#riotcleanup
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 [...]
Speaking out against the UK riots
As 16,000 officers were drafted in to London last night, things in the capital seem a little bit calmer, but riots reached other parts of the country, with lethal consequences in Birmingham. Here are the latest Audioboos that have been tagged with #UKriots – please keep sharing your stories and adding in geolocation data too [...]
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 [...]