London
Reflecting on the riots – a busy Week at Boo HQ (w/c 08.08.11)
Well it certainly wasn’t my usual week at work. With riots breaking out across the country, Audioboo became a great place for people to tell their stories, share their thoughts and post their content. We served tea to police, listened to impassioned rants and got-to-be-heard-to-be-believed interviews with looters, heartbreaking stories and police updates. Not to [...]
London riots continue, Londoners pull together
I’m writing this from my local community centre where local residents have banded together to create a makeshift canteen for the police. Apparently Waltham Forest doesn’t have a canteen for them, and since they are working such long and difficult hours we wanted to do our bit. Make tea not war. #awesomestow residents provide a [...]
London’s Burning
As I woke this morning to find that the Tottenham riots had arrived on my doorstep, I worried about what might unfold this evening. I had no idea that things would escalate in quite the way that they have done. It’s half past one in the morning and I’m literally watching live images my city [...]