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With or without papers, we all breathe.

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With or without papers, we have the 
same strength, the same energy.

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With or without papers, here we 
are beasts of burden.

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Interbrigadas is a solidarity 
organization based in Berlin

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which since 2007 has organized 
cultural and political exchanges

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in Spanish-speaking countries.

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This movie was filmed in March 2017
during the Brigade "Berta Cáceres".

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I want to say to the people who 
see this film

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that the rights of people here 
are not taken into account

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and will not be respected.

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I'm a worker. I'm an immigrant.

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I came here to work.

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Somebody should say 
this to the people:

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That you can’t treat 
workers like that.

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In this company they do not 
treat us like workers,

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not even like people,
but as if we were objects.

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When we demanded our money,
they said:

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"If you want work,
accept the conditions,

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if you don’t like them,
See yourself to the street."

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We are 22 people who were
treated without mercy.

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Last year we were paid under
the collective agreement wages

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But worked without rights.

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This year, because they have not paid 
us, we have raised our voice.

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We ask the Europeans to recognize 
our rights.

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They only give us our papers
to take advantage of us.

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We will go on until they give us 
our rights

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We ask the authorities,
the Labor Inspector, the activists

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to give us a hand here 
because our rights are lost.

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We will go on until they tell us 
how we have really sinned.

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What is our blame 
to deserve this mistreatment?

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What have we done so the 
administration does not act?

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What have we done to become 
slaves under plastic?

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We feed millions of people.

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Europe depends on this agriculture.

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This industrial agriculture is damaging
humanity.

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We have to heal it, we have to stand 
up and say:

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“No more exploitation!” 
Thank you.

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Days of struggle, days of mourning.

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Part 1: Days of struggle

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What just happend was that the 
day before yesterday, March 7,

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the manager told me: “Tomorrow 
you don’t come to work.”

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Not just to me, but to all the 22 
workers who demanded their rights.

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Without any reason we were told 
“Your contract has been terminated.”

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They justify it with the end of 
season, the end of harvest,

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but that’s a lie.

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And they have already employed 
new workers.

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Cleaning needs to be done, plastic needs to be 
put in the soil, the flower-beds need to be weeded.

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There is lots of work to be done.

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It’s just a way of firing people.

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We are going wait for the managers in
front of the gate of the company.

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I don’t know where they are.

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We are going to wait.
We don’t want anything.

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Who ever has rights will claim them.
According to the law.

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We want to know their justification.

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That’s why we’re here.

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The most frequent labour problems 
agricultural workers suffer

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here in the province of Almería
are related to the salary.

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The salary they earn is below what is 
fixed in the contract: 46.72 euros.

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Bearing in mind that this already includes 
extraordinary payments and holidays.

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In most cases the company 
does not respect
the contract

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and pays around 35.32 euros.

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And for undocumented workers,
who do not have residence or work permits,

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it is between 20 and 25 euros 
for an eight-hour day.

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The law of freedom of association 
is not respected either.

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Whenever a manager finds out that a 
worker belongs to a union or wants to claim

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any of his rights, he is fired.

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We are here waiting and we are not going
away.

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Neither rain nor wind 
will stop us.

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We are waiting for those responsible. In 
this way we draw the attention of all

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the consumers of the European Union so they
realise what is going on in this region.

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We represent millions of workers in Almería.

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This is how the harvest is done in Almería

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this is how the vegetables reach the 
whole of Europe.

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The workers are exploited. Work if you like; 
go home and report me if you don’t.

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They are always 
defended by the law.

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They say they are lucky 
here due to Spanish law.

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In our contract it says we work 
until the tomato season ends

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and there is still tomato.

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In the plantation “Autovía de 
paraje Sargento #1 Nijar”

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there is tomato.

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Today the new workers are 
picking tomatoes there.

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And we are at the gate of 
the plantation of Atochares

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waiting the Labour Inspection.

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We are waiting here for the boss

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who needs to come here to speak
to the people.

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I have been working on 
this plantation for two years

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others have been here for 
four, five, seven years.

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We all work here, 
but we have many problems.

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Earlier they did not 
pay us monthly

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they paid us every other month, every 
month and a half, or every three months.

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And when we wanted to know when
pay day was

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They would tell us: 
“There is no money.”

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We talk to the general 
manager and he says:

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“There is no money, 
I don’t lnow.”

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And we wait for 2 months, 3 months,
and now they are dismissing everyone

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without even signing 
the dismissal or anything.

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This is our situation today:
They fire us for demanding a fair salary.

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The organisation of 
workers in any sector

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can help a lot to 
improve working conditions.

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But here in the 
province of Almería,

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we are dealing with around 
45 thousand people.

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At least this is what the Social Security
registry says about agricultural workers.

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We think there 
are many more

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Most workers who offer services 
in this agricultural activity are people

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who have come from other countries, 
from Morocco and Sub-Saharan countries.

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So overall, they are people 
who have never joined

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or been active members 
of any association.

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Therefore they have not come in touch 
with world of workers’ organisation,

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which is why they do 
not claim their rights.

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Until they find themselves in very grave
situations, such as they are dismissed .

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or they are fed up with 
being paid low wages.

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It’s a very difficult moment of truth.
Attracting people’s attention

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so that they all organise to fight for 
their rights is very difficult.

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But their living conditions 
force people to do it.

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Because we are all men and women with
families, with children, with responsibilities,

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who need to pay 
for water and light.

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They have children who go to school, 
who need to be fed every day.

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How does a mom or dad 
who works in agriculture get by

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if at the end of the month 
their boss doesn’t pay them?

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And your son 
requires many things:

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He needs clothes, he wants 
to go to sports school,

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he wants more stuff 
and you can’t do it.

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These things force people to do it, 
to overcome their fear.

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Some say: “There is more 
than this one company.

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I can ask for 
my rights here

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and if they won’t give 
them to me later,

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I’ll just leave the company 
and make a living elsewhere.”

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Well, I have lived here in Spain 
for 23, almost 24 years.

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When I started, I worked 
in a warehouse,

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and ever since we have struggled
with our working conditions.

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Because whenever new people 
come in, it’s like fresh meat

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and the exploitation starts 
over and over again.

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Some of us who have been here longer
have learned that they need to report;

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the others stay silent; as they 
don’t have any information,

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it’s difficult for them.

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That’s the vicious cycle.

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When they don’t 
pay us for two months,

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we start the third one 
without any money.

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It’s not only this 
company that does it;

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there are many, many 
bosses, many companies.

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The thing in this region is that the 
bosses take advantage of the migrants.

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95% of workers in this sector 
are immigrants,

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and the law of labour risk 
prevention is not respected.

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They work in a situation

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in which their health is constantly 
exposed to bad working conditions.

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The workers also 
spray pesticides

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and in most cases they do not wear 
the necessary protective equipment

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like masks, gloves and boots.

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Can you imagine that one 
can work like that?

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Without mask, 
suit and boots?

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Do you think that 
this means having rights?

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You need to do 
something to help us.

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We foreigners are overwhelmed by
this and this work is not good for us.

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We want to work in the protection 
of your law, that they pay us fairly,

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that they get our payroll right,
because these people…

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Without suit, without boots one cannot 
work and it ought not to be like this.

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What we want is for you to help us, 
because these people, look,

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They pay us 32, pay us 
just for 15 or 17 days.

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We work the entire month.

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This is not within the law.

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What we want, 
is for you to help us.

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For you to help us, 
because things cannot continue like this.

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The farmland of Europe is in Almeria.

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And considering the fact that there 
are so many fruit products,

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this means there is exploitation
throughout the entire year.

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And the price of these products,
a lot of times they are established

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are established by the chains from 
France, from Germany, understand?

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The countries where 
these products are exported,

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have to be conscious 
of the manual labor

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that works in the fields where 
these products are harvested.

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It’s a labor force, 
a group of workers

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which are exploited by 
the big companies here in Almeria.

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And then every six months,
they rename the company,

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or more specifically 
the name of the boss.

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This shows up on the paystub,

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this doesn’t really matter to us,
what we care about is working.

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But in the last two years, almost 
all of the contracts have the same name.

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The name is Juárez and Maldonado. 
That is what we know.

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You see? The contract says 
the wage is 5.84 an hour,

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they only pay you four euros.

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It’s a trick.

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What you take home is different

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from what is stated in the 
Social Security account.

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17 years ago we said the same thing:

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In Almeria they don’t respect 
any agriculture laws.

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Today we are demonstrating 
that 17 years of protest

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have led to this.

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Have led to what 
we are seeing today.

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The 22 comrades fired by
Juárez and Maldonado.

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And they ask us what 
we are doing here?

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We are doing this because 
we know about the connection.

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between the managers of this 
company and Agrupaejido

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One of them was 
president of Agrupaejido.

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And so we have decided 
to demonstrate
right here,

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to denounce this injustice.

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They get to the level 
of saying, look

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„if you don’t like this 
job, stop working,

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go to your house 
and denounce me“.

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Because of the way 
the law works here,

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if you denounce a company or a boss,
the case will take two or three years.

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So they prefer to fire you.

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They kick you out and 
then you denounce them.

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They don’t offer solutions.

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They are always trying to figure out 
how to maneuver just within the law.

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hey don’t talk straight,
they actually don’t talk at all.

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We are waiting to see what the law says.

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We are waiting to see whether 
accountability exists in this country or not.

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We want justice!

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We want justice, 
we want our rights.

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We want a fair 
agreement in Nijar.

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We don’t want workers to be 
caught in a precarious position

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where after working 
they can’t pay rent.

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We don’t poor workers,
we want dignified workers.

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That’s why we have to think about 
securing the agricultural law in Almería

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and in Nijar in particular.

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An attack on one
is an attack on us all

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We want justice!

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Agricultural subsidies are economic
benefits for the businessmen

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that facilitates their work and 
agricultural production.

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This should have a positive 
effect on workers salaries

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it should allow them to respect 
the salaries of the workers.

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But this isn’t the case.

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The role of the state 
is very relative.

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Here the public administration 
knows exactly what is going on.

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The General Treasury 
of Social Security

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knows that there is fraud 
in social security.

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Because the companies don’t actually 
pay the days that are worked.

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They pay less, 
and that is well known.

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The Labor inspector is also 
aware of the situation.

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The Office of Housing also 
knows what is going on

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and so does the 
Council of Andalucia

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the Deputy Government 
knows as well.

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And yet they don’t enact 
the necessary 
mechanisms

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so there is no enforcement, 
not at the level of the Labor inspections

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not in general regarding 
the companies.

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Nor is there enforcement by the Housing
Inspector in regards to these companies

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to put an end to their non-compliance, 
or to the fiscal and Social Security fraud.

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Within the companies’ administration

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the immigrants, 
especially women

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we deal with 
a lot of humiliation.

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It’s difficult to confront because 
if you have some complaint

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the first thing you see 
is the back door

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because they fire you.

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You don’t have the right 
to make complaints.

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More than anything, 
in this province,

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there are a lot of families that are 
owners of the land, landholders.

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So it’s difficult to make a 
denunciation, to present a complaint.

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You aren’t heard, and as a woman, 
it’s even more complicated.

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I imagined it 
a long time ago

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it seems like a dream.

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It’s as if I was asleep and 
a dream comes to me:

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to get to the point 
where I can denounce

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all of this to the world 
and to all of Europe.

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And to those who 
defend human rights,

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they must speak out

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they must do something 
as soon as possible.

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That the the people 
here are like slaves.

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When someone tells you:

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"If you want to, keep wor king, 
if not, go home and denounce me.“

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He knows the law will protect him.

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Part 2: Days of Mourning

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We are here because they 
snatched life away from us

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they took a loved one

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a friend, a family member, a comrade, 
a worker, a neighbor of this town.

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It was the month 
of March, in his house.

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That’s where it happened, 
what we are mourning today.

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His daughter called 112

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the Civil Guards arrived

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and while they tried 
to arrest him, he died

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I call the ambulance,
 I tell them "my father is sick

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he took more than the 
normal dose of his pills."

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Minutes later, the police come,
they knock loudly.

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They put the first handcuff 
and they have him on the floor

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he had the other hand on his stomach,
they don’t want to let him go.

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And he is on the ground yelling 
"Help, I don’t want to go! Help!“

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I am behind, with the 
neighbor and my mother

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telling them, "Stop, he 
has Parkinson, he is sick!“

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They threatened me with a baton
and they told me to get out of the way.

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One was kicking him with his foot, 
the other was on top of him.

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They kick him and give him 
everything right in his head

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and have him 
all scared up.

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If you knew: we waited a 
half an hour for an ambulance.

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The attack happens here, 
but it starts at the border.

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If they adopt laws that prevent people 
from moving freely on European soil.

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It's in the rules of the capitalist rulers 
of Europe where the attack begins.

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Then this it functions through the
repressive organs of the state,

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such as the police, the 
Civil Guard and the authorities.

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Unless they understand that 
the public and the labor authorities

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do not accept the laws, 
they will not stop

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They think that they can take 
every chance to be repressive

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to act, often violently.

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They act outside the law

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whether it’s national law 
or international law.

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It is outrageous!

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But it gets even worse because the 
media doesn’t tell the truth either.

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Newspaper: Death of a man from a 
heart attack after attacking his wife

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Everything was done to make sure that 
the the Civil Guards were not blamed.

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They have covered up the 
issue of domestic violence.

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And even the issue 
of heart attacks.

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That can not be!

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We live in a country 
with the so-called rule of law

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and then something 
like that can happen.

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There is the face of 
state power! It’s outrageous!

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And then the media still lie: they have 
not interviewed all the witnesses.

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How long will this go on? Will we have
to endure these lies for a century.

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It is clear that this country 
needs a big work force:

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this comes from Morocco 
and other African countries.

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And the first thing they have done 
is to segregate the people.

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On the other hand, in terms of hiring,
the segregation is even desirable.

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It leads to the exclusion 
of hundreds of workers,

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condemned to poverty 
and temporary work.

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On the whole, the system 
is a vicious circle.

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This is not a 
political demonstration:

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we only demand justice.

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We not only demand justice 
from the Spanish authorities,

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but also from our authorities.

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From the consul of Morocco, 
the Moroccan, Senegalese

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and remaining 
African governments.

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They should see 
what is happening here.

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We are very concerned 
about the incidents

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Last Friday, it was Hamid, 
next time it could be someone else.

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We are people, not animals!

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The state power are the Civil Guard, 
the police, the lawyers,

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the judges, the prosecutors

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They simply do 
what they please here.

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In other cases they 
wouldn’t be able to.

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Elsewhere in Spain 
that had not happened.

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I know that the repressive institutions 
have acted differently in a other regions.

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We are in the 21st century. We deserve 
respect because we are workers.

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We want to become citizens 
of the world, as they are -

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the Europeans: first world 
citizens and first class citizens.

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They go to third world countries 
and do as they please.

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They should let us make 
our life here easy.

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We can longer stand it!

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We move between the 
greenhouse and the apartment -

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between the apartment and 
the greenhouse. This is not life!

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The companies in this province want 
to control the settings of the workers,

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because they are 
interested in cheap labor.

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Just so that they can remain in 
competition against other industries

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and types of production.

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There is no real interest 
in solving these problems

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and we have to assume that 
such incidents will be repeated.

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The violence finds its expression in 
racism, and becomes a so-called

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racial issue, but in reality 
it has an economic cause.

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The economic causes, 
the injustices, exclusion, poverty.

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All this is supporting 
this shitty system.

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We want them to tell us, 
how Hamid died

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We are not accusing them, 
but he died in their hands.

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His family, the society, 
everyone here

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is demanding justice.

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We want justice!

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We demand justice! Justice, 
peace, solidarity and coexistence.

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We are people, not animals. 
We are Muslims, but still people.

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Epilogue: The fight continues.

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Therefore, to make our 
goal of public opinion clear

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that this is a problem 
all over the world.

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If we are silent, 
they will eat us.

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If we do not criticize, they will 
continue to play their games

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and sell their products.

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Because wild capitalism is 
just that! We need strength.

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we need to work together with 
consumers around the world

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anywhere where 
these goods come.

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We do not want 
to remain slaves.

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Economic dependence is a disgrace
to humanity and we must reject it!

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We need to change 
that and therefore

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we are, you are in 
this fight it, together.

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We must not let them continue. 
We must raise our voices.

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We need to stay awake and illuminate 
all injustices to get things changed.

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Our point of view 
is the following:

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The workers are exploited.

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We need support, we need partnerships 
and alliances to defeat this system.

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The road will be difficult, but we 
will remain awake and fight it!