A documentary produced at the tail-end of the November through December 2010 student uprising in the UK where over 50,000 students and others rebelled against forced austerity measures. They took to the streets and occupied universities and campuses. In-depth interviews with 3 organizers and activists discuss the events and assess the massive student demonstrations in November, the police tactic of "kettling," broader European efforts to resist forced austerity, the Occupations that took place, as well as student and worker alliances, hopes for continued struggle in 2011, and vision and strategy to get beyond capitalism, racism, sexism, and injustice.
Length: 89:47 minutes
Produced by Chris Spannos and Harpreet K Paul for Z Communications
Chris Spannos
Chris Spannos has had two decades experience in media and also as a social justice activist and organizer. From 1998-2006 he participated in the Redeye collective, heard on Vancouver Co-op radio. In September 2006 he joined Z as full-time staff focusing on ZNet and ZCom web operations. Other media work during that period included helping out with Z Video productions, being the occasional light and sound tech for local theater works in Woods Hole, MA, and also, with others, hosting weekly local public screenings and discussion of political documentaries.
Chris has worked as a multi-diagnosis social service worker, embroidery machine operator, cook, sailor, and bookstore clerk. He edited the volume Real Utopia: Participatory Society for the 21st Century (AK Press, 2008). He has contributed chapters to books such as The Accumulation of Freedom (AK Press, 2012) and The End of the World as We Know It (AK Press, 2014), both edited by Deric Shannon. Chris founded People's Communication Inc., the parent organization for the websites The New Significance and NYT eXaminer (no longer active). He developed the latest incarnation of ZNet's web operations. From April 2014 to April 2015 Chris was Web Editor for teleSUR English in Quito, Ecuador, and host of teleSUR's online video show Imaginary Lines. Since June 2015 Chris has lived in Oxford, England, where he works as Digital Editor for New Internationalist.
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