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Home | SchMOVIES | Updated 18th June 2008 SchNEWS goes to the movies! These films are 'information for action' - to inspire or inform you to get involved in the issues covered in them, produced in Brighton by SchMOVIES (apart from a couple). If you are involved in DIY video and have films you'd like to put here, get in contact. Listed below are the most recent films - see the rest in the category list on the lefthand column To play these movies SchMOVIES recommends the free/open-source Videolan VLC media player, free to download at www.videolan.org
As part of the world wide anti-scientology protests the Church of Scientology in London saw two hundred V for Vendetta-masked up demonstrators hold a noise protest outside the scientology building in the square mile. Scientology has always had it's critics and it's only been recently that protesters under the umbrella name of "anonymous" have stepped up their activities and began to picket and publicly highlight the insidious way that this cult can ruin lives and destroy families. Just recently the Church of Scientology have began to fight back by steering a law through the courts that deems the word "Cult" arrestable if used by demonstrators. And would you believe it the City of London Police had no problems with implementing this barmy law to the latter....stupid cults! click here to download - 7 min, mpg1 format, 70meg, May 2008. For the full story see Sects and the City in SchNEWS 632. For more about Scientiolgy see http://xenu.net On The Verge - OUT NOWOrder the DVD. £6 incl. postage, with profits going to the Smash EDO Campaign. Send a cheque written to 'Justice' to the address below, and paypal will be set up shortly - promise. Bit Torrent - Download the whole 90 minute film in fairly good quality (900meg mpg). To start the download click here and it will open in your bit torrent program. If you haven't got one, get the free open source Azureus.
On The Verge tells the story of one of the most persistent and imaginative direct action campaigns to emerge out of the UK's anti-war movement. click here to download trailer - 1.30 min, MPEG1 format, 37.8meg, Dec 2007. * For updates about On The Verge and release information click here
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THREE – SchMOVIES Collection DVD 2007 This is the third SchMOVIES DVD collection featuring short direct action films produced by SchMOVIES in 2007, covering Hill Of Tara Protests, Smash EDO, Naked Bike Ride, The No Borders Camp at Gatwick, Class War plus many others. Get a copy now... or, send a cheque written out to 'Justice' to the address at the bottom of the page... Please make sure to enter your shipping address on paypal, as it doesn't give us this information automatically. Click here to download the trailer - (1.30mins, MPEG1 format, 16.2meg, Dec 2007)
This is what happens when London Class War try to visit David Cameron's Notting Hill pad in a Bash The Rich demo. Includes Fit Watch's first action on Londons notorious Forward Intelligence Teams (FIT). For further demos and actions contact: www.classwar.org click here to download - 5 min, wmv format, 8.4meg, Nov 2007.
On Halloween this year hundreds of folk got together on the ancient feasting ground of Tara to celebrate Samhain, the pagan new year. This was followed by digger diving 90's style and office actions on SIAC - the company partly responsible for the building of the M3 motorway, which is set to destroy part of Tara Hill, unless it can be stopped. Click Here To Download (12 mins, wmv format, 19.4meg, Oct/Nov 2007) For more see www.savetara.com www.tarawatch.org
Just to get up the noses of EDO/MBM Brighton's premiere arms manunfactueres the Smash EDO campaign held a sing-a-long karaoke noise demo for a change. It soon became clear Sussex Police didn't want to join in.... Click Here To Download (11 mins, wmv format, 17.5meg, Oct 2007) To help shut down EDO contact www.smashedo.org.uk
Coverage of the first No Borders Camp in the UK. Cheekily situated near Gatwick Airport where yet another refugee detention centre is being built, the camp became a hub for activists to exchange ideas, swap tactics and keep the issue of Britain's draconian treatment of asylum seekers in the public eye. Click Here To Download (12 mins, wmv format, 19.9meg, September 2007) * For more info see www.noborders.org.uk
Short and quirky take on the march for the right to protest in Brighton. After massive police overkill on previous marches, this one went off without a hitch and with a low police presence. Perhaps they've got the hint! Defend the right to protest before it becomes history. Click Here To Download (3 mins, wmv format, 6.5meg, March 2007)
As part of a nationwide solidarity campaign for asylum seekers being sent back to the war torn Congo, Glasgow No Borders and the info drop in centre – Unity targeted the Eagle Building the centre for all immigration decisions in the city. Click Here To Download (7.20 mins, wmv format, 10.8meg, March 2007) * For more info see www.unitycentreglasgow.org
Rough edit of the entire Smash EDO Peace camp being seized by Sussex police and carted away... Despite all of this, actions on the Brighton war factory continued and a pr esence was still maintained on site. SchMOVIES will be posting more as soon as possible.... (14 min, August
2007)
Reportage from the Hill Of Tara where direct action is the only thing standing in the way of destruction at one of the most important archaeological sites in Europe. Click Here To Download (22 mins, wmv format, 38meg, August 2007)
Rough cut from the day of action on the Sunday where the group broke past police, who were very heavy handed. And one of the horses proved that pigs might fly!! Click Here To Downl oad (7.20 mins, wmv format, 12.5meg, August 2007)
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For Video Activist The pick of the SchMOVIES produced in 2006, covering events across the UK such as the Smash EDO campaign, protest camps at Titnore Woods and Shepton Mallet, the Camp For Climate Action, anti-war demos at Parliament Square in the face of SOPCA laws, community resistance to the M74 motorway in Glasgow, and more... One theme that runs through these films is the blatant use of a 'political police force' to protect corporations and war criminals rather than uphold the law. But despite this, people are prepared to take direct action and not let a police state goosestep in. Remember... People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people. Out now - £6 (including P&P) - which comes with free copy of the SchMOVIES 2005 DVD! (If you already have one, and don't want the 2005 DVD let us know when you order). Contact the SchNEWS Office 01273 685913 or email
Here it is - that 'crap arrest' moment we've been searching for for ten years - courtesy of a friendly copper at the 2005 Big Green Gathering... Click
Here To Download (approx 30 secs, 1.3meg, Quicktime format, August 2005) AVAILABLE
NOW An eclectic collection spanning the G8 protests in Scotland this year, the SMASH EDO campaign (with Mark Thomas), the CRE8 Summit and MAD PRIDE to name a few. These are high resolution screening copies of some of the best SchMOVIES of 2005 (including some which not on this website) There are plenty of extras which also include a SchNEWS at DSEI special. Buy this and help keep SchNEWS free. If you have footage of recent demos or positive projects on the go get in touch with us. We can't promise to give all of them a SchNEWS film treatment but we'll have a go. Contact us on the link below. For comments about these films please contact SchNEWS
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The Verge – Trailer
BASH
STREET KIDS
Help
piss off the Met
Skulduggery
JUKE
BOX JURY 
Divide
and Fall 
History
101 – Right to Protest march, Brighton, March 2007
UNITY
– Congolese Refugee Solidarity Demo, March 07
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Tara
Tara Tara
JEDI
V's STORM TROOPERS 
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Take Three - The SchMOVIES DVD Collection 2007. To order a copy click here... To view trailer click here
V For Video Activist - SchMOVIES DVD Collection 2006
OUT NOW - £6 (including P&P). Contact the SchNEWS Office 01273 685913 or email
SchMOVIES DVD - 2005
AVAILABLE NOW
£6 (including P&P) Contact the SchNEWS Office 01273 685913 or email
SchNEWS At Ten - The Movie
A rollocking 74 minute journey through ten years of party and protest.
Click here to view the trailer (1.20min, 4meg, quicktime format)
Available now for a fiver including p&p click here.