tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21283108086295322652024-03-13T23:55:52.809-07:00sousveillancea street photographer's blogDavid Hoffmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01202715611247495999noreply@blogger.comBlogger75125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2128310808629532265.post-37162267686461539902011-01-21T14:08:00.000-08:002011-01-21T14:08:01.632-08:00Catching up - but no chance of catching Blair<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The real pros were there at 6 this morning but no way was I missing my muesli for a grab of that slippery war criminal slinking his twilight way into the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Chilcott enquiry</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">. Better to get him post Hague trial, here's a phuturegraph -</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I've been a bit slack putting work up. Too many demos too close to each other. Too much chasing of TSG criminals and too much spending of compensation money before the buggers get me next time.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">My </span><a href="http://www.hoffmanphotos.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">website</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> has the stuff I've missed from here, I'll try & keep up better this year.</span>David Hoffmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01202715611247495999noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2128310808629532265.post-44979883438104512342010-11-30T11:53:00.000-08:002010-11-30T12:04:21.708-08:00The weariness of the long distance snapper<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Energy, chaos and anger fuelled one fast march today. Starting suddenly from Trafalgar Square with a Whitehall sprint a few thousand annoyingly fit students reversed, ran through the park and headed off towards St James leaving a trail of puffing photographers and red faced cops.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Then they sped up, Vauxhall Bridge Road, back to Westminster, Piccadilly, Regent Street, Oxford Street, Holborn, Aldwych, a few futile attempts by police to block the way were simply ignored. Then St Pauls, Barbican and back to Trafalgar Square. Quite a workout.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><a href="http://bit.ly/eRCpJY">gallery</a></span>David Hoffmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01202715611247495999noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2128310808629532265.post-12644054351128990622010-11-24T11:43:00.000-08:002010-11-25T15:24:42.798-08:00Schoolgirls try to save police van in violent protest<div style="font: 14.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">For some strange reason a rather old police van was left on its own, unguarded in the middle of the march. The results were predictable.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9tIikjEsf84/TO1pT8jiznI/AAAAAAAAAQE/MPPiWQN1Iiw/s1600/101124+Student+Protest+272s.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="265" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9tIikjEsf84/TO1pT8jiznI/AAAAAAAAAQE/MPPiWQN1Iiw/s400/101124+Student+Protest+272s.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="font: 14.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
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<a href="http://bit.ly/91m8QS">gallery</a>David Hoffmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01202715611247495999noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2128310808629532265.post-44968072042842782252010-11-20T14:03:00.000-08:002010-11-20T14:08:41.245-08:00Soft demo, no rain.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">An energetic and confident Stop the War march today but smaller than I'd expected. And largely policed by the City police, not the Met. Some speculated that this was a friendly desire on the Met's part to share the overtime with Christmas coming, others that the Met were in the doghouse after Millbank Towers and our multimillionaire cabinet wanted a more reliable concierge service. Slightly more likely is that they were keen to get a lot more PCs experienced in public order work PDQ. I'd expected more nervous policing and glad to be disappointed</span>.<br />
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All a bit predictable but this is just the first of what is going to be a long, steady, growing escalation of resistance as these attacks on living standards aimed squarely at the poorest and the least responsible for the financial meltdown start to bite.<br />
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While benefits, housing and education are slashed. While health services are flogged off to private 'enterprise' the rich (that's wheer the bank's money went) continue to swap their lavish houses, buy and sell their yachts and fly from club to jolly to beach to party untouched and svelte.<br />
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<a href="http://bit.ly/dglC9u">gallery</a>David Hoffmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01202715611247495999noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2128310808629532265.post-46670344820120903742010-09-13T05:04:00.000-07:002010-09-13T05:04:13.676-07:00'nother day, 'nother bigot<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I promised not to do yet another blog about the EDL but I don't think this one will offer much relief.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Saturday was the anniversary of the twin towers attack (or US/Zionist conspiracy if you prefer exciting nonsense). Anjem Choudry and the Headbangers strutted their noisy, meaningless stuff outside the US Embassy, eventually managing to burn a US flag for the kneejerk media. I'll spare you yet another photo of that crush of smoke and cameras and give you instead a corny shot of yet another mediaeval Mr Shouty.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Wonderful. One raving sober set of brown bigots await a dead semi-fictitious radical's conversion while 100 yards away a raving drunken set of pink <a href="http://bit.ly/cJCLWb">bigots</a> shout crude insults at the imaginary being the first set worship.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And next week we get yet another featherbedded nut in fancy dress and a silly hat on his Plank Man Promotion tour, spreading ignorance, prejudice and disease in the name of salvation.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It's hard to believe in human progress, sod the lot of them. Mickey Bakunin had it about right:</span><br />
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Each side scampered around photographing each other, shouting slogans and doing the Testosterone Strut until boredom overcame commitment and we could all go off for a nice cup of tea.<br />
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I'm always puzzled by the way this bunch make such an effort to put on an impressive show with their St George's masks, home made placards, T-shirts, big flags and banners - and then attack the photographers reporting it. Most of us were sworn at continually. Obscene, drunken spit sprayed threats competed with aggressive barging and uncoordinated grabs at our cameras. One colleague was hit on the head with a banner pole, another was punched. One clumsy drunk was so keen to push me down the steps that he nearly fell down them himself.<br />
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And then the leader of one contingent went out of his way to push aside the thugs surrounding me, praise my coverage and invite me to cover their future events. Funny bunch.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Fred Tokunpur Akiyemi, Christopher Alder, Arthur Allison, Roger Allotey, James Ashley, Peter Austin, Noorjahan Begum, Mr Benmerabet, Derek Bennett, Ricky Bishop, Ziya Bitirim, Stephen Bogle, Nicholas Bramble, Derek Buchanan, Edwin Carr, Paul Coker, Simeon Collins, Joseph Crensil, Asif Dad, David ‘Duke’ Daley, George Bosie Davies, Brian Douglas, Wayne Douglas, Marlon Downes, Lee Duvall, David Ewin, Michael Ferreira, Henry Floyd, Giles Freeman, Herbert Gabbidon, Ahmed El Gammal, Joy Gardner, Kevin Gately, Robin Goodenough, Ian Gordon, Leroy Gordon, Vincent Graham, Sponford Antonio Green, S. Singh Grewal, James Hall, Mark Harris, Tunay Hassan, Nenneh Jalloh, Cynthia Jarrett, Kebba ‘Dobe’ Jobe, Andrew Jordan, Nadeem Khan, Sultan Khan, Shiji Lapite, Franklyn Lee, Caiphas Lemard, Patrick Louis, Leon Marshall, Michael Dean Martin, Clinton McCurbin, John McDonnell, Jason Oscar McPherson, Shohik Meah, Jean Charles de Menezes, John Mikkelson, Daniel Morgan, Joseph Nnalue, Richard O’Brien, Nicholas Ofusurank Ogburu, Oscar Okoye, David Oluwale, Joseph Palombella, Mohammed Parkit, Vandana Patel, Leon Patterson, Matthew Paul, Blair Peach, Peter San Pedro, Mikey Powell, Oliver Pryce, Oakley Ramsey, Sean Rigg, Colin Roach, Azelle Rodney Winston Rose, James Ruddock, Nuur Saeed, Ibrahima Sey, Lytton Shannon, John Shorthouse, Randhir Showpal, Changa Singh, Shkander, Singh, Kwanele Siziba, Harry Stanley, Jamie Stewart, Roger Sylvester, Sarah Thomas, Fosta Errol Thompson, Ian Tomlinson, Habib ‘Paps’ Ullah, Mark Ventour, Spencer Weston, Donovan Williams, Tyrone Wilson, Kwame Sasu Wiredu and Paul Yorke.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">These are just the ones we know to have died at the hands - or boots, or clubs, or guns - of the police. More have been hidden as accidents, suicides. Never a prosecution, the police enjoy their impunity, the killings continue.</span><br />
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Finally given the coupe de grace by the European Court of Human Rights it is now a dead law walking. A law declared unlawful. But in true zombie fashion it staggers on, treading freedoms won over centuries into the gutter, enforced with enthusiasm and vigour by Met Police, Home Office and kneejerk coppers across the country.<br />
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It may be dead, it may be stinking and rotten but today 60+ photographers turned up at the Mausoleum for a joyful foxtrot on its empty grave.<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9tIikjEsf84/TDCqdjRMoJI/AAAAAAAAANk/T-55-MNg44A/s1600/100704+NSYs44FlashMob+194.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9tIikjEsf84/TDCqdjRMoJI/AAAAAAAAANk/T-55-MNg44A/s400/100704+NSYs44FlashMob+194.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Even in this digital age photographers can still amass enough silver to make one final bullet to lay this shameful, abusive law in its grave for once and for all. And we will.David Hoffmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01202715611247495999noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2128310808629532265.post-22449156290161246502010-06-20T13:22:00.000-07:002010-06-20T13:22:10.237-07:00Energy, anger and a lot of running about<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's genuinely inspiring to see the energy and GoForItness of the Bengalis in Tower Hamlets</span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9tIikjEsf84/TB51ux0qugI/AAAAAAAAANM/1i2y0NKb6Dk/s1600/100620+EastEndUnited+430.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9tIikjEsf84/TB51ux0qugI/AAAAAAAAANM/1i2y0NKb6Dk/s320/100620+EastEndUnited+430.jpg" width="320" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; color: black;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9tIikjEsf84/TB51ux0qugI/AAAAAAAAANM/1i2y0NKb6Dk/s1600/100620+EastEndUnited+430.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">but I can't help seeing thousands of angry people with no political leadership, analysis or direction as more a time bomb than an anti racist movement</span><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9tIikjEsf84/TB51ux0qugI/AAAAAAAAANM/1i2y0NKb6Dk/s1600/100620+EastEndUnited+430.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span></a></div>David Hoffmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01202715611247495999noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2128310808629532265.post-30636157383492860182010-06-20T04:33:00.000-07:002010-06-20T04:33:52.858-07:00no time for nudity todayI really enjoyed last weekend's Naked Bike ride despite the ever growing number of sad wusses, bonded to their textile existence.<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9tIikjEsf84/TB36hvS4TbI/AAAAAAAAANE/fpQApXYXjCo/s1600/100612+World+Naked+Bike+Ride+0623s.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9tIikjEsf84/TB36hvS4TbI/AAAAAAAAANE/fpQApXYXjCo/s400/100612+World+Naked+Bike+Ride+0623s.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>I still have 40 files to process but no time yet so here's a teaser to keep you interested until I get round to doing the rest just as soon as the world slows down a bit.David Hoffmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01202715611247495999noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2128310808629532265.post-41142719464823765752010-06-10T02:28:00.000-07:002010-06-10T02:28:03.695-07:00Dinner in the Land of Cockaigne<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Celebrated my birthday this year (a good number - 8^2, 4^3 or 2^6, 3 years since the last prime and 3 years till the next) in the Land of Cockaigne courtesy of Trolley Gallery.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Waiters and waitresses flit beneath our feet. Flying pigs, nun's bottoms, fish out of water and asparagus hoists distracted us from counting the copious glugs of wine as we excessed our way through a confection of perfection.</span><br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">UNESCO calls on media workers to denounce the murder of journalists and to demand an end to impunity for their killers.</div>David Hoffmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01202715611247495999noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2128310808629532265.post-10950786340307541032010-05-02T05:48:00.000-07:002010-05-02T05:48:06.717-07:00Time for a changeAfter all the intoxicating passion of a Trade Union march from Clerkenwell to hear the necessary and exciting speeches from our selfless, dedicated Trade Union leaders the more forward thinking revolutionaries got drunk on Special Brew and headed off to Parliament Square for a spot of executing.<br />
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Heavy rain washed away the blood and confetti and so we all went home for a nice mug of cocoa.<br />
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</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Celia Stubbs, Blair Peach's partner stands outside New Scotland Yard today. She still awaits a reply to her request to meet the commissioner.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The six officers with the SPG (the forerunners of today's brutal and equally notorious TSG) are known to be Insp Murray, PC White, PC Richardson, PC Scottow, PC Freestone and PS Lake. Although the published version has been censored by the Met to obscure the truth it seems impossible to avoid the conclusion that Blair Peach was killed by a blow from Inspector Murray's police radio.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">More than 30 years on no officer has been charged with the killing or with the many offences committed in the course of the cover up. No justice, no peace.</span></span>David Hoffmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01202715611247495999noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2128310808629532265.post-89121811249451296002010-04-10T14:39:00.000-07:002010-04-10T14:39:07.833-07:00Plod for Public Services and Pensions<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Bit of an unenthusiastic demo today over welfare, public services and pensions. In the pre election limbo it felt a bit unfocused but it was a nice sunny day and the police kept away.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">All I was wearing is in the wash, I'm still coughing up feathers and now I need to hoover my cameras. Then a large drink and very belated lunch.</span><br />
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