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Glastonbury 2003: The tickets!!

I have not been to this event in years. I with thousands of others, help build this event. The history of it is very chequered and inter-twined with the troubles at Stonehenge. In recent years, it is nothing like what … Continue reading

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Wot Free Festivals? A further rant, from Tash

Personally, I come from a free festivals and travelling background. New Age Travellers etc. A number of sayings have helped guide my life over time. Like…. Bring what you expect to find? If no you, who? If not now, when? … Continue reading

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Reclaim the Bases: yet more ‘Stop the War’ actions

http://www.reclaimthebases.org.uk Reclaim the bases is an event – aiming at stopping/disrupting the war machine across the UK. If you want to organise something for the weekend at your local military base (going in, blockade, vigil, symbolic weapon’s inspection, or anything … Continue reading

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Guns Amnesty

Home Office have announced a guns amnesty. Folks are invited to hand in weapons between 31st March and 30th April. I wish the project well, but most locally, wonder at its effectiveness. There has been a vast increase in gun … Continue reading

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US war photographer sacked for altering image of British soldier

This is awful! it is lying. I know the photos, described here, were only taken a few seconds apart. BUT, I and any other serious photographer, likes to be believed, when you are trying to tell a tale. To accurately … Continue reading

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BBC cameraman dies in Iraq. Kaveh Golestan was killed by a landmine.

A cameraman working for the BBC in northern Iraq has been killed after stepping on a landmine. Kaveh Golestan was a Pulitzer-prize winning freelance cameraman who worked for the BBC’s Tehran bureau. He was an outstanding photojournalist who had worked … Continue reading

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Builder’s Merchant’s Attack Police Inaction Over Travellers

News just in. Have been sent the following recently. Not really news, just the latest example of folks being horrid to my kind. Look, there are some criminals amongst us! I bet you have some criminals in your circle [if … Continue reading

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2003 Big Brother Awards: The Winners The Winstons

It’s a splendid award and Undercurrents video is one of the winners this year 2003 Big Brother Awards: The Winners By Drew Cullen The Register http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/29917.html Privacy International today announced the winners of the 2003 Big Brother Awards. One of … Continue reading

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The Activists’ Legal Project

The Activists’ Legal Project provides information about the law to people who are thinking of taking direct action, or who have taken direct action. We provide briefing sheets and workshops by activists with first hand experience of the criminal and … Continue reading

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The United States Air Force, pays a visit!

Just checked my ‘site statistics’ for my ‘Stop the War’ webpages at: http://tash.dns2go.com A few entries ago, in this blog, I introduced the work I had made from the ‘Foil the Base’ protest at RAF Menwith Hill, North Yorkshire. http://tash_lodge.blogspot.com/2003_03_23_tash_lodge_archive.html#91479779 … Continue reading

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‘Redneck’ reply! on recent post on ‘Stop the War” work

This kind of reply gets generated from time to time. Thought i’d share this with you …….. Newsgroups: alt.photography Very good photography but would be interesting to see a “4,790 lb Cluster Bomb” explosion over the top of these yellow, … Continue reading

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Anti-war hacking rises sharply

Pro-peace messages are being posted on websites More than 20,000 websites have been hacked since the war on Iraq began according to one security firm. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2888589.stm

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My latest e-mail ‘circular’ with links to new work

Photography, stop the war, protest, actions, festivals, party etc etc …… STOP THE WAR: Main page for [Photo Gallery :: Photoshop Gallery :: Streaming ‘Slide-Show’] at: http://tash.dns2go.com/stopwar.htm Hello Have added more work to my website, and thought I’d put this … Continue reading

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trollyd soundsystem – weapons of mass pleasure

Sheffield Mobile Sound System http://www.burngreave.net/~trollyd sheffield’s trollyd crew came together for their first outing back in 2001 but had been knocking around together for a few years doing small-scale parties and community events. we’ve been around a bit… havin been … Continue reading

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Menwith Hill – Stop the War Protest

‘Foil the Base’ RAF Menwith Hill. North Yorkshire on Saturday 22nd March. Have now finished scanning iof this work, and you can see a ‘best edit’ web-gallery at: http://tash.dns2go.com/xtra/menwith_hill/index.htm A slightly smaller version, but with 10sec ‘change’, can be see … Continue reading

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Menwith Hill – Stop the War protest

Have just got back to Nottingham, after travelling back from RAF Menwith Hill.. Protest of a couple of thousand. Usual speeches etc. There was a carnival atmosphere with many people dressed in tin foil, music was provided by the Sheffield … Continue reading

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UK No War Radio stream

UK No War Radio stream by mantee 7:54am Fri Mar 21 ’03 STREAM http://freeteam.nl:8000/uknowar 11-12am LIVE CALL US with your news: 0795 2003528 http://freeteam.nl:8000/uknowar

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Nottingham Stop the War Protest demo – War Day One

Just got in from a day of actions and photography around Nottingham. This morning, folks handed out leaflet, waved banners etc, at many of the main road junctions in town. Traffic chaos ensued, but that that was still much support. … Continue reading

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It’s started!

Well, we’re off!! Not much I can add really. You read the papers, and watch TV as well as I do. For another point of view on it all, Indymedia are one of the most updated and up-to-date sites that … Continue reading

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Foil the Base Protest At Menwith Hill 12.00, Sat 22nd March, 2003

NO BASIS FOR WAR Foil the Base 12.00, Sat 22nd March, 2003. A day of peaceful creative direct action, music, speakers and a tour at US military base Menwith Hill, Yorkshire. Supported by CAAB and CND http://www.now-peace.org.uk/events.htm Menwith Hill plays … Continue reading

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