FILMS Lecture Room 2

Below are the Films & Cabaret that took place at the 2009 Bookfair. We have left them up to give you a flavour of what happened. Nearer to October we will put up the details for 2010

10.15 am
A Place in the City

Jenny Morgan's film presents the ever growing rift between South Africa's economically marginnalised and its government. Members of Abahlali baseMjondolo, a shack dwellers' movement opposing the removal of residents of informal settlements to new housing outside the city of Durban, argue that a Slum Clearance Act, will end their already limited access to economic opportunities.At the heart of Abahlali's struggle is the fight for meaningful citizenship rights for South Africa's poor majority.

As we go to press ANC militia have attacked one of the settlements killing several people and driving others away.

10.45 am

This Black Soil

This award-winning film chronicles the inspiring struggle of Bayview, Virginia, USA, a small and impoverished rural African-American communiity, which successfully defeated a state plan to build a maximum-security prison in their backyard and instead pursued a new vision of economic justice.

12 noon

Reel News 

On occupations in Argentina, showing us how its done, Visteon and Vestas.

1.30 pm

The Angry Brigade - The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Britain's First Urban Guerilla Group

The Angry Brigade was a militant British libertarian group active during the politically intense period of the late 60s and early 70s. Inspired by Spanish anarchism and the Situationists, they opposed repressive regimes and materialist society by taking symbolic militant actions against property. This is the Gordon Carr film from 1973 along with a shorter documentary on the Person Unknown trial. Where the state failed to railroad anarchists including ABC activists for "conspiring with persons unknown, at places unknown" to overthrow societt Jake Prescott - who served the longest sentences of the Angry Brigade defendants - died earlier this year.

3.00 pm - 5.30 pm

Living on your feet: The Struggles of Cipriano Mera

Introduced by Stuart Christie

Cipriano Mera was a bricklayer who became a key figure in the Spanish revolution commanding the 4th army corps during the Spanish Civil War and defeating Mussolini's generals. This is the story of a free man who refused to die on his feet or live on his knees.

5.30 pm - 6.30 pm

To Gaza With Love

Introduced by Aki Nawaz

This is the story of some forty campaigners from twelve different countries who went on board of two boats in the summer of 2008 in order to break the Gaza siege for the first time from the sea. Drama, courage, seasickness, storms and storm outs and everything in between.

CABARET
Drama Room

See posters/info stall for times of acts.

MCs:

Johnny Fluffypunk
Poet! comedian/mandolele

Angus Lindsay
Loveable innocent lost

Performers (as we go to press):

Whatsername
Politics in a see through dress

Dave Russell
National treasure; singer/songwriter/visionary 'The oldest punk in North Kensington'

Becky Fury
The loosest of cannons

Sir Gideon Vein
Performance artist with an unusual nose

Corporate Watch
Anticapitalist performance poets (Claire Fauset, Danny Chivers, Merrick)

Cosmo
Cardiff’s singer/songwriter/cross dresser

Richard Paton
Comedian (of a kind) - 'Classically educated and terminally unemployable'

Bradley and Bingford
The fan-dancing, erotically-dressed investment bankers

More performers will also appear on the day - see info stall for details.