England, UK. 14.3.1991. London, Old Bailey. Release of the Birmingham Six. Chris Mullin MP, who campaigned as a journalist for their release with his book ‘Error of Judgment: The Truth About the Birmingham Pub Bombings’, and subsequently as MP for Sunderland South, with the six outside the Old Bailey after their release. Left to Right, William Power,Gerry Hunter,Richard McIlkenny, Chris Mullin MP, Hugh Callaghan, Paddy Hill and John Walker. .Their murder convictions, a miscarriage of justice, based on forced confessions and unreliable forensic evidence, had been quashed after 16 years in prison for a crime they did not commit, the 1974 IRA’s Birmingham pub bombings in which 21 people were killed and another 182 injured..
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England, UK. 6.9.2022. Leeds Crown Court. Barristers on indefinite strike called by the Criminal Bar Association (CBA) demanding a 25 per cent rise in legal aid fees paid to barristers representing defendants who could not otherwise afford lawyers.
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England,UK. 8.7.1983 Greenham Common. Peace Camp women protest against cruise missiles along the torn down perimeter fence of the US base.
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England, UK. 22.5.2021. London. National Demonstration for Palestine. At nearly 180,000 strong the largest Palestinian demonstration in British history. Organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign..
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Greta Thunberg addresses the Fridays For Future marchers in George Square, Glasgow during COP26, the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference.5.11.2021
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England, UK. 27.6.2021. London. Parliament. Free The Press march - Four billionaires controlling the press, L-R Rupert Murdoch ( News Corp ), Sir Frederick Barclay ( Telegraph Group), Lord Rothermere ( Daily Mail ), Evgeny Lebedev ( Evening Standard, The Independent ).
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England, UK .22.2.2020. London. Protestors march in support of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange demanding he be released from Belmarsh Prison and spared extradition to the US..
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England, UK. 1.9.2020. London. Extinction Rebellion Returns. The Red Brigade at the Ghandi statue, Parliament Square..
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England, UK . 15.1. 2019. London . Westminster. Scene outside Parliament as MPs vote on Theresa May's Brexit deal..
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England, UK. 23.2.2022. London. RMT rail cleaners on 24 hour strike for pay justice, £15 per hour, against outsourcing company Churchill, rally outside Parliament.
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England, UK . 18.7.99. Nr. Watlington , Oxfordshire . Demonstrators invade and damage a test site of a genetically modified ( GM ) crop of oilseed rape .
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England, UK. London. 11.7.1977 . Grunwick dispute. Arthur Scargill leads the Yorkshire miners past the gates of Grunwick during a strike for trade union recognition and against low pay by mainly asian women at a photographic processing plant.
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England, UK. 7.6.2020. London. Black Lives Matter demonstration against racial discrimination and police brutality following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis...
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England, UK .2.10.2018. Birmingham. Boris Johnson at Conservative Party Conference..
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England, UK .3.10.2018. Birmingham . Dancing Queen Theresa May steps out to address the Conservative Party Conference ..
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England, UK . 26.9.2018. Liverpool . Jeremy Corbyn arrives to address Labour Party Conference..
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England, UK .1.8. 2005. London. Brian Haw and first arrests under the exclusion order for the area around Parliament under the Serious and Organised Crime and Police Act.
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England, UK. 18.12.1994. Guildford. Peter Tatchell & OutRage demonstrators waylay the Bishop of Guildford as he arrives for his enthronement..
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England 8.6.2016. Bournemouth. GMB trade union. GMB President Mary Turner embraces Hillsborough Family Support Group campaigners Sue Roberts, whose brother died in the disaster ( left ) Margaret Aspinall whose son died in the disaster ( right ).
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England, UK .16.4.1990. London . Wembley Stadium. Mandela Concert. Nelson & Winnie Mandela arrive onstage after his release from prison.
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England, UK .8.10. 2007. London. Tony Benn before joining Stop the War Coalition march to Parliament overturning a ban on the demonstration.
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England, UK. 18.3.2022. Hull. RMT demonstration protesting against DP World owned P&O ferries firing 800 workers without notice to replace them with cheaper agency workers from overseas.
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England, UK . September/October.1984. Blackpool. Robert Maxwell at the Labour Party Conference.
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COP26 Coalition’s Global Day of Action for Climate Justice march during the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP26. Glasgow, 6.11.2021...
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Fridays For Future’s Youth March, Glasgow, during COP26, the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference. 5.11.2021...
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3.11.2021. Extinction Rebellion’s Red Rebel Brigade at the march against greenwashing, Glasgow, during COP26, the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference. ...
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England, UK . 23.8.2021. London. Afghan interpreters who worked with British troops at Afghan Human Rights Foundation demonstration outside the Home calling for the evacuation of interpreters still inside Afghanistan, and their families.
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England, UK . 23.8.2021. London. Afghan interpreters who worked with British troops at Afghan Human Rights Foundation demonstration outside the Home calling for the evacuation of interpreters still inside Afghanistan, and their families.
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England, UK. 1.5.2021. London. Mayday Kill The Bill demonstration protesting against the police, crime, sentencing and courts bill, demanding the right to protest,with Extinction Rebellion, Sisters Uncut and Black Lives Matter..
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England, UK. 15.3.2021. London. Parliament Square. Mass protest called by Sisters Uncut against the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, violence against women, and the police manhandling of women at the vigil for the murdered Sarah Everard. Many brought flowers in her memory. Held in defiance of Covid-19 regulations and in the square where protests would be restricted under the PCSC.
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England, UK. 14.3.1988. London. NHS pay strike by nurses & other health workers, the day before and on budget day (15.3.1988)...
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England, UK. 27.3.2020. London. Tescos, Colney Hatch Lane. Early morning supermarket queue for over seventies, six feet apart, during Coronavirus pandemic as police exercise emergency powers to enforce a lockdown.
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Mass defiance of coronavirus restrictions at the “We Do Not Consent" anti-lockdown protest in Trafalgar Square, six months after the Coronavirus Act 2020 received the royal assent. Later broken up by the police with arrests. London 26.9.2020.
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England, UK . 15.4.2019. London, Parliament square. The Red Brigade Funeral on a procession for extinct and endangered creatures as Extinction Rebellion block five central London landmarks.
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England, UK . 20.10.2018. London . People's Vote march hundreds of thousands calling for a referendum on the final Brexit deal.
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England, UK . 9.12. 2018. London . Tommy Robinson, former leader of the English Defence league, leads UKIP anti-EU Brexit Betrayal march.
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England, UK . 20.10.2018. London . People's Vote march hundreds of thousands calling for a referendum on the final Brexit deal.
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England, UK . 17.11.2018. London . Westminster Bridge. Extinction Rebellion blocking this and four other bridges crossing the Thames.
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Wapping. Press photographer Andrew Moore carried away unconscious after being truncheoned by police during clashes with pickets outside Rupert Murdoch's News International plant. England, UK. 3.5.1986. London. ..
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England, UK . 11.5.2002. Potters Bar . Potters Bar train crash - scene the day after the derailment ( 10.5.2002 ) in which seven people died.
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25.10. 08. London. The mother of Jean Charles de Menezes at the annual UFFC march of the friends and the families of people who have died in police custody, prisons and psychiatric hospitals.
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England, UK . 7.3.2014. London . Barristers and solicitors walk out in protest against justice secretary Chris Grayling's legal aid cuts.
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England, UK .15.6.1974. London . Red Lion Square. During clashes between police and demonstrators protesting against a National Front march, student Kevin Gately is carried away unconscious, dying, as the coroner put it, from a blow to the head consistent with a "blunt instrument". Widely reported at the time, though there is no conclusive proof, to be a police truncheon.
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