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Ken Loache's film, I Daniel Blake, (Film about uk benefit regime) wins Palme d'Or.

Why do we do it? A week of action reflection » DPAC

Campaigning is bloody hard work. People see the hours of standoff with the police on Westminster Bridge, or the Pop Up Art Exhibition at Tate Modern, or the Street Theatre outside Downing Street.

What people don’t see is the weeks, sometimes months or planning, arranging and preparation that goes into these events. But that’s OK, the people who take it on know what’s involved and they do it gladly.

What’s harder is the sense that sometimes hits every campaigner that it’s all futile. That all the hard work isn’t getting anywhere. It usually hits when people are tired, overloaded and they read the news and see another wave of cuts on the way in. At times like that, people get close to giving up. But we’re a stubborn, tenacious lot at DPAC, and we don’t give up easy. So we keep going. It gets past the point of understanding why you carry on, but you still keep going.

And then someone sends us something like the video shown below and it reminds you exactly what you are fighting for. It tells you what all the long hours are for, the old sense of anger returns.

Please watch it, it is liable to make you cry but please watch it if you can. It was made by Nichole Drury and sent to us by her yesterday for the liveprotest tool. But it served to remind us at DPAC why we do it. And why all the campaigners from our allied groups Black Triangle, Mental Health Resistance Network, Winvisible, Boycott Workfare and so many other groups and individual campaigners keep on going even when exhausted and things look bleaker than ever.

It reminds us why we do all this because the story told by Nichole in the video about what happened to her mother, Moira is a massive injustice. It is simply wrong.
Why do we do it? A week of action reflection » DPAC
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Anyway, this is worthwhile.
 
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Unite members get to see this for free? :)

Daniel Blake is a 59 year old skilled craftsman, unable to work following a heart attack. It depicts the cruel realities of those left to fall through the cracks but it also shows the solidarity and support that exists in working class communities.

In the 1960s, Ken Loach's Cathy Come Home caused such an over-whelming public outcry that it changed housing policy.

Our hope is that this film will spark a similar reaction and build public support for a fairer social security system for people in and out of work.

To get your free ticket go to www.showfilmfirst.com and enter code 382195 to find a cinema near you. Enter your details and print off your voucher. It’s that simple. Tickets are limited so please act fast.

Please help bring about change. Go and see this film and tell a friend to see it too.

And then please lend your support for the campaign for change. We are proud to have joined forces with PCS, the union which represents DWP workers, to campaign for a fairer benefit system. Visit the website for details on how you can get involved.

Ours is a movement that does not walk on by. Please help make a difference today and take a stand against Conservative cruelty.

Steve Turner
Assistant General Secretary
 
I actually was a person who never had to use benefits because I worked for social services most of my life. We all had to go through yearly in house so called training for policies and yes I never knew what it was really like to not be working and I was brainwashed into thinking benefit cheats were taking money from the state. How wrong was I and so many thousands of other people have been brainwashed. I am now retired and now have time to ponder upon my 'training' I am now ashamed. But I will now never think that most people are screwing the state.
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Comment on seeing the film

btw, the 'claimants are scroungers' brigade is flooding the film FB site, etc.
 
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Corbyn at Premiere

btw, baffled at lack of interest via views on Urban, it is creating a large media stir elsewhere;.
 
£26.50 to see this at the Ritzy in Brixton (even with an NUS card).....can't see many people on benefits getting along to watch it....
 
Apparently the film is selling out at all the showings it has managed to put on, but most places are not having screenings, shame there is no national campaign to ensure it does.
 
We're waiting until early December to see this, impatient though we are.

If we wait until then, it'll be on at the university cinema/theatre, with a commendable shortage of future films promotion, and a complete absence of adverts .... I think! :) :cool:
 
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