Voices of Albion 2
Part Two of the first complete internet showing of 'Voices of Albion', originally screened at the 2007 Portobello Film Festival London Film Makers' Convention and subsequently at the 2009 'D.I.Y. Aye!' Festival at the Star and Shadow Cinema in Newcastle. The film focuses on the lineal descent of many of the Radical Counterculture revolutionary/evolutionary groups, who sprang out of the Free Festival and Rave Scenes at the tail end of the last century, from the seventeenth century Diggers and Levellers of the English Civil War Era; via such eighteenth and nineteenth century movements as the Chartists and the Luddites. The Mediaeval antecendents of the Levellers and the Diggers themselves are also looked at in the light of the ultimate inspiration that they were to give to all of these various groups; and the ideas that they espoused put into proper socio-historical perspective.
The film has been uploaded to Youtube in its complete form for the first time to mark the 365th Anniversary of the Leveller Debates at Putney Church at the close of the English Civil War, when those elements within the military arm of the Parliamentary Movement that wanted genuine political reform set out their case before the Army Council. In the years that were to follow the Levellers, and their land reforming offshoot the Diggers, were to find themselves the focus of repressive measures every bit as oppressive as those to which the Royalists had previously been subjected following the defeat of the King.
The 365th Anniversary of the original Leveller Debates is being marked by a series of discussions organized by members of the LSX Occupy Group. For more information go to:
http://thenewputneydebates.wordpress....