Monthly Archives: November 2009

Mugger to photographer: ‘Your money or your life!’ Photographer to mugger: ‘I don’t have any money and I don’t have a life.’ Oh, very well, please yourselves.

British Journal of Photography – Review recommends rethink of protest monitoring Posted using ShareThis

‘Aggressive’ policing of protests condemned in post-G20 inquiry | Politics | guardian.co.uk Posted using ShareThis

Nottingham Branch had two delegates at this years ADM at Southport. Also somewhat to our amazement there was a second year journalism student from Nottingham Trent University. Welcome. We had no idea she was coming which is of course a … Continue reading →

Back home now from the ADM. Having had a little lie down, I thought I’d add sommat on the London Photographers Branch and issues. Personally I don’t easily fit into any  camp, I don’t think. What I want is a … Continue reading →

In response to David Hoffman “The London Photographers’ Branch is a very exciting and necessary development in the NUJ. It has been discussed across our sector as a serious prospect over the past year due to the crisis in our … Continue reading →

“Several people have claimed to be the originators of the Photographers’ Branch. I recall this being discussed in the 1980s. Very likely it’s been discussed in every decade since Bert Hardy was a boy. Over the last year the London … Continue reading →

Hello campers …! I have been messing with these digital adventures for a little while now.  Adding content and checking all works ok now. So, having messed with them, I now declare them open and working.  Please check them out … Continue reading →

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 →

Jon Slattery: Journalists in campaign move against BNP Posted using ShareThis

If you have an internet enabled mobile phone, then this is a quick way to Tash on his shiny new Facebook pages. This is a QR code, that allows you to ‘scan’ using the camera on your mobile phone. It … Continue reading →

I am one of those representing Nottingham branch to the NUJ Annual Delegate Meeting [ADM] this year. It is Southport. They can be a bit lefty, for this anarchist 🙂 But I note this year, that the NUJ and journalism … Continue reading →

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 →