Terrorism Trail
For the past few months my work has turned towards the recent terrorist attacks on UK soil. On Wednesday 22 March 52 year-old Khalid Masood killed four and injured 50 others […]
Paris May Day
Paris Mayday: A video montage of consecutive footage challenging the official line that the initial violent police response was in retaliation to thrown petrol bombs. On Monday 1 May, International […]
Frontline Washington
Frontline Washington covers the almost serene scenes outside the White House the day before inauguration – where Obama and Trump supporters mingled respectfully, albeit with a certain amount of hidden contempt […]
The Children of Calais
On Wednesday 8 February 2017 the UK government ended its commitment to provide a safe haven for thousands of vulnerable lone child refugees in Europe, just six months after it was instigated. Campaigners had […]
2016: The Year That Was – Of Refugees and Racists
2016, for me, became a year of refugees and racists. Stuck predominantly in three locations, London, Dover and Calais in France, all a few miles from each other, but the […]
Castro and Cuba: The Northwoods Project
© Jason N. Parkinson 2004. Recently declassified documents proved US military and intelligence officials planned to fake terrorist attacks to justify a war with Cuba, seven months before the Cuban […]
The Burning of The Jungle
On Wednesday 26 October 2016, multiple fires broke out, engulfing large neighbourhoods of the makeshift refugee camp known as the Jungle in Calais, France. It was the first day of […]
Jungle Eviction Coverage
See below for a selection of links to my Associated Press coverage of the final eviction of the makeshift refugee camp known as the Jungle. Calais France. My third eyewitness report […]
53 Arrested at London Million Mask March
© Jason N. Parkinson/reportdigital.co.uk APTN Coverage: London Million Mask March Riot police arrested 53 people during the annual Million Mask March in London, UK. Some protestors hurled fireworks, bottles and […]
The Jungle: Pre-Eviction
In the week leading up to the eviction of the makeshift refugee camp in Calais, France, known as the Jungle, CRS riot police continued incursions into the camp at night. […]
Walls, Gas and Eviction
More recent work from another stint in Calais covering the refugee crisis. Herald Scotland :Tear Gar and rubber Bullets in the Battle To Reach Britain Associated Press: The Calais Wall […]
Calais Jungle Gas Attacks
Another return to the makeshift refugee camp in Calais known as The Jungle revealed the CRS riot police are firing tear gas into the camp most nights. One young man was […]
Remembering 9/11: PNAC in the Whitehouse
On the 15th Anniversary of the September 11 attacks, I have decided to publish an old article dated June 2003 from my LSJ journalism course, on the right-wing think tank PNAC, the […]
Iceland
View the my full Iceland Video Archive here at Report Digital. © Jason N. Parkinson/reportdigital.co.uk HD footage available from http://www.reportdigital.co.uk info@reportdigital.co.uk jasonnparkinson@gmail.com Terms These video are for viewing only and may not […]
Press Freedom: Domestic Extremist Film Trailer
Today sees the release of the film trailer for Press Freedom: Domestic Extremist. In November 2014 six journalists and members of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) revealed that they were on a Domestic […]
Mark Duggan Five Years No Justice
The families of loved ones killed by police march from the Broadwater Farm Estate to Tottenham police station in London, to mark the fifth anniversary of the death of Mark Duggan. […]
EU Referendum Fallout
Since the European Union (EU) Referendum on Thursday 23 June, it would seem the UK has slipped into meltdown. Pound sterling plummeted, stock markets crashed, racist attacks increased 400 percent […]
Calais Refugee Crisis
Today the French authorities have said the southern half of the refugee camp in Calais known as the Jungle will be cleared within days. The eviction began on 29 February […]
Egyptian Revolution 5th Anniversary
Today marks the start of the 5th Anniversary of the Egyptian Revolution. To mark #Jan25 I have published Window on a Revolution, a 17 minute rush of published and unpublished […]
Decade of Dissent
The end 2015 marks ten years since I first picked up a camera to document the events I wanted to cover as a journalist. Initially I intended the footage to […]
CLOSED BORDERS
At midnight on Sunday the 13th of September 2015, Hungary initiated state of emergency laws and closed the border with Serbia. In the week that followed more than 60,000 refugees […]
The Man That Built His Home In The Jungle
Alfa was a refugee from Mauritania. He was an architect before he was forced to flee from his country in 2005. He has spent ten years crossing Africa, Turkey and […]
Scenes from End Austerity Now
Saturday 20 June saw an estimated 250,000 people march through London on the End Austerity Now protest. Jess Hurd Photos Report Digital Rushes Charlotte Church Tells PM To Listen NetPol Privacy […]
Yarl’s Wood: Shut It Down!
Saturday 6 June: 500 protestors gathered outside Yarl’s Wood Immigration Detention Centre (IDC) in Bedford, to call for the closure of the Serco-run facility and all other detention centres. Following […]
The Last Shout
2015 marks the 30th anniversary of women in the fire service. One of that first generation of women to London fire Brigade, when only five other women were employed, was […]
An Alternative Election
My week leading into the 2015 UK General Election painted a very different picture to the 24 hour campaign coverage of policy announcements and leaders debates. Friday 1 May, May […]
Arms Trade on Trial
Arms Trade on Trial tells the story of the anti-militarist and peace activists that took the arms industry to court in 2014. Originally arrested whilst blocking roads outside the 2013 Defence Security […]
Report Digital Video Review 2014
My year in one short and sharp video rush: The Report Digital Video Review of 2014. HD Footage Available From reportdigital.co.uk © Jason N. Parkinson/reportdigital.co.uk
Homeless Soup Kitchen Evicted
Following the Christmas Day eviction from the central London Royal Bank of Scotland premises the Love Activists set up a soup kitchen outside, giving out food, tea and coffee to […]
Unrest Rising
The last quarter of 2014 has seen unrest rising yet again on the streets of London, from the hugely disproportionate police operation around the first Occupy Democracy protests, the largest ever […]
When Police Spy on Journalists Like Me
POLICE STATE Noun “A totalitarian state controlled by a political police force that secretly supervises the citizens’ activities.” Source: Oxford Dictionary Comment Guardian: Jason N. Parkinson: When Police Spy on […]
Million Mask March
Wednesday 5 November saw the biggest Million Mask March London has ever seen in the three years since its inception. Thousands of protestors poured down Whitehall to Parliament Square, which […]
Copland: The Education Sell-off
Copland community school in Wembley, North London, is facing the same future as thousands of other schools across the country, a private interest wants to turn the school into an […]
The People’s Assembly
Saturday 21 June 2014: 50,000 people marched through London to protest against austerity and the ruling coalition government. The BBC was heavily criticised for not covering the largest anti-government demonstration for […]
A Brief History of the Calais Refugee Crisis
I have been reporting and gathering footage on the Calais refugee crisis since 2007. The Report Digital video archive on the Calais refugees now covers the 2009 Jungle camp eviction and previously […]
Police Suppression of Istanbul May Day
May Day Istanbul: Demonstrators attempted to defy the ban on protest and march on Takism Square. 33,000 police were deployed across the city, forming a multiple ring of steel around the centre, […]
NUJ Protests Egyptian Press Repression
National Union of Journalists (NUJ) protest at the Egyptian Embassy in London, calling for the release of all detained journalists and an end to the crack-down on media workers. Many […]
A Crisis of Weather
Since October 2013 the UK has been facing a crisis of extreme weather. Violent hurricane strength storms have battered the South West coast of England and Wales and floods […]
Mount Etna
Timelapse shots of ash and gas erupting from Mount Etna in Sicily. At 3329 metres, Etna is Europe’s tallest and most active volcano. It was designated a Decade Volcano by […]
Gefahrengebiet
For the past week Hamburg has been the setting for nightly spontaneous protests, following the police declaring the areas of St Pauli, the Reeperbahn and Altona to be a danger […]
The Year That Was 2013
Some of the coverage from the last year from Report Digital. Vimeo Video: The Year That Was 2013 YouTube Video: The Year That Was 2013 © Jason N. Parkinson/reportdigital.co.uk All HD footage […]
Cops Off Campus
Wednesday 11 December: Thousands of students protested during the Cops Off Campus national day of action. In London protestors broke through chained gates, burned bins, attempted to break into Senate […]
Private Concerns
In 2005 I spent some time working as a care worker for a private company in North West London supplying workers for the “Care In The Community” program. In August […]
PCC Calls for Protest Ban Powers Following EDL in Bradford
Saturday 12 October 2013: The English Defence League (EDL) returned to Bradford , in the first protest since the resignation of the EDL leadership over claims the group was riddled […]
EDL Return to Bradford Amid Leadership Resignations
Tomorrow will see the English Defence League (EDL) return to Bradford in Yorkshire. This comes at the end of the week where the leaders of the far right street protest […]
Stop DSEi
Sunday 8 September saw the start of the protests against the biennial DSEi London weapons convention. The first day saw several hundred protestors block several entrances to the Excel Convention […]
EDL Tower Hamlets “The Return”
On Saturday 7 September 2013 about 500 English Defence League (EDL) supporters tried for a third time to march through Tower Hamlets. Clashes broke out when EDL protestors tried to […]
Fracking
Fracking has dominated the headlines over the last month, focusing particularly on the tiny West Sussex village of Balcombe, where activists and residents have formed the frontline in opposition to […]
From The Archive: Ratcliffe Climate Swoop 2009
On the day Reclaim The Power swooped on Balcombe, West Sussex, the site of the Cuadrilla fracking station, Report Digital has put online eight video rushes from the October 2009 “Climate Swoop” on […]
