Police, Lies, and Video Tape
IMCista | 14.04.2005 11:18 | G8 2005 | Genoa | Free Spaces | Indymedia | Repression | Technology
Over 90% of the people arrested have since be found to have commited no crime. Police video 'evidence' presented in court by the prosecution was proved to have been doctored in at least one case. You can read the transcripts of the Democracy Now! interviews about this story that aired last week or check out the whole show as audio or video.
While the availability of cheap video technology has led to an increase in the amount of video being presented as powerful evidence in court. Police in this country are clearly targetting 'unsympathetic journalists' in an attempt to both stifle any publicity given to protests and avoid public scrutiny of their own actions. In a recent example, a freelance journalist was arrested just minutes after filming an arrest that occured during a protest outside a meeting of G8 environment ministers taking place in London. It was reported afterwards that the police kept the footage and the camera but typically, the charges have since been dropped.
RESOURCES:
- IMC UK Video projects page
- 'Lights, cameras, direct action!' DIY 'how-to' guide
- Indymedia Video Distribution Network (also see IndyPeer and IndyTorrents)
EVENTS:
Further info and background links:
IMC UK Links
Video Journalist Arrested on Greenpeace Demo
Journalist Arrested filming gardaí
Terrorism Act Affects Photographers
Anti-war demonstrator arrested for filming
Journalist arrested brutally by Israeli Border Policemen
Ewa Jasiewicz arrested in Tel Aviv Airport
Other links:
Undercurrents 'Breaking News' video, article 1
Undercurrents 'Breaking News' video, article 2
Undercurrents 'Globalisation and the Media' video
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A Decade Of Party And Protest
14.04.2005 14:28
The SchNEWS crew are apparently joining TRAPESE in London for a big knees up this month in London (on the 23rd April) - http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/04/308649.html
A Decade Of Party And Protest
http://schnews.org.uk/schmovies/sch-at-10-movie.htm
So, this is absolute, final, final cut of SchNEWS At Ten - The Movie. That's ten years of reporting the news each week from the direct-action front line. It's a big, bad world out there and thanks to camcorder activists a lot of it has been caught on film.
Ten years is a long time. When SchNEWS was first cobbled together there was no e-mail, no web and mobile phones were only fashion accessories. The thought of producing a film would have been laughable (actually it still is, but hey…) Back then we didn't know how long SchNEWS would last Now, ten years down we can honestly say we have a history.
The film has been billed as charting the early days of resistance to the Criminal Justice Bill through to our recent massive party in London and everything else in between - of course, it doesn't. It would be impossible to get the last ten years worth of direct-action footage into such a short time. What we have done is stick to the story of the SchNEWS and how it's evolved, sustained itself and cut through all of the boring academic bullshit through information, inspiration and telling the truth..
So, get the popcorn in, kick back and marvel at how so many lazy good for nothing anarchists have got it together and kept it together for the last decade.
But please remember the revolution will most likely not be televised and it won't have a soundtrack.
SchNEWS At Ten - The Movie 74 mins - DVD format (Categories: anarchist filth, social history)
COVERING:
* Criminal Justice Act
* Squatters Estate Agency
* Simon Jones
* Newbury Bypass
* Reclaim The Streets
* Liverpool Dockers
* SchNEWS At Ten tour 2004
* J18
* Seattle, Prague, Genoa etc.
* Anti-War
* Mad Pride
* How SchNEWS is produced
* Climate Change
and loads more available now on DVD from Cultureshop
DIY
Photo from Aotearoa
15.04.2005 08:41
Cop attacks media filming protest
http://indymedia.org.nz/feature/display/23516/index.php
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Homepage: http://www.indymedia.org.nz
What does lead to
20.04.2005 22:28
This isn't a problem with the police
This is a problem with the Governments and those behind them
To use the term fascism isn't idle. Nazi doctrine is way out in front for the perpetrators and history is repeating itself
Recognize it and use it
dh