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EDL Leeds


English Defence League members scream at members of the press. The Leeds EDL protest was countered by Unite Against Fascism.

NUJ recommended terms & conditions apply. Moral rights asserted under Copyright Designs & Patents Act 1988. Credit is required. No part of this photo to be stored, reproduced, manipulated or transmitted by any means without permission.

© Jess Hurd/reportdigital.co.uk

Please see web gallery here
Read NUJ statement, Death threats for journalists covering right wing demos here

Images available from: www.reportdigital.co.uk
Saturday, October 31st, 2009 at 12:57 pm
anti fascist, anti Islam, anti muslim, anti nazi, anti racist, death threat, English Defence League, Extremism, far right, Leeds, media, press, trade union, UAF, Unite Against Fascism
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Silly Season


Bus drivers get revealing about pay drops on London’s buses.

Press photographers shoot underwear protest in central London in call for end of “race to the bottom”. Marble Arch, London.


© Jess Hurd/reportdigital.co.uk


Images available from www.reportdigital.co.uk

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009 at 1:02 pm
bus drivers, buses, equal pay;fair pay; unison; trade union; trades union; living wage; media, London, low pay, photographers, press, protest, Unite, Unite the Union
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I’m a Photographer Not a Terrorist – NUJ media event

Hundreds join the ‘I’m a Photographer Not a Terrorist’ NUJ media event outside New Scotland Yard. Press and amateur photographers gather outside Police HQ to highlight infringement of press freedom under the terrorism laws. London.

© Jess Hurd/reportdigital.co.uk


See web gallery here

BBC Radio Scotland am  here

BBC Radio Wales here

BBC Radio Scotland lunch here

BBC London here

Metropolitan Police Federation statement supporting photographers here

Stella Rimington on the police state in The Times here

Read NUJ report here

See NUJ video here 

Read EFJ article here

Read the Guardian here

Read the Telegraph here



London Paper Gallery here

Morning Star here

See BJP video here

Read BJP article here

Press Gazette here

Standard here

Read Londionist.com here


Images available from www.reportdigital.co.uk


Listen to the audio of the police stopping me under S44 of the Prevention of Terrorism Act covering a traveller wedding in the London Docklands here


View the Dale Farm traveller wedding articles here

Monday, February 16th, 2009 at 4:37 pm
freedom of the press, I'm a Photographer, press, press freedom, press photographer, Prevention of Terrorism Act, terrorism, terrorist
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Islam, War and the Media Conference

Tomorrow there is a half-day conference hosted by Media Workers Against the War


There will be a workshop called “Journalists and the “terror” laws” with the campaigning lawyer Louise Christian, Hicham Yezza the editor of Ceasefire Magazine who was arrested for downloading an al-Qaeda document from a US government website and photojournalist Marc Vallee


Jason N.Parkinson and I will still be showing the NUJ sponsored film – Press Freedom: Collateral Damage as part of the workshop and we will also do a Q&A after the film.


http://mwaw.net/conference/2008


The conference is being held at the London School of Economics and starts at 2pm. The event is open to all and not just media workers.

Friday, November 14th, 2008 at 5:40 pm
Islam, media, Media Workers Against War, MWAW, press, war
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