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SchNEWS goes to the movies!
These films are 'information for action' - to inspire or inform you to get involved in the issues covered in them, produced in Brighton by SchMOVIES (apart from a couple). If you are involved in DIY video and have films you'd like to put here, get in contact. Listed below are the most recent films - see the rest in the category list on the lefthand column
To play these movies SchMOVIES recommends the free/open-source Videolan VLC media player, free to download at www.videolan.org
SchMOVIES SCREENINGS |
Address: The Cowley Club, 12 London Road, Brighton, BN1 4JA Time: 8pm Price: Free/Donation |
SchMOVIES, the direct-action film wing of SchNEWS is hooking up with London based video magazine collective REEL NEWS for a tour round the country, screeening the latest video activist films and reports from the UK and beyond. We also will be touring with the Dorset/Hampshire based Ska/Punk/Dub band - THE SPORADICS to create an evening of film, music and info at each venue. This stop - Swansea Address: The Garage, 47 Uplands Crescent, Swansea Time: 8pm Price: £5 |
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RAIDERS OF THE LOST
ARCHIVE (Vol 1) This DVD features a number of films which were held by Sussex police for over a year following the raid and confiscation of all SchMOVIES equipment during an intelligence gathering operation in June 2009 related to the Smash EDO campaign. The films in this collection include demonstrations against the Israeli bombing of Gaza in early 2009, the EDO Decommissioners trial, Smash EDO protests and more direct action on the south coast... PLUS music clips of some of the bands who have performed at recent SchNEWS/SchMOVIES benefit gigs including Brighton's finest and perennial festival fave 'Tragic Roundabout'. Available Now:
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SchNIPPETS - Lewes Rd
Community Garden In Court The
much loved Lewes Rd Community Garden in Brighton finally get it's day in court.
After a year this guerilla garden is under threat from developers who want to
turn the land into another TESCOs and a betting shop. This was stage one of their
master plan.... Download hi-res Mpeg (72 meg)
click here For more coverage on the occupied garden see SchNEWS
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SchNIPPETS - The Decommissoners
Trial Short reportage of day one of the Decommisonners trial, where nine activists are on trial for smashing up the Brighton based bomb component factoty, EDO/ITT in Januray 2009. The trial is not so much if they are guilty but if EDO/ITT are guilty of illegally arming the Israeli military... Download hi-res Mpeg
(46 meg)
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Madness (English Defence League) The frankly barmy March For England returns to the streets of Brighton to celebrate St Georges Day but this year is infiltrated by the English Defence League. Download hi-res Mpeg
(? meg)click here |
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Every Fucking Week! Short
reportage of a recent incident at the bomb component making factory EDO/ITT in
Brighton during one of the regular weekly noise demos. Just goes to show how much
a few bods and a camera can pile on the pressure... Download hi-res
Mpeg (108 meg)
click here See also www.smashedo.org.uk
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Imagine A Garden Documenting the creation of the Lewes Rd Community Garden in
Brighton which was squatted on the site of a disused ESSO garage by local residents
in June 2009. The occupation is ongoing despite TESCOs claiming the land and wanting
to build another store there... !! Download hi-res Mpeg1 (157 meg)
click here For more coverage on the occupied garden see SchNEWS
677, 680 |
May The Fourth Be With You (Smash EDO) The campaign to shut down the Brighton based bomb component factory takes to the streets in this whistle stop march of the companies and institutions that support ITT/EDO. Download hi-res Mpeg
(? meg)click here For more coverage on the Smash EDO campaign see www.smashedo.org |
REPORTS
FROM THE VERGE
Smash EDO/ITT Anthology 2005-2009
A new collection of twelve SchMOVIES covering the Smash EDO/ITT's campaign efforts to shut down the Brighton based bomb factory since the company sought its draconian injunction against protesters in 2005. This series of films illustrate what lengths EDO and Sussex Police will go to stop the campaign and how Smash EDO hit back.
Available now
Or send cheques for the above amount made to 'Justice' to the address at the bottom of this page...
For more details click here
Conflict Alert
Demo in support of Gaza, January 2009, 6:37 min
Reportage from one of the big London marches and the civil disobedience and outrage that followed when Israel bombed the Gaza strip massacring hundreds during late 2008-Jan 2009.
Download hi-res Mpeg1 (68 meg) click
here
Download low-res FLV (28 meg) click
here
For more coverage on the Israeli attacks on Gaza in January 2009
see SchNEWS 661, 662,
663
See also
http://talestotell.wordpress.com
Humanity
Brighton Gaza Demo, January 2009, 6:41 min
Another film the cops took
in the raid (see SchNEWS
680). The Brighton leg of solidarity marches for the Gaza people being bombed
to hell by Israel at the start of 2009.
WARNING! This film does contain some
graphic Gaza casualty footage!
Download hi-res Mpeg1 (60 meg) click
here
Download low-res FLV (29 meg) click
here
For more coverage on the Israeli attacks on Gaza in January 2009
see SchNEWS 661, 662,
663
See also
http://talestotell.wordpress.com
Watch ITT!
Brighton
Shut ITT! Demo, October 15th 2008, 13:23 min
One of the SchMOVIES
that Sussex Police took away in the raid (see SchNEWS
680). Reportage from the second mass nationwide demo against the bomb component
making EDO/ITT factory in Brighton. The film is also meant to act as a kind of
caution for those that put political direct action films up on the web without
checking the content through first...SchMOVIES are routinely downloaded by the
Police...for our own protection of course... so Watch ITT!!!
Download
hi-res Mpeg1 (136 meg) click
here
Download low-res FLV (57 meg) click
here
For more coverage on the Shut ITT demo on October 15th 2008 SchNEWS
651
See also www.smashedo.org.uk
UNCERTIFIED
SchMOVIES
2008 DVD Collection 'Uncertified'
Films on this DVD include... The saga of On The verge – the film they tried to ban, the Newhaven anti-incinerator campaign, Forgive us our trespasses - as squatters take over an abandoned Brighton church, Titnore Woods update, protests against BNP festival and more...
click
here to download - 39 sec, mpg format, 4.9 meg, Jan 2009.
To
download 'Uncertified' on bit torrent (900meg) click
here
Time Out At Titnore
Titnore
Protest Camp, West Sussex
Update at Titnore Woods Protest Camp in Worthing now in it's third year where the forces of darkness want to trash ancient woodland to build a new housing development and another bloody Tescos.
click here to download - 4:29 min, mpg1 format, 34 meg, September 2008.
Campaign
website - www.protectourwoodland.co.uk
See also Rough Music #20 - 1,000 Days And Counting -
www.roughmusic.org.uk/rm20.html#3
Little
Britain
BNP 'Festival' protests
The far-right British National Party held their second “festival” (yes, that's right the BNP hold festivals now) in Derbyshire in August 2008. Only one person turned up last year to protest against this fascist festival - this year, however, was a different story.
click here to download - 8:07 min, mpg1 format, 61 meg, August 2008.
See
Red, Blue & Whitey in SchNEWS
643
Antifa - www.antifa.org.uk
Wasters!
Newhaven
anti-incinerator campaign
With democratic resistance thwarted and the go ahead given for the Newhaven Incinerator to be built, the campaign to stop this monstrous toxic facility is stepped up.
click here to download - 8:40 min, mpg1 format, 66 meg, July 2008.
Campaign website - http://stopincinerationnownetwork.wordpress.com
Forgive
Us Our Trespasses
London Rd, Brighton church squat
Christian
charity is put to the test when squatters occupy a disused church on London Rd,
Brighton as part of a global days of action for squats and autonomous spaces.
click here to download - 9:43 min, mpg1 format, 61 meg, May/July 2008.
See
Pew Crew in SchNEWS
638
Advisory Service For Squatters - www.squatter.org.uk
Batons 'n' Bombs
Carnival
Against The Arms Trade 4th June 2008
Coverage of 'Red Wednesday', Smash EDO's mass nationwide mobilisation against the Brighton bomb making factory, recently taken over by nazi scumbags ITT. With a large turnout and a minimal police presence no one was sure what to expect.... and it turns out nor did the police.
click here to download - 16.20 min, mpg1 format, 123 meg, July 2008.
For report on 'Red Wednesday', see SchNEWS 634
For more about Smash EDO see www.smashedo.org.uk
Verging On The Ridiculous
SchMOVIE about
the Smash EDO campaign gets suppressed.
The story of the nationwide police suppression of ‘On The Verge’, firstly at its Brighton premiere and then as it toured around the country.
click here to download - 8:22min, mpg format, 65 meg, March 2008.
See Showstoppers in SchNEWS 625, also www.schnews.org.uk/schmovies/index-on-the-verge.htm
On The Verge - OUT NOW
Order the DVD. £6 incl. postage, with profits going to the Smash EDO Campaign. Send a cheque written to 'Justice' to the address below, and paypal will be set up shortly - promise.
Bit Torrent - Download the whole 90 minute film in fairly good quality (900meg mpg). To start the download click here and it will open in your bit torrent program. If you haven't got one, get the free open source Azureus.
On
The Verge – Trailer
for the full-length Smash EDO campaign
film.
On The Verge tells the story of one of the most persistent and imaginative direct action campaigns to emerge out of the UK's anti-war movement.
click here to download trailer - 1.30 min, MPEG1 format, 37.8meg, Dec 2007.
* For updates about On The Verge and release information click here
Smash EDO Tour March-June 2008The Smash
EDO campaign has begun a tour of the UK and screening On The Verge
- the new full length Smash EDO SchMOVIES film - at every venue. The tour will
give those involved in the campaign the chance to discuss tactics, get feedback,
and organise for the future. |
TAKE
THREE – SchMOVIES Collection DVD 2007
*** OUT NOW ***
This is the third SchMOVIES DVD collection featuring short direct action films produced by SchMOVIES in 2007, covering Hill Of Tara Protests, Smash EDO, Naked Bike Ride, The No Borders Camp at Gatwick, Class War plus many others.
Get a copy now...
or, send a cheque written out to 'Justice' to the address at the bottom of the page...
Please make sure to enter your shipping address on paypal, as it doesn't give us this information automatically.
Click here to download the trailer - (1.30mins, MPEG1 format, 16.2meg, Dec 2007)
V
For Video Activist
SchMOVIES DVD Collection 2006
The pick of the SchMOVIES produced in 2006, covering events across the UK such as the Smash EDO campaign, protest camps at Titnore Woods and Shepton Mallet, the Camp For Climate Action, anti-war demos at Parliament Square in the face of SOPCA laws, community resistance to the M74 motorway in Glasgow, and more... One theme that runs through these films is the blatant use of a 'political police force' to protect corporations and war criminals rather than uphold the law. But despite this, people are prepared to take direct action and not let a police state goosestep in. Remember... People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.
Temporarily out of stock - damn this market based resource allocation system! Check again soon.
Crap
Arrest Copper
Here it is - that 'crap arrest' moment we've been searching for for ten years - courtesy of a friendly copper at the 2005 Big Green Gathering...
Click
Here To Download (approx 30 secs, 1.3meg, Quicktime format, August 2005)
AVAILABLE
NOW
PLACE YOUR ORDER NOW - £6 (including P&P) Contact the
SchNEWS Office 01273 685913 or email
An eclectic collection spanning the G8 protests in Scotland this year, the SMASH EDO campaign (with Mark Thomas), the CRE8 Summit and MAD PRIDE to name a few. These are high resolution screening copies of some of the best SchMOVIES of 2005 (including some which not on this website) There are plenty of extras which also include a SchNEWS at DSEI special.
Buy this and help keep SchNEWS free.
If you have footage of recent demos or positive projects on the go get in touch with us. We can't promise to give all of them a SchNEWS film treatment but we'll have a go. Contact us on the link below.
For comments about these films please contact SchNEWS
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The Verge - the Smash EDO campaign film |
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* For
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Take Three - The SchMOVIES DVD Collection 2007. To order a copy click here... To view trailer click here
V For Video Activist - SchMOVIES DVD Collection 2006
OUT NOW - £6 (including P&P). Contact the SchNEWS Office 01273 685913 or email
SchMOVIES DVD - 2005
AVAILABLE NOW
£6 (including P&P) Contact the SchNEWS Office 01273 685913 or email
SchNEWS At Ten - The Movie
A rollocking 74 minute journey through ten years of party and protest.
Click here to view the trailer (1.20min, 4meg, quicktime format)
Available now for a fiver including p&p click here.