{"id":888,"date":"2020-10-24T19:46:20","date_gmt":"2020-10-25T02:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/?p=888"},"modified":"2020-10-24T19:46:20","modified_gmt":"2020-10-25T02:46:20","slug":"film-anti-nazi-music-documentary-white-riot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2020\/10\/24\/film-anti-nazi-music-documentary-white-riot\/","title":{"rendered":"Film: Anti-Nazi Music Documentary &#8216;White Riot&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Far-right racists were coming to power in Britain in the 1970s.  When Clapton blurted out racist ideology, and punks seemed like they could go in a bad direction, a bunch of ordinary folks who gave a damn worked up an anti-racist punk zine, organized a network of multi-racial concerts, and functioned as the heart of a broad anti-racist movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a feel-good documentary, with stressful bits about the UK far right racists.  It features performances from X-Ray Spex and the Clash!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-theme=\"dark\"><h4><a href=\"https:\/\/roxievirtualcinema.com\/main\/white-riot\">Roxie Virtual Cinema: White Riot<\/a><\/h4><p>Rock Against Racism was formed in 1976, prompted by Eric Clapton. It blends fresh interviews with archive footage to recreate a hostile environment of anti-immigrant hysteria and National Front marches.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<script async src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>There is always fussing within the arts community about artists contributing to mass movements, and whether or not it is effective to make art for a cause, and&#8230; it can work very well.  Being a part of the solution doesn&#8217;t mean you and your group have to solve everything &#8211; movements aren&#8217;t all-or-nothing.  Just being <strong>part<\/strong> of the solution moves things in a better direction.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I enjoyed this film, which&#8230; is still too topical, really.  It is great to see examples of youth organizing of the past against all the usual villains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Far-right racists were coming to power in Britain in the 1970s. When Clapton blurted out racist ideology, and punks seemed like they could go in a bad direction, a bunch of ordinary folks who gave a damn worked up an anti-racist punk zine, organized a network of multi-racial concerts, and functioned as the heart of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2020\/10\/24\/film-anti-nazi-music-documentary-white-riot\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Film: Anti-Nazi Music Documentary &#8216;White Riot&#8217;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,113],"tags":[151],"class_list":["post-888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-film","tag-anti-fascism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=888"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":890,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions\/890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}