one cold winter morning comedians chris coltrane and jonnie marbles went to the conservative party offices to give chancellor george osborne a jammy dodger. why give fatty a biscuit? he came up tops in a national Tax Shirker poll.
A spot of ‘reporting’ for the visionon.tv boys at the netroots conference yesterday.
Here we’re speaking with Donnacha Delong, an NUJ activist.
Although the premise for netroots was admirable [how to get from clicktivism to activism], I didn’t find the sessions or the crowd representative or challenging. There was an overwhelming acceptance of existing power structures [...]
Short clip of journalist, activist and blogger Jody McIntyre being dragged by the Forward Intelligence Team from his wheelchair to the no-man’s land between two police lines at Westminster Abbey, 09 December 2010.
Here, a FIT officer tells him he’s not arrested, that he’s “going to get hurt”.
I regret not staying with him. My phone rang [...]
Here’s a copy of a press release issued by the Frontline Club’s founder Vaughan Smith.
“I attended court today to offer my support for Julian Assange of Wikileaks on a point of principle.
“In the face of a concerted attempt to shut him down and after a decade since 9/11 that has been characterised by manipulation of [...]
Remember Nicola Fisher? The lady armed with a juice box who got up close and personal with the back of Sgt. Delroy Smellie’s hand?
Footage has emerged of TSG officer U1202 punching a man in the face at the student demonstrations in Central London on 30 November 2010.
Some friends from Students for a Free Tibet rang up to ask me to close their poetry night with a verse by Woeser.
Woeser is a Tibetan poet, activist and blogger living in China. She is one of the few Tibetan authors to write in Chinese.
You can find out more about her and all things Tibetan [...]
I’ve been making a series of short films and a promo for the Russell Tribunal on Palestine.
The London session 20-22 November 2010 will focus on corporate complicity in Israel’s occupation of Palestine.
Some very clever people will be there and it will most likely be accused of a) preaching to the converted, b) not having any [...]
On 10 November 2010, over 50,000 students and lecturers from across the United Kingdom marched in London against the coalition government’s plans to increase university fees.
The march eventually reached Millbank Tower – once the Labour party’s headquarters – now home to the Conservative party.
Some people managed to get to the roof. One person had [...]
For those of you aware of my latest project, a documentary on Indian cotton farmer suicides, pesticides and fashion tentatively called Dirty White Gold, you’ll be aware I’ve re-edited a new taster for it.
Since I put it out at the beginning of September, there’s been a little press buzz around it as well as a [...]
To mark the start of London Fashion Week 2010, activist group The Craftivist Collective has created homemade Mini Protest Banners aimed at exposing the ugly side of fashion. Using Mini Protest Banners, they hope to make people think about the side of the fashion that is often too easily dismissed by the industry in [...]
