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8.30 pm monday
10 feb 2002
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WORLD
SEASON
Barbed
wire Europe, UK

Barbed wire Europe is an overview of a successful campaign to close
Campsfield refugee detention centre in the UK. People from the community
and ex-refugees come out in numbers to support those behind bars.
Dissobedientti,
Italy
Italian activists dismantle a refugee detention centre before it has
the chance to become a place of torment and misery for asylum seekers.
No one
is illegal, Europe
Brief overview of the action in Europe against strict border control
and refugee detention. Interesting expose on the support given by airline
Lufthansa, in the deportation of refugees.
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8.30 pm monday
17 feb 2002
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WORLD
SEASON
Voices
Argentina, Argentina

Using a lyrical documentary format, this film covers the proto-revolutionary
events of 2001 in Argentina. Popular assemblies, barter markets, worker
occupation of factories and the piquetero movement who take to the streets
to 'reclaim the state' from the dictats of unaccountable power in a
neo-liberal global economy.
Boom
and bust, UK

Known on the streets of the UK for his cheeky and political artwork,
Banksy takes us on a tour of his world and the forces that motivate
and inspire him.
Subvertising
workshop, UK

Crew at the Okasional Café in Manchester take us through some to the
skills and ideas behind creating political street art,
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8.30 pm monday
24 feb 2002
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WORLD
SEASON
Raising
West Papua, West Papua

Raising West Papua is a brief overview of the plight of this pacific
nation to gain independence from Indonesia.
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Permaculture
Timor Lorosa'e, Timor.
PTL was registered as an NGO on November 11th 1999 by Eugenio Lemos.
Since this time PTL has formed an integral part in the understanding
and development of sustainable agriculture and livelihoods in East Timor.
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8.30 pm monday
3 march 2002
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WORLD
SEASON
Simon
Jones memorial campaign, UK

Simon Jones was killed on his first day as a casual worker at the Shoreham
dock of Euromin, after being sent their by the employment agency Personnel
Selection. While campaigning to bring those responsible for Simons death
to justice, Simons family and friends have faced a systematic Government
cover-up of the human cost of casualisation.
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8.30 pm monday
10 march 2002
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WORLD
SEASON
War for water, Bolivia
With the WTO putting pressure on all its member nations to sign up services
in to the GATS (including Australia), this is a prophetic documentation
of the lengths the population in Cochabamba were pushed when local Government
privatized their water supply and set security forces against their
protest.
Taking
Back The Land

This film is about the poor of Brazil
squatting unused land. Land is a life and death struggle in Brazil with
occupations often ending in violent evictions.
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8.30 pm monday
17 march 2002
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WORLD
SEASON
Suits
and savages, India

'India Ecodevelopment' is a tiger conservation project funded by the
Global Environment Facility / World Bank. This film takes you from a
remote tribe in Nargahole, South India, to another more powerful in
Washington DC, via heated debate between activists and bank staff and
an emotional video letter from the people of the forest.
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8.30 pm monday
24 march 2002
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WORLD
SEASON
Globalisation
and the media, Europe

Globalisation and the media explores how the media is involved in shaping
public opinion during "the war on terrorism" and globalisation. Travelling
from Nigeria to the USA, Britain and Italy to document the violent suppression
of alternative media sources. This film also document how new technology,
such as the Internet and video cameras are challenging the role of traditional
news gathering. Free Trades Hall, UK.
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8.30 pm monday
31 march 2002
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WORLD
SEASON
The
Globalisation tapes Pt1, Indonesia
Made by plantation workers in Sumatra for workers. "If we are united
in our struggle against worker oppression, united in our search for
truth amidst lies, united for a truly participatory democratic economic
system, the possibilities are only limited by our determination, and
our capacity to imagine" Su Karman President of the Independent Plantation
Workers Union of Sumatra. Free Trades Hall
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8.30 pm monday
7 april 2002
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WORLD
SEASON
Tactical
frivolity, UK

Tactical frivolity is an on the road, behind the scenes journey with
a mostly femme British protest group, dedicated to making the world
a better and fluffier place. They are notorious in Europe for their
antics and costumes of hot pink and silver. See the girls take on the
riot police in Prague as they demonstrate against the IMF and World
Bank.
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8.30 pm monday
14 april 2002
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WORLD
SEASON
The
coconut revolution, Bouganville

This film depicts the world's first successful
ecological revolution on a small island in the pacific, where war and
blockades led to amazing innovations and discovery of pollution-free
motor fuel from distilled coconut oil.
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8.30 pm monday
21 april 2002
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WORLD
SEASON (
1hr special )
Buddha weeps in Jadugoda, India

Buddha weeps in Jadugoda exposes the devastation of more than 30 years
of radiation poisoning on an unprotected community, and documents the
indigenous peoples movement to get the Government owned mining corporation
to take responsibility for its pollution.
(Mother
Earth is in revolt Our ancestors are furious Get your killer radioactive
waste off our sacred land)
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