Carry Home"
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The video is available on Umatic and VHS format, colour, from the National Film and Television School, Station Road, Beaconsfield, Bucks HP9 ILG. Telephone 04946 71234. sir. ...."Carry Greenham Home" is a video about the Greenham women's peace camp. Made by Amanda Richardson and Beeban Kidron, it is a 'participatory documentary, filmed from withinthe camp over seven months.
A substantial record of the camp's existence, it covers both the big public events - the 'Embrace the Base' action of December 12 last year, dancing on the silos, the Easter blockades, the recent police attacks and so on - and also the more personal and private experience of the women who kept the camp going during the seven months Beeban Kidron and Amanda Richardson were there.
Scenes include arrests and evictions, as well as camp meetings and discussions with members of the general public. The symbol we know Greenham to be is there for the record, but the value of the film came across to me last Saturday when it was shown to an audience of women in Tower Hamlets. Everyone was affected.
As its makers say the video is about the power and strength of this form of opposition, the implications of non-violent protest and of living non-hierarchically in a women's cómmunity.
It uses songs to emphasise and convey the experiences of the women. The dramatic highlights are the confrontations with police and press, but despite the emotional seriousness, the audience were at times tragically illustrated by. the console ourselves with camp meetings where people them. vent their despair and frustra- The Greenham women's tion. And as the bailiffs move isolation, despite their couragein you feel your anger grow at ous stand, is a shame ul reminthe confrontation and the state der to the labour movement violence that non-violence that it didn't organise and, as a consequence, it now seems cannot overcome.
But plațitudes about 'the certain that Cruise will come to labour movement" won't over- Britian. cume it either and we shouldn't This video can help us Grouse the labour move nent.
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