Images of the March for the Alternative 2011
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The document summarizes photographer Gary Marlowe's experience documenting the "March for the Alternative" protest in London on March 26, 2011. An estimated 250,000 people participated in the largest demonstration in 18 years to protest the government's spending cuts. While mostly peaceful, some scuffles broke out and windows were broken at shops like Fortnum & Mason and the Ritz hotel by masked youths. The march lasted over four hours and culminated in a rally in Hyde Park addressed by Labour leader Ed Miliband.
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- 1. IMAGES OF THE MARCH FOR THE ALTERNATIVE ! gary marlowe IMAGES OUT OF THE ORDINARY MARCH 2011
- 2. IMAGES OUT OF THE ORDINARY LONDON 26 MARCH 2011, THE SKIES WERE GREY, THERE WAS A CHILL IN THE AIR. 4 HELICOPTERS BUZZED OVERHEAD. BENEATH THEM, SOME 250,000 PEOPLE FROM ALL ACROSS BRITAIN PROVIDED THE COLOUR. THEY WERE TAKING PART IN ‘THE MARCH FOR THE ALTERNATIVE’, THE BIGGEST PROTEST THE CAPITAL HAD SEEN FOR 18 YEARS. THIS TIME IT WASN’T A WAR PEOPLE WERE PROTESTING ABOUT, IT WAS THE GOVERNMENT’S SWINGEING CUTS. AND EVERYONE WAS REPRESENTED: THE OLD, THE YOUNG, FAMILIES WITH KIDS, SOME EVEN BROUGHT THEIR DOGS AND THEIR VUVUZELAS! MOST CARRIED BANNERS, EVERYTHING FROM THOSE PROFESSIONALLY PRODUCED BY UNIONS TO HANDMADE ONES BEARING THEIR OWN PERSONAL MESSAGE. AND THE MESSAGE WAS CLEAR: PEOPLE HAVE HAD ENOUGH OF THE TORIES CUTS, CUTS THAT ARE AFFECTING EVERYONE AND CAUSING HUGE HARDSHIP RIGHT ACROSS THE COUNTRY. SO MANY TOOK PART, THE MARCH LASTED OVER 4 HOURS. IT CULMINATED IN HYDE PARK WITH A RALLY AT WHICH LABOUR’S ED MILIBAND SPOKE. DESPITE THE HUGE NUMBERS, FROM WHAT I SAW, IT WAS MOSTLY A PEACEFUL DEMONSTRATION. BUT MENACINGLY, INFILTRATING THE CROWD WERE HUNDREDS OF MASKED YOUTHS, MOSTLY WEARING BLACK HOODIES AND CARRYING RED AND BLACK FLAGS. THEY CLEARLY HAD ANOTHER AGENDA. I SAW SCUFFLES OUTSIDE FORTNUM & MASON AND FOR A WHILE IT LOOKED LIKE THE TROUBLE WAS GOING TO ESCALATE. SOME WINDOWS WERE BROKEN, AND THE RITZ WAS A HIGH PROFILE TARGET. AND WHILST THERE WERE PROBLEMS LATER IN THE EVENING AT TRAFALGAR SQUARE, I HAVE TO SAY FROM WHAT I SAW, THE MARCH WAS VERY WELL ORGANISED AND WELL-POLICED. THESE IMAGES AIM TO CAPTURE MY EXPERIENCE OF THE DAY AND, IN PARTICULAR, THE PEOPLE OF BRITAIN WHO MADE IT SUCH A SPECTACLE! INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY NOTICE THE IMAGES CONTAINED IN THIS PRESENTATION WERE CREATED BY GARY MARLOWE AND, WHILST BEING AVAILABLE FOR VIEWING ON SLIDESHARE, THEY REMAIN THE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OF GARY MARLOWE. © GARY MARLOWE | 2011 gary marlowe
- 4. IMAGES OF THE MARCH FOR THE ALTERNATIVE
- 5. GARY MARLOWE ©2011 THERE WAS A HEAVY POLICE PRESENCE
- 6. GARY MARLOWE ©2011 THE HEAD OF THE MARCH ARRIVING IN WESTMINSTER
- 16. THERE WAS NO ESCAPING THE VUVUZELAS! GARY MARLOWE ©2011
- 17. GARY MARLOWE ©2011 OR THE WHISTLES!
- 29. GARY MARLOWE ©2011 MARCHERS MADE THEIR WAY TO HYDE PARK FOR A RALLY
- 33. I MADE IT TO THE PIT, BUT ARRIVED JUST AFTER ED MILIBAND HAD SPOKEN GARY MARLOWE ©2011
- 36. GARY MARLOWE ©2011 TONY ROBINSON MODERATED THE RALLY
- 44. SHOW OF HANDS PROVIDE A MUSICAL INTERLUDE GARY MARLOWE ©2011
- 49. GARY MARLOWE ©2011 HYDE PARK CORNER
- 51. THE MARCHERS KEPT ON COMING GARY MARLOWE ©2011
- 53. GARY MARLOWE ©2011 THE FIRST SIGN OF VIOLENCE I SAW WAS ON PICCADILLY
- 54. A LITTLE FURTHER UP, THE RITZ SHOWED THE SCARS OF AN EARLIER ATTACK GARY MARLOWE ©2011
- 55. GARY MARLOWE ©2011 BROKEN WINDOWS AT RITZ FINE JEWELLERY
- 64. THE FIRST SIGNS OF TROUBLE I WITNESSED WAS OUTSIDE FORTNUM & MASON ON JERMYN STREET GARY MARLOWE ©2011
- 65. GARY MARLOWE ©2011 FOR A MOMENT IT LOOKED LIKED TROUBLE WAS BREWING AT PICCADILLY CIRCUS
- 70. I RAN IN TO CAMERON & THATCHER NEAR LEICESTER SQUARE GARY MARLOWE ©2011
- 73. LADIES IN TRAFALGAR GARY MARLOWE ©2011 SQUARE
- 74. GARY MARLOWE ©2011 OR WAS IT TAHRIR SQUARE!
- 79. EVERYWHERE YOU LOOKED, THERE WAS DAVID CAMERON! GARY MARLOWE ©2011
- 80. GARY MARLOWE ©2011 AND YELLOW RIBBONS AROUND EVERY TREE
- 81. GARY MARLOWE ©2011 THE AFTERMATH!
- 82. ideasoutoftheordinary@gmail.com twitter.com/gmarlowe ! gary marlowe IMAGES OUT OF THE ORDINARY