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Please excuse the lip sync - it's a problem with Ovi’s flash video conversion - I hope they can get it sorted out soon.

Shot AND edited on my Nokia N93.

"The next person to inspire me": Mrs Patel from our local Post Office, about to be closed down by incompetence and greed in government and the privatised Post Office. After 35 years of service to our community - what does she get? An OBE? No. Termination.

The Government are currently engaged in a disgraceful act of cultural vandalism. I believe that in 10-20 years - and beyond - they will be remembered for two things: The Iraq War, and the loss of the Post Offices.

For the sake of a mere £200m per year, they are closing the last remaining centres of community in thousands of towns, villages and urban neighbourhoods. This is a brief interview with Mrs Patel, who has run our Post Office for 35 years. Two posts offices within half a mile of here are closing. Seven in our Borough. (and of course thousands throughout the country.) We have a higher density of older and disabled people in this ward than anywhere else in the borough - people who will lose vital services.

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Other videos I've submitted for the Pangea Day mobile filmmaking competition. If you like them, please help me out by rating them!:

Amazing Rainbows!
> twango.com/media/PangeaDay.film/ruperthowe.10021
Angry and Loud:
> twango.com/media/PangeaDay.film/ruperthowe.10014
Obsessive Compulsive Baby:
> twango.com/media/PangeaDay.film/ruperthowe.10011
Enlightenment:
> twango.com/media/PangeaDay.film/ruperthowe.10006
The Best Part Of Today:
> twango.com/media/PangeaDay.film/ruperthowe.10003
Amy's First Time Waking Up To Snow:
> twango.com/media/PangeaDay.film/ruperthowe.10001

tags

BBC blair brown Citizen closure CULTURE day Government hope identity injustice Inspire inspiring journalism labour London movlog mrs news office offices Pangea patel politics Post pride Rupert shopkeeper time videoblog

location
London

added: 4/8/2008

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julop, 4/9/2008

hm?

ruperthowe (creative mobile filmmaking) London, United Kingdom, 4/9/2008

julop, 4/9/2008

maybe Julop talks IM: Jolly Marvelous :)

mindcaster (a mobile room with a view) Amsterdam, 4/9/2008

ahhh.... i've never seen that one before ;) tyvm!

ruperthowe (creative mobile filmmaking) London, United Kingdom, 4/9/2008

Great video. I love the film and the way you captured the story and interview on the mobile.

randellfever Atlanta, GA, 4/9/2008

thank you! wouldn't have got it otherwise - just happened to have the phone in my pocket when i called in to the PO and found the BBC crew there.

ruperthowe (creative mobile filmmaking) London, United Kingdom, 4/9/2008

Great interview

smashpop, 4/9/2008

thank you! :)

ruperthowe (creative mobile filmmaking) London, United Kingdom, 4/9/2008

This is the benefit to movlogging. Having that camera at the ready wherever you may be is invaluable. Sad story but a great vid.

davidhowell (Mobile Videoblogger) Vancouver, Canada, 4/10/2008

europa is not more that nice place to live.
very good video.

pepagarcia Viña del Mar, Valparaíso, Chile, 4/12/2008

thanks, pepa. i was reading a Harpers article this week where an American journalist was asserting that quality of life was better in Europe than the US. maybe in some parts of Europe. the parts that people like Sarkozy are trying to destroy. certainly in the UK, where we aspire to the American dream and reject European identity, everything is sacrificed in the name of productization and profit. glad i'm off to the Canadian wilderness :)

ruperthowe (creative mobile filmmaking) London, United Kingdom, 4/13/2008

That was a good interview Rupert. What a disgrace our government is. Can't say we blame you for leaving this beautiful country. Good luck with everything

Carole, 4/15/2008

Well caught , well filmed and well interviewed my friend.

Ppod, 4/16/2008