Art Resistance TV, edition 14
Produced by Art Resistance
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REVIEW BY JILL HICKSON
The latest DVD release from Art Resistance contains four programs. The first features footage of the May 23 Sydney public meeting with US peace activist Cindy Sheehan calling for President Bush to withdraw the troops from Iraq. Also featured at the public meeting was Salam Ismael, an Iraqi doctor who ran a medical clinic during both major US attacks on Fallujah.
The second program is the documentary A visit to an Iraqi bomb shelter. It was shot in 2001 by an Actively Radical TV documentary maker in order to look at the effects of the economic sanctions on Iraqi society. A visit was made to the Al Almeira bomb shelter in Baghdad where a US bomb killed more htan 400 Iraqi civilians during the 1991 Gulf War.
Program three features studio interviews with Andrew Ferguson from the NSW construction union and Sibylle Kaczorek from the Australian Services Union on the worsening situation for workers under the Work Choices legislation.
Ken Stewart from the Urban Guerrillas performs and Tom Keily, the poet, recites his letter to John Howard.
The final program features a short documentary on the 2006 Sydney May Day demonstration. The video looks at the current situation of workers in Australia as well as touching on the issue of workers' power.
From Green Left Weekly, June 28, 2006.
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