IMC at London's Mayday and More Demo Pics.

Indymedia was present in the streets of London on MayDay by joining the Autonomous Bloc during the main demonstration. Later in the afternoon, Indymedia London activists set up a Public Access Point at the Square Social Centre, so people coming back from the different events that took place during the day could upload their own reports, pics and videos straight into the Indymedia websites.

IMC presence in the Autonomous Bloc 1 ...

... and 2

Two of the main issues of this year's MayDay

A demonstrator making his case quite clearly

Autonomous Bloc re-assembled in Trafalgar Sq after the cops took the Soundsystem

... and so, the F.I.T always in operation!

Anonymous onlookers from the National Gallery's roof. Who were they?

Indymedia's Public Access Point set up for the day.

People uploading their reports after the demo and other events ended

MayDay! ... MayDay! ...

maquipix

Comments

Hide the following 6 comments

people on the roof

03.05.2006 21:32

The guy on the left is called neil and is the main photographer for the FIT team

un-FIT

Re: people on the roof

04.05.2006 08:45

That's not Neil Williams (Suspect U -

http://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/09/323405.html), he was on the ground.

ACAB

our neil?!

04.05.2006 09:04

have you got sum extra special specs on? if not, how can u tell that its our beloved fit FIT Neil Williams?!! i was looking out for him all may day and have been since edinborough, it was love at first sight (when i saw him on the floor getting some extra special attention on princes street...). We miss u Neil!

ah

04.05.2006 12:00

Sorry I meant the guy on the right, in the IMC photo. It depends when the IMC photo was taken or they might be genetically reproducing the FIT team

Neil williams

late cider

04.05.2006 14:34

Sorry to gripe but just wondering why it takes 2 days for these pics to appear. Would you buy a newpaper that is 2 days old? Journalism involves getting the news out in a reasonable period of time. Also really bad idea including 2 bottles of cider in a photo supposedly of a work area. There is a hell of a stigma attached to that stuff and cynics may assume you are park bench piss heads.

observer

dear observer

04.05.2006 17:42

If you think you can do it better Mr observant , why don't you do it yourself next time? .. instead of nagging useless points.

The pics took one and a half days to appear (the same as many other reports about worldwide mayday events, by the way) because people have lives and other commitments apart from publishing in imc. This is a volunteer run project, which should not be seen in terms of professionalism as defined by corporate media. If you don't understand this I wonder why you bother to check imc anyway. If what you want is fast 'news', then you are better off buying the Evening Standart mate, it comes out twice a day! ... although it is mostly crap. Your choice anyway.

And yup, before you ask again, I would read a two day old paper, or magazine (I often do), or watch a 20 year old video, or listen to a last year's radio programme. If you wouldn't you could probably be missing quite a bit actually.

What would you have actually gained by seeing this pics some 48 hours earlier? Don't you see? This is the corporate media's set up ... produce 'news' fast, so that they can be consumed whilst cramped on a train or bus. Well, Indymedia is a completely different ball game altogether.

As for the stigmas and assumptions you mention, .. well there are so many things in life that carry these, that it is akmost redundant to bother too much about them. Peple are free to assume whatever they want, but quite often assumptions don't match reality at all as you probably know, or should know anyway.

By the way, I wonder what the stigma attached to an orange jucie bottle that can also be seen in te previous pic may be? I could make as many assuptions as I wonted really. But would this be worth a comment in imc?!