“Covering Climate Camp: Part One” – Current TV.
“Covering Climate Camp: Part Two” – Current TV.
My colleague Jason N. Parkinson has made a film about journalists covering Climate Camp in Kent last summer. Click on the links above to watch the film and this is what Jason had to say about the film.
“In August 2008, environmental protestors set up camp in Kent, England, to protest the current and newly proposed E-On coal-fired power stations at Kingsnorth. Part one of the film documents not the protest movement, but the journalists trying to cover the story for independent and mainstream news organisations.
“In some of the worst scenes of police interference the press were subjected to stop-and-search, harassment, aggression and violence, which led to the National Union of Journalists and the industry media publically slamming the police on the grounds of press freedom restriction.
“In Part Two of two of the film the policing gets heavier, journalists trying to cover the story for independent and mainstream news organisations face surveillance, harassment, endless stop-and-searches and assault – they are even followed by a police unit to a McDonald’s restaurant.”
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[...] Plus, here is some good news, Kent police have apologised to Jess Hurd, who was stopped and searched four times while covering last year’s climate camp. I was working aloneside Jess when some of this took place which you view here. [...]