Archive for September 2011
Dale Farm: Living Through The Eviction
Shot between Thursday 15 to Monday 19 September, these scenes of life on Dale Farm document the days leading up to the planned eviction.
Chalets are emptied of belongings, separated into two parts and removed from the Irish travellers site to be sold on, as they are considered too large to continually move around. With no place to go the owners sell up to invest in smaller, more mobile homes. Smaller caravans are also moved off the site and put temporarily in empty plots on the legal side of the site to protect them from damage by bailiffs.
Barricades spring up as protection to each street on Dale Farm. Police helicopters patrol overhead. Travellers and activists man the main gate barricade and await the outcome of the last minute court hearing, which puts a suspension on the eviction.
Basildon Council Concreted Over Dale Farm
This is Ray Bocking, former owner of Dale Farm. Here he explains how Basildon Council concreted Dale Farm and used it as a car scrap yard and road works waste site, dumping unused tarmac and hardcore for more than a decade.
Despite this evidence being crucial to the Dale Farm eviction on the grounds of the land being Green Belt and various media outlets interviewing Mr. Bocking, not one television news outlet has reported the story so far. At the end of this film you see the ITV East news team cut Bocking short for their live feed and flounder when asked if they will report it.
Last night the Guardian newspaper online was the only outlet to release an article on Ray Bocking’s story.
Rory Peck Awards
The Rory Peck Award finalists were announced on Monday 12 September. It turns out I’ve made it to one of the three finalists of the news section for the coverage of the Egyptian revolution. The rushes above are those that were sent out of Cairo by one of the few working Internet connections in the city during the uprising, after President Mubarak closed all communications to the outside world. Unfortunately for him, he missed a few.
Previous Footage and posts.
Battle of the Interior Ministry
Photo Gallery 1: Jess Hurd
Photo Gallery 2: Jess Hurd
The Reader: The Revolution Is Being Televised
EDL Tower Hamlets
Video rush of the English Defence League (EDL) protest in Tower Hamlets, East London. The original march was banned after Home Secretary Theresa May ordered all protest marches be banned across five London boroughs for 30 days following the London riots. Sixty people in all were arrested, including EDL leader Stephen Yaxley Lennon (Tommy Robinson), who breached bail conditions to attend the protest.
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