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Issue 14, June 2008

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1: Public Sector Pay Freeze (Reel News) 16:00
PCS, NUT and UCU members all take strike action together against Brown’s public sector pay freeze. Views from the picket lines, a solidarity performance from Billy Bragg and a brilliant march and rally in London.
2: London Welcomes George Bush (Jason Parkinson) 9:18
A Stop the War demonstration against Bush is marred by an unprovoked attack by police using metal batons against peaceful protestors – mysteriously absent from the corporate media coverage.
3: India: Earth Worm, Company Man (extract) (Samarendra & Amarendra Das) 23:39
The incredible story of the social movements in India stopping mining companies from plundering their natural resources and throwing them off their land.
4: Haringey Independence Day (Reel News) 12:18
Community activists in North London join together in a great initiative to broaden and deepen existing networks.
5: Stop Airport Expansion Demo (Reel News) 12:37
The latest salvo in an increasingly confident campaign that is looking capable of a famous victory, as a demonstration at Heathrow culminates in the formation of a giant human “NO”.
6: Ilan Pappe on Palestine (Ed Hill) 14:45
We don’t usually show a speech on its own, but this is an exception – a brilliant, hard hitting analysis of Palestine by the Israeli author of “The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine”.
7: Conflict: Carlo Giuliani (Conflict/Guy Smallman/Reel News) 5:16
Conflict’s furious response to the murder of Carlo by Italian police at the G8 protests in Italy in 2001 This is also the first ever AVCD produced in Britain. ***PLAY***
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Issue 8, July 2007

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1: Intro (Oscar Beard) 3:08
2: Saturday Demo (Reel News) 14:46
The protests against the G8 summit begin with a peaceful march – until the police attempt to provoke the protestors…
3: Saturday Demo 2 (Oscar Beard) 6:38
4: Agricultural demo (Reel News) 8:24
On Sunday, La Via Campesina takes centre stage – little known in Britain, but by far the largest social movement in the world.
5: 1992: The Nazi Pogrom (Spectacle films) 11:28
In 1992, neo-nazis descended on Rostock intent on burning down a guestworkers hostel with the workers still in it. An extract fro one of the most frightening documentaries ever made.
6: Lichtenhagen (Oscar Beard) 3:49
An attempt t gather to say “Neber Again” to the Nazi pogrom of 1992 is disrupted by an unforgivable abuse of police powers.
7: No Borders Demo (Reel News) 9:28
On Monday the police make a last desperate attempt to discredit the protests as they refuse to let the No Borders demo start. The attempt is doomed to failure…
8: Anti Military demo (Reel News) 3:28
9: Blockades 1 (Reel News) 14:09
Wednesday: As the G8 starts, so do the blockades – a breathtaking display of unity and organisation as thousands block every route to the summit.
10: Blockades 2 (Oscar Beard) 3:16
11: Thursday Blockades (Oscar Beard) 7:05
12: Shell Demo (Oscar Beard) 3:06
Protestors from Britain and Ireland lead a protest against Shell’s contamination of the drinking water in Ireland.
13: Greenpeace Actions (Greenpeace/Reel News) 5:00
While all the roads into the summit are blocked, Greenpeace attempt to block the way in by sea.
14: Rostock: Some Views (Reel News) 5:00
Activists reflect on the significance of Rostock.
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Issue 7, May 2007

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1: Workers Memorial Day (Reel News) 13:40
More people are killed in incidents at work than they are in wars. On the annual Workers Memorial Day march, families speak out over the lack of justice and the lack of a corporate manslaughter law – PLUS the Battersea Crane Disaster Action Group’s campaign.
2: Mayday 1: PCS strike (Reel News) 12:43
The latest stage in the PCS’s campaign to stop 100,000 job losses and attacks on pay and conditions, as the strike on Mayday and lead the annual International Workers Day march… ***PLAY***
3: Mayday 2: Spacejackers (Oscar Beard) 5:10
…meanwhile, the Spacejackers descend on Canary Wharf in an attempt to bring the spirit of Mayday to the City.
4: 2,000 Demos (Reel News) 9:35
Mark Thomas’s attempt to make the SOCPA laws unworkable reaches new heights as 100 people stage 20 individual demos each in one day, giving the police 2,000 pieces of paperwork to do …
5: No Advertising Day (Reel News) 3:30
The people of Manchester wake up one day to find all the advertising hoardings have disappeared. Who’s behind this mystery??
6: G8 2003: Evian (Reel News) 12:12
A look back to Evian in 2003. The G8 meet in a seemingly impregnable fortress, but are outwitted by mass direct action blocking all the bridges to the summit.
7: Conflict: ‘No Power’ Videos (Conflict/Reel News) 7:50
Previously unreleased collaboration with one of the most uncompromising punk bands ever – the videos for ‘No Power Without Control’ and ‘From St. Pauls to Seattle’.
8: Wrong Lane Jane (No Budget Films) 5:39
Powerful antiwar poems from Brixton’s very own Wrong Lane Jane.
9: Stop Deportations to D.R.Congo (Oscar Beard) 5:05
Protestors stage a demonstration outside the embassy.
10: Save Sadiq! (Reel News) 12:28
Everyone is appalled at what’s happening in Darfur – so why are the UK government determined to send opponents of the regime like Sadiq back to certain death?
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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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Issue 4, February 2007

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1: PCS strike (Reel News) 20:00
PCS members take strike action over 100,000 job losses and attacks on wages and condtions. Views from the picket lines, march and rally, as well as the build up to the strike. ***PLAY***
2: Argentina: Tube Workers Fight for a 6 Hour Day (Grupo Alavio) 19:40
One of the most militant group of workers in Argentina, the Buenos Aires tube workers demanded a 6 hour day on the same wages and conditions as for an 8 hour day – and won.
3: Burberry Moves to China (Reel News) 4:19
Burberry want their clothes to be made in sweatshops in China. No Sweat and the GMB try to stop them.
4: Stop the Deaths In Women’s Prisons! (Reel News) 19:40
Pauline Campbell is fighting a courageous campaign of direct action to stop the growing deaths in women’s prisons – this time she is outside Styal prison after the needless death of a mother of 5 children.
5: Guantanamo Vigil and Protest (Oscar Beard) 4:50
Amnesty’s moving protest against Guantanamo bay outside the U.S. embassy.
6: G8, Scotland 2005: Faslane (Reel News) 6:20
The nuclear facility is shut down for the day during the G8 protests.
7: Fluffy and her Fairies (No Budget Films) 7:24
More of Fluffy’s poems.
8: Reclaim Love 2006 (Euan, Rikki and Venus) 6:30
The annual Reclaim Love event – or how to bring Central London to a a standstill and get the police to smile at the same time!
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