Archive for category: Video

• Homes for London: #LondonManifesto

  Homes for London is an excellent campaign focused on the London elections calling for a body, like Transport for London, that has responsibility for affordable housing.

   

• Interview: Beatrix Campbell on Conservative women and feminism in the eighties

  In the last parts of our interview with Beatrix Campbell we discussed Conservative women and then feminism in the eighties. Feminism and the eighties

   

• Video: Tempa T London’s property prices

  Priceless call for affordable housing from Tempa T.

   

• Austerity Isn’t Working

  Filmed in sunny Brockley we see UK Uncut Activists out and about with a critique of current government economic policy.

   

• Video: Camden’s Eco-Super Home

  Retrofitting fans should watch this interesting guided tour around one home in Camden that has done its best to become the most energy efficient that it can be as part of a project to reduce emissions from all our homes.

   

• Video: David Mitchell on sustainability

  Although this was made last year I’ve only just come across it and thought it was well worth passing on. David Mitchell on how market forces push us towards environmental unsustainability and a suggestion as to how that could change.

   

• Interview; Beatrix Cambell and the green agenda

  In the second part of our interview with Camden’s Beatrix Campbell we discuss the green agenda and whether it is a good thing that the mainstream parties have adopted it as their own.

   

• Interview: Karin Robinson Obama’s UK vote

  This week Big Smoke spoke to Karin Robinson, Vice-Chair of Democrats Abroad UK. We discussed organising US citizens in the UK to vote in the Presidential elections and why she felt it was important to vote the right way. In the other part of the interview we discussed some of […]

   

• Interview: Kerry Johnson co-founder Bloomsbury Pro-Choice Alliance

  Big Smoke met up with Kerry Johnson, co-founder of the Bloomsbury Pro-Choice Alliance, who has been organising pro-choice vigils every Sunday against anti-abortion activists who have been harassing women outside the BPAS clinic. The Bloomsbury Pro-Choice Alliance was set up to raise awareness of the attempts by 40 Days for […]

   

• Video: Benjamin Zephaniah says know your rights

  Poet, writer and patron of Newham Monitoring Project Benjamin Zephaniah explains why it is important for young people in east London to know their rights on stop & search, especially during the 2012 Olympics.