Comments on: Brighton Revisited

By: EDOprotester

EDOprotester — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:46:28 +0000

I’m sorry to hear you’ve had your taste of police harrassment. But try and imagine what it is like for protesters (in theory a lawful activity). To go on a protest these days is to be almost certain of intimidation, surveilance, assault, insults, and aggressive, illegal orders from police, with arrest if you don’t do what you’re told immediately. It’s as if expressing oneself politically makes one a criminal. Maybe you could think a bit more about this when you make ambiguous statements like ‘past protests outside the factory have been violent’, as if a few broken windows is equivalent to the blood, bruises and broken bones dished out by the police. We are rapidly heading towards a totalitarian society and I think everyone needs to take this seriously, whether or not they choose to exercise their rapidly disappearing right to freedom of political expression or not.

By: Police target journalists at protest against arms manufacturer EDO MBM in Brighton (15.10.08). « marc vallée

Sun, 19 Oct 2008 21:20:54 +0000

[...] Photographer Jonathan Warren [...]

By: Blog - Simon Rigglesworth Photography » Over-zealous policing of photographers continues

Sun, 19 Oct 2008 08:20:37 +0000

[...] his blog he writes that members of the Police Forward Intelligence Team (FIT) filmed him and a collegue as [...]

By: Francis Sedgemore

Francis Sedgemore — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 13:29:14 +0000

“…photographer Guy Smallman was bitten by a police attack dog which required medical attention.”

I’m acquainted with Guy through our membership of the London Freelance Branch of the NUJ. But I wasn’t aware that he is toxic to police dogs.

As for Climate Camp, I too was searched by the police – on three occasions – despite identifying myself as a journalist. The officers concerned were courteous and professional, but I couldn’t help feeling that the policing of the event as a whole was politically-motivated.

By: >Re: PHOTO » Blog Archive » Police attack Photographers

>Re: PHOTO » Blog Archive » Police attack Photographers — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 08:55:16 +0000

[...] other photographers, Marc Vallée and Jonathan Warren have described how they were filmed and questioned before the start of the event, and told they [...]

By: Michael Preston

Michael Preston — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 05:20:26 +0000

I’ve just read on Marc Valeé’s blog how these knuckle draggers seemingly set out to target you. It sounds really shitty.

Somewhat bizarrely when I covered the Olympic parade in London, there was a FIT team filming people, although what they felt they were obtaining in ‘intelligence’ I can’t imagine!

Hang in there and stay safe.

Michael