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Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 18:48:35 +0000
From: "worthing.eco-action" (someone@worthing.eco-action.org)
To: worthing@eco-action.org
Subject: [Fwd: "unsettling" documentary on Channel 4 tonight]

Release The Streets - TV Documentary 19th January

> Reclaim the Streets, a documentary from September 1999,
> will be broadcast tonight at 1.30 AM (Wendesday 19th) via
> Channel 4 Television Corporation.
>
> It is essential viewing for those interested in the changes
> to the Terrorism Bill.
> Please note that it's a quite different version from the
> original cinema version.
>
> Please forward widely today in the UK.
>
> THE GUARDIAN GUIDE PREVIEW (15/1/1999)
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> "This behind-the-banners view of the numerous "non-violent, direct action"
> street celebrations that have taken place over the past decade - from the
> Castlemorton Free Rave of 1992 to last summer'smarch in the City of London
> and across the globe - makes for fascinating but deeply unsettling viewing.
> These events, carelessly dubbed "civil disobedience" by the world's press,
> have served not only to highlight the political marginalisation of the
> enviromentally aware, but also the heavy-handed approach of those involved
> in protecting the capitalist hegemony, more often than not with the
> "legally justified use of violence". (JH)
>
>MAKE UP YOUR OWN MIND.
>PRESS RELEASE somewhere in www.4later.com/forumframe.html

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