Greens star in new BBC "cutting-edge" G8 film.

The film "G8: Can You Hear Us?" is about the G8 meeting of the world's richest countries, which took place in Scotland this summer and prompted Make Poverty History and Bob Geldof's "Live 8". It follows the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army, a Communist Party organiser, and Green Party Executive member Matt Wootton, who travels to Scotland by bicycle as part of the G8 Cycle Caravan. It also features Green MEP Dr Caroline Lucas.

See: http://www.archive.org/details/G8CanYouHearUs

The Open Source Video website has many other excellent films including interviews with US Greens, Meacher, Tariq Ali and much more.

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Matt Wootton praised the film, saying: "The director Christopher Mitchell has produced a film with insightfulness and integrity. Mitchell has, for the most part, resisted the usual Reality TV temptation of satirising the characters, while providing the viewer with a humanising insight into a protest movement that is almost always shown as violent, fringe and disorganised. The humour and irony in this film also underlines the increasing media-savvyness of protesters, and gels together in humour the conflicts between characters.

He continued: "This film is important and cutting edge, because it is a bridge between a protest movement poorly represented in mainstream media, and a general public who are increasingly interested in radical change. The BBC should be congratulated for bringing this insight to a larger audience, including the millions of people who were engaged by the Make Poverty History campaign."

Matt - an activist who is currently contesting a by-election in Lancaster - said of the protests: "Going up to protest against the undemocratic power of the G8 nations was a fantastic experience because everybody I met was so friendly. I met a huge range of people up there, from Christians and grandmothers to bicycle riders and anarchist clowns. It was so great to join so many people saying "we don't believe a meeting of the world's richest 8 nations is the solution to Climate Change and Global Poverty: we suspect the G8 is part of the problem".

It was certainly hard work traveling to Scotland by bicycle, but the sense of community was worth it; I'd never met such a nice bunch of people; the kind of people you could not even know yet trust your wallet with."