBC Revisiting Britain’s biggest free festival http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/3662921.stm BBC In pictures- Summer solstice http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/photo_gallery/3825135.stm BBC Thousands gather at Stonehenge http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wiltshire/3823379.stm Guardian Stonehenge builders identified http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1243952,00.html Guardian Summer solstice http://www.guardian.co.uk/netnotes/article/0,6729,1243856,00.html Salisbury Journal Crowd greets solstice dawn http://www.thisiswiltshire.co.uk/wiltshire/salisbury/news/SALIS_NEWS5.html Stonehenge Reveller ‘Dies of Drink … Continue reading
Police urge return to tough line on cannabis
Gaby Hinsliff, chief political correspondent Sunday June 27, 2004 The Observer · Police claim drug dealers openly flout the law · Officers fear community backlash over arrests http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1248264,00.html Police are demanding a U-turn over the softening of the law on … Continue reading
Stonehenge 2004 NEWS collected
BBC Revisiting Britain’s biggest free festival http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/3662921.stm BBC In pictures- Summer solstice http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/photo_gallery/3825135.stm BBC Thousands gather at Stonehenge http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wiltshire/3823379.stm Guardian Stonehenge builders identified http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1243952,00.html Guardian Summer solstice http://www.guardian.co.uk/netnotes/article/0,6729,1243856,00.html Salisbury Journal Crowd greets solstice dawn http://www.thisiswiltshire.co.uk/wiltshire/salisbury/news/SALIS_NEWS5.html Stonehenge Reveller ‘Dies of Drink … Continue reading
Stonehenge study: Economic & Social Research Council
Stonehenge study tells pagans and historians it’s good to talk More understanding among all sides in the great Stonehenge debate might be made if the world was shown images of how the site is experienced by visitors today rather than … Continue reading
Summers Of Mud And Madness Radio4 – Listen Online
If you missed the show, like you are at Glastonbury, or somsuch, then you can listen to the latest Archive Hour, for the following week. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/rams/archivehour.ram Real Player required
Police Block Summer Raves
http://www.westernmorningnews.co.uk 19 June 2004 Police across the Westcountry are preparing to crack down on illegal raves this summer, armed with new powers to confiscate stereos and take revellers to court. Officers have set up road blocks and barricades around the … Continue reading
BBC Radio 4 Archive Hour on Festivals.
A note for your diaries. BBC Radio 4 Archive Hour on Festivals. Saturday 26 Jun, 20:00 – 21:00 Summers Of Mud And Madness: It’s Glastonbury weekend, and Annie Nightingale conducts a guided tour of the Great British Pop Festival, from … Continue reading
Stonehenge 2004 :: The Pictures
Full set of everything from the solstice this year collected at Stonehenge 2004 http://tash.dns2go.com/xtra/stonehenge2004/index.htm and last year. http://tash.dns2go.com/xtra/stonehenge2003/index.htm and on my PhotoBlog at: http://tashcamuk.fotopages.com/?entry=141373 http://tashcamuk.fotopages.com/?entry=143062 http://tashcamuk.fotopages.com/?entry=143077 The pictures I’ve put up over the last few days, are of the celebration … Continue reading
Solstice in the Guardian
Monday June 21, 2004 http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1243952,00.html Meanwhile, the sound of jungle drums and jazz saxophone reverberated around the site today as an estimated 21,000 people marked the summer solstice, braving chilly temperatures to catch a glimpse of the sun rising between … Continue reading
Thousands gather at Stonehenge
BBC News Online 21st June 2004 http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/england/wiltshire/3823379.stm About 21,000 revellers gathered at Stonehenge in Wiltshire overnight to mark the summer solstice. The 5,000-year-old World Heritage site was open to the public, following earlier years in which it was closed amid … Continue reading
Stonehenge Summer Solstice 2004 Pictures
A jaunt out to another ‘Managed Access’ at Stonehenge, at the permission [and conditions] of English Heritage. I had a nice time, met old friends and some wierd and wonderful people, doing wierd and wonderful things. BUT …. it is … Continue reading
Revisiting Britain’s biggest free festival
By Steve Hawkes BBC News Online 21st June 2004 http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/entertainment/music/3662921.stm This Monday sees the 30th anniversary of the biggest free festival in British history. BBC News Online examines how a small gathering of hippies celebrating the summer solstice at Stonehenge … Continue reading
An Exhibition of Resistance to BP and Big Oil, London, June 15th-21st 2004
Have been invited to contribute some pictures to this event. I wish them well …… http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/04/289874.html Vinny van GoGo, 25.04.2004 22:51 To celebrate the beginning of the end of BP’s sponsorship of the National Portrait Award, we (London Rising Tide) … Continue reading
Stonehenge 360
Check out the 360 deg. image on the BBC website. An informative little toy. http://www.bbc.co.uk/wiltshire/360/360_stonehenge_001.shtml Interesting eh!!
The Stonehenge Festival
Since it’s coming up to the Summer Solstice, I thought I’d remind you all, what the ‘Peoples’ Free Festival of Albion at Stonehenge’ looked like. Here is an aerial view.
Pilgrims’ progress
Guardian Society http://society.guardian.co.uk/environment/news/0,14129,1239334,00.html As antiquarian rock star Julian Cope reflects on the significance of ancient megalithic monuments Andy Worthington says attempts to suppress the popularity of the summer solstice at Stonehenge and Avebury are doomed Wednesday June 16, 2004 As … Continue reading
Stonehenge Celebration and Subversion
Andy Worthington This innovative social history looks in detail at how the summer solstice celebrations at Stonehenge have brought together different aspects of British counter-culture to make the monument a ‘living temple’ and an icon of alternative Britain. The history … Continue reading
20th anniversary of last Stonehenge Free Festival
A celebration of the 20th anniversary of the last Stonehenge Free Festival is taking place at the Vertigo Arts Centre/491 Club in Leytonstone on Saturday 19 June, featuring a photo exhibition, films and music, and tying in with the publication … Continue reading