Some Reel News news…

Following from the move to a whole new website, and setting up Twitter and Statusnet, to make it easier for you to get updates, we have now also started integrating social networks a lot more. At the bottom of each page you can share and tweet our updates, so please do and help us spread the news that the mainstream is ignoring.

At the bottom of some posts you will also get suggestions of other stuff you might be interested in, we hope this will help you find your way around our site and maybe come across some fascinating issues you hadn’t heard about before.

We’ve got a new contact page where you can use the barcode reader on your phone to get out contact details.

Oh, and we’ll be featuring Guy’s pictures regularly from now on, you should definitely check them out.

What else? Oh, yeah, the tiles will be coming soon. Like really soon. So check back for the limited edition, autographed, collectors items that’ll remind you of the important things in life while you’re having a cuppa.

We’re also planning on making a historical documentary about rank and file organising and action, in honour of the 40 year anniversary of a high time of union organising, the Pentonville dockers, Saltley, the building workers strike to name but a few key events – we might need your support to make that happen.


Brand new shiny website

Whopee! Reel News got a new website! It’s still under construction, so don’t get confused about the weirdness of it all…

Reel News had to move servers and took the opportunity to get a whole new website. Let us know how you like it, and if there’s anything else we can improve.

Hopefully this will be a work in progress and getting better all the time!


Sparks national day of action: police run ragged all over London

***FULL RESOLUTION VERSION AVAILABLE ON REEL NEWS 30 ***

In the continued battle over a 35% pay cut and the tearing up of the national agreement, rank and file sparks battle through police lines to hold pickets at 5 building sites, visit the occupation at St. Pauls, occupy Cannon St. station themselves and almost join the student demo before being stopped by huge numbers of police…or were they?? Email jointsitescommittee@gmail.com to keep up with the most important industrial dispute for years.

 


Issue 28, June 2011

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  1. TUC demo March 26 (Reel News) 10:46 The second largest demonstration in British history as the anti-cuts campaign begins in earnest.  ***PLAY***
  2. Tower Hamlets joint strike action (Reel News) 11:30 Teachers and council workers coordinate strike action against the cuts.  ***PLAY***
  3. EMERGENCY! The battle to save the NHS (Reel News) 26:07 The government is trying to privatise the NHS, but the resistance is growing. Everything you need to know about Lansley’s bill, NHS cuts and how to fight back.  ***PLAY***
  4. Royal Cleaners fight for a living wage (Reel News) 11:18 While millions are spent on the Royal wedding, the cleaners in Buckingham Palace have to make do with poverty pay.
  5. London Met fighting for education (Reel News) 15:57 70% of courses and hundreds of jobs are being cut as London Metropolitan University becomes a testing ground for the Tories’ education policies.
  6. The Hardest Hit march (Reel News) 9:00 The biggest march of disabled people in history against cuts in welfare.
  7. Rubbish Action (Issy Harvey) 1:30 There’s not enough workers to pick up the litter in Haringey parks, so campaigners dump it on the civic centre steps.
  8. Guilty and Proud of it! Poplar’s rebel councillors (Janine Booth / Reel News) 16:16 From 1919 -1925, Labour councillors in Poplar went to jail for defending their working class communities – and won. A key episode of our history.  ***PLAY***
  9. Alabama 3 – Bad to the Bone (Reel News) 3:28 Recorded live in Manchester on last year’s Revolver Soul tour.
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Issue 27, March 2011

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1. One million climate jobs now!(Campaign against Climate Change TU Group/Reel News) 33:15
The start of a major campaign. Instead of cutting jobs, create a million new ones to lower carbon emissions and kick start the economy.
2. One million climate jobs now!  ***PLAY***
(10 minute version)
3. We are fucking angry (the King Blues/Matt Fleming) 3:19  ***PLAY***
Brilliant new track from The King Blues & a great video.
4. Haringey Council occupied over the cuts (Reel News) 10:05   ***PLAY***
One of many angry protests across the UK, as councils meet to set their budgets.
5. Camden Town Hall protest (Reel News) 10:05
When they are not let into what is supposed to be a public council meeting, protestors occupy the main road instead…
6. Sanasino Al-Yemen (Reel News) 4:00
Amazing new young poet from Yemen, performing live at a Democracy Movement meeting.
7. Stop the Blacklisting on the Olympics (Reel News) 7:55
Workers are being sacked on the Olympic site for being members of a trade union – Frank Morris exposed this and was sacked too. Reinstate Frank now!
8. ArteXParte: Public art in Argentina (The Treatment Rooms/Reel News) 13:49  ***PLAY***
52 artists from 20 countries produce 1,600 metres of public art in 9 days.
9. Friends of Suburban Bristol Railways (Reel News) 13:53  ***PLAY***
FOSBR show that you can not only fight the cuts, but get more money for services, as they improve the train lines in Bristol.
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Issue 26, January 2011

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1. Tory Scum Here We Come! – Short version (Reel News) 13:36  ***PLAY***

The rise of the incredible student movement, in a short version for trade union and other meetings.
2. Tory Scum Here We Come! – Full version (Reel News) 66:03
Part 1: Day X1 8:49
The first national day of action against tuition fees and loss of EMA results in an 11 hour kettle.
Part 2: Occupations1 5:19
College occupations spread throughout the country, including in London: SOAS, UCL, UEL and Kings.
Part 3: Day X2 11:50
Thousands of students outwit police as the kettle tactic fails miserably.
Part 4: Occupations2 5:14
LSE and Slade join the growing occupation movement.
Part 5: Topshop Protest 3:29
Direct action against Topshop, who owe £1.2 billion of the £120 billion unpaid corporation tax.  ***PLAY***
Part 6: London Metropolitan Occupation 15:52
The most militant occupation so far…
Part 7: Day X3 10:39
Over 30,000 students lay siege to Parliament in an astonishing day of direct action.  ***PLAY***
Part 8: School Students speak out 4:50
14 year old schoolgirl, assaulted by police on day X3, speaks out.
3: Ireland: Trade Union March (Trade Union TV) 5:46
The Irish Congress of Trade Unions protest against austerity in November.
4: Ireland: Police Attack Student Demo (Trade Union TV) 5:11
Also in November – different country, same story!
5: London Firefighters Strike (Reel News) 14:17
Mass pickets leave the bosses’ strikebreaking tactics in tatters.
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Issue 25, October 2010

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1: Detroit: Rising from the ashes (Reel News) 32:30
Capitalism abandoned Detroit years ago, leaving it derelict and overgrown. Now, communities are being rebuilt through growing their own food in 1,300 urban gardens.
2: Detroit: Art explosion (Reel News) 17:48
Alongside the food growing is the start of an incredible explosion of art – much of it political.
3: Movement for Justice in El Barrio: Fighting Gentrification (Reel News) 16:50
Inspired by the Zapatistas and adherents to The Other Campaign, MJB are successfully resisting gentrification in New York.
4: Gulf: Trailer (Jason M. Parkinson) 13:31
A taster of the forthcoming film that will tell the truth behind the Gulf oil spill.
5: Save Our Schools (Jason M. Parkinson) 13:31
The Tories are threatening to turn every school into an academy. Made with the Anti-Academies Alliance.
6: RMT/TSSA strike (Reel News) 10:00
Historic joint action from the transport unions to stop 800 tube station staff cuts, with all the safety dangers that will come with them.
7: John Sinclair and friends: Live in Detroit (Reel News) 9:21
The Detroit legend performs at the Jazz Loft with The Milton Show – an incredible array of musicians.
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Issue 24, July 2010

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1: Gaza Flotilla Attack (Reel News/Palestine Solidarity Campaign) 29:42
Eyewitness testimonies and film from the Mavi Marmara tell the real story of Israel’s murderous attack on the Gaza aid flotilla. ***PLAY***
2. Blacklisted (Reel News) 16:00
The construction industry blacklists thousands of workers for their trade union activities, who then can’t get a job. It’s time this criminal practice was stopped.  ***PLAY***
3: UCU strike in London (Reel News) 10:00
On the eve of the election, CONEL lecturers strike to defend jobs and courses along with 13 other colleges in London.
4: Bolivia 2006: Start of the process (Reel News, 2006) 35:00
Bolivian social movements talk about their incredible struggles of the previous decade, and their thoughts on the new president, Evo Morales.
5: Decommissioners: Victory! (Schmovies) 11:00
Remember the people who caused £250,00 worth of damage to the EDO bomb component factory last year during the attack on Gaza? They’ve just walked free!
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Issue 23, April 2010

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1: Defend the Public Sector (Reel News) 26:00
The attack on the public sector has started…and so has the resistance. Reports from the civil servants strike, Kings College strike, pensioners demo, Whittington hospital demo and the Greek general strikes.  ***PLAY***
2: Vote for me (Jenny Cash, Reel News) 3:07
The best election song you’re ever likely to hear, from Mr. Jenny Cash.  ***PLAY***
3: Flashmob at Tory HQ (Indefilms) 5:34
Protest against homophobic statements by the Tories during the election campaign.
4: BA strike (Reel News) 9:44
A courageous strike by BA cabin crew to stop a nasty, union busting boss from wrecking the company.
5: EDL in Dudley (Indefilms) 8:41
Protestors gather to confront a demo against a new mosque in Dudley.
6: Youth fight for jobs (Indefilms) 3:23
March in Barking to give a positive message to youth, to combat the Nazi message of the BNP.
7: Staff Our Stations! (Reel News) 12:00
RMT activists start a campaign to stop 800 jobs being cut in London’s tube stations.
8: Alabama 3 – ‘Revolver Soul’ (avengin angel, Reel News) 28:44
Exclusive live footage and interviews from Brixton’s finest radical acidhouse country music band as they prepare to release their fabulous new album.
9: Can’t complain (Schmovies) 9:29
Hilarious film from the Schmovies archives of the Smash EDO campaign, featuring a serial police helmet tipper.
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