Don’t usually post about films, but this one seems to outline just another incidence of our eroding freedom in the West. See it tomorrow:

BRIAN HAW AND THE ERASURE OF DEMOCRACY
Renoir Cinema
Brunswick Centre
Russell Square WC1N1AW
Box Office: 0870 850 6927
SUNDAY 17 JUNE 12:00 NOON
£6.50

Blurb provided by my mate Simon over at the Curzon

DOCDAYS: SOCPA PREMIERE - BRIAN HAW AND THE ERASURE OF DEMOCRACY

After the premiere of SOCPA and a screening of selected shorts there will be a panel discussion with Brian Haw, Rikki Blue and others to be announced soon.

Director: Rikki Blue. UK 2007. Approx. 1hr. UK Premiere

An important new film about section 132 of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (SOCPA). This legislation was passed in order to rid parliament square of Brian Haw, the lone protestor who has camped outside parliament since 2001 spreading his message of peace with an ever increasing number of artistic and powerful banners, in full and defiant sight of the politicians who had voted for the invasion of Iraq. The film follows Haw’s successful battle to remain, but also shows the enormous creativity and tenacity of other campaigners appalled at the idea that we have to ask for permission to protest peacefully near Parliament. This will be a first screening of this unique documentary, but as the story still unfolds, it may not be the final cut.

www.parliament-square.org.uk

www.indymedia.org.uk/en/actions/2006/socpa/

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1. Welcome to Mandela’s new statue: scrap SOCPA
2. Theda by Georgina Starr
3. Parliament Square… WTF?
4. Stand alone, with some other people
5. Five Years.