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Me in police negotiation mode at Longstock

Me in police negotiation mode at Longstock, Hampshire. Starts at 12:00 mins.

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40 Years of the Summer Solstice at Stonehenge: From Anarchy to State Repression to ‘Managed Open Access’

Please support my work as a reader-funded investigative journalist, commentator and activist. If you can help, please click on the button below to donate via PayPal. To celebrate the summer solstice today, I encourage you read my article from June 1, Joys and … Continue reading

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We humans and other animals live on this planet’s surface ….

We humans and other animals live on this planet’s surface. We are supposed to be here. However, since Enclosure Act 1773, we have fences put up around us with signs saying keep out! Travellers and festival goers have been acutely … Continue reading

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Revisited the Beanfield : 16 May 2024

Revisited the Beanfield last week.  TV company wanted to do an interview about it all, the terrors of the afternoon and the implications for us all since. Facebook Pix : https://tinyurl.com/2bcwgwd4 Before meeting them, I insisted that they watched our … Continue reading

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Our right to roam – victory for Gypsies and Travellers in High Court challenge

Travellers Times 14 May 2024 ‘Anti Traveller’ law declared “unjustified discrimination” by High Court judge The High Court has today ruled that certain parts in the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 that were introduced in 2022 (the anti-Traveller … Continue reading

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Dance in protest: 30 years of the UK’s anti-rave Criminal Justice Bill

DJmag HAROLD HEATH 1 May 2024, 14:30 1st May 1994 was the first big London protest against the looming Criminal Justice Bill, the piece of legislation that first proscribed a genre of music — rave music, “wholly or predominantly categorised … Continue reading

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Kinder Trespassers ‘would today be kettled and labelled extremists’

Bob Smith, EditorMonday 25 April 2016 01:57 PM GMT If the Kinder Scout Mass Trespass took place in 2016, its participants would likely have been kettled before getting out of the car park and labelled extremists, an outdoors expert said. … Continue reading

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Lecture 2 Festivals Events 400 pics. 60mins

Festivals, Travellers, Stonehenge, Glastonbury, Free Party, Music, Environmental Protest, Reclaim the Street, Unions, Civil Disobedience, Policemen and …….. Lecture Slideshow 2 60mins. 400 pics / 9 sec change

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College of Policing Guidance on Media Relations

 Engagement and communication Media relations 3.10  Media briefings Reporting from a scene Reporting or filming from the scene of an incident is part of the media’s role and they should not be prevented from doing so from a public place. … Continue reading

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NUJ alarmed at increase in incidents with the police and photographers

The union has commented after charges were dropped against a photographer arrested by South Wales Police one day before the trial was due to begin. Natasha Hirst, NUJ president, said: “There has been an alarming number of incidents of police … Continue reading

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Facebook Pix : Stoney Cross, Hampshire. June 1986

https://tinyurl.com/22z92syc Further trouble and the Public Order Act 1986 Things have never been the same again since the Beanfield. Throughout the rest of the year, whether in small groups or at events, travellers were continually harassed. In May and June … Continue reading

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Front cover of Festival Eye 1987

…. and then to select this one …. and thus used here

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Alan Lodge, Black & White Surveillance. Salon de Normandy by The Community

Alan Lodge, Black & White SurveillanceSalon de Normandy by The CommunityRoom 412, Normandy Hôtel, 7 Rue de l’Échelle, 75001 Paris, FranceOctober 22nd – 25th, 2020.  Black & White Surveillance is a presentation of photography and archive materials surveying Alan Lodge’s extensive … Continue reading

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‘Photoshoot’ for the front cover of Festival Eye 1986

Annoying my son to get him to pose, with aggression 🙂 This issue of Festival Eye was the first after the police action at the event that became known as the ‘Battle of the Beanfield‘ when 1600 police officers attacked … Continue reading

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Castlemorton, May 1992 – A slideshow

By 1992 leaked documents from Avon and Somerset Constabulary demonstrated the existence of Operation Nomad. Force Operational Order 36/92 marked `In Confidence’, revealed:  “With effect from Monday 27th April 1992, dedicated resources will be used to gather intelligence in respect … Continue reading

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NUJ wins settlement for photographers at Black Lives Matter protest

The union won an apology and out-of-court settlements for two photographers and a video journalist who were detained while covering a Black Lives Matter solidarity protest for Eric Garner at Westfield shopping centre in Shepherd’s Bush, London, on December 10, … Continue reading

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Facebook Pix : Criminal Justice Bill Protest Pictures

Another submission for a feature in ‘Saturday Guardian Mag’ “We are running a feature on the 30th anniversary of the Criminal Justice Bill in The Guardian’s Saturday magazine. It will publish on Saturday 20th April. “ https://tinyurl.com/28qqtf5r

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Facebook Pix : Castlemorton, DiY, FreeParty and Clubs

First submission for a feature in ‘Saturday Guardian Mag’ “We are running a feature on the 30th anniversary of the Criminal Justice Bill in The Guardian’s Saturday magazine. It will publish on Saturday 20th April. “ https://tinyurl.com/2ysdm7xy

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Castlemorton, May 1992 : A Slideshow

The annual Avon Free Festival which had been occurring in the area around the May bank holiday for several years, albeit in different locations. [Inglestone, Sodbury Commons etc]. However, 1992 was the year Avon and Somerset Police intended to put … Continue reading

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Free Party Exhibition and Show. A Retrospective

Free Party Exhibition and Show. A Retrospective Lost Horizons, Bristol Samsung S10 4K Video 3840 x2160 I’m there again next Saturday 28th May and on the panel discussion then: 4pm – 5pm – Talks w. Q&A – DiY (Harry H … Continue reading

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