films at the 2009 london anarchist bookfair

some of these have been shown before - but not the Cipriano Mera film.

10.15 am
A Place in the City
- the ever growing rift between South Africa’s economically marginalised and its government focussing on Abahlali baseMjondolo, a shack dwellers’ movement.

10.45 am
This Black Soil
the inspiring struggle of Bayview, Virginia, USA, a small and impoverished rural African-American community, which successfully defeated a state plan to build a maximum-security prison in their backyard and instead pursued a new vision of economic justice.

12 noon
Reel News
Factory occupations in Argentina + Visteon and Vestas.

1.30pm
The Angry Brigade - The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Britain’s First Urban Guerilla Group

3-5.30pm
Living on your feet: The Struggles of Cipriano Mera
Introduced by Stuart Christie
Cipriano Mera was a bricklayer who became a key figure in the Spanish revolution, a free man who refused to die on his feet or live on his knees.

5.30- 6.30 To Gaza With Love – Introduced by Aki Nawaz
The story of some forty campaigners from twelve different countries who went on boats to break the Gaza siege from the sea. Drama, courage, seasickness, storms and storm outs.