FILMS Lecture Room 2
10.30 am - 12 noon
Reel News 15
Reel News is an activist video collective, set up to publicise and share information on inspirational campaigns and struggles - not just in this country, but across the world, producing a monthly newsreel, made up of a number of videos short enough to use in union and campaign meetings. Issue 15 includes climate camp and climate change, the Smash EDO carnival from Schmovies, a film on the plight of Roma people under the new fascist mayor of Rome, and the latest from the Wembley teachers occupation.
12 noon - 1.30 pm
On the Verge
Schnews
On the Verge is the story of the Smash EDO campaign against a weapons factory in Brighton and the attempts to repress it. The same cops who did all they could for arms manufacturers have tried repeatedly to stop it being shown and created more publicity than the film makers ever dreamt of.
Bright boys, the cops.
1.30 pm - 2.45 pm
Ethel Macdonald - an anarchist’s story
Chris Dolan
Ethel Macdonald worked alongside Guy Aldred in the anti-parliamentary communist federation in the 30s. A committed anarchist, in 1936 she left Scotland and travelled to Spain to take part in the opposition to Franco. She became the voice of the Republic on the CNT Radio station of Barcelona and filed some of the first reports of the 1937 May Riots, when 400 people were killed in street fighting in the Catalonian capital. In the crackdown following the events of May 1937 she assisted the escape of anarchists, becoming known as the "Scots scarlet pimpernel”. Later, she herself was captured and imprisoned by communist rivals. She later remarked: "I went to Spain full of hopes and dreams. It promised the Utopia realised. I return full of sadness, dulled by the tragedy I have seen."
3 pm - 4.30 pm
Five Ring Circus
Conrad Schmidt
This film shows not just the broken promises on resources and sustainability of the 2010 Vancouver winter Olympics, but also the widespread opposition and resistance.
4.30 pm - 5 pm
More Reel News
More footage from Reel News - see above.
5 pm - 6.30 pm
Sacco and Vanzetti
Peter Miller
Peter Miller’s documentary tells the story of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, two Italian immigrant anarchists who were accused of a murder in 1920, and executed in Boston in 1927 after a notoriously prejudiced trial. “Miller makes his film soar by keeping our attention focused on the defendants. For Sacco and Vanzetti were extraordinary men. Sacco and Vanzetti ... force us to recommit ourselves to the struggle for human liberation. For if their agony was their triumph, it can and must be ours as well.”
CABARET
On the hour every hour 12-6.
See posters / info stall for times of acts.
Comperes:
12pm - 1pm & 3pm - 4pm
Johnny Fluffypunk
Pastoral nihilist stand-up poetry and give-up banjolele.
1pm - 2pm & 4pm - 5pm
Tony Allen
Advocate Heckler, Anarchist Parasite and Mixed-Ability Shaman.
2pm -3pm & 5pm - 6pm
Angus Lindsay
Loveable innocent lost.
Performers:
RontheBuilder
Tales from Class War - Ron Stephenson.
Den Levett
Unmissable singalong comedy, etc.
Whatsername
Politics in a see-through dress.
Rob Rub aka The Rub
London modern day hip-hop/revolutionary/ protest singer and guitar player.
Dave Russell
Outsider guitar legend and national treasure.
Bob Boyton
Urban story teller, described by a Tory MP as ‘a sick Marxist comic’.
Becky Fury
The loosest of cannons.
S.P. Howarth
Poet in the purest sense. SP Howarth has previously been the winner of Poetry idol, The Bard of Brixton and a handful of other slams too obscure to mention.
Sir Gideon Vein (deceased)
Artiste, raconteur and benefit claimant.
Anne Price
Politico-folkster from NYC. Thought-provoking, moving and funny, too.
Steve Suffet
Railroad songs, trucker songs, miner songs, cowboy songs, union songs, bluegrass, topical-political songs, and whatever else takes his fancy.
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