Shoot to Kill
A dark week in London as police shoot dead Jean Charles de Menezes after mistaking him for a terror suspect and shooting him dead on a crowded tube train. Typically the authorities instantly tried to cover it up and defend the indefensible.
BigSocial – Basement Gossip at Big Green Gathering
Made as part of a ‘Be The Media’ video activism workshop at the Social Centre Network space at the 2005 Big Green Gathering, these video contains an interview about the now defunct Basement social centre in Manchester.
Art Not Oil – BP National Portrait Awards 2005
The campaign to get those filthy oil companies out of the arts saw activists set up outside the 2005 BP sponsored National Portrait Awards with an exhibition of their own as a counter spin to the fossil fuel greenwash.
No Justice No Peace – Deaths In Custody
Annual march by the friends and family of people killed in the custody of the British state. The heart rending stories and emotion laden chants will bring tears to your eyes.
Defending Democracy – Sack Parliament
Police demonstrate how civil liberties in the UK are being rapidly eroded by attempting to ban the media from an ‘unlawful’ protest outside parliament.
Independence From America – 4th July
On July 4th 2003, pesky kids performed on a roving piece of street theater in Plymouth, the port from which the founding fathers set off to establish the USA. The performance protest called for independence FROM America in the context of increasing influence by the US in UK foreign policy etc.
Naked Bike Ride – London 2005
About two thousand people on bikes take to the streets to London while neglecting most of their clothes. Thousands of cameras and camera phones greet them wherever they go.
Park Life – DoT Protest (Aug 2005)
Six minute video of August 16th 2005 office occupation protest by the ‘Save Priory Park’ campaign group – also known as ‘Park Life’.
Out of Control
Saturday 23rd January 2010, two hundred people take the streets of London in protest at ever more draconian immigration controls and surveillance culture. This 16 minute video contains speeches and footage from the march.
Soup Kitchen – Asylum Rights Is Human Rights (2003)
A demonstration outside the UK Governments ‘Home Office’ in London over changes to asylum law (Jan 2003).
