Issue 20, October 2009

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1: Plymouth – Stop the Nuclear Waste Dump (Reel News) 22:07
Plymouth is where nuclear submarines are refuelled. Now they want to decommission them there too – sawing up nuclear core reactors into pieces and storing them in the middle of a population of 250,000 people.
2: Save Vestas Wind Turbine Factory (Reel News, Vestas workers) 18:47
An unprecedented red, green and black coalition support the Vestas workers occupying to stop the only wind turbine factory in England shutting down.
3: English Defence League (Jason N. Parkinson, Indefilms) 12:53
The latest pathetic bunch of nazis are easily dealt with and dispatched in Birmingham, Harrow and London.
4: Protest on the plinth (Indefilms) 6:27
A moving protest covering the nazis’ treatment of disabled people, the current euthanasia debate and questions of access.
5: Tower Hamlets College Strike – Victory! (Reel News) 15:00
First factory occupations, now the return of the all-out indefinite strike, as Tower Hamlets lecturers win a significant victory against education privatisation.
6: South Africa – Kennedy Road under threat (Indefilms) 3:05
Community activists organising the poor are viciously attacked by the ANC in a violent invasion.
7: Eigg – Eco-island (Reel News) 6:32
After a community buy out of the laird, the Inner Hebridean island of Eigg is transforming itself into a zero carbon community.
8: Climate Camp London (Jason N. Parkinson) 6:55
The actions from this year’s London climate camp.
9: Countdown to Copenhagen (Reel News) 15:00
Activists from Climate Camp explain everything you need yo know about the talks in December, why the mobilisations are so important, how to get there and what you can do here.
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Issue 15, September 2008

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1: Climate Caravan (da 100th monkey) 4:22
The build up to the highly successful camp starts in July as the climate caravan begins its journey from Heathrow to Kingsnorth power station.
2: Climate Camp – Agrofuels (Reel News/Cine Rebelde/Lasojamata) 17:00
See the brilliant action during climate camp, the horrific truth behind biofuels and the growing fightback in Paraguay.
3: Tipping Point (Leo Murray) 11:34
Animated film form Plane Stupid’s Leo Murray, explaining how runaway climate change could begin…and what we can do to stop it.
4: Climate Camp – Kingsnorth (Reel News) 19:00
Arguments and direct action against new coal fired power stations, a bigger trade union presence at the camp and the growing campaign for green jobs and just transition. ***PLAY***
5: Reporting Climate Camp (Jason N. Parkinson) 11:27
Police seem hellbent this year on making journalists’ lives as difficult as possible in between their hopeless attempts at stopping the camp…
6: Press Freedom: Collateral Damage (Jason N. Parkinson) 9:28
…and this NUJ commissioned film shows it’s not an isolated example, as freedom of the press comes under increasing attack.
7: 402(Trailer) (Punkvert) 5:45
Trailer of Punkvert’s film of political artists collective The Treatment Rooms’ astonishing visit to America to witness their friend’s execution.
8: Roma in Italy (John Sinha/Jess Hurd) 14:47
Berlusconi is back in power, and now Rome has a neo-fascist mayor. Roma families speak out over the state-sponsored surge in racism they are now having to endure.
9: Batons n’ Bombs (Schmovies) 16:13
The Smash EDO carnival in Brighton runs rings round the police yet again as the beleagured bomb factory takes another body blow.
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Issue 10, October 2007

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1: Heathrow Camp for Climate Action (Reel News) 21:10

Watch this brilliant display of resistance as the camp for climate action teams up with the local “no third runway” campaign for a week at Heathrow.

2: Prison Officers Strike (Reel News/Oscar Beard) 9:25

At last! Who would have predicted that the first union to defy the anti-trade union laws this year would be..the prison officers association?!

3: Metronet strike (Reel News) 9:46

The other great piece of direct action this month comes from RMT engineers, protesting against plans for job losses, cuts and changes in conditions as the private company who ran the tube goes bankrupt. The plans quickly fall apart after the London tube network is brought to a standstill…

4: Trail of Destruction (Reel News) 19:11

As the campaign to save the William Morris Gallery gathers pace, local art activists anti-scrap organise a walk round the borough the borough of Waltham Forest, pointing out the destruction of art, leisure and education facilities.

5: Wanted (No Budget Films) 6:50

A lonely hearts advert from poet Miss Dolly Ginsberg.

6: History 101 (Schmovies) 4:04

News from Brighton on the latest attempt to suppress the right to protest.

7: Wembley Occupation (Reel News/Oscar Beard) 5:27

Despite a chronic shortage of schools in the poor end of Brent, venture capitalists attempt to build an academy in the rich end of the borough, near Wembley stadium, on a well used community stadium. So Wembley teachers occupy the site.

8: Tara Tara Tara (Schmovies) 22:02

The Irish Government, in contravention of EU law, are disgracefully allowing the building of a four lane motorway through the middle of Tara, an ancient burial ground of enormous significance. Please help this important campaign to stop them destroying yet another part of our culture.

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