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Load More...Sunflowers: a feast for your eyes, and for pollinators | Alys Fowler https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/apr/10/sunflowers-a-feast-for-eyes-and-pollinators-alys-fowler?CMP=twt_a-environment_b-gdneco
The week in wildlife – in pictures https://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2021/apr/09/the-week-in-wildlife-in-pictures?CMP=share_btn_tw
@CrimeLdn Blimey! Here's something odd!
Why weren't @metpoliceuk out at this vigil, destroying all the flowers & tributes, throwing women to the ground & handcuffing them like they did at that other vigil just a few weeks ago?Hardly a trace left of illegal rave by revellers https://www.herefordtimes.com/news/19210725.dorstone-rave-hardly-trace-left-revellers/?ref=twtrec
Freedom Press@Freedom_Paper"Resistance has to be on the streets and consist of direct action and disobedience. The act has to be made unenforceable" #FreedomToProtest #KillTheBill https://twitter.com/Freedom_Paper/status/1380073691258748928
RECLAIM THE 90s!: Parallels and differences between the CJA and the policing bill and routes to resistance https://freedomnews.org.uk/2021/04/08/reclaim-the-90s-parallels-and-differences-between-the-cja-and-the-policing-bill-and-routes-to-resistance/
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2021/04/08/reclaim-the-90s-parallels-and-differences-between-the-cja-and-the-policing-bill-and-routes-to-resistance/
Thinking inside the box: the Welsh teen who tried to post himself home from Australia https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/apr/08/thinking-inside-the-box-the-welsh-teen-who-tried-to-post-himself-home-from-australia
English university asks students to lobby MPs over lockdown easing https://www.theguardian.com/education/2021/apr/07/english-university-asks-students-to-lobby-mps-over-lockdown-easing?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1617815101
How London Could Effectively Decriminalise Cannabis https://www.vice.com/en/article/akd5xb/how-london-could-effectively-decriminalise-cannabis via @vice
Head of police force criticised over Bristol protests to step down https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/apr/07/head-of-police-force-criticised-over-bristol-protests-to-step-down?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1617794703
The Truth About Police Stop and Search | Channel 4 #stopandsearch #policestops https://www.channel4.com/press/news/truth-about-police-stop-and-search
Universities angry at PM’s failure to include reopening plan in Covid roadmap https://www.theguardian.com/education/2021/apr/06/universities-angry-failure-include-reopening-covid-roadmap
No 10 says mayor of London's cannabis review a 'waste of time' https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/apr/06/no-10-says-mayor-of-londons-cannabis-review-a-waste-of-time?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1617718892
Novara Media@novaramediaPowerful and pertinent words on the PCSCBill and divisive politics: “GRT communities are a canary in a coal mine when it comes to our collective liberty.. A country – or indeed constituency – without room for the liberty of its Gypsies isn’t free for anyone.” @bowers_jake https://twitter.com/novaramedia/status/1379131864577892352
From Priti Patel's police bill to a racist local Labour leaflet, Gypsies, Roma and Travellers are facing attacks from all sides. If GRT culture is stamped out, then everyone else’s liberties will be just one step behind, writes @bowers_jake https://novaramedia.com/2021/04/05/gypsies-roma-and-travellers-are-under-attack-and-so-are-our-collective-freedoms/
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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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- Speech at the Kill the Bill demo, Nottingham
- A Rock's Timelapse [in my backyard]
- Kill the Bill protest, Nottingham March 2021
- Zine 35 Traveller Vehicles 40p
- Drawing on Free Parties and tings
- Drawing on Festivals, Travellers and tings
- Drawings on Free Parties & tings [phone version]
- Creswell Crags, Derbyshire
- Peak District in BW
- St Ann's Allotments in December
- Zine 22 Graffiti, Writing on the Wall
- Zine 11 Nottingham Carnival Full Colour version
- Zine 26 New Perspectives on Nottingham
- Zine 23 Google 360 Camera
- Zine 21 Two Ponds 40p
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Recent Posts
- a very cross anarchist 9 April 2021
- Rasta singer portrait 9 April 2021
- Shades and a top hat. a portrait 9 April 2021
- Tyranny 9 April 2021
- One less 9 April 2021
- Attitude 8 April 2021
- Singer portrait 8 April 2021
- RECLAIM THE 90s!: Parallels and differences between the CJA and the policing bill and routes to resistance 8 April 2021
- Guitarist 7 April 2021
- Tipi in Wales 7 April 2021
- DiY Party 6 April 2021
- Miko 6 April 2021
- Gritty portrait 6 April 2021
- Duet 5 April 2021
- Criminalising A Way of Life – The Impact of The Bill on Travellers 5 April 2021
- Gypsies and Travellers Are Under Attack – And So Are Our Collective Freedoms 5 April 2021
- Portrait 5 April 2021
- Singer 5 April 2021
- Speech at the KillTheBill Protest today : the video 3 April 2021
- Speech at the KillTheBill Protest today 2 3 April 2021
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: July 2004
Anti-Racist Demo, Nottingham
Black people have been here in Nottingham for over 500 years. You would think that they could claim they lived here by now. But discrimination is so obviously, still an issue. There is ever increasing violence, here in Nottingham. Well … Continue reading
Photography and Recent Events
Have covered a few events, some locally, over the last couple of months. So here are the collected links to all these. Nottingham had it’s Mayday – Stop the War demo on Saturday 2003 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2003/05/66783.html Menwith Hill, London, Nottingham, Chetwynd … Continue reading
Nottingham Asian Mela 2004
The first ever Nottingham Mela took place on the Forest Recreation Ground, Radford. The day promised to be a spectacular family festival of music, with exhibitions, displays, stalls, a food arena, funfair and art workshops. Headliners include: Orange Street… their … Continue reading
Nottingham Gay Pride 2004 :: The Pictures
Pride returns to the glorious surrounds of the Arboretum, a beautiful Grade II listed park in the heart of Nottingham City Centre for the second year running in its current incarnation. Pride kicks off at noon running until 6pm. … Continue reading
Close Ups, using a reversing ring on Nikon D70
I was excited to discover that I could still use a Reversing Ring, on my earlier Nikon lenses. Using my 50mm and 28mm, when reversed, produce quite large magnifications. As they are old lenses, the camera would only meter in … Continue reading
SchNEWS goes to the movies!
This is the beginning of a new chapter for SchNEWS – doing their own films, and showing them at SchLIVE satirical news shows and other screenings, as well as putting them up for free download on our site. Here is … Continue reading
Nikon D70 :: A First Selection
Well since Thursday last week, I’m now the owner of a Nikon D70 dSLR camera with an 18mm-70mm DX lens. {Oh, and can use my old Nikon lenses, but in manual mode. Still very useful] So, to get used to … Continue reading
Boys on Bikes :: Newstead Treefest
http://tashcamuk.fotopages.com/?entry=163975 Well, the festival had largely finished, [see yesterday] and was getting set to leave. Walking down the track, this teenager says, “I’ll do a wheely for you mister”. And gosh, he does, for about 30 feet. I took a … Continue reading
Newstead Treefest, Nottinghamshire :: The Pictures
More pictures on Indymedia at: http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/07/295011.html With a bigger set on my Photoblog at: http://tashcamuk.fotopages.com/?entry=162996 check ’em out …….. A pleasent weekend event, attended by young and old. A community festival, now entering its 6th Year. The weather was uncertain … Continue reading
Newstead Treefest, Nottinghamshire
http://www.treefest.co.uk/index.htm Newstead Treefest is a weekend festival focusing on music, arts, crafts, health and the environment held on a reclaimed Greenfield site formerly the location of Newstead Colliery in Newstead Village, Nottinghamshire. Map: http://www.multimap.com/p/browse.cgi?local=h&scale=50000&pc=NG150BS
Nikon D70 Digital SLR
The D70 Nikon Digital SLR. Have been waiting for progress and developments for ages. The quality / value of this device is amazing, and I have decided to get one. They have been humungus abouts of money, but are falling in … Continue reading
Projections :: Colour :: Body:: Form
Quite an interesting weekend. I had used the projectors at the party, and before I packed it all away on sunday evening, though I’d try these out. It didn’t work to well on Cassy’s black skin, but on us whities … Continue reading
UK-Hippy Forum
More hippies discovered. Dop into the forum at http://uk-hippy.com and check it out. I have just joined. I think I’m a hippy
Bulkington Fields Travellers Evicted 1 July
On 12 January 2004 one of the very few uplifting victories for Travellers facing eviction occurred at Bulkington Fields, when over 100 Travellers living at the site dug ditches, built barricades, and resisted together a shameful eviction of the families … Continue reading
Fairford 5 guardian report
Five protesters arrested at RAF Fairford on the eve of the Iraq war start their bid to win a landmark ruling at the appeal court today. Clare Dyer explains Clare Dyer Tuesday June 29, 2004 The Guardian It was just … Continue reading