{"id":1206,"date":"2010-12-21T20:22:01","date_gmt":"2010-12-21T20:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=1206"},"modified":"2010-12-21T20:22:01","modified_gmt":"2010-12-21T20:22:01","slug":"local-international","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=1206","title":{"rendered":"Local & International"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was a bitter afternoon as a few members from the local Brixton Global Climate <\/em>action group met at the recently re-landscaped Brixton Oval between the library and the Town Hall at the major road junction in the centre of the town. Where previously there had been a small oval area with grass and flowerbeds around a central tree, there is now a large, flat and rather bare expanse bordered by the busy A23, and a cold wind was making the most of sweeping across it.<\/p>\n

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It was difficult to make much of the event photographically, but although it was small and local, it was one with a global significance. The Brixton group was one of 70 around the world, but apparently the only one in the UK, to respond to a call by one of the largest organisations in the world, La Via Campesina<\/em>, representing 150 million people around the world, small farmers, agricultural workers, rural women and indigenous communities around the world for ‘Thousands of Cancuns for Climate Justice<\/em>‘ to mobilise grass roots solutions and actions.<\/p>\n

I’m not sure I made a great job of it, but I did my best, and put the story on Demotix, where it also got a mention on their blog, but not a great number of readers. Putting it on My London Diary<\/a> and here on >Re:PHOTO<\/em> will actually attract many more views.<\/p>\n

There on My London Diary you can also read more about the event, and the call which arose from the ‘Cochabamba People’s Agreement’<\/em> produced by the 40,000 who attended the Cochambamba People’s summit for climate justice<\/em> earlier this year and was brought to Cancun by the Bolivian Government but its concrete proposals for a sustainable future rejected.<\/p>\n

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And there are a few more pictures, but I think by the time it came to break open the pink pig ‘World Bank’ pi\u00f1ata I was too cold to think straight and couldn’t quite get the timing right.<\/p>\n

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The Nikon autofocus system is fine for things like photographing predictably moving objects – like racing cars – but with people taking rather random hits I would have been better switching to manual focus and avoiding any time lag as the camera tried to focus.\u00a0 Almost every frame the actual exposure came too long after I pressed the release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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