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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.
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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.
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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
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.