DCTV_Politics

As the date for their CDP protest nears Gerry Flanagan and Daragh O'Connor from SIPTU come into the DCTV studio to talk about organising the community sector and fighting the cutbacks

"Taking the Risks and Paying Our Share".

Video for the 24/7 Frontline Alliance campaign.

We’re going to be showing a version of Seamus Nolan’s Corrib Project that exhibited in the project last month through out November. We’ll fill you in more when it’s closer to a broadcast date, but expect it to play out as part of our Independent Media block. You can read about the exhibition in Totally Dublin over here.

Table Bed Chair is a documentary about the squatter scene of Amsterdam. The film combines insights into the history of the squatter movement and its particularly well developed autonomous structures and practices with a focus on the extraordinary legalsituation in the Netherlands."Squatting is taking over an empty house, basically." With this statement, cool and precise at once, the viewer is introduced to the world of the ‘krakers’, as Amsterdam’s squatters are called.

Table Bed Chair sketches a documentary portrait of the movement by inquiring into ideological approaches and real-world alternatives to existing social structures. Explosive archival footage traces the historical roots of the movement to its climax in the volatile years of the 1980s when up to 10.000 krakers lived in squatted houses in Amsterdam.Contrasting interviews are used to explore differing points of view on issues such as selforganisation, autonomy and ideology, as well as violence as a legitimate means in the struggle.