- Title: Close To Home - Will You Come With Us
- Date: 11th March 1993
- Summary: A REPORT FROM BRISTOL-BASED HUMMINGBIRD FILMS ON THE ACTIVITIES OF LOCAL PRESSURE GROUP COMMUNITIES ORGANISED FOR A GREATER BRISTOL, WHOSE BROAD-BASED CHURCH MEMBERSHIP HAS RAISED HACKLES WITH THEIR DIRECT, CONFRONTATIONAL APPROACH TO LOCAL POLITICS. THE PROGRAMME LOOKS AT HOW THE GROUP'S ENERGETIC AMERICAN INFLUENCED STYLE OF COMMUNITY ORGANISING HAS LEFT VICTIMS LIKE CHIEF CONSTABLE DAVID SHATTOCK SMARTING FROM A PUBLIC "PINNING" AT THE COLSTON HALL, AND HOW ITS RADICAL INTERPRETATION OF THE CHRISTIAN MISSION HAS BOUGHT A NEW SENSE OF PURPOSE TO CONGREGATIONS ACROSS THE CITY. MISGUIDED IDEALISTS, RIGHTEOUS THORNS IN THE FLESH OF THE ESTABLISHMENT, OR THE WAY FORWARD FOR A MORIBUND DEMOCRATIC PROCESS - HOWEVER YOU VIEW COGB'S ACTIVITI ES, ITS MEMBERS HAVE MADE THEIR MARK ON BRISTOL - AND THEIR EXAMPLE IS SPEREADING TO OTHER CITIES, AS THIS PROGRAMME FINDS OUT.
- Description:"COMMUNITIES ORGANISED FOR A GREATER BRISTOL" HAS ATTRACTED THOUSANDS OF MEMBERS IN A COUPLE OF YEARS. IT'S A POLITICAL LOBBYING GROUP WHICH USES AMERICAN METHODS TO GET RESULTS,AND IT'S ALREADY MAKING ENEMIES AND FRIENDS
- Broadcaster:Channel 4
- Collection: Channel 4
- Genre:Documentary and Factual
- Producer:HUMMINGBIRD CAMEO FILMS LTD
- Programme Episode:Episode 1
- Transmission Date:11/03/1993
- Rights:On Request
- Decade: 1990s