Martha McAlpine writes on the challenge of making a film for Hackney's Black History Month.

"The notion of 'going back and retrieving one's past' was an idea that was very much celebrated by many of the people I interviewed and an idea that has since made me think a lot about the shape of our society and the feelings of people on the streets.

When I was originally given the task to make this film I did not know where to start....."

Read more on Martha's blog

More photes hamish's blog

visionOntv will be kicking off this year's Roehampton Human Rights film festival with a workshop to help you to make short news reports and and upload them to the web using just a mobile phone. The workshop is free and open to everyone, and will take place at the University of Roehampton in Duchesne 103 between 4pm and 6pm on Monday December 5th.

Read more on Daves Blog

At 4.45pm on 20 October residents of Dale Farm travellers community walked out of the place which was their home. As they did so, they encircled the protestors who had resisted with them, to protect them from police arrest.

Read below Tabs Troughton's article on the human cost of this eviction:

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In her immaculate mobile home, greyed and worn down by years of threats and uncertainty, she looked like a left-over cobweb. The doctor had put her on anti-depressants but they weren't working. She was not, merely, depressed. She was very frightened. What she needed was a society which did not allow the bullies and the cowards, the self-righteous and the violent, their own way. What she got was pills.

Read more about Dale Farm on Tabstroughton's blog

Film by Ken O'Keefe. For more films on Dale Farm, go to grassroots

During our visit to Bristol we met with different occupiers, looking tired but still motivated to get the movement going and growing. The protest camp is located on College Green, a land owned by Bristol Cathedral but managed by the Bristol City Council. Occupiers have been there for 32 days and the camp is the 2nd's largest in UK after London.

On Monday, a taste of irony was in the air as less than 10 meters away a huge student graduation tent was raised. All day students and parents were taking celebration photos with the protest camp as background. "Well done but there are no jobs for you. Save some time and join us now!" shouted one of the occupiers.

Media-wise you'll find on their site photos and videos but not as yet a real media strategy which is the main problem of all Occupy websites. Hard to blame them as 1st priority is on-site organisation, also maybe the whole point of these protest camps is to raise a debate. Though I'm still looking for an efficient online platform for this debate to take place. 

So how can we, as an independent video training project, help #Occupy?

Read the rest of this article on Marc's blog

Here is a video of the Sukey team during the Student tuition fee protest. The team is hard at work to update the protesters on where to go to stay safe. Coming soon a recent screencap of a Sukey map, a description of their process and interviews with team members.

On Monday 14th November we'll meet again to carry on sharing coding ideas and projects to build new media toolkits. Places are limited so sign-up now: http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/event/2452858566