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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
- Free Party. A Retrospective. Party party
- Free Party . A Retrospective at Lost Horizon. Bristol . Outside Billboards
- 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
- Etienne Stott MBE, Speech of Extinction Rebellion XR
- Nadia Whittome MP [Nttm East] Speech. Mayday Event
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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: November 2009
The mugger and the photographer
Mugger to photographer: ‘Your money or your life!’ Photographer to mugger: ‘I don’t have any money and I don’t have a life.’ Oh, very well, please yourselves.
British Journal of Photography – Review recommends rethink of protest monitoring
British Journal of Photography – Review recommends rethink of protest monitoring Posted using ShareThis
‘Aggressive’ policing of protests condemned in post-G20 inquiry | Politics | guardian.co.uk
‘Aggressive’ policing of protests condemned in post-G20 inquiry | Politics | guardian.co.uk Posted using ShareThis
Nottingham representative at NUJ Annual Delegate Meeting, Southport 2009
Nottingham Branch had two delegates at this years ADM at Southport. Also somewhat to our amazement there was a second year journalism student from Nottingham Trent University. Welcome. We had no idea she was coming which is of course a … Continue reading
NUJ photographers trying to organise
Back home now from the ADM. Having had a little lie down, I thought I’d add sommat on the London Photographers Branch and issues. Personally I don’t easily fit into any camp, I don’t think. What I want is a … Continue reading
A Response to David Hoffman on the LPBranch
In response to David Hoffman “The London Photographers’ Branch is a very exciting and necessary development in the NUJ. It has been discussed across our sector as a serious prospect over the past year due to the crisis in our … Continue reading
David Hoffman on the London Photographers’ Branch
“Several people have claimed to be the originators of the Photographers’ Branch. I recall this being discussed in the 1980s. Very likely it’s been discussed in every decade since Bert Hardy was a boy. Over the last year the London … Continue reading
Facebook and Twitter
Hello campers …! I have been messing with these digital adventures for a little while now. Adding content and checking all works ok now. So, having messed with them, I now declare them open and working. Please check them out … Continue reading
Ratcliffe Power Station ‘Climate Swoop’
On Saturday 17th october, around one thousand climate activists had attempted to shut down Ratcliffe-on-Soar coal power station in Nottinghamshire, taking direct action with repeated breaches of the security fencing. The action comes only weeks before the UN COP15 Climate … Continue reading
Jon Slattery: Journalists in campaign move against BNP
Jon Slattery: Journalists in campaign move against BNP Posted using ShareThis
Tash on Facebook QR Code
If you have an internet enabled mobile phone, then this is a quick way to Tash on his shiny new Facebook pages. This is a QR code, that allows you to ‘scan’ using the camera on your mobile phone. It … Continue reading
Tash at the ADM
I am one of those representing Nottingham branch to the NUJ Annual Delegate Meeting [ADM] this year. It is Southport. They can be a bit lefty, for this anarchist 🙂 But I note this year, that the NUJ and journalism … Continue reading
Online journalism at the NUJ ADM: The Journalist, Twitter and new blood
And so, the annual National Union of Journalists (NUJ) delegate meeting (ADM) draws near; with a variety of motions and amendments up for debate on November 19-22 (final agenda available at this link – PDF). Among them, many issues that … Continue reading
Police try to stop gangland movie being shown
I’m, not really interested in this movies subject …. but this is the second police campaign i know about in recent times, to try an stop contentious movies been shown to public audiences. The SchNews movies film on the EDO … Continue reading
Photography Twitter List by Jack Schofield on Listorious
Photography Twitter List by Jack Schofield on Listorious Posted using ShareThis
Death threats for journalists covering far right demos
Tough and urgent action is needed in response to violence, intimidation and death threats targeting journalists covering far right demonstrations. The call by NUJ General Secretary Jeremy Dear comes in the wake of specific email threats against photojournalist and investigative … Continue reading
Tash on Facebook
Well, have finally done it. I am now on Facebook, and have spent a while filling it in. For those wot wanna know, I’m now also at: http://www.facebook.com/tashuk Originally, I signed up so I could view yet another anti-travellers [say … Continue reading