Description: The fifth edition of Tower Hamlets Video Magazine begins with a video art piece opening credit featuring a woman painting on a television set before a number of items. In 'Claimants Union' there are scenes outside Stepney Employment Exchange where members of a claimant's union are approaching people who have just signed on, giving them forms to help them claim for essential household and furniture items. At the Claimant's Union on 296 Bethnal Green Road, members discuss their campaign against snoopers and plans to mount a take up benefits claim. They also comment on attacks on the poorest in society and encourage claimants to join their campaign. The music track used over some parts of the item is Nicky Moore singing 'Mercedes Benz' (by Janis Joplin). In 'Bow Baths', children and adults are filmed using the facilities at the Bow Baths Community Centre on Sutherland Road in Bow taking part in activities including swimming, gymnastics, sewing, keep fit, and bingo. In 'Benjamin Zephaniah' the eponymous rhymer stands on a stage and reads a poem through a microphone about community police, all while wearing a policeman's cap. In 'L.D.D.C.' various campaigners speak about the London Docklands Development Corporation, its unprecedented powers to take public lands and give them to private speculators, the transfer of public money into private hands, their undemocratic nature, and their lack of local involvement and influence. The campaigners pose the Conservative Party's monetarist economic theories as the underlying ideology for