Thousands of antifascists, trade unionists and members of the local community marched in victory through Whitechapel today after the English Defence League failed in its bid to demonstrate in Tower Hamlets.

Only around 600 members of EDL made it to their final rally point – at Aldgate, outside the Tower Hamlets borough boundary in East London.

The racists and fascists of the EDL had bragged that they were coming to the heart of Tower Hamlets – “marching into the lion’s den” in the multiracial, multicultural borough. Despite a national mobilisation, they failed utterly.

Electric

Instead the day belonged to antifascists and antiracists, with an electric atmosphere of solidarity as white, black and Asian people, of all religions and none, came together.

Throughout the day, the antiracists gathered, with speeches, trade union banners, flags and music at the UAF/United East End protest close to East London Mosque, with anti-EDL protesters and local people also gathered directly outside the mosque and occupying key road junctions and streets to make sure EDL supporters could not enter the borough.

The groups converged at the junction of Whitechapel Road and Commercial Street in the afternoon and cheered the news that EDL leader “Tommy Robinson” had been arrested, along with 72 other EDL members before the racists and fascists were escorted away by police.

Railworkers

The first blow against the EDL was struck early by the RMT railworkers’ union, which prevented the organisation’s planned “muster” at Liverpool Street station, by threatening to close the station down if the violent racists were allowed to gather there.

They had already been refused any venue in Tower Hamlets, including Sainsbury’s car park.

The EDL were instead forced to gather at Kings Cross – after their fallback plan to meet at pubs in Euston was scuppered when the pubs declared they would not host the racists either. Their journey south was then held up when RMT members closed the tube station.

The EDL were eventually escorted by police to Aldgate. A group of EDL members, who went direct to a pub in Liverpool Street, showed the organisation’s violent character, throwing flash bombs, attempting to attack passers by and setting fire to a journalist who was reporting events.

Chanting

But the EDL were unable to enter Tower Hamlets, instead moving through the City of London to their rally point.

Tommy Robinson – who arrived at the EDL event disgracefully dressed up as a rabbi – was arrested there, sparking more scuffles between the EDL and police.

When the EDL had left the area, the antiracist protestors marched in their thousands back down Whitechapel Road, chanting “Whose streets? Our streets!” and “Black and white unite and fight, smash the EDL”.

As the march passed the East London Mosque, demostrators broke into spontaneous applause.

The mosque is the symbol of the area’s Muslim community – the particular target of the EDL’s anti-Muslim racism.

Afterwards, UAF national officer Martin Smith said:

Today we have won. We haven’t had anybody arrested. We have stopped the EDL coming into this borough. Tommy Robisnon has been arrested. We have marched on the streets today, the EDL have gone and we have won.

Speakers

The UAF/United East End demo had earlier heard from speakers including CWU deputy general secretary Tony Kearns, East London Mosque’s Dilowar Khan, former MEP Glyn Ford, veteran local antifascist Phil Maxwell, Terry Stewart of LGBT group Out East, former council leader Phil Maxwell and a range of other local trade union and community representatives.

Former mayor of London Ken Livingstone sent a message of support, saying: “This is a fitting response to those who peddle hatred and fear.”

Musicians and DJs added to the wonderful atmosphere of unity and solidarity, with trade union banners from all over the country lining the street.

Brilliant

The UAF/United East End mobilisation was called because it was clear that the EDL still intended to come to Tower Hamlets for a static demonstration, despite the home office ban on marching.

The aim was to show the greatest possible opposition to the racists and fascists and ensure they could not threaten the borough’s multiracial, multicultural community.

Today’s brilliant day of antiracist, antifascist solidarity showed why that was right.

For more information and further stories check out www.uaf.org.uk and www.socialistworker.co.uk

This is the Fallback Cocktail, a cocktail created by Sasha Petraske around 2011 for the autumn menu of the John Dory Oyster Bar in Manhattan, New York City. According to Lucinda Sterling who worked with Petraske at Milk & Honey, this drink is the "perfect indulgence" to go with the restaurant's "Parker House" rolls. Petraske would repeatedly use a split-base of rye whiskey and aged apple brandy for "harvest" cocktails like the Harvest Old Fashioned and the Harvest Sour. The Fallback cocktail is a fine tuned "harvest" manhattan. In place of some of the vermouth, there is Amaro Nonino which brings its herbal and orange flavors. Instead of the more spice focused Angostura bitters, Petraske also substitutes on Peychaud's for more herbal notes. More so than most manhattan variations, all of these ingredients "adhere" to each other for a cocktail that's greater than the sum of its parts. It's an refined fall cocktail that isn't trying to hit you over the head with how "autumny" it is.

1 oz rye whiskey

1 oz aged apple brandy (I particularly love Copper & Kings Floodwall)

0.5 oz Amaro Nonino

0.5 oz Carpano Antica sweet vermouth

2-3 dashes Peychaud's bitters

Combine all of the ingredients into a mixing glass. Add ice and stir until arctic cold. Strain into a chilled rocks glass over a large single cube of ice. Garnish with an orange peel.

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Thousands of antifascists, trade unionists and members of the local community marched in victory through Whitechapel today after the English Defence League failed in its bid to demonstrate in Tower Hamlets.

Only around 600 members of EDL made it to their final rally point – at Aldgate, outside the Tower Hamlets borough boundary in East London.

The racists and fascists of the EDL had bragged that they were coming to the heart of Tower Hamlets – “marching into the lion’s den” in the multiracial, multicultural borough. Despite a national mobilisation, they failed utterly.

Electric

Instead the day belonged to antifascists and antiracists, with an electric atmosphere of solidarity as white, black and Asian people, of all religions and none, came together.

Throughout the day, the antiracists gathered, with speeches, trade union banners, flags and music at the UAF/United East End protest close to East London Mosque, with anti-EDL protesters and local people also gathered directly outside the mosque and occupying key road junctions and streets to make sure EDL supporters could not enter the borough.

The groups converged at the junction of Whitechapel Road and Commercial Street in the afternoon and cheered the news that EDL leader “Tommy Robinson” had been arrested, along with 72 other EDL members before the racists and fascists were escorted away by police.

Railworkers

The first blow against the EDL was struck early by the RMT railworkers’ union, which prevented the organisation’s planned “muster” at Liverpool Street station, by threatening to close the station down if the violent racists were allowed to gather there.

They had already been refused any venue in Tower Hamlets, including Sainsbury’s car park.

The EDL were instead forced to gather at Kings Cross – after their fallback plan to meet at pubs in Euston was scuppered when the pubs declared they would not host the racists either. Their journey south was then held up when RMT members closed the tube station.

The EDL were eventually escorted by police to Aldgate. A group of EDL members, who went direct to a pub in Liverpool Street, showed the organisation’s violent character, throwing flash bombs, attempting to attack passers by and setting fire to a journalist who was reporting events.

Chanting

But the EDL were unable to enter Tower Hamlets, instead moving through the City of London to their rally point.

Tommy Robinson – who arrived at the EDL event disgracefully dressed up as a rabbi – was arrested there, sparking more scuffles between the EDL and police.

When the EDL had left the area, the antiracist protestors marched in their thousands back down Whitechapel Road, chanting “Whose streets? Our streets!” and “Black and white unite and fight, smash the EDL”.

As the march passed the East London Mosque, demostrators broke into spontaneous applause.

The mosque is the symbol of the area’s Muslim community – the particular target of the EDL’s anti-Muslim racism.

Afterwards, UAF national officer Martin Smith said:

Today we have won. We haven’t had anybody arrested. We have stopped the EDL coming into this borough. Tommy Robisnon has been arrested. We have marched on the streets today, the EDL have gone and we have won.

Speakers

The UAF/United East End demo had earlier heard from speakers including CWU deputy general secretary Tony Kearns, East London Mosque’s Dilowar Khan, former MEP Glyn Ford, veteran local antifascist Phil Maxwell, Terry Stewart of LGBT group Out East, former council leader Phil Maxwell and a range of other local trade union and community representatives.

Former mayor of London Ken Livingstone sent a message of support, saying: “This is a fitting response to those who peddle hatred and fear.”

Musicians and DJs added to the wonderful atmosphere of unity and solidarity, with trade union banners from all over the country lining the street.

Brilliant

The UAF/United East End mobilisation was called because it was clear that the EDL still intended to come to Tower Hamlets for a static demonstration, despite the home office ban on marching.

The aim was to show the greatest possible opposition to the racists and fascists and ensure they could not threaten the borough’s multiracial, multicultural community.

Today’s brilliant day of antiracist, antifascist solidarity showed why that was right.

For more information and further stories check out www.uaf.org.uk and www.socialistworker.co.uk

see notes for more details on this body, and i'll have a review up on ph.brhfl.com soon a little review is now ready for reading right here. all in all, this is a pretty impressive camera. it's large by my standards, but small by those of many. for as much functionality is crammed in, i guess it earns its size. fully electronic, no mechanical fallback whatsoever. full range of p,a,s,m exposure modes, buttons for shutter speed selection. no program shift. shutter range from 15" to 1/2000" (plus bulb). decent, though not necessarily complete, readout in finder. shutter fires at 1/1000" until frame one, meaning you probably lose frame zero, odd quirk. feel is pretty solid, but nothing like, say, an mx. shutter sound is rather heavenly. all in all, a pretty sweet camera. the meter switch is really pretty bad on mine, which is a shame.

"Questioning the Magic Donkey..." Gotta love the Flickr teams' sense of humor. This was the message I received as I was waiting for the Uploader to load. Too funny!

Admittedly, this is a fallback shot, having run short on time last night, but I did like the halo around the flame, as well as the appearance of the candle floating in darkness.

{Lightbox, go ahead and skip it! - Don't type L}

Thank you for stopping by, looking and commenting. I'll be wading into your 'stream as well.

Call me crazy, but I chose a phone - a landline phone - for this week's photo theme. It's held me close to people I care deeply about and who are no longer here. We have many ways of communicating these days, but which method keeps the strong ties strong? The landline has also connected me when mobile phone masts fail. It's good to look around us and take a second look at what we take for granted. What would our lives be like without them? I love using FaceTime now, but when you don't have the bandwidth for images, it's nice to have a fallback.

The purpose of my September 2017 trip to Philadelphia was to experience the remanufactured PCC IIs used on the 15 service from Haddington to Port Richmond. Arriving on the train from New York, I noted construction equipment parked on the tram tracks on the Girard Bridge over the Schuylkill River. Not a good sign!

However, in Philadelphia I picked up a timetable leaflet effective September 3, 2017 which proclaimed “New on this route….. Return to Regular Operation” alongside a picture of a PCC. I caught the Market – Frankford subway / elevated line to 63rd Street and walked up to the Route 15 terminus….. …..to find a bus awaiting departure! Regular Operation?

To be honest, it was not unexpected and the fallback plan was to make my way to Callowhill Depot and photograph any PCCs that might be visible from the street. To get there I simply followed the tram tracks and soon found the depot. (2017 09 11_0017)

What a wonderful keepsake, I’ll take good care of it! - Michelle Miller, Assistant Director of Development

From an e-mail: Bob Thirsk was there and he signed your book and photo. He even commented that it was honor to sign next to Foreman and Anderson! ...

Thirsk was very impressed with your book. He spent roughly 4-5 minutes flipping through it and talking to me about it.

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When I saw that ret. Navy Capt. Michael J. Foreman was going to be appearing at event, I jumped at the chance to add another autograph to my "Space Shuttle: The First 20 Years" book.

Just don't confuse Mike Foreman with another NASA astronaut, Michael E. Fossum, as I almost did! (See Foreman's photo for an explanation of that.)

Foreman was the kickoff speaker for Case Western Reserve University's Laura and Alvin Siegal Lifelong Learning Program. He flew on two Shuttle missions, STS-123/Endeavour and STS-129/Atlantis.

I needed a page for Foreman to sign - I already had signatures on pages I used for Endeavour and Atlantis astronauts, although I could have started another page, showing the STS-68/Endeavour flight on the launch pad for Foreman.

Then I remembered this page, showing the International Space Station's solar arrays, which provided a nice contrast for Foreman's signature. Fitting, too, since his flights were ISS-related. 21 Jan. 2015, Cleveland, Ohio.

And since I needed a page for Clayton C. Anderson to sign - an astronaut who spent a little more than 150 days as part of Exp. 15 and 16, as well as flew on STS-131/Discovery to bring supplies to the International Space Station - I chose this page as well. 4 Mar. 2015, Des Moines Area Community College, W. Des Moines, Iowa.

Sergei K. Krikalev and Robert B. Thirsk were going to be at the same event, and a friend took my book along. What page for them to sign?

I didn't want my friend to flip through pages, so I also chose this page.

Krikalev canceled due to illness, but this was still a good page for Thirsk. While his first flight was on STS-78/Columbia, a Spacelab flight, he later became the first Canadian to fly a long-duration mission on ISS, as part of the Exp. 20/21 crews, so this was also a fitting page. 16 June 2015, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio.

I was looking for a page for Navy Cmdr. William A. Oefelein to sign; he was pilot of STS-116, a Discovery flight. My other Discovery page was getting full and there was but one other good but small image of that shuttle, docked to ISS - so this page was used as a fallback.

One Giant Leap held a private signing with Oefelein, who no longer signs through the mail, only in-person. However, circumstances dictated that material be sent to Oefelein, which was mailed back to OGL and from there to participants of the signing. Early August 2015, Wasilla, Alaska - the furthest my book has traveled to get signed!

Also signing: Navy Capt. Sunita L. "Suni" Williams, who came home on STS-117/Atlantis, the same flight that brought Clay Anderson to the International Space Station (which is why I chose this page, rather than the pages I have for Atlantis or Discovery astronauts.)

Williams launched on STS-116/Discovery as part of Expedition 14/15. She later launched and landed on Soyuz TMA-05M as part of Expediton 32/33.

With 50 hours and 40 minutes, Williams once again holds the record for total cumulative spacewalk time by a female astronaut. In addition, Williams, who has spent a total of 322 days in space on two missions, now ranks sixth on the all-time U.S. endurance list, and second all-time for a female astronaut. Concord, N.H., 7 May 2016.

Stephen K. Robinson also signed this page, at the 44th Space Congress. In addition to his four space shuttle missions - STS-85/Discovery; STS-95/Discovery; STS-114/Discovery and STS-130/Endeavour - Robinson served as a backup flight engineer to the ISS Expedition 4 crew. Cape Canaveral, 25 May 2016.

A last-minute OK to send the book for ret. Navy Cmdr. John B. Herrington led me to select this page, as he did a spacewalk on STS-113/Endeavour to activate and outfit the P1 Truss segment of the International Space Station.

And where else should Peggy A. Whitson sign, considering she flew on three ISS missions, among her other accomplishments? New York, NY, 24 Feb. 2018.

So, on this page: eight signatures. Anderson was the No. 180 overall signature in my book. Thirsk was the No. 190 overall signature.

A standing-room-only crowd recently attended a Writers Read event, celebrating the College’s 50-year anniversary with featured authors, activists and former COD students Eboo Patel and Leigh Stein reading and discussing their work.

(Press Photography Network/ Special to College of DuPage)

October 17th 2009 | The fallback Position. 534th day of occupation.

Avec l'arrivée de l'hiver, il est devenu difficile de dormir en bas, à l'air libre, là où tout le monde s'était installé depuis le début de l'occupation de Baudelique. Pour fuir le froid, les occupants se replient dans les étages jusque là interdits pour des raisons de sécurité.

From 2 May 2008 to 7 August 2010, during 828 days, claiming residence permits, the “Sans Papiers” isolated workers of the group CSP75 occupied successively two buildings in Paris: first a Trades Hall at rue Charlot, then a disused public building, at rue Baudelique.

After fourteen months spent at the Trade Hall, on 24 June 2009 they got violently evicted by the Trade Union CGT's internal police. They stayed during three weeks sleeping outside, along the Trades Hall before they led the new occupation at rue Baudelique, on 17 July 2009.

One year later, under pressure of authorities, the CSP75 accepted to voluntary put an end to this more than two years long occupation, after being promised each occupier's case be examined and every one get a chance to receive a residence permit. This is how the CSP75 got out of Baudelique on 7 August 2010, 828th and last day of the occupation.

Struggle goes on...

Pour obtenir leur régularisation, du 2 mai 2008 au 7 août 2010, pendant 828 jours, les Sans Papiers travailleurs isolés de la Coordination Sans Papiers 75 sont en occupation à Paris, d'abord à la Bourse du travail rue Charlot, puis dans des locaux désaffectés de la CPAM rue Baudelique.

Après quatorze mois d'occupation à la Bourse du travail, le 24 juin 2009 les Sans Papiers de la CSP75 en sont violemment expulsés par le SO de la CGT, à coups de matraques et de gaz lacrymogène. Ils s'installent sur le trottoir du boulevard du Temple, le long de la Bourse, dans des conditions très difficiles avant de lancer, le 17 juillet 2009, la nouvelle occupation de la rue Baudelique.

Un an plus tard, sous la pression des autorités, la CSP75 accepte de mettre volontairement fin à cette occupation longue de plus de deux ans contre la promesse que chaque occupant voie son dossier examiné et aie une chance d'être régularisé. C’est ainsi que la CS75 quitte Baudelique le 7 août 2010, 828e et dernier jour de l’occupation.

La lutte continue...

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Shooting the one tree at Lake Wanaka is a bit of a challenge, everyone shoots it, its in all the brochures , beautiful autumn colours and that tree, in that lake.

How to switch it round, change it up?

I try not to overuse B&W with landscapes, I love B&W, but it can be an easy fallback for images that dont really pop in colour. Well this looks OK in colour but has much more impact (IMO) in B&W.

The portrait aspect and low shooting position , along with the very stormy sky shifts this image far away from the twee classic Lake Wanaka shot I think.

The Supermarine Swift was a British single-seat jet fighter of the Royal Air Force (RAF), built by Supermarine during the 1950s. After a protracted development period, the Swift entered service as an interceptor, but, due to a spate of accidents, its service life was short. A photo reconnaissance variant resolved some of the Swift's teething problems.

The Swift evolved from a number of prototypes, the first being the Type 510, a prototype jet fighter. It was based on the Supermarine Attacker, a straight-wing Fleet Air Arm jet with a tailwheel undercarriage, modified with the addition of swept wings. The 510 first flew in 1948, a year after the first navalised prototype Attacker had flown. The Type 510 became the first British aircraft to have both swept wings and a swept tailplane. The Type 510 also had the distinction of becoming the first swept-wing aircraft to take off and land from an aircraft carrier, during trials for the Royal Navy's (RN) Fleet Air Arm (FAA). However, RN interest soon waned despite Supermarine's modifications to the aircraft to improve aspects of its performance.

The second aircraft in the ancestral lineage that led to the Swift was the Type 528, which first flew in March 1950. Soon after its first flight, many modifications were made to its structure and it was then designated the Type 535, making its first flight under this name in August 1950. The final variant was the Type 541, a pre-production model of the Swift for which the Air Ministry had placed an order of over one hundred as a fallback in case the Hawker Hunter programme failed. The Swift was also seen by the Ministry as a replacement for the Gloster Meteor in the role of air defence.

The Type 541 replaced its predecessors' Rolls-Royce Nene centrifugal flow turbojet engine with the axial-flow Rolls-Royce AJ.65 turbojet engine, which became the famed Avon series. The fuselage, which had been given a cross section suitable for the Nene engine, was not redesigned for the narrower AJ.65 and Avon engines, and retained a somewhat portly look. Two Type 541s were produced, the first prototype making its maiden flight in 1951 and the second the following year.

The aircraft is WK281 (FR.5) on display at the Tangmere Military Aviation Museum, Tangmere, England which is a museum located on the former site of RAF Tangmere, West Sussex. The museum was opened in June 1982. Many aerospace exhibits covering the First World War to the Cold War are on display including fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters and aircraft engines.

The museum aircraft are housed in two hangars with a small number on display externally. Several exhibits are on loan from the Royal Air Force Museum including the Hawker Hunter used by Neville Duke to break the airspeed record in 1953.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermarine_Swift

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangmere_Military_Aviation_Museum

This is my fallback concept. Wanted to capture an underwater image of myself breaking free. Put my DLSR in a fish tank weighed down with some bricks. Just too tough to get the focus and exposure right. Plus hitting the self-timer and trying to swim to a spot proved to be too difficult. Will try again, just need another person to assist. It was still fun to try, so now I know what I need to work on next time.

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Thousands of antifascists, trade unionists and members of the local community marched in victory through Whitechapel today after the English Defence League failed in its bid to demonstrate in Tower Hamlets.

Only around 600 members of EDL made it to their final rally point – at Aldgate, outside the Tower Hamlets borough boundary in East London.

The racists and fascists of the EDL had bragged that they were coming to the heart of Tower Hamlets – “marching into the lion’s den” in the multiracial, multicultural borough. Despite a national mobilisation, they failed utterly.

Electric

Instead the day belonged to antifascists and antiracists, with an electric atmosphere of solidarity as white, black and Asian people, of all religions and none, came together.

Throughout the day, the antiracists gathered, with speeches, trade union banners, flags and music at the UAF/United East End protest close to East London Mosque, with anti-EDL protesters and local people also gathered directly outside the mosque and occupying key road junctions and streets to make sure EDL supporters could not enter the borough.

The groups converged at the junction of Whitechapel Road and Commercial Street in the afternoon and cheered the news that EDL leader “Tommy Robinson” had been arrested, along with 72 other EDL members before the racists and fascists were escorted away by police.

Railworkers

The first blow against the EDL was struck early by the RMT railworkers’ union, which prevented the organisation’s planned “muster” at Liverpool Street station, by threatening to close the station down if the violent racists were allowed to gather there.

They had already been refused any venue in Tower Hamlets, including Sainsbury’s car park.

The EDL were instead forced to gather at Kings Cross – after their fallback plan to meet at pubs in Euston was scuppered when the pubs declared they would not host the racists either. Their journey south was then held up when RMT members closed the tube station.

The EDL were eventually escorted by police to Aldgate. A group of EDL members, who went direct to a pub in Liverpool Street, showed the organisation’s violent character, throwing flash bombs, attempting to attack passers by and setting fire to a journalist who was reporting events.

Chanting

But the EDL were unable to enter Tower Hamlets, instead moving through the City of London to their rally point.

Tommy Robinson – who arrived at the EDL event disgracefully dressed up as a rabbi – was arrested there, sparking more scuffles between the EDL and police.

When the EDL had left the area, the antiracist protestors marched in their thousands back down Whitechapel Road, chanting “Whose streets? Our streets!” and “Black and white unite and fight, smash the EDL”.

As the march passed the East London Mosque, demostrators broke into spontaneous applause.

The mosque is the symbol of the area’s Muslim community – the particular target of the EDL’s anti-Muslim racism.

Afterwards, UAF national officer Martin Smith said:

Today we have won. We haven’t had anybody arrested. We have stopped the EDL coming into this borough. Tommy Robisnon has been arrested. We have marched on the streets today, the EDL have gone and we have won.

Speakers

The UAF/United East End demo had earlier heard from speakers including CWU deputy general secretary Tony Kearns, East London Mosque’s Dilowar Khan, former MEP Glyn Ford, veteran local antifascist Phil Maxwell, Terry Stewart of LGBT group Out East, former council leader Phil Maxwell and a range of other local trade union and community representatives.

Former mayor of London Ken Livingstone sent a message of support, saying: “This is a fitting response to those who peddle hatred and fear.”

Musicians and DJs added to the wonderful atmosphere of unity and solidarity, with trade union banners from all over the country lining the street.

Brilliant

The UAF/United East End mobilisation was called because it was clear that the EDL still intended to come to Tower Hamlets for a static demonstration, despite the home office ban on marching.

The aim was to show the greatest possible opposition to the racists and fascists and ensure they could not threaten the borough’s multiracial, multicultural community.

Today’s brilliant day of antiracist, antifascist solidarity showed why that was right.

For more information and further stories check out www.uaf.org.uk and www.socialistworker.co.uk

Fly away across the universe.

These grass shots seem to be becoming a bit of a fallback for me. But I like this one. It makes me feel hopeful. Also, it contrasts with my last grass shot.

Thursday: Work sucked. Some people decided to sit on the benches outside, & I had to take a heavy, over-filled tray out there, & I didn't have any hands free to open the freaking door, & nobody bothered to help me, & then the big tea pot had been positioned to freaking face me & I shouldn't have to check this everytime, & as I tried to open the door the teapot poured hot tea all down my clevage. I wanted to cry. I was finally rescued by Phil Barratt, the photographer, seeing me & opening the door for me. & then I still had to serve the customers like there was nothing wrong. I then went & put ice & cold water down my clevage until it stopped freaking hurting. In the evening my Mom gave me my reading for tomorrow night at church. I read through it once, & then read it outloud while purposefully not pronouncing any 't', just to irritate my Mom.

Friday: Work was tiring. I'm getting more & more down about it. & then we my Dad picked me up today I said I just wanted a nice family dinner, & he reminded me that I couldn't because me & my Mom were going to a Women's World Day of Prayer thing at church. *Sigh* I'd forgotten all about it. I just figured I'd go in my work clothes but wear my hair down.

We parked by the petrol station, like I did with my Dad at Christmas, & then walked down the street to the church. I was already cracking jokes before we reached it - I just can't help myself. When we sat down I told my Mom I wanted to go home and have a long bath and wash the religion off of me. I'm actually more religious than I appear though. It was cold there. I forgot that. & my Mom freaked out cos she had a reading too & was nervous about the mic. You just forget about it & read - it's not a big deal. I had a pen with me, so I wrote notes to my Mom throughout the service. We laugh like school girls during these things. But we have fun. My reading was awesome, of course. It'd be embarrassing if it wasn't.

Afterward my Mom made me hang around for tea and biscuits, but the hot water in the church wasn't working or something, so there was no tea. We bought some organic chocolate, & people we knew complimented me on my reading, & how I must have done public speaking. 5-6 years of public speaking competitions, actually. It's so freaking awesome that I have that grounding though. We were speaking to Gwen at one point & she kept saying I should go travelling this year. Ugh. I'm now really against this. I have travelled more than most people, & definitely more than most in this town, & I'm just now a big fan of sightseeing, but I'll do it with m family, simply because it's time with them. But by myself, or with a friend I just think it'd be a waste of money. So yeah. Sssshut up.

When we got home we had drinks & we told my Dad about all the hilarious things that had happened. The really religious woman who was sat in the front pew started clapping along to a song, & she tried to do a procession with a tambourine at the beginning, but nobody joined in, so she just shuffled off to the back of the church. Then there was a really long pause as the vicar had disappeared somewhere. Some got up to speak at one point & the vicar had run off with the mic. & nobody knew the words to any of the songs (most of them were really obscure) & so there was just an odd droning or at some points nobody sang while the organ played on. It was so funny. & my notes on my program made it so much funnier. My Mom took it off me at the end so that nobody could see what I'd written.

312/365

I'd seen an idea in a photo mag about abstracts from oil and water, so enlisted Megan to help me drop some olive oil onto a glass plate of water. It didn't work, so we binned the water and tried dropping balsamic vinegar into oil instead. Megan lost interest at about that point, but I spent a while trying to create interesting droplet patterns before discovering that actually vigorously mixing created these rather cool bubble patterns. I don't do many abstracts, but maybe I should try some more - certainly a good fallback on a low inspiration day.

Transoceanic Series

( Resistance in Acid, Partisan Terror, Liguria, IT )

Panel g.

oils on poplar 48cm x 73.5cm vnframed / vnuarnished

Hunting Art Prize twenty15 svbmission

Breach the open air, pierced by a sorta intelligence that lends clarity to all the animated months’ combined easelworks, now the tovch-haruest clocking spring svmmer fallback. heard uoices haue been collected, encamped in the ear as ignorant armies* do. only once in awhile euery now and then their lyricality yield sense as they ’tempt-seize yov from yovr hovrs straightening perspectiual lines, lost in the intrauenovs yolk redefining what colovr is.

when yov think yov are so smart, less politely time embodies how yovr shovlders ache from strain - and still poised tense. bleary-eyed, the magnification settling the dvel between two worlds, three padlocks deep and behind the black gate exists a fire, the door is blameless, the girl’s crying inside from electronic jet-lag, from time-zoned complexities, and her parents are jealous and afraid that the painter, their creator, loues adjvstments more to heauing sloganed tits than the uery meat of meat itself. behind power lines and smvdges and follow and lose again and again the sovrce. yet first it mvst havnch fovr legged to the grovnd, yov rend, and strip, and man-handle and the form twists itself becavse it wants more than anything to get away from the bestiality of the tvbes vpright, in strokes discharged to retreat into the dimension of birch ... yet it’s oliue trees instead that catch the light in the distance, beyond this City of Pickvp Trvcks ... meantime an amatevr painter walks ovt of a bar with his svpposed masterpiece vnder his arm and heads right for the clay terrain of rooftops, this rvined apse, scales the crow’s nest. he kicks ovt the lattice with his wingtips, raise yovr lamplike eyes and peer ovt. today the glyph all yovr friends seem to haue missed yov see, sharper in the recyclable dawn of pigmentation - a qviet svpper, among long drinks, a tease of conuersation, yov’ue bvilt more than jvst a motherfvckin’ sandwich from sawdvst with those hands and raw fingertips. straight lips gesso across a smile, nonetheles dammit its fvlness is knowingly felt, becavse this is the inuisible regalia of two worlds when they combine: becavse the can reads TONNO GENOVA.

yes. yes. what took an amatevr months, will consvme a little less of his logic and fire, seasons in the fvtvre. for months we’ue allowed ovrselues few recreations beside all those disciplines yovr friends deem absvrdities. what are yovr conceits? are yov prepared to strip? motherfvcker, are yov?

yes, euerything, all for the sake of what colovr is.

- *M. Arnold

British Real Photograph postcard, no. 81. Photo: Warner Bros.

May McAvoy (1899-1984) was an American actress of the silent screen, best known as Esther in the classic epic Ben-Hur (Fred Niblo, 1925).

Born in New York City in 1899, within a well-to-do family that owned and operated a livery stable, May left school at the age of 17 to act in her first role in the film Hate by Walter Richard Stahl. From then she had small parts, even uncredited roles in films, for various Californian film companies, until she did a few films for the J. Stuart Blackton Company. Blackton, the co-founder of and regular director at Vitagraph, had started his own production company in 1917. After two smaller parts in films for the company, she got her first lead in The House of the Tolling Bell (1920), a mystery film about a haunted house, directed by Blackton himself. Blackton let her star again, again opposite Bruce Gordon, in The Forbidden Valley (1920). In 1921 she acted e.g. in Chester M. Franklin's A Private Scandal, which script had been purposely written by Hector Turnbull for McAvoy. The film was the first of a series of seven films at Realart Pictures, in which McAvoy constantly starred, directed either by Frank O'Connor or William Desmond Taylor. The apparent success of these films convinced Paramount to lure her away with a contract. Petite as she was, McAvoy was independent enough to defend her interests.

In 1922 May McAvoy started to act at Paramount/ Famous Players-Lasky, where she already had done an occasional film in the past. It was William C. DeMille who mostly directed her at Paramount: in Clarence (1922), starring Wallace Reid and Agnes Ayres, Grumpy (1923), starring Theodore Roberts, Only 38 (1923), in which she herself had the lead, and The Bedroom Window (1924), another starring role with Malcolm McGregor and Ricardo Cortez as her co-stars, and probably McAvoy's last film for Paramount. In 1923 McAvoy got into a row with director-producer Cecil B. DeMille, because she refused the role in his film Adam's Rib, as it meant her hair would be bobbed and she had to show partial nudity. Instead, she complained parts she wanted were given to other actresses: to Betty Bronson in Peter Pan and to Betty Compson in Little Minister. After she had been suspended, she bought off her contract and started freelancing.

This didn't mean a fallback at all, as May McAvoy managed to play memorable parts in e.g. The Enchanted Cottage (John S. Robertson, 1924) starring and produced by Richard Barthelmess, Tessie (Dallas M. Fitzgerald, 1925) and in particular Lady Windermere's Fan (Ernst Lubitsch, 1925) with Ronald Colman, while McAvoy replaced Gertrude Olmstead in her best known silent film, MGM's classic super production Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (Fred Niblo 1925). McAvoy played Esther, the love interest of the title character, played by Ramon Novarro. Her former rival at Paramount, Betty Bronson, would play the small part of the Virgin Mary. Two years after, McAvoy had an important part in what is often credited as the first sound feature, The Jazz Singer (Alan Crossland 1927), which, actually, was a part-talkie, in which most actors, including McAvoy, did not talk yet. She played Mary, girlfriend of the male lead, played by singer-actor Al Jolson.

Afterward, May McAvoy did act in all-talkie movies, such as The Lion and the Mouse (Lloyd Bacon, 1928), and The Terror (Roy Del Ruth, 1928), shot at Warner's studio in Burbank with failing technology, distorting her voice. Not so much because of her voice, but on request of her new (1929) husband, Maurice Cleary, banker and treasurer of United Artists, she withdrew to private life and took care of their son, Patrick (1932-2012). Despite some sources write they remained married until his death, English Wikipedia has convincing proof they divorced in 1940. It also explains that in 1940 McAvoy went back to the set, but had to satisfy with bit parts. Hollywood was not kind to its former stars. Still, until 1959 she had small parts, even uncredited ones - her last part being an extra in the remake of Ben-Hur (1959) by William Wyler, himself a former assistant-director on the silent version. May McAvoy died on April 26, 1984, in Los Angeles, as the consequence of a heart attack one year earlier. She was interred in the Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City. May McAvoy has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1731 Vine Street.

Sources: Dave Lobosco on greatentertainersarchives.blogspot.com/2013/07/may-mcavoy..., Wikipedia (English and German), and IMDb.

Thousands of antifascists, trade unionists and members of the local community marched in victory through Whitechapel today after the English Defence League failed in its bid to demonstrate in Tower Hamlets.

Only around 600 members of EDL made it to their final rally point – at Aldgate, outside the Tower Hamlets borough boundary in East London.

The racists and fascists of the EDL had bragged that they were coming to the heart of Tower Hamlets – “marching into the lion’s den” in the multiracial, multicultural borough. Despite a national mobilisation, they failed utterly.

Electric

Instead the day belonged to antifascists and antiracists, with an electric atmosphere of solidarity as white, black and Asian people, of all religions and none, came together.

Throughout the day, the antiracists gathered, with speeches, trade union banners, flags and music at the UAF/United East End protest close to East London Mosque, with anti-EDL protesters and local people also gathered directly outside the mosque and occupying key road junctions and streets to make sure EDL supporters could not enter the borough.

The groups converged at the junction of Whitechapel Road and Commercial Street in the afternoon and cheered the news that EDL leader “Tommy Robinson” had been arrested, along with 72 other EDL members before the racists and fascists were escorted away by police.

Railworkers

The first blow against the EDL was struck early by the RMT railworkers’ union, which prevented the organisation’s planned “muster” at Liverpool Street station, by threatening to close the station down if the violent racists were allowed to gather there.

They had already been refused any venue in Tower Hamlets, including Sainsbury’s car park.

The EDL were instead forced to gather at Kings Cross – after their fallback plan to meet at pubs in Euston was scuppered when the pubs declared they would not host the racists either. Their journey south was then held up when RMT members closed the tube station.

The EDL were eventually escorted by police to Aldgate. A group of EDL members, who went direct to a pub in Liverpool Street, showed the organisation’s violent character, throwing flash bombs, attempting to attack passers by and setting fire to a journalist who was reporting events.

Chanting

But the EDL were unable to enter Tower Hamlets, instead moving through the City of London to their rally point.

Tommy Robinson – who arrived at the EDL event disgracefully dressed up as a rabbi – was arrested there, sparking more scuffles between the EDL and police.

When the EDL had left the area, the antiracist protestors marched in their thousands back down Whitechapel Road, chanting “Whose streets? Our streets!” and “Black and white unite and fight, smash the EDL”.

As the march passed the East London Mosque, demostrators broke into spontaneous applause.

The mosque is the symbol of the area’s Muslim community – the particular target of the EDL’s anti-Muslim racism.

Afterwards, UAF national officer Martin Smith said:

Today we have won. We haven’t had anybody arrested. We have stopped the EDL coming into this borough. Tommy Robisnon has been arrested. We have marched on the streets today, the EDL have gone and we have won.

Speakers

The UAF/United East End demo had earlier heard from speakers including CWU deputy general secretary Tony Kearns, East London Mosque’s Dilowar Khan, former MEP Glyn Ford, veteran local antifascist Phil Maxwell, Terry Stewart of LGBT group Out East, former council leader Phil Maxwell and a range of other local trade union and community representatives.

Former mayor of London Ken Livingstone sent a message of support, saying: “This is a fitting response to those who peddle hatred and fear.”

Musicians and DJs added to the wonderful atmosphere of unity and solidarity, with trade union banners from all over the country lining the street.

Brilliant

The UAF/United East End mobilisation was called because it was clear that the EDL still intended to come to Tower Hamlets for a static demonstration, despite the home office ban on marching.

The aim was to show the greatest possible opposition to the racists and fascists and ensure they could not threaten the borough’s multiracial, multicultural community.

Today’s brilliant day of antiracist, antifascist solidarity showed why that was right.

For more information and further stories check out www.uaf.org.uk and www.socialistworker.co.uk

Thousands of antifascists, trade unionists and members of the local community marched in victory through Whitechapel today after the English Defence League failed in its bid to demonstrate in Tower Hamlets.

Only around 600 members of EDL made it to their final rally point – at Aldgate, outside the Tower Hamlets borough boundary in East London.

The racists and fascists of the EDL had bragged that they were coming to the heart of Tower Hamlets – “marching into the lion’s den” in the multiracial, multicultural borough. Despite a national mobilisation, they failed utterly.

Electric

Instead the day belonged to antifascists and antiracists, with an electric atmosphere of solidarity as white, black and Asian people, of all religions and none, came together.

Throughout the day, the antiracists gathered, with speeches, trade union banners, flags and music at the UAF/United East End protest close to East London Mosque, with anti-EDL protesters and local people also gathered directly outside the mosque and occupying key road junctions and streets to make sure EDL supporters could not enter the borough.

The groups converged at the junction of Whitechapel Road and Commercial Street in the afternoon and cheered the news that EDL leader “Tommy Robinson” had been arrested, along with 72 other EDL members before the racists and fascists were escorted away by police.

Railworkers

The first blow against the EDL was struck early by the RMT railworkers’ union, which prevented the organisation’s planned “muster” at Liverpool Street station, by threatening to close the station down if the violent racists were allowed to gather there.

They had already been refused any venue in Tower Hamlets, including Sainsbury’s car park.

The EDL were instead forced to gather at Kings Cross – after their fallback plan to meet at pubs in Euston was scuppered when the pubs declared they would not host the racists either. Their journey south was then held up when RMT members closed the tube station.

The EDL were eventually escorted by police to Aldgate. A group of EDL members, who went direct to a pub in Liverpool Street, showed the organisation’s violent character, throwing flash bombs, attempting to attack passers by and setting fire to a journalist who was reporting events.

Chanting

But the EDL were unable to enter Tower Hamlets, instead moving through the City of London to their rally point.

Tommy Robinson – who arrived at the EDL event disgracefully dressed up as a rabbi – was arrested there, sparking more scuffles between the EDL and police.

When the EDL had left the area, the antiracist protestors marched in their thousands back down Whitechapel Road, chanting “Whose streets? Our streets!” and “Black and white unite and fight, smash the EDL”.

As the march passed the East London Mosque, demostrators broke into spontaneous applause.

The mosque is the symbol of the area’s Muslim community – the particular target of the EDL’s anti-Muslim racism.

Afterwards, UAF national officer Martin Smith said:

Today we have won. We haven’t had anybody arrested. We have stopped the EDL coming into this borough. Tommy Robisnon has been arrested. We have marched on the streets today, the EDL have gone and we have won.

Speakers

The UAF/United East End demo had earlier heard from speakers including CWU deputy general secretary Tony Kearns, East London Mosque’s Dilowar Khan, former MEP Glyn Ford, veteran local antifascist Phil Maxwell, Terry Stewart of LGBT group Out East, former council leader Phil Maxwell and a range of other local trade union and community representatives.

Former mayor of London Ken Livingstone sent a message of support, saying: “This is a fitting response to those who peddle hatred and fear.”

Musicians and DJs added to the wonderful atmosphere of unity and solidarity, with trade union banners from all over the country lining the street.

Brilliant

The UAF/United East End mobilisation was called because it was clear that the EDL still intended to come to Tower Hamlets for a static demonstration, despite the home office ban on marching.

The aim was to show the greatest possible opposition to the racists and fascists and ensure they could not threaten the borough’s multiracial, multicultural community.

Today’s brilliant day of antiracist, antifascist solidarity showed why that was right.

For more information and further stories check out www.uaf.org.uk and www.socialistworker.co.uk

Today did not go well in many ways.

There was a Tall ships Regatta in Dublin and my understanding that it would be on Saturday, Sunday and Monday. I visited on Saturday and was more than a little bit disappointed but my fallback was that I could photograph the ships leaving on Tuesday. On Sunday night I discover that the was cancelled and that the ships would make their own arrangements to set sail at noon on Monday.

Up until today i always chose Westlink Bridge as the best location from which to photograph the departing ships but this year I decided that Bull Island would be a better location. I decided to get the 130 bus and despite a number of problems I arrived at Bull island just before noon but the ships did begin to appear until bout thirty minutes later and because of a blue haze it was almost impossible to photograph them. The upside was that I met four other photographrs.

When I arrived at the bus stop to return home a bus was due within 9 minutes but it failed to arrive the next bus which was due twenty minutes later also failed to arrive at the bus stop so I had to wait about an hour for a bus and this really annoyed me.

Thousands of antifascists, trade unionists and members of the local community marched in victory through Whitechapel today after the English Defence League failed in its bid to demonstrate in Tower Hamlets.

Only around 600 members of EDL made it to their final rally point – at Aldgate, outside the Tower Hamlets borough boundary in East London.

The racists and fascists of the EDL had bragged that they were coming to the heart of Tower Hamlets – “marching into the lion’s den” in the multiracial, multicultural borough. Despite a national mobilisation, they failed utterly.

Electric

Instead the day belonged to antifascists and antiracists, with an electric atmosphere of solidarity as white, black and Asian people, of all religions and none, came together.

Throughout the day, the antiracists gathered, with speeches, trade union banners, flags and music at the UAF/United East End protest close to East London Mosque, with anti-EDL protesters and local people also gathered directly outside the mosque and occupying key road junctions and streets to make sure EDL supporters could not enter the borough.

The groups converged at the junction of Whitechapel Road and Commercial Street in the afternoon and cheered the news that EDL leader “Tommy Robinson” had been arrested, along with 72 other EDL members before the racists and fascists were escorted away by police.

Railworkers

The first blow against the EDL was struck early by the RMT railworkers’ union, which prevented the organisation’s planned “muster” at Liverpool Street station, by threatening to close the station down if the violent racists were allowed to gather there.

They had already been refused any venue in Tower Hamlets, including Sainsbury’s car park.

The EDL were instead forced to gather at Kings Cross – after their fallback plan to meet at pubs in Euston was scuppered when the pubs declared they would not host the racists either. Their journey south was then held up when RMT members closed the tube station.

The EDL were eventually escorted by police to Aldgate. A group of EDL members, who went direct to a pub in Liverpool Street, showed the organisation’s violent character, throwing flash bombs, attempting to attack passers by and setting fire to a journalist who was reporting events.

Chanting

But the EDL were unable to enter Tower Hamlets, instead moving through the City of London to their rally point.

Tommy Robinson – who arrived at the EDL event disgracefully dressed up as a rabbi – was arrested there, sparking more scuffles between the EDL and police.

When the EDL had left the area, the antiracist protestors marched in their thousands back down Whitechapel Road, chanting “Whose streets? Our streets!” and “Black and white unite and fight, smash the EDL”.

As the march passed the East London Mosque, demostrators broke into spontaneous applause.

The mosque is the symbol of the area’s Muslim community – the particular target of the EDL’s anti-Muslim racism.

Afterwards, UAF national officer Martin Smith said:

Today we have won. We haven’t had anybody arrested. We have stopped the EDL coming into this borough. Tommy Robisnon has been arrested. We have marched on the streets today, the EDL have gone and we have won.

Speakers

The UAF/United East End demo had earlier heard from speakers including CWU deputy general secretary Tony Kearns, East London Mosque’s Dilowar Khan, former MEP Glyn Ford, veteran local antifascist Phil Maxwell, Terry Stewart of LGBT group Out East, former council leader Phil Maxwell and a range of other local trade union and community representatives.

Former mayor of London Ken Livingstone sent a message of support, saying: “This is a fitting response to those who peddle hatred and fear.”

Musicians and DJs added to the wonderful atmosphere of unity and solidarity, with trade union banners from all over the country lining the street.

Brilliant

The UAF/United East End mobilisation was called because it was clear that the EDL still intended to come to Tower Hamlets for a static demonstration, despite the home office ban on marching.

The aim was to show the greatest possible opposition to the racists and fascists and ensure they could not threaten the borough’s multiracial, multicultural community.

Today’s brilliant day of antiracist, antifascist solidarity showed why that was right.

For more information and further stories check out www.uaf.org.uk and www.socialistworker.co.uk

Steve's birthday cake, from Barrel and Whisk. Our fallback for his birthdays in years past has been the seasonal chocolate raspberry cupcake from Trophy, so I decided to request a cake based on those flavors. Megan did a dark chocolate cake with freeze-dried raspberry buttercream, chocolate ganache and fresh raspberries. The inspiration for the appearance was a chocolate cake with blackberries and gold leaf on top that I found when searching for images. I'm actually not a huge fan of fresh raspberries by themselves, but I liked how this looked, with the berries, the ganache drips and a little gold luster. It was delicious too. Steve, who doesn't typically eat much birthday cake, had a small piece of it on two nights instead of just one.

Thousands of antifascists, trade unionists and members of the local community marched in victory through Whitechapel today after the English Defence League failed in its bid to demonstrate in Tower Hamlets.

Only around 600 members of EDL made it to their final rally point – at Aldgate, outside the Tower Hamlets borough boundary in East London.

The racists and fascists of the EDL had bragged that they were coming to the heart of Tower Hamlets – “marching into the lion’s den” in the multiracial, multicultural borough. Despite a national mobilisation, they failed utterly.

Electric

Instead the day belonged to antifascists and antiracists, with an electric atmosphere of solidarity as white, black and Asian people, of all religions and none, came together.

Throughout the day, the antiracists gathered, with speeches, trade union banners, flags and music at the UAF/United East End protest close to East London Mosque, with anti-EDL protesters and local people also gathered directly outside the mosque and occupying key road junctions and streets to make sure EDL supporters could not enter the borough.

The groups converged at the junction of Whitechapel Road and Commercial Street in the afternoon and cheered the news that EDL leader “Tommy Robinson” had been arrested, along with 72 other EDL members before the racists and fascists were escorted away by police.

Railworkers

The first blow against the EDL was struck early by the RMT railworkers’ union, which prevented the organisation’s planned “muster” at Liverpool Street station, by threatening to close the station down if the violent racists were allowed to gather there.

They had already been refused any venue in Tower Hamlets, including Sainsbury’s car park.

The EDL were instead forced to gather at Kings Cross – after their fallback plan to meet at pubs in Euston was scuppered when the pubs declared they would not host the racists either. Their journey south was then held up when RMT members closed the tube station.

The EDL were eventually escorted by police to Aldgate. A group of EDL members, who went direct to a pub in Liverpool Street, showed the organisation’s violent character, throwing flash bombs, attempting to attack passers by and setting fire to a journalist who was reporting events.

Chanting

But the EDL were unable to enter Tower Hamlets, instead moving through the City of London to their rally point.

Tommy Robinson – who arrived at the EDL event disgracefully dressed up as a rabbi – was arrested there, sparking more scuffles between the EDL and police.

When the EDL had left the area, the antiracist protestors marched in their thousands back down Whitechapel Road, chanting “Whose streets? Our streets!” and “Black and white unite and fight, smash the EDL”.

As the march passed the East London Mosque, demostrators broke into spontaneous applause.

The mosque is the symbol of the area’s Muslim community – the particular target of the EDL’s anti-Muslim racism.

Afterwards, UAF national officer Martin Smith said:

Today we have won. We haven’t had anybody arrested. We have stopped the EDL coming into this borough. Tommy Robisnon has been arrested. We have marched on the streets today, the EDL have gone and we have won.

Speakers

The UAF/United East End demo had earlier heard from speakers including CWU deputy general secretary Tony Kearns, East London Mosque’s Dilowar Khan, former MEP Glyn Ford, veteran local antifascist Phil Maxwell, Terry Stewart of LGBT group Out East, former council leader Phil Maxwell and a range of other local trade union and community representatives.

Former mayor of London Ken Livingstone sent a message of support, saying: “This is a fitting response to those who peddle hatred and fear.”

Musicians and DJs added to the wonderful atmosphere of unity and solidarity, with trade union banners from all over the country lining the street.

Brilliant

The UAF/United East End mobilisation was called because it was clear that the EDL still intended to come to Tower Hamlets for a static demonstration, despite the home office ban on marching.

The aim was to show the greatest possible opposition to the racists and fascists and ensure they could not threaten the borough’s multiracial, multicultural community.

Today’s brilliant day of antiracist, antifascist solidarity showed why that was right.

For more information and further stories check out www.uaf.org.uk and www.socialistworker.co.uk

On a warm afternoon in the heart of Brooklyn, distress calls flood the airwaves of a madman in full body armor terrorizing the streets. As NYPD clears the area of civilians, strategically placed bombs bring local government buildings crumbling to the ground. The NYPD special task force has arrived on the scene to find the assailant has placed a bio-weapon in one of the devastated buildings. Realizing the situation is beyond their ability – the commander decides to fallback and contacts the Commissioner…

…after receiving the SITREP by Task Force Commander Higgins; and appropriately grilling his team for their incompetence, the Commissioner calls in a personal favor to one of his poker buddies — a 3-Star general over at the Pentagon.

In less than an hour, COBALT Team arrives on the scene with their orders in-hand:DISARM AND DETAIN.

The following narration is a first-person perspective of that mission...cont' at bit.ly/1iwBymq

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

-- Lao Tzu

I should confess, I am not really a follower of that quote, because in real life I like to know where I am heading (had trips where there were meticulously detailed spreadsheets of what to eat for breakfast, where to wash stuff, how many coins the machine took, whether there's a microwave in hostel etc, etc.), and I would like to be on places on time (I get annoyed at people for delays, and if you don't hold your end of bargain and don't show up, you might as well hang yourself and spare my lecture ... ).

But plans get derailed, things go awry and you need to fallback on to something else. In my perfectionist trait, that's one thing I've learned with experience. If things are not going as per plan, just let it go and chill out ... No point in pulling your hair, that ain't gonna fix anything. Enjoy the adventure of the unknown :)

In this case it was destined to be such when I decided not to book campgrounds in Joshua. The only reservable ones were at the two ends of park, not where I wanted them. So I decided to try walk-in at the other sites which were situated towards the center of the park, conveniently close to most of the trails and points of interest. I mean how hard could it be ?

I couldn't have been any more wrong. By the time I drove and reached the park, I was welcomed by the familiar "all campgrounds full" sign board. Not something to be amused about, it was a long weekend, but ... So the other options were either to get a backcountry permit and backpack to no-where and camp in the desert or to drive and find a motel to crash for the night in the neighboring Twentynine palms. The day was cloudy and windy which meant staying out in the desert had no added benefits ... there won't be any stars to shoot. So I decided to head out to the town. May be I'll find something.

So I drove straight into the town (Finding a place to crash is always my first priority) and swung into the first small, cozy motel I saw. It was run by a nice lady of possibly mediterranean descent and it took me only the first few seconds of conversation to gather that she should be the owner as well. I am a people person (No, not the social kind, but the psychology kind, I can read the average person inside out without much effort ).

You can always tell by the way they talk if they own it or work there. The passion in the words cannot be faked. I asked her the same and she confirmed my doubts.

I had also noticed a couple of murals and stuff on my way in and broke into a casual conversation with her of what is around while she was filling in my details. And lo behold, I was handed down a wealth of information about what murals are where, brief history and even a small map with most of the stuff marked in order.

Alas, I had ran into an artsy-minded town in the middle of the desert.

Lao was right, too bad I'm still not his follower.

I managed to explore quite a few of the murals in between my trips to the park. While some of them were just that, - paintings on walls, Some were more complex form of art. As a person who likes abstractions, this was like opening another dimension in what I knew so far. Complex forms I hadn't conceived before. I had run onto an ilusion art by accident.

This one, is a part from John Pugh's "Valentine's day".

Here's a riddle for you. Which part of this shot is a real painting on the wall and which of these are three dimensional structures ?

Your eyes can deceive you; don't trust them.

-- Obi-wan Kenobi

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I snow-slithered around Columbus this morning looking for inspiration and, not finding any in the glove-compartment, or the trunk, I ended up back at my favourite old car lot downtown. There are fewer cars there than when the missus first told me about it, but it's still a wonderful place for a fallback photo opportunity!

Downtown, Columbus.

iPhone with Hipstamatic and Diptic.

Today did not go well in many ways.

There was a Tall ships Regatta in Dublin and my understanding that it would be on Saturday, Sunday and Monday. I visited on Saturday and was more than a little bit disappointed but my fallback was that I could photograph the ships leaving on Tuesday. On Sunday night I discover that the was cancelled and that the ships would make their own arrangements to set sail at noon on Monday.

Up until today i always chose Westlink Bridge as the best location from which to photograph the departing ships but this year I decided that Bull Island would be a better location. I decided to get the 130 bus and despite a number of problems I arrived at Bull island just before noon but the ships did begin to appear until bout thirty minutes later and because of a blue haze it was almost impossible to photograph them. The upside was that I met four other photographrs.

When I arrived at the bus stop to return home a bus was due within 9 minutes but it failed to arrive the next bus which was due twenty minutes later also failed to arrive at the bus stop so I had to wait about an hour for a bus and this really annoyed me.

Thousands of antifascists, trade unionists and members of the local community marched in victory through Whitechapel today after the English Defence League failed in its bid to demonstrate in Tower Hamlets.

Only around 600 members of EDL made it to their final rally point – at Aldgate, outside the Tower Hamlets borough boundary in East London.

The racists and fascists of the EDL had bragged that they were coming to the heart of Tower Hamlets – “marching into the lion’s den” in the multiracial, multicultural borough. Despite a national mobilisation, they failed utterly.

Electric

Instead the day belonged to antifascists and antiracists, with an electric atmosphere of solidarity as white, black and Asian people, of all religions and none, came together.

Throughout the day, the antiracists gathered, with speeches, trade union banners, flags and music at the UAF/United East End protest close to East London Mosque, with anti-EDL protesters and local people also gathered directly outside the mosque and occupying key road junctions and streets to make sure EDL supporters could not enter the borough.

The groups converged at the junction of Whitechapel Road and Commercial Street in the afternoon and cheered the news that EDL leader “Tommy Robinson” had been arrested, along with 72 other EDL members before the racists and fascists were escorted away by police.

Railworkers

The first blow against the EDL was struck early by the RMT railworkers’ union, which prevented the organisation’s planned “muster” at Liverpool Street station, by threatening to close the station down if the violent racists were allowed to gather there.

They had already been refused any venue in Tower Hamlets, including Sainsbury’s car park.

The EDL were instead forced to gather at Kings Cross – after their fallback plan to meet at pubs in Euston was scuppered when the pubs declared they would not host the racists either. Their journey south was then held up when RMT members closed the tube station.

The EDL were eventually escorted by police to Aldgate. A group of EDL members, who went direct to a pub in Liverpool Street, showed the organisation’s violent character, throwing flash bombs, attempting to attack passers by and setting fire to a journalist who was reporting events.

Chanting

But the EDL were unable to enter Tower Hamlets, instead moving through the City of London to their rally point.

Tommy Robinson – who arrived at the EDL event disgracefully dressed up as a rabbi – was arrested there, sparking more scuffles between the EDL and police.

When the EDL had left the area, the antiracist protestors marched in their thousands back down Whitechapel Road, chanting “Whose streets? Our streets!” and “Black and white unite and fight, smash the EDL”.

As the march passed the East London Mosque, demostrators broke into spontaneous applause.

The mosque is the symbol of the area’s Muslim community – the particular target of the EDL’s anti-Muslim racism.

Afterwards, UAF national officer Martin Smith said:

Today we have won. We haven’t had anybody arrested. We have stopped the EDL coming into this borough. Tommy Robisnon has been arrested. We have marched on the streets today, the EDL have gone and we have won.

Speakers

The UAF/United East End demo had earlier heard from speakers including CWU deputy general secretary Tony Kearns, East London Mosque’s Dilowar Khan, former MEP Glyn Ford, veteran local antifascist Phil Maxwell, Terry Stewart of LGBT group Out East, former council leader Phil Maxwell and a range of other local trade union and community representatives.

Former mayor of London Ken Livingstone sent a message of support, saying: “This is a fitting response to those who peddle hatred and fear.”

Musicians and DJs added to the wonderful atmosphere of unity and solidarity, with trade union banners from all over the country lining the street.

Brilliant

The UAF/United East End mobilisation was called because it was clear that the EDL still intended to come to Tower Hamlets for a static demonstration, despite the home office ban on marching.

The aim was to show the greatest possible opposition to the racists and fascists and ensure they could not threaten the borough’s multiracial, multicultural community.

Today’s brilliant day of antiracist, antifascist solidarity showed why that was right.

For more information and further stories check out www.uaf.org.uk and www.socialistworker.co.uk

It's the fallback (non-shoyu) chicken bento again! And assorted extras.

Please read more about this bento at my blog: happylittlebento.blogspot.com/2013/09/herby-chicken-lunch...

◆ Unrigged

◆ Resize in HUD

◆ 18 Textures for Beads&Moon Charms, 6 For Chain

◆ PBR&Fallback

◆ Left and Right Versions

◆ Copy/Modify/No Transfer

Now available in the Mainstore&on the Marketplace!

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Now available at the Veles Souls-Like Hunt, Oct 20 - Nov 10. All 4 items are L$25 each, copy/mod, and PBR only (no fallback).

Click here for the Landing Point and look for the lil' soul orbs!

Horned Hellmask

Obsidian Orb

This item has animated rings that rotate around the inner orb.

Rune Projector

This item has an animated face that shows different runes, can be pulled apart or resized and used how you like.

Soul Knight Doll

Has big/small versions for different avatars, L/R, and flickering particle soul inside.

Thousands of antifascists, trade unionists and members of the local community marched in victory through Whitechapel today after the English Defence League failed in its bid to demonstrate in Tower Hamlets.

Only around 600 members of EDL made it to their final rally point – at Aldgate, outside the Tower Hamlets borough boundary in East London.

The racists and fascists of the EDL had bragged that they were coming to the heart of Tower Hamlets – “marching into the lion’s den” in the multiracial, multicultural borough. Despite a national mobilisation, they failed utterly.

Electric

Instead the day belonged to antifascists and antiracists, with an electric atmosphere of solidarity as white, black and Asian people, of all religions and none, came together.

Throughout the day, the antiracists gathered, with speeches, trade union banners, flags and music at the UAF/United East End protest close to East London Mosque, with anti-EDL protesters and local people also gathered directly outside the mosque and occupying key road junctions and streets to make sure EDL supporters could not enter the borough.

The groups converged at the junction of Whitechapel Road and Commercial Street in the afternoon and cheered the news that EDL leader “Tommy Robinson” had been arrested, along with 72 other EDL members before the racists and fascists were escorted away by police.

Railworkers

The first blow against the EDL was struck early by the RMT railworkers’ union, which prevented the organisation’s planned “muster” at Liverpool Street station, by threatening to close the station down if the violent racists were allowed to gather there.

They had already been refused any venue in Tower Hamlets, including Sainsbury’s car park.

The EDL were instead forced to gather at Kings Cross – after their fallback plan to meet at pubs in Euston was scuppered when the pubs declared they would not host the racists either. Their journey south was then held up when RMT members closed the tube station.

The EDL were eventually escorted by police to Aldgate. A group of EDL members, who went direct to a pub in Liverpool Street, showed the organisation’s violent character, throwing flash bombs, attempting to attack passers by and setting fire to a journalist who was reporting events.

Chanting

But the EDL were unable to enter Tower Hamlets, instead moving through the City of London to their rally point.

Tommy Robinson – who arrived at the EDL event disgracefully dressed up as a rabbi – was arrested there, sparking more scuffles between the EDL and police.

When the EDL had left the area, the antiracist protestors marched in their thousands back down Whitechapel Road, chanting “Whose streets? Our streets!” and “Black and white unite and fight, smash the EDL”.

As the march passed the East London Mosque, demostrators broke into spontaneous applause.

The mosque is the symbol of the area’s Muslim community – the particular target of the EDL’s anti-Muslim racism.

Afterwards, UAF national officer Martin Smith said:

Today we have won. We haven’t had anybody arrested. We have stopped the EDL coming into this borough. Tommy Robisnon has been arrested. We have marched on the streets today, the EDL have gone and we have won.

Speakers

The UAF/United East End demo had earlier heard from speakers including CWU deputy general secretary Tony Kearns, East London Mosque’s Dilowar Khan, former MEP Glyn Ford, veteran local antifascist Phil Maxwell, Terry Stewart of LGBT group Out East, former council leader Phil Maxwell and a range of other local trade union and community representatives.

Former mayor of London Ken Livingstone sent a message of support, saying: “This is a fitting response to those who peddle hatred and fear.”

Musicians and DJs added to the wonderful atmosphere of unity and solidarity, with trade union banners from all over the country lining the street.

Brilliant

The UAF/United East End mobilisation was called because it was clear that the EDL still intended to come to Tower Hamlets for a static demonstration, despite the home office ban on marching.

The aim was to show the greatest possible opposition to the racists and fascists and ensure they could not threaten the borough’s multiracial, multicultural community.

Today’s brilliant day of antiracist, antifascist solidarity showed why that was right.

For more information and further stories check out www.uaf.org.uk and www.socialistworker.co.uk

The kit and its assembly:

This project was initially inspired by a set of decals from an ESCI A-4G which I had bought in a lot – I wondered if I could use it for a submission to the “In the navy” group build at whatifmodelers.com in early 2020. I considered an FJ-3M in Australian colors on this basis and had stashed away a Sword kit of that aircraft for this purpose. However, I had already built an FJ variant for the GB (a kitbashed mix of an F-86D and an FJ-4B in USMC colors), and was reluctant to add another Fury.

This spontaneously changed after (thanks to Corona virus quarantine…) I cleaned up one of my kit hoards and found a conversion set for a 1:72 CAC 27 from JAYS Model Kits which I had bought eons ago without a concrete plan. That was the eventual trigger to spin the RAN Fury idea further – why not a navalized version of the Avon Sabre for HMAS Melbourne?

The result is either another kitbash or a highly modified FJ-3M from Sword. The JAYS Model Kits set comes with a THICK sprue that carries two fuselage halves and an air intake, and it also offers a vacu canopy as a thin fallback option because the set is actually intended to be used together with a Hobby Craft F-86F.

While the parts, molded in a somewhat waxy and brittle styrene, look crude on the massive sprue, the fuselage halves come with very fine recessed engravings. And once you have cleaned the parts (NOTHING for people faint at heart, a mini drill with a saw blade is highly recommended), their fit is surprisingly good. The air intake was so exact that no putty was needed to blend it with the rest of the fuselage.

The rest came from the Sword kit and integrating the parts into the CAC 27 fuselage went more smoothly than expected. For instance, the FJ-3M comes with a nice cockpit tub that also holds a full air intake duct. Thanks to the slightly wider fuselage of the CAC 27, it could be mounted into the new fuselage halves without problems and the intake duct almost perfectly matches the intake frame from the conversion set. The tailpipe could be easily integrated without any mods, too. The fins had to be glued directly to the fuselage – but this is the way how the Sword kit is actually constructed! Even the FJ-3M’s wings match the different fuselage perfectly. The only modifications I had to make is a slight enlargement of the ventral wing opening at the front and at the read in order to take the deeper wing element from the Sword kit, but that was an easy task. Once in place, the parts blend almost perfectly into each other, just minor PSR was necessary to hide the seams!

Other mods include an extended front wheel well for the longer leg from the FJ-3M and a scratched arrester hook installation, made from wire, which is on purpose different from the Y-shaped hook of the Furies.

For the canopy I relied on the vacu piece that came with the JAYS set. Fitting it was not easy, though, it took some PSR to blend the windscreen into the rest of the fuselage. Not perfect, but O.K. for such a solution from a conversion set.

The underwing pylons were taken from the Sword kit, including the early Sidewinders. I just replaced the drop tanks – the OOB tanks are very wide, and even though they might be authentic for the FJ-3, I was skeptical if they fit at all under the wings with the landing gear extended? In order to avoid trouble and for a more modern look, I replaced them outright with more slender tanks, which were to mimic A-4 tanks (USN FJ-4s frequently carried Skyhawk tanks). They actually come from a Revell F-16 kit, with modified fins. The refueling probe comes from the Sword kit.

A last word about the Sword kit: much light, but also much shadow. While I appreciate the fine surface engravings, the recognizably cambered wings, a detailed cockpit with a two-piece resin seat and a pretty landing gear as well as the long air intake, I wonder why the creators totally failed to provide ANY detail of the arrester hook (there is literally nothing, as if this was a land-based Sabre variant!?) or went for doubtful solutions like a front landing gear that consists of five(!) single, tiny parts? Sadism? The resin seat was also broken (despite being packed in a seperate bag), and it did not fit into the cockpit tub at all. Meh!

the other day i was having an annoying/confusing time with people in my life, but the good thing that came out of it was that my friend Stephanie came out to go shooting with me. i always have fun shooting with her because she's enthusiastic about the whole thing and she always brings her own ideas (some quite elaborate) to the table. so since time was short before nightfall, we headed to the old fallback, balboa park, which always makes for nice pictures (plus i don't get thrown out for setting up light stands). about 10 minutes into shooting i completely forgot about the crappy beginning to my day; it was a good day.

Thousands of antifascists, trade unionists and members of the local community marched in victory through Whitechapel today after the English Defence League failed in its bid to demonstrate in Tower Hamlets.

Only around 600 members of EDL made it to their final rally point – at Aldgate, outside the Tower Hamlets borough boundary in East London.

The racists and fascists of the EDL had bragged that they were coming to the heart of Tower Hamlets – “marching into the lion’s den” in the multiracial, multicultural borough. Despite a national mobilisation, they failed utterly.

Electric

Instead the day belonged to antifascists and antiracists, with an electric atmosphere of solidarity as white, black and Asian people, of all religions and none, came together.

Throughout the day, the antiracists gathered, with speeches, trade union banners, flags and music at the UAF/United East End protest close to East London Mosque, with anti-EDL protesters and local people also gathered directly outside the mosque and occupying key road junctions and streets to make sure EDL supporters could not enter the borough.

The groups converged at the junction of Whitechapel Road and Commercial Street in the afternoon and cheered the news that EDL leader “Tommy Robinson” had been arrested, along with 72 other EDL members before the racists and fascists were escorted away by police.

Railworkers

The first blow against the EDL was struck early by the RMT railworkers’ union, which prevented the organisation’s planned “muster” at Liverpool Street station, by threatening to close the station down if the violent racists were allowed to gather there.

They had already been refused any venue in Tower Hamlets, including Sainsbury’s car park.

The EDL were instead forced to gather at Kings Cross – after their fallback plan to meet at pubs in Euston was scuppered when the pubs declared they would not host the racists either. Their journey south was then held up when RMT members closed the tube station.

The EDL were eventually escorted by police to Aldgate. A group of EDL members, who went direct to a pub in Liverpool Street, showed the organisation’s violent character, throwing flash bombs, attempting to attack passers by and setting fire to a journalist who was reporting events.

Chanting

But the EDL were unable to enter Tower Hamlets, instead moving through the City of London to their rally point.

Tommy Robinson – who arrived at the EDL event disgracefully dressed up as a rabbi – was arrested there, sparking more scuffles between the EDL and police.

When the EDL had left the area, the antiracist protestors marched in their thousands back down Whitechapel Road, chanting “Whose streets? Our streets!” and “Black and white unite and fight, smash the EDL”.

As the march passed the East London Mosque, demostrators broke into spontaneous applause.

The mosque is the symbol of the area’s Muslim community – the particular target of the EDL’s anti-Muslim racism.

Afterwards, UAF national officer Martin Smith said:

Today we have won. We haven’t had anybody arrested. We have stopped the EDL coming into this borough. Tommy Robisnon has been arrested. We have marched on the streets today, the EDL have gone and we have won.

Speakers

The UAF/United East End demo had earlier heard from speakers including CWU deputy general secretary Tony Kearns, East London Mosque’s Dilowar Khan, former MEP Glyn Ford, veteran local antifascist Phil Maxwell, Terry Stewart of LGBT group Out East, former council leader Phil Maxwell and a range of other local trade union and community representatives.

Former mayor of London Ken Livingstone sent a message of support, saying: “This is a fitting response to those who peddle hatred and fear.”

Musicians and DJs added to the wonderful atmosphere of unity and solidarity, with trade union banners from all over the country lining the street.

Brilliant

The UAF/United East End mobilisation was called because it was clear that the EDL still intended to come to Tower Hamlets for a static demonstration, despite the home office ban on marching.

The aim was to show the greatest possible opposition to the racists and fascists and ensure they could not threaten the borough’s multiracial, multicultural community.

Today’s brilliant day of antiracist, antifascist solidarity showed why that was right.

For more information and further stories check out www.uaf.org.uk and www.socialistworker.co.uk

New Gacha Release @ Age Of Avalon Event!

Herbarium Wildflower Cloche Collection

Free Limited Edition 20 Play Prize

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PBR & Fallback Glass

2 Rare Music Boxes

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Goodbye, frumpy velvet robe... Hello, fabulous velvet dress!

More details here

my fallback shot for if the eye thing didn't work :)

Flying visit to Southwold, for family reasons, but couldn't resist an early morning at this brilliant location. Actually planned Herringfleet windmill but when I got there is was wet, grey and blustery so back to Southwold Pier as a fallback.

Wasn't great, rain started straight after this, but happy there is something to show for the effort

Coming for the next round of The Warehouse Sale opening September 23rd!

Landmark: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Rotten/127/141/23

Another entry into the Gentleman's Manicure line of nails we have the Ghosties and Skulls Halloween Nails which feature 30 different options for showing dressing up for the Halloween season! As always you can change each nail or all five at the same time!

These have been updated for PBR and now feature PBR and fallback textures! The other varieties of nails are being updated as well. Old HUDs will not be compatible with the new nails/HUDs but we are getting those converted over as well. Please see group notices in world for more information soon.

More info:

Captivating, polished nails for the discerning gentleman. These come with two options, a longer rounded nail or as lightly shorter and pointed dhampir claw. These are rigged for Belleza Jake, Legacy Male, CZ Slim, Anatomy and Gianni. Please try the demos!

Update: We've added three sizes for the ladies as well. Ebody Reborn, Legacy F and Maitreya. Please try the demos!

There is no fatpack for these, each set comes individually (with both nail style options).

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Thousands of antifascists, trade unionists and members of the local community marched in victory through Whitechapel today after the English Defence League failed in its bid to demonstrate in Tower Hamlets.

Only around 600 members of EDL made it to their final rally point – at Aldgate, outside the Tower Hamlets borough boundary in East London.

The racists and fascists of the EDL had bragged that they were coming to the heart of Tower Hamlets – “marching into the lion’s den” in the multiracial, multicultural borough. Despite a national mobilisation, they failed utterly.

Electric

Instead the day belonged to antifascists and antiracists, with an electric atmosphere of solidarity as white, black and Asian people, of all religions and none, came together.

Throughout the day, the antiracists gathered, with speeches, trade union banners, flags and music at the UAF/United East End protest close to East London Mosque, with anti-EDL protesters and local people also gathered directly outside the mosque and occupying key road junctions and streets to make sure EDL supporters could not enter the borough.

The groups converged at the junction of Whitechapel Road and Commercial Street in the afternoon and cheered the news that EDL leader “Tommy Robinson” had been arrested, along with 72 other EDL members before the racists and fascists were escorted away by police.

Railworkers

The first blow against the EDL was struck early by the RMT railworkers’ union, which prevented the organisation’s planned “muster” at Liverpool Street station, by threatening to close the station down if the violent racists were allowed to gather there.

They had already been refused any venue in Tower Hamlets, including Sainsbury’s car park.

The EDL were instead forced to gather at Kings Cross – after their fallback plan to meet at pubs in Euston was scuppered when the pubs declared they would not host the racists either. Their journey south was then held up when RMT members closed the tube station.

The EDL were eventually escorted by police to Aldgate. A group of EDL members, who went direct to a pub in Liverpool Street, showed the organisation’s violent character, throwing flash bombs, attempting to attack passers by and setting fire to a journalist who was reporting events.

Chanting

But the EDL were unable to enter Tower Hamlets, instead moving through the City of London to their rally point.

Tommy Robinson – who arrived at the EDL event disgracefully dressed up as a rabbi – was arrested there, sparking more scuffles between the EDL and police.

When the EDL had left the area, the antiracist protestors marched in their thousands back down Whitechapel Road, chanting “Whose streets? Our streets!” and “Black and white unite and fight, smash the EDL”.

As the march passed the East London Mosque, demostrators broke into spontaneous applause.

The mosque is the symbol of the area’s Muslim community – the particular target of the EDL’s anti-Muslim racism.

Afterwards, UAF national officer Martin Smith said:

Today we have won. We haven’t had anybody arrested. We have stopped the EDL coming into this borough. Tommy Robisnon has been arrested. We have marched on the streets today, the EDL have gone and we have won.

Speakers

The UAF/United East End demo had earlier heard from speakers including CWU deputy general secretary Tony Kearns, East London Mosque’s Dilowar Khan, former MEP Glyn Ford, veteran local antifascist Phil Maxwell, Terry Stewart of LGBT group Out East, former council leader Phil Maxwell and a range of other local trade union and community representatives.

Former mayor of London Ken Livingstone sent a message of support, saying: “This is a fitting response to those who peddle hatred and fear.”

Musicians and DJs added to the wonderful atmosphere of unity and solidarity, with trade union banners from all over the country lining the street.

Brilliant

The UAF/United East End mobilisation was called because it was clear that the EDL still intended to come to Tower Hamlets for a static demonstration, despite the home office ban on marching.

The aim was to show the greatest possible opposition to the racists and fascists and ensure they could not threaten the borough’s multiracial, multicultural community.

Today’s brilliant day of antiracist, antifascist solidarity showed why that was right.

For more information and further stories check out www.uaf.org.uk and www.socialistworker.co.uk

I was going to head to Barrack Point (South East from Boonerah on the seaside) but tought I might head to Windang 'just in case'.. This bolt is probably somewhere near Barrack Point so I'm glad I did take the fall back point :-)

Pentax K1 w DAF15-30/2.8

ISO100 f/16 10s -1.7ev Av triggered via the Pluto trigger - f/16 as some of the bolts were significantly brighter.

Single frame raw developed in DxO PhotoLab6, patched and polished in Affinity Photo2 with trips to both Nik6 Color Efex and Topaz Ai from within Affinity, finally finished off back in PhotoLab.

Windang Foreshore Park, Windang, Lake Illawarrra, Wollongong, NSW

Thousands of antifascists, trade unionists and members of the local community marched in victory through Whitechapel today after the English Defence League failed in its bid to demonstrate in Tower Hamlets.

Only around 600 members of EDL made it to their final rally point – at Aldgate, outside the Tower Hamlets borough boundary in East London.

The racists and fascists of the EDL had bragged that they were coming to the heart of Tower Hamlets – “marching into the lion’s den” in the multiracial, multicultural borough. Despite a national mobilisation, they failed utterly.

Electric

Instead the day belonged to antifascists and antiracists, with an electric atmosphere of solidarity as white, black and Asian people, of all religions and none, came together.

Throughout the day, the antiracists gathered, with speeches, trade union banners, flags and music at the UAF/United East End protest close to East London Mosque, with anti-EDL protesters and local people also gathered directly outside the mosque and occupying key road junctions and streets to make sure EDL supporters could not enter the borough.

The groups converged at the junction of Whitechapel Road and Commercial Street in the afternoon and cheered the news that EDL leader “Tommy Robinson” had been arrested, along with 72 other EDL members before the racists and fascists were escorted away by police.

Railworkers

The first blow against the EDL was struck early by the RMT railworkers’ union, which prevented the organisation’s planned “muster” at Liverpool Street station, by threatening to close the station down if the violent racists were allowed to gather there.

They had already been refused any venue in Tower Hamlets, including Sainsbury’s car park.

The EDL were instead forced to gather at Kings Cross – after their fallback plan to meet at pubs in Euston was scuppered when the pubs declared they would not host the racists either. Their journey south was then held up when RMT members closed the tube station.

The EDL were eventually escorted by police to Aldgate. A group of EDL members, who went direct to a pub in Liverpool Street, showed the organisation’s violent character, throwing flash bombs, attempting to attack passers by and setting fire to a journalist who was reporting events.

Chanting

But the EDL were unable to enter Tower Hamlets, instead moving through the City of London to their rally point.

Tommy Robinson – who arrived at the EDL event disgracefully dressed up as a rabbi – was arrested there, sparking more scuffles between the EDL and police.

When the EDL had left the area, the antiracist protestors marched in their thousands back down Whitechapel Road, chanting “Whose streets? Our streets!” and “Black and white unite and fight, smash the EDL”.

As the march passed the East London Mosque, demostrators broke into spontaneous applause.

The mosque is the symbol of the area’s Muslim community – the particular target of the EDL’s anti-Muslim racism.

Afterwards, UAF national officer Martin Smith said:

Today we have won. We haven’t had anybody arrested. We have stopped the EDL coming into this borough. Tommy Robisnon has been arrested. We have marched on the streets today, the EDL have gone and we have won.

Speakers

The UAF/United East End demo had earlier heard from speakers including CWU deputy general secretary Tony Kearns, East London Mosque’s Dilowar Khan, former MEP Glyn Ford, veteran local antifascist Phil Maxwell, Terry Stewart of LGBT group Out East, former council leader Phil Maxwell and a range of other local trade union and community representatives.

Former mayor of London Ken Livingstone sent a message of support, saying: “This is a fitting response to those who peddle hatred and fear.”

Musicians and DJs added to the wonderful atmosphere of unity and solidarity, with trade union banners from all over the country lining the street.

Brilliant

The UAF/United East End mobilisation was called because it was clear that the EDL still intended to come to Tower Hamlets for a static demonstration, despite the home office ban on marching.

The aim was to show the greatest possible opposition to the racists and fascists and ensure they could not threaten the borough’s multiracial, multicultural community.

Today’s brilliant day of antiracist, antifascist solidarity showed why that was right.

For more information and further stories check out www.uaf.org.uk and www.socialistworker.co.uk