OHMS! PROTEST! Celebrating Resistance

We are all delighted we have achieved our target & more, thanks to your kindness & generosity. Robert Reid and the OHMS crowd who've seen themselves on the big screen are pleased their dedication to social justice, peace & challenging injustice, then and now, has been recognised at a documentary festival.

And now we decide where the film goes next, once we've sorted the outstanding bills. All ideas welcome. As from 19 June OHMS! PROTEST! A Celebration of Resistance can be seen at Doc Edge on line.

We will keep you posted.

Ngā mihi nui 

Anna Cottrell, producer/director, AC Productions Ltd

Tēnā koutou katoa...we have four days until the our documentary OHMS! PROTEST! A Celebration of Resistance screens at the Roxy Cinema in Miramar in Wellington on Friday 9 June @ 4pm.

Come to the Roxy to hear what students, peace activists and conscientious objectors did to challenge Compulsory Military Training back in the day. They were creative, brazen & bold!

Our fundraising continues until the end of June. From the OHMS supporters and me, grateful thanks to all those who have contributed so far.

Marty Braithwaite, who produced one of our posters was the main OHMS Christchurch organiser back in the day. He is the great nephew of Jack Braithwaite, a journalist volunteer in the First World War. See the Jack Braithwaite's tragic story in my series of Great War Stories below.

https://nzhistory.govt.nz/media/video/executed-five-great-war-story

Picture below Pikihuia Haenga filming Tame Iti & OHMS founder Robert Reid.

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!