I have some pictures in this show at the National Justice Museum.
A new exhibition celebrating civil rights
Journey to Justice is a new exhibition exploring human rights movements and celebrating those people who have stood up to make a change.
As well as stories from the US civil rights movement, the exhibition features a number of local and regional stories.
These include the story of a Nottingham lace manufacturer who fought for the abolition of slavery and pioneered advances in workers’ rights, plus Nottingham’s involvement in gay rights activism in the 1960’s.
The exhibition will also highlight campaigns to kick out discrimination in sport and will highlight issues of inequality that still exist today. It will feature the story of Viv Anderson who was the first black footballer to represent England in a full senior match and was also an integral part of Brian Clough’s Nottingham Forest team that went on to win two European Cups.
In addition, you can explore struggles against poverty and acts of activism plus murals, art and poetry that have been used to express feelings of social injustice and as a call for change.
Come and see how ‘people like us’ can lead positive change for social justice.
Gathering Together, Fighting for Justice – YouTube
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I was asked for a piece of work to deal with communities ‘Fighting for Justice’. A large scale set of images that were to support a national touring exhibition when on show at the National Museum of Justice in Nottingham [formerly The Galleries of Justice].
This provided me with the seed of an idea to extend this more widely and include the obvious fact that there has always been considerable opposition to people doing just that.
I have amassed a considerable archive of work since the early 1980’s and editing from this, I’ve attempted to show that there is a common thread of concern on the way we treat each other, the ecology and the planet at large. I have always found that you don’t simply write to your MP and expect a political process to chug away and deal with your concerns and improve the situation. How, nice if it ever did. Generally, it seems a lot of people have to get quite cross about an issue and when there is enough protest, direct action, trouble and strife to highlight what’s wrong, politics and the authorities are dragged screaming and shouting eventually into action.
The police uphold the law. However, it is frequently our experience that they have a considerable action in suppressing activity on behalf of vested interests, whether in government or corporations who use them at their convenience, not ours. They can often appear as an army of occupation not reflecting the values of the community they are supposed to be serving.
In more recent times, an obvious example has been the methods of surveillance employed by agencies such as the Forward Intelligence Units of the Metropolitan Police (who offer their service around the country). The National Public Order Intelligence Unit NPOIU, which exists to counter “domestic extremism”, is so secretive that police will not confirm the precise location of its base or the identity of its head.
According to Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary,
“the NPOIU “performs an intelligence function in relation to politically motivated disorder” by “co-ordinating the national collection, analysis, exploitation and dissemination of intelligence on the extremist threat to public order”.
Its database contains entries on protesters – not all of whom have criminal records – including descriptions, nicknames and aliases. Their activities have now become so out of control that undercover police officers have been tasked to spy on citizens engaged in legitimate political actions on environment concern (the Mark Kennedy case, here in Nottingham). Spying in campaigns like on families of those involved in the Hillsborough Disaster, the family of Stephen Lawrence and their campaign and maintaining a ‘blacklist’ to assist some employers in not recruiting staff who might have ideas on worker rights and unions. Thus, I say their actions frequently exceed simply upholding the law.
I labour some of these points because since as far back as I can remember …… these officers and their kind have been always ‘on my case’. My ‘Big Brother’, I say he’s a bully!
I am with Judge Hoffman here, when he observed:
“Civil disobedience on grounds of conscience is an honourable tradition in this country and those who take part in it may in the end be vindicated by history.”
Lord Justice Hoffman
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Gathering Together, Fighting for Justice:
From the Festivals at Stonehenge, through the ‘Rave’ and Free Party scene, Reclaim the Streets, Environmental Protest , Workers and Union Rights, Gay and Multi-Cultural issues ….. There remains a policeman frequently saying that….. ‘Well, you can’t do that here!!
I was asked for a piece of work to deal with communities ‘Fighting for Justice’. A large scale set of images that were to support a national touring exhibition when on show at the National Museum of Justice in Nottingham [formerly The Galleries of Justice].
This provided me with the seed of an idea to extend this more widely and include the obvious fact that there has always been considerable opposition to people doing just that.
I have amassed a considerable archive of work since the early 1980’s and editing from this, I’ve attempted to show that there is a common thread of concern on the way we treat each other, the ecology and the planet at large. I have always found that you don’t simply write to your MP and expect a political process to chug away and deal with your concerns and improve the situation. How, nice if it ever did. Generally, it seems a lot of people have to get quite cross about an issue and when there is enough direct action, trouble and strife to highlight what’s wrong, politics and the authorities are dragged screaming and shouting eventually into action.
The police uphold the law. However, it is frequently our experience that they have a considerable action in suppressing activity on behalf of vested interests, whether in government or corporations who use them at their convenience, not ours. They can often appear as an army of occupation not reflecting the values of the community they are supposed to be serving.
In more recent times, an obvious example has been the methods of surveillance employed by agencies such as the Forward Intelligence Units of the Metropolitan Police (who offer their service around the country). The National Public Order Intelligence Unit NPOIU, which exists to counter “domestic extremism”, is so secretive that police will not confirm the precise location of its base or the identity of its head.
According to Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary,
“the NPOIU performs an intelligence function in relation to politically motivated disorder” by “co-ordinating the national collection, analysis, exploitation and dissemination of intelligence on the extremist threat to public order”.
Its database contains entries on protesters – not all of whom have criminal records – including descriptions, nicknames and aliases. Their activities have now become so out of control thar undercover police officers have been tasked to spy on citizens engaged in legitimate political actions of environment concern (the Mark Kennedy case, here in Nottingham). Spying in campaigns like the families of the Hillsborough Disaster, the family of Stephen Lawrence and their campaign and maintaining a ‘blacklist’ to assist some employers in not recruiting staff who might have ideas on worker rights and unions. Thus, I say their actions frequently exceed simply upholding the law.
I labour some of these points because since as far as I can remember …… that officer and his kind have been always ‘on my case’. My ‘Big Brother’, I say he’s a bully!
I am with Judge Hoffman here:
“Civil disobedience on grounds of conscience is an honourable tradition in this country and those who take part in it may in the end be vindicated by history.”
Lord Justice Hoffman
(commented during the Twyford Down appeal).
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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
