Tuesday, 31 March 2009
Conference: I'm A Photographer, Not A Terrorist!
On Thursday 26 February, following the highly successful media event, NUJ members organised an 'I'm A Photographer, Not A Terrorist - Know Your Rights' meeting.
The meeting was hosted by Photo-Forum and was chaired by Jess Hurd. The evening was introduced by photographer Peter Macdiarmid, with solicitor Anna Mazzola (Hickman and Rose Solicitors) and photographer Andrew Wiard.
The first film, Know Your Rights, on terrorism legislation features Anna Mazzola and Peter Macdiarmid.
The second film, The UK Press Card: Past, Present and Future, features Andrew Wiard, freelance photographer, who speaks about the history and the future of the press card.
Photo-Forum is organised by NUJ photographers as a place for working photographers across the spectrum to bring images, ideas, photo stories, approaches and work in progress for supportive debate and criticism. It runs monthly on the second Thursday of the month in Central London.
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Friday, 13 March 2009
Shell To Sea Harrington Jailed as Shell Prepare Pipe Laying
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.
Maura Harrington after her ten day hunger strike in 2008
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Maura Harrington after her ten day hunger strike in 2008This 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.
On 9 March Shell announced the submission of its planning application for the revised pipeline route, that will now see the pipeline situated 140 metres from populated areas, as opposed to the original 70 metres from peoples doorsteps.
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.
Harrington was convicted of assaulting a Garda officer in 2007, after she slapped the police officer round the face. In scenes reminiscent of the 2005 imprisonment of the Rossport Five, as Harrington was taken to Mountjoy prison in Dublin, Garda officers clashed with anti-Shell protestors and supporters.
Related film and reports
Channel 4 - Shell Water Pollution Report
Independent Film - Policing The Pollution: Don't Mention The Water
On 9 March Shell announced the submission of its planning application for the revised pipeline route, that will now see the pipeline situated 140 metres from populated areas, as opposed to the original 70 metres from peoples doorsteps.
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.
Harrington was convicted of assaulting a Garda officer in 2007, after she slapped the police officer round the face. In scenes reminiscent of the 2005 imprisonment of the Rossport Five, as Harrington was taken to Mountjoy prison in Dublin, Garda officers clashed with anti-Shell protestors and supporters.
Related film and reports
Channel 4 - Shell Water Pollution Report
Independent Film - Policing The Pollution: Don't Mention The Water
Please contact the AUTHOR for access to any material and the extensive five-year video archive.
jasonnparkinson@gmail.com
Saturday, 7 March 2009
"That One Don't Like Having His Picture Taken... The Bald One!"
Today's front page of the Guardian newspaper released the story by photojournalist Marc Vallée and Paul Lewis on how the UK police surveillance teams and criminal databases are being used against protestors and journalists.
Police search a journalist at Climate Camp, Kent, 2008Apart from assisting in video footage and the podcast interview on experiences of policing and the Forward Intelligence Teams, it seems I am to go down in history as "the bald one". But then again I have been called everything from "commie" to "fascist" to "scum" over the years, from all sectors of society, so nothing new there.
Related links
Film: Covering Climate Camp, Part One, Part Two
Marc Vallée blog
Jess Hurd blog and website
All material on this blog - stills, video and print - is (c) Jason N. Parkinson 2009. All Rights Reserved.
Please contact the AUTHOR for access to any material and the extensive five-year video archive.
jasonnparkinson@gmail.com
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