Archive for April 2010
>Teachers Strike, Academy Director Claims Mini-bar Expenses
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YouTube: Crest Boys Academy Strike
Academy sponsor E-ACT is forcing through redundancies at the school, claiming a lack of budget funds is causing the redundancies.
Liddington, former schools commissioner for Labour and staunch pro-Academy advocate, replaced E-ACT director Lord Bhatia following a £70,000 hole in the funds of the then titled Edutrust.
E-ACT Director Bruce Liddington
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>Press Freedom: Hostile Reconnaissance
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Film: Press Freedom: Hostile Reconnaissance
The film follows on from the 2008 film Press Freedom: Collateral Damage that exposed the extent of police surveillance on street journalists. The film includes interviews with photojournalists Marc Vallee and Jess Hurd, NUJ General Secretary Jeremy Dear and Hickman and Rose partner Anna Mazzola. They are a few among many who continue to campaign to expose and fight the increasing erosion of civil liberties and press freedom.
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>English Defence League Dudley
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Saturday 3 April 2010: About 3000 English Defence League (EDL) supporters descended on the town of Dudley to oppose the building of a new “mega-mosque”.
Clashes soon broke out when some EDL protestors took offence to being “caged in”. Containment fences were torn down and police lines breached. Hundreds of EDL protestors charged into Dudley town centre, in the direction of the Unite Against Fascism counter-protest.
12 people were arrested over the day and Dudley council has estimated the policing and clean-up costs at £150,000.
There were three reports of attacks on journalists, including one incident of a photographer being punched in the face. Another photographer recounted three separate incidents, including altercations with EDL stewards.
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