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Photo of the Day: Keep Hope Alive

Taken at Saturday’s Day of Solidarity and Defiance rally in Trafalgar Square by charliedotgilbert.

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Day of Solidarity and Defiance in Trafalgar Square Tomorrow

Show support for protestors in Egypt and several other countries in North Africa and the Middle East, demanding freedom, their basic human rights and immediate reform.

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50,000 Students Protest In Central London

Photo by hayjane The NUS estimates over 50,000 people are protesting in central London right now. Students and lecturers are marching over plans to increase tuition fees to up to £9k a year from 2012, and remove government funding from some courses entirely. The Guardian’s …

Morris Men doing their thing, with protesters doing their thing in the background. Photo by Dave.

In Pictures: Take Back Parliament Rally & Westminster Day Of Dance In Trafalgar Square

Yesterday afternoon we popped along to check out the colourful proposition of a purple ‘Take Back Parliament’ rally for electoral reform sharing Trafalgar Square with several troupes of Morris Dancers participating in the Westminster Day of Dance. Both groups, despite their evident surprise at the …

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In Pictures: G20 Put People First March

The Put People First march was held on Saturday – the first of the G20 protests. An estimated 35,000 people took to the cold and grey streets of London to demand action on climate change, poverty and jobs. All images from the Londonist Flickr pool.

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Photographer Not a Terrorist

Wearing stickers reading “I’m a Photographer NOT a Terrorist”, hundreds of photographers gathered in front of New Scotland Yard yesterday to exercise their simple right of taking a photo. The media event was organised to highlight the threat of a new UK law which could …

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To Jerusalem, From England’s Green And Pleasant Land

Fancy a trip to Israel? But don’t fancy lining up at LHR to pile onto a tedious flight? This might be what you’re looking for: a car rally from London to Jerusalem – in vintage vehicles, no less! As part of the State of Israel’s …

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Public Trial: The Rape of Justice

The stats continue to astound: 1 in 6 women has been raped 2 women are murdered each week by a partner or ex-partner 98 percent of domestic violence goes unreported 50 percent of women seeking asylum in Britain are fleeing rape U.S. researchers estimate that …