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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 13, April 2008

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1: Iraq: Speaking out Against The War (Reel News) 23:48
On the 5th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, 1.2 million people are dead and millions have been made refugees. Ex-SAS man Ben Griffin reveals British collusion in torture (before he was gagged by the MOD), plus ex-Guantanamo detainee Moazzam Begg and Salaam Ismael from Doctors for Iraq.
2: Save Our Schools! (Reel News) 22:55
City academies mean privatisation of education. Leading campaigners expose the true agenda, with action from the campaigns in Stoke and Pimlico and news from the Anti-Academies Conference. ***PLAY***
3: The Stoned Master: Performance Poetry (Reel News) 10:05
Brilliant, abrasive, hilarious poems from The Stoned Master at his monthly residency in Brixton.
4: No Third Runway! (Reel News/Plane Stupid) 22:00
The No Third Runway campaign take us on a tour around the villages affected by Heathrow expansion, Plane Stupid mount an audacious protest fro the roof of Parliament, and a flash mob descends on Heathrw for the opening of Terminal 5.
5: Coastguards Strike! (Reel News) 7:39
PCS members in the fourth emergency service take strike action for the first time in their 150 year history over pay scales starting at £11,000 a year – barely minimum wage. ***PLAY***
6: On The Verge: The anti-war Film The Police Want to Ban! (extract) (Schmovies) 11:52
An extract from the feature film of the Smash EDO bomb factory campaign in Brighton – out now. When Schmovies took the film on tour, the police tried to stop it from being shown in a number of places – surely not because of how stupid they are made to look by defending the indefensible?!
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Issue 12, January 2008

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1: Stop Them Privatising Our Schools (Reel News) 21:21
City academies are increasingly being imposed on reluctant communities. Venture capitalists, religious organisations and multinationals with no educational experience are being given schools on the cheap to do with as they like. This film focusses on 4 campaigns in London to stop them – Pimlico, Wembley, Islington Green and Frank Barnes.
2: Communties Against Guns and Knives (Reel News) 6:05
A new group in Haringey, North London organise a march against gun and knife crime, and against the demonisation of our kids.
3: After Sangatte (Oscar Beard) 13:53
Refugees from Iraq and the Middle East, fleeing war, are stuck in Calais with no food or shelter – while the UK government responsible for those wars refuses to let them in.
4: From Jerusalem to Haringey (Reel News) 13:14
The twinning movement is about ordinary people in the UK making links with their counterparts in Palestine, forming friendships and delivering long term practical solidarity.
5: Holloway Prison: Another Death (Reel News) 9:57
Every time a woman dies in prison, Pauline Campbell organises a direct action protest outside the prison concerned. The number of deaths is rising sharply – shame on the Home Office!
6: Volviendo (extract) (Laurence Martin) 10:31
A film charting the return to Chile of a political refugee, to sing a song he wrote for the youngest person to be executed during the military overthrow of Allende’s popular government.
7: Policing the Pollution (Oscar Beard) 9:51
In the process of building a new oil refinery off the shores of Ireland, Shell are illegally polluting the water supply to the people of Mayo.
8: Tara: Skullduggery (Schmovies) 12:05
The bulldozing of ancient and sacred Irish burial mound Tara to make way for a four lane motorway. Protestors take direct action to enforce EU law.
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Issue 6, April 2007

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1: Stop Trident 1: Aldermaston (Reel News) 14:48
Easter weekend: activists gather at the nuclear base and succeed in shutting it down for the day. Includes interviews with women from the peace camp and veterans who remember the first demo in 1958.
2: Stop Trident 2: Faslane (Bristol activists) 10:24
Another nuclear facility shut down, this time as medical professionals from Bristol join the year of daily protests at Faslane in Scotland.
3: PCS dispute: MoD strike (Reel News) 9:46
Yet another military shut down for the day at Leconsfield near Hull, but this time by the workers themselves. PCS members strike over pay and privatisation in a brilliant display of militancy. ***PLAY***
4: Manchester: Fujitsu strike (Reel News) 9:08
Fujitsu workers have been striking over their conditions all year. We visit them as they approach the point of winning their dispute.
5: Fluffy against the war (No Budget Films) 1:42
Another poem from Fluffy Smiff.
6: Mayo: Policing the pollution (extract) (Oscar Beard) 18:20
Shell are building an oil refinery off the coast of Mayo in Ireland, which is contaminating the drinking water with deadly amounts of aluminium. The local people are mounting a brave rearguard action against them.
7: How Cuba survived peak oil (Community Solution) 20:04
This is a shortened version of the film showing what Cuba did when the Russian oil supply halved overnight as a result of the fall of the Stalinist states. An uplifting tale showing that life could be better without oil.
8: G8 2005: Gleneagles (Reel News) 10:51
As the build up to this year’s G8 protests starts, this is what happened at the G8 protests in Scotland in 2005 – featuring a great cameo from the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army.
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