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Ben Crowe

@erafilms

Writer, documentary filmmaker and video producer specialising in field-investigations, research and interactive multi-media for non-profit sector

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Joined December 2010
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Wishing a very happy birthday to our dear co-founder @PretiTaneja – an absolute gift to the world of literature and writing and forever our north star. Happy birthday, Preti! 😍
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⁦Really happy to hear this beautiful idea realised from artist Gil Delindro at ⁦@varc_arts⁩ which @erafilms⁩ helped to document: the sound of the 'helm wind' blows down the south-west slope of the Cross Fell escarpment in Cumbria vimeo.com/783093051
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Some memorable parts from the 1st Byker walkabout with Vernon Gracie, the executing architect during the redevelopment 1969-82. @salawatson @erafilms @NCL_OralHistory @NewcastleUniAPL @BykerTrust youtu.be/V6B3Z51zp60
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Latest video for @IISD_ENB ⁦@WUF_UNHabitat⁩ at #wuf11 Katowice, Poland vimeo.com/724231800
A GREEN URBAN FUTURE

A GREEN URBAN FUTURE

Cities need to be reimagined in order to achieve a greener urban future. A more sustainable response to climate change is needed. Cities have the potential to transform into future-proof areas that...

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Some quiet inspiration for artists ‘A Message Every Creator Needs to Hear’ by Chris Hau youtu.be/PPB2acWAii4 via @YouTube
A Message Every Creator Needs to Hear [Shot on Ronin 4D]

A Message Every Creator Needs to Hear [Shot on Ronin 4D]

A message that sums up the feeling of being a creative. Shot on the...

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Sunday treat: Photographic Composites Document the Mesmerizing Flight Trails of Vultures, Crows, and Bats | Colossal thisiscolossal.com/2022/02/d…

Photographic Composites Document the Mesmerizing Flight Trails of Vultures, Crows, and Bats

In Locked Down Looking Up, Bay Area photographer Doris Mitsch captures the swirling, shapeshifting flight patterns of birds and other winged creatures: a flock of vultures creates coils and whirls...

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‘These are kinetic images, in which the subjects almost become their work. The musician, too, is a labourer, a Black artist trying to make a living in a society that figures him as a performing monkey.’ @mba_gazelle on the photography of Roy DeCarava: lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n07/…
Gazelle Mba · On Roy DeCarava

Gazelle Mba · On Roy DeCarava

Roy DeCarava saw things that other people didn’t. He saw beauty in a crushed aluminium can and the light behind a pair...

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Pleased to be video producing again at #MinamataCOP4 Bali,Indonesia alongside UN Minamata Convention Secretariat + @IISD_ENB
Minamata Convention on Mercury (@minamataMEA) profile pictureMinamata Convention on Mercury@minamataMEA22 Mar 2022
21 March: The 1⃣st day of #MinamataCOP4.2 featured the opening ceremony, the #BaliDeclaration & remarks by @MonikaStankiew3, @andersen_inger, @SitiNurbayaLHK, @cmrodrigueze, @rosavivien & others. 📺 Watch this short video for a quick taste of the day: youtu.be/RC9ETJKejH4
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21 March: The 1⃣st day of #MinamataCOP4.2 featured the opening ceremony, the #BaliDeclaration & remarks by @MonikaStankiew3, @andersen_inger, @SitiNurbayaLHK, @cmrodrigueze, @rosavivien & others. 📺 Watch this short video for a quick taste of the day: youtu.be/RC9ETJKejH4
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I've just become a convert to 'syntropic farming'...check out the excellent The Food Forest Farmers happenfilms.com/film/the-foo… via @happenfilms
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Nearly six million people in England and Wales could become eligible to be stripped of their British citizenship without warning, under new plans proposed by the government newstatesman.com/politics/20…
Exclusive: British citizenship of six million people could be jeopardised by Home Office plans

Exclusive: British citizenship of six million people could be jeopardised by Home Office plans

Two in five people in England and Wales from an ethnic minority background could become eligible to be deprived of their citizen status without warning.

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Phenomenal @PretiTaneja @guardian. In 'Aftermath' she powerfully records personal proximity to the London Bridge atrocity. "I could not sleep. All I wanted was to go back to the day before. If nothing else, to tell Jack do not go to London." @sukidhanda 📷 theguardian.com/uk-news/2021…
Author Preti Taneja on realising she had taught the Fishmongers’ Hall attacker: ‘We were all unsafe’

Author Preti Taneja on realising she had taught the Fishmongers’ Hall attacker: ‘We were all unsafe’

It was the day after the London Bridge atrocity that the writer discovered she knew the man responsible. Two years later, she reflects on that time and the fallout that followed

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The incredible author of Aftermath, Preti Taneja @PretiTaneja, on her book, in conversation on our blog Ampersand here andotherstories.org/2021/11/…
A World Without Cages: A Conversation with Preti Taneja | And Other Stories

A World Without Cages: A Conversation with Preti Taneja | And Other Stories

Novelist Preti Taneja taught fiction-writing for three years in a high-security men’s prison. On the 29th of November, 2019, two […]

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Tara Tobler (@taraktobler) profile pictureTara Tobler@taraktobler27 Nov 2021
Replying to @taraktobler
"The book calls for a world without cages and borders in which citizenship is not contingent…As a writer of colour, with a wide personal experience of the systems that harm us, that gatekeep, and palisade us, this is where I hope I can contribute something towards change.”
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Prof Preti Taneja's new book Aftermath is an anti-racist lyrical essay which is already gaining critical acclaim. @NCL_English @NCLcreativearts bit.ly/3HWtrNG
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‘Like slave and master’: DRC miners toil for 30p an hour to fuel electric cars theguardian.com/global-devel…

‘Like slave and master’: DRC miners toil for 30p an hour to fuel electric cars

Congolese workers describe a system of abuse, precarious employment and paltry wages – all to power the green vehicle revolution

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In strong terms, GRA condemns the arrest of @AfiegoUg staff that took place yesterday and calls for unconditional release of the affected individuals and all other voices that speak against the violation of human rights of communities affected by extractives. #FreeAfiegoStaff
Image from Global Rights Alert (@graUganda)
Image from Global Rights Alert (@graUganda)
Image from Global Rights Alert (@graUganda)
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Ben Crowe retweeted
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AFIEGO@AfiegoUg23 Oct 2021
Statement on the arrest of six AFIEGO staff, including the CEO Dickens Kamugisha. The staff spent a night at Kiira Police Station. Information coming in indicates that they are going to be transferred to Jinja Road Police Station. #FreeAfiegoStaff
Image from AFIEGO (@AfiegoUg)
Image from AFIEGO (@AfiegoUg)
Image from AFIEGO (@AfiegoUg)
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#NewcastleDebates: How will the North East confront the climate crisis? 5 Oct, 5.30pm Register: bit.ly/3nT3Utu Join the debate to discuss the role the North East can play in limiting carbon emissions @UniofNewcastle @NCLSusCampus @scienceatlife @Hudsonweather #COP26
Image from INSIGHTS Public Lectures | Newcastle University (@InsightsNCL)
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#OurLandOurNature - “In the not-too-distant past, protected areas took away not only our rights, but our ability to exercise our responsibilities related to the lands.” - Nembaso Sayori, an elder from Oloipiri northern #Tanzania.
Image from InsightShare (@InsightShare)
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Learn from lessons and experiences on what CSOs and local communities from DRC and Uganda are doing to defend their environmental and human rights against the dangers of #oil which is threatening the most critical biodiversity area…lnkd.in/dtrQcUST lnkd.in/dpFs3YbH
#oil | Christine (Tina) Lain

#oil | Christine (Tina) Lain

Learn from lessons and experiences on what CSOs and local communities from DRC and Uganda are doing to defend their environmental and human rights against the dangers of #oil which is threatening the...

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