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- Tour of Britain Cycling Competition, Stage 4, through Hucknall. Friday 6th Sept
- Nottingham Carnival 2024 [180x edit]
- Green Festival Show @Broadway Gallery, Exhibition Walkthrough
- Green Festival, Broadway Gallery Edit. 60mins
- Nadia Whittome MP Speech at Gay Pride, Nottingham
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- Catholic Parade at Matosinhos on Sunday, Porto
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- Friday Night Bar at Casa Da Música, Porto
- Having a chill at beachfront café, Porto
- Coast road from Foz to Matosinhos, Porto, Portugal 2
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- Street Band in Porto, Portugal.
Alan Lodge's Blog - Tash's Blog on stuff wot happens - The Battle of Cable Street -
Blue plaque erected at Walthamstow Tesco to commemorate lettuce that outlasted Liz Truss
Here's how Kodak brought photography to the masses with the "snapshot".
Holy shit! Bruce Springsteen, with one of the most eloquent endorsements for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz you'll hear. The Boss also delivered one of the strongest repudiations of the loathsome piece of shit I've heard from anyone. Let's fucking go‼️🙌🌊🇺🇸
Private Eye editor Ian Hislop was reportedly inside a taxi in Soho when its back window was hit by a suspected gunshot yesterday. Hislop and the driver are both okay and police are keeping an open mind on motive
So many questions…
— Has he cancelled his Netflix and given up booze and fags?
— Has he adopted the 30p recipe book?
— Has he trained as a doctor/nurse/care-worker/fuit-picker?
— Has he considered charity work?
— Has he had his benefits stopped for missing a Jobcentre meeting?Far-right riots didn't occur in a vacuum: right-wing politicians and media laid the ground by painting migrants, Muslims & people of a colour as a threat.
But we're not your enemy - we’re allies in the fight for a better life.
My speech at Nottingham’s counter demo on Saturday:“Some people did say the police act is the final nail in the coffin”
2 years after anti-Traveller laws came into force, many Gypsies & Travellers are increasingly fearful of travelling and worried about losing their homes – say researchers. Read why 👇
Alan Lodge's Blog - Tash's Blog on stuff wot happens - “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 -
Former Tory deputy chair and ex-MP Jonathan Gullis is out of work. Seems no school wants him, despite chronic shortages of qualified teachers. Any suggestions of what alternative job he could be reasonably expected to take on? Funnier the better. 🤡🤣
#JonathanGullis #SeaGullisArchives
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Recent Posts
- 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
- Facebook Pix : ‘Under the Rainbow’ , Broadway Gallery 23 July 2024
- Porto Panorama 14 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: June 2005
Twenty years on, the peace-loving festival fans still bear the scars of the Battle of the Beanfield
The Independent By Arifa Akbar It was a gloriously sunny Saturday afternoon in June 1985 when a convoy of children, peace activists and travellers made their way to an annual free festival on land beside the ancient ruins at Stonehenge. … Continue reading
Twenty years after, mystery still clouds Battle of the Beanfield
Tony Thompson, crime correspondent Sunday June 12, 2005 The Observer http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1504681,00.html It looked just like a carnival – at first. The weather was sunny and music played as the 140 vehicles set off towards Stonehenge. The 600 or so Travellers … Continue reading
Sheffield G8 Events :: Pictures so far.
These are a sample of my ‘stills’, taken at events on the Saturday 11th June that I’m contributing to the Sheffield G8 Film. Sheffield ‘Stop the War’ March [anti-G8] :: The Pictures http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/06/313288.html Sheffield Peace in the Park [anti-G8] :: … Continue reading
RSS Feeds
They save you visiting lots of websites, to see if anythings changed yet. Very useful for Indymedia Newswire and the like. BBC Advice page: RSS Feed (Really Simple Syndication) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/help/rss/3223484.stm The really simple future of the web http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3503509.stm Here is … Continue reading
Press Release from South Yorkshire Police: G8 meeting in Sheffield
NEWS RELEASE FROM SOUTH YORKSHIRE POLICE Date: 7/6/2005 G8 Policing Plans Inc reference: Sheffield is hosting the UK Presidency G8 Justice & Home Affairs Ministerial Meeting from 15-17th June, involving ministers from the eight G8 nations (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, … Continue reading
Wiltshire Police hail the success of anti rave measures
Press Release 06/06/2005 http://www.wiltshire.police.uk/news/newsview.asp?id=715 Wiltshire Police are encouraged by the success of the operation to prevent raves being set up in the county, particularly in Savernake Forest, and intend to continue gathering intelligence to identify other likely targets throughout the … Continue reading
Mc Libel on the beeb
and about time too check out BBC2 tonight at 10pm http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/storyville/mclibel.shtml Two contemporary issues that frustrate liberals are the prevalence of fast-food outlets and the continuing outrage of the British libel laws, which stack the odds in favour of the … Continue reading
Nottingham City Transport not giving change on their buses
This item had earlier appeared in “Nottingham Alternative News” http://www.veggies.org.uk/AlternativeNews LETTER: You are being ripped off (if you catch a bus) Phil Shelton I have always had an issue with Nottingham City Transport not giving change on their buses, as … Continue reading
Keyboard cops :: your hard drive can put you behind bar
Independent :: 01 June 2005 Forget leaving fingerprints at the scene of the crime. Today’s police know that the hard evidence they find on your hard drive can put you behind bars, says Jimmy Lee Shreeve http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/story.jsp?story=643152 Computer forensic analysts … Continue reading
Battle of the Beanfield – 20 Years on :: SchNews500
SchNews 500 http://www.schnews.org.uk/archive/news500.htm#four June 1st was the 20th anniversary of the Battle of the Beanfield, a notoriously brutal one-sided confrontation between 450 unarmed travellers – including many women and children – and a quasi-military police force of over 1,300 police … Continue reading
Travellers ousted from forest camp
http://www.thisiswiltshire.co.uk/wiltshire/marlborough/news/MARLB_NEWS_LOCAL0.html THERE were some tense moments when police had a face-to-face confrontation with a group of travellers who settled in Savernake Forest on Tuesday evening. All weekend extra officers had been on duty manning access points to the forest after … Continue reading
Stonehenge: A thought for today
– a bit of rhetoric from Judge Maclaren Webster, when he overturned the convictions of Richard and Margaret by Salisbury Magistrates for being at the 10th anniversary demo at the stones on June 1st 1995. (They were then re-convicted by … Continue reading
Earth First: Guide to Public Order Situations
Those of you that know my photography, know I’m frequently involved in Public Order Situations ……. It is my opinion that photographers should not be involved in these ‘dynamics’ of protest. It is important for your continued capability to cover … Continue reading