Click to Play play_blip_movie_2486148(); A few days spent in London with a view to enjoying the sculture collection in the town -- especially at the Victoria & Albert MuseumFormats available: Quicktime (.mov)Tags: london, sculpture The RatbagMedia Channel

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Click to Play play_blip_movie_2412563(); Vigeland Sculpture Park is a part of Frogner Park, located in Oslo, Norway, 3 km northwest of the city centre. The park covers 80 acres (320,000 m2) and features 212 bronze and granite sculptures created by Gustav Vigeland. Vigeland personally sculpted every figure out of clay and individual craftsmen were contracted to fabricate the pieces into what they are today.Most of the statues depict people engaging in various typically human pursuits, such as running, wrestling, dancing, hugging, holding hands and so on. However, Vigeland occasionally included some statues that are more abstract, such as the "Man attacked by Babies" statue, which shows an adult male, fighting off a horde of tiny babies.Vigeland park is a well known picnic area, popular in the summer for sunbathing, games, and relaxation.I visited the park on a wonderful Spring evening in May 2009 and the park was full of picnickers frying sausages and drinking beer. Magic. Formats available: Quicktime (.mov)Tags: oslo, sculpture, vigeland, norway

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Click to Play play_blip_movie_2354495(); Another country on our overseas trip.  Youc an do the tour in 5 minutes.Formats available: Quicktime (.mov)Tags: scotland, highlands

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Click to Play play_blip_movie_2340722(); One week -- or 8 minutes -- in Barcelona as part of our trip to the capital of CataloniaFormats available: Quicktime (.mov)

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BRISBANE: Fifteen hundred trade unionists and their supporters marched through the streets of Brisbane on July 3 to oppose the sell off of Queensland public assets. The protest had been called by the Electrical Trades Union and later was supported by the Queensland Council of Unions.Addressing the rally were speakers from the QCU, AFULE, ASU and the Rail Tram and Bus Union.Mick Carr from the Maritime Union of Australia told the rally that there was no upside for a one off fixing of the debt by selling off public assets. Peter Simpson , state secretary of the Electrical Trades Union, said that his union wont be putting one cent into the ALP coffers at the next election if this legislation is still on the books.He said it was time to put a line in the sand.David Matters from the Rail Tram and Bus Union told everyone that his union, with community support, had won their fight against the prisatisation of the Brisbane City Council bus service in the 1990s.To applause he said, that it was time to put Anna Bligh under the control of working people.But the surprize from among the speakers came from ALP state president and Australian Manufacturing Workers Union Secretary, Andrew Dettmar, who said that his union will not be supporting any politician at the next state election unless they make a no privatsation pledge.The rally was followed by a march to state parliament .Formats available: Quicktime (.mov)

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Video of a meeting organised by the Socialist Alliance to discuss a community response to the privatization of public assets by the Bligh state Labor government -- Brisbane, Qld Australia. Formats available: Quicktime (.mov)

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Click to Play One of the most prominent Murri campaigners in Brisbane, longtime social justice activist, Sam Watson, will contest Queensland Premier Anna Blighs seat of South Brisbane at the March 21 state election. Watson is running as the candidate for the Socialist Alliance. Formats available: Quicktime (.mov)

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Click to Play March 1st, 2009: A cruise on the Brisbane River to raise funds for Green Left Weekly.A very nice evening on the water, catching the cool breeze coming up the river from Moreton Bay.Along with the music and the hippity hop bopping, Palestinian mezze, Tamil food and sundries. Speeches from Dr Brian Senewiratne Performers: Phil Monsour, Surreal & GrassrootsFormats available: Quicktime (.mov)

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Click to Play Mike Crook is the Socialist Alliance candidate for Sandgate at the upcoming Queensland state election on March 21st.You can read more about the campaign here on the Socialist Alliance website. A member of the ALP for 20 years, Mike recently joined the Socialist Alliance, having become increasingly disenchanted with the ALP's anti-worker, pro-corporate agenda.Mike recently participated in a brigade to Venezuela, and seeing participatory, grassroots democracy, was convinced that the future lies in mobilizing people for socialist change.Mike has been a steering committee member and activist on the Your Rights At Work campaign committee which was instrumental in kicking out the Howard government, and has campaigned tirelessly for industrial rights and shorter working hours. Formats available: Quicktime (.mov)

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Click to Play The Tamil minority in Sri Lanka is now under savage military attack and the Sri Lankan army advances on the Tamil Eelam provinces, indiscriminately slaughtering Tamils who mainly live on the north and east of the island. This is a video record of a protest organised by Brisbane's small Tamil community on February 4th -- Sri Lankan Independence Day.During the same period thousands of Tamils had mobilised around the world especially in England and Canada.Similar protests were held in Sydney, Perth and Melbourne. For background information on the situation in Sri Lanka for Tamils go here .Formats available: Quicktime (.mov)

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Click to Play A video adaption of a photographic series selected by Prof. Norman Finkelstein on the present occupation of Palestine."Comparable? Quantitatively, obviously not. But qualitatively? Look at the pictures and you be the judge."(ref) Video was produced for the local Palestine soldarity campiagn. Formats available: Quicktime (.mov)

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Click to Play This is a quick montage of images of Australian, and a selection of some overseas, protests in support of the suffering people of Gaza.A complete representation of the scale and extent of this movement against the slaughter would be almost impossible. So this is a small window into this international movement, folded together to a track by the great Palestinian hip hop group, DAM -- Born Here.Formats available: Quicktime (.mov)

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Click to Play January 3rd 2009 Protest rally against the Israel's war on Gaza. The protest was organised by the local Palestinian community and their supporters among campaign peace and social justice groups, and Islamic congregations. Musician: Phil Monsour. Formats available: Quicktime (.mov)

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Click to Play Interview with Paul Benedek from the Socialst Alliance conducted at the Brisbane rally in support of Palestine, December 29th, 2008. The rally was called to respond to the latest attack by Israel on the people of Palestine and was one of several organised protests held in capital cities across Australia. There were similar protests internationally. More protests and public meetings have been scheduled locally.Formats available: Quicktime (.mov)

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Click to Play Festivities with the fam on the 25th as we eat up a Xmas lunch and divvy up the pressies[In way of publishing method:I reckon I got myself a very good exhibition quality file by following h.264 recommendations and preferencing smaller file size where I can.]Formats available: Quicktime (.mov) The RatbagMedia Channel

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Click to Play This is a brief touristy video down memory lane as I touch base with  haunts in the city I grew up in. It is also one of those learning exercises: shooting video while walkin' n' talkin'...and editing with Sony Vegas. When I visit Melbourne -- as I do annually --  I eat at the same places -- the same Greek cake shop, the same Chinese restaurant -- and always check out the collection at the national gallery of Victoria and  visit sundry points of my especial nostalgic interest. Covered in the video is the ANZ bank I used to work at in 1969 before I joined the building industry pouring cement; and the Bourke Street Homewares store my father managed for Buckley & Nunn's (now owned by David Jones).

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Click to Play A short report on the 6th National Conference of the Socialist Alliance held in Geelong, Victoria, Australia -- December 5-7, 2008.The video features the main sessions & presenters but not the workshops.

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Click to Play Socialist Alliance 6th national conference was held in Geelong, Victoria December 5-7, 2008. This interview with Margarita Windisch charts the significance of the gathering. The RatbagMedia Channel

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Click to Play A five minute celebration of and introduction to, my party, the Australian Socialist Alliance. Created for the Socialist Alliance National Conference, December 5-7, 2008 -- Geelong, Victoria.

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