Leah Borromeo

Leah Borromeo is a London-based journalist and filmmaker currently directing a series of short films on arts activism for Channel 4’s “Random Acts” and hosts Resonance FM’s “The Left Bank Show”. She has desk-jockeyed as Deputy Foreign Editor at Sky News, fawned over Jon Snow’s bad jokes at Channel 4 News, and stood around a satellite truck looking important for APTN. In addition to a host of freelance commissions on arts, politics and civil liberties for the likes of Amnesty International and the Index on Censorship, she's 'the biggest show off since Lady Godiva turned up in town on a horse claiming she had literally NOTHING to wear'.

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• Transport for London in Tony Blair censorship climbdown
  

  Transport For London has reinstated a banned ad campaign for London’s Mosaic Rooms gallery featuring an image of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair photographing himself on a mobile phone …

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• [Video] Metropolitan Lice
  

  The Vacuum Cleaner is an artist/activist collective of one. Some people take half an hour out to do yoga everyday – he modifies police logos. Usually a solitary creature, he’s …

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• [Video] Eyes on Syria: One year on
  

  A film by Leah Borromeo for Amnesty International on the one year anniversary of the Syrian uprising. For more information: http://www.eyesonsyria.org …

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• [Video] Reverend Billy and the Church of Earthalujah
  

  What do you get when you cross an Elvis impersonator with an evangelical preacher and throw in a protest against corporate sponsorship of the arts? Reverend Billy, his choir and …

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• Occupy evicted – free speech ends where the profit margin begins
  

  The evictions of Occupy London sites at St Paul’s Cathedral and the School of Ideas show a systemic contempt for the right to protest if that dissent threatens profit. …

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• [Video] Dr D
  

  Dr D - London's Prince of Paste, Sorcerer of Subvertisising, Viscount of Vandalism - rang up one afternoon. "What you doin after dinner tonight? Wanna come out with me and...?" …

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• [Video] Santacon
  

  Santa doesn't come once a year. He comes by the thousands on a sozzled, situationist-inspired derive that wreaks merry ho all over the streets of London. He paints the town …

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• [Podcast] Reverend Billy on the Occupy movement
  

  Leah Borromeo speaks with Reverend Billy about Occupy, friends, communities and Elvis on Resonance FM's "The Left Bank Show". …

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• Olympic ideal puts money before democracy
  

  A series of Home Office proposals could ban protests during the London 2012 Olympic games. This is a slight to democracy and free expression. …

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• We have the right to be safe
  

  The third in the latest set of films by Leah Borromeo for Amnesty International on Syrian exiles in the UK. From the Amnesty bumph: Amnesty International UK joined with over …

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• Piggies versus the one percent
  

  VIDEO: OccupyLSX attempt to disrupt the Lord Mayor's Banquet as it feeds the 1%. In white tie. Dressed as pigs. …

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• No more blood, no more fear
  

  VIDEO: This is the second in a series of films for Amnesty International and the current Syrian struggle. …

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