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Issue 31, Feb 2012 *** Watch Trailer ***

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1. Balfour Beaten! (Reel News, 17:02) Historic victory for the rank and file sparks in the most important industrial dispute for 25 years.
2. Blacklisted – new 2012 version (Reel News, 21:00) As the sparks go on the offensive, this will be one of the main demands – an end to the illegal blacklisting of building workers for trade union activities.
3. CHICAGO Schools: Shutdown at the CPS Board Meeting (Labor Beat, 22:00) A new regular slot on Reel News from Labor Beat in Chicago, this film is about the campaign to save community schools.
4. Banner Theatre: Fighting The Cuts! (Reel News/Banner Theatre, 8:00) An extract from their latest inspiring show. Banner’s survival is itself under threat from cuts, please help them out!
5. Jet tanker drivers dispute (Reel News, 3:45) Strike over a 20% pay cut from a firm making $3.2 billion profits.
6. BULGARIA Fracking Victory! (Climate Action Coalition Bulgaria, 9:00) Huge demos in Bulgaria force the Government to ban the dangerous process of fracking.
7. MEXICO Arte Urbano (Reel News/The Treatment Rooms, 23:10) The Treatment Rooms work with excluded youth in Mexico to make a beautiful ceramic mural.
8. MEXICO Zapatistas: March for Peace (Alaghom Films) The Zapatistas march against Calderon’s drug war.
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BALFOUR BEATEN! New Reel News DVD out next week; pre-order and help us make the next one

Reel News 31 is out next week, featuring the rank and file sparks’ incredible victory in the most important industrial dispute for 25 years.

We also hear about other rank and file action, school closures in Chicago, an improvisation on the cuts and from our old friends in the Lacadonian jungle.

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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 22, February 2010

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Copenhagen: System Change not Climate Change! (Reel News) 80:00
Part 1: Carbon Trading: Privatise the air! 17:57
As the movements gather in Copenhagen, the talks are exposed as another attempt to save global capitalism.  ***PLAY***
Part 2: 100,000 march in Copenhagen 16:48
The biggest march for climate justice ever, plus an introduction to the mass movements of the Global South.
Part 3: Agribusiness and food sovereignty 12:32
La Via Campesina show how switching from agribusiness to organic farming would cut 40% of global emissions overnight.
Part 4: Oil: Shut down the tar sands! 14:42
This horrific project in Canada will take us all over the tipping points on its own if we don’t stop it.
Part 5: Wind: Vestas protest 4:27
Vestas workers invade the Danish company’s cocktail party.
Part 6: Reclaim Power! 13:34
Direct action inside and outside the summit culminate in a People’s Assembly, and the real solutions to climate change.
Fujitsu strike (Reel News) 15:46
The first ever national IT strike in British history over jobs, pay and pensions.
EDL in Stoke (Indefilms) 4:40
Not a pretty sight, and some very offensive language – the English Defence League show their true colours.
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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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Issue 1, October 2006

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1:Time To Go! Troops Out of Iraq (Reel News) 8:26
The Stop The War demonstration outside the Labour Party Conference in Manchester in September 2006.
2: Lebanon: August 2006 (Reel News/Guy Smallman) 17:09
Guy Smallman’s photo report of Israel’s destruction of Lebanon, and the inspiring defiance shown by the Lebanese people.
3: Fun-Da-Mental: Fighting the Censors (Reel News/Fun-Da-Mental) 15:00
Fun-Da-Mental’s brilliant new album, “All Is War” has been met with a level of censorship arguably not seen since the Sex Pistols. We give main man Aki a chance to speak out, and present the tracks no-one else will play.
4: Aram’s Story – No Safe Haven (The Independent Media Society) 10:20
Aram fled Iraq after refusing to be used as a suicide bomber. Incredibly, the UK government want to send him back. This is his story.
5: Warming Up For Climate Change (Reel News/Indymedia) 19:34
The case for taking urgent action on climate change now. George Monbiot, Tony Kearns (CWU) and other speak at a Campaign against Climate Change meeting – PLUS the first ever climate camp at Drax power station.
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