tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-207447162024-03-13T20:24:01.020+00:00London Socialist Film Co-opHonorary President: Ken LoachLSFC adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11757812856109126371noreply@blogger.comBlogger89125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20744716.post-28468436038098650442021-02-20T14:47:00.002+00:002023-10-18T21:35:37.526+01:00Tuesday, 23rd of February, 8pm of The War You Don't See, John Pilger, Alan Lowery, 2010 from Sands FilmsIn The War You Don't See, John Pilger returns to the subject of war reporting and its critical role in the making of wars. This ‘drum beat’ was the theme of Pilger's 1983 documentary Frontline: The Search for Truth in Wartime, a history of war journalism from the Crimea in the 19th century (‘the last British war without censorship’) to Margaret Thatcher's Falklands War in 1982.
The War You Don’t See analyses propaganda as a weapon in Iraq and Afghanistan. The title refers to censorship by omission – ‘the most virulent form of censorship,’ said Pilger – and the collusion of journalists in nominally free societies such as Britain and the United States.
London Socialist Film Co-op, in collaboration with the Committee for the Defence of Julian Assange and Sands Films, would like to invite you to a film screening of this outstanding film on 23rd of February, 8pm from the Sands Films Studios, whose regular, wonderful screenings takes place on Tuesdays of every week.Films can be viewed after the event, should you miss this date's show. Here is the links
on-line. Speakers after the film will be Jan Woolf, writer and anti-war activist, interviewing Sami Ramadani, Anti-War activist, lecturer of Sociology.
https://www.sandsfilms.co.uk/cinema-club.html
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/141355896291
https://www.facebook.com/events/828722867690294
donations are welcome.
LSFC adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11757812856109126371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20744716.post-21948218791724749042021-01-26T14:14:00.001+00:002021-01-26T14:14:32.922+00:00The War On Journalism: The Case of Julian Assange, On-line screening with introduction and Q&A's can now be viewed, see below<p class="para26"><span class="Style109" style="line-height: 17px;">An
online screening of “THE WAR ON JOURNALISM: The Case of Julian Assange”, with live Q&A with the
director of the film, Juan Passarelli, Matt Kennard, investigative
journalist, and Emmy Butlin of the Committee to Defend Julian
Assange. There is a war on journalism - Julian Assange is at the centre
of that war. If this precedent is set then what happens to Assange can
happen to any journalist.</span></p><span style="line-height: 17px;"></span><p class="para148"><span class="Style109" style="line-height: 17px;">A
special event arranged by The Campaign for the Defence of Julian
Assange in collaboration with The London Socialist Film Co-op. </span></p><p class="para148"><span class="Style109" style="line-height: 17px;">The film can be viewed here:</span><br /><span class="Style109" style="line-height: 17px;"><a class="" data-auth="NotApplicable" href="https://vimeo.com/499608537" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://vimeo.com/499608537</a></span></p><p><br />
<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Screenings </b>are at Bolivar Hall, 54 Grafton Way, London W1T 5DL.</span><br />
<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Nearest tube</b>: Warren Street. <b>Overground</b>: Euston. <b> </b></span><br />
<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Buses</b>: 10, 14, 18, 24, 27, 29, 30, 73, 88, 134, 205, 390. <b> </b></span><br />
<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Booking information</b>: tickets are available from 10.20 am on the day and may not be booked in advance.</span><br />
<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Admission </b>£10, concessions £8. Annual members £6/£4. Sorry no credit cards. </span><br />
<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://socialistfilm.blogspot.co.uk/p/membership-information.html">Membership details.</a></span></p>LSFC adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11757812856109126371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20744716.post-27008331853065861642020-05-26T23:11:00.001+01:002020-05-27T00:02:37.696+01:00London Socialist Film Co-op Press Release May 2020<span style="font-family: "arial", "helvetica", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small; left: 150px; top: 123.428px; transform: scaleX(0.933735);"></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial", "helvetica", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small; left: 150px; top: 170.322px; transform: scaleX(0.967598);">Long running film society faced with possible closure.</span><span style="font-size: small; left: 150px; top: 217.217px; transform: scaleX(0.953141);">A successful film society that has operated from a variety of Camden venues for </span><span style="font-size: small; left: 150px; top: 240.664px; transform: scaleX(0.959528);">nearly thirty years is in danger of closing down. The London Socialist Film Co-op </span><span style="font-size: small; left: 150px; top: 264.111px; transform: scaleX(0.970416);">announced at its AGM in March that it will have to wind up its activities after July </span><span style="font-size: small; left: 150px; top: 287.559px; transform: scaleX(0.96467);">unless new volunteers come forward to run it. Another meeting to discuss </span><span style="font-size: small; left: 150px; top: 311.006px; transform: scaleX(0.952233);">solutions had to be postponed because of coronavirus. </span><span style="font-size: small; left: 150px; top: 357.9px; transform: scaleX(0.950017);">Since 1991 the LSFC has been attracting a mix of cinephiles and political activists </span><span style="font-size: small; left: 150px; top: 381.348px; transform: scaleX(0.935876);">to its seasons of eclectic screenings accompanied by speakers and discussion. </span><span style="font-size: small; left: 150px; top: 404.795px; transform: scaleX(0.95002);">The programmes, open to the public as well as members, raise political issues </span><span style="font-size: small; left: 150px; top: 428.242px; transform: scaleX(0.969764);">through a range of material from old classics and recent feature films to current </span><span style="font-size: small; left: 150px; top: 451.689px; transform: scaleX(0.964896);">activist work-in-progress. Speakers might be a film maker but equally a </span><span style="font-size: small; left: 150px; top: 475.137px; transform: scaleX(0.960424);">campaigner, politician or writer concerned with issues raised. Past speakers </span><span style="font-size: small; left: 150px; top: 498.584px; transform: scaleX(0.936366);">have included Tony Ben, Kate Hudson of CND and Jeremy Corbyn.</span><span style="font-size: small; left: 150px; top: 545.479px; transform: scaleX(0.955668);">A combination of factors have led to the decision to consider closure. The </span><span style="font-size: small; left: 150px; top: 568.926px; transform: scaleX(0.971729);">organising committee consists entirely of volunteers who commit a considerable </span><span style="font-size: small; left: 150px; top: 592.373px; transform: scaleX(0.965976);">amount of time to planning and running the screenings and the present officers, </span><span style="font-size: small; left: 150px; top: 615.82px; transform: scaleX(0.947972);">who have managed the cooperative for a good many years, no longer feel able to </span><span style="font-size: small; left: 150px; top: 639.268px; transform: scaleX(0.968461);">carry on. While there are members keen to help intermittently, none have so far </span><span style="font-size: small; left: 150px; top: 662.715px; transform: scaleX(0.969906);">offered to make the consistent commitment needed to carry the organisation </span><span style="font-size: small; left: 150px; top: 686.162px; transform: scaleX(0.960892);">into the future. This situation coincides with a need to seek a new venue for the </span><span style="font-size: small; left: 150px; top: 709.609px; transform: scaleX(0.942832);">screenings and while the Co-op has successfully changed venue several times in </span><span style="font-size: small; left: 150px; top: 733.057px; transform: scaleX(0.958434);">the past, a move is likely to require other changes and certainly an extra </span><span style="font-size: small; left: 150px; top: 756.504px; transform: scaleX(0.968328);">investment of time on the part of the organisers. </span><span style="font-size: small; left: 150px; top: 803.398px; transform: scaleX(0.949083);">The committee has taken the decision with considerable regret as the LSFC is </span><span style="font-size: small; left: 150px; top: 826.846px; transform: scaleX(0.972704);">appreciated both for the films it shows and for the context of political discussion. </span><span style="font-size: small; left: 150px; top: 850.293px; transform: scaleX(0.958133);">Members and users hope that closure can be avoided and that publicity about </span><span style="font-size: small; left: 150px; top: 873.74px; transform: scaleX(0.965264);">the situation may encourage volunteers to come forward. A special meeting will </span><span style="font-size: small; left: 150px; top: 897.188px; transform: scaleX(0.966469);">be called when COVID 19 restrictions allow at which anyone, whether currently a </span><span style="font-size: small; left: 150px; top: 920.635px; transform: scaleX(0.962889);">member or not, will be welcomed to discuss the future. In the meantime anyone </span><span style="font-size: small; left: 150px; top: 944.082px; transform: scaleX(0.980556);">interested in knowing more about the situation or receiving a notification about </span><span style="font-size: small; left: 150px; top: 967.529px; transform: scaleX(0.956676);">the meeting should contact Monique Buchli at contact.lsfc@gmail.com</span></span><br />
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LSFC adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11757812856109126371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20744716.post-89217852325293172972020-02-18T17:55:00.003+00:002020-03-26T17:47:59.451+00:00postponed due to COVID - 19 SUNDAY, 10. MAY, 2020, 10:20 for 11:00 AM<div style="line-height: 17.2pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;">
<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The Occupation of the American
Mind<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Loretta
Alper/Jeremy Earp, USA, 2016, USA/Gaza/Palestine, English, 84 min.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">The
documentary<em><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;"> </span></em>showcases the
propaganda distributed of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and urges people to
notice the dehumanizing of the Palestinian peoples in media coverage.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"> Most of the aggression is
perpetrated by the IDF, yet it is the
spokesperson from Israel’s media that incessantly talks about Palestinian
aggression.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">We see peaceful
Palestinian protests, but IDF with guns, armoured cars and massive use of tear
gas. It’s David against Goliath. Yet the media manages to misrepresent every
conflict that erupts. Criticising Israel
is tantamount to being ‘anti-semitic’ (a Semite could come from any part of the Middle East, including Syria, Mesopotamia, North Africa, and further afield,
including Palestinians). The mass media
has been covering up the true facts and are conjuring up a different reality...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Screenings </b>are at Bolivar Hall, 54 Grafton Way, London W1T 5DL.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Nearest tube</b>: Warren Street. <b>Overground</b>: Euston. <b> </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Buses</b>: 10, 14, 18, 24, 27, 29, 30, 73, 88, 134, 205, 390. <b> </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Booking information</b>: tickets are available from 10.20 am on the day and may not be booked in advance.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Admission </b>£10, concessions £8. Annual members £6/£4. Sorry, no credit cards. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://socialistfilm.blogspot.co.uk/p/membership-information.html">Membership details.</a></span>LSFC adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11757812856109126371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20744716.post-46264111725942945232020-02-18T17:50:00.001+00:002020-03-26T17:45:33.839+00:00Postponed due to COVID-19 SUNDAY, 12 APRIL 2020, 10:20 for 11:00 AM<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Sorry, We Missed You</span></b><b><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Ken
Loach, UK, November 2019, 15, English, 105 min.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">A
hard-up delivery driver and his wife struggle to get by in modern-day England.
Zero-hours contracts, impossible schedules and degrading behaviour by
management all culminate towards the breakdown of family life. Teenagers seeing
their father struggle for a living make their own decisions to help with even
graver consequences. This is a reality for many self-employed in neo-liberal
Britain. Not a course that is likely to end any time soon. A brutally honest
film that leaves the audience with a very uncomfortable outlook for the future.
Will ‘Brexit’, deal or no deal, increase these injustices? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Screenings </b>are at Bolivar Hall, 54 Grafton Way, London W1T 5DL.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Nearest tube</b>: Warren Street. <b>Overground</b>: Euston. <b> </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Buses</b>: 10, 14, 18, 24, 27, 29, 30, 73, 88, 134, 205, 390. <b> </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Booking information</b>: tickets are available from 10.20 am on the day and may not be booked in advance.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Admission </b>£10, concessions £8. Annual members £6/£4. Sorry no credit cards. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://socialistfilm.blogspot.co.uk/p/membership-information.html">Membership details.</a></span>LSFC adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11757812856109126371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20744716.post-25735562564678710352020-02-18T17:45:00.001+00:002020-02-18T18:16:36.471+00:00SUNDAY, 8. MARCH, 2020,10:20 for 11:00AM<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">The Real Story of Winnie & Nelson Mandela<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Co-directors: Kenneth Mdana, David Mesenbring, Stanley Nelson, Zwelakhe
Sisulu, documentary, France, 2016, English, 59 min.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Forget all the Hollywood films about Winnie and Nelson
Mandela (propaganda) that do not in any way reveal the true story of White
supremacist rule in South Africa and the heroes and sheroes that helped to
fight for justice and freedom. For the first time ever see the critically
acclaimed 1986 documentary on the lives of Winnie and Nelson Mandela without
the frills, miseducation, whitewashing, and misinformation that is found in Hollywood blockbuster movies</span><span style="background: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 7.5pt;">.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">A Woman’s Place<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Sue Crockford, Tony Wickert, Ellen Adams, UK. 1971, documentary,
U, English, 35 min.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
A film about the women's liberation movement. Some women say what they think is wrong with the present set-up, at a conference where the fathers look after the children and passers-by are questioned about their attitudes. It ends with a cheerful march through London by women, with some male supporters, demanding basic rights. Of great historical interest. How much have things changed since then? Made in 1971 this film reflects the cultural attitudes and language of the time it was made. The issues raised are timeless. The film quality may not be to modern standards<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Interview with Sue Crockford, feminist
filmmaker <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Mark
Hudson, UK, February 2015, English, 17 min<b>.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Screenings </b>are at Bolivar Hall, 54 Grafton Way, London W1T 5DL.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Nearest tube</b>: Warren Street. <b>Overground</b>: Euston. <b> </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Buses</b>: 10, 14, 18, 24, 27, 29, 30, 73, 88, 134, 205, 390. <b> </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Booking information</b>: tickets are available from 10.20 am on the day and may not be booked in advance.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Admission </b>£10, concessions £8. Annual members £6/£4. Sorry, no credit cards. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://socialistfilm.blogspot.co.uk/p/membership-information.html">Membership details.</a></span></div>
LSFC adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11757812856109126371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20744716.post-26822344076322883922020-01-17T10:09:00.001+00:002020-01-17T10:09:14.469+00:00SUNDAY, 9 FEBRUARY, 2020, 10:20 FOR 11 AM<br />
<b>THE GREAT MEETING, </b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">a documentary about the Durham Miners Gala</span><br />
<i>Daniel Draper, UK, 2019, 12A English, 91 min.</i><br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #2e2d2f; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The </span><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; padding: 0cm;">Durham Miners' Association</span><span style="background: white; color: #2e2d2f; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">
organised the first Durham Miners' Gala two years after its foundation in 1871
as an expression and celebration of its values of community, collectivism, and
solidarity. The Big Meeting, as it is known, remains the biggest working-class
festival in Europe, attended by more than 200,000 people in 2017. "It means so much
to so many people that it deserves to be documented", comments Daniel Draper. The spirit of the mining communities lives on through this big meeting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Screenings </b>are at <b>Bolivar Hall,</b> 54 Grafton Way, London W1T 5DL.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Nearest tube</b>: Warren Street. <b>Overground</b>: Euston. <b> </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Buses</b>: 10, 14, 18, 24, 27, 29, 30, 73, 88, 134, 205, 390. <b> </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Booking information</b>: tickets are available from 10.20 am on the day and may not be booked in advance.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Admission </b>£10, concessions £8. Annual members £6/£4. Sorry, no credit cards. </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">The Silence of Others <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Co-directors:
Robert Bahar, Almudena Carracedo, Spain, 2018, doc. Spanish [EST], 96 min.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"> </span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: #6a6a6a; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: #6a6a6a; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">This </span><span style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">award-winning documentary film tells the story of victims of Spain's 40-year
dictatorship, who continue to seek justice to this day...</span><span style="background: white; color: #5a5a5a; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">A 1977
amnesty law in Spain known as "the pact of forgetting" prohibits
legal action related to the oppression, torture, and murder of an estimated
100,000 people during Franco’s 40-year dictatorship. But for much of the
population – including the survivor who passes his torturer’s home every day,
the children of forcibly disappeared parents found buried in mass graves, and
parents still searching for their children seized at birth – there is no peace
in silence. Taking strength and inspiration from justice-seekers in Chile and
Guatemala, they<span class="read-more"> continue to search. </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Speakers: Jim Jump, International Brigade Memorial Trust</span><o:p> </o:p></span><br />
<o:p style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></o:p><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Screenings are at</span> Bolivar Hall, 54 Grafton Way, London W1T 5DL.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">Nearest tube: Warren Street. Overground: Euston. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">Buses: 10, 14, 18, 24, 27, 29, 30, 73, 88, 134, 205, 390. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">Booking information: tickets are available from 10.20 am on the day and may not be booked in advance. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">Admission £10, concessions £8. Annual members £6/£4. Sorry, no credit cards. </span></h4>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Dispossession: The Great Social
Housing Swindle<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Paul Sng, UK,
2017, documentary, English, 82 mins.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This documentary film</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> explores the agenda behind the neglect,
demolition and regeneration of council estates in the U.K. over the past thirty
years. The film reveals how individuals and communities are fighting against
the state and private developers, as they try to save their homes from
demolition, while investigating the decisions that turned a crisis into a
tragedy..<span style="background: white;">.</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Speakers
: Glyn Robbins, Housing worker, writer, Visiting Researcher at London Metropolitan University<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">London’s Ancient Markets
– their fight for survival<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Dir.
</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Sandra Shevey, UK,
2018, doc. English, 28 min.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">This documentary about the demise of London`s traditional street markets challenges
the cult of globalisation and gentrification of urban food areas and of food
economy. At the Portobello it was listed under `Films We Love’. To encourage
support for street market sustainability, Sandra runs Street Market walks. </span><a href="https://londonstreetmarketswalk.wordpress.com/">https://londonstreetmarketswalk.wordpress.com/</a><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 115%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Speaker:
Sandra Shevey, film director</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Screenings </b>are at Bolivar Hall, 54 Grafton Way, London W1T 5DL.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Nearest tube</b>: Warren Street. <b>Overground</b>: Euston. <b> </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Buses</b>: 10, 14, 18, 24, 27, 29, 30, 73, 88, 134, 205, 390. <b> </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Booking information</b>: tickets are available from 10.20 am on the day and may not be booked in advance.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Admission </b>£10, concessions £8. Annual members £6/£4. Sorry, no credit cards. </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Clara Immerwahr<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Harald Sicheritz,
Austria, 2014, biography, German, [EST], 88 min.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">The
brilliant chemists Clara and Fritz want to change the world. At the end of the
19th century Clara has to struggle to be admitted to a university to study.
When WWI breaks out Fritz Haber volunteers for the army. The dreadful poison
gas he develops changes the war. Clara sees all her ideals and dreams betrayed
by the man she loves.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The film tells the life story of the first PhD
German chemist Clara Immerwahr (1870-1915) and focuses on the question of
morality in science and the role of a woman as a scientist at the beginning of
the 20th century.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Speakers with Q&A<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Screenings </b>are at Bolivar Hall, 54 Grafton Way, London W1T 5DL.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Nearest tube</b>: Warren Street. <b>Overground</b>: Euston. <b> </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Buses</b>: 10, 14, 18, 24, 27, 29, 30, 73, 88, 134, 205, 390. <b> </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Booking information</b>: tickets are available from 10.20 am on the day and may not be booked in advance.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Admission </b>£10, concessions £8. Annual members £6/£4. Sorry, no credit cards. </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">The Coming War on China<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">John
Pilger, UK, 2016, documentary, English, 113 mins.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;">China,
we are told by US government officials and the parroting establishment media
has been aggressively attempting to expand its territory by taking over islands
in the South China Sea. China, we are told, is a threat to peace.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;">It’s
true, veteran journalist John Pilger concedes in the opening of his latest
documentary film, </span><a href="http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/cwoc.html" target="_blank"><i><span style="border: none 1.0pt; color: #0052a5; padding: 0cm;">The Coming War on China</span></i></a><span style="color: #333333;">,
that China has been trying to claim disputed territories in the South China
Sea. But if this makes China a threat to peace, what does it make the US but
the most aggressive and warmongering threat—not only to peace but to life on
Earth itself—that has ever existed</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt;">? </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Discussion with Q&A's: CAAT, CND</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Screenings </b>are at Bolivar Hall, 54 Grafton Way, London W1T 5DL.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Nearest tube</b>: Warren Street. <b>Overground</b>: Euston. <b> </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Buses</b>: 10, 14, 18, 24, 27, 29, 30, 73, 88, 134, 205, 390. <b> </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Booking information</b>: tickets are available from 10.20 am on the day and may not be booked in advance.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Admission </b>£10, concessions £8. Annual members £6/£4. Sorry, no credit cards. </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A
Letter from</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;">Venezuela</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Nancy Carolina Graterol, Venezuela, 2019, Spanish,
[EST] 78 min.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2d2d2c; padding: 0cm;">A poignant documentary interweaving a personal
story of loss and the reality of life in Venezuela. In spite of the US and EU
sanctions and the “weapons of mass deception”, Venezuelans are learning fast to
overcome difficulties thrown in their way of a growing democracy, be it lack of
toilet paper, toothpaste or urgently needed medicines..it cannot be right. The
film takes us through the streets of Caracas and notes what people in the
streets experience. A must-see film!</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Screenings </b>are at Bolivar Hall, 54 Grafton Way, London W1T 5DL.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Nearest tube</b>: Warren Street. <b>Overground</b>: Euston. <b> </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Buses</b>: 10, 14, 18, 24, 27, 29, 30, 73, 88, 134, 205, 390. <b> </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Booking information</b>: tickets are available from 10.20 am on the day and may not be booked in advance.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Admission </b>£10, concessions £8. Annual members £6/£4. Sorry, no credit cards. </span><br />
<br />LSFC adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11757812856109126371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20744716.post-82663880136419354812019-01-28T15:55:00.004+00:002019-04-13T18:31:37.481+01:00SUNDAY, 12 MAY, 2019, 10:20 for 11:00 AM<div class="normal">
<span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 14.0pt;"><b>Calais’ Children: A Case To Answer</b><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="background: rgb(251 , 251 , 251); font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Dir. Sue Clayton, 2017, UK, English/French/German, 62 mins,</span><br />
<i style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></i> <i style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Calais Children</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"> follows the young people over the months since they left the Jungle. The film </span>speaks<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"> to Lord Dubs, the volunteer groups, and the lawyers with whom she is challenging the Home Office’s actions in the High Court. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">A compelling film that follows the scandal of what happened to the almost 2,000 lone children who were in the Calais jungle as it burned down last year. Most had a legal case to be in the UK. What went wrong? Where are they now? And, what can we do about it?</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Far Right in Britain isn’t just on the march, it is taking violent, murderous action. A neo-Nazi group called National Action applauded the murder and the murderer of a young woman member of the British Parliament, Jo Cox. Other alleged members are charged with plotting the murder of another MP and two British soldiers, said to be from the same group, face serious terrorism charges. Fascism and far-right extremism, street violence and confrontation isn’t new in Britain. It dates back to at least the 1930s, and Oswald Mosley’s Blackshirts. Today’s incarnations are no less deadly. George Galloway investigates how it began, how it developed and reveals the major players in the latest mass street movement.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Screenings </b>are at Bolivar Hall, 54 Grafton Way, London W1T 5DL.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Nearest tube</b>: Warren Street. <b>Overground</b>: Euston. <b> </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Buses</b>: 10, 14, 18, 24, 27, 29, 30, 73, 88, 134, 205, 390. <b> </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Booking information</b>: tickets are available from 10.20 am on the day and may not be booked in advance.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Admission </b>£10, concessions £8. Annual members £6/£4. Sorry, no credit cards. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">All enquiries: contact.lsfc@gmail.com or call 07988652141</span>LSFC adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11757812856109126371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20744716.post-17741815472107218712019-01-28T15:48:00.001+00:002019-04-12T16:10:50.646+01:00SUNDAY, 14 APRIL, 2019, 10:20 for 11:00 AM<div class="MsoNormal">
<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Dennis Skinner: Nature of the Beast<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="background: rgb(251 , 251 , 251); font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Daniel Draper, UK, 2017, Documentary, PG, English, <b>106 min.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="color15">Raised alongside nine siblings within a mining village, Dennis has fought for the rights of the working class for over 50-years. Uncompromising in his views and with a set of incorruptible principles, Dennis is respected and feared on both sides of the House of Commons. <i>Nature of the Beast</i> looks at what lies behind his passion and drive, and tracks his rise from a local councillor to today, where he is one of Britain's most recognisable politicians - known as ‘The Beast of Bolsover’.</span><span style="color: #3e3e3e;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Speaker: Dir. Daniel Draper</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Screenings </b>are at Bolivar Hall, 54 Grafton Way, London W1T 5DL.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Admission </b>£10, concessions £8. Annual members £6/£4. Sorry no credit cards. </span><br />
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<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; letter-spacing: 0.4pt; padding: 0cm;">This documentary celebrates and commemorates the 100th anniversary of the International Congress of Women that took place on the 28th April 1915, when 1300 women from 12 countries – warring, neutral and allied – met at The Hague.</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.4pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; letter-spacing: 0.4pt; padding: 0cm;">They advocated mediation between the politicians to end the First World War and proposed methods of settling future differences between nations by peaceful means</span><b><span style="letter-spacing: 0.4pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Script by Alison Ronan and Hazel Roy, featuring Florence King as Mabel Pythian and Emma Thomas as Lydia Leech.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Funded by AHRC via Voices for War and Peace</span><span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The Women's Peace Crusade swept like wildfire across Britain from 1916 -1918. This film tells the story of the North West women who took part in Manchester, Blackburn, Oldham, and Nelson</span><span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;">. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Speaker: <span style="background: white; color: #222222;">Sheila Triggs</span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt; line-height: 115%;">Based on Norman Solomon's book, </span><i><span style="background: rgb(251 , 251 , 251); font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">War Made Easy</span></i><span style="background: rgb(251 , 251 , 251); font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> reaches into the Orwellian memory hole to expose a 50-year pattern of government deception and media spin that has dragged the United States into one war after another from Vietnam to Iraq. Narrated by actor and activist Sean Penn, the film exhumes remarkable archival footage of official distortion and exaggeration from LBJ to George W. Bush, revealing in stunning detail how the American news media have uncritically disseminated the pro-war messages of successive presidential administrations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Speakers: Kate Hudson<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">, CND, </span>Chris Nineham, Stop The War Coalition</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Screenings </b>are at Bolivar Hall, 54 Grafton Way, London W1T 5DL.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Nearest tube</b>: Warren Street. <b>Overground</b>: Euston. <b> </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Buses</b>: 10, 14, 18, 24, 27, 29, 30, 73, 88, 134, 205, 390. <b> </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Booking information</b>: tickets are available from 10.20 am on the day and may not be booked in advance.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Admission </b>£10, concessions £8. Annual members £6/£4. Sorry, no credit cards. </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">FIRE AT SEA</span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Samuel is 12 years old and lives on an island in the middle of the sea. He goes to school, loves shooting his slingshot and hunting. He likes land games, even though everything around him speaks of the sea and the men, women, and children who try to cross to his island. But his is not an island like the others. It is Lampedusa and has been the most symbolic gateway to Europe for thousands of would-be immigrants in the last 20 years.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Screenings </b>are at Bolivar Hall, 54 Grafton Way, London W1T 5DL.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Nearest tube</b>: Warren Street. <b>Overground</b>: Euston. <b> </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Buses</b>: 10, 14, 18, 24, 27, 29, 30, 73, 88, 134, 205, 390. <b> </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Booking information</b>: tickets are available from 10.20 am on the day and may not be booked in advance.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Admission </b>£10, concessions £8. Annual members £6/£4. Sorry, no credit cards. </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Well</span>: </b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Water Voices from Ethiopia</span><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b><span style="background: rgb(237, 237, 237); font-family: "Nunito Sans", serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Paulo Barbieri & Ricardo Russo, Ethiopia/Italy, [EST] 56 min.</span></b></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Nunito Sans", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">This is the Horn of Africa, a region of the world that is periodically shocked by terrible droughts. Each year to prepare for the coming dry season, Borana herders will gather their livestock and walk for days to the dry Oromia Lowlands (South of Ethiopia) to retrieve water from their secular astonishing “singing” wells. With its strong photography and its epic narration, the film follows their lives during a whole dry season, showing a unique traditional water management system that regulates what water is available as the property and right of everyone, without any money being exchanged</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Four American friends set out to live on just one dollar a day for two months in rural Guatemala. They battle hunger, parasites, and extreme stress to survive. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">This terrible experience is, however, the reality of life for over 1.1 billion people around the world. While the friends quickly learn there are no easy answers, the generosity and strength of Rosa, a 20-year-old woman, and Chino, a 12-year-old boy, give them resilient hope that there are effective ways to make a difference.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">discussion, followed by Q&A's</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Screenings </b>are at Bolivar Hall, 54 Grafton Way, London W1T 5DL.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Nearest tube</b>: Warren Street. <b>Overground</b>: Euston. <b> </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Buses</b>: 10, 14, 18, 24, 27, 29, 30, 73, 88, 134, 205, 390. <b> </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Booking information</b>: tickets are available from 10.20 am on the day and may not be booked in advance.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Admission </b>£10, concessions £8. Annual members £6/£4. Sorry, no credit cards. </span><br />
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The lemon grove of the title is a peaceful place for Palestinian widow Salma (Hiam Abbass), who learned to cultivate it from her late father. But trouble comes when new Israeli Defense Minister Israel Navon (Doron Tavory) and wife Mira (Rona Lipaz-Michael) move nearby into a decidedly upscale house. Their security team believes that Salma’s mass of lemon trees will allow terrorists to hide, so the order comes to level the grove. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Riklis has fashioned a gem of a script with former Palestinian journalist Suha Arraf. And Rainer Klausmann’s super 16mm cinematography, perfectly suited to the warmth and </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">modesty of the film, delicately captures all corners of the border settings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Screenings </b>are at Bolivar Hall, 54 Grafton Way, London W1T 5DL.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Nearest tube</b>: Warren Street. <b>Overground</b>: Euston. <b> </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Buses</b>: 10, 14, 18, 24, 27, 29, 30, 73, 88, 134, 205, 390. <b> </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Booking information</b>: tickets are available from 10.20 am on the day and may not be booked in advance.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Admission </b>£10, concessions £8. Annual members £6/£4. Sorry, no credit cards. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Contacts: contact.lsfc@gmail.com tel. 0208 743 3094</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>LSFC adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11757812856109126371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20744716.post-3559493575671079492018-10-26T14:31:00.000+01:002018-10-26T14:32:19.584+01:00SUNDAY, 11 NOVEMBER 2018, 10:20 for 11:00 AM SCREENING<br />
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German [EST], 85 mins</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Berlin in 1945 after
Germany's defeat in the war. The former military surgeon Dr. Hans Mertens
stumbles down the street, drunk. He suffers from flashbacks of the war and has
an aversion to people in pain, which prevents him from practising medicine.
Instead, he spends his days </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholism" title="Alcoholism"><span style="color: #0b0080; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">drinking</span></span></a><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">. An artist
and </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_concentration_camp" title="Nazi concentration camp"><span style="color: #0b0080; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Nazi concentration camp</span></span></a><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> survivor, Susanne Wallner finds him living in her
apartment as she returns home. They reluctantly live together at first, then
become friends.</span></span></span><br />
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Project, UK, 2017, English, 30 mins.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The 1959/60 St Pancras council tenants’ rent strike
came about through tenants’ opposition to the St Pancras Conservative Council’s
decision to implement a rent scheme that set maximum and minimum rents based on
the rateable value of their properties. The impact of the scheme was massive
rent increases and council rents being brought up to levels set for private
tenants in the 1957 Rent Act.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span></span><br />
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Camden Town History Project </span></div>
</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Screenings </b>are at Bolivar Hall, 54 Grafton Way, London W1T 5DL.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Nearest tube</b>: Warren Street. <b>Overground</b>: Euston. <b> </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Buses</b>: 10, 14, 18, 24, 27, 29, 30, 73, 88, 134, 205, 390. <b> </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Booking information</b>: tickets are available from 10.20 am on the day and may not be booked in advance.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Admission </b>£10, concessions £8. Annual members £6/£4. Sorry no credit cards. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><u>The Spider’s Web: Britain’s Second Empire</u><o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<em><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; padding: 0cm;">The Spider’s Web: Britain’s Second Empire</span></em><span style="border: 1pt none; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; padding: 0cm;">, is a documentary film that shows how Britain transformed from a colonial power into a global financial power. At the demise of empire, City of London financial interests created a web of offshore secrecy jurisdictions that captured wealth from across the globe and hid it behind obscure financial structures in a web of offshore islands. Today, up to half of the global offshore wealth may be hidden in British offshore jurisdictions and Britain and its offshore jurisdictions are the largest global players in the world of international finance. How did this come about, and what impact does it have on the world today? This is what the <em>Spider’s Web </em>sets out to investigate<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">From its extraction through sale, use, and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. <i>The Story of Stuff</i> is a fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. It exposes the connections between many of environmental and social issues and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. It'll teach you something, it'll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Belonging: The Truth Behind the Headlines</span></b></h2>
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<span style="color: #212529;">This passionate, pertinent and impressively thorough documentary from debut director Morag Livingstone takes a comprehensive look at the events that surrounded three industrial disputes. They involve three decades and three governments but share a common thread of collectivism, democracy, and sense of belonging, within trade unions in particular and the UK population as a whole.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="background: white; color: #2d2d2c; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Speaker: Morag Livingstone, film director, David Condliffe, London &East Community & Unite in Schools Co-ordinator, Ann Field, Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Screenings </b>are at Bolivar Hall, 54 Grafton Way, London W1T 5DL.</span><br />
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<br />LSFC adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11757812856109126371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20744716.post-42199159828313592322018-04-11T01:21:00.000+01:002018-04-11T01:21:24.775+01:00SUNDAY, 13 of MAY, 2018, 10:20 for 11 am<div class="normal">
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Silvia Boarini, Linda Paganelli, Israel, 2016, (PG), Arabic/English, [EST] 58 mins.</div>
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<span style="background: rgb(250, 249, 240); color: #3b520b; letter-spacing: 0.2pt; line-height: 115%;">The Al Turi maintain that the lands they live on, in Al Araqib, in the Negev, have belonged to them since before the time of the Ottoman Empire. Yet, since the creation of Israel, their land ownership rights have been denied by the very state of which they are now full citizens. On 27th July 2010 state authorities razed their village to the ground; since then it had been demolished by the state and rebuilt by the people some 97 times.</span><span style="background: rgb(250, 249, 240); color: #3b520b; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; letter-spacing: 0.2pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />The Al Turi share their stories and hopes for the future. They talk of the difficulties of being 'unrecognized', of the paradox of being considered 'invaders'.</span><em><span style="background: #FAF9F0; color: #3b520b; font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: .2pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
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This beautiful and moving documentary depicts and analyzes what happened the last time the Icelanders got fed up with their politicians, the political system, and the banking system. Filled with insightful and engaged people, this film is a MUST SEE! In response to widespread media silence and a growing global trend towards people-led movements, the documentary explores how and why the people of Iceland resisted the measures imposed by their government following the crisis of 2008 and how they forced their government to resign in an attempt to forge a new political path.</div>
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Ken Livingstone, former Leader of the GLC from 1981-1986 and Mayor of London from 2000 to 2008, writer.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Screenings </b>are at Bolivar Hall, 54 Grafton Way, London W1T 5DL.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Nearest tube</b>: Warren Street. <b>Overground</b>: Euston. <b> </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Buses</b>: 10, 14, 18, 24, 27, 29, 30, 73, 88, 134, 205, 390. <b> </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Booking information</b>: tickets are available from 10.20 am on the day and may not be booked in advance.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Admission </b>£10, concessions £8. Members £6/£4. Sorry, no credit cards. </span><br />
<br />LSFC adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11757812856109126371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20744716.post-37411549625465333422018-03-12T18:23:00.001+00:002018-03-12T18:26:35.669+00:00SUNDAY, 8th of April, 10.20 for 11am<div class="normal">
<b><u>MONEY PUZZLES<o:p></o:p></u></b></div>
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2016, [U], English, 129 mins<b><o:p></o:p></b></u></div>
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<i><span style="color: #333333;">Money
Puzzles</span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #333333;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333;">is a counter-narrative to mainstream economic orthodoxy.
It also dispenses with the conventions of the mainstream documentary – the
all-knowing narrator, the balanced opinions – and turns to different voices:
economics students in England frustrated with the inadequacy of what they’re
being taught, solidarity volunteers in Greece, anti-eviction activists in
Spain, advocates of citizens debt audits across Europe, critical economists
like Costas Lapavitsas, Molly Scott-Cato, Johnna Mongomerie and Axel Kicillof.</span><b style="background-color: transparent;"><u><o:p> </o:p></u></b><br />
<a href="http://www.mchanan.com/money-puzzles/" style="background-color: transparent;">http://www.mchanan.com/money-puzzles/</a></div>
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Discussion led by: Michael Chanan, Documentarist, Writer, Speaker and Helen
Mercer, former Lecturer in Economics,<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Screenings </b>are at Bolivar Hall, 54 Grafton Way, London W1T 5DL.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Nearest tube</b>: Warren Street. <b>Overground</b>: Euston. <b> </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Buses</b>: 10, 14, 18, 24, 27, 29, 30, 73, 88, 134, 205, 390. <b> </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Admission </b>£10, concessions £8. Annual members £6/£4. Sorry no credit cards. </span><br />
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<b><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">She’s
Beautiful When She’s Angry <o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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Mary Dore, USA, 2014, [PG] English, 92 mins.<b> <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;">This documentary resurrects the buried history of the outrageous,
often brilliant women who founded the modern women's movement. It tells the
story of the feminist movement of the 1960s. They said 'the personal is
political' and made a revolution: in the bedroom, in the workplace, in all
spheres of life. Called threatening by the FBI, yet ignored in many histories,
these women changed the world.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>This
amazing documentary is about the women's fight for independence and for
reproductive rights. It is great learning about the history of second wave
feminism and of its implications in the current society. Using statements,
videos and photos, the film shows how the women's liberation movement emerged
in the patriarchal society from 1960's.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;">Speakers invited: National Assembly of Women<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Screenings </b>are at Bolivar Hall, 54 Grafton Way, London W1T 5DL.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Nearest tube</b>: Warren Street. <b>Overground</b>: Euston. <b> </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Buses</b>: 10, 14, 18, 24, 27, 29, 30, 73, 88, 134, 205, 390. <b> </b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Emma Bowell and Eddie Noona</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">,</span><span style="color: #333333;"> Framework
Films & The Cork Mother Jones Commemorative Committee, </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">with the support of the Sound and Vision scheme,
an initiative of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland. </span><span style="color: #333333;">Ireland/USA, 2014, English, 52 mins.</span><b><u><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></u></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Mary Harris Jones was born in 1830 in County
Cork, Ireland. Her family left the devastation brought by the Irish Potato
Famine and emigrated westward, first to Canada and then to America. Tragedy
befell Jones when she lost her family to a yellow fever outbreak and then her
home in the great Chicago fire. She went on to become a labour activist and was
given the nickname “Mother Jones.” A champion of the working class, Jones was a
campaigner for the United Mine Workers Union, founded the Social Democratic
Party and helped establish the Industrial Workers of the World. Jones died in
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Hospital in the mining township of Dalli Rajhara, in Chattisgarh. The hospital
was paid for and built by the voluntary labour of daily-wage contract miners
and successfully provides modern health-care to workers, and advises the poor. </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-indent: 0px;">The Film reveals the history of its making, key turning points of the hospital and the experiences of the doctors and worker- paramedics who manage this oasis of hope.</span><span style="color: #333333;"><br /></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Discussion to follow: Speakers:
Kelly Rogers, a BECTU member, and former employee at the Ritzi Picturehouse and Jonatha
Parry, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, LSE, recently did fieldwork in
Chhattisgarh state of India</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Screenings </b>are at Bolivar Hall, 54 Grafton Way, London W1T 5DL.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Nearest tube</b>: Warren Street. <b>Overground</b>: Euston. <b> </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Buses</b>: 10, 14, 18, 24, 27, 29, 30, 73, 88, 134, 205, 390. <b> </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Booking information</b>: tickets are available from 10.20 am on the day and may not be booked in advance.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Admission </b>£10, concessions £8. Annual members £6/£4. Sorry no credit cards. </span><br />
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