Amita Guha wrote:
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/02/13/brits-rally-to-save.html
http://www.bjp-online.com/public/showPage.html?page=839141
Britons are planning on rallying at Scotland Yard on Feb 16 to protest
the new law that lets the cops throw you in jail for ten years for
photographing them in action, if your photo is "likely to be useful to
a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism."
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/02/13/brits-rally-to-save.html
The National Union of Journalists, in association with British
Journal of Photography, has called for photographers to make their
voices heard at a rally on 16 February as a new law is introduced that
allows for the arrest - and potential imprisonment - of anyone who
takes pictures of police officers 'likely to be useful to a person
committing or preparing an act of terrorism'...
The NUJ has teamed up with Mark Thomas, a writer, broadcaster, comic
and political activisit, along with Chris Atkins, who is behind the
documentary Taking Liberties, and BJP for a 'photo opportunity'
outside New Scotland Yard on Monday 16 February. 'The plan is simple,
turn up with your camera and exercise your democratic right to take a
photograph in a public place,' says Marc Vallee, an NUJ member who
will be there on the day, and who himself clashed with police over the
right to photograph public events
Apropos, not the best quality of Fora presentations, but the interesting
speakers make it worthwhile, Magnum-dude, David Hurn and Pauline Hadaway
especially.
http://fora.tv/2008/11/01/Battle_of_Ideas_Candid_Camera#chapter_01
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