Linton Kwesi Johnson – campaigner for rights… Few musical performers have done as much for both music and politics as he has.
Film Gallery (Archive)
Sak Pasé (The Welfare Poets)
From its monumental revolution and establishment as the first free Black nation in the Western Hemisphere, to its current crisis, Sak Pasé is a cry for liberty and freedom for a nation that has contributed so much to the world without the credit it deserves; Haiti.
We can work it out (Noa & Mira)
Interview with Noa and the Palestine singer Mira Awad recording the Beatles hit “We can work it out”, a duet included on Noa’s album Now (2002).
Could You Be Loved (Marley Family)
Ziggy Marley’s ambitious, multimedia approach reflects the multilayered ideas of Family Time. “Usually my songs mean more than one thing. Family Time is my family, your family, the world’s family.”
Exodus (Bob Marley)
We remember the brilliant and evocative music Bob Marley gave the world; music that stretches back over nearly two decades and still remains timeless and universal.
Free Mumia Abu Jamal
A meeting in London on 6 December 2007 heard the latest on the case of US political prisoner and former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal. Mumia is only 54 years old but has already spent 26 years on Death Row.
Jean Charles de Menezes – Shoot to Kill
Police were found guilty of endangering public life in a private prosecution over their killing of Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes.
Stockwell – The Shooting of Jean Charles
Burning Clouds exclusive live performance of ‘Jean Charles de Menezes’. This is a protest song written about the circumstances surrounding the murder of a 27 year old innocent man shot 7 times in the head at Stockwell tube station.