Police censorship
@C@B | 01.11.2009 18:40 | Culture | Education | Repression | Birmingham | World
The film one day,set in the west midlands in a 24 hour pieriod of the jonsons gang and the burger bar boyz,has caused a storm of protest and controversy,espically in and around Birmingham where it is set. One police man took it upon himself to visit local cinemas advising them not to show this film. No doubt even before viewing the film. This police man has been traced,yet no action is to be taken against him for abusing his position of employment. We are obviously living in a POLICE STATE!!
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Name him!
01.11.2009 20:11
informer
article is too short on information, so here it is
01.11.2009 20:17
It's a movie called "1Day" about a day in the life of black drug gangs in Birmingham, UK.
And it's the Burger Bar Boys and Johnson Crew
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1268158/
http://www.1daythemovie.co.uk/
It was partly funded by Channel 4 and the National Lottery, and some parts of the right-wing press are accusing it of glamorising guns and drug gangs.
http://www.birminghammail.net/news/top-stories/2009/08/04/birmingham-gangster-film-accused-of-encouraging-gun-crime-97319-24309930/
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/128556/Gang-war-fear-as-quango-funds-hate-film/
informer
This has happened before...
02.11.2009 09:44
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOVE
The film depicts the events which led up to the Philadelphia police murdering 6 adults and 5 children who were members of MOVE by fire bombing their house.
West Midlands police but pressure on the venue (The Drum in Newtown - the national centre for Black British Arts and Culture) to provide them with the contact details for the people who were putting on the event. Presumably the police were worried about any 'upheavals' there might be from showing a film depicting police racism and brutality in a predominantly black area.
http://www.the-drum.org.uk/
Anonymous
Where is this film going to be shown?
02.11.2009 18:51
Pinkolady
Showing.. somewhere
02.11.2009 20:37
http://www.cineworld.co.uk/films/2927
Anonymous