Grassroots 2006         

* O = original version

1. Fates of Prague Spring  (CT/Czech Republic)
In the times of Prague Spring the Czechoslovaks trusted the communists but the betrayals and their consequences last to this day.
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Fates of Prague Spring

2. Students on the Barricades  (DR/Denmark)
1968 was an epoch-making year for students all over Europe. Violent demonstrations and street battles between the police and students hit the headlines. But just what was it that made young Europeans take to the streets in spring 1968? Was it all just sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll? We meet some of the leaders at the time and take them back to where it was all at.
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Students on Barricades

3. Nuclear Power, no thanks!  (DR/Denmark) 
A tiny Danish grass-roots group grew into a movement that triumphed over big business, the experts, and the government. They were up against all the odds, but they won the battle thanks to their irrepressible willpower and their knack of winning over the general population.
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Nuclear Power, no thanks!

4. Europe for Peace  (DR/Denmark) 
Peace movements of all shapes and sizes burgeoned in the Europe of the early 1980s. They were a reaction to the tense relations between East and West. Beneath the shadow of the nuclear arms race of the Cold War they drew in
everyone from housewives to senior academics.
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Europe for Peace

5. The Most Important Rule  (RAI/Italy)
"The most important rule", is located in the early 90's in Italy, and tells the story of "Clean Hands", an investigation and series of trials concerning political corruption which would lead to the crack down of the most important political parties in the country.
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The Most Important Rule

6. Women in Anger   (RTBF/Belgium)
In 1966 more than 3500 women workers at an arms factory went on strike for 3 months. All they wanted was ‘equal work, equal pay’.
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Women in Anger

7. Homosexuals on the Barricades; the struggle continues (Teleac/Not-Netherlands)
The Gay Movement, one of the most powerful social movements in the nation’s recent history, started its struggle after the introduction of discriminatory legislation at the beginning of the last century until, finally, it led to gay marriage. But it must take up the gauntlet again: the present generation of homosexual youngsters is facing a diminishing tolerance from the ranks of their heterosexual peers. The struggle continues.
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Homosexuals on the Barricades; the struggle continues

8. Neighbours up in Arms (TVC/Spain)
The residence associations set up by frustrated citizens in the cities became the most active, dynamic popular resistance movements in the fight against the Franco dictatorship.
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Neighbours up in Arms

9. Polish Solidarity  (TVP/Poland)
Bogdan Borusewicz, who created the trade union Solidarnosc reflects on the illusions and disillusions of the last decades.
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Polish Solidarity

10. Women's Libbers  (UR/Sweden)
Sweden is generally considered to be world leading when it comes to equality between men and women. This situation was reached during the seventies, when the position of women was strengthened through a series of political reforms. But it wasn’t the (mostly male) politicians’ keen devotion to equality issues that made it possible for “the Swedish model” to be realized.
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Women's Libbers

11. Environmental Chains   (YLE/Finland)
Since the late 1970’s, Finnish environmental movement has taken to civil disobedience and defended forests and lakes by building dams, climbing up and chaining themselves to trees singled out for felling. The environmental movement has given birth to a political party that has taken environmental issues to Parliament.
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Environmental Chains