FIGHTING TALK DOCUMENTARY LIST UPDATES

 

Fighting Talk short labour movement documentaries by Mark Metcalf, a member of the NUJ and Calderdale Trades Union Council

@markmetcalf07 metcalfmc@outlook.com 07392 852561

Don’t Walk By – It Didn’t Stop with Ellen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=um0MtKGQA58 + accompanying booklet

WHO’S BETTY TEBBS? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrWBJZr3I68

Just Grow to Eat -  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nu3HJtbXvd8 32 mins

There are major issues that will determine where we get our food from in the future.

JUST GROW TO EAT is a 30-minute journey across north west England explaining developments in Britain’s countryside such that - with the supermarkets ruling – food imports continue growing at the expense of the environment, people’s health and weight, real green jobs and rural communities.

Soil scientist and board member at the Incredible Farm in Todmorden, Charlie Clutterbuck outlines how food can be grown locally. Then by combining this with £3bn subsidies –around what Britain once received back from the EU – to harder up people to buy healthy food this will boost local economies, thus creating more jobs on the land.

Produced by Charlie Clutterbuck, Dave Hackney and Mark Metcalf this film aims to encourage debate about food and farming and could be used by communities or online.

  ‘Bread not Bayonets’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0UxMadnIEA

The dramatic story of Halifax in August 1842 when local workers downed tools to join a national general strike for better pay and extended voting rights and many lost their lives as a consequence of a massacre by the army. 32 minutes long Produced with Francesca Platt of Bolton Video Box

Mark Metcalf and Dave Hackney short films:-

Sunderland's Peterloo: Remembering the 1825 North Sands Massacre

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1J_VXf_IIVs&t=40s  14 minutes

Bradford bus driver's journey - trade unionist Mohammad Taj

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltf0aXhdbOU&t=18s 24 minutes

Keith Laybourn - STITCHED UP - Bradford's textile unions until 1926

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8e58Hfhboes&t=56s   42 minutes

Andrew Feinstein on Gaza, Genocide and what it means for the world

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNpv82dKVqs&t=3s 32 minutes

Andrew Feinstein - The Struggle for Democracy - Halifax 1842 & South Africa 1948-1994

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXW73WoRPG8&t=17s 20 minutes

Save Our GP surgeries say Calderdale TUC  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osayP8a21so

Calderdale Council Cuts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ux8VIxFDiMk 3 minutes.

Dentists set to bare teeth after 2024 GE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAqjsZj-Aj8&t=3s

Rescue Public Education  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9sJiizoeTY 2 minutes

Remember the Dead, Fight for the Living https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLyeMYnpVjo

Not so Happy Valley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdcrdIlxs60

Andrew Watson: Halifax's Black Footballing Pioneer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvYf6kZn_7A

2023 call for a plaque to be mounted at the Halifax school that the first black football international attended in the late 19^th century. 2 minutes.

In 2025 the plaque was unveiled by Viv Anderson, England’s first black international player https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEOzfmAZn1M 3 minutes

Remembering Ellen Strange - Memorial Walk for Domestic Violence Victims 2023 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0_uhqtIuoI

Pay Up to Save The NHS - The Junior Doctors Strike https://youtu.be/AA23wwcQTjY 12 minutes

Halifax Chartist Hero Remembered: Benjamin Rushton https://youtu.be/fp4mth4LfwY 14 minutes

Keep Our NHS Public Leeds - 75 Years of NHS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2GVgLQVGDA

Ellen Strange: The Light That Still Burns https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPMaOEroepU  Adam Marseille

More to come. If you’d like to support this work donations can be made to Mark Metcalf metcalfmc@outlook.com 07392 851561

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