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Wow, look at Gideon Falter's facial expression at the end when he's been caught out 👀 #C4News
"Today Channel 4 News has seen new exchanges with different officers in different locations"
Police officer, "I've been told you keep running into the protestors"
Gideon Falter,In this experiment Dr Rob Thompson from the University of Reading shows how long it takes a cup of water to soak into parched ground. This is why heavy rainfall after a drought can be really dangerous & might lead to flash flooding
This case should never have been brought. It was a vindictive prosecution by the Solicitor General, a government minister. The judge has seen sense.
📣 BREAKING from the High Court:
Judge Justice Saini has refused permission for the Solicitor General to pursue retired social worker Trudi Warner for Contempt of Court over holding a placard outside court telling jurors they have a right to acquit on their conscience 🪧Last Saturday marked 4/20, an international celebration of all things weed, and to mark it a photographer processed a roll of film using cannabis flower.
A radical British politics rooted in nature is spreading – and the establishment doesn’t like it | John Harris
Alan Lodge's Blog - Tash's Blog on stuff wot happens - A radical British politics rooted in nature is spreading – and the establishment doesn’t like it -
The largest digital camera ever made – a 6,600-pound, 3,200-megapixel monster – is finally complete.
We've seen it in person and it's incredible! Come along with us to learn about the sensor, lens, and why it even exists.
Alan Lodge's Blog - Tash's Blog on stuff wot happens - ‘We went from naive, hippyish protesters to hardcore anarchists’: the criminal justice bill protests, 30 years on -
Researchers have discovered that some populations of monkeys have entered their Stone Age.
They have started using stone tools to break nuts and shellfish, making them a further type of primates to do so after us.
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- The Mass Trespass : Kinder Scout 24 April 2024
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- A radical British politics rooted in nature is spreading – and the establishment doesn’t like it 21 April 2024
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- Glastonbury Festivals Slideshow 11 April 2024
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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.
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
Search Results for: ratcliffe
Ratcliffe Trial Day 2 – Prosecution’s Opening
After yesterdays administrations and argument, today started with the jury being introduced to the prosecutions main elements of the case. The indictment reads: The Queen V 20x names. are charged as follows: Conspiracy to Commit Aggravated Trespass, Contrary to section … Continue reading
Ratcliffe conspiracy to trespass trial opens today
18 months after 114 people were initially arrested at the Iona School in Sneinton, 20 climate change activists have begun a month-long trial today. They were originally arrested on 13th April 2009. On Monday 22 November 2010, they have appeared … Continue reading
Ratcliffe Trial: Nottingham Crown Court. 114 climate campaigners arrested on suspicion of conspiring to commit aggravated trespass
Ratcliffe Trial: Nottingham Crown Court beginning Monday 22nd November 2010 http://ratcliffeontrial.org http://ratcliffeontrial.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/ratcliffeontrial.pdf In the early hours of April 13th 2009 a highly expensive and widely condemned policing operation saw 114 climate campaigners arrested on suspicion of conspiring to commit aggravated … Continue reading
Ratcliffe Power Station : Court Case Reporting
Ahead of the coming Ratcliffe Trial, I thought it helpful to remind all of the last Ratcliffe trial involving the defence of ‘necessity’ or ‘duress of circumstances The trial held at Nottingham Magistrates Court from 14 – 16th January 2008 … 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
How a six-month sentence could stop activists in their tracks : Ratcliffe Case
A charge of conspiracy to commit aggravated trespass would have catastrophic implications for climate activists Police today charged one more of the 114 people arrested at a Nottingham school in April, in order to prevent a suspected protest at the … Continue reading
Ratcliffe Power Station Court Case: Nottingham Magistrates [The Verdict]
On the 10th April 2007, 11 people walked into the Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station and locked on to the coal conveyor and assorted plant there. Their objective was to take direct action to halt operations and thus to diminish the CO2 … Continue reading
Ratcliffe Power Station Court Case : Nottingham Magistrates [day 3]
Now starting day 3 of the trial of the 11 defendants, accused of aggravated trespass at the Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station. Prosecution and defence case having been heard, today was about final statements and the summaries of evidence given over the … Continue reading
Ratcliffe Power Station Court Case : Nottingham Magistrates [day 2]
The prosecution case having closed yesterday. The defence opened today with their expert witness: Dr Simon Lewis, a climate scientist at the University of Leeds and Royal Society Research Fellow. Scientific evidence suggests CO2 add to global warming temperatures and … Continue reading
Ratcliffe Power Station Court Case :: Nottingham Magistrates [day 1]
Before the trial started, there was a protest / gathering of 20 – 30 people outside the court, to offer their support. Holding banners with the slogan “The Earth is getting too hot. Together we can make it stop”, people … Continue reading
POLICING : my website gallery
During news coverage, incidents and situations are frequently attended by police. I have attended news conferences, armed situations and public order incidents. The opening of police stations and civic engagements. Within this set, you can see some specialist police units … Continue reading
Memories of a Free Party
The imminent arrival of a ground-breaking documentary – ‘Free Party: A Folk History’ – about the British free party scene of the late 80s/early 90s, has stirred some stark memories and buried feelings within me; for I was part of … Continue reading
Updating website development, one gallery at a time. Have just finished ‘policing’ set
During news coverage, incidents and situations are frequently attended by police. I have attended news conferences, armed situations and public order incidents. The opening of police stations and civic engagements. Within this set, you can see some specialist police units … Continue reading
Nottingham Green Festival : Online Resources
Online Resources The Green Festival celebrates the coming together of the Green community in Nottingham.Here are our joint suggestions. They span local and global themes, facts and stories, justice and law. Happy Festival! Local Themes Nottingham Green Festival. The MovieSlideshow of … Continue reading
Bibliography
Books Aubrey, C. and Shearlaw, J. (2004) Glastonbury Festival Tales?: An Oral History Of The Music, Mud And Magic. London: Ebury PressBender, B. and Gilroy, P. (1998) Stonehenge: making space. Edited by Daniel Miller. Oxford, England: Berg PublishersChippindale, C., Fowler, … Continue reading
MA Photography – Some current projects
Nottingham Trent university : MA Photography – Some current projects Afro-Caribbean Carnival, Nottingham [Slideshow 3:23sec] [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmVg2puyJJE] NTU Ratcliffe Action NTU MET Police Big Tile NTU Afro-Caribbean Carnival NTU Chinese New Year
Indymedia daily coverage of the daily progress of this trial:
Indymedia daily coverage of the progress of this trial: Ratcliffe Trial: Nottingham Crown Court, November 2010 > January 2011 2009 Nottingham Mass Arrest of 114 Climate Activists in Raid in Nottingham http://indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/04/427471.html http://indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/04/427496.html 2010 Nottingham Ratcliffe Conspiracy Trial Begins [Feature] … 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
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
Statement: 114 climate campaigners arrested on suspicion of conspiring
In the early hours of April 13th 2009 a highly expensive and widely condemned policing operation saw 114 climate campaigners arrested on suspicion of conspiring to commit aggravated trespass and criminal damage. In what has been deemed the largest ever … Continue reading