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Part two of two films documenting the UK Tamil protests that spanned six months, as the final surge by Sri Lankan forces against the Tamil Tigers killed tens of thousands of innocent Tamil civilians and left 300,00 displaced, locked in barbed wire refugee camps.
Part one here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmcbNG...
For a more indepth report: http://jasonnparkinson.blogspot.com/2...
The film is also available on issue 19 of Reel News: www.reelnews.co.uk
This film is copyright (c) 2009 Jason N. Parkinson. All Rights Reserved.
For use please contact the author directly: jasonnparkinson@gmail.comPart two of two films documenting the UK Tamil protests that spanned six months, as... more
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4 April 2009: Strasbourg, France, was the set for protests against the 2009 NATO Summit, but as thousands marched on the Pont Du l'Europe German border point to greet 5000 German protestors, roads blocked by riot police opened fire. Endless tear gas and concussion grenades rained down, and rubber bullets found targets in densely populated crowds. Return fire came fast, first rocks and bottles, then flares and fireworks.
This is just a teaser video of the forthcoming work from myself and Reel News, as the UK and rest of the world slips into mass social unrest, an uneasy and angry reaction to the global economic crisis, failing capitalism, bank bailouts, the military industrial complex and those politicians that are trying desperately to hold the old western civilisation together.
Special thanks to Senser and Paul West at Imprint Music for the use of the latest Senser single "Resistance Now" from the forthcoming album "How To Do Battle".
Related links.
Imprint Music: http://www.imprintmusic.co.uk/
Senser: http://www.senser.co.uk/
http://www.myspace.com/senserband
Reel News: http://www.reelnews.co.uk/
Blog: http://jasonnparkinson.blogspot.com/4 April 2009: Strasbourg, France, was the set for protests against the 2009 NATO... more
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Thursday 26 February 2009: At the London PhotoForum NUJ member and photographer Andrew Wiard spoke on the history of the UK Press Card.
In this NUJ-funded film - Wiard talked about the creation of the press card without state control and the long campaign to get it in place, the problems and benefits of the card, the future of the UK press card system and the need to hold on to the press card in increasingly difficult social and political times.
PhotoForum Film Part One: Know Your Rights
A short film on photography rights hosted by photographer Peter Macdiarmid and solicitor Anna Mazzola.
http://current.com/items/89927365/photoforum_know_your_rights.htmThursday 26 February 2009: At the London PhotoForum NUJ member and photographer Andrew... more
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Thursday 26 February 2009: Following the arrival of the new 2008 Counter Terrorism law and the introduction of Section 76, the London PhotoForum held a meeting on photographers rights.
Section 76 allows for the arrest and imprisonment of anyone who takes pictures of police officers, and some other public servants, “likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism”. The maximum sentence is ten years.
This NUJ-funded film comprises of two speakers on the issue of photography rights, Anna Mazzola from Hickman and Rose solicitors and photographer Peter Macdiarmid. Experiences of working the streets of the UK, police guidelines, Section 76, stop and search powers and what to do if you detained by police are all covered in this vital reference film for photographers and other lens-based media, both amateur and professional.
PhotoForum Film Part Two: The UK Press Card - Past, Present and Future
A short film on the histroy of the UK Press Card, with speaker Andrew Wiard.
http://current.com/items/89927474/photoforum_the_uk_press_card_past_present_future.htmThursday 26 February 2009: Following the arrival of the new 2008 Counter Terrorism law... more
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Tuesday 24 February 2009: The Government of the Dead marched along Oxford Street to Tyburn, now known as Marble Arch, where until the 18th Century was the popular home of London's public hangings.
The zombies took with them an effigy of a banker, which they hung from London's famous archway at Hyde Park, a symbolic gesture of disgust at the UK banking system and the £500 billion taxpayer bailout of the capitalist system.
This video is released now as the city of London prepares for mass protest against the G20 summit on the 28th of March and 1st and 2nd of April.
Related links:
http://www.graveyard.at/
http://www.putpeoplefirst.org.uk/
http://www.climatecamp.org.uk/g20Tuesday 24 February 2009: The Government of the Dead marched along Oxford Street to... more
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County Mayo, Ireland: Staunch Shell To Sea campaigner Maura Harrington has been jailed for 28 days and ordered to undergo psychiatric evaluation by an Irish Judge.
Harrington, a retired school head teacher and well known for her staunch resistance to Shell in County Mayo, became one of the most dangerous anti-Shell campaigners in County Mayo when in September 2008 she instigated a hunger strike in her car outside the Corrib Gas pipeline landfall site. Her orders were, remove the pipe laying ship Solitaire from Irish waters or have the death of a local resident on your hands. The historical connotations of this action were too much. The Solitaire ship had an "accident" and left the West Ireland coast for repairs in Scotland.
This latest imprisonment of a Shell To Sea campaigner comes at the same time as Shell announces its plans to attempt to lay the Corrib Gas pipeline for a second time.
Related Films and Reports
http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/society/environment/irish+gas+plant+under+fire/568972
http://current.com/items/87156551/policing_the_pollution_don_t_mention_the_water.htmCounty Mayo, Ireland: Staunch Shell To Sea campaigner Maura Harrington has been jailed... more
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On Saturday 27 December 2008 Israel launched an unprecedented attack into the Gaza Strip. In London protestors took to the streets en-mass, in their thousands. There the anger and outrage manifested themselves in Kensington, the home of the Israeli embassy.
Part Two covers the march of thousands on the Israeli embassy in Kensington from Hyde Park. The footage tells the rest of the story from the day that peaceful protest deteriorated into three-hour running street battles.
Boiling Point is not so much a fully narrated film piece, more of a visual account of what happened between Saturday 3 January and Sunday 11 January, allowing the footage of those days to do the storytelling. Constructed from nearly ten hours of footage shot over four days on two cameras, hopefully it gives the viewer an idea of what really happens down on the front line of a riot situation.
The music comes courtesy of:
"OPT" by MC Cox - Released on "Badly Worn Hat" Soul Prolapse Records 2004
"Dr Benway" by Headjam - http://www.myspace.com/headjamuk
Boiling Point will also be available on the February issue of Reel News:
www.reelnews.co.uk
Home blog
www.jasonnparkinson.blogspot.comOn Saturday 27 December 2008 Israel launched an unprecedented attack into the Gaza... more
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On Saturday 27 December 2008 Israel launched an unprecedented attack into the Gaza Strip. In London protestors took to the streets en-mass, in their thousands. There the anger and outrage manifested themselves in Kensington, the home of the Israeli embassy.
Part One covers the first major protest on Saturday 3 January, where 50,000 people marched through London and over 5,000 protested outside the Israeli embassy, and looks at the comparisons between policing the pro-Palestine protests and the pro-Israel protests.
Boiling Point is not so much a fully narrated film piece, more of a visual account of what happened between Saturday 3 January and Sunday 11 January, allowing the footage of those days to do the storytelling. Constructed from nearly ten hours of footage shot over four days on two cameras, hopefully it gives the viewer an idea of what really happens down on the front line of a riot situation.
The music comes courtesy of:
"OPT" by MC Cox - Released on "Badly Worn Hat", Soul Prolapse Records 2004
"Dr Benway" by Headjam - http://www.myspace.com/headjamuk
Boiling Point will also be available on the February issue of Reel News:
www.reelnews.co.uk
Home blog
www.jasonnparkinson.blogspot.comOn Saturday 27 December 2008 Israel launched an unprecedented attack into the Gaza... more
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In August 2008, environmental protestors set up camp in Kent, England, to protest the current and newly proposed E-On coal-fired power stations at Kingsnorth.
Part Two of two films, Covering Climate Camp continues to document the press coverage and subsequent press freedom restrictions. As the policing gets heavier, journalists trying to cover the story for independent and mainstream news organisations face surveillance, harassment, endless stop-and-searches and assault - they are even followed by a police unit to a McDonald's restaurant.
Part One:
http://current.com/items/89738404/covering_climate_camp_part_one.htm
Media Links:
http://www.nuj.org.uk/innerPagenuj.html?docid=889&string=climate%20camp
http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=41891
http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=41915
NUJ Film - Press Freedom: Collateral Damage
http://current.com/items/89284474/press_freedom_collateral_damage.htm
Other Related Films and links.
http://current.com/items/89612620/police_obstruction_of_journalists_at_london_greek_embassy_protest.htm
http://current.com/items/89616054/police_investigate_greek_embassy_obstruction_of_journalists.htmIn August 2008, environmental protestors set up camp in Kent, England, to protest the... more
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In August 2008, environmental protestors set up camp in Kent, England, to protest the current and newly proposed E-On coal-fired power stations at Kingsnorth.
Part One of two films, Covering Climate Camp documents not the protest movement, but the journalists trying to cover the story for independent and mainstream news organisations.
In some of the worst scenes of police interference the press were subjected to stop-and-search, harassment, aggression and violence, which led to the National Union of Journalists and the industry media publically slamming the police on the grounds of press freedom restriction.
Covering Climate Camp:Part Two
http://current.com/items/89741422/covering_climate_camp_part_two.htm
Media Links:
http://www.nuj.org.uk/innerPagenuj.html?docid=889&string=climate%20camp
http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=41891
http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=41915
NUJ Film - Press Freedom: Collateral Damage
http://current.com/items/89284474/press_freedom_collateral_damage.htm
Other Related Films and links.
http://current.com/items/89612620/police_obstruction_of_journalists_at_london_greek_embassy_protest.htm
http://current.com/items/89616054/police_investigate_greek_embassy_obstruction_of_journalists.htmIn August 2008, environmental protestors set up camp in Kent, England, to protest the... more
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The Press Freedom film website has been set up.
We have just released a high resolution version of the docu-short film on DVd, now available through Paypal.
Watch this space, the film website or my blog, for more on this issue, as the UK gets ready to accept the 2008 Counter Terrorism Bill. Maybe it should be renamed the Counter Journalism Bill.
Blog:
http://jasonnparkinson.blogspot.com/
For more details on the 2008 Counter Terrorism Bill see here:
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200708/ldbills/065/08065.59-65.html#inf001
Regards and okay for now!
Jason N. ParkinsonThe Press Freedom film website has been set up.
We have just released a high... more
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Monday 8 September 2008: Today Jeremy Dear, the General Secretary of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ), moved a motion at the Trade Union Congress (TUC) live on the BBC Parliament Channel in Brighton on the issue of civil liberties and police surveillance and harassment of working journalists.
Along side this, the NUJ has released a short film called Press Freedom: "Collateral Damage" which tackles the issue of police surveillance of bona fide journalists who document political dissent.
The film is a damming account of the Orwellian techniques and methods of the Metropolitan Police Forward Intelligence Team (FIT Squad) over the last few years.
This film includes evidence of the FIT Squad targeting working journalists and footage of police attacking journalists when covering protests. The film also has an interview with Jeremy Dear and photographers outside New Scotland Yard, the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police.
The FIT Squad is a police unit that is trained to gather evidence at football matches, political protests and over the last year it has been used by officers in some parts of the country to target local youth on council estates for alleged anti-social behaviour.
The beacon of a free and democratic society is a free press, unhindered by intimidation, surveillance and violence, if the press is no longer free to operate and document political unrest the country is no longer free or democratic.
Press Freedom: "Collateral Damage" is just a taste of an ongoing project initiated in February 2008, using four years of personal archive footage, to be finalised as a feature documentary spanning five years of international protest and police coverage - eta: Autumn 2009.
More links to the ongoing story here:
http://www.nuj.org.uk/
http://www.nuj.org.uk/innerPagenuj.html?docid=910
http://marcvallee.wordpress.com/category/journalism/
http://jasonnparkinson.blogspot.com/2008/05/street-jour...
http://www.thejournalist.org.uk/Aug08/news_photogs.html
http://www.thejournalist.org.uk/Aug08/feat_cops_main.ht...
http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&a......Monday 8 September 2008: Today Jeremy Dear, the General Secretary of the National... more
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