Jason N. Parkinson: NUJ & IFJ Video Journalist

One Year On

jasonnparkinson — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 23:04:07 +0000

One year ago on February 11 Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak finally resigned after an 18 day uprising that left more than 1000 dead and tens of thousands injured.

Day of Rage

Night of Rage

Battle for the Interior Ministry

Battle for Cairo

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Occupy London Attempt Iraq Attache Squat

jasonnparkinson — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:27:22 +0000

Guardian Video: Occupy protestors evicted from Iraq Commercial Attache

Friday 27 January 2012: After the #bankofideas faced eviction, Occupy London protestors attempted to squat another building they thought was a disused Iraqi bank. It turned out it was the Iraqi government Commercial Attache building and still held diplomatic status. Five people were arrested, four for trespassing on a consular post.

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2011 Review

jasonnparkinson — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 20:28:00 +0000

Egypt: The Battle of Mohamed Mahmoud

The video review of 2011, the Egyptian Revolution – the Day of Rage, the Night of Rage, the Battle for the Interior Ministry, the Battle for Cairo – Los Indignados “Democracia Real Ya“occupation of Madrid’s Puerta del Sol, the IMF riots in Athens, the London riots of Tottenham, Hackney and the Enfield vigilantes, the Dale Farm eviction and back to Egypt for the for the protests and riots against SCAF, the military controlled interim government.

Jess Hurd 2011 Review Photo Slideshow.

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The Battle of Mohamed Mahmoud

jasonnparkinson — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 17:08:09 +0000

Guardian Video: Egyptian Military Defector

Two video rushes from the recent unrest in Cairo as the country began the long and much contested road into the national elections. The first film was shot at night and the police cut the power to Mohamed Mahmoud street. This led to some complicated and dangerous filming, overcoming pitch black sections of the street, a hail of unknown gas and live rounds fired from an unseen enemy less than fifty metres away.

The second rush follows protestors as they battle with police on Mohamed Mahmoud street for the fifth day on 23 November, eventually pushing the police back to the Interior Ministry and a ceasefire being put in place. That cease fire lasted about two hours.

Jess Hurd Photo Galleries

Uprising Against The Military

Martyrs Day

Original video rushes and posts from the #Jan25 uprising.

Day of Rage

Night of Rage

Battle of the Interior Ministry

The Battle of Cairo

Photo Gallery 1: Jess Hurd
Photo Gallery 2: Jess Hurd

The Reader: The Revolution Is Being Televised

LPB: Attacks on Media Workers in Egypt

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Occupy London Video Rushes

jasonnparkinson — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 20:12:56 +0000

Two video rushes from the Occupy London movement. The first from the initial day that the Occupy London camp was set up. The second film from the protest to parliament on November 5th.

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All material © Jason N. Parkinson/reportdigital.co.uk

Dale Farm: Eviction

jasonnparkinson — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 12:12:15 +0000

Channel 4 News: Dale Farm Eviction

Wednesday 19 October 2011. At 6.56am hundreds of riot police stormed the barricaded Dale Farm Irish traveller site in Basildon, Essex. For the first time taser weapons were discharged during a public order incident. Two protestors were shot during the eviction.

Jess Hurd Dale Farm Photogallery

Guardian: Dale Farm eviction – police fire tasers at protestors

Channel 4 News: Dale Farm Clashes as site cleared

Dale Farm: Eviction Looming

Dale Farm: Living Through The Eviction

Basildon Council Concreted Over Dale Farm

Dale Farm: Eviction Looming

jasonnparkinson — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 19:41:35 +0000

Shot 17 and 18 October 2011, scenes of Kathleen McCarthy’s speech outside the High Court in London following the collapse of the final appeal, to the Dale Farm Irish Travellers site in Essex the day before the eviction.

Ethnic Cleansing: “rendering an area ethnically homogeneous by using force or intimidation to remove from a given area persons of another ethnic or religious group.” – United Nations.

Dale Farm: Living Through The Eviction

Basildon Council Concreted Over Dale Farm

Teaser Trailer: #JAN25

jasonnparkinson — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 10:45:12 +0000

This is the teaser trailer for the work-in-progress documentary #JAN25. Using footage covering the first week of the uprising that has been nominated for the 2011 Rory Peck News Awards, with interviews from those caught in the violence on the streets and those caught trying to report the events – tense, shocking and often murderous moments unravel during those days of the Egyptian revolution.

Having traveled to Egypt twice so far, first in January as the uprising occurred, then in March as the Egyptian constitutional referendum was voted on and the first attacks on the Coptic Christian minority after the revolution were reported, a third trip is now planned to cover the events leading up to and after the general election.

It will be these final days that will determine the mood of the documentary and decide whether it will be a positive end to the Egyptian revolution for the people or will interim military government SCAF take full control of the country, or will Egypt become a hardline Islamic state, as Western interests fear?

In order to finish this documentary we are now seeking interest and funding. For further information please contact Jason N. Parkinson.

Original video rushes and posts.

Day of Rage

Night of Rage

Battle of the Interior Ministry

The Battle of Cairo

Photo Gallery 1: Jess Hurd
Photo Gallery 2: Jess Hurd

The Reader: The Revolution Is Being Televised

LPB: Attacks on Media Workers in Egypt

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Dale Farm: Living Through The Eviction

jasonnparkinson — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 10:51:14 +0000

Shot between Thursday 15 to Monday 19 September, these scenes of life on Dale Farm document the days leading up to the planned eviction.

Chalets are emptied of belongings, separated into two parts and removed from the Irish travellers site to be sold on, as they are considered too large to continually move around. With no place to go the owners sell up to invest in smaller, more mobile homes. Smaller caravans are also moved off the site and put temporarily in empty plots on the legal side of the site to protect them from damage by bailiffs.

Barricades spring up as protection to each street on Dale Farm. Police helicopters patrol overhead. Travellers and activists man the main gate barricade and await the outcome of the last minute court hearing, which puts a suspension on the eviction.

Basildon Council Concreted Over Dale Farm

jasonnparkinson — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 09:27:12 +0000

This is Ray Bocking, former owner of Dale Farm. Here he explains how Basildon Council concreted Dale Farm and used it as a car scrap yard and road works waste site, dumping unused tarmac and hardcore for more than a decade.

Despite this evidence being crucial to the Dale Farm eviction on the grounds of the land being Green Belt and various media outlets interviewing Mr. Bocking, not one television news outlet has reported the story so far. At the end of this film you see the ITV East news team cut Bocking short for their live feed and flounder when asked if they will report it.

Last night the Guardian newspaper online was the only outlet to release an article on Ray Bocking’s story.