1 00:00:17,840 --> 00:00:22,140 - No! No! No! 2 00:00:22,140 --> 00:00:23,280 - Well done! 3 00:00:30,310 --> 00:00:35,230 And there will come a time of pale, flaccid years preserved in gauze 4 00:00:35,260 --> 00:00:39,030 And to everyone, a few crumbs of happiness 5 00:00:39,070 --> 00:00:42,950 And inside everything, there will be nought but exquisite ruins 6 00:00:42,950 --> 00:00:47,690 From Profitikon ("Prophetic") by Odysseas Elytis 7 00:00:55,260 --> 00:01:02,470 Battles lost, yes, of course, there've been many 8 00:01:03,050 --> 00:01:09,890 And many are the men with their heads bowed low 9 00:01:10,840 --> 00:01:17,710 And some, of course, prefer to idly stand by 10 00:01:18,200 --> 00:01:24,050 And watch those who need defending be defeated 11 00:01:27,710 --> 00:01:33,400 But beneath the ashes the embers are burning still 12 00:01:33,440 --> 00:01:41,220 So, why wait, now that winter is dead? 13 00:01:41,220 --> 00:01:48,220 But beneath the ashes the embers are burning still 14 00:01:48,220 --> 00:01:59,800 So, why wait, now that winter is dead? 15 00:02:04,480 --> 00:02:10,940 Everything, of course, can be bought or sold 16 00:02:10,940 --> 00:02:17,510 And there are tides that nothing more can stop 17 00:02:18,980 --> 00:02:25,950 The sparkle, of course, is gone from people's eyes 18 00:02:26,280 --> 00:02:32,260 And in the lake of lost reflections lies 19 00:02:34,080 --> 00:02:40,860 But beneath the ashes the embers are burning still 20 00:02:41,790 --> 00:02:48,560 So, why wait, now that winter is dead? 21 00:02:49,630 --> 00:02:56,110 But beneath the ashes the embers are burning still 22 00:02:56,900 --> 00:03:03,270 So, why wait, now that winter is dead? 23 00:03:46,880 --> 00:03:56,380 "CONTRARY TO THE GENERAL BELIEF, HOPE EQUALS RESIGNATION. AND TO LIVE IS NOT TO RESIGN ONESELF" 24 00:03:56,380 --> 00:03:58,380 Albert Camus Noces, 1939 25 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:23,880 The people, united, shall never be defeated! 26 00:04:34,640 --> 00:04:38,400 In a straight line 2 587 km west of Greece 27 00:05:10,740 --> 00:05:13,500 Here we are at the most southerly point in Europe 28 00:05:13,500 --> 00:05:16,310 in the province of Cadiz, in the Strait of Gibraltar 29 00:05:16,550 --> 00:05:18,950 across the water from Morocco. 30 00:05:19,440 --> 00:05:23,030 At the confluence of the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. 31 00:05:23,420 --> 00:05:25,790 The wind is blowing from the south. 32 00:05:30,680 --> 00:05:33,660 For Sale 33 00:05:36,890 --> 00:05:39,670 For Sale 34 00:05:46,040 --> 00:05:50,910 Today in Spain, many people don't have anywhere to live 35 00:05:50,920 --> 00:05:56,810 or work, or money to buy food. 36 00:05:59,180 --> 00:06:01,440 CORRALA ALCOBA: OCCUPIED BY FAMILIES... 37 00:06:01,470 --> 00:06:04,400 ...DEMANDING DECENT HOUSING CONDITIONS! 38 00:06:05,140 --> 00:06:07,960 There are 150 families who occupy this place 39 00:06:07,960 --> 00:06:11,020 out of necessity, having nowhere else to go. 40 00:06:11,020 --> 00:06:13,430 Because we were kicked out of other places, 41 00:06:14,070 --> 00:06:18,450 for not being able to pay our debts or the rent. 42 00:06:29,670 --> 00:06:33,230 This house was empty for seven years 43 00:06:33,230 --> 00:06:37,900 and we put a lot of effort into restoring it, bit by bit. 44 00:06:38,280 --> 00:06:41,690 Come in and see the poverty in which we live. 45 00:06:45,040 --> 00:06:47,330 We haven't been able to get any employment 46 00:06:47,620 --> 00:06:50,390 and so, now, we're poor. 47 00:06:50,430 --> 00:06:54,300 There are thousands of other Spaniards like us. 48 00:06:58,850 --> 00:07:03,360 Here are the young children's and babies' clothes. 49 00:07:04,680 --> 00:07:08,200 Here, we have clothes for the older children and adults. 50 00:07:08,200 --> 00:07:16,460 And over here, food for the poorest people who come 51 00:07:16,460 --> 00:07:21,210 when they have nothing to eat. 52 00:07:23,310 --> 00:07:28,050 Occupying is important, but solidarity more so. 53 00:07:34,390 --> 00:07:38,320 I am not a lawyer, but I practice this profession. 54 00:07:38,320 --> 00:07:44,320 What I mean is that I don't recognize bourgeois law 55 00:07:44,320 --> 00:07:49,910 or deal with the bourgeois right to own property, or defend bourgeois institutions... 56 00:07:49,910 --> 00:07:57,610 which contradict the basic and fundamental rights necessary 57 00:07:57,610 --> 00:07:59,810 for the advancement of the people. 58 00:08:00,950 --> 00:08:04,020 Oh my god! All this because of this house! 59 00:08:04,020 --> 00:08:09,090 Because of the f***ing mortgage. Because of the f***ing mortgage! 60 00:08:11,820 --> 00:08:15,010 Shame on you! Shame on you! 61 00:08:15,010 --> 00:08:20,250 How many more deaths do you need to see? How many? 62 00:08:20,250 --> 00:08:22,370 Anyone else want to chain themselves? 63 00:08:22,370 --> 00:08:27,970 RESISTANCE! RESISTANCE! RESISTANCE! 64 00:08:27,970 --> 00:08:35,760 I act within the contradictions of an iniquitous system which passes laws 65 00:08:35,760 --> 00:08:47,830 in complete disregard for the freedoms, lives and needs of the people 66 00:08:47,830 --> 00:08:51,590 and specifically, here, today, in the context of housing 67 00:08:51,590 --> 00:08:55,580 in other words, the right to have a decent place to live 68 00:08:55,580 --> 00:08:58,840 to be creative and bring up one's children 69 00:08:58,840 --> 00:09:05,450 and the right to not be evicted, to not be kicked out on to the street 70 00:09:05,450 --> 00:09:11,050 without protection, while being treated with total indifference by the public and media. 71 00:09:25,800 --> 00:09:27,280 - How many people are there, here? 72 00:09:27,280 --> 00:09:29,280 - Why do you obey such orders? 73 00:09:36,270 --> 00:09:38,510 - Is the only thing she has... 74 00:09:38,680 --> 00:09:45,110 - Get out your identity cards! Identity card, identity card, identity card, identity card… 75 00:09:45,110 --> 00:09:47,880 - All this for a f***ing rotten house! 76 00:09:47,880 --> 00:09:52,110 - Murderers! Murderers! 77 00:09:56,770 --> 00:09:58,680 No! There are solutions! 78 00:09:59,970 --> 00:10:03,310 Stop the evictions. No more suicides. 79 00:10:11,540 --> 00:10:17,540 "THE ONLY WAY TO SAVE YOURSELF IS TO ENDEAVOUR TO SAVE THE OTHERS" 80 00:10:17,790 --> 00:10:19,790 Nikos Kazantzakis, Alexis Zorba, 1946 81 00:10:20,190 --> 00:10:26,760 The fundamental truth about life is that it's a fight. 82 00:10:28,290 --> 00:10:31,620 To live... is to fight 83 00:10:35,700 --> 00:10:41,210 No to institutional violence! 84 00:10:57,790 --> 00:11:04,810 The fact that in Greece they have had so many general strikes and demonstrations in the street 85 00:11:04,810 --> 00:11:12,160 has encouraged many other workers in Europe to follow the same path 86 00:11:12,160 --> 00:11:22,710 THE PASSIONATE LOVE FOR LIBERTY IS STRONGER THAN ALL THEIR CHAINS ! 87 00:11:31,630 --> 00:11:34,800 Your attention, your attention! This is the police! 88 00:11:34,800 --> 00:11:38,590 The manifestation must go back down the avenue! 89 00:11:43,010 --> 00:11:47,130 NEWS: A battle in the streets of Barcelona. 90 00:12:11,370 --> 00:12:14,820 Resistance, resistance, resistance! 91 00:12:14,830 --> 00:12:16,970 BANK EXPROPRIATED 92 00:13:25,010 --> 00:13:28,350 You pick up a stone that no one has ever touched... 93 00:13:28,510 --> 00:13:29,600 Can you imagine that? 94 00:13:29,600 --> 00:13:32,150 A virginal stone just for you until the end of time! 95 00:13:32,150 --> 00:13:34,490 Adulterous relationships with stones you've just married 96 00:13:34,490 --> 00:13:36,800 well, that's rare, yes, that's very, very rare indeed. 97 00:13:36,800 --> 00:13:38,600 A stone will stick to you, the way stars do. 98 00:13:38,600 --> 00:13:41,260 Have you ever seen any of your stars running off with somebody else 99 00:13:41,260 --> 00:13:43,470 to a galaxy that just happens to be passing by? 100 00:13:43,470 --> 00:13:46,270 You watch a heather cock strutting along and it scares you 101 00:13:46,270 --> 00:13:48,840 because the noise a heather cock makes 102 00:13:48,840 --> 00:13:51,550 when you're holding a stone untouched by human hand 103 00:13:51,550 --> 00:13:53,810 well, the noise is just fantastic! 104 00:13:53,810 --> 00:13:56,760 It goes "Foooh, floooh!" 105 00:13:56,760 --> 00:14:01,840 Like Czerny. Listen. "Bang, bang, bang, bang!" 106 00:14:01,840 --> 00:14:02,840 What a rotten swine! 107 00:14:02,850 --> 00:14:07,530 Suddenly, you see a spring not far from a glacier, and wild flowers. 108 00:14:07,530 --> 00:14:09,010 It really makes you wonder... Harlem? 109 00:14:09,010 --> 00:14:10,760 You talk and talk? Oh, do you think so? 110 00:14:10,760 --> 00:14:12,800 The black flowers of debauchery and anarchy. 111 00:14:12,800 --> 00:14:16,260 No, the black flowers of the Love-stone! 112 00:14:16,270 --> 00:14:17,270 And the method? 113 00:14:17,270 --> 00:14:20,240 Learn everything off by heart, especially people's mugs. 114 00:14:20,240 --> 00:14:22,880 And then, forget everything, immediately, like at school. 115 00:14:22,880 --> 00:14:24,880 - Did you learn your grammar-mug lesson today? 116 00:14:24,880 --> 00:14:25,330 - Yep! 117 00:14:25,330 --> 00:14:26,330 - So? 118 00:14:26,330 --> 00:14:27,330 - Oh, it's an old-looking mug. 119 00:14:27,330 --> 00:14:28,330 - How does it go? 120 00:14:28,330 --> 00:14:32,600 - I love you. You love me. I love. I love. I love. 121 00:14:48,910 --> 00:14:56,660 Crete has a history of resisting all of its oppressors. 122 00:14:56,880 --> 00:15:01,200 The Cretan people have fought for their freedom 123 00:15:01,390 --> 00:15:05,480 against anyone trying to conquer their land. 124 00:15:06,060 --> 00:15:08,500 This should be remembered once and for all ! 125 00:15:28,640 --> 00:15:31,230 Under thick snow, the seeds are buried 126 00:15:34,890 --> 00:15:40,230 At the edge of the courtyard, the ill wind stops blowing 127 00:15:42,430 --> 00:15:47,090 And if we are left naked and surrounded by wolves 128 00:15:49,110 --> 00:15:52,440 Our decision to fight perseveres. 129 00:15:52,820 --> 00:15:59,320 Our decision to fight perseveres. 130 00:15:59,850 --> 00:16:08,970 The tree burns. 131 00:16:10,750 --> 00:16:20,320 And if the tree burns... 132 00:16:20,360 --> 00:16:22,120 "FOR RENT" 133 00:16:22,150 --> 00:16:25,200 RETHYMNON COUNTY COUNCIL, CRETE 134 00:16:25,240 --> 00:16:30,290 DON'T MAKE ANY PLANS. THEY'LL ONLY STAY ON PAPER. 135 00:16:30,930 --> 00:16:34,560 THE CRETANS HAVE WOKEN UP: TREMBLE YOU MULTINATIONALS! 136 00:17:06,760 --> 00:17:10,050 They are taking over our land and water. 137 00:17:11,790 --> 00:17:17,380 They arrest our children and handcuff the old folk. 138 00:17:17,420 --> 00:17:23,090 They shoot wild birds, in particular the golden eagles. 139 00:17:36,640 --> 00:17:41,970 We are in Palaia Roumata, a village in the region of Chania in Crete. 140 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:44,790 This is the library. 141 00:17:44,830 --> 00:17:54,150 It was created by the villagers themselves in 1944. 142 00:17:54,180 --> 00:18:02,190 Whether a forest is destroyed in the Amazon, or in France at Sivens… 143 00:18:02,230 --> 00:18:06,900 or Nantes, or in Italy at Val de Suza 144 00:18:06,930 --> 00:18:11,950 or in Chalcidiki, or here in Crete at Apopigadi 145 00:18:11,980 --> 00:18:17,250 well, trees produce oxygen for everyone. They're gifts for all humanity. 146 00:18:17,500 --> 00:18:21,300 So, we should cherish all this, the trees, the mountains and the water. 147 00:18:22,360 --> 00:18:25,500 Hundreds of sites have been opened in the mountains of Crete 148 00:18:27,370 --> 00:18:30,680 to produce 6 times more energy than the people of the island actually need. 149 00:18:30,680 --> 00:18:33,610 Giant Wind Turbine Sites in Western Crete 150 00:18:33,610 --> 00:18:35,800 Giant Wind Turbine Sites in West Central Crete 151 00:18:35,830 --> 00:18:38,260 Giant Wind Turbine Sites in North Central Crete 152 00:18:38,290 --> 00:18:41,020 Giant Wind Turbine Sites in South Central Crete 153 00:18:41,050 --> 00:18:43,650 Giant Wind Turbine Sites in East Central Crete 154 00:18:43,680 --> 00:18:45,760 Giant Wind Turbine Sites in the East of Crete 155 00:18:46,840 --> 00:18:51,000 They are destroying large tracts of flowers and other plants… 156 00:18:51,030 --> 00:18:57,320 …necessary for bees to survive and produce honey. 157 00:18:57,360 --> 00:19:03,860 At this rate, beekeeping and breeding will be plagued by catastrophe. 158 00:19:03,900 --> 00:19:11,180 We won't be able to water our crops, for instance our chestnut trees, because what they're after is our water. 159 00:19:12,640 --> 00:19:15,100 The water in Apopigadi is for everyone. 160 00:19:15,140 --> 00:19:19,300 We use it to water the village's chestnut trees and produce these chestnuts. 161 00:19:19,340 --> 00:19:25,220 As you can see behind me, this water is for everyone, free of charge. 162 00:19:26,310 --> 00:19:28,450 People use it to water the trees. 163 00:19:30,220 --> 00:19:32,210 Now, come and taste this water. 164 00:19:43,120 --> 00:19:46,970 We believe that green development is one of humanity's as well as nature's worst enemies… 165 00:19:47,010 --> 00:19:50,530 because it comes down to the privatization of nature 166 00:19:50,560 --> 00:19:53,660 while posing as its protector. 167 00:19:58,040 --> 00:20:05,380 These companies tend to spread death with their radioactive waste in third world countries. 168 00:20:05,410 --> 00:20:11,140 They invest in giant wind turbines with public money. 169 00:20:11,790 --> 00:20:15,280 Each turbine costs €1million. 170 00:20:15,320 --> 00:20:21,250 In addition, electricity is sold back to us at twice its original price. 171 00:20:21,880 --> 00:20:25,840 Yet, we can be autonomous when it comes to electricity. 172 00:20:26,620 --> 00:20:31,020 Anyone here can have an autonomous system to live on. 173 00:20:37,600 --> 00:20:49,910 70 years after the Nazi occupation, this French company has come to take our water and our land. 174 00:20:49,940 --> 00:20:51,640 They evict us from our own land. 175 00:20:51,670 --> 00:20:56,690 For instance, here, on our mountain, in Spina, a hamlet of just two people, 176 00:20:56,780 --> 00:21:01,720 200 police officers were sent to arrest and handcuff a 90 year-old man! 177 00:21:09,560 --> 00:21:16,110 In just one night they intruded and took over the land 178 00:21:16,150 --> 00:21:24,550 that was passed down to me by my father as it was passed down to him by his own father and so on. 179 00:21:24,590 --> 00:21:31,080 Our children were on an excursion up the mountain when police officers were sent to stop them. 180 00:21:31,120 --> 00:21:35,880 They told the children: "You are not allowed up there. It is a restricted area belonging to the company". 181 00:21:38,620 --> 00:21:44,630 Yannis, we may not be rich but we have brave hearts! 182 00:21:44,670 --> 00:21:50,350 These gentlemen that have come here in a most insidious and malevolent fashion 183 00:21:50,380 --> 00:21:57,320 ought to understand that their plans won't succeed. 184 00:21:57,320 --> 00:22:06,870 They will not win just like the Ottomans, the Nazis and every other oppressor failed to take over Crete. 185 00:22:07,270 --> 00:22:15,020 Today's oppressors who come here with their "Trojan Horse" of green development shall not succeed. 186 00:22:15,050 --> 00:22:22,090 When the time comes they won't know how to get out fast enough! 187 00:22:22,710 --> 00:22:28,330 For how long will our children die because of lies? 188 00:22:28,670 --> 00:22:33,410 For how long will their dreams be wiped out? 189 00:22:33,450 --> 00:22:39,970 For how long will this life of brutality continue? 190 00:22:40,010 --> 00:22:45,840 For how long will this era of State terrorism go on? 191 00:22:45,870 --> 00:22:50,520 Enough! Enough! 192 00:22:51,350 --> 00:22:54,160 This is the last straw! 193 00:23:05,870 --> 00:23:09,480 Grapes from Apopigadi! Here, have a taste before we make raki out of them. 194 00:23:10,960 --> 00:23:15,770 Cheers! Down with "Green Development"! 195 00:23:15,800 --> 00:23:18,420 Cheers! We won't give up the fight! 196 00:23:18,420 --> 00:23:20,330 We'll fight as long as we have to! 197 00:23:21,780 --> 00:23:25,460 We're here at our village cooperative (Palaia Roumata). 198 00:23:25,490 --> 00:23:29,660 We're trying to improve the quality of our lives without bosses by working cooperatively. 199 00:23:29,690 --> 00:23:42,110 We produce food. The main ingredients are produced in our village like honey, milk and olive oil. 200 00:23:42,150 --> 00:23:51,840 We also create folk art, such as textiles which we try to produce by ourselves. 201 00:23:54,670 --> 00:23:58,890 Life hungers for the fight 202 00:23:58,930 --> 00:24:04,510 Life hungers for the fight and the soul hungers for songs 203 00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:10,520 And the soul hungers for songs 204 00:24:10,560 --> 00:24:15,300 Like the flowers of May which bloom on our lands in the sun. 205 00:24:21,410 --> 00:24:30,160 We are in the south of Crete, in a village called Pirgos where we have to deal with several agricultural problems. 206 00:24:30,200 --> 00:24:34,260 Overdependence on pesticides, fertilizers and chemicals 207 00:24:34,290 --> 00:24:42,310 has poisoned our food, our health, our land and our underground water tables. 208 00:24:42,340 --> 00:24:46,200 Our response is to set a good example. 209 00:24:46,240 --> 00:24:53,910 We cultivate local seeds, seeds that are as free as we are. 210 00:24:53,940 --> 00:25:00,160 They do not need much water and require no fertilizers or pesticides. 211 00:25:00,270 --> 00:25:05,930 We give out these seeds to whoever asks for them. 212 00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:10,700 And when the flower blooms 213 00:25:10,730 --> 00:25:13,630 And when the flower blooms 214 00:25:14,130 --> 00:25:16,720 Its perfume will spread all around 215 00:25:22,530 --> 00:25:24,530 Its perfume will spread all around 216 00:25:25,730 --> 00:25:27,450 Its perfume will spread all around 217 00:25:27,480 --> 00:25:33,460 The eagle flies high and cannot be put in a cage 218 00:25:35,460 --> 00:25:40,860 Why buy salt at the supermarket when we are next to the beach 219 00:25:40,900 --> 00:25:44,370 and can collect salt in a natural way? 220 00:25:46,710 --> 00:25:53,760 These seeds were passed on to us by our ancestors from time immemorial. 221 00:25:53,800 --> 00:25:59,520 We can taste the past through them. They are different from new strains. 222 00:25:59,550 --> 00:26:04,280 They have a real aroma and real colours. It's a different quality of life. 223 00:26:04,310 --> 00:26:15,030 We won't allow supermarkets and fast food chains to determine what is going to nourish our body. 224 00:26:16,570 --> 00:26:19,020 This is roquette. It's delicious in salads. 225 00:26:21,460 --> 00:26:28,260 The same freedom we desire for our minds, we should desire for our bodies. Because we are what we eat. 226 00:26:28,300 --> 00:26:39,880 This olive is edible. You can eat it with a little salt and it is really delicious. The olive oil we make from it is extraordinary. 227 00:26:41,060 --> 00:26:49,400 Come on, let's go home and eat! You have to try this olive oil, alright? 228 00:26:51,640 --> 00:26:58,960 Come one and all, in this world, our quest is to find meaning 229 00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:04,390 To find meaning 230 00:27:04,430 --> 00:27:09,500 To open up the horizon and be free 231 00:27:09,500 --> 00:27:13,060 The island of Paros (Cyclades) 232 00:27:14,820 --> 00:27:19,030 NO TO THE PRIVATIZATION OF OUR COASTS! 233 00:27:19,030 --> 00:27:27,560 This beach at Piso Aliki is on sale, though you can see children coming here every day. 234 00:27:27,570 --> 00:27:33,430 If people are excluded from the beach, where will the children and the poor go from now on to swim? 235 00:27:33,430 --> 00:27:40,130 This beach is of vital importance not only for the people here but also for visitors. 236 00:27:59,750 --> 00:28:07,380 This is the coastal area of Agios Nikolaos: more than 66 000 square meters of it on sale! 237 00:28:07,410 --> 00:28:16,160 How much are they going to get? If they sell it at the same price they sold the coasts of Rhodes, they won't even make a million euros! 238 00:28:25,260 --> 00:28:32,200 This situation is catastrophic from every point of view whether it be human, economic, or in terms of Greece's tourism policy 239 00:28:32,230 --> 00:28:41,540 because tourists, the people who come here, what they love is that spontaneity, that wildlife you can still find everywhere 240 00:28:41,580 --> 00:28:48,020 Deep down, I think that's what the Greeks are like, intrinsic and rather libertarian, and people love that. 241 00:28:48,050 --> 00:28:54,590 So, we have to keep on fighting to try and avoid this catastrophe. 242 00:29:12,630 --> 00:29:16,220 "PROMISING WEALTH WHILE PRODUCING POVERY IS ABSURD. 243 00:29:16,220 --> 00:29:20,120 THE OCCIDENTAL DEVELOPING MODEL HAS ARRIVED TO A CRITICAL POINT. 244 00:29:20,120 --> 00:29:23,560 ALL AROUND THE WORLD NEW BLOCKS OF A NEW CREATIVE THINKING APPEAR" 245 00:29:23,560 --> 00:29:26,120 Serge Latouche, Décoloniser l'imaginaire, 2005 246 00:29:54,120 --> 00:29:58,670 Here in Barcelona, a lot of people support the local citizens' initiatives. 247 00:29:58,670 --> 00:30:01,210 The best example today is Can Vies. 248 00:30:01,210 --> 00:30:05,860 Can Vies, in the Sants neighbourhood, has been an occupied for the past 17 years. 249 00:30:05,900 --> 00:30:11,620 Recently, the police tried to pull it down with excavators. 250 00:30:17,820 --> 00:30:21,560 IF CAN VIES COMES DOWN, THERE'LL BE ALL-OUT WAR IN THIS TOWN 251 00:30:46,270 --> 00:30:51,230 The way neighbours here and in other parts of the city reacted was exemplary. 252 00:30:51,230 --> 00:30:56,290 Very young children and senior citizens went to Can Vies 253 00:30:56,300 --> 00:31:03,190 in order to help rebuild it and stop the totally unjustified evictions. 254 00:31:50,050 --> 00:31:57,920 I find it particularly moving that children should have participated in the reconstruction of Can Vies 255 00:31:57,920 --> 00:32:02,070 not only because we're trying to save the world for our children 256 00:32:02,100 --> 00:32:04,940 since they're the ones who'll be taking it over from us 257 00:32:04,970 --> 00:32:09,210 but also because Can Vies is a space specially dedicated to everyone in the neighbourhood 258 00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:11,810 including children and senior citizens. 259 00:32:21,930 --> 00:32:26,550 "REVOLUTION WILL BE THE BLOOM OF HUMANITY AS LOVE WILL BE THE BLOOM OF THE HEART." 260 00:32:26,550 --> 00:32:30,110 Louise Michel Mémoires, 1886 261 00:32:31,120 --> 00:32:33,320 HANDS OFF CAN VIES DEFEND OUR NEIGHBOURHOODS 262 00:32:43,530 --> 00:32:45,760 DEFEND OUR NEIGHBOURHOODS 263 00:32:45,800 --> 00:32:48,880 STOP THE EVICTIONS 264 00:32:48,910 --> 00:32:51,880 HANDS OFF CAN VIES 265 00:33:09,970 --> 00:33:17,340 There are often demonstrations in all parts of Barcelona in support of Can Vies with a lot of people coming along. 266 00:33:17,370 --> 00:33:22,930 And not just in Barcelona, but in other towns, too. 267 00:33:34,640 --> 00:33:38,610 Bank of Catalonia 268 00:33:38,610 --> 00:33:40,770 Incivility will pay your fare! 269 00:33:44,760 --> 00:33:46,490 BEWARE OF BANKER GANGSTERS! 270 00:34:26,389 --> 00:34:28,959 I love walking through the streets of Barcelona. 271 00:34:28,989 --> 00:34:39,039 Looking at all the graffiti, we can see the traces of the people's struggles and the involvement of the citizens. 272 00:34:39,070 --> 00:34:46,300 I like the graffiti a lot and the fact that there is space for all different types of graffiti. 273 00:34:46,340 --> 00:34:54,740 There's a lot of anarchist, communist, environmentalist, feminist, antifascist graffiti 274 00:34:54,770 --> 00:35:00,200 and even political graffiti from parties like Podemos or more revolutionary ones. 275 00:35:00,230 --> 00:35:08,360 Obviously, the Indignants Movement is well represented, as it left an undying mark on the walls of the city. 276 00:35:08,360 --> 00:35:10,690 FASCISM WILL GAIN GROUND IF WE DO NOT FIGHT IT 277 00:35:10,690 --> 00:35:12,390 Not one step back. 278 00:35:12,390 --> 00:35:13,990 NEVER FORGIVE, NEVER FORGET 279 00:35:13,990 --> 00:35:14,960 Clement, Sonia, Ruger, Guillem, Yolanda, Pedro, Carlos, Aitor... 280 00:35:14,960 --> 00:35:19,080 States and governments are stepping up the use of repression 281 00:35:19,110 --> 00:35:22,720 against anyone trying to build a different, alternative system. 282 00:35:22,750 --> 00:35:26,680 Anarchists, anarcho-syndicalists and other opponents of the present system 283 00:35:26,720 --> 00:35:30,550 are arrested on suspicion and jailed. 284 00:35:30,580 --> 00:35:35,720 We get fined, and they close down our social centres and premises. 285 00:35:35,760 --> 00:35:41,260 The only answer the police, the states and governments have got is repression. 286 00:35:41,290 --> 00:35:45,940 As opposed to this, what we want is a new society based on construction and freedom. 287 00:35:58,220 --> 00:36:06,220 Jerez de la Frontera (Andalusia, Spain) 288 00:36:18,600 --> 00:36:24,160 Occupation of a Job Centre 289 00:36:46,900 --> 00:36:51,940 Activists put on a show in a bank 290 00:36:55,930 --> 00:37:00,610 dressed as business men with pig snouts swilling up money 291 00:37:14,670 --> 00:37:17,870 with the complicity of the alternative media... 292 00:37:24,840 --> 00:37:29,430 MARCH, MARCH FOR DIGNITY! 293 00:37:29,440 --> 00:37:32,880 March 22nd 2014, the March for Dignity converges on Madrid 294 00:37:37,190 --> 00:37:45,410 Most international press agencies announce the presence of "several thousands demonstrators" when in fact there are two million people in the streets. 295 00:37:46,860 --> 00:37:51,840 At nightfall, police violence flares in an effort to scatter the angry crowds. 296 00:37:59,770 --> 00:38:02,620 Recipe for a “Paving Stone in Your Face”. 297 00:38:02,820 --> 00:38:09,180 Frenetically overfill shelves with essentials that can be replaced tomorrow anyway 298 00:38:09,380 --> 00:38:12,400 Side streets full to the gills of trash cans, 299 00:38:12,850 --> 00:38:19,120 and this desire to find what is truly precious inside ourselves alone 300 00:38:20,350 --> 00:38:27,290 To all of this add a few factories full to the gills of laid-off faces and closures, 301 00:38:27,390 --> 00:38:30,450 plus a few profiteers above the abyss Calculating how much money they'd make 302 00:38:30,650 --> 00:38:35,080 And the need to live together without crushing each other, To love without calculating 303 00:38:35,280 --> 00:38:38,710 And that impetuous need to brandish paving stones 304 00:38:40,260 --> 00:38:46,030 Season the dish with neighbourhoods full to the gills of uninhabited buildings Set aside for business-dealings 305 00:38:46,030 --> 00:38:49,010 Housing estates full to the gills of evicted people, old folks, kids 306 00:38:49,120 --> 00:38:53,450 And the emergency that requires us to think our destinies differently And to live life to the full, finally 307 00:38:53,490 --> 00:38:57,240 And as an absolute matter of urgency, to throw these paving stones 308 00:38:58,900 --> 00:39:04,700 Next, let all this brew interminably until it becomes intolerable Add some lies and a few compromises 309 00:39:04,800 --> 00:39:09,130 Let the pot simmer until it reaches boiling point, If it spills over a little, then, 310 00:39:09,170 --> 00:39:12,610 throw in a few grenades, helmets and shields 311 00:39:12,670 --> 00:39:17,640 Scream “Terrorism!” Shout “Get the scum!” And hold up the banner of Absolute Common Sense 312 00:39:17,840 --> 00:39:22,400 Survival of the fitest and the Danger of Things Getting out of Hand 313 00:39:31,360 --> 00:39:34,940 And then, watch us laughing at this circus 314 00:39:35,040 --> 00:39:39,500 With the sun in our eyes and our paving stones flung at this masquerade 315 00:39:39,700 --> 00:39:42,500 Our emancipation rising up to form barricades 316 00:39:42,700 --> 00:39:45,270 The dazzling flag of fraternity 317 00:39:46,720 --> 00:39:50,080 Long live Life! Long live the Struggle! 318 00:39:59,160 --> 00:40:03,170 We say that it’s not “a crisis”, but a fraud. 319 00:40:03,230 --> 00:40:06,060 First of all, it’s a political fraud. 320 00:40:06,260 --> 00:40:09,030 Democracy, as it exists today, 321 00:40:09,030 --> 00:40:12,250 has been hijacked by a minority, 322 00:40:12,250 --> 00:40:14,660 who control everything and decide things in our place. 323 00:40:14,660 --> 00:40:16,310 The people don’t decide. 324 00:40:16,510 --> 00:40:18,680 It’s also an economic fraud. 325 00:40:18,880 --> 00:40:22,390 In a country where wealth is in the hands of a few, 326 00:40:22,490 --> 00:40:25,950 the majority are living in conditions approaching poverty. 327 00:40:26,780 --> 00:40:28,500 It’s also a social fraud. 328 00:40:29,010 --> 00:40:32,000 We live in a society which is constantly more reppressive, 329 00:40:32,200 --> 00:40:33,570 where the police, 330 00:40:33,770 --> 00:40:36,640 those watchdogs of the state and the establishment, 331 00:40:36,840 --> 00:40:38,660 repress us continuously. 332 00:40:38,860 --> 00:40:40,940 It’s also an ecological fraud 333 00:40:41,140 --> 00:40:46,820 in which industrial complexes and hotels have been created. 334 00:40:46,840 --> 00:40:48,380 This is how with every new day 335 00:40:48,480 --> 00:40:53,880 we are losing the chance to enjoy the natural beauty which we have here in the south of Spain. 336 00:40:57,060 --> 00:41:02,560 "THE INCORRUPTIBLE SOLUTIONS ARE NEIGHT. THE HEAVENS BUILT UPON HELLS ARE TOTTERING. 337 00:41:02,560 --> 00:41:05,600 IT'S THE PEOPLE COMING, I TELL YOU, IT'S MANKIND RISING." 338 00:41:05,600 --> 00:41:07,600 Victor Hugo The man who laughs, 1869 339 00:41:07,600 --> 00:41:14,260 Good friends, can you hear all the vultures feasting on our world? 340 00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:22,910 Can you hear, good friends, the cities answering back one by one? 341 00:41:25,490 --> 00:41:32,130 Hey, mankind, let’s join hearts and hands now, the alarm is ringing! 342 00:41:34,380 --> 00:41:41,970 Soon their arrogance will know our resistance and it's doom 343 00:41:43,240 --> 00:42:16,770 [bis] 344 00:42:18,900 --> 00:42:20,970 One memory that seriously upset me 345 00:42:21,170 --> 00:42:23,940 was an article in a Greek newspaper 346 00:42:24,140 --> 00:42:27,200 entitled “I won’t be coming back for Ana’. 347 00:42:27,400 --> 00:42:29,550 It was about a little 5-year-old girl 348 00:42:29,590 --> 00:42:31,450 who was waiting for her mother, 349 00:42:32,480 --> 00:42:34,860 but the mother wouldn’t be coming back. 350 00:42:35,060 --> 00:42:40,370 The little girl took a paper out of her pocket and showed it to the childcare workers. 351 00:42:41,500 --> 00:42:44,080 On this paper, her mother had written: 352 00:42:44,280 --> 00:42:46,320 “I won’t be coming back for Ana. 353 00:42:46,520 --> 00:42:49,140 I can’t afford to raise her. Forgive me.” 354 00:42:49,840 --> 00:42:56,410 The little girl was then taken to the SOS Children’s Village in Athens. 355 00:42:57,410 --> 00:43:02,710 This type of minor incident happens a lot in Greece. 356 00:43:02,910 --> 00:43:07,000 We hear about children fainting from hunger in schools, 357 00:43:07,200 --> 00:43:09,750 sure enough, but this is tragic... 358 00:43:09,950 --> 00:43:14,120 ...a mother putting a note in her daughter’s pocket, which says: 359 00:43:14,320 --> 00:43:19,180 “I won’t be coming back for Ana. I can’t afford to raise her.” 360 00:43:21,100 --> 00:43:25,900 Athens, Greece What’s going to happen to us now? 361 00:43:26,100 --> 00:43:31,500 What else could happen in this circle of hell we have to share? 362 00:43:31,790 --> 00:43:36,500 It could happen tomorrow. What else could come after? 363 00:43:36,700 --> 00:43:41,780 Let’s follow our dreams and never sink down. 364 00:43:41,980 --> 00:43:45,890 Oh, Freedom! Freedom divine! 365 00:43:46,090 --> 00:43:50,480 I want to get out, but no one will open the door for me. 366 00:43:50,680 --> 00:43:54,290 Oh, Freedom! Freedom divine! 367 00:43:54,490 --> 00:43:59,170 I want to leave, but the door won’t open. 368 00:43:59,370 --> 00:44:02,990 My NO vote, as well as that of my friends 369 00:44:03,190 --> 00:44:06,530 is a NO to the policies 370 00:44:06,730 --> 00:44:11,080 of Merkel, Christine Lagarde, Schäuble. 371 00:44:11,280 --> 00:44:15,090 NO to all of their policies. 372 00:44:15,290 --> 00:44:16,910 I am given the opportunity, 373 00:44:17,110 --> 00:44:20,880 so I say NO, because I can no longer bear this situation. 374 00:44:20,980 --> 00:44:24,340 It does not mean I’m giving my support to anything or anyone else. 375 00:44:24,540 --> 00:44:28,900 It’s just my NO, NO to the this situation. 376 00:44:30,850 --> 00:44:33,440 If the planet were a bank, they’d have saved it. 377 00:44:34,960 --> 00:44:37,030 THERE IS NO € IN FREEDOM 378 00:44:45,350 --> 00:44:49,830 We are going to take a rigorous 379 00:44:50,040 --> 00:44:53,010 close look at the debts that today, 380 00:44:53,520 --> 00:44:57,470 Greece is being forced to pay back. 381 00:45:03,270 --> 00:45:05,280 Let’s make things perfectly clear. 382 00:45:05,280 --> 00:45:07,010 All the debts that the European Troika 383 00:45:07,010 --> 00:45:09,210 demand to be paid back are illegitimate, 384 00:45:09,410 --> 00:45:12,410 illegal, unbearable and despicable. 385 00:45:12,410 --> 00:45:15,450 I’m not talking about a part of the debts: I’m talking about all of them. 386 00:45:15,450 --> 00:45:18,650 Because all of the European Troika’s loans 387 00:45:20,890 --> 00:45:22,650 were granted under conditions 388 00:45:22,650 --> 00:45:22,650 which represent more than 80% of the Greek government’s debts, were granted under conditions 389 00:45:22,650 --> 00:45:23,340 were granted under conditions 390 00:45:23,540 --> 00:45:25,830 that explicitly violate 391 00:45:25,830 --> 00:45:28,350 a whole series of international conventions 392 00:45:28,350 --> 00:45:30,630 designed to protect the people’s rights. 393 00:45:30,880 --> 00:45:31,950 So, we cannot say 394 00:45:31,950 --> 00:45:34,000 that a debt is only half illegitimate 395 00:45:34,000 --> 00:45:35,860 if in fact it is wholly illegitimate. 396 00:45:35,860 --> 00:45:37,440 The debt is not half illegal. 397 00:45:37,440 --> 00:45:38,780 It is illegal, period. 398 00:45:39,030 --> 00:45:41,510 We cannot say of a crime 399 00:45:41,710 --> 00:45:43,040 that it is a half crime. 400 00:45:43,240 --> 00:45:45,670 A crime has been committed here, 401 00:45:45,870 --> 00:45:48,350 in violation of fundamental Human Rights 402 00:45:48,550 --> 00:45:50,350 and it follows that this crime 403 00:45:50,440 --> 00:45:52,010 must be severely punished. 404 00:45:52,460 --> 00:45:56,080 We have to turn the situation by throwing 405 00:45:56,080 --> 00:45:59,080 the boomerang of debt back at the heads 406 00:45:59,080 --> 00:46:00,480 of the criminal creditors. 407 00:46:01,480 --> 00:46:06,480 "RESOLVE TO SERVE NO MORE, AND YOU ARE AT ONCE FREED." 408 00:46:06,480 --> 00:46:10,480 Etienne de la Boétie The Politics of Obedience, 1548 409 00:46:55,140 --> 00:46:58,260 Fight capital with a SOCIAL WAR 410 00:46:58,460 --> 00:47:02,040 The road to Utopia: Marinaleda 411 00:47:22,160 --> 00:47:23,780 Here we are in Marinaleda, 412 00:47:24,030 --> 00:47:26,910 a village built out of our struggle 413 00:47:27,110 --> 00:47:29,170 and land occupations. 414 00:47:29,370 --> 00:47:32,310 Here, as you can see, we are very peaceful, 415 00:47:32,510 --> 00:47:34,520 there’s no police. 416 00:47:34,720 --> 00:47:36,490 The village is legendary 417 00:47:36,690 --> 00:47:38,610 for its struggle and its achievements. 418 00:47:52,130 --> 00:47:54,700 There can be no country without farm workers 419 00:48:24,310 --> 00:48:26,970 Today, at 5:30pm, General Assembly 420 00:48:26,970 --> 00:48:30,240 at the Union headquarters! 421 00:48:32,350 --> 00:48:35,490 We’ve been having assemblies in Marinaleda 422 00:48:37,490 --> 00:48:40,000 for the past 30 years. 423 00:48:42,240 --> 00:48:45,430 Part of our struggle here, 424 00:48:45,670 --> 00:48:50,000 is to take all sorts of decisions together… 425 00:48:50,000 --> 00:48:54,050 ...whether they be about working at Humoso, 426 00:48:54,050 --> 00:48:56,470 our co-operative, or about the union, 427 00:48:56,670 --> 00:48:59,430 about the struggles to be fought in the village 428 00:48:59,430 --> 00:49:02,660 or about whatever it is we need. We discuss everything. 429 00:49:02,860 --> 00:49:05,000 People come to give their opinion. 430 00:49:05,200 --> 00:49:09,290 If a decision has to be made, we vote 431 00:49:09,490 --> 00:49:15,410 and so, it’s a majority decision. 432 00:49:15,730 --> 00:49:18,560 Today, at 5:30pm, General Assembly 433 00:49:18,780 --> 00:49:20,150 at the Union Headquarters! 434 00:49:27,650 --> 00:49:29,790 A UTOPIA 435 00:49:30,080 --> 00:49:32,390 ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE 436 00:49:32,860 --> 00:49:35,600 I FIGHT THEREFORE I AM 437 00:49:35,890 --> 00:49:39,660 SOLIDARITY WITH THE PEOPLE OF IERISSOS 438 00:49:40,200 --> 00:49:43,920 I think that there are a lot of similarities 439 00:49:44,120 --> 00:49:46,080 between what is happening in Greece and here, 440 00:49:46,080 --> 00:49:49,050 from many points of view… 441 00:49:49,250 --> 00:49:52,090 …because here, like there 442 00:49:52,290 --> 00:49:55,000 we have a neo-liberal conservative system 443 00:49:55,200 --> 00:49:57,980 that makes the rich richer and the poor poorer. 444 00:49:58,180 --> 00:50:02,220 It also affects the middle classes. 445 00:50:02,420 --> 00:50:06,320 All the protests in Greece, 446 00:50:06,320 --> 00:50:08,720 some of which I had the opportunity to attend, 447 00:50:08,720 --> 00:50:15,070 are on the same lines as the protests here. 448 00:51:24,020 --> 00:51:30,440 We are in Seville at the premises of PUMA, a local exchange trade system. This is where our various collectives meet. 449 00:51:32,140 --> 00:51:40,140 Amongst them, the PUMA Social Money Collective. Today, we have our monthly market. 450 00:51:40,140 --> 00:51:53,140 We have exchanges between those who use the PUMA money. Visitors can also buy things using our money. 451 00:51:54,140 --> 00:51:58,140 In this PUMA market, any user of the social money can sell their wares. 452 00:51:58,140 --> 00:52:08,140 They can set up a stall to display what they have: second-hand stuff, fruit and vegetables, homemade soaps; you name it. 453 00:52:08,140 --> 00:52:12,140 Any product can be sold at the PUMA market. 454 00:52:13,580 --> 00:52:21,580 For us, this social money is a creative way to change both the economy and the system we live in. 455 00:52:21,580 --> 00:52:29,580 It’s a living laboratory to change the economic bonds between people. 456 00:52:29,580 --> 00:52:38,580 Values are different, here. We value people more than money. 457 00:52:43,580 --> 00:52:51,580 We are at la Reverde, here, an agricultural and ecological cooperative situated in Jerez de la Frontera, in southern Spain, in the region of Cadiz. 458 00:52:51,580 --> 00:53:00,580 This project was started in 2010 by a group of 30 people who were wondering about the control that exists over food and the ecology. 459 00:53:00,580 --> 00:53:06,580 We wanted to produce our own food and so, we started this cooperative. 460 00:53:06,580 --> 00:53:10,000 Today, there are more than 120 members. 461 00:53:10,020 --> 00:53:15,020 Every week everyone gets their crate of seasonal vegetables. 462 00:53:15,020 --> 00:53:19,400 Crates can be bought too, if you have soquitos, the local money of the village. 463 00:53:19,420 --> 00:53:24,020 And the project is gaining ground. 464 00:53:24,020 --> 00:53:27,800 We’ve come to serve as a reference for the region of Cadiz. 465 00:53:27,800 --> 00:53:35,800 Many of the people coming here ask a lot of questions because they want to copy our way of working and start their own cooperatives. 466 00:54:14,800 --> 00:54:18,800 When you learn how to love your reflection in the mirror of the world 467 00:54:18,800 --> 00:54:23,800 And chase away your shadow and its vile teeth 468 00:54:23,800 --> 00:54:27,800 When you kiss the lips of life 469 00:54:27,800 --> 00:54:31,800 When the fever of desire rises everywhere 470 00:54:31,800 --> 00:54:35,800 For people to be generous, open-hearted and debonair 471 00:54:35,800 --> 00:54:40,800 Good-natured companions with their fellow women and men 472 00:54:40,800 --> 00:54:44,800 When the broth you make in winter is shared with everyone 473 00:54:44,800 --> 00:54:48,800 And when your glass in summer is filled with the colour of sun 474 00:54:48,800 --> 00:54:52,800 That wine of friendship which makes us all tipsy 475 00:54:52,800 --> 00:54:56,800 At home with no keys or locks in summer-happy quarters 476 00:54:56,800 --> 00:55:01,800 When your useless weapon has been broken into pieces and buried 477 00:55:01,800 --> 00:55:05,800 To serve as fertilizer or cradle seed 478 00:55:05,800 --> 00:55:09,800 Then the time will have come to live happily, free and frugally 479 00:55:09,800 --> 00:55:13,800 In a Utopia not in books with everybody equal 480 00:55:13,800 --> 00:55:17,800 Living without being confined by any known frontier 481 00:55:17,800 --> 00:55:22,800 Living without gods or masters on every square inch of the Earth 482 00:55:22,800 --> 00:55:30,800 The time will have come to live free as a rebel 483 00:55:30,800 --> 00:55:38,800 I fight, I am and fighting, am You-topia 484 00:55:38,800 --> 00:55:42,800 When gold is just an ordinary metal 485 00:55:42,800 --> 00:55:47,800 And silver-coin’s outdated like a pawn in checkers 486 00:55:47,800 --> 00:55:54,800 A home-made game of no particular interest apart from bringing us together for inspirational play 487 00:55:55,800 --> 00:55:59,800 I fight because I believe that humanity is capable of much more. 488 00:55:59,800 --> 00:56:05,800 I believe that being human means we’re worthy of having love and sharing love. 489 00:56:05,800 --> 00:56:11,800 And that’s the motor: love. Love of the world and love of life. 490 00:56:11,800 --> 00:56:14,800 I’m fighting for a form of collective intelligence. 491 00:56:14,800 --> 00:56:19,800 We have to put an end to the models of political leaders who offer us their solutions. 492 00:56:19,800 --> 00:56:26,500 By working together, we ourselves can find solutions for a better world. 493 00:56:27,500 --> 00:56:29,500 The land for the land workers! 494 00:56:29,500 --> 00:56:33,400 Then the time will have come to live happily, free and frugally [LAND AND FREEDOM] 495 00:56:33,400 --> 00:56:37,000 In a Utopia not in books witheverybody equal [THIS IS THE PEOPLE’S LAND] 496 00:56:37,000 --> 00:56:41,000 Living without being confined by any known frontier [LAND BELONGS TO LAND WORKERS] 497 00:56:41,000 --> 00:56:45,000 Living without gods or masters on every square inch of the Earth 498 00:56:45,000 --> 00:56:53,000 The time will have come to live free as a rebel 499 00:56:53,000 --> 00:57:01,000 I fight, I am and fighting, am You-topia 500 00:57:02,000 --> 00:57:10,000 The time will have come to live free as a rebel 501 00:57:10,000 --> 00:57:20,000 I fight, I am and fighting, am You-topia 502 00:57:29,000 --> 00:57:30,000 "BREAK. WE WANT TO BREAK. 503 00:57:30,000 --> 00:57:33,000 WE WANT TO CREATE A DIFFERENT WORLD. NOW. 504 00:57:33,000 --> 00:57:35,500 NOTHING MORE SIMPLE. NOTHING MORE DIFFICULT". 505 00:57:35,500 --> 00:57:36,820 John Holloway, Crack capitalism, 2010 506 00:57:36,820 --> 00:57:39,820 I have a funny story from my neighbourhood in Jerez 507 00:57:39,820 --> 00:57:48,000 All the men are watching a football game on the TV, drinking beer. 508 00:57:48,000 --> 00:57:54,000 And then the village idiot comes by and throws a rock at the TV, and shouts: “Go to hell!” 509 00:57:54,000 --> 00:58:01,000 Then he says to the men, who are in shock: “Don’t be watching the TV! Take to the street! Fight for your rights! Fight on the streets!” 510 00:58:01,000 --> 00:58:04,000 So, it turns out that in fact, it was the crazy guy who was sane, and lucid. 511 00:58:05,000 --> 00:58:12,000 Because we all spend a huge amount of time in front of TV instead of going out onto the street to fight for our rights or getting a job. 512 00:58:12,000 --> 00:58:23,000 One of the problems we have at the moment is that 50% of young people are unemployed. Those who can, emigrate abroad. There’s no future here. 513 00:58:23,000 --> 00:58:28,000 Salaries aren’t paid regularly or are constantly going down. 514 00:58:29,000 --> 00:58:32,000 So, we need less TV, and more fighting for our rights on the streets! 515 00:59:05,000 --> 00:59:09,000 We’re not so crazy that we don’t know what we want. 516 01:00:19,820 --> 01:00:22,820 TURN OFF THE TV. TURN ON YOUR MIND. 517 01:00:29,700 --> 01:00:33,700 In 2008, an anti-television movement was born in Exarcheia, a neighbourhood in Athens. 518 01:00:33,700 --> 01:00:38,040 We started throwing away our televisions, throwing them off the balcony, abandoning them on the pavement… 519 01:00:38,040 --> 01:00:44,000 …transforming them into aquariums, libraries, even planting flowers inside them. 520 01:00:47,500 --> 01:00:58,140 The new model of development is not about consuming more useless products, such as gadgets that with a few more commercials, people might use more often. 521 01:00:58,140 --> 01:01:00,460 What do people need today? What do the Greek people need? 522 01:01:00,460 --> 01:01:01,140 They need to eat, to have better quality food. What do people need today? What do the Greek people need? 523 01:01:01,140 --> 01:01:04,860 They need to eat, to have better quality food. 524 01:01:04,880 --> 01:01:07,180 They need to be healthy and educated. 525 01:01:07,180 --> 01:01:11,180 They need transport. All of these are vital needs. 526 01:01:11,180 --> 01:01:17,180 A new model of development should satisfy these needs and most certainly not push people to consume for the sake of consuming. 527 01:01:46,940 --> 01:01:51,940 I participate in the Apatris project which is a street journal aka “free press”. 528 01:01:51,940 --> 01:01:56,480 15 000 copies with 28 pages each are circulating right now for free. 529 01:01:56,480 --> 01:02:05,780 We manage to cover the cost of publication with contributions, support parties, bar sales... 530 01:02:05,780 --> 01:02:17,780 Although it started out locally in Heraklion, Greece, it is now a nationwide project with 7 decentralized assemblies which together create the journal. 531 01:02:17,780 --> 01:02:22,780 This journal tries to operate as the mirror of the social movement. 532 01:02:22,780 --> 01:02:31,780 That is why we give voice to self-managed projects such as self-managed social dispensaries, exchange networks without middlemen… 533 01:02:31,780 --> 01:02:33,780 …and to other projects in the movement. 534 01:02:33,780 --> 01:02:45,780 We also support the struggle of political prisoners, as well as the struggle of those who wish to change the present situation. 535 01:02:45,780 --> 01:02:52,780 We want readers to judge for themselves, and choose what interests them and what is right for them. 536 01:02:57,380 --> 01:03:02,380 "THE POSSIBILITY OF RADICAL CHANGE ARISES AGAIN. IN THIS WAY THE REVOLUTIONARY AND THE POETIC CONVERGE." 537 01:03:02,380 --> 01:03:05,380 Jean-François Brient, On modern servitude, 2007 538 01:03:06,860 --> 01:03:13,860 X-pressed was born out of our need to create a space of expression and action around the European crisis and its movements. 539 01:03:19,260 --> 01:03:26,260 It’s an open, horizontal, self-run and self-financed project. 540 01:03:26,260 --> 01:03:29,260 The articles are published at the same time in several languages… 541 01:03:29,260 --> 01:03:35,260 …in an effort to overcome the language barrier which often complicates communication between movements going on in different countries. 542 01:03:42,260 --> 01:03:45,260 Most of our co-workers live in these countries. 543 01:03:45,260 --> 01:03:49,140 Our objective is to create a solid network of correspondents, translators and editorialists… 544 01:03:49,140 --> 01:03:56,480 ...to increase counter-information on the impact of the crisis and to help the development of resistance movements. 545 01:03:56,480 --> 01:04:01,140 Our aim is to bring down borders and destroy language barriers. 546 01:04:01,140 --> 01:04:06,140 We’re creating a common space, a common vision and perspective. 547 01:04:06,140 --> 01:04:08,320 Our only weapon is solidarity. 548 01:04:32,340 --> 01:04:37,340 Here we are at the headquarters of the Migrants’ Forum of Crete… 549 01:04:37,340 --> 01:04:45,340 …a collective founded in 2007 by Greeks and migrants who are fighting the same fight. 550 01:04:45,340 --> 01:04:50,340 I am Moroccan, he is Tunisian and your man over there is Algerian. 551 01:04:50,340 --> 01:04:56,340 There are other nationalities in the collective such as Albanians and Syrians. 552 01:04:56,340 --> 01:05:13,340 Our goal is to unite migrants and laborers in the class struggle in order to give life to our slogan: "Greeks and foreigners, united workers." 553 01:05:13,340 --> 01:05:16,340 In my opinion, there can be no such thing as a foreigner on this Earth of ours. 554 01:05:16,340 --> 01:05:20,340 By living together fraternally... 555 01:05:20,340 --> 01:05:28,340 ...we will make this world better, a world that is more open, independent and free. 556 01:05:32,620 --> 01:05:36,620 We at the Migrants’ Forum of Crete have been fighting tooth and nail for migrants’ rights. 557 01:05:36,620 --> 01:05:41,620 Right here, a hunger strike took place. 558 01:05:41,620 --> 01:05:51,620 15 migrants, after 26 days, managed to get their papers and their residence permits. 559 01:05:51,620 --> 01:06:02,620 This paved the way for legalization that benefitted dozens of other migrants. 560 01:06:02,620 --> 01:06:10,620 Sometime later, the radical right-wing party Golden Dawn opened its offices in the same street. 561 01:06:10,620 --> 01:06:18,620 Yet this did not stop us from fighting for our cause. 562 01:06:18,620 --> 01:06:24,620 We won’t stop fighting Golden Dawn, or tagging slogans and drawing graffiti below their offices… 563 01:06:24,620 --> 01:06:38,620 …and even on their balcony, to voice our resistance to fascism and reminding them that we will never stop the fight for Human Rights. 564 01:06:45,580 --> 01:06:50,580 The Migrants’ Forum of Crete also has a soccer team which is active here, in Chania. 565 01:06:50,580 --> 01:06:58,580 We won this cup at the Hasta La Victoria Siempre Tournament against the previous national Greek football team. 566 01:06:58,580 --> 01:07:02,580 Having our own team makes us feel really happy. 567 01:07:42,860 --> 01:07:45,300 Keratsini (suburb of Piraeus) September 18, 2013 568 01:07:53,500 --> 01:07:58,500 The anti-fascist rapper Pavlos Fyssas has just been murdered by neo-Nazis. 569 01:08:07,540 --> 01:08:11,540 Arrest of the leaders of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party. 570 01:08:12,660 --> 01:08:15,660 He was stabbed in the presence of police officers. 571 01:08:15,900 --> 01:08:18,900 The police were there. 572 01:08:18,899 --> 01:08:23,899 Eye witnesses of the encounter testify that Pavlos Fyssas was stabbed right in front of police officers. 573 01:08:23,899 --> 01:08:30,899 A neighbour also claims that the murderer was chatting with police officers moments before the fatal incident. 574 01:08:32,899 --> 01:08:40,899 This is the shop where it all started, and ended, with the murder of Pavlos on September 18, 2013. 575 01:08:40,899 --> 01:08:46,899 A hundred metres to the right, you can see where the crime was committed… 576 01:08:46,899 --> 01:08:49,999 …and where later, a memorial statue was erected. 577 01:08:51,000 --> 01:08:56,000 And there, two metres behind is where he collapsed. 578 01:08:57,000 --> 01:09:06,000 Here, you can see part of one of Pavlos Fyssas' songs called Struggles that goes like this: 579 01:09:06,000 --> 01:09:10,000 It's a nice day to die in beauty 580 01:09:10,000 --> 01:09:12,000 Standing in public view 581 01:09:12,000 --> 01:09:14,000 My name is Pavlos Fyssas from Pireus 582 01:09:14,000 --> 01:09:16,000 I’m Greek 583 01:09:16,000 --> 01:09:18,500 Whatever that means, but surely it’s not a flag. 584 01:09:18,500 --> 01:09:22,500 We had formed a band called E13. 585 01:09:22,500 --> 01:09:26,500 Pavlos as an artist became famous after his death. 586 01:09:26,500 --> 01:09:29,500 We were more underground than the underground! 587 01:09:29,500 --> 01:09:35,500 We held concerts at extremely small locations with small audiences. 588 01:09:35,500 --> 01:09:41,500 We always did exactly what we wanted, no matter the price! 589 01:09:41,500 --> 01:09:50,500 We were forced to play in the worst basements of Athens, but we were happy to do it, even if there were only 10 or 15 people listening! 590 01:10:21,260 --> 01:10:30,260 He was essentially an active antifascist but at the same time he was kind. 591 01:10:30,260 --> 01:10:34,260 Ladies and gentlemen, Killah P is in the studio. 592 01:10:34,260 --> 01:10:37,260 “I am not here to promote the festival but to say that, this year… 593 01:10:37,260 --> 01:10:44,260 …a support group has emerged to help two children who are victims of serious accidents and need surgery. 594 01:10:44,260 --> 01:10:51,260 One of them is in emergency while the other has to leave the country.” 595 01:10:51,260 --> 01:10:57,260 He used to organize clothes and food donations for the homeless. 596 01:10:57,260 --> 01:11:03,260 Here is the court where we used to play basketball with Pavlos! 597 01:11:04,260 --> 01:11:06,260 We used to go crazy at basketball. 598 01:11:06,260 --> 01:11:08,260 Let's go and see. 599 01:11:14,740 --> 01:11:19,740 In this building, on the second floor, was where Pavlos lived. 600 01:11:19,740 --> 01:11:21,740 We used to write a lot of songs up there. 601 01:11:21,740 --> 01:11:26,740 This is where we wrote Triplopenia which since, has become an important song. 602 01:11:26,740 --> 01:11:31,740 It was a tribute to the Rebetiko culture of Pireus. 603 01:11:59,740 --> 01:12:02,740 Fascism has gained ground in Piraeus. 604 01:12:02,740 --> 01:12:05,740 It has become a political trend. 605 01:12:05,740 --> 01:12:16,740 Recently, there have been terrible attacks on migrants, union members and also, they murdered Pavlos. 606 01:12:16,740 --> 01:12:18,740 They give us trouble every day. 607 01:12:18,740 --> 01:12:21,740 They chase us out of our homes with knives. What can we do? 608 01:12:21,740 --> 01:12:26,740 They had chains in their hands and vicious dogs. 609 01:12:26,740 --> 01:12:31,740 They hit me in the eye, which is now damaged. 610 01:12:31,740 --> 01:12:37,740 They were dressed in black and sporting GOLDEN DAWN T-shirts. 611 01:12:37,740 --> 01:12:45,740 Get out of her! Murderers! Cowards! 612 01:12:45,740 --> 01:12:52,740 January 25 2014: 80 neo-Nazis desecrate the memorial to Pavlos Fyssas, and then attack the Resalto Self-Managed Social Centre. 613 01:12:52,740 --> 01:13:05,740 Simply by knowing some basic stuff, we can say that fascism in Greece as well as elsewhere qualifies as the ultimate capitalistic device. 614 01:13:05,740 --> 01:13:09,740 ANTIFASCIST PAVLOS FYSSAS STREET 615 01:13:11,020 --> 01:13:14,020 GOLDEN DAWN 616 01:13:20,980 --> 01:13:22,980 FASCISM KILLS, WAKE UP 617 01:13:25,380 --> 01:13:28,380 RACISM 618 01:13:28,380 --> 01:13:31,380 NO TO RACISM 619 01:13:32,380 --> 01:13:35,380 PAVLOS IS ALIVE 620 01:13:45,540 --> 01:13:47,540 CRUSH THE FASCISTS 621 01:13:48,740 --> 01:13:52,740 GOLDEN DAWNS = MURDERERS 622 01:13:52,740 --> 01:13:57,740 PAVLOS IS ALIVE 623 01:13:59,740 --> 01:14:06,740 I believe the slogan I FIGHT THEREFORE I AM sums up the quintessence of Pavlos… 624 01:14:06,740 --> 01:14:11,740 …his whole being, from the start to the end of his life. 625 01:14:11,740 --> 01:14:18,740 He set an example for every human being. 626 01:14:20,660 --> 01:14:25,380 Athens, Greece, April 21 1967 627 01:14:32,340 --> 01:14:39,380 The chronic incompetence of the politicians running this country… 628 01:14:39,380 --> 01:14:45,460 …in spite of the encouragement of our Commander in Chief, 629 01:14:45,460 --> 01:14:49,620 has driven us to an dead end. 630 01:14:51,940 --> 01:14:53,460 During the dictatorship, 631 01:14:53,460 --> 01:14:56,620 I sang songs which were rather risky. 632 01:14:56,620 --> 01:14:58,620 You have to take risks. 633 01:14:58,620 --> 01:15:00,620 Life itself is risky. 634 01:15:03,700 --> 01:15:10,700 I am the doctor, children! (one of the dictator Papadopulous’s nicknames) 635 01:15:22,860 --> 01:15:25,860 So, you're asking me if I was afraid. 636 01:15:25,860 --> 01:15:27,220 I was not afraid. 637 01:15:27,220 --> 01:15:30,860 Why was I not afraid? I don't know. 638 01:15:31,860 --> 01:15:34,780 Afraid of what? 639 01:15:34,780 --> 01:15:37,380 What can they do to you? 640 01:15:40,000 --> 01:15:43,620 Beat you up? Kill you? 641 01:15:43,620 --> 01:15:45,660 And if they kill you? 642 01:15:45,660 --> 01:15:47,860 End of problems! 643 01:15:49,500 --> 01:15:50,940 Why weren't we afraid? 644 01:15:50,940 --> 01:15:52,820 On the contrary, we were afraid! 645 01:15:52,820 --> 01:15:56,820 However we overcame fear by sharing it. 646 01:15:56,820 --> 01:15:59,780 We were united in songs, laughter, 647 01:15:59,780 --> 01:16:03,220 solidarity and demonstrations. 648 01:16:04,300 --> 01:16:07,180 We ran the risk of losing our lives, 649 01:16:07,180 --> 01:16:11,500 yet we were living life to the full… 650 01:16:11,600 --> 01:16:13,700 …and could even stare death in the eye. 651 01:16:13,700 --> 01:16:16,820 I don't tell anyone what they should do. 652 01:16:19,100 --> 01:16:22,780 Everything is politics if you look closely enough, even love. 653 01:16:22,780 --> 01:16:27,720 From the very moment you leave your home and slippers behind… 654 01:16:27,720 --> 01:16:30,020 …with not a care in the world… 655 01:16:30,020 --> 01:16:33,300 …you instantly feel pressured to promote yourself in some way. 656 01:16:33,300 --> 01:16:35,140 And that alone is politics of a sort. 657 01:16:36,460 --> 01:16:41,980 Kids today cannot believe what happened back then. 658 01:16:47,980 --> 01:16:51,060 They think it occurred to extraordinary people, heroes. 659 01:16:51,060 --> 01:16:55,860 We were placed on a pedestal. 660 01:16:55,860 --> 01:16:57,420 But it wasn't like that! 661 01:16:57,420 --> 01:17:00,100 We were youngsters, like the ones today. 662 01:17:13,160 --> 01:17:16,980 My love for poets and music 663 01:17:16,980 --> 01:17:25,860 is connected to my memories of the Greek military junta of April 21, 1967. 664 01:17:25,860 --> 01:17:31,260 We were woken up that day by military marches. 665 01:17:31,260 --> 01:17:33,260 A few days later, 666 01:17:33,260 --> 01:17:35,860 I see my mother... 667 01:17:35,860 --> 01:17:41,340 ...the woman who opened the world of poetry and music to me... 668 01:17:41,340 --> 01:17:47,380 ...I see her on the terrace of our house burning books 669 01:17:47,380 --> 01:17:51,860 of supposedly left-wing poets... 670 01:17:51,860 --> 01:17:58,700 ...who had obviously been banned by the Dictatorship. 671 01:17:58,700 --> 01:18:02,740 I see her burning these books. 672 01:18:02,740 --> 01:18:05,500 At the same time, the army banned 673 01:18:05,500 --> 01:18:11,140 long hair, mini-skirts, Sophocles, Tolstoy, Euripides, 674 01:18:11,140 --> 01:18:16,700 smashing glasses like Russians, going on strike, Aristophanes, Ionesco... 675 01:18:31,000 --> 01:18:32,200 Like a lot of people in Greece, 676 01:18:32,200 --> 01:18:35,200 there's a family story behind my political commitment. 677 01:18:35,200 --> 01:18:40,960 Indeed, I had to get out of Greece with my parents in 1969 when I was 4... 678 01:18:41,820 --> 01:18:44,500 ...because the police were looking for my father. 679 01:18:44,500 --> 01:18:49,140 He was in a resistance network against the Dictatorship of the Colonels. 680 01:18:50,740 --> 01:18:54,340 We had to get out of the country fast. 681 01:18:54,340 --> 01:18:59,140 The following year, he was sentenced to 27 years imprisonment. 682 01:18:59,140 --> 01:19:02,500 So, he couldn't possibly return. 683 01:19:02,500 --> 01:19:11,380 I had to start school in Switzerland as the son of a political exile. 684 01:19:11,380 --> 01:19:15,180 So, I understood at a very early age how individual destinies... 685 01:19:15,180 --> 01:19:22,860 ...can be irrevocably marked by great events outside our control... 686 01:19:22,860 --> 01:19:25,300 ...which we simply call History. 687 01:19:25,300 --> 01:19:27,860 Greece, November 1973 688 01:19:27,860 --> 01:19:30,860 Ladies and gentlemen, all around the Polytechnic Higher Education College 689 01:19:30,860 --> 01:19:34,340 within a radius of 500 meters, there is a huge crowd 690 01:19:34,340 --> 01:19:37,860 of high school and university students, citizens, activists and workers 691 01:19:37,860 --> 01:19:40,900 who have assembled to express their support for the new movement. 692 01:19:40,900 --> 01:19:43,700 DOWN WITH THE DICTATORSHIP! 693 01:19:43,700 --> 01:19:46,500 FREEDOM! 694 01:19:46,980 --> 01:19:49,180 GENERAL STRIKE! 695 01:19:56,460 --> 01:19:59,280 "THOSE WHO TALK ABOUT ALTERNATIVES 696 01:19:59,280 --> 01:20:02,020 FORGETTING REAL STRUGGLE AND SOLIDARITY, 697 01:20:02,020 --> 01:20:06,160 DON'T KNOW HISTORY OR PRETEND NOT TO KNOW IT". 698 01:20:06,160 --> 01:20:10,700 Manolis Glézos, figure of resistance against nazism, Dictatorship of the Colonels, and Troïka 699 01:20:14,980 --> 01:20:17,020 People of Greece… 700 01:20:17,020 --> 01:20:22,060 …being fully aware of my responsibilities… …towards the Nation and its History… 701 01:20:22,060 --> 01:20:26,540 …and in the wake of yesterday's anarchistic provocations… 702 01:20:26,540 --> 01:20:28,980 …initiated by an organized minority… 703 01:20:28,980 --> 01:20:36,580 …I have decided to declare martial law and thereby restore law and order. 704 01:20:39,980 --> 01:20:43,940 What happened at the Polytechnic 705 01:20:43,940 --> 01:20:47,800 wasn't a simple occupation. 706 01:20:50,740 --> 01:20:53,780 It was the proof that we could make our dreams become reality, 707 01:20:53,780 --> 01:20:57,460 become Utopia even, if you believed in it strongly enough. 708 01:20:57,460 --> 01:21:03,140 Youth, love, songs, joy, laughter, 709 01:21:03,140 --> 01:21:06,460 sharing everything we had and did not have. 710 01:21:06,460 --> 01:21:14,140 With our pirate radio station, we won people over and got them out of their houses. 711 01:21:14,140 --> 01:21:21,140 After listening to one program, they came out, 60 000 to 70 000 people, and gathered all around here! 712 01:21:21,140 --> 01:21:26,660 Many people were killed or injured, but that didn't stop them. They came to protect us! 713 01:21:28,860 --> 01:21:30,860 You're listening to the Polytechnic! This is the Polytechnic! 714 01:21:30,860 --> 01:21:36,460 Your Free Radio for free workers and free students is broadcasting directly to you! 715 01:21:36,460 --> 01:21:38,700 Our first step was a success. 716 01:21:38,700 --> 01:21:42,680 And even if we were arrested… …our next step would also have succeeded. 717 01:21:42,680 --> 01:21:46,260 There was no room for dictatorship. It collapsed the next year. 718 01:21:46,260 --> 01:21:49,620 Down with the junta! Down with the Dictatorship! 719 01:21:56,790 --> 01:22:00,820 On the night of November 17, 1973, army tanks smashed into the Polytechnic and crushed the insurrection. 720 01:22:00,820 --> 01:22:05,260 The police and army chased the rebels who had taken cover in the Exarcheia neighbourhood. 721 01:22:05,260 --> 01:22:08,820 However, what had seemed to be a defeat turned out to be a victory. 722 01:22:08,820 --> 01:22:12,000 The military junta finally collapsed. 723 01:22:13,660 --> 01:22:18,950 And today again, the Exarcheia neighbourhood is the heart and soul of Greek resistance... 724 01:22:25,540 --> 01:22:29,100 Here, at Nosotros, like other free social spaces... 725 01:22:29,100 --> 01:22:33,180 ...we are in a neighbourhood which we really love: Exarcheia. 726 01:22:34,380 --> 01:22:40,460 Exarcheia is in the heart of Athens, yet it's very different to other neighbourhoods. 727 01:22:40,460 --> 01:22:46,140 Even if it's not completely outside the world of capitalism... 728 01:22:46,140 --> 01:22:52,980 ...Exarcheia is a zone of transition dedicated to action and creation... 729 01:22:52,980 --> 01:22:57,500 ...between their world and ours. 730 01:22:59,900 --> 01:23:01,820 There are no banks in Exarcheia. 731 01:23:01,820 --> 01:23:05,900 The only bank I can remember at all was this empty store, here... 732 01:23:05,900 --> 01:23:11,380 ...empty because, since December 2008, it was set on fire quite a lot... 733 01:23:11,380 --> 01:23:14,140 ...at least four times, if my memory serves me. 734 01:23:15,620 --> 01:23:17,620 BURN THE BANKS 735 01:23:19,300 --> 01:23:24,220 Today, once more, Exarcheia is in under military seige. 736 01:23:24,220 --> 01:23:29,620 The government has taken away all the public trash bins so we cannot put up barricades. 737 01:23:29,620 --> 01:23:32,540 There are police checkpoints at all the entries to Exarcheia. 738 01:23:32,540 --> 01:23:36,060 They hauled away all the vehicles, so nobody parks here. 739 01:23:36,060 --> 01:23:39,460 We are just waiting, now, for the war to begin. 740 01:23:48,380 --> 01:23:53,380 Even if we don’t always agree on certain subjects, 741 01:23:53,380 --> 01:23:57,580 we do agree on one thing: 742 01:23:57,580 --> 01:24:02,140 Nobody is going to push us around. Nobody is going to walk over us. 743 01:24:02,140 --> 01:24:04,500 In a nutshell, that’s what Exarcheia is all about. 744 01:24:04,500 --> 01:24:08,060 It’s an unconquered neighbourhood, a rebel neighbourhood. 745 01:24:09,140 --> 01:24:12,180 Exarcheia is composed of rebellious citizens and rebellious youth. 746 01:24:12,180 --> 01:24:15,780 Our rebellious youth. And we’re proud of them. 747 01:24:27,780 --> 01:24:33,580 What characterizes Exarcheia is its self-managed initiatives and structures… 748 01:24:33,580 --> 01:24:40,900 …its collectives, its squats, all of which are very important. 749 01:24:40,900 --> 01:24:46,860 I believe it is the place where you can find the highest concentration of utopias in Europe. 750 01:24:47,900 --> 01:24:59,020 However, if we had to sum up Exarcheia in one word… 751 01:24:59,020 --> 01:25:03,140 …that word would be Solidarity. 752 01:25:03,140 --> 01:25:06,980 Solidarity was needed in order to give birth to all the rest. 753 01:25:06,980 --> 01:25:10,540 Without it, none of this would exist. 754 01:25:12,420 --> 01:25:23,180 Solidarity is what allows people to survive, sharing joy and happiness… 755 01:25:23,180 --> 01:25:27,980 …even during this crisis, here and everywhere. 756 01:25:27,980 --> 01:25:36,940 It allows our collectives and our political groups to mutually support each other… 757 01:25:36,940 --> 01:25:41,620 …without necessarily being on the same wavelength politically. 758 01:25:41,620 --> 01:25:44,540 Solidarity is an umbrella above all the rest. 759 01:25:44,540 --> 01:25:48,700 It's both fundamental and a vital part of social cohesion… 760 01:25:48,700 --> 01:25:55,660 …allowing for the exchange of ideas, dialogue and common initiatives. 761 01:25:57,340 --> 01:26:00,780 Here we are at Exarcheia’s Medical Center. 762 01:26:00,780 --> 01:26:06,380 It was created by an assembly of residents with the representatives of social-spaces and neighbourhood collectives. 763 01:26:06,380 --> 01:26:13,900 Our assembly is completely independent of political parties and institutions. 764 01:26:13,900 --> 01:26:18,200 There are more and more people coming to us who suffer from a lot of problems. 765 01:26:34,460 --> 01:26:41,740 As a psychologist, I am a member of Exarcheia’s self-managed Health Center. 766 01:26:41,740 --> 01:26:47,380 Because of the crisis, the other health structures have been destroyed... 767 01:26:47,380 --> 01:26:54,780 ....so, a lot of people are coming to us for help, for psychological support or for therapy. 768 01:26:56,460 --> 01:27:00,980 There are even teachers coming to see us, as they have lost 50% of their salary... 769 01:27:00,980 --> 01:27:05,260 ...and work in extremely difficult conditions. 770 01:27:05,260 --> 01:27:11,820 Actually, workers from every walk of life have been affected by the present catastrophe... 771 01:27:11,820 --> 01:27:14,340 ...either directly or indirectly... 772 01:27:14,340 --> 01:27:19,220 ...when for example their family and friends can’t afford to pay for lawyers. 773 01:27:19,220 --> 01:27:23,220 People can’t afford lawyers anymore. 774 01:27:25,420 --> 01:27:28,940 "LOVE, IN ITS FIST, CONTAINS THE WHOLE UNIVERSE". 775 01:27:28,940 --> 01:27:30,940 Yannis Ritsos Symphony of Spring, 1938 776 01:28:14,020 --> 01:28:17,100 The revolution I dream of is a revolution of love. 777 01:28:17,100 --> 01:28:20,020 Love for Humanity and Life. 778 01:28:20,020 --> 01:28:27,260 A revolution of love against the existing regime which is based on fear, violence and hate. 779 01:28:43,700 --> 01:28:49,140 In Exarcheia and elsewhere in Greece, at schools in the heart of Athens, and on the islands too, 780 01:28:49,140 --> 01:28:53,300 a new form of resistance is spreading its wings despite the weight of institutions… 781 01:29:02,860 --> 01:29:06,340 I am a teacher at the primary school in Exarcheia. 782 01:29:06,340 --> 01:29:10,500 We have been using the methods of Célestin Freinet since 2008. 783 01:29:10,500 --> 01:29:13,540 And our work is aimed at the learning community. 784 01:29:17,960 --> 01:29:21,960 "IT'S THE CHILD WHO HAS TO MASTER HIMSELF, TO RAISE WITH THE HELP OF ADULTS. 785 01:29:21,960 --> 01:29:27,460 WE MOVE THE EDUCATIONAL ACT: THE CENTER OF THE SCHOOL IS NOT THE SCHOOLMASTER ANYMORE, BUT THE CHILD." 786 01:29:27,460 --> 01:29:30,460 Célestin Freinet, Naissance d'une pédagogie populaire 787 01:29:31,460 --> 01:29:35,780 Our wish is for children to be citizens, poets and writers… 788 01:29:35,780 --> 01:29:42,340 …to be little philosophers, little protagonists of their own vision within their city. 789 01:29:42,340 --> 01:29:53,100 We have created a school magazine, for example. We also go on excursions in order to discover the history and life of the neighborhood. 790 01:29:54,820 --> 01:30:00,900 This movement, this capacity of combining the mind and body… 791 01:30:00,900 --> 01:30:04,820 …comes from our struggle and desire to change the world… 792 01:30:04,820 --> 01:30:08,820 …and in particular, from the children's own desire to participate in these changes. 793 01:30:16,020 --> 01:30:20,020 Their bodies have to stop being inactive, and once this change is made… 794 01:30:20,020 --> 01:30:26,300 …priority has to be given to the free development of their subjectivity towards the big universal questions. 795 01:30:29,140 --> 01:30:32,510 Playing is the new way for children to discover their world. 796 01:30:32,510 --> 01:30:37,900 Fourfouras Primary School (located in the mountains of Crete) 797 01:30:50,260 --> 01:30:52,260 "I am, you are, he-she-it is" 798 01:30:52,900 --> 01:30:55,660 "We are all leaves on the same tree." 799 01:30:56,200 --> 01:31:00,740 In recent years, we have been trying to create the school of our dreams. 800 01:31:00,740 --> 01:31:06,900 A school where every child can find her or his place and where they can express themselves freely… 801 01:31:06,900 --> 01:31:16,900 …and learn how to become an active member of a fraternal, democratic and altruistic society. 802 01:31:19,780 --> 01:31:24,900 The most important aspect for me is the weekly assemblies. 803 01:31:24,900 --> 01:31:28,940 The children discuss topics they’ve been thinking about. 804 01:31:28,940 --> 01:31:36,780 Teachers participate in the same way as children do, by raising their hands. Voting too is egalitarian. 805 01:31:49,900 --> 01:31:52,980 Assembly Report… 806 01:31:56,380 --> 01:32:08,380 For us parents, the Friday assemblies during which the children discuss their problems, is very important. 807 01:32:08,380 --> 01:32:18,460 They discuss points of divergence, which fosters a democratic atmosphere of equality and synergy. 808 01:32:23,660 --> 01:32:30,780 The crisis has been very violent in Greece and has affected us all, parents, teachers and children. 809 01:32:30,780 --> 01:32:36,260 In other places children sometimes faint from hunger. 810 01:32:36,260 --> 01:32:42,340 But here our teachers came up with the Breakfast Cooperative which is a magnificent solution. 811 01:32:42,340 --> 01:32:44,220 The children’s assemblies, too. 812 01:32:44,220 --> 01:32:50,700 All of this makes for a great way of dealing with the crisis in our country. 813 01:32:51,980 --> 01:32:55,540 Nectaria, Yannis, Constantina, Love. 814 01:32:56,000 --> 01:32:57,340 LOVE ! 815 01:33:30,000 --> 01:33:34,300 Fighting is a movement towards Utopia. 816 01:33:34,300 --> 01:33:38,620 There’s no shortage of difficulties along this path. 817 01:33:38,620 --> 01:33:42,420 However, difficulties are stimulating. 818 01:33:42,420 --> 01:33:47,780 They increase our desire to move even further along the path to Utopia. 819 01:33:50,260 --> 01:33:52,150 I fight therefore I am. 820 01:34:08,180 --> 01:34:15,880 "YOU ARE LOST IF YOU FORGET THAT THE FRUITS ARE EVERYONE'S AND THE EARTH, NO ONE'S" 821 01:34:15,880 --> 01:34:20,020 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men, 1755 822 01:34:21,020 --> 01:34:24,700 He who awaits liberation will remain a slave all his life. 823 01:34:24,700 --> 01:34:27,660 People wait for help from the person in front of them… 824 01:34:27,660 --> 01:34:31,540 …just as that person is waiting for help from them. 825 01:34:31,540 --> 01:34:38,260 As a result, a gulf opens up between them in which everyone will end up. 826 01:34:38,260 --> 01:34:43,220 So, once and for all, waiting is like digging your own grave before you fall into it. 827 01:34:45,180 --> 01:34:48,300 I fight therefore I am. 828 01:34:51,860 --> 01:34:55,300 It’s not possible to live freely... 829 01:34:55,300 --> 01:35:01,620 ...nor is it possible to enjoy our basic rights… 830 01:35:01,620 --> 01:35:04,580 …without permanently fighting for them… 831 01:35:04,580 --> 01:35:09,220 …without fighting to obtain them and to keep them, 832 01:35:09,220 --> 01:35:12,060 because they are constantly under threat. 833 01:35:14,300 --> 01:35:17,260 I fight, therefore I am. 834 01:35:20,740 --> 01:35:24,500 My Mummy, well, she encourages us to resist. 835 01:35:24,500 --> 01:35:29,580 We go to demonstrations, and we sing. 836 01:35:30,700 --> 01:35:33,860 I fight, therefore I am. 837 01:35:37,740 --> 01:35:41,780 I fight and I will always fight. 838 01:35:43,060 --> 01:35:46,540 I will never become anyone's slave. 839 01:35:46,540 --> 01:35:51,700 I choose freedom or death, rather than slavery. 840 01:35:59,940 --> 01:36:02,460 For me, fighting is an absolute necessity! 841 01:36:02,460 --> 01:36:05,060 It gives me strength. And I fight day after day. 842 01:36:23,180 --> 01:36:27,540 In order to feel hope, you first need to fight. 843 01:36:27,540 --> 01:36:30,540 Fighting leads to hope. 844 01:36:31,500 --> 01:36:35,260 I fight therefore I’ll never give up. 845 01:36:37,300 --> 01:36:39,300 I don’t run away from reality or problems. 846 01:36:39,300 --> 01:36:43,260 I pull my weight with others, collectively, for the Common Good. 847 01:36:46,020 --> 01:36:52,180 To live your life, to be somebody in the deepest sense of the term... 848 01:36:52,180 --> 01:36:57,940 ...you have to act in order for things to change, so, you have to fight. 849 01:36:59,500 --> 01:37:02,180 Fighting is part of human nature. 850 01:37:02,180 --> 01:37:06,100 We’ve always fought, because society is constantly evolving. 851 01:37:06,100 --> 01:37:12,340 We have to push forward for changes to become reality. 852 01:37:12,340 --> 01:37:21,940 Where would we be today without 1968, without sexual emancipation or divorce or the right to have an abortion? 853 01:37:21,940 --> 01:37:25,620 The world wouldn’t be at all the same today. 854 01:37:26,220 --> 01:37:35,500 I fight therefore I am means constantly combining body and spirit, moving towards the transformation of my desires into reality. 855 01:37:35,500 --> 01:37:40,860 Our actions must complete our desire to change the world. 856 01:37:41,460 --> 01:37:45,500 Sartre said that people who reject the idea of commitment... 857 01:37:45,500 --> 01:37:51,060 ...are actually already committed to the preservation of the status quo... 858 01:37:51,060 --> 01:37:53,060 ...except that they don’t even realize it. 859 01:37:53,680 --> 01:37:57,260 Struggle doesn't need hope. 860 01:37:57,260 --> 01:38:00,020 Because hope creates fiction. 861 01:38:00,020 --> 01:38:04,300 It creates an award in some end. 862 01:38:04,300 --> 01:38:06,020 The fight is long 863 01:38:06,020 --> 01:38:08,020 and need open eyes. 864 01:38:08,560 --> 01:38:11,020 To exist is a personal matter 865 01:38:11,020 --> 01:38:13,520 but to fight is a collective matter. 866 01:38:13,520 --> 01:38:17,020 If we want to be ourselves and participate to social mouvements 867 01:38:17,020 --> 01:38:19,880 We have to pass from "I" to "we". 868 01:38:20,340 --> 01:38:22,620 The world in which one they would like us to live, 869 01:38:22,620 --> 01:38:27,020 homogeneity is often presented like the condition of efficiency 870 01:38:27,020 --> 01:38:29,180 I precisely think the opposite idea. 871 01:38:29,180 --> 01:38:33,260 It's the diversity of social movements, the diversity of ways to get involved, 872 01:38:33,260 --> 01:38:35,140 which is synonym of life. 873 01:38:35,140 --> 01:38:38,260 People must take their own things in charge in a different way, 874 01:38:38,260 --> 01:38:41,600 each person according to his own sensitivity, 875 01:38:41,600 --> 01:38:44,760 To build the world with all the colors we need today. 876 01:38:56,500 --> 01:39:00,780 The struggle goes on in France, in Greece, in Spain, everywhere. 877 01:39:00,780 --> 01:39:03,420 I fight therefore I am. 878 01:39:05,820 --> 01:39:07,820 I fight therefore I am, but without a TV! 879 01:39:10,580 --> 01:39:14,060 For us, fighting is a way of life, that's what matters. 880 01:39:15,580 --> 01:39:20,100 It's moving forward. And I fight by rebelling. 881 01:39:20,100 --> 01:39:25,700 I fight creatively. I fight like every living thing. 882 01:39:25,700 --> 01:39:30,260 I fight because I am committed to life. I fight therefore I am. 883 01:39:33,940 --> 01:39:39,100 “I fight therefore I am.” I fight therefore I am! 884 01:39:55,260 --> 01:39:55,300 When will there be a general strike? 885 01:39:56,020 --> 01:40:00,300 This moment in which everything is alive, being said, thought, read, written, danced 886 01:40:00,300 --> 01:40:03,180 This moment outside time that are setting the streets on fire 887 01:40:03,180 --> 01:40:05,180 And setting our souls free and our asses, too! 888 01:40:05,180 --> 01:40:10,060 This blue period as a bright sun lighting up the future with its flames 889 01:40:10,060 --> 01:40:12,220 These minutes stolen from the sad hourglass of time 890 01:40:12,220 --> 01:40:13,980 Belonging to the monopolisers of destinies 891 01:40:13,980 --> 01:40:19,940 When is there going to be a General Strike? 892 01:40:19,940 --> 01:40:21,300 And a World Strike, too? 893 01:40:32,780 --> 01:40:37,900 This moment of utopia swinging in joyous rhythm with our unanimous hearts 894 01:40:37,900 --> 01:40:42,940 This instant of generosity like a cease-fire in the trenches of our egotism 895 01:40:42,940 --> 01:40:48,380 This black period as an act that saves lives in the apocalyptic darkness 896 01:40:48,380 --> 01:40:52,420 These seconds stolen from the sad hourglass of time 897 01:40:52,420 --> 01:40:58,220 When is there going to be a General Strike? 898 01:40:58,220 --> 01:41:01,060 And a World Strike, too? 899 01:41:09,920 --> 01:41:15,900 This tender moment for exchanging caresses in which love spreads and gushes 900 01:41:15,900 --> 01:41:18,860 This thought-out instant in which every ounce of life 901 01:41:18,860 --> 01:41:21,740 Is treated without the slightest contempt 902 01:41:21,740 --> 01:41:26,380 This moment, black and red, as a moving world governing a universal right 903 01:41:26,380 --> 01:41:28,580 Making sure that humanity has a common baggage 904 01:41:28,580 --> 01:41:30,220 With essentials being guaranteed 905 01:41:30,220 --> 01:41:35,580 When is there going to be a General Strike? 906 01:41:35,580 --> 01:41:37,580 And a World Strike, too? 907 01:41:51,460 --> 01:41:55,140 In advance I can hear compassionate fools expressing disappointment at how naive I can be 908 01:41:55,140 --> 01:41:58,620 Hopelessly clinging to their poor powers as a drowning man clutches at straws 909 01:41:58,620 --> 01:42:01,660 Already, I can sense the conquistadores stumbling forward like fools 910 01:42:01,660 --> 01:42:03,980 With their fatal speeches about order and morality 911 01:42:03,980 --> 01:42:05,860 That they’ve been dishing us up for too long 912 01:42:05,860 --> 01:42:07,980 But you who are numerous, you who are not at all like them 913 01:42:07,980 --> 01:42:09,980 You who move forward and who still have hope 914 01:42:09,980 --> 01:42:13,380 Sing now with me, please, this joyful chorus that announces a golden age 915 01:42:13,380 --> 01:42:18,380 When is there going to be a General Strike? 916 01:42:18,380 --> 01:42:19,860 And a World Strike, too? 917 01:42:23,260 --> 01:42:25,260 The Fourfouras Primary School Children’s Assembly 918 01:42:41,240 --> 01:42:43,240 The General assembly of Marinaleda