{"id":18,"date":"2010-01-25T01:01:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T01:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/u75blog\/?p=18"},"modified":"2010-03-15T17:25:18","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T17:25:18","slug":"im-a-photographer-not-a-terrorist-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/im-a-photographer-not-a-terrorist-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m a Photographer, Not a Terrorist! protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We went along to Saturday&#8217;s I&#8217;m a Photographer, Not a Terrorist! protest in Trafalgar Square to register our concerns about about the increasing use of terrorism laws against street photographers.<\/p>\n<p>The cops aren&#8217;t harassing people scaling up trees to take pictures of nuclear installations through massive telephone lens. They&#8217;re <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/photos\/photography-case-studies.html\">harassing normal people taking ordinary tourist photos<\/a>, or documenting architecture, or capturing police misconduct (G20) or taking the kind of street scenes that has produced some of the greatest photography.<\/p>\n<p>Things are bad enough already &#8211; giving the law even more reason to harass people exercising their right to take pictures of whatever they like will result in massive restrictions on photography, more hassles from cops &#8211; and lots of photos of police abuse being censored.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a few pics from the demo:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/london\/images\/photography-terrorism-15.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"387\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/london\/images\/photography-terrorism-04.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"373\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/london\/images\/photography-terrorism-09.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"387\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/london\/images\/photography-terrorism-14.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"371\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/london\/images\/photography-terrorism-08.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"387\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/london\/photographer-not-a-terrorist.html\">More photos here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We went along to Saturday&#8217;s I&#8217;m a Photographer, Not a Terrorist! protest in Trafalgar Square to register our concerns about about the increasing use of terrorism laws against street photographers. &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[194,193],"tags":[18,19],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-london-features","category-places","tag-photography","tag-protest"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/photography-terrorism-15.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-i","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1096,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions\/1096"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}