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Round up 2: Reel New in Athens

Since the last update, we have visited the occupied TV channel Alter TV, the journalists of the newspaper Eleftherotypia, who have been on strike since December and the pickets at the steel factory Elliniki Halivourgia, with workers out on strike for four months now.

We have met actors from a radical theater company performing in squatted venues, an experimental post-punk act, and a dubstep artist.

Photo by Guy Smallman

We covered a demo and rally of hospital workers out on strike (slideshow and video rushes), and activists from Al.Any.A. (roughly translated the acronym means “little rascals” – the full name is Solidarity, Disobedience, Resistance), who blocked the toll collection on the motor way leaving Athens – eliciting huge smiles from drivers, blowing their horns in support of the action.

Today we spoke to young immigrants about the issues they face, and went down to the students parades that take place on the day before the Independence Day Parades, which is where we will go tomorrow.


Issue 28, June 2011

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  1. TUC demo March 26 (Reel News) 10:46 The second largest demonstration in British history as the anti-cuts campaign begins in earnest.  ***PLAY***
  2. Tower Hamlets joint strike action (Reel News) 11:30 Teachers and council workers coordinate strike action against the cuts.  ***PLAY***
  3. EMERGENCY! The battle to save the NHS (Reel News) 26:07 The government is trying to privatise the NHS, but the resistance is growing. Everything you need to know about Lansley’s bill, NHS cuts and how to fight back.  ***PLAY***
  4. Royal Cleaners fight for a living wage (Reel News) 11:18 While millions are spent on the Royal wedding, the cleaners in Buckingham Palace have to make do with poverty pay.
  5. London Met fighting for education (Reel News) 15:57 70% of courses and hundreds of jobs are being cut as London Metropolitan University becomes a testing ground for the Tories’ education policies.
  6. The Hardest Hit march (Reel News) 9:00 The biggest march of disabled people in history against cuts in welfare.
  7. Rubbish Action (Issy Harvey) 1:30 There’s not enough workers to pick up the litter in Haringey parks, so campaigners dump it on the civic centre steps.
  8. Guilty and Proud of it! Poplar’s rebel councillors (Janine Booth / Reel News) 16:16 From 1919 -1925, Labour councillors in Poplar went to jail for defending their working class communities – and won. A key episode of our history.  ***PLAY***
  9. Alabama 3 – Bad to the Bone (Reel News) 3:28 Recorded live in Manchester on last year’s Revolver Soul tour.
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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 5, March 2007

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1: Oaxaca 1: Teachers’ History (Corrugated Films) 10:07

The teachers in Mexico have traditionally been the most militant group of workers – like the UK miners. This film charts their history from the start of the last century up to Oaxaca in 2006.

2: Oaxaca 2: Uprising! (Mexican activists/Reel News) 13:23

Started by the teachers and developing into an entire community declaring autonomy, seizing city hall and tv and radio stations. White hot footage from people’s assembly of Oaxaca and Indymedia Oaxaca.

3: Coca Cola in Kerala (Independent Media Society) 6:38

An extract from a film showing the threat Coca-Cola posed to people’s livelihoods and the water supply in Kerala.

4: ESOL students speak out (Reel News) 9:55

As plans to slash teaching of English as a Second Language are unveiled, students at Lambeth College explain how vital these courses are for them.

5: Voluntary Sector Under Threat (Reel News) 10:44

More cuts in Lambeth, as pensioners, health service users and day centre users storm a council meeting in fury at their services being slashed.

6: Save Whipps X Hospital (Reel News) 8:23

Whipps X Hospital in North London is under threat of closure. A powerful coalition of local people has built up to fight back.

7: Fluffy Smiff (No Budget Films) 1:52

Another poem from Fluffy.

8: Genova Libera (2001, various inc. Reel News) 33:26

The full story of the G8 protests in Italy – the most infamous European anti-capitalist protests ever. The Italian state, supported by Bush and Blair, resorts to heavy violence to shut down the anti-capitalist movement – and fails.

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Issue 3, December 2006

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1: Conference For Fighting Unions (Reel News) 18:26
Organised by RESPECT, this conference brought together militants from all the major current campaigns. Includes footage from the firefighters’ strike earlier in the year.
2: Justice For Cleaners: Victory! (Reel News) 13:14
Cleaners in the T&GWU conduct a serious of noise protests, culminating in an audacious occupation of Merrill Lynch’s foyer in pursuit of a living wage.
3: Venezuela Today, The World Tomorrow (extract) (CWU & Gateshead UNISON) 5:16
An extract from a film made during a trade union delegation visit to Venezuela.
4: Save Adult Education (Reel News) 18:48
A brilliant conference organised by Lambeth UCU, UNISON and NUS, plus the fight to save one of the few schools for students with hearing difficulties in Redhill from closing.
5: Palestine: Bethlehem (extract) (Ed Hill) 14:54
This is not the image of Bethlehem that Israel wants you to see at Xmas or any other time, as Ed concentrates on the apartheid wall that splits the city in half.
6: Fluffy Smiff: A Christmas Poem (No Budget Films) 3:03
Fluffy looks at Xmas in her own inimitable way.
7: Bolivia: Justice For Goni Now! (Reel News) 10:20
2003: The war against the sell off of the gas supply – an uprising of a quarter of the population brings down the government. Now they want ex-president Goni brought to justice for the massacres he sanctioned.
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