Ash Sarkar x Extinction Rebellion: Lovebomb the Cops?

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Ash Sarkar x Extinction Rebellion: Lovebomb the Cops?

8 Oct 2019
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Novara Media’s Ash Sarkar reports from an Extinction Rebellion protest on Westminster Bridge in October 2019

Founded in 2011 with the aim of building “a new media for a different politics”, Novara Media is an independent, non-profit and explicitly left-wing media organisation. Across video reports, livestreams, blogs and podcasts, they offer an alternative view to traditional news organisations and serve a young audience who seek a more politically-engaged form of reporting than can be found in the mainstream media.

In this report from 2019, contributing editor Ash Sarkar visits an occupation of Westminster Bridge orchestrated by climate change activists Extinction Rebellion, and investigates their continuing resolve to pursue peaceful methods of protest, to “fight fire with love” or, in other words, ‘lovebomb’ the cops.

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Climate Challenges: Environmental Issues on Screen

How green causes have been covered and communicated on screen, from acid rain to global warming.

Issues related to climate and the environment are never far from the forefront of public debate and, from the 1990s onwards, the topic of global warming was brought very close to home by a succession of government campaigns tasked with raising awareness about the impact our everyday energy use has on the world around us.

To encourage us to use our cars less, or turn down our thermostats, or adopt a series of energy efficiency guidelines, the powers that be corralled all the ingenuity of the creative sector. And so, be they painted, celeb-filled, funny, heart-breaking or stop-motion animated, these short films appealed to our hearts (and our bank balances) in a bid to save the planet.

This collection places these public information films in dialogue with other environmentally-minded works, ranging from activism to news reports, children's programming to industrial films, to fill out a complex and wide-ranging story that has never been more relevant.

28 videos in this collection

Public information film about global warming

Helping The Earth: Cry

1992

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Are You Doing Your Bit? Campaign 1999/2000

2000

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UNEP Conference: Ozone

1990

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DEFRA Climate Challenge

2006

“It’s like Blackpool illuminations up here!” – Dad turns green after seeing the household’s latest energy bills

Act on CO2: Standby & Loft

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Act on CO2: Ice Caps

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Act on CO2: Chimney

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Act on CO2: Bedtime Story

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Home Energy Efficiency: Stairs

1995

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Home Energy Efficiency: Rug

1995

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Home Energy Efficiency: Faint - COI/Env/I302/010

1995

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Energy Efficiency: Dancer

1999

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Ozone Alert

1990

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Go Wild! [19/12/91]

1991

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Wake Up, Freak Out, Then Get a Grip

2008