Here's a list of just a few of the groups attending. Participating Video collectives are on the next column...

Indymedia
An international network of independent media with instant online 'open publishing'. The most far ranging alternative news source online. At the gathering will be people from regional Indymedia sites around the country. www.indymedia.org.uk

Gagged
South Wales anarchist newletter by people standing up for themselves and shouting ‘Enough!’ http://southwalesanarchists.org

Bristle
Fighting talk from Bristol and the SouthWest - a quality quartlerly local and global magazine. www.bristle.org.uk

Rough Music
Trouble makin' free bi-monthly-ish newsheet diggin' the dirt on the streets of Brighton. www.roughmusic.org.uk

Reel2Reel
London based participatory media, producing films on counter-cultural, social and environmental struggles. http://real2reel.co.nr

Freedom
Fortnightly newspaper published by Freedom Press, featuring news and articles on anarchism, labour struggles and more. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom

Porkbolter
The newsheet about 'what's really going on in Worthing'. www.eco-action.org/porkbolter

OX4FM
Oxford based community radio station. www.ox4fm.com

Clearer Channel
Online video resource to disseminate alternative films. www.clearerchannel.org

Libcom
Online news with coverage of current events and background in libertarian movements and class struggle. http://libcom.org

Radio 4A
Brighton's non-commercial radical radio station will be broadcasting over the weekend on 101.4FM. www.radio4a.org.uk

Corporate Watch
Oxford based corporate research group. www.corporatewatch.org.uk

Cultureshop
Online one-stop shop for videos, new and rare, covering independent media and radical politics. www.cultureshop.org

Advisory Service For Squatters
Helping squatters for 40 years, run by volunteers, also producing the Squatters Handbook. www.squatter.org.uk

Smash EDO
The campaign to close EDO MBM, a bomb parts factory in Brighton. www.smashedo.org.uk

Trapese
With a new book out this week ‘Do It Yourself : A handbook for changing our world’ www.handbookforchange.org

Titnore Woods
Protest camp protecting a woodland near Worthing. www.protectourwoodland.co.uk

SCREENING VIDEO GROUPS
- short biog and film details

SchMOVIES came out of the SchNEWS at Ten tour 2004 when a series of short films were put out on the web, highlighting some of the protest camps and actions we witnessed during the six week tour. From there we have produced the SchNEWS at Ten Movie, charting how SchNEWS is put together and has survived the decade and two video compilations of campaign and direct-action films, as well as over thirty web and campaign shorts. Like many collectives it’s begun to expand and is attracting more UK and intenational video activists wanting to contribute footage and make films. It regularly follows local campaigns such as Smash EDO and Titnore Woods and is ever present to provide video support for actions and campaigns. To get involved or to download SchMOVIES for free click on: www.schnews.org.uk/schmovies

V for Video Activist is the latest compilation of films covering 2006 - see the SchMOVIES webpage.

SHORT FILMS: SchMOVIES (2006/2007,1hr)

SERIOUSLY ORGANISED
The much publiced ‘sack parliament’ anti-war demo at the heart of Westminsters ‘exclusion zone’ gave the Serious and Organised Crime and Punishment Acr (SOPCA) a thorough work out for the first time. The plan was to surround Parliament and prevent MPs, Lords and Civil Servants from continuing business after their Summer recess. 800 cops had other ideas.

CAMP TITNORE (Part Two)
Second part of Camp Titnore as the SchNEWS crew took another trip down to Titnore Woods near Worthing to find an up-for-it gang of protesters up tree houses and plotting to save this piece of ancient woodland from the onslaught of new housing development, aided by strong support from the locals.

EVERY LITTLE HURTS
At the end of February 2006, activists briefly set up camp to prevent TESCO from clearing woodland for a new store at Shepton Mallet, Somerset. Following their eviction people came together on March 4th for a day of action.....

REAL HARM
Reportage from Harmondsworth Detention Centre, where a solidarity noise demo was held to show support for those locked up there. SchMOVIES speaks to Enid, an ex-detainee from Harmondsworth who while exposing the brutality of the detention system also describes what life can be like for those trapped in the process.

MAKE MY DAY
Following the Harmondsworth Demo, the bored Met decided to go on the offensive (sound familiar?) This is is what happened when the Samba band and folk were walking back to their coaches.

VIDEO NASTIES
During Israel’s attacks on Gaza and the Lebanon, Sussex Action for Peace held its second march on August 19th 2006, protesting about the West’s lack of response to war crimes in the Middle East. Before the march began it soon became apparent that Sussex Police were having none of it. Apart from the obvious Police overkill and crappy excuses for changing the route of the march, the number of police FIT teams that were deployed was way beyond the norm – even filming kids in buggies!

HISTORY 101
With SOCPA laws in London well enforced and campaign groups in Brighton being clamped down on and constantly under surveillance, the coalition for the Right 2 Protest March held a march in Brighton. Surprisingly with little police attention.

Reel News is a monthly activist newsreel DVD that started in 2006 as an outlet for people to distribute films to challenge the neo-liberal agenda. It was started after a trip to South America to film the social movements in places where people are at the sharp end of neo-liberalism, but on returning to Britain to find the same things going on. Now on it's seventh issue, it's fast becoming a useful resource and has begun to actively encourage people to make their own campaign videos.

For more info or to get a copy contact: reelnews@artserve.net, phone 07779 109 628.

SHORT FILMS: REEL NEWS ISSUE 7 (May 2007,1 hour)
With an intro by the producer

1) Workers Memorial Day
More people are killed in workplace incidents than in wars. April 28th is an international day of remembering the dead and fighting for better conditions. The Construction Safety Campaign and the Battersea Crane Disaster Action Group are fighting for justice after a crane collapsed killing two people, the latest in a long line of building site unlawful killings.

2) Mayday - PCS strike
Latest day of action in the campaign against 100,000 job losses, privatisation, redundancies and low pay, as the civil servants union continue to call for all public sector workers to join them.

3) 2,000 demos
The SOCPA law states that no-one can protest within a mile of parliament without official police permission. So Mark Thomas came up with the idea of fighting it by organising mass lone demonstrations - 100 people, 20 10 minute demos each on the same day, 2,000 bits of paper work for the police to do....

4) Don't deport Sadiq
Sadiq is from Darfur and has been in this country for seven years. He was a political activist in Sudan but had to seek asylum here after his brother and father were murdered. He still hasn't been granted asylum, and now the government want to send him back to Sudan because it is "safe in Khatoum". In hiding, this is what Sadiq would say if he could go to meetings.

5) EXCLUSIVE: Conflict: two unreleased videos
Never seen anywhere before, two videos from the forthcoming "There's No Power Without Control" AVCD:
The title track, and "From St. Pauls to Seattle".

6) G8 protests: Evian 2003
As the build up to Rostock continues, a look back to the protests in France and Switzerland in 2003.

7) Wrong Lane Jane: poems
One of Brixton's finest poets with some of her more political poems.

VISION ON TV - The future of DIY TV

What is Undercurrents latest project all about?
Vision On TV is a new Peer to Peer TV channel distributed across the net. Rather than YouTube style low resolution clips, you can receive DVD quality films, chat shows, and more automatically every day. We are aiming to have the look and feel of television rather than a computer interface. Vision On will promote the radical as well as the daft, serious and possibly even sports. We want to appeal to a wide section of people and then introduce them to activism.

Vision On TV will have eco-direct action news, progressive technology review shows, mad cabaret acts, festival and alternative video/music reviews and series about Bushcraft and another about Eco Villages.

This is a nonprofit DIY project and anyone can add their own outreach films to the open publishing channel.

For more see www.undercurrents.org/visionon

Set up in 2003, the Camcorder Guerilla Collective is a Glasgow-based collective of independent and radical filmakers. As part of the global movement they produce and showcase progressive, non-mainstream films based on the issues and campaigns affecting local communities. The Collective has made over 6 films covering local grassroots and human rights issues and have been used for campaigning and awareness raising.

FILMS: CAMCORDER GUERILLAS – DOUBLE BILL
With an intro by two of the Guerillas

(Preview) Salud Y Solidaridad (Health and Solidarity) (2007, 20min) - Brand new Zapitista film to raise money for a health clinic in Mexico. Shot in 2005 for the Glasgow and Edinburgh Zapitista Solidairty groups and being presented for the first time here.

Those Left Behind (2007, 7mins) - Asylum film focussing on the traumatic effect on residents after the forced removal of a family in Glasgow.

For more info contact: www.camcorderguerillas.net

Revolt Video Collective is an Irish collective formed two years ago after the G8 in Scotland. After working on Gleneagles 2005: A Rural Riot they wanted to continue this agit prop style and cover the protests in Ireland. Over the last 2 years they've made films about deportations, the illegal use of Shannon airport by the U.S. the anti war movement, the Rossport 5 and the Shell to Sea campaign, amongst others.They eventually want to work on longer form pieces in the future with the goal of getting videos shown on Dublin Community Television.

Download their films for free from their blog at revoltvideo.blogspot.com - DVDs are also available.
Revolt also do film screenings and skill sharing workshops in Seomra Spraoi (Dublin's Social Centre)
For more info or to get involved email: revoltvideo@hushmail.com

SHORT FILMS:REVOLT VIDEO VOLUME TWO (1hr, 2007)
With an intro by the Revolt Collective

Disc 1
1) Direct action man
2) Wrong Project Wrong Place
3) Mayday revisited
4) DC riot
5) No justice, No peace
6) Iraq
7) Baldonnel
8) Anti war March
9) Jeb Bush
10) Peace on Trial
11) Rossport 4 courts

Disc 2
12) Dangerous pipe video
13) Somali demo for protection
14) Rossport - police abuse
15) Wheelock video
16) Unmanagables
17) Banner Drop
18) Political Economy of genocide
19) RAR Demo
20) Chomsky in Dublin

COMMUNITY ACTION! (30 mins, 2007) - Does exactly what it says on the tin. Made by residents associations in Haringey, about how ordinary people in a London borough are organising to empower their communities to improve their lives and the environment (as part of the Mobilising Communities workshop)

For more see www.haringeyresidents.org

Veterans of video activism, the award winning Undercurrents kicked off the video activist scene (in this country anyway) from a bedroom with their series of monthly video magazines in the early 90’s and swiftly became the most screened alternative media of the decade. Like SchNEWS they were born out of the Criminal Justice Act and have gone on to cover wider issues and now produce regular compilations and longer films on grassroots struggles and campaigns. They have also turned camcorder training and related media into a fine art with regular camcorder training sessions and are currently launching their new TV site Vision On, which you can check out at this Media Gathering.

FILM: (Premiere) ECOVILLAGE PIONEERS ( 50 mins,2007)
With a Q&A by Undercurrents

The new film from Undercurrents highlighting how people have come together to build their own homes, grow their own food, and create lively and sustainable communities. The film meets communities in Australia, Spain, Ireland, England and Scotland. But much of the focus of the film rests on the development of the first EcoVillage settlement in Wales, entitled Lammas. This film is narrated and directed by Helen Iles from undercurrents as she and her young son go on a journey to find a sustainable community to live in before settling on the Gower Peninsula.

The DVD will be available in July 2007

Contact Details :www.undercurrents.org
tel: +44 (0)1792 455900

Cine Rebelde is an independent media collective that distribute films related to social movements and struggles around the world. They organise public screenings and translate films from other media collectives. They also produce their own films too, all of which is non-profit oriented.

FILM: RECLAIM POWER - Voices from the Camp for Climate Action 2006 (2007, 62mins)
With an intro and latest news on the Climate Camp for this year.

In the summer of 2006, the 5th hottest year ever recorded in recent history, 600 people convinced that there is no time to waste set up a Camp for Climate Action in the shadow of one of the biggest C02 emitters in Europe, the Drax coal-fired power station in Yorkshire / UK. With over one hundred workshops on a wide range of topics, the 10 day camp was a space of collective learning, sustainable living and taking direct action on the root causes of climate change. The gathering that showed practical low energy solutions in action, culminated in a day of protest and mass direct action in an attempt to shut down Drax.

A Cine Rebelde film produced in cooperation with Rising Tide UK and the Camp for Climate Action.
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To get a copy contact www.cinerebelde.org

FILM: BANG! BANG! IN DA MANOR – (2005, 57 mins)

A social investigation into the disproportionate levels of violence and murder suffered by the black community of Britain, this documentary identifies the failure of the British educational system, the breakdown of family units, and consumerism/capitalism as significant contributory factors into this phenomenon. With interviews from gunmen, underground arms dealers, drug users and victims of the violence, the film attempts to define the social environment which conditions and nurtures the desire to consume and destroy.
Filmed over six months, Bang Bang In Da Manor has been described as the most graphic and disturbing documentary ever made in Britain.

Rice N Peas Films: Phone: 0207 243 9191, web www.ricenpeas.com