


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
"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
Powerful 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/
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.
“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