Skip to content or view mobile version

Home | Mobile | Editorial | Mission | Privacy | About | Contact | Help | Security | Support

A network of individuals, independent and alternative media activists and organisations, offering grassroots, non-corporate, non-commercial coverage of important social and political issues.

Video - london news roundup sat 11th feb

r2r | 12.02.2006 05:56 | Anti-racism | Workers' Movements | London

A quick crash edit of various things that happened in London on the 11th Feb. Video is 6 mins 30 seconds long and encoded in H264 MP4(10)

If your media player can't handle this new format, download and install VideoLan (VLC) which is available of Windows, Max OSX and GNU/Linux.

Saturday 11th Feb saw a rally in central London organised by the Muslim Association of Britain. It was saw a gathering of racist skins heads who I found apparently having a chat with several dozen police at a pub not far from Trafalgar Square. It wasn't clear what was going on but after one of the fash flipped a finger at me while I was filming through the window, I was quickly threaten with arrest.

Back in the square the overwhelming impression was the apparent uniformity of the rally thanks to a proscription on 'unofficial' placards. I did manage to find a couple, but it was a tiny tiny fraction. Respect and the SWP were also there of course.

Also there was the comedy terrorist who tried out some of his latest gags of the assembled crowds and was quickly removed by police. I thought his performance was pretty funny but I imagine it might have been taken the wrong way and led to a comedy demise for the comedy terrorist.

I then went to Piccadilly to witness an unholy alliance of hippies and tourists holding hands, hugging and dancing around the statue of Eros. The extreme cold seemed to have had a detrimental effect on my camera battery so I didn't film the hippies (it only encourages them and there were plenty of cameras there anyway). I did however catch an encore by the comedy terrorist as he passed by to catch his train.

Later in the evening I blew a load of cash for a good cause (does any good cause justify charging two pounds eighty pence for a bottle of shit beer?). The Red Lion 'pub' in Camberwell was hosting a Bolivian Solidarity gig. Among the acts was Atila The Stockbroker and various bands, however I was only interested in the Bolivian band and the traditional dancing and I managed to eke out a few more minutes of recording by heating up the camcorder battery as best I could by sticking it in my underwear.

My minidisk recorder battery was also playing up but sticking it in my mouth like a thermometer, resurrected it long enough to get an interview with a member of the solidarity campaign. He explained about the delegations going to Bolivia in the next few weeks, The interview will be uploaded tommorow, and hopefully go out on Resonance FM next wednesday with some of the music from the Bolivian band.

So, that's it, another saturday in London.

r2r

Additions

Addiontion - 3gp version for mobile phones

12.02.2006 11:57

Here is a version compressed to a tiny 3gp file designed for mobile phones that are capable of playing video. You can share such videos with friends via bluetooth and help to great a new grassroots distribution system for independent media.

share it with bluetooth


Comments

Display the following 4 comments

  1. Ah yes — the middle finger
  2. Ah no. — Me.
  3. Nicely done, we need more of this sort of video reporting — hamish
  4. Addition: New links to videos — Real2Reel ( r2r )
Upcoming Coverage
View and post events
Upcoming Events UK
24th October, London: 2015 London Anarchist Bookfair
2nd - 8th November: Wrexham, Wales, UK & Everywhere: Week of Action Against the North Wales Prison & the Prison Industrial Complex. Cymraeg: Wythnos o Weithredu yn Erbyn Carchar Gogledd Cymru

Ongoing UK
Every Tuesday 6pm-8pm, Yorkshire: Demo/vigil at NSA/NRO Menwith Hill US Spy Base More info: CAAB.

Every Tuesday, UK & worldwide: Counter Terror Tuesdays. Call the US Embassy nearest to you to protest Obama's Terror Tuesdays. More info here

Every day, London: Vigil for Julian Assange outside Ecuadorian Embassy

Parliament Sq Protest: see topic page
Ongoing Global
Rossport, Ireland: see topic page
Israel-Palestine: Israel Indymedia | Palestine Indymedia
Oaxaca: Chiapas Indymedia
Regions
All Regions
Birmingham
Cambridge
Liverpool
London
Oxford
Sheffield
South Coast
Wales
World
Other Local IMCs
Bristol/South West
Nottingham
Scotland
Social Media
You can follow @ukindymedia on indy.im and Twitter. We are working on a Twitter policy. We do not use Facebook, and advise you not to either.
Support Us
We need help paying the bills for hosting this site, please consider supporting us financially.
Other Media Projects
Schnews
Dissident Island Radio
Corporate Watch
Media Lens
VisionOnTV
Earth First! Action Update
Earth First! Action Reports
Topics
All Topics
Afghanistan
Analysis
Animal Liberation
Anti-Nuclear
Anti-militarism
Anti-racism
Bio-technology
Climate Chaos
Culture
Ecology
Education
Energy Crisis
Fracking
Free Spaces
Gender
Globalisation
Health
History
Indymedia
Iraq
Migration
Ocean Defence
Other Press
Palestine
Policing
Public sector cuts
Repression
Social Struggles
Technology
Terror War
Workers' Movements
Zapatista
Major Reports
NATO 2014
G8 2013
Workfare
2011 Census Resistance
Occupy Everywhere
August Riots
Dale Farm
J30 Strike
Flotilla to Gaza
Mayday 2010
Tar Sands
G20 London Summit
University Occupations for Gaza
Guantanamo
Indymedia Server Seizure
COP15 Climate Summit 2009
Carmel Agrexco
G8 Japan 2008
SHAC
Stop Sequani
Stop RWB
Climate Camp 2008
Oaxaca Uprising
Rossport Solidarity
Smash EDO
SOCPA
Past Major Reports
Encrypted Page
You are viewing this page using an encrypted connection. If you bookmark this page or send its address in an email you might want to use the un-encrypted address of this page.
If you recieved a warning about an untrusted root certificate please install the CAcert root certificate, for more information see the security page.

Global IMC Network


www.indymedia.org

Projects
print
radio
satellite tv
video

Africa

Europe
antwerpen
armenia
athens
austria
barcelona
belarus
belgium
belgrade
brussels
bulgaria
calabria
croatia
cyprus
emilia-romagna
estrecho / madiaq
galiza
germany
grenoble
hungary
ireland
istanbul
italy
la plana
liege
liguria
lille
linksunten
lombardia
madrid
malta
marseille
nantes
napoli
netherlands
northern england
nottingham imc
paris/île-de-france
patras
piemonte
poland
portugal
roma
romania
russia
sardegna
scotland
sverige
switzerland
torun
toscana
ukraine
united kingdom
valencia

Latin America
argentina
bolivia
chiapas
chile
chile sur
cmi brasil
cmi sucre
colombia
ecuador
mexico
peru
puerto rico
qollasuyu
rosario
santiago
tijuana
uruguay
valparaiso
venezuela

Oceania
aotearoa
brisbane
burma
darwin
jakarta
manila
melbourne
perth
qc
sydney

South Asia
india


United States
arizona
arkansas
asheville
atlanta
Austin
binghamton
boston
buffalo
chicago
cleveland
colorado
columbus
dc
hawaii
houston
hudson mohawk
kansas city
la
madison
maine
miami
michigan
milwaukee
minneapolis/st. paul
new hampshire
new jersey
new mexico
new orleans
north carolina
north texas
nyc
oklahoma
philadelphia
pittsburgh
portland
richmond
rochester
rogue valley
saint louis
san diego
san francisco
san francisco bay area
santa barbara
santa cruz, ca
sarasota
seattle
tampa bay
united states
urbana-champaign
vermont
western mass
worcester

West Asia
Armenia
Beirut
Israel
Palestine

Topics
biotech

Process
fbi/legal updates
mailing lists
process & imc docs
tech