The 11th of February sees a national rally at Trafalgar Square in solidarity with the people in the Middle East and North Africa resisting tyrannical regimes [and some of the bastards who've come to replace them]. Human rights knows no borders. Unfortunately, neither do the more negative aspects of suddenly finding yourself in a position [...]
The Reverend Billy came to London one autumn weekend to connect Occupy London with Occupy Wall Street. He landed, made his way to St Paul’s and found himself sleeping in Emily James’s vacant tent [complete with inflatable mattress under the bells of the cathedral].
He gave a rousing sermon livelinked with our friends in New York [...]
A series of Home Office proposals could ban protests during the London 2012 Olympic games. In reaction to the longevity and scale of recent Occupy London takeovers of public and private space at St Paul’s Cathedral, Finsbury Square and a former UBS bank, ministers are reported to be drafting legislation loosely based on part 3 of the Police [...]
This is the third in the latest set of films for Amnesty International about Syrian exiles living in the UK.
It’s a bit of a hatchet job on the group “Syrians In Britain”, a gang of Assad loyalists with thinly-veiled fascist sympathies. Nice….
From the Amnesty bumph:
Amnesty International UK joined with over 2000 Syrians in the UK [...]
My latest Syria film for Amnesty International.
More soon….
[additional camera by Martin Ginestie]
Those stalwarts of justice at Amnesty International sent me a text the other week: “We have a report coming out about Syrian regime intimidation of anti-government activists outside Syria…stories of horrific consequences for their families and friends at home. We’d like to help Syrians abroad say that they don’t have to be afraid to speak [...]
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was detained on 03 April 2011 by the authorities at Beijing Capital Airport preparing to board a scheduled flight to Hong Kong. He has yet to be charged and the state has not yet confirmed his whereabouts.
A major survey show of his work has opened at London’s Lisson Gallery joining his [...]
On 20 April 2011, a tribute event was held in London in memory of director, actor and filmmaker Juliano Mer Khamis. Juliano was assassinated on 4 April 2011 in Jenin, in the occupied West Bank, where he established the Freedom Theatre in 2006. The son of a Arna Mer, a Jewish woman, and Saliba Khamis, [...]
The day after any major demonstration always brings out the hungover “mostly peaceful, shame about the violent minority” mantra from the meeja-darling bloc. Whenever there’s an alternative popular movement that grips the national imagination, left-ish commentators and journalists fight whitened tooth and manicured nail for public alliance to this season’s worthy cause of resistance. Yet, [...]
