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Load More...“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
Margaret Thatcher statue egged by protesters just hours after being lowe... https://youtu.be/O-p_MhtXo-E via @YouTube
A Slideshow 60mins. 400pics Festivals, Travellers, Stonehenge, Glastonbury, Free Party, Policemen and ........ >> https://youtu.be/ehsPTpSVzhQ
Margaret Thatcher statue pelted with eggs just two hours after it's installed https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/margaret-thatcher-statue-unveiled-despite-26968306?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar
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- 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
- Radical Landscapes Exhibition, Tate Liverpool
- All things go in cycles
- Broxtowe Green Festival, Speeches
- Stand with Ukraine 'Die-in'. Market Square, Nottingham
- Capoeira Dance, Market Square, Nottingham
- One Eye on the Road Slideshow
- Stand with Ukraine Slideshow. Nottingham & London
- Stand with Ukraine. Speeches x3, London.
- Stand with Ukraine. Speech, Pete Radcliff.
- Stand with Ukraine. Trade Unions March, London
- Fire Service turnout. Winwood Heights. 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: December 2010
A bit of an alphabet soup of policing in the UK
Metropolitan Police Special Branch (MPSB) to be amalgamated with the Anti-Terrorism Branch to form new Counter-Terrorist Branch Statewatch News Online http://database.statewatch.org/article.asp?aid=26721 Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) http://www.soca.gov.uk NETCU | National Extremism Tactical Coordination Unit http://www.netcu.org.uk National Intelligence Machinery http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/resource-library/national-intelligence-machinery Intelligence … Continue reading
7 Year snitch: ‘Flash’ the activist is a secret cop
Sunday Times: Tim Rayment & Jonathan Leake 19th Dec 2010 A police officer spent seven years undercover living as a hippie and environmental activist to infiltrate peaceful protest groups He drank with them, he climbed with them, he even seemed … Continue reading
Ratcliffe case: Sentencing defered
the Ratcliffe trial, should have concluded today. However, the sentencing of the 20 defendants has been deferred to early January. Yet more hanging about
Statement from the defendants
As the UN climate talks finish in Cancun, and fail once again to come up with any legally binding framework to reduce emissions, the British legal system is still upholding business as usual. This can’t continue. Burning coal has no … Continue reading
Press release: Activists found guilty in Ratcliffe coal climate trial
Twenty climate activists who planned to shut down one of Britain’s most polluting power stations for a week were found guilty of conspiracy to commit aggravated trespass today. The activists were among 114 people arrested in a dawn raid on … Continue reading
Ratcliffe Trial Day 15 – Jury says Guilty
All 20 defendants are found guilty of Conspiracy to Commit Aggravated Trespass at Ratcliffe-on_Soar Power Station in April 2009. They are required to come back to court at 12noon on Friday for sentencing. All in Nottingham Crown Court again at … Continue reading
Ratcliffe Trial Day 14 – Jury Still Retired
10.00am and all back in court yet again. Sitting in Nottingham Crown Court, His Honour Judge Teare reminded the jury that although the press was full over the weekend, of the progress [or lack of it], of the talks taking … Continue reading
Ratcliffe Trial Day 13 – Final bits & Jury Retires
His Honour Judge Teare concludes his summing up and directions. He reminds the jury that from the evidence presented, you might conclude that climate change is happening, it is human driven and the associated effects of it are as has … Continue reading
Ratcliffe Trial Day 12 – Concluding Speeches
Miss Felicity Gerry for the prosecution begins her speech to the jury. She says the actions of these defendants was not necessary but unreasonable and hence criminal in character. Throughout much of the trial, the evidence and facts have been … Continue reading
Ratcliffe Trial Day 11 – Defence Concludes its Case
Mr Rees for the defence says that there will be no more ‘live’ evidence presented. A number of expert reports, summaries on previous evidence, and written submissions are read to the jury. These are presented in some detail with a … Continue reading
Ratcliffe Trial Day 10 – Defence Calls more Defendants to the Stand
The defence continued their case. Mr Rees called a further two defendants to the witness box. LH is a marine biologist. She described how she had observed dying coral reefs in the Middle East and Australia; this is, she says, … Continue reading
Ratcliffe Trial Day 9 – Defence Calls More Experts
Mr Rees for the defences calls Prof. Ian Roberts. He is Professor of Epidemiology and Public health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Widely published and contributed to issues on health issues and debates worldwide. Active research … Continue reading
Ratcliffe Trial Day 8 – Defence Calls MP’s
2 December 2010 Nottingham Crown Court Mr Edward Rees QC for the defence, calls the first witness of the day. He is Alan Simpson, former MP for Nottingham South between 1992 to this last election 2010. During this time, … Continue reading
No Ratcliffe Trial today, snow stops play
No Ratcliffe trial today, snow seizes everything up, jurors couldn’t make it in …. we all go home. Caroline Lucas MP tomorrow via a video link.