First LIMITED EDITION set of artist tiles from The Treatment Rooms

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Here they are…the first set of limited edition artist tiles made for Reel News by The Treatment Rooms. Only 25 sets will ever be made, so snap ‘em up quick!The tiles can be used as coasters, or grouted on to a wall on or in your house. Anywhere that you can find to tile really. So its just your imagination limiting you now.
They are printed on 4cm square, lovely oatmeal tile. Made in Italy and found as discontinued stock about to be skipped. These tiles are re-fired to over 900 degrees, so the image is permanently sunk into the glaze and are not to be confused with non-fired transfers that just lay of the surface. Now upcycled and made into a little bit of affordable art. Each tile is stamped on the back and signed.

A new set of tiles will be out to coincide with the next Reel News DVD…if you have any designs you’d love to see, let us know. The Treatment Rooms’ new show is on in Chiswick until February 26th every Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

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Slag – New show opening at The Treatment Rooms Collective HQ

SLAG!!!

Following its uber successful Xmas show (Taking Liberties), The Treatment Rooms Collective HQ, is proud to announce its new valentines special exhibiton ‘SLAG.’

The event will be held at Carrie Reichardt’s studios ……. 199 Acton Lane, Chiswick W4 5DA, every Fri/Sat/Sun 12-6pm until Feb 26th.

The usual suspects from Mutoid Waste, Mutate Britain and The Treatment Rooms Collective will be exhibiting their work, alongside some surprise guests.

A female heavy show, the window display is an amazing piece of outsider art. Made by a ‘Recycling Fairy’, it is a composition of hundreds of found objects, toys and dolls made to create the Goddess Kali with babies gushing from her blood red vulva. Not your typical shop window for Chiswick! But then The Treatment Rooms HQ is getting used to visits from the local law enforcement officers for causing a visual disturbance.

This show (as ever) gives art enthusiasts the rare opportunity to view eclectic and original artwork made by some of the top underground/outsider/lowbrow artists. Chances like this rarely come along, so make the effort to come down.

All artwork can be bought direct from the artists. 80% of the profits go direct to them; the other 20% is donated to REEL NEWS. Big thank you again to all the artists for helping us generate some much needed cash.


“Rank and file organising” film – Can you help?

Inspired by the brilliant struggle of the rank and file sparks, and disgusted by the sellout of the pensions dispute by the UNISON leadership, Reel News are planning a film on rank and file organising.

It feels like a good time to look at great examples of rank and file organising from the past, especially where ordinary workers have had the confidence to go against their own leadership to win significant victories, and how those lessons might be applied to the task of building a rank and file movement now.

So we want to have a look at examples right up to the present day, but obviously the early 70s is a key period to consider…Pentonville dockers, Saltley, the building workers strike to name but a few key events.

Do you have any suggestions for people you think we should be interviewing, areas we should be looking at or disputes we should be looking into?

Let us know what you think – any ideas gratefully received. Either leave a comment below or email us at info@reelnews.co.uk.

 


Reel News at the Bristol Radical Film Festival

Reel News will be appearing at the Bristol Radical Film Festival, running from 27th February to 4th March.

On Thursday 1st March at 7pm we’ll be showing “Rebellion in Tottenham 2011″ alongside Ken Faro’s film “Injustice” at the Malcolm X Centre, 141 City Road, St. Pauls, Bristol BS2 8YH.

Then on Saturday March 3rd at 2pm we’ll be taking part in a debate on videoactivism in Britain with Schmovies, the Camcorder Guerillas and Permanent Culture now.

For more information and the full programme, click here.


Reel News screening Jan 25: NEWCASTLE

Regular bimonthly night at the Star & Shadow cinema in Newcastle, this month featuring rank and file  action by electricians fighting a 35% pay cut and the tearing up of national agreements. This is the most important unofficial action for decades, and Newcastle sparks will be in attendance to relay the latest developments.

For updates on the sparks’ dispute, click here.

 

Also, films of the November 30 public sector strikes over pensions.


Issue 30, Dec 2011

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1. Sparks 1: Kings X (Reel News) 11:45

In the battle to stop a 35% pay cut and the tearing up of national agreements, sparks block roads and occupy Kings Cross station.  ***PLAY***

 

2. Liverpool: Fighting gentrification (Reel News) 10:04

The residents of Granby, Toxteth have come up with a novel way to stop their homes being sold off.

3. Sparks 2: London protests increase, power station walk out (Reel News) 12:50

Sparks walk out on unofficial strike at Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station, while the London protests get more militant.  ***PLAY***

4. Sparks 3: Rank and File Sparks & Occupy LSX unite (Reel News) 9:44

The two most significant movements in the country unite to shut down a Balfour Beatty site.  ***PLAY***

5. FOSBR: Unite the City! (Reel News) 6:20

Having won extra funding for Bristol railways, FOSBR are now campaigning to improve the service even more.  ***PLAY***

6. Sparks 4: National Day of Action (Reel News) 12:29

Mass pickets, direct action and occupations as the sparks run the police ragged all over London. ***PLAY***

7. November 30 (Reel News) 8:00

Millions of workers take action over pensions in the largest UK strike for 85 years.

8. Sparks 5: UK wide unofficial strike (Reel News) 10:00

Who needs a ballot? Sparks defy the law to pull off the most important unofficial strike in decades.  ***PLAY***

9. Argentinazo: Comienza la Revolucion (Ojo Obrero) 16:36

To mark the 10th anniversary of the Argentinian uprising when the economy and the banks collapsed, this brilliant film of the events of 19/20 December 2001 – rarely seen in this country.

 

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Blacklisted 2012 ***NEW UPDATED VERSION***

Reel News and Blacklist Support Group present: Blacklisted 2012 Multinational construction companies have been illegally blacklisting trade unionists in the UK building industry for years using the Consulting Association blacklist – the successor to the notorious Economic League with allegations about involvement by M.I.5, Special Branch and the UK security services

The good guys: Ricky Tomlinson, Des Warren, John Hendy QC, Professor Keith Ewing, Gail Cartmail, Glenis Willmott MEP, Stephen Hughes MEP, Jim Lafferty, Steve Hedley, Steve Acheson, Steve Kelly, Brian Higgins, Mick Dooley, Terry Renshaw, Jill Warren, Kath Warren, Colin Trousdale, Tony Jones, Darren O’Grady, George Fuller, Tony O’Brien, Mick Abbott, Frank Morris, Graham Bowker, Ray Morris, Jim Grey, Mick Holder, Roy Bentham, Kev Homes, Dave Smith, Unite the Union, UCATT, RMT

The bad guys: Consulting Association, Economic League, Ian Kerr, Carillion, Tarmac Construction, John Mowlem Ltd, Amec, Amey, Balfour Beatty, Balfour Kilpatrick, Haden Young, Kier Ltd, Laing O’Rourke, Bam Construction (HBC Construction), Bam Nuttall (Edmund Nutall Ltd), Costain UK Ltd, Crown House Technologies, Emcor (Drake & Scull), GLovell Construction (UK) Ltd, Miller Construction Limited, Morgan Est, Morrison Construction Group, N G Bailey, Shepherd Engineering Services, Sias Building Services, Sir Robert McAlpine Ltd, Skanska (Kaverna / Trafalgar House Plc), SPIE (Matthew Hall), Taylor Woodrow Construction Ltd, Willmott Dixon, Vinci PLC (Norwest Holst Group), C B & I, Cleveland Bridge UK Ltd

The video covers the Shrewsbury Pickets, Rank & File Sparks, Jubilee Line, Pfizers, Olympics, Fiddlers Ferry, Construction Safety Campaign, Joint Sites Committee. This brand new version updated for 2012 shows those recent struggles, Employment Tribunals, Human Rights, demonstrations and direct action, to the most powerful challenge of all – the rank and file electricians’ action.
Soundtrack by Alabama 3 and The Redskins
s those recent struggles, from legal challenges and victories to demonstrations and direct action, to the most powerful challenge of all – the rank and file electricians’ action.