One other busy day for me in London on Saturday 2nd November 2013, although I spent numerous it in a pub with zombies who have been placing on a slightly late Halloween look. However there have been extra critical issues as nicely.
Free Kieron & Arctic 30 – Russian Embassy, Notting Hill. Sat 2 Nov 2013
Household, associates & supporters of freelance videojournalist Kieron Bryan, one of many 30 arrested on Greenpeace’s Arctic Dawn, held a silent vigil on the Russian Embassy, delivering a petition signed by over 1000 journalists calling for his launch.
There was intense media curiosity within the occasion, with a number of TV crews, radio journalists and photographers, maybe as a result of the imprisonment of a journalist is a menace to all journalists around the globe. Unusually the Russian embassy had agreed to fulfill Kieron’s brother and take the petition, and though no images is permitted within the personal avenue by which it (and the Israeli embassy) are located I used to be capable of {photograph} him standing within the gate to the road holding it.
The Arctic 30 had sailed to the Russian Arctic on the Greenpeace ship Arctic Dawn in September 2013 to protest peacefully in opposition to Gazprom’s plans to begin oil manufacturing within the Arctic. The ship was seized and so they have been saved in custody for 2 months earlier than being launched on bail in November – after the Netherlands had filed a case on the Worldwide Tribunal for the Legislation of the Sea which led to an order for the crew and Dutch-registered vessel to be launched whereas the case was being thought of. Though Russia ignored this ruling they did launch the journalists, activists and crew, and 6 months later, the ship. In all probability protests resembling this helped to influence them to take action.
The Dutch authorities filed complaints on the European Court docket in opposition to the illegal detention of the Dutch-registered ship and the protesters additionally took a case claiming that hey had been detained unlawfully and their proper to freedom of expression had been breached.
Gurkha Veterans Starvation Strike for Justice – Downing St, Sat 2 Nov 2013
Though high-profile earlier campaigns supported by Joanna Lumley and others within the broadcast media have led to elevated assist for former Gurkha troopers, aged Gurkha veterans didn’t profit from these and most dwell right here in excessive poverty.
After submitting their petition to Prime Minister David Cameron and the Nepalese Prime Minister in April and getting no passable end result and so they had “with a heavy coronary heart” begun a collection of starvation strikes. These had begun in late October with a “13 days relay starvation strike within the title of the 13 Ghurka VCs” which was in progress after I took these photos, demanding equal pensions, compensation, a preserved pension for these made redundant, the best of settlement within the UK for his or her grownup kids and free medical remedy in Nepal.
5 days later some started a starvation strike till dying, and after two weeks the federal government supplied talks and this was halted.
Gurkha Veterans Starvation Strike
LoNdOn ZoMbIE WaLk VII – Soho, Sat 2 Nov 2013
I met with round 100 zombies in Waxy O’Connor’s pub on Rupert St, the place they have been ingesting for a few hours sometimes rising into the dim daylight of Wardour St for a fag break.
Round 4pm as nightfall was falling the multitude of undead staggered up the steps to start their crawl round Londinium seeking brains and booze. I left them to it.
Amongst these on Gerrard Road have been a bunch of Zombie Police whose warrant playing cards carried the message ‘A pint of Cider and Black Please’.
Introduced because the seventh consecutive yr for this occasion, it adopted on from some earlier ‘Crawls of the Lifeless’ which started in 2004.
Contained in the pub the lighting was low and I wanted to make use of flash. Whereas the Nikon flash gun I used to be utilizing within the hot-shoe of my digicam is mostly an important performer I had some issues. Whereas it’s OK with the digicam in panorama mode, turning the setup via 90 levels for portrait format pictures isn’t actually very profitable. And I additionally discovered myself unable to make use of the normally magical i-TTL mode, not due to some zombie spells, however as later searches via the fats guide at dwelling revealed it’s incompatible with the digicam mode I had set for the darkish inside. I believe the digicam and flash guide have a complete of nicely over 500 pages – this stuff are simply too sophisticated for mortals.
Metropolis Hyperlink & Cleaners at John Lewis – Oxford St, Sat 2 Nov 2013
As the ultimate zombies staggered out of the pub to crawl Soho I rushed away to Oxford Road the place cleaners have been holding a protest outdoors the flagship John Lewis Retailer, and have been at present joined by Metropolis Hyperlink staff who ship items for the corporate.
Metropolis Hyperlink was offered off earlier within the yr to Jon Moulton’s personal fairness group ‘Higher Capital’ and face pay cuts, enforced time beyond regulation, lack of bonus scheme and different modifications. They have been protesting with John Lewis’s cleaners who’re combating to get a residing wage and higher working circumstances. Not like different employees within the retailer who’re instantly employed by the corporate as ‘companions’ and share within the earnings via a bonus scheme, cleaners are outsourced to a cleansing firm and paid lower than a pittance, with unsocial hours and poor circumstances of service. John Lewis administration wash their palms and say it it nothing to do with them.
Metropolis Hyperlink & Cleaners at John Lewis
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