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- Pro-Palestinian Protest, Nottingham 19 October 2024
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- Nottingham Carnival 2024 [180x edit]
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LeftLion November 2024 Issue 177 via @issuu Check out pages 16-17 on the Smokescreen Sound System
Jo Brand, "You must be upset on behalf of all those non doms who are about to lose their tax break?"
Ian Hislop, "I'm just devastated.. The idea that Lord Rothermere, the owner of the Mail may lose his non dom status, it's gutting.. What sort of country do we live in"
Paul…‘We were trapped like rats’: Spain’s floods bring devastation and despair
Yaxley-Lennon pleads guilty, 18 months.
Tommy Robinson jailed for contempt of court🚨UPDATE: Tommy Robinson has been sentenced to 18 months in prison.
Robinson (real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon) knowingly and repeatedly broke a court injunction made in 2021 which forbade him from repeating libelous claims against a young Syrian refugee Jamal Hijazi.
🧵👇Remember, clocks go back tonight.
If you're a Tory, back to 1953.
If you're Reform, back to 1932.
If you're Jacob Rees-Mogg, back to 1741.
And if you're Nigel Farage, you just demand that 'Clocks Should Go Back Where They Came From."The @ukhomeoffice *is* licensing ‘front of house’ public drug checking & ‘back of house’ non public drug testing.
The bigger obstacle is local govt not national govt. Public health needs to support rapid rollout of #drugchecking to prevent overdose & DRD.
Reminding the thousands out in force at Piccadilly Circus to fight Tommy Robinson and his fascist mates of Ceija Stojkas warning that: “Auschwitz is only sleeping”. Our job is to ensure it sleeps for good. #sutr
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- The undercover copper who spied on Keir Starmer and seduced the activist the young Leftie lawyer was representing. 25 October 2024
- Today in policing history: #spycop Bob Lambert sets fire to Debenhams Store, Harrow, 1987. 15 October 2024
- The Battle of Cable Street 4 October 2024
- Castlemorton Picture : Guardian online 28 September 2024
- Castlemorton picture in the Guardian again today 28 September 2024
- Photography Turns 200 Years Old Today 17 September 2024
- “That’s the new law. The one where you can lose everything” – The section 60 police powers to evict Traveller roadside camps – two years on 13 September 2024
- BBC Report : Free ‘grassroots’ festival returns to Nottingham 7 September 2024
- Tour of Britain Cycling Competition, Stage 4, through Hucknall 6 September 2024
- Nottingham celebrates opening of Green Heart – a brand-new space for community and nature in heart of the city 4 September 2024
- Nottingham Green Festival Report on NottsTV 3 September 2024
- Tash at the Broadway Gallery Exhibition 29 August 2024
- Green Festival Show @Broadway Gallery, Exhibition Walkthrough 28 August 2024
- Broadway Listing : Introducing the Nottingham Green Festival and its history 23 August 2024
- Broadway Gallery Exhibition : A show introducing the Nottingham Green Festival and its history 22 August 2024
- Green Festival, Broadway Gallery Edit. 60mins 22 August 2024
- Nottingham Carnival 2024 [180x edit] 21 August 2024
- Report : Under the Rainbow | Documents and Artefacts from Five Decades of LGBTQ+ Struggle and Liberation 18 August 2024
- Under the Rainbow : Documents and Artefacts From Five Decades of LGBTQ+ Struggle and Liberation 25 July 2024
- Facebook Pix : Mission to Porto, Portugal 25 July 2024
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
Monthly Archives: October 2003
CCTV ‘Self Photography’ using a traffic camera!
http://tashcamuk.fotopages.com/?entry=13547 This is not really a use for a cam phone, they’re too far up the pole, usually, still, though I’d give it a go. http://tashcamuk.fotopages.com/?entry=13547 As part of the traffic congestion scheme in Nottingham, you can view the output … Continue reading
A legal Opinion of Communications Data Retention in the UK was commissioned by Privacy International (PI)
17th October 2003. It questions the legality of Home Office plans to snoop on the phone and Internet activity of the UK population. Privacy International reports: “The Opinion, which relates to the EU framework directive on the retention of communications … Continue reading
Liberty Judicial Review
The Judicial Review brought by Liberty against the Home Secretary and the Metropolitan Police over the use of anti-terrorist legislation against protesters picketing the arms fair in London’s docklands was heard earlier this month. The judgment is expected by the … Continue reading
Reclaim The Bases: website updated
http://www.reclaimthebases.org.uk The Reclaim The Bases site has been renewed ! In an attempt to centralise access to known information on UK military bases that is currently scattered around the web (or elsewhere), it now contains many resources, in particular : … Continue reading
Tinkers Bubble: Self-sufficient communities Open Country – BBC Radio4
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/opencountry_20031011.shtml Helen Mark travels to the South West of England to find out about sustainable living. Her first visit is to Tinkers Bubble, in Somerset. It’s a self-sufficient community that has been in existence for almost ten years now and … Continue reading
War on rogues and vagabonds – Legal Action Group: EDITORIAL
http://www.lag.org.uk/Templates/Internal.asp?NodeID=90471 The Anti-Social Behaviour Bill received its second reading in the House of Lords on the final day of the parliamentary session. Compared with the Criminal Justice Bill, this is a tiny piece of legislation – but with a significance … Continue reading
Statewatch submission to EU Network of Independent Experts on Fundamental Rights
Statewatch has submitted a dossier covering 22 concerns on civil liberties issues to the EU Network of Independent Experts on Fundamental Rights (the Network was set up to follow up the Charter on Fundamental Rights) for its report on the … Continue reading
Black Rocks near Cromford,
A day out, photographing autumn at Black Rocks, near Cromford, in the Derbyshire Peak District. Such a wonderful day, the low light just right in hue, and angle, to pick out the details of the rocks. Some pictures from my … Continue reading
Volunteers wanted for a week of Media monitoring
European Day of Media Monitoring which is being organised in mid November this year. The actual dates will be announced shortly. This is an important campaign designed to build a picture of just how the media is covering refugee and … Continue reading
Blunkett on the telly announcing the new crime measures – what does it all mean for US
I knew about the anti-social behaviour orders etc and the main ideas of the bill, being to do with estates yobs and intimidations etc. But, didn’t have the idea, that the CJA and Public Order acts were being strengthen also. … Continue reading
The battle of the Beanfield – Revisited!
Many readers of these pages, will know well, of the violence metered out to my tribe, by the authorites, in the past, and still …… Specifically, actions related to event at and around Stonehenge. I wrote an account of the … Continue reading
UHC-collective, Manchester
http://www.uhc-collective.org.uk Their latest show: 10th October until 18th October 2003 Don’t Cross the Line is an artist-led project consisting of three interventions/installations in Manchester city centre. These will explore the broad theme of cultural imperialism, focussing specifically on notions of … Continue reading
Criminal Justice and Public Order Act .. .. .. .. AND NOW, PART 2
Hansard entry: http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld199900/ldhansrd/pdvn/lds03/text/31007-33.htm Oh no!!!! Those that understand the progress of the Law, against us, will know of the Public Order Act 1986, that first made it as difficult as it for festivals and travellers to gather. Then, in 1994, … Continue reading
Camara Phones on the Archers
Have been a listener to the Archers on BBC Radio4 for xxxxxx years. Can’t help it, think it’s great. !! I learn loads. It’s not just about, when you ‘do’ your sheep etc, but is a bit of a ‘barometer’ … Continue reading
UK firms tout camera phone blinding tech
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/68/32783.html A pair of British companies today teamed up to market a technology that allows camera phones or digital cameras to be disabled in a localised environment. Iceberg Systems, a developer of Internet and mobile systems, claims its Safe Haven … Continue reading
Camera jamming system on test
A British firm is beta-testing new technology that jams the use of digital cameras in designated ‘wireless privacy zones’. The transmitter technology, developed by Iceberg Systems, is being promoted as a sophisticated alternative to the banning of digital cameras and … Continue reading
Were weapons planted on this protester?
An anti-capitalist Briton awaiting trial says Greek police planted Molotov cocktails and other weapons on him. Perhaps uniquely, there is video footage of the arrest which supports his case. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3136382.stm Yet another solid example of the use of video and … Continue reading
Defence Systems and Equipment international arms fair – update
Following the protests against the Defence Systems and Equipment international arms fair that took place in East London 147 people have been arrested. A number have been released without charge and others cautioned, but many face prosecution for offences including … Continue reading
Boundaries-to Bridges-Tour 2003/2004
Almeria/Spain (October 2003) – St. Louis/Senegal (March 2004) http://www.memenet.de/tour_eng.html Boundaries-to Bridges-Tour 2003/2004 The Caravan is aiming for co-operations with different groups from all countries that it will be moving through. The Caravan will function as a sound system, a circus, … Continue reading