OHMS! PROTEST! Celebrating Resistance

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Overview

They were students, conscientious objectors, peace activists. Robert Reid and his activist mates set up OHMS not On Her Majesty's Service but Organisation to Halt Military Service. They began a series of creative disruptive activities up and down Aotearoa to overthrow Compulsory Military Training.

This 30 minute documentary OHMS! PROTEST! tells their entertaining stories.

It's great that Doc Edge is screening the documentary but we'd love some post production funds.

We've received no funding except what the OHMS crowd raised to pay crews and the editor. We've self funded OHMS! PROTEST!

We're a tiny team, very grateful to Graeme Cowley, Beaconsfield Films who has gifted us some of his fabulous footage from the era.

We'd love your help. Please come to Doc Edge in Auckland on 26 May and Wellington 9 June.

We're under NZ Short Films1
https://docedge.nz/films/ohms-protest-a-celebration-of-resistance/

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Rachel Brown

Excellent historical document on the success of OHMS
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20125 Days Ago

OHMS! PROTEST! A Celebration of Resistance

Kia ora to everyone who has so generously supported our campaign so far. The response is awesome and indicates our documentary celebrating overthrowing Compulsory Military Training 50 years ago, is touching hearts and minds. As teenagers, Robert Reid and Don Clarke (not The Boot of rugby fame,) lead a band of dedicated activists determined to see an end to the original boot camps, CMT.

An interesting aspect is that many young people today know little of the American war in Vietnam in the 1960s and '70s.

In our photo Geoff Woolford, who went to prison for opposing CMT, is interviewed by his granddaughter 16 year old Cara Truell for her school assignment. She says she and many of her friends know very little about the Vietnam War. She's fascinated and not just because her beloved granddad went to prison for his beliefs!