I’m a Photographer, Not a Terrorist! is proud to support this pre-election rally on Terror Laws, Civil Liberties & Press Freedom at 7pm on the 13th of April at Friends Meeting House in Euston.
The rally will be chaired by photographer Jess Hurd and there’s a top lineup of speakers who have dealt with the raft of terror laws that we face today:
- Jeremy Dear, General Secretary National Union of Journalists
- Paul Lewis, Guardian journalist & British Press Awards Reporter of the Year 2010
- Keith Ewing, Professor of Public Law at King’s College London & author of Bonfire of the Liberties
- Henry Porter, Observer columnist, author & British editor of Vanity Fair
- Chez Cotton, Head of Action Against the Police at Bindmans Solicitors & a co-ordinator of the Police Action Lawyers Group
- Marc Vallée, Photojournalist, investigative journalist and one of the organisers of the I’m A Photographer, Not a Terrorist! campaign group.
Supporting the rally are the National Union of Journalists, NUJ London Central Branch and the I’m a Photographer, Not a Terrorist! campaign group.
Posted by A Photographer
Tags: Civil Liberties, London Photographers Branch, Meeting, National Union of Journalists, Press Freedom, Rally, s44, Terror Laws
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With you all the way on this, good luck for tonight.
[...] I support this greatly. I Feel that we as photographers are being singled out by the police in public, just carrying out our day to day work, be it students or a photographer working for the press. I think that we should all support them by printing off the “I’m a photographer, Not a terrorist” card, and take a self portrait and upload it to the site in support. If you feel the same – Support this group. http://photographernotaterrorist.org/ Latest Post from “I’m A Photographer Not A Terrorist” – Hostile Reconnaissance. [...]
i run a market stall,sell others photografers art-images, i pay them their royalties or i buy licences, photo images i am not good at, i get a lot of weekend photografers taking photos of my stall, they don’t ask me and some of them do it pretending not to, and others i can see them using long lens. i am sorry to say i am getting hostile and their are getting hostile back, last time i hit one of them with their own camera, i am not proud of it but i feel they i stealing my way of presenting others work in a manner that i can sell their work and make an earning myself, respecting the photo-artist, i don’t do any digital copys but it seems to me there is a lot of unscrupulos photografer out there doing some kind of photo-terrorist act and think it is their rights to do that and do voice freedom. maybe there is a reason why others don’t like photo-journaliys or weekend hobby-photografers or other invasive types.i do believe there is a code of ethics for every one.