8.30 pm mondays on Channel 31 melbourne

Access News will be screening episodes of World Season 2003, at the Trades Hall bar.
Monday nights 7pm @ Trades Hall Bar, level 2 Trades Hall - Corner Lygon + Victoria Streets Carlton Sth.
Entry by donation, we hope to show extra docos in their entirity.

 

 

 

8.30 pm monday
10 feb 2002

 

 

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.

 

 

8.30 pm monday
17 feb 2002

 

 

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,

 

 

8.30 pm monday
24 feb 2002

 

 

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.

 

 

8.30 pm monday
3 march 2002

 

 

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.

 

 

8.30 pm monday
10 march 2002

 

 

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.

 

 

8.30 pm monday
17 march 2002

 

 

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.

 

 

8.30 pm monday
24 march 2002

 

 

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.

 

 

8.30 pm monday
31 march 2002

 

 

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

 

 

8.30 pm monday
7 april 2002

 

 

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.

 

 

8.30 pm monday
14 april 2002

 

 

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.

 

 

8.30 pm monday
21 april 2002

 

 

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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