AN ENGLISH JOURNEY
Photographer John Angerson is making a pictoral odessey around England to commemorate the 75th Anniversary of J B Priestley’s “An English Journey”. Here are his photos of Swindon.
Carpeo Ltd is a 2500 square foot Call centre with 130 employees, Swindon © John Angerson
Lish Fernandes, call centre worker and finalist in the Miss Wiltshire Beauty contest, Swindon © John Angerson
From Swindon Roundabouts
On the subject of photographs, Louise is building up a brilliant library of pictures of labour movement events and protests, that is available here. There is another great collection here from Paddy Garcia.
And not forgetting that one of the diffences between blogging and journalism is that blogs allow shameless self promotion, Richard has photos of New York to remind us of his recent success at the important Left Forum event.
An interesting project Andy, but a direct link to Angerson’s website –rather than a link from your selection of a selection to the selection itself, from which we can finally access the project as whole — might be an idea.
Comment by paulm — 26 April, 2009 @ 10:19 am
A library of protest pictures .. can’t wait.
Comment by Moha — 26 April, 2009 @ 10:24 am
So, Moha turns out to be just another troll.
Comment by external bulletin — 26 April, 2009 @ 11:04 am
Isn’t Moha from Nimbin, New South Wales?
That’s one wacky place - so, not just any other troll!
Comment by Strategist — 26 April, 2009 @ 11:15 am
About the photo, reminded that in “The Office”, “Swindon” is the other, rival location of Wernham Hogg to Slough, which is rather better performing, to David Brent’s chagrin.
Comment by Strategist — 26 April, 2009 @ 11:23 am
Strategist - I dunno, someone who takes every opportunity just to post “oh, another protest” or a variation thereof is pretty much a troll, even if a wacky one!
Comment by external bulletin — 26 April, 2009 @ 11:31 am
#6 I imagine Moha as a Fabulous Furry Freak Brother toking on some massive camberwell carrot in a sub-tropical earthly paradise, and just saying the first thing that comes into his head. And as such, cut him some slack…… (please don’t disabuse me, Moha!)
Comment by Strategist — 26 April, 2009 @ 11:48 am
External BULLSHITTER
You really need to get your dictionary out. I’m an anti-protestor. I said this before .. they are a waste of time when people should be organising themselves into communes and cooperatives. I don’t call that trolling, that’s real poignant messaging.
Thanx for the strategical support Stratgist.
Comment by Moha — 26 April, 2009 @ 11:52 am
Yeah, you’re not a troll at all.
Comment by external bulletin — 26 April, 2009 @ 12:42 pm
Moha,
Tell me more about your Australian commune mate?
Are you the guru/leader?
Do you get first pick of all the ladies?
Comment by gimme some lovin' — 26 April, 2009 @ 2:15 pm
There is no guru crap and no wife swapping in our commune… but I can’t speak for next door.
Comment by Moha — 26 April, 2009 @ 11:31 pm
who does the washing up?
Comment by Andy Newman — 26 April, 2009 @ 11:37 pm
Ok, so tell me about the commune next door?
(And what’s wrong with free love baby?)
Comment by gimme some lovin' — 26 April, 2009 @ 11:52 pm
in my ideal commune there’d be a free love rota so everyone has an equal right.
Or maybe everyone could have a turn at being guru for the day?
Comment by gimme some lovin' — 27 April, 2009 @ 12:00 am
#14 But what about the washing up in your ideal commune?
Comment by anticapitalista — 27 April, 2009 @ 12:34 am
Looks like you need to get together with some like-minded people.
Comment by Moha — 27 April, 2009 @ 3:54 am
I don’t know who Moha is, but I know this person’s views aren’t necessarily represetative of people who live in and around Nimbin, including it’s “communes” (I believe the PC term is “intentional communities”), and that some of the assumptions about sexism etc are quite silly, or at least very 70s.
I’ve lived about 25km from Nimbin, in the regional centre and university town of Lismore, since 1997. While it’s true that there’s plenty of sexism, separatist illusions and general drug-fuckedness about in Nimbin, there’s also plenty of people involved in progressive political action, in the Greens, Labor Party, movement groups, even a couple of Socialist Alliance members.
The region’s hippies pioneered forest blockades in the late 1970s, making a big controbution to the conservation of swathes of native forests accross Australia.
These days a typical community member is likely to work as a teacher and be active in their union, and live there because it’s beautiful and relatively cheap, as much as seeing this as per we changing the world. Younger members are generally quite leftist, though some who’ve grown up on such places can be smug prats.
I thought more about the possibilities of a dialectical rather dichotomous relationship between “lifestylism” and mass politics last year, when Nimbin-based permaculturalists (with help from others including the DSP) brought the Cuban Roberto Perez to Australia, attracting an astounding 5500 people to a tour and getting many thinking about how “positive small scale change”, to last and to be generalized, actually requires the working class and allies to seize state power.
Andy might also be interested in Lismore very prolific use of roundabouts, which we’ve used in political actions a couple of times over the years, but I’ll relate that another time.
The region’s “hippies” were global pioneers of forest blocaking in the late 1970s,
Comment by Nick Fredman — 27 April, 2009 @ 11:13 am
Thank you very much Nick. I’ve been trying to tell these guys for ages that it isn’t hippies and dope and free sex. They wont listen. Positive small scale change. great words I need your help. I’ve told there is a nurse and a teacher in my commune and that we live in separate house .. but they don’t listen. They just want to take the piss.
Oh yea no one has one representative view of everyone in Nimbin .. mine is my own and so is yours. No representation except ourselves.
Keep them posted.
Comment by Moha — 27 April, 2009 @ 12:56 pm
#17 Nick says: “some who’ve grown up on such places can be smug prats.”
Moha, did you grow up there?
Comment by Andy Newman — 27 April, 2009 @ 1:09 pm
Andy where did you grow up?
Comment by Moha — 27 April, 2009 @ 2:10 pm
I never did
Comment by Andy Newman — 27 April, 2009 @ 2:11 pm
Never mind Moha I think all they have in England are damp, smelly squats populated by clones of Neil from the Young Ones. Nimbin’s communities are more like a cross between Hobbiton and a leafy suburb (some having their own shop and pre-school) i.e. not unpleasant mixes of older hippies and their radical and/or smug children (and now grandchildren), and a chunk of the white collar proletariat of the region commuting each day in their late model Suburu wagons.
It is a shame to be “anti-protesting” (apart from the irrationality of being a priori opposed to something which has demonstrably worked in many instances), because you’d presumably be boycotting this weekend’s “Annual Nimbin Mardi Grass and Cannabis Drug Law Reform Rally”, a political (in parts) event that attracts several times the population of the town.
Comment by Nick Fredman — 27 April, 2009 @ 2:15 pm
” think all they have in England are damp, smelly squats populated by clones of Neil from the Young Ones”
well, you have to have a dream.
Comment by Andy Newman — 27 April, 2009 @ 2:17 pm
Ok Moha and Nick, we’re taking the piss a little bit, but to be honest, what you’re doing all sounds really good - best of luck to you!
(But protesting is worthwhile too Moha)
Comment by gimme some lovin' — 27 April, 2009 @ 2:25 pm
I’m against protest people. people who just protest and don’t actually do anything. They march and think that’s it.. nothing else happens. They think they are actually vhanging the world. Nothing really changes inthose protests. They need to be shaken up Nick, that real change can be done. And all they want to do it is take the piss and go on another silly march.
Comment by Moha — 27 April, 2009 @ 2:26 pm
yea I’ll be hanging loose on the main street this saturday meet a few old mates
Comment by Moha — 27 April, 2009 @ 2:29 pm
But Moha
How do you know what we do?
Comment by Andy Newman — 27 April, 2009 @ 2:37 pm
my comment was deleted????
Comment by Richard Seymour — 27 April, 2009 @ 10:35 pm
Andy until you set up a commune or a cooperative you don’t do anything. Lots of hot air.
Comment by Moha — 27 April, 2009 @ 10:46 pm
Well recently I have represented a few people as their trade union rep who would have lost their jobs, and i saved their livelihoods.
Is that hot air?
Comment by Andy Newman — 27 April, 2009 @ 10:50 pm
That’s good Andy but long term what’s the future?
Comment by Moha — 28 April, 2009 @ 12:53 am