Archive for category: Video

• 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.

   

• Video: Labour’s Fare Deal explained

  Labour have brought out a rather well done video explaining their Fare Deal policy. MP Stephen Pound narrates seemingly on the basis that his name is pound, ho ho, but he makes a goo fist of it none the less. Leaving aside the muzak and clip art noises of oh’s […]

   

• Interview: Lawrence Webb UKIP’s London Mayoral candidate

  On Monday Big Smoke spoke to the UK Independence Party London Mayoral candidate, Lawrence Webb. Somehow we managed to find the noisiest rooftop in London to put our questions to him, but the views were very nice so hopefully you’ll forgive the background noise. We were speaking on top of […]