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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 11, November 2007

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1: Postal Workers’ Strike – Reject The Deal! (Reel News) 21:10
After a magnificent campaign of strike action in open defiance of the anti-trade union laws to stop huge cuts in wages and conditions, the postal workers were sold a deal by the CWU leadership which fell far short of what they deserved. ***PLAY***
2: Troops Out Now (Oscar Beard) 9:57
The police tries to ban the Stop the War march on Parliament.
3: The Oil Bank of Scotland (Oscar Beard) 5:06
Climate Change protestors put pressure on the Royal Bank of Scotland to change their huge investments in the oil and gas industries to something more positive.
4: Construction Safety Campaign: Wembley Stadium (Reel News/Oscar Beard) 9:44
More people die in the workplace than in wars, and in the UK 80% of those deaths are in the construction industry. Here we commemorate the brave fight by Patrick O’Sullivan’s family to have a plaque in his memory put up at Wembley Stadium, where he died in 2004.
5: United Friends and Families March (Reel News/Oscar Beard) 7:44
Every year more people die in police custody, and still no cops have ever been prosecuted. But the families seeking justice will not be silenced.
6: Argentina: Hotel Bauen (Grupo Alavio) 21:00
Hotel Bauen is a 4 star hotel in the centre of Buenos Aires, run collectively by its workers and at the centre of the growing occupied workplaces movement.
7: Reel News Live: David Rovics (Oscar Beard) 6:40
The brilliant political songwriter from America, live in London.
8: Return to Palestine (extract) (Ed Hill) 12:24
Extract from a film of a visit to Palestine by the twinning movement in Bristol to help pick olives, and an insight into day to day life under intolerable conditions.
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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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