Though I’ve been photographing protests in London for a few years it was solely after I left a full-time educating job in 2000 that I used to be actually in a position to {photograph} greater than the occasional occasion, and solely after I started to make use of a digital SLR digicam on the finish of 2002 that photos from them appeared recurrently in My London Diary. For a few years after that I used to be nonetheless utilizing each movie and digital, largely as a result of I solely had one Nikon lens and it was a number of years earlier than I received an actual wide-angle for digital, however the on-line posts had been virtually solely from the digital pictures.
However the big progress in web use as folks organising protests increasingly more started to place particulars on their web pages, use e-mail and Fb meant that with a number of hours looking every week I used to be capable of finding increasingly more occasions to {photograph}. Earlier than it had solely been simple to search out out concerning the protests organised by teams I used to be a member of and main nationwide organisations. Some I discovered from fly-posted notices in elements of London, and others from a bit of clever guesswork primarily based on occasions within the information, anniversaries and different important dates. And again then and nonetheless now, if I’m in London I’ll check out locations like Trafalgar Sq., Downing Road, Parliament Sq. and discover issues I had now prior data of happening.
By 2011 there was quite a lot of info on-line and I believe I took the prepare to London with an inventory of all of the occasions I managed to cowl that day, three by UK Uncut, Kurds and Congolese protesting at Downing
St, Iraqis, Syrians and supporters of Bradley (now Chelsea) Manning on the US Embassy, and Egyptians at their Embassy. I despatched photos on every to Demotix (not with us) together with a narrative and later wrote a complete of 9 posts on My London Diary, presumably a document for any single day for me – peak protest!
With so many protests I’m not going to write down a lot about any of them right this moment – however you possibly can click on any of the hyperlinks to learn the roughly 2700 phrases I wrote concerning the 9 occasions in 2011. All the photos on this publish are from Saturday seventeenth December 2011.
UK Uncut Santa Calls on Dave Hartnett – HMRC, Parliament St
UK Uncut introduced a Christmas current to Dave Hartnett, the UK’s prime tax man, shortly to retire with a large pension regardless of an enormous sequence of blunders. And he had additionally let main corporations off paying big quantities of tax they owed – together with £4.75 billion for Vodaphone and round £8 million for Goldman Sachs.
UK Uncut Santa Calls on Dave Hartnett
UK Uncut Xmas Protest At Topshop – Oxford St
A bunch from UK Uncut protested briefly contained in the Oxford Circus Topshop on the failure of Arcadia group to pay UK tax on its UK earnings, persevering with their protest with others on the pavement exterior till cleared away by police.
UK Uncut Xmas Protest At Topshop
UK Uncut Xmas Protest At Vodaphone – Oxford St
UK Uncut moved to Vodaphone to protest about their dodging of UK tax. Police saved them a number of yards from the store however in any other case didn’t intrude with the peaceable demonstration.
UK Uncut Xmas Protest At Vodaphone
Kurds Name For A Cease To Syrian Massacres – Downing St, Whitehall,
The Syrian Kurdish neighborhood protested at Downing St as massacres proceed in Syria, calling for Britain to assist to cease them. They need freedom for Syria and likewise for Kurds in Syria in a federation to interchange the Assad regime.
Kurds Name For A Cease To Syrian Massacres
Congolese Election Protests Proceed – Downing St, Whitehall
Congolese continued their protests in London towards the election fraud, rapes and massacres and known as on the British authorities to withdraw its help from the immoral regime of President Kabila liable for the atrocities and voted out by the folks.
Iraqis and Syrians Protest At US Embassy – Grosvenor Sq.
Iraqis met to rejoice their defeat of the occupation on the day US troops left Iraq, and known as for the mercenaries to go too, in addition to for correct protection of Iraq by the BBC. They had been joined by Syrian supporters of President Bashar al-Assad, on the embassy to demand no US intervention in Syria.
Iraqis and Syrians Protest At US Embassy
Bradley Manning Birthday Demo – US Embassy, Grosvenor Sq.
Supporters of Bradley Manning (now Chelsea Manning) held a vigil on the US Embassy on Saturday afternoon, his twenty fourth birthday, and on the second day of his pre-trail listening to, calling him an American Peace Hero.
Egyptians Protest In opposition to Assaults on Protesters – Egyptian Embassy, Mayfair
Information of the deaths and accidents in Cairo as armed forces attacked protesters prompted Egyptians to protest on the London Embassy, calling for the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces to halt the assaults and hand over energy.
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