Film: Mike (PCN): Why the commons are important today
Why the commons is an important movement based on controlling resources for the common good, also outlines the history of the commons and enclosures.
Film: The Haymarket, Chicago and Mayday
Want to know why May 1st became workers day, labour day, this talk explains the Hay market Martyrs role in history and the formation of Mayday.
Film: Silivia Federici Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle
In this talk Silvia Federici talks about her forty years of research and theorizing on the nature of housework, social reproduction, and women’s struggles, excellent talk.
Film: Molly Conisbee – Uncommon Land, what we lose when we give ground
Molly Conisbee talks about the links we have with the land and why they are so important and should be treasured, this talk from small is beautiful festival 2012.
Film: New Age Travellers – A personal story
Steve from Permanent Culture Now takes us through an enlightening, funny and sad personal history of his involvement in the UK new age traveller communities.
Film: Squatting past, present and future – Off grid 2012
Phoenix from solutions zone TV talks about the origins of squatting past, present and future at Sunrise Off Grid Festival 2012.
Film: Why radical history is important talk – Off Grid 2012
Michael Thomas of Permanent Culture Now begins the Radical History Day at the 2012 Sunrise Off grid Festival with a talk on Why Radical History is important.
Film: Yesterday’s To-Morrow – Bristol’s garden suburbs talk – BRHG @ Cloudcuckooland
Thought the transition movement was the first movement to look at localised food production and sustainability, think again as Bristol had its own transition type movement over a hundred years ago.
A common peoples history of the UK part 3: Levellers and ranters and diggers
Find out how the Levellers and Ranters are our ancestors in the campaign for a more a equal, just world.
A common peoples history of the UK part 2: Desolation and wilderness
Find out how Robert Kett and Thomas Moore wanted to change the world, with their ideas of Utopia.
A common peoples history of the UK part 1: Free born Englishmen
Find out about the first enclosures of land in the UK and how the common people were forced off the land into poverty and the preceding uprisings that occurred and what relevance these events have for today in this new historical serialisation about common people and the land.
Film: The Friends of Durruti and the Maydays in Barcelona (1937)
Find out about the The Friends of Durruti and the Maydays in Barcelona (1937) and what happened during the Spanish Civil War.
Film: Hidden Histories: The Captain Swing riots
Captain Swing was the name used to sign letters that were delivered to land and farm owners as a means of protesting against the starvation and poverty that new grain threshing machines were creating. Read to find out about Captain Swing and more about why it’s still relevant today.
Film: Ian Bone Talk ‘1919 Revolutionaries’
Ian Bone presents a rollicking ride through the year of 1919 a Year of Revolution.
Hit the road
Personal account and reflection of time spent in the new age traveller movement.