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This was a photo that I felt more or less summed up the march by doctors and teachers on the first day of the two-day strike by Junior Doctors’ last April.<\/p>\n

From the banner at top left with its message ‘stand together<\/em>‘, Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell<\/em>,\u00a0the poster ‘NUT says Teachers Support Junior Doctors’, Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn<\/em> and supporters including a ‘Save Our Hospitals’ camapaigner carrying a large teddy dressed in surgical gear.<\/p>\n

It perhaps could have been clearer in showing that the NUT poster was on the back of a wheelchair – and my framing at left has cut off the face of a well-known disabled activist and speaker, World of Inclusion and Coordinator UK Disability History Month Richard Rieser<\/em> – but his presence would have drawn attention away from the rest of the image. You can see him in a lower image on this page.<\/p>\n

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Missing from it were NUT deputy general secretary Kevin Courtney<\/em> and Johann Malawana<\/em> chair of the Junior Doctors Committee, shown in the second image, but you can’t have everything.<\/p>\n

What isn’t clear in these pictures is the pushing and shoving from a few misguided stewards and other photographers that made getting some of these pictures at the front of the march difficult.<\/p>\n

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But there was one photographer who didn’t get hassled by stewards – John McDonnell taking a picture of one the marchers with Jeremy Corbyn.<\/p>\n

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The pavement opposite Downing St where there was a rally was also very crowded,\u00a0 and it was difficult to move around. There were plenty of good speeches and I was able to get some reasonable pictures of most of the speakers, but photographing people in the crowd was more difficult.<\/p>\n

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It was quite an interesting list of speakers, including both Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell as well as Green Party MP Caroline Lucas<\/em>, PCS General Secretary Mark Serwotka<\/em>, Vivienne Westwood<\/em>, Vanessa Redgrave<\/em>, several junior doctors and others, as well as NUT Deputy General Secretary Kevin Courtney<\/em> (above) who later used one of my pictures of him in his election campaign to become NUT General Secretary. I was pleased that he won, though I can’t really take much credit for the victory.<\/p>\n

More at:<\/p>\n

Downing St rally for Junior Doctors<\/a>
\nDoctors & Teachers march together<\/a><\/p>\n


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