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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 →

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 Posted using ShareThis

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 →

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 →

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 →

Saturday 10 October 2009: The English Defence League (EDL) appeared on the streets of the UK again, this time in Manchester. A video by Jason Parkinson http://jasonnparkinson.blogspot.com Please check out his latest video: http://current.com/items/91161032_english-defence-league-unite-against-fascism-manchester-protests.htm

Saturday 10 October 2009: The English Defence League (EDL) appeared on the streets of the UK again, this time in Manchester. A video by Jason Parkinson http://jasonnparkinson.blogspot.com

Vote for Richard Simcox, for ‘The Journalist’ editor.  The magazine of the National Union of Journalist NUJ Richard Simcox is a professional journalist and committed trade unionist who currently edits the Public and Commercial Services union’s activists’ magazine. He started … Continue reading →

Any photographers out there who want a giggle …. check this out! “working in the print media industry today” http://www.xtranormal.com/watch?e=20090929103500534

Man arrested for taking pictures of trains, Let’s revue the facts: 1/ AmTrack (the US main train operator) announces a photography contest 2/ Photographer Kerzic takes photographs for AmTrack’s photography contest 3/ Amtrack police arrest Kersiz for taking photographs Here … Continue reading →

To do an action and not be able to communicate it, is almost not to do the action at all You need a photo of the spanner going into the works. You need a photo of the campaigners going over … Continue reading →

NUJ Download ADM Preliminary Agenda 2009 [PDF] http://www.nuj.org.uk/getfile.php?id=744 Motion #12 page 4 This ADM condemns Kent police’s seizure, without a warrant, of a UK indymedia server in Manchester on January 22, 2009, and the ongoing failure to return it to … Continue reading →

Seventeen declarations 1. The internet is different. It produces different public spheres, different terms of trade and different cultural skills. The media must adapt their work methods to today’s technological reality instead of ignoring or challenging it. It is their … Continue reading →

Climate camp’s media mismanagement John Vidal lambasts the protesters’ heavy-handed media strategy http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2007/aug/21/climatecampsmediamismanagme The climate camp at Heathrow is coming down and the core group, which set it up and steered the event, is celebrating what they say has been … Continue reading →

Costing the Earth Radio4 ‘flagship’ environmental program Listen again at:  http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00mbgwf All over the country renewable energy schemes are being thwarted by local people determined to stop wind farms and bio-mass plants being built on some of the most beautiful … Continue reading →

Two photographers, Jonathan Warren & Marc Vallée were assaulted OUTSIDE the climate camp yesterday. It is disgraceful and as much the fault of the climate camps misguided policy on journalism, as it is of the folks that attacked them.  It … Continue reading →

The Independent Video on police harassment of photographers [vimeo vimeo.com/6273469] http://www.vimeo.com/6273469 The Agitator2 from Joe Morris on Vimeo.

How the anti-copyright lobby makes big business richer A Photo Journalist explains how by Sion Touhig We’re continually being told the Internet empowers the individual. But speaking as an individual creative worker myself, I’d argue that all this Utopian revolution … Continue reading →

‘AirRobot’ were showing off their AR100B surveillance drone at the anti-BNP protests in Codnor, Derbyshire. It was also flow over the lane at the second ‘designated protest point’ in Codnor Denby Lane. I didn’t see it, but I guess they … Continue reading →