Vote Richard Simcox for Journalist editor

In the next few days NUJ members will receive a ballot paper to vote for a new editor of the Journalist - the union's magazine. This full-time job is elected by the whole membership.
Please give your first preference vote to Richard Simcox.
Here's his campaign website http://richsimcox.co.uk .
For the past three years Richard has enjoyed enormous success as the editor of an activists' magazine and website for the Public and Commercial Services union - one of the UK's biggest trade unions.
Earlier in his career Richard, who grew up in Dudley, was a union rep at a Newsquest-owned paper in south London.
He helped to organise a strong chapel which won big rises for the lowest paid through negotiation and the threat of industrial action.
Richard knows what it's like to worry about your student loans and your pension, to be a journalist in the multi-platform media age, and to fight over job cuts and low pay.
He offers a unique combination - experience as editor of a major union’s magazine and as a committed grassroots NUJ activist.
Richard has pulled together a coalition of scores of hard-working reps and officers, from all sections of the union, who trust him to produce the Journalist - online and in print - that we need to keep the union united and strong.
Richard has the skills, commitment and energy to inspire the next generation of activists, and Action Without Theory is proud to support his campaign.
Please vote Richard Simcox 1.
More about his plans for the Journalist.

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Photogaphers take on anti-terror laws

Photography is under attack. Across the UK people with cameras are targeted by police as potential terrorists.
'I'm a Photographer Not a Terrorist' is a campaign started by photgraphers who have been harrassed.
Join their launch party on Saturday August 8 from 6pm until late at The Foundry, 86 Great Eastern Street, London, EC2A 3JL.
In association with Photo-Forum.
Hundreds demonstrate their freedom to photograph

Taking to the streets to stop ID cards

The London Activist Network is organising anti-identity card stalls across the UK capital on Saturday August 8.
Meet at noon upstairs in the Dartmouth Castle pub, Glenthorne Road, Hammersmith.
Until 1.30pm volunteers will be briefed on the plan for the day - to set up simultaneous stalls outside several London tube stations.
There will be coaching on how to engage the public, the arguments to use, and regulations governing the setting up of stalls.
No2ID
Defy-ID

Dublin, Abu Dhabi, death and drapery

Manchester City fans can breath a sigh of relief this morning that Thomas Cook are no longer their shirt sponsors.
The holiday company is implicated in a brutal police raid on protesting workers in Dublin.
The Irish Times reports: "Former staff of Thomas Cook who have been occupying the company's shop in Grafton Street were arrested by gardai this morning in a dawn raid.
"More than 15 officers from Pearse Street Garda station broke down the door of the premises and arrested all those inside at just after 5am."
Many City fans will still be walking around advertising the strike-breaking company as Cook only stopped sponsoring the world's richest club at the end of last season.
The new kit features the logo of Etihad Airways - the national carrier Abu Dhabi, the country ruled by City's owners.
Abu Dhabi is part of the United Arab Emirates - where Human Rights Watch says construction workers are dying because of lax laws.
Fans should remember the advice Oxford Blue once offered on the Blue View message board: "It's ok to buy your club's replica shirt - but under no circumstances should you wear it."

Can New Labour stop marching to the right?

"Jobs, Education, Peace" is the theme of a demonstration to be held outside the conference of the UK's ruling Labour Party in Brighton on Sunday September 27.
There will be a lunchtime march and rally on the sea front.
The event has been backed by four unions - UCU, NUT, NUJ and PCS - the Stop the War Coalition and the Right to Work campaign.
NUJ activists are launching an organising committee to build for the event at the union's HQ in London on Tuesday August 4.

Manchester supports southern strikers

A solidarity meeting is being held in Manchester to support workers from the Vestas wind turbine factory who have been fighting to save their jobs.
It's on Tuesday August 4 at 7.30pm at the Friends Meeting House, Mount Street, city centre.