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The Surge

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"I know you're there.

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I know you are afraid.

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You are afraid of us.

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You are afraid of change.

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I don't know the future.

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I didn't come here to tell you
you how it all ends.

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I came to tell you:
how it's going to begin.

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I'm going to hang up this phone

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and then I'll show all these people
what you don't want them to see.

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a world without you.

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A world without laws and controls,

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without limits or borders,
a world where everything is possible.

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What we do with it is up to you."

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"Yellow vests, what is your profession?!"

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Welcome to the cinema
of the yellow vests.

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with images collected on the Internet,

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we will trace the history of
the revolutionary movement

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to better understand its trajectories.

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A story of revolution
and counter-revolution.

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The story of a popular insurrection
versus its political recuperation.

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4,200,000 internet users join
1500 Facebook groups.

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Groups unite behind names

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of geographic locations 
with the word: "Angry".

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All groups decide to organise blockades

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to fight against rising petrol prices.

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Given the time zone difference

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between Reunion Island
and mainland France:

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With a four-hour head start,
our story begins on the island

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where the first roadblock is erected.

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It is the first of 27 roadblocks 
that paralyse the island.

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The airport, the port, 
the town hall and main roads.

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The island is completely blocked.

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The State orders a curfew.

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In protest, 
yellow vests organise parties,

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BBQs and open-mics in front of 
the administrative authority building.

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Let's cycle around a small peripheral 
town of 15,000 inhabitants.

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The yellow vests have blocked
four major roads axis,

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making it impossible to travel in or out.

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More than 2000 roadblocks
paralyse the country

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and it's only the beginning.

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Hold on tight, here comes:
The story of the yellow vests.

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"If you don't have a car: you can't work.

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If you can't work, you don't have a car,
it's a cycle

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We don't have the power
to stand up to them,

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We want the power to make decisions."

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"I am willing to pay
for younger generations.

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that's what my retirement is for.

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I help my children 
and grandchildren.

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But with what Mr Macron is doing

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at some point,

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we won't be able to help our
children and grandchildren anymore."

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"The rise of petrol means that
we pay extra to be exploited

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and we're fed up with it, 
there is a lack of purchasing power

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the main problem are the wages"

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"From what I can see

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there are different social stratas, 
different trades

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If blockades continue over time
it will affect more people,

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it will be great.

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The participation of 
political parties bothers me.

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I'm glad the movement is apolitical

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because I don't fit into any of the parties.

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Political parties can
recuperate all they they want

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I don't think it will change anything.

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People don't feel attachment to parties.

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Change is going to come
from citizen movements.

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I am ready to follow the movement

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It's not in one day that 
we can make things move,

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It doesn't bother
the traffic enough.

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We need something stronger!"

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In several towns,
high school students join the struggle.

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High school students demonstrate against
a high school reform,

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but above all they join the movement

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to take part in the revolution.

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Many workers drive
through this roundabout.

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These roads lead to different
toll booth infrastructures

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which are occupied by other
groups of yellow vests.

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The Ministry deplores the fact
more police are injured in three days

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than during the notorious three months 
battles of the ZAD NDDL.

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The police clear the road on one side.

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On the other, the yellow vests
build a bigger barricade.

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We know the terrain,
we are local, these are our roads.

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We know where to find 
equipment to block continuously.

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"The rally continues on the A8 motorway.

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the yellow vests raise the barriers."

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We let them go through,

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we indicate to each motorist

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that the toll is free.

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A free toll operation,
because we don't have to pay anymore.

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From now on, we won't pay."

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There is no one to negotiate with.

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The movement has no head.

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There are no trade union organisations.
There are no proclaimed leaders.

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Since the 17th November,
there have been attempts to occupy

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ports, refineries
and oil depots.

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Attacking strategic sectors is
effective in destabilising the economy.

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On the island of La Réunion:

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The economy is paralysed
throughout the territory.

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If the yellow vests are not 
concentrated on sites of production,

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it is because they are relocated.

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Occupying the network nodes between
home and workplace

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proves itself an affective strategy.

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"It's like this every night?

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And until ?"

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"We finish at midnight and the
next morning we start again at 6:30."

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"There aren't many here yet,

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What time do they arrive?"

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"Around 8:30, after school."

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"So there are a lot of
parents who come.

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And the movement, do you think
it will last much longer?"

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"I hope it will last for a long time.

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We are on the attack and we must
show that we will not give up."

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In a shopping centres parking lot

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a yellow vest carries an 
explosive charge around his neck.

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He threatens to blow himself up

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if the president does not receive the 
movement at the government's head center.

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He surrenders after 6 hours of negotiations.

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Some say that the government 
should be directly attacked.

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Workers trying to make ends meet

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shouldn't be made to 
suffer from the blockades.

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Blocked people call
for more radical modes of action.

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Employers come to the roundabout

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to say that their workers will not 
be paid if the blockades continue.

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Entrepreneurs fear losing 
their jobs to competition.

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They plead for the movement

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to continue without preventing
people from working.

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Middle class people think

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that their role is to find
tactical alternatives.

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They don't want the movement to
compromise the economy.

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Overall,

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people agree to stop blocking traffic

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but continue to slow traffic 
down with roadblocks.

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The movement remains strong because

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occupation points become places 
of life where action committees

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further the movement
on diverse trajectories.

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"We block the tax centre to 
stop money entering the state

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and to express the anger 
of the French population."

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"Who agrees to settle a camp
in front of the mayor's house?

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We can do it,
We'll do Christmas in front of your house!"

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Actions are organised against
government buildings, town halls,

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municipal halls,

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political party headquarters,
public finance centres.

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75% of the speed cameras are sabotaged.

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Members of Parliament 
receive death threats.

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"If you'r looking for the one in charge, 
I'm here, come and get me!"

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"Emmanuel Macron you moron

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we're coming to get you in your home!"

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"The succession of the yellow vests is assured."

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"Emmanuel Macron oh you moron 
we're coming to get you in your home!"

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Many groups have stopped blocking roads

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However 700 blockades are still active.

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Wrongfully, all media channels claim that
the movement is running out of steam.

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Groups join others
to build bigger camps.

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Every minute, new facebook
pages and groups are created.

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People take work leave, others resign 
their jobs to commit themselves 100%.

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"Somewhere in Brittany,
a small village resists

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The Plougonven, commune
of 3400 inhabitants.

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And we are here today to find
the secret of their famous potion

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to federate so many yellow vests.

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But then, tell me

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What is the secret of your potion?"

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"A lot of taxes,
a lot of contempt,

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crumbs from the government and a carrot!"

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"Our live streams are great!

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on the other hand, you behind
your screens, you don't move!

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We are here!"

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"The fuel depot is blocked.

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there are several supermarkets
with no fuel in their tanks.

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We'v been here 2 days, with construction 
equipment, we are blocking everything."

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"And those who are in this area, 
come here!

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We need people !

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Oh, the riotpolice are in action
on the port of Saint-Nazaire."

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"We are at the roundabout here,
at the entrance of the port.

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they are moving forward,

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it looks like they're going to charge!

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If they react so quickly it means

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we've hit the right spot!

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It's the port!

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It's strategic!
we need to hold it! We need people here!"

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"We are in contact with eight
other groups in Bordeaux.

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each of them has a spokesperson.

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We regularly go to Bordeaux to unite.

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We must all unite against the 
government and defend ourselves

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I ask you one simple thing:

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let's all stick together and act
in the same direction.

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There is no competition between groups,
there are no leaders,

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there's nothing of all that!

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So now, the government,
we're going to hit it hard.

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I guarantee you that at the next
action, they will hear us!"

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"We also call for groups to build huts

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or a "house of the people"
like in Saint-Nazaire.

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In short, a place of 
meet and organisation.

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Coordinate ourselves geographically,
on an equal footing, that's how we can win

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because the State can't
counter this form of organisation.

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If we appoint representatives and 
spokespersons, it will render us passive,

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even worse, we will 
quickly reproduce the system

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from top to bottom
like the scoundrels who rule us.

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From Commercy, we call for
the creation of popular committees

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that operate with regular general assemblies.

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Let's refuse political recuperation!

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Long live direct democracy!

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Let's take back the power over our lives.

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Long live the yellow vests
in their diversity!

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Long live power to the people
by the people and for the people!"

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"BDE road workers with us, 
road workers with us!"

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"The workers of BDE have
demanded to withdraw !"

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The workers of the private company

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paid to dismantle the camp
refuse to do the job.

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As soon as the police leave,
We reconquer the roundabout.

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"The roundabout is ours!"

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To celebrate victory:

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We rebuild the camp.

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On this specefic roudabout

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more than 80 huts are
built and rebuilt.

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When the time comes,
someone sings the national anthem.

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It is like a victory cry.

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Some say that this makes us
populists and nationalists,

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but it is simply a song
that we have in common.

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It makes us feel like we are
living a historical moment.

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The next day, 
riots relocate in cities,

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consequence of frustration
of losing outlying territories.

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"We must stop pacifism !"

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In Charleville-Mézières, barricades 
block the adminstrative authority.

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In Narbonne, it is vandalised.

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In Puy-en-Velay, 
police try to hold it's gates

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they receive 27 pound 
stones that shatter their helmets.

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Strategic infrastructures
are seized all over France.

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In the capital, 
the Arc de Triomphe is ours !

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Revamped with the slogan :
"The yellow vests will triumph"

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In a small commune barely 
populated by 3000 inhabitants,

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The riot never ends,

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It's agitative intensity rivals

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with that of 70 towns in the country.

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"It's civil war !"

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We regroup as a bloc and charge.

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Paving stones, bolts, paint and acid
are thrown at the police.

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300 police officers are 
injured more or less seriously.

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Almost 10,000 tear gas grenades are used.

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The police desert the streets,

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fires are set in front
of police stations.

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Police vehicles are set on fire.

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Three buildings of the
administrative authority are on fire.

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One burns down completely.

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The republic is about to fall,
crushed by its desire for control.

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Counter Insurgency

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The police union declares it 
is an insurrectionary situation.

247
01:18:20,680 --> 01:18:24,279
They talk about the need 
of a curfew and army.

248
01:18:24,439 --> 01:18:26,920
"Sir, you have a yellow vest here.

249
01:18:26,920 --> 01:18:29,600
right wing left wing, I don't care.

250
01:18:29,600 --> 01:18:32,920
I can't buy christmas
presents for my son.

251
01:18:32,920 --> 01:18:35,000
I pity you. 
You don't scare me.

252
01:18:35,000 --> 01:18:36,159
I will tell you openly:

253
01:18:36,159 --> 01:18:37,720
Yes, I broke things on Saturday.

254
01:18:37,720 --> 01:18:39,960
Yes, I fought with riot police.

255
01:18:39,960 --> 01:18:41,439
Saturday, I'll go again

256
01:18:41,439 --> 01:18:44,279
if Macron doesn't understand, 
I'll break things again.

257
01:18:44,279 --> 01:18:48,279
Tell Mr. Macron:
People are going to come with weapons!

258
01:18:48,279 --> 01:18:52,239
Sir, you don't scare us
by whining all day about violence.

259
01:18:52,239 --> 01:18:55,279
Your spectators know that everyone 
are breaking and burning things!

260
01:18:55,279 --> 01:18:59,680
I am not a black bloc. Open your ears:
I am a yellow vest who is dying!

261
01:18:59,680 --> 01:19:01,920
Yes we break things,
That's it.

262
01:19:01,920 --> 01:19:03,920
We break and burn
if you don't get the message.

263
01:19:03,920 --> 01:19:05,079
Is it clear ??

264
01:19:05,079 --> 01:19:07,640
This is not a protest,
this is war !

265
01:19:07,640 --> 01:19:10,000
Sir, you give us lessons of morality

266
01:19:10,000 --> 01:19:12,319
but you are incapable of 
living the life of the people.

267
01:19:12,319 --> 01:19:16,319
You are incapable of living
the life of the people !"

268
01:19:25,079 --> 01:19:29,359
300 petrol stations are completely out of fuel.

269
01:19:29,399 --> 01:19:34,399
"I am in favour of finding solutions,
like free public transport for example,

270
01:19:34,399 --> 01:19:38,079
we don't give money to pay for 
new carpets at the Elysée Palace!"

271
01:19:39,279 --> 01:19:42,520
"We create groups on social networks,
we meet in front of school at 7:30

272
01:19:42,520 --> 01:19:45,079
we call each other
and we all meet up."

273
01:19:45,079 --> 01:19:46,680
"They fight for us,

274
01:19:46,680 --> 01:19:48,439
we have to fight with them too.

275
01:19:48,439 --> 01:19:50,279
we are all affected."

276
01:19:50,279 --> 01:19:52,000
"My parents,
they are not here today,

277
01:19:52,000 --> 01:19:56,399
but they are part of the movement, 
everyone is, my family, everyone !"

278
01:19:56,880 --> 01:20:00,000
"the government removed the tax on wealth,

279
01:20:00,000 --> 01:20:03,479
while most people don't have

280
01:20:03,479 --> 01:20:06,680
enough money to support themselves

281
01:20:06,680 --> 01:20:11,119
he chooses to give money to
the rich who already have enough.

282
01:20:11,560 --> 01:20:13,319
How many people are here ?!

283
01:20:16,279 --> 01:20:19,960
Yellow and red together !"

284
01:20:27,560 --> 01:20:31,880
"For or against the demonstration ?
For, raise your hand !"

285
01:20:35,039 --> 01:20:42,000
"Emmanuel Macron, president of bosses,
we're going to break everything in your house !"

286
01:20:48,960 --> 01:20:51,720
"Today, we are all protesting against

287
01:20:51,720 --> 01:20:54,439
the reform concerning study orientation.

288
01:20:54,439 --> 01:20:55,680
We know very well that,

289
01:20:55,680 --> 01:20:58,800
a grade in our school will not
have the same value as a grade

290
01:20:58,800 --> 01:21:02,000
from a high school
of the city centre.

291
01:21:02,000 --> 01:21:04,079
We denounce the reinforcement of

292
01:21:04,079 --> 01:21:08,000
inequalities to access higher education"

293
01:21:49,319 --> 01:21:52,960
"Hopefully they won't bring out the army,

294
01:21:52,960 --> 01:21:55,680
that's our concern, 
if the army is brought out

295
01:21:55,680 --> 01:21:58,039
it's the revolution,
it's civil war.

296
01:21:58,039 --> 01:22:02,600
Because those who go to saturday protests,
go to break things !

297
01:22:02,600 --> 01:22:05,319
The ones we try to hold back

298
01:22:05,319 --> 01:22:10,960
won't protest on their own,
nor with empty pockets."

299
01:22:13,239 --> 01:22:17,159
Student protests continue to escalate
on December 6th.

300
01:22:17,159 --> 01:22:20,039
More than 200 high schools 
are blocked.

301
01:22:20,039 --> 01:22:22,760
In Toulouse, 
police officers are injured.

302
01:22:22,760 --> 01:22:25,439
A journalist is beaten
and his camera is stolen.

303
01:22:25,439 --> 01:22:29,319
The other journalists are
chased out of the demonstration.

304
01:22:33,800 --> 01:22:36,680
700 high school students are arrested.

305
01:22:36,680 --> 01:22:38,000
In Mantes-la-Jolie,

306
01:22:38,039 --> 01:22:43,119
police officers humiliate the students,
forcing them to kneel for two hours.

307
01:22:44,840 --> 01:22:47,520
"This is a class that behaves itself."

308
01:22:47,520 --> 01:22:49,800
The police film the scene themselves

309
01:22:49,800 --> 01:22:53,399
and broadcast the video to
send a direct message:

310
01:22:53,399 --> 01:22:57,720
the police are ready to wage war
against the population.

311
01:22:58,479 --> 01:23:01,960
Police forbid boarding trains to Paris,

312
01:23:02,479 --> 01:23:05,199
Traffic is not halted by Yellow vests

313
01:23:05,199 --> 01:23:07,840
but by police blockades.

314
01:23:07,840 --> 01:23:09,520
Those who got up early enough

315
01:23:09,520 --> 01:23:11,520
to arrive on time are
arrested preventively .

316
01:23:11,520 --> 01:23:16,840
"Our group from the Jura 
was arrested straight away !

317
01:23:17,159 --> 01:23:20,479
for nothing, just because
we had helmets."

318
01:23:20,479 --> 01:23:23,960
"We're coming to get you in your home !"

319
01:23:23,960 --> 01:23:30,199
"The police officer points out a steering rod
lying at the foot of the passenger,

320
01:23:30,199 --> 01:23:33,079
and we are taken into custody on
the charge of :

321
01:23:33,079 --> 01:23:35,600
participation in an armed gathering."

322
01:23:36,520 --> 01:23:37,920
"If you want to stay alive,

323
01:23:37,920 --> 01:23:39,880
go home, you have nothing to do here."

324
01:23:39,880 --> 01:23:43,399
Kill them all, God will know his own.

325
01:23:43,399 --> 01:23:46,079
A modern legislative crusade is waged

326
01:23:46,079 --> 01:23:49,439
to criminalise freedom of expression
and liberty of movement.

327
01:23:49,439 --> 01:23:51,920
The state uses punitive violence,

328
01:23:51,920 --> 01:23:54,520
they hit without
distinction to spread terror.

329
01:23:54,520 --> 01:23:56,399
In the doctrine of policing:

330
01:23:56,399 --> 01:23:58,159
people who deserve to be spared

331
01:23:58,159 --> 01:24:01,119
are those who leave as soon
as they witness repression.

332
01:24:01,119 --> 01:24:04,640
Those who persist
must be punished.

333
01:24:08,920 --> 01:24:11,199
In spite of the prohibitions to board trains

334
01:24:11,199 --> 01:24:15,359
people arrive from 
everywhere at different times.

335
01:24:15,359 --> 01:24:17,199
There is no ordered procession.

336
01:24:17,199 --> 01:24:20,680
It is a gigantic walk
that seeks the gates of the Elysée.

337
01:24:21,439 --> 01:24:23,560
The streets are yellow with people.

338
01:24:23,560 --> 01:24:25,279
Paris is flooded again.

339
01:24:25,319 --> 01:24:27,119
"We understand very well what we want

340
01:24:27,119 --> 01:24:29,000
and what we don't want most of all."

341
01:24:29,000 --> 01:24:31,880
"Tax evasion!"

342
01:24:31,880 --> 01:24:35,279
"Only 1 billion ?!"
"60 billion !"

343
01:24:35,279 --> 01:24:37,520
"Macron creates tax niches

344
01:24:37,520 --> 01:24:39,680
and defiscalises capital,

345
01:24:39,680 --> 01:24:44,760
the CICE, the wealth tax
wealth tax (ISF), the flat tax.

346
01:24:44,760 --> 01:24:47,760
these reforms lead to less revenue
for the state

347
01:24:47,760 --> 01:24:50,800
so they have to make up
for the lost money,

348
01:24:50,800 --> 01:24:52,560
hence the taxe on diesel

349
01:24:52,560 --> 01:24:55,920
or close down public services!
That's what happens!

350
01:24:55,920 --> 01:24:57,560
Money doesn't trickle,

351
01:24:57,560 --> 01:25:00,600
But it exists!
We have to go and get it!"

352
01:25:00,600 --> 01:25:03,159
"Girls in number
at the demonstration,

353
01:25:03,159 --> 01:25:06,000
the women are here!
Women are yellow vests!

354
01:25:06,000 --> 01:25:09,800
It’s not only men, and 
fascists get out of our struggle!"

355
01:25:10,800 --> 01:25:13,920
A protestor watches the news 
on his phone to see where to go.

356
01:25:13,920 --> 01:25:18,119
Today, 13 million televisions
are following the uprising.

357
01:25:18,119 --> 01:25:21,640
The Army makes strategic decisions
based on feedback from the control room,

358
01:25:21,640 --> 01:25:25,000
but also from live television news channels.

359
01:25:25,000 --> 01:25:27,960
The media says there are 31000 
demonstrators throughout France

360
01:25:27,960 --> 01:25:30,119
and 8000 in Paris.

361
01:25:30,119 --> 01:25:34,840
They say that 89,000 police officers have been
deployed and outnumber the demonstrators

362
01:25:34,840 --> 01:25:38,000
thus claiming that the movement
is running out of steam.

363
01:25:38,680 --> 01:25:42,319
The media broadcast the image 
of a netted demonstration,

364
01:25:42,319 --> 01:25:45,199
to represent the movement
as contained and restrained.

365
01:25:45,199 --> 01:25:47,680
The camera's view from the helicopter

366
01:25:47,680 --> 01:25:50,920
is never shared live on
live television

367
01:25:50,920 --> 01:25:55,680
because it would risk showing
that there are demonstrators everywhere.

368
01:25:55,680 --> 01:25:57,880
The editorialists make invisible all

369
01:25:57,880 --> 01:26:01,520
regional blockades that take place
outside Paris.

370
01:26:01,520 --> 01:26:05,319
In Brittany, police are under attack!

371
01:26:05,319 --> 01:26:08,800
Throughout the province,
extraordinary barricades are

372
01:26:08,800 --> 01:26:12,279
erected and the 
situation is out of control.

373
01:26:12,279 --> 01:26:15,439
For their communication battle,
they keep their focal point on Paris,

374
01:26:15,439 --> 01:26:19,520
They repeat that 89,000 police officers
have been deployed and have restored order.

375
01:26:19,520 --> 01:26:22,479
1450 have been arrested in Paris.

376
01:26:22,479 --> 01:26:24,640
Until now the strategy of the media was

377
01:26:24,640 --> 01:26:27,640
to represent the movement as
running out of steam by itself

378
01:26:27,640 --> 01:26:29,560
Now they represent the movement

379
01:26:29,560 --> 01:26:33,279
being suppressed by 
the force of the state.

380
01:26:33,279 --> 01:26:36,279
In the afternoon, in total silence,

381
01:26:36,279 --> 01:26:41,000
protestors are forced to to accept 
the immediate appearance in court procedure.

382
01:26:41,000 --> 01:26:46,119
For lack of knowledge of the judicial
system and corrupt court-appointed lawyers

383
01:26:46,119 --> 01:26:50,279
they are sentenced without
investigation and caged like cattle.

384
01:26:51,399 --> 01:26:54,760
Near Limoges, a small group that 
had created the Yellow Vest local page

385
01:26:54,760 --> 01:26:59,079
hijack it and change its name 
to "Collectif citoyen 87".

386
01:26:59,079 --> 01:27:01,600
They invite representatives
of political parties:

387
01:27:01,640 --> 01:27:04,640
The Communist party, The Republican party,
the Socialist party,

388
01:27:04,640 --> 01:27:09,720
A populist far right party, 
Marine Lepen's party and Macron's party.

389
01:27:09,720 --> 01:27:13,479
to a private meeting with 
the page's administrators.

390
01:27:13,479 --> 01:27:16,560
"Thank you all for coming, I welcome you

391
01:27:16,560 --> 01:27:21,119
and I hope we will have a 
great evening of democracy.

392
01:27:21,119 --> 01:27:23,479
The local yellow vests are informed

393
01:27:23,479 --> 01:27:26,439
via a video broadcasted by journalists.

394
01:27:26,439 --> 01:27:32,119
Being uninvited,
they show up and try to enter the room,

395
01:27:32,119 --> 01:27:35,399
they are turned away by security
guards present for this purpose.

396
01:27:35,399 --> 01:27:40,000
One of the page administrators
goes out to meet them.

397
01:27:41,119 --> 01:27:43,479
"we don't represent the yellow vests

398
01:27:43,479 --> 01:27:46,920
but we represent our group,
that's all!"

399
01:27:46,920 --> 01:27:51,079
Your group ?!"

400
01:28:04,960 --> 01:28:10,800
There can be no secrecy or 
deals made behind closed doors.

401
01:28:11,199 --> 01:28:13,399
Benjamin Cauchy, an imposter spokesman

402
01:28:13,399 --> 01:28:16,960
self-proclaims himself 
the representative of Toulouse

403
01:28:16,960 --> 01:28:19,800
without any consultation or coordination.

404
01:28:19,800 --> 01:28:22,600
"I've come to speak for the
the yellow vests.

405
01:28:22,600 --> 01:28:26,880
Your colleagues in
the South West called me

406
01:28:26,880 --> 01:28:30,319
several times to interview me.

407
01:28:30,319 --> 01:28:31,880
So yes, the Toulouse yellow vests

408
01:28:31,880 --> 01:28:34,720
want that I come speak
with you this morning."

409
01:28:34,720 --> 01:28:38,479
During this time, 600 yellow vests
of Toulouse are gathered.

410
01:28:38,479 --> 01:28:40,199
Cauchy does not mention it.

411
01:28:40,199 --> 01:28:44,119
It's the 2nd General Assembly held in
a large car park in an industrial zone.

412
01:28:44,119 --> 01:28:48,399
Last week, 2 decisions were 
made by way of voting:

413
01:28:48,399 --> 01:28:51,640
The outcome was to not designate
regional representatives.

414
01:28:51,640 --> 01:28:53,760
A month earlier yellow vests

415
01:28:53,760 --> 01:28:56,760
had already countered the media thesis

416
01:28:56,760 --> 01:29:01,159
and declared that he is not a 
representative of the yellow vests.

417
01:29:01,159 --> 01:29:06,359
Despite this, he will make 33 appearances
on the news channel BFMTV.

418
01:29:06,359 --> 01:29:10,960
It is no coincidence that BFM tv sets up 
this kind of impostor as a representative,

419
01:29:10,960 --> 01:29:16,119
an enterprise of recuperation to divert
the movement to the ballot box.

420
01:29:19,920 --> 01:29:23,279
On December 11th, the highschool
blockades reach their peak.

421
01:29:23,279 --> 01:29:25,159
450 high schools are blocked.

422
01:29:25,159 --> 01:29:29,000
Youth show unlimited
determination.

423
01:29:34,720 --> 01:29:36,720
Later in the evening,

424
01:29:36,720 --> 01:29:40,600
five citizens are murdered and eleven
injured on the Christmas market

425
01:29:40,600 --> 01:29:44,560
Daesh claims responsibility 
for the attack.

426
01:29:44,880 --> 01:29:46,880
The police secure public spaces.

427
01:29:46,880 --> 01:29:49,720
A good opportunity to make a
a show of strength

428
01:29:49,720 --> 01:29:53,000
and call for national unity 
against terrorist attacks.

429
01:29:53,000 --> 01:29:56,600
The media display religious fundamentalism 
as the root of all societal violence.

430
01:29:56,600 --> 01:29:59,479
With a sanctimonious attitude they

431
01:29:59,479 --> 01:30:02,600
declare that the yellow vests
should know better than to

432
01:30:02,600 --> 01:30:05,760
attack their own country
and its republican values.

433
01:30:05,760 --> 01:30:08,039
A well-known worldwide 
counter-insurgency strategy

434
01:30:08,039 --> 01:30:10,399
is to counter internal popular uprisings

435
01:30:10,399 --> 01:30:14,000
by diverting attention 
through external interferences.

436
01:30:14,000 --> 01:30:14,920
In this case,

437
01:30:14,920 --> 01:30:18,159
it is Islamic terrorism that
is used to bring the population

438
01:30:18,159 --> 01:30:21,880
to a different solidarity
than that of the yellow vests.

439
01:30:22,159 --> 01:30:24,600
The next day,
a press article states that

440
01:30:24,600 --> 01:30:27,079
600 social media accounts
are Russian bots.

441
01:30:27,079 --> 01:30:28,720
They use this fact to label us

442
01:30:28,720 --> 01:30:32,279
as being confused,
manipulated by external elements,

443
01:30:32,279 --> 01:30:36,640
and try to draw attention once 
again to an alleged interference.

444
01:30:36,640 --> 01:30:38,640
the state uses conspiracy theories

445
01:30:38,640 --> 01:30:40,960
to assert that we are not genuine,

446
01:30:40,960 --> 01:30:43,720
that our anger is confused and unfounded.

447
01:30:43,720 --> 01:30:46,520
Despite their false claims,
millions of people share

448
01:30:46,520 --> 01:30:49,279
anti-government messages
and these messages are very real.

449
01:30:49,880 --> 01:30:52,960
On the eve of Act 6, 
the media intensively recall

450
01:30:52,960 --> 01:30:57,079
the terrorist act and insist that the
climate is too dangerous to protest.

451
01:30:57,079 --> 01:31:01,279
They call for everyone 
to stay home and not demonstrate.

452
01:31:01,800 --> 01:31:05,279
We feel that we are part
of a growing collective force.

453
01:31:05,279 --> 01:31:08,920
Taking the streets
formalises the rupture of two worlds.

454
01:31:08,920 --> 01:31:10,760
Journalists contributing

455
01:31:10,760 --> 01:31:14,119
to the state's counter-revolutionary
media propaganda are attacked.

456
01:31:14,119 --> 01:31:19,479
The media is the main means
by which the movement is reppressed.

457
01:31:19,479 --> 01:31:23,520
"BFM buys the images these people 
and say stupid things with them"

458
01:31:23,520 --> 01:31:26,720
"This is inadmissible, 
you have nothing to do here."

459
01:31:32,800 --> 01:31:36,479
Only independent journalists or
or amateur media are tolerated.

460
01:31:36,479 --> 01:31:40,399
We realise the necessity
of writing our own narrative.

461
01:31:43,720 --> 01:31:46,680
"They understand that it is 
"power" the problem.

462
01:31:46,680 --> 01:31:49,399
it puts shit
between us and divide us

463
01:31:49,399 --> 01:31:51,079
the yellow vests understand this."

464
01:31:51,079 --> 01:31:54,279
"This morning, there is a 
journalist from BFM TV

465
01:31:54,279 --> 01:31:57,279
who ran away because
because BFM is a channel

466
01:31:57,279 --> 01:31:59,520
that uses manipulation
to make people believe

467
01:31:59,520 --> 01:32:01,359
that there are fewer of us".

468
01:32:01,359 --> 01:32:03,560
"I work, I'm over-indebted.

469
01:32:03,560 --> 01:32:04,800
Did you hear that?

470
01:32:05,800 --> 01:32:09,159
I work but i owe more money.

471
01:32:09,800 --> 01:32:11,800
I'm fed up with it.

472
01:32:11,800 --> 01:32:14,880
Excuse me, but I'm sick of it."

473
01:32:14,880 --> 01:32:19,119
Social network influencers have
become autonomous spokespersons

474
01:32:19,119 --> 01:32:22,880
with Facebook livestream videos.

475
01:32:22,880 --> 01:32:24,800
People find authenticity
in their streams

476
01:32:24,800 --> 01:32:27,039
because they cultivate
the values of transparency

477
01:32:27,039 --> 01:32:29,880
raw opinions
without editing or manipulation.

478
01:32:29,880 --> 01:32:32,680
Several livestreamers
write a speech together.

479
01:32:32,680 --> 01:32:36,920
"We address this speech
to all the French people

480
01:32:36,920 --> 01:32:41,560
as well as to the President of the
Republic, Emmanuel Macron.

481
01:32:42,760 --> 01:32:44,600
It's been almost a month since the

482
01:32:44,600 --> 01:32:47,479
the popular movement of the
yellow vests shook France,

483
01:32:47,479 --> 01:32:49,880
This movement belongs to no one
and to everyone."

484
01:32:49,880 --> 01:32:52,960
"To nobody !" 
"And to everyone !" 
"and to nobody !"

485
01:32:52,960 --> 01:32:55,159
"It is the expression of people who,
for 40 years,

486
01:32:55,159 --> 01:32:56,600
has been dispossessed of everything

487
01:32:56,600 --> 01:32:58,279
that allowed them to believe

488
01:32:58,279 --> 01:32:59,680
in their future and greatness."

489
01:32:59,680 --> 01:33:01,119
The government wants to negotiate with

490
01:33:01,119 --> 01:33:02,640
the most popular spokespeople,

491
01:33:02,640 --> 01:33:04,520
but the movement doesn't
want negotiators.

492
01:33:04,520 --> 01:33:06,880
it only wants live filmed interactions

493
01:33:06,880 --> 01:33:09,119
The government refuses the compromise

494
01:33:09,119 --> 01:33:11,720
for fear of being destabilised 
by the tool of transparency

495
01:33:11,720 --> 01:33:14,760
that gives initiative to
to the movement.

496
01:33:14,760 --> 01:33:17,680
So the live-streamers push the movement 
to unite behind one precise demand:

497
01:33:17,680 --> 01:33:21,880
the RIC (referendum of citizen's 
initiative) is perceived as

498
01:33:21,880 --> 01:33:25,000
the popular guillotine, 
a trojan horse of the Constitution

499
01:33:25,000 --> 01:33:28,880
with which we will cut off the head 
of the political system as one voice.

500
01:33:28,880 --> 01:33:32,359
"Because yes, we know that nothing
would bother you more than to give

501
01:33:32,359 --> 01:33:34,680
the people the possibility to be heard.

502
01:33:34,680 --> 01:33:37,319
Here we are, made to beg for
the crumbs of a democracy

503
01:33:37,319 --> 01:33:39,960
that you and your elected 
representatives don't want to give us.

504
01:33:39,960 --> 01:33:41,760
So we come with concrete vigilance

505
01:33:41,760 --> 01:33:43,359
to get out of this democratic crisis:

506
01:33:43,359 --> 01:33:45,399
Present to the French people

507
01:33:45,399 --> 01:33:49,600
by way of a referendum,
a text to amend the constitution

508
01:33:49,600 --> 01:33:51,479
with the aim of introducing

509
01:33:51,479 --> 01:33:55,000
the citizens' initiative referendum 
in all matters."

510
01:34:00,560 --> 01:34:04,319
During the night, the A9 motorway is
subject to multiple actions.

511
01:34:04,319 --> 01:34:08,000
"Stop calling me, it cut's the livestream.
So we're still live at the tollbooth."

512
01:34:08,000 --> 01:34:11,760
At the roundabout up the road from it."

513
01:34:12,640 --> 01:34:14,000
For the last 32 days,

514
01:34:14,000 --> 01:34:16,720
the tolls have been going 
through phases of:

515
01:34:16,720 --> 01:34:19,760
occupation, eviction and sabotage.

516
01:34:39,760 --> 01:34:41,159
On a toll booth,

517
01:34:41,159 --> 01:34:43,640
the yellow vests bring
sand to play petanque

518
01:34:43,640 --> 01:34:45,600
and a sound system to party.

519
01:34:45,600 --> 01:34:47,800
On another toll booth:

520
01:34:47,800 --> 01:34:50,560
Fluorescent yellow is the colour of love.

521
01:34:50,560 --> 01:34:53,119
Chouchoune and Coco Belœil 
join symbolically

522
01:34:53,119 --> 01:34:57,800
with a speech punctuated by 
insults towards the president.

523
01:34:59,319 --> 01:35:04,199
Across the country, fifteen
motorway tolls are in flames.

524
01:35:07,119 --> 01:35:10,359
"I told you it was catching fire, 
here you are."

525
01:35:21,479 --> 01:35:22,800
"Act 1 of the police is coming".

526
01:35:22,800 --> 01:35:24,800
"Act 1 of the police is coming.

527
01:35:24,800 --> 01:35:27,000
The government has met some

528
01:35:27,000 --> 01:35:30,800
of the expectations of
the yellow vests.

529
01:35:30,800 --> 01:35:31,800
You ask him

530
01:35:31,800 --> 01:35:34,840
to do as much for the police."

531
01:35:34,840 --> 01:35:39,159
Will the police join the yellow vests
and demonstrate with them?

532
01:35:39,159 --> 01:35:42,520
The Ministry of the Interior receives three
representatives of police unions.

533
01:35:42,520 --> 01:35:46,119
Unity between the State and police
is being negotiated.

534
01:35:46,119 --> 01:35:49,680
Finally, the police are bought
with bonuses of 300 euros.

535
01:35:49,680 --> 01:35:53,680
The movement of police anger
ends with its first act.

536
01:35:55,640 --> 01:35:58,840
The State orders the dismantling
of all occupation camps.

537
01:35:58,840 --> 01:36:01,800
But this is not a clear 
and concentrated operation.

538
01:36:01,800 --> 01:36:03,640
Local administrations have

539
01:36:03,680 --> 01:36:06,920
the latitude to assess
situations on a case-by-case basis.

540
01:36:06,920 --> 01:36:08,720
The destruction of an occupation site

541
01:36:08,720 --> 01:36:11,039
can halt the organisation 
of the social movement,

542
01:36:11,039 --> 01:36:15,880
but resistance to evictions
can also strengthen the determination

543
01:36:15,880 --> 01:36:19,680
of a group to organise offensives,

544
01:36:19,680 --> 01:36:23,960
simply: cross the street to rebuild a hut.

545
01:37:09,079 --> 01:37:11,760
"We are here in the HQ."

546
01:37:11,760 --> 01:37:15,800
"How are you guys doing? 
How about a little coffee Paris?

547
01:37:16,520 --> 01:37:18,880
"How's it going around here?"

548
01:37:18,880 --> 01:37:20,439
"Very well! Look, we're still here!

549
01:37:20,439 --> 01:37:24,359
We are waiting for the riotpolice!
We are waiting for you guys!"

550
01:37:24,359 --> 01:37:26,600
"What are the projects?"

551
01:37:26,600 --> 01:37:29,119
"To hold on as long as possible,

552
01:37:29,119 --> 01:37:30,720
we're not going to give up !

553
01:37:30,720 --> 01:37:32,960
they can dislodge us,
we'll come back tomorrow!

554
01:37:32,960 --> 01:37:33,920
No matter what.

555
01:37:33,920 --> 01:37:36,000
Right now there are fifty of us,

556
01:37:36,000 --> 01:37:38,359
Other groups who are being evicted

557
01:37:38,359 --> 01:37:40,720
will join our camp tonight.

558
01:37:40,720 --> 01:37:43,039
...and we continue tomorrow.

559
01:37:43,039 --> 01:37:45,439
We're going to spend
the winter holidays here."

560
01:37:46,319 --> 01:37:48,079
"is that what you do for a living ?"

561
01:37:48,079 --> 01:37:49,920
"Look at that, the mayor

562
01:37:49,920 --> 01:37:52,000
dismantling the hut!"

563
01:38:16,560 --> 01:38:20,279
While Burkina Faso, Sudan 
and Zimbabwe demonstrate

564
01:38:20,279 --> 01:38:23,039
against the cost of fuel
without the yellow vest symbol.

565
01:38:23,039 --> 01:38:26,640
In Iraq, a new wave of 
anti-corruption protests appropriate

566
01:38:26,640 --> 01:38:29,560
the symbol to further
their already existing social struggle.

567
01:38:29,560 --> 01:38:33,159
In Morocco, a trade union calls on
technicians to wear vests

568
01:38:33,159 --> 01:38:36,079
during working hours
for the "Week of Anger".

569
01:38:36,079 --> 01:38:38,680
In the United Kingdom,
while a demonstration is burning

570
01:38:38,680 --> 01:38:41,600
the flags of the European Union
in front of the Parliament,

571
01:38:41,600 --> 01:38:44,199
an anti-austerity march brings 
together several unions.

572
01:38:44,199 --> 01:38:47,119
In Holland, Canada, Germany
and Australia,

573
01:38:47,119 --> 01:38:49,199
far right organisations recuperate

574
01:38:49,199 --> 01:38:52,359
the symbol to defend
racist identitarian values.

575
01:38:52,359 --> 01:38:55,880
In Rome, demonstrators march against

576
01:38:55,880 --> 01:38:58,840
the new anti-migrant laws.

577
01:38:58,840 --> 01:39:01,640
In Egypt, customs officers 
seize all the yellow vests

578
01:39:01,640 --> 01:39:04,760
that enter the country
and prohibit their sale.

579
01:39:04,760 --> 01:39:07,039
In Tunisia, a man is arrested

580
01:39:07,039 --> 01:39:10,000
for possession of 
50,000 yellow vests.

581
01:39:10,000 --> 01:39:12,439
Just as in the Arab Spring of 2011,

582
01:39:12,439 --> 01:39:14,800
protests break out in clusters.

583
01:39:14,800 --> 01:39:17,640
Activists imitate each other.

584
01:39:17,640 --> 01:39:21,000
They respond to 
overlapping societal

585
01:39:21,000 --> 01:39:23,279
issues around the world.

586
01:39:24,079 --> 01:39:26,840
The cause may be an ecotax on fuel

587
01:39:26,840 --> 01:39:29,920
but that's just the last straw.

588
01:39:29,920 --> 01:39:33,199
The real reason for the movement is

589
01:39:33,199 --> 01:39:37,680
social injustice and that 
reason is certainly global.

590
01:39:50,640 --> 01:39:53,640
"Solidarity Christmas action,

591
01:39:53,680 --> 01:39:55,880
come if you need gifts,

592
01:39:55,880 --> 01:39:58,720
it's important to do this
for the children."

593
01:40:55,760 --> 01:40:58,479
Three yellow vests try to create an 
association named:

594
01:40:58,479 --> 01:41:00,199
"Yellow vest, the mouvement".

595
01:41:00,199 --> 01:41:02,680
They collaborate with a
former member of parliament

596
01:41:02,680 --> 01:41:06,840
who invites them to a meeting 
in the press room of a newspaper.

597
01:41:06,840 --> 01:41:08,239
In front of the newspaper's headquarters.

598
01:41:08,239 --> 01:41:11,279
The yellow vests organise a
a counter-event and chant:

599
01:41:11,279 --> 01:41:13,199
Collabo!
Collabo!

600
01:41:13,199 --> 01:41:16,119
The movement is leaderless because
leaders get their heads cut off

601
01:41:16,119 --> 01:41:19,039
by media, the state
or by the movement itself.

602
01:41:19,039 --> 01:41:22,079
Becoming a spokesperson for
the movement is risky.

603
01:41:22,079 --> 01:41:25,079
You risk a prison sentence
for calling for insurrection.

604
01:41:25,079 --> 01:41:27,159
"what do you plan to do in front
of the of the government building ?"

605
01:41:27,159 --> 01:41:30,279
"Go inside, it's the symbol 
of the republic, we want to go there."

606
01:41:30,279 --> 01:41:34,680
He is arrested for organising 
an illegal demonstration.

607
01:41:34,680 --> 01:41:38,479
Three months later,
he is acquitted.

608
01:41:38,479 --> 01:41:42,760
Pressure is on, impacting
other pseudo spokespersons.

609
01:41:42,760 --> 01:41:46,720
For fear of being the next ones repressed.

610
01:41:46,720 --> 01:41:50,279
on the go, they call 
for calm and pacifism.

611
01:41:50,279 --> 01:41:52,199
The discourse of the yellow vests is

612
01:41:52,199 --> 01:41:55,640
drowned from within 
by counter-revolutionary words.

613
01:41:55,640 --> 01:41:58,920
Yellow vests invited on TV platforms
face polemicists

614
01:41:58,920 --> 01:42:01,560
whose aim is to feed a
discourse of dissociation.

615
01:42:01,560 --> 01:42:02,960
"Do you condemn violence ?"

616
01:42:02,960 --> 01:42:05,880
"To condemn or not to condemn ?

617
01:42:05,880 --> 01:42:08,800
I will explain instead 
of just ranting on

618
01:42:08,800 --> 01:42:10,319
What I say is :

619
01:42:10,319 --> 01:42:13,800
If the rioters are condemned 
the government must also be condemned.

620
01:42:13,800 --> 01:42:15,479
Yes, I condemn violence
but on both sides.

621
01:42:15,479 --> 01:42:17,880
It's been 40 years
that the government has been

622
01:42:17,880 --> 01:42:20,199
violent with people,
psychologically, financially,

623
01:42:20,199 --> 01:42:23,199
This leads tens of thousands
people to kill themselves every year.

624
01:42:23,199 --> 01:42:25,840
If it wasn't for that, people 
wouldn't be out in the streets.

625
01:42:25,840 --> 01:42:27,520
If there had been a political 
response from the start

626
01:42:27,520 --> 01:42:29,399
there would be no
one in the streets."

627
01:42:44,760 --> 01:42:46,840
On a bridge, protestors
try to break out

628
01:42:46,840 --> 01:42:49,640
of the perimeter restricted by riotpolice

629
01:42:49,640 --> 01:42:54,319
so they can demonstrate in strategic
places of power.

630
01:42:57,279 --> 01:43:00,359
Christophe Dettinger, 
boxing champion of 2008,

631
01:43:00,359 --> 01:43:01,960
succeeds in breaking through.

632
01:43:01,960 --> 01:43:04,000
Another group finds a way to

633
01:43:04,000 --> 01:43:06,680
to go up the bridge from the bottom.

634
01:43:06,680 --> 01:43:08,319
Dettinger straddles a barrier

635
01:43:08,319 --> 01:43:11,319
and shows that strength
can reverse humiliation.

636
01:43:11,319 --> 01:43:16,399
A heroic figure of proletarian
self-defence is born.

637
01:43:36,279 --> 01:43:39,159
He steps on a grenade
that contains 25 gram of TNT

638
01:43:39,199 --> 01:43:41,000
As if it is nothing.

639
01:43:51,960 --> 01:43:56,960
145,000 euros are raised
to pay his legal fees

640
01:43:56,960 --> 01:44:01,520
The directors of the crowdfunding
website have links with politicians.

641
01:44:01,520 --> 01:44:03,800
They block Dettinger's fundraising

642
01:44:03,800 --> 01:44:07,920
not because of a court decision,
but because of political pressure.

643
01:44:07,920 --> 01:44:12,159
"It would indeed be desirable to 
know who has given to this fund

644
01:44:12,159 --> 01:44:15,159
because I think it's
a form of complicity."

645
01:44:15,159 --> 01:44:19,279
The police open a pot on the same
platform to compete with it.

646
01:44:19,279 --> 01:44:21,000
Throughout the first night,

647
01:44:21,000 --> 01:44:24,680
the police pot receives donations
from international accounts

648
01:44:24,680 --> 01:44:28,359
with foreign interference, it succeeds
in overtaking the popular crowdfund.

649
01:44:28,359 --> 01:44:31,119
The blocking of Dettinger's money is

650
01:44:31,119 --> 01:44:34,119
an attack on collective organisation 
of the poor class.

651
01:44:34,119 --> 01:44:36,960
On another case, the public prosecutor
opens an investigation

652
01:44:36,960 --> 01:44:39,840
to determine whether fundraising

653
01:44:39,840 --> 01:44:42,720
was made to help a yellow 
vest pay his legal fees.

654
01:44:43,199 --> 01:44:46,640
There is panic, as many crowdfunds have
been opened on the platform

655
01:44:46,640 --> 01:44:49,760
We risk losing alot of money

656
01:44:49,760 --> 01:44:52,720
aswell as our tool for
donation transparency.

657
01:44:52,720 --> 01:44:55,239
Dettinger films himself
before surrendering,

658
01:44:55,239 --> 01:44:58,279
he leaves us with
his genuine feelings.

659
01:44:58,279 --> 01:45:03,079
"I protest for pensioners,
my children's future,

660
01:45:03,079 --> 01:45:06,199
Single mothers,
everything, everyone...

661
01:45:13,000 --> 01:45:16,640
Here I am, a yellow vest,

662
01:45:16,640 --> 01:45:20,640
I am a yellow vest,
I have the anger of the people inside me.

663
01:45:20,640 --> 01:45:23,399
I see all these presidents,

664
01:45:23,399 --> 01:45:28,039
all these ministers,
I see the state gorging itself, pumping us!

665
01:45:28,039 --> 01:45:32,039
they don't set an example,
they are gorging themselves on our backs.

666
01:45:32,039 --> 01:45:35,319
It's always us, the 
small ones who pay.

667
01:45:35,319 --> 01:45:38,159
When I hear the president 
call us: "the beggars"

668
01:45:38,159 --> 01:45:41,279
"the toothless",
I feel concerned because I am French.

669
01:45:41,279 --> 01:45:43,399
I am proud to be French.

670
01:45:43,399 --> 01:45:47,439
I am not from the far left
nor far right,

671
01:45:47,439 --> 01:45:51,239
I'm an average citizen, I am,
I am a Frenchman."

672
01:45:51,239 --> 01:45:55,840
"You can tell, the guy, he doesn't have 
the words of a gypsy boxer."

673
01:45:55,840 --> 01:45:58,079
Macron attacks Christophe's speech

674
01:45:58,079 --> 01:46:00,279
by pointing to an imaginary far-left lawyer.

675
01:46:00,279 --> 01:46:03,079
In his world speech value 
is determined by class hierarchy,

676
01:46:03,079 --> 01:46:05,520
the voice of the poor are illegitimate.

677
01:46:05,520 --> 01:46:09,159
Christophe's words have however gone 
straight to the heart of many yellow vests.

678
01:46:09,159 --> 01:46:12,000
Thousands of letters of support
are sent to his family.

679
01:46:12,000 --> 01:46:14,680
The family replies to all letters.

680
01:46:14,680 --> 01:46:17,279
All messages end with the words:

681
01:46:17,279 --> 01:46:21,720
"Strength and honour!"

682
01:46:21,720 --> 01:46:24,000
The media animates a narrative that suggests

683
01:46:24,000 --> 01:46:27,079
that Christophe is not
a genuine yellow vest.

684
01:46:27,119 --> 01:46:31,239
But we write our own stories
on social networks and in the street.

685
01:46:32,520 --> 01:46:34,920
Two worlds are very far
apart from each other.

686
01:46:34,920 --> 01:46:37,520
Everyone wants to see a boxing match

687
01:46:37,520 --> 01:46:40,520
between Dettinger and the 
corrupt security guard of Macron

688
01:46:40,520 --> 01:46:43,920
who disguised himself as
a policeman to beat up protestors,

689
01:46:43,920 --> 01:46:48,279
Versus: the colonel Andrieux who
boxed a black man for no reason.

690
01:46:48,279 --> 01:46:50,359
We have a symbolic figur who represents

691
01:46:50,359 --> 01:46:52,840
our stuggle against
the conflict of interest

692
01:46:52,840 --> 01:46:55,880
between the population 
and the ruling class.

693
01:46:55,880 --> 01:46:58,479
All over the country,

694
01:46:58,479 --> 01:47:02,640
everyone feels that the degree of violence
by which we defend ourselves,

695
01:47:02,640 --> 01:47:08,840
can be legitimately proportional
to the one we are subject to.

696
01:47:09,159 --> 01:47:14,119
Composition & decomposition

697
01:47:15,399 --> 01:47:17,720
In Toulouse, a sign says:

698
01:47:17,720 --> 01:47:21,359
"Precarious, discriminated, revolted, 
women on the front line."

699
01:47:21,359 --> 01:47:23,680
Women lead yellow vest demonstrations

700
01:47:23,680 --> 01:47:26,720
take place every every 
Sunday throughout France.

701
01:47:26,720 --> 01:47:27,640
On the roundabouts,

702
01:47:27,640 --> 01:47:30,359
women have leading roles in 
the organisation of the movement.

703
01:47:30,359 --> 01:47:31,880
To highlight this fact:

704
01:47:31,880 --> 01:47:35,760
We demonstrate twice as much as men,
on Saturdays and Sundays.

705
01:47:35,760 --> 01:47:37,319
We organise to make

706
01:47:37,319 --> 01:47:40,720
our demands as women,
mothers and workers.

707
01:47:40,720 --> 01:47:44,199
A double protest against
a double work day.

708
01:47:45,239 --> 01:47:47,880
"I am a mother of a two year old,

709
01:47:47,880 --> 01:47:51,720
my husband and I both work 
35 to 40 hours per week

710
01:47:51,720 --> 01:47:54,359
we can't get by.

711
01:47:54,359 --> 01:47:58,119
We haven't had a holiday 
for over 5 years.

712
01:47:58,119 --> 01:48:03,159
We can't save money for
our child's future studies.

713
01:48:03,159 --> 01:48:05,199
we can't manage anything at all."

714
01:48:05,199 --> 01:48:09,800
"Macron may have something to worry 
about if women get out of

715
01:48:09,800 --> 01:48:13,479
their kitchens and offices,
and go onto the streets,

716
01:48:13,479 --> 01:48:16,000
effectively, because 
they have perseverance."

717
01:48:16,000 --> 01:48:18,479
'We are more than you,
Excuse me men,

718
01:48:18,479 --> 01:48:23,279
but we are more than you,
we are mothers and we work."

719
01:48:23,279 --> 01:48:26,920
"Maybe we'll get gassed
because repression is real.

720
01:48:26,920 --> 01:48:29,960
There is no such thing as
freedom anymore."

721
01:48:29,960 --> 01:48:34,159
"When the police aim at us,
it's not collateral violence

722
01:48:34,159 --> 01:48:38,520
they really want to
hit yellow vests.

723
01:48:38,520 --> 01:48:44,960
We are afraid of police violence, but we 
hope that we'll have a good protest."

724
01:48:53,000 --> 01:48:56,079
"In 1789, it was women who rose up,

725
01:48:56,079 --> 01:48:58,760
it was women who presented
the list of grievances,

726
01:48:58,760 --> 01:49:01,079
so we make a symbol of that today."

727
01:49:01,079 --> 01:49:03,800
"You support the yellow vests ?"

728
01:49:03,800 --> 01:49:07,560
"Of course, I'm a yellow vest, madam!"

729
01:49:09,399 --> 01:49:17,439
"Emmanuel macron, we're coming 
to your home to get you!"

730
01:49:56,800 --> 01:50:00,319
"Well yes, 
I'm happy to go smash the police,

731
01:50:00,319 --> 01:50:02,439
Haha, I'm just kidding."

732
01:50:08,479 --> 01:50:12,680
A group of yellow vests are expecting
an eviction of their roudabout.

733
01:50:14,319 --> 01:50:17,039
The chief of police comes to negotiate.

734
01:50:17,039 --> 01:50:22,920
"We are here to negotiate, but in any 
case we will proceed to dislodge you. 
What do you intend to do?"

735
01:50:22,920 --> 01:50:28,560
"Confront ??"
"Yes, confront you!

736
01:50:28,560 --> 01:50:32,039
I tell you, we will resist!

737
01:50:32,039 --> 01:50:35,720
We've been nice twice, 
now we stand our ground!

738
01:50:35,720 --> 01:50:38,840
"but the police outpower you..."
"We'll respond with force!"

739
01:50:38,840 --> 01:50:41,880
"Wouldn't you rather negotiate..."

740
01:50:41,880 --> 01:50:43,800
"I am answering your question:

741
01:50:43,800 --> 01:50:45,880
Today we stand up to you!

742
01:50:45,880 --> 01:50:48,239
not matter the loss or damage,

743
01:50:48,239 --> 01:50:50,960
it was voted by the people
of the roundabout,

744
01:50:50,960 --> 01:50:52,359
it is not my decision,

745
01:50:52,359 --> 01:50:55,880
it's not my ego talking here,
it was voted,

746
01:50:55,880 --> 01:50:59,680
Today, we stand our ground and fight !

747
01:51:13,680 --> 01:51:18,880
"Let's switch roles,
They go backwards, we go forwards!"

748
01:51:18,880 --> 01:51:19,800
"Aouh!"

749
01:51:20,920 --> 01:51:22,439
"This is war!"

750
01:51:22,439 --> 01:51:27,960
The yellow vests burn their huts

751
01:51:59,319 --> 01:52:03,199
They retreat to the city centre.

752
01:52:09,119 --> 01:52:13,520
They barricade the town hall.

753
01:52:21,159 --> 01:52:25,119
"Since December, 
there are prefectural decrees

754
01:52:25,119 --> 01:52:28,920
that threaten all occupation 
points of our county".

755
01:52:46,760 --> 01:52:50,119
Today's action is a response to 
prefectural orders

756
01:52:50,119 --> 01:52:53,039
Hence why we target the building 
of administrative authority

757
01:52:53,039 --> 01:52:58,239
We are here to meet the prefect
and have the orders canceled.

758
01:52:58,239 --> 01:53:03,760
As long as the decrees are active, 
we stay here and actions will multiply."

759
01:53:17,680 --> 01:53:19,520
"Tomorrow, let me tell you,

760
01:53:19,520 --> 01:53:21,399
those who come to demonstrate

761
01:53:21,399 --> 01:53:23,800
in cities where there is vandalism

762
01:53:23,800 --> 01:53:25,760
know that they are accomplices

763
01:53:25,760 --> 01:53:27,399
of these events."

764
01:53:29,800 --> 01:53:33,800
Yellow vests call for a rally 
in the centre of France, in Bourges.

765
01:53:33,800 --> 01:53:38,880
Many groups from the region 
have structured the event together:

766
01:53:58,920 --> 01:54:01,239
These past weeks, 
these groups have networked

767
01:54:01,239 --> 01:54:04,960
by traveling between occupation camps
and public assemblies

768
01:54:04,960 --> 01:54:08,279
Today, these groups 
are unified and centralised

769
01:54:08,279 --> 01:54:11,119
and have even federated yellow vest 
groups from outside the region.

770
01:54:11,560 --> 01:54:16,359
"I have a dream, to bring down the 
political and ethnic barriers that divide

771
01:54:16,359 --> 01:54:21,439
so we may unite in fraternity
against our oppressors."

772
01:54:28,079 --> 01:54:31,039
Attacks on outlying 
occupation points pushes

773
01:54:31,039 --> 01:54:34,119
the movement to continue its
relocation in town centres.

774
01:54:34,119 --> 01:54:35,800
If the state turns the streets into stadiums,

775
01:54:35,800 --> 01:54:37,319
we are it's goal keepers.

776
01:54:37,319 --> 01:54:39,239
Every Saturday we fight to be seen.

777
01:54:39,239 --> 01:54:42,399
We do not declare our demonstrations
legally, so that the police

778
01:54:42,399 --> 01:54:45,159
do not prevent us access to
strategic and symbolic places.

779
01:54:45,159 --> 01:54:49,520
We have the initiative because
we don't have negotiators.

780
01:54:51,960 --> 01:54:53,399
Former French soldiers,

781
01:54:53,399 --> 01:54:57,119
members of a French neo-fascist
organisation and members of a

782
01:54:57,119 --> 01:54:59,279
pro-Russian paramilitary battalion
proclaim themselves:

783
01:54:59,279 --> 01:55:01,800
the security enforcement service.

784
01:55:01,800 --> 01:55:06,840
They lead a campaign to impose an
authoritarian framework on the movement.

785
01:55:06,840 --> 01:55:09,520
The anti-capitalist political party NPA

786
01:55:09,520 --> 01:55:11,039
is attacked several times.

787
01:55:11,039 --> 01:55:12,359
In these attacks

788
01:55:12,359 --> 01:55:13,920
we recognise the same volunteers

789
01:55:13,920 --> 01:55:17,000
who are at the initiative of the
security enforcement service.

790
01:55:23,039 --> 01:55:25,079
A far-right political group poses

791
01:55:25,079 --> 01:55:29,800
with a stolen communist banner,
thus displaying a war trophy.

792
01:55:29,800 --> 01:55:33,880
A pro-refugee sign is attacked,
a royalist flag is attacked,

793
01:55:33,880 --> 01:55:37,279
Right-wing journalists are attacked.

794
01:55:45,640 --> 01:55:46,960
For some yellow vests,

795
01:55:46,960 --> 01:55:50,800
the eviction of intolerant 
people is an intolerant act.

796
01:55:50,800 --> 01:55:54,960
Internal political conflicts
are not understood by all.

797
01:55:54,960 --> 01:55:58,279
These moments of conflict are decisive
for the future of the movement.

798
01:55:58,279 --> 01:56:01,680
The key to winning the fight is to
outnumber your opponent

799
01:56:01,680 --> 01:56:04,880
and take the movement
of the crowd with you.

800
01:56:13,479 --> 01:56:16,560
While fascist and anti-fascist
activists brawl,

801
01:56:16,560 --> 01:56:18,800
a member of the pro-Russian
paramilitary battalion

802
01:56:18,800 --> 01:56:21,319
spreads false rumours to campaign.

803
01:56:21,319 --> 01:56:24,000
"We are forced to evacuate
a popular livestreamer

804
01:56:24,000 --> 01:56:27,439
apparently the blacks blocs
issued threats against him

805
01:56:27,439 --> 01:56:30,239
They also charged the 
security service but the crowd

806
01:56:30,239 --> 01:56:32,920
completely repelled the blacks blocs

807
01:56:32,920 --> 01:56:35,479
and black blocs are no longer
accepted in the yellow vests"

808
01:56:38,640 --> 01:56:41,479
After the fights,
fascist activists file complaints

809
01:56:41,479 --> 01:56:44,760
against identified
anti-fascist protestors.

810
01:56:44,760 --> 01:56:46,640
Anti-fascist activists are sentenced

811
01:56:46,640 --> 01:56:50,239
to pre-trial detention 
by none other than judges

812
01:56:50,239 --> 01:56:53,239
who turn out to be far-right
activists themselves.

813
01:56:54,119 --> 01:56:58,000
The anti-system ideology of the 
far right claims to be revolutionary,

814
01:56:58,000 --> 01:57:01,760
but in practice serves the
system of power and repression.

815
01:57:03,319 --> 01:57:07,119
"We must kick them out of the movement,
it's on camera"

816
01:57:07,119 --> 01:57:12,319
"We're arab, we're black
we're all the same"

817
01:57:12,319 --> 01:57:15,640
We get fucked all the same!

818
01:57:15,640 --> 01:57:19,079
The only division is between
the rich and the poor!

819
01:57:19,079 --> 01:57:22,239
We are all together here,
but we don't want antisemites!

820
01:57:22,239 --> 01:57:26,199
In sync, all media channels invite
agitated polemicists who

821
01:57:26,199 --> 01:57:29,720
represent the movement
as fundamentally anti-Semitic,

822
01:57:29,720 --> 01:57:32,880
"It's one of the worst movements
that the republic has generated,

823
01:57:32,880 --> 01:57:34,279
we are very sad about it.

824
01:57:34,279 --> 01:57:36,079
At first, we understood the yellow vests

825
01:57:36,079 --> 01:57:38,159
today, we don't want
to hear them anymore."

826
01:57:38,159 --> 01:57:40,560
Yet we fight against 
the financial system

827
01:57:40,560 --> 01:57:42,880
as a system of domination 
and exploitation.

828
01:57:42,880 --> 01:57:45,199
The broader strategy behind
this media manipulation

829
01:57:45,199 --> 01:57:47,319
is to morally compel public opinion

830
01:57:47,319 --> 01:57:49,640
against the yellow vests.

831
01:57:49,640 --> 01:57:52,680
By representing the movement
as racist and identity-based,

832
01:57:52,680 --> 01:57:54,800
They prevent the movement
from being presented

833
01:57:54,800 --> 01:57:59,520
as an authentic demonstration
of class struggle.

834
01:58:01,760 --> 01:58:05,720
"You divide between the bad
yellow vest and the good citizen"

835
01:58:08,640 --> 01:58:12,079
It becomes clear that the 
yellow vests split into

836
01:58:12,079 --> 01:58:14,119
two opposing modes of organisation.

837
01:58:14,119 --> 01:58:16,199
As seen previously seen,

838
01:58:16,199 --> 01:58:19,760
associations of citizens oppose
actions and blockades

839
01:58:19,760 --> 01:58:23,560
and discuss matters with
the authorities and politicians.

840
01:58:25,720 --> 01:58:28,279
On the other hand,
assemblies held on roudabouts

841
01:58:28,279 --> 01:58:30,479
are radically public.

842
01:58:30,479 --> 01:58:32,960
They support action blockades

843
01:58:32,960 --> 01:58:35,720
and refuse political recuperation.

844
01:58:35,720 --> 01:58:39,560
The political recuperators are
ready to associate with anyone.

845
01:58:39,560 --> 01:58:41,319
On a roundabout

846
01:58:41,319 --> 01:58:43,239
tensions lead to a fight

847
01:58:43,239 --> 01:58:46,640
the people of the 
citizens' association who defend

848
01:58:46,640 --> 01:58:50,560
authoritarian bureaucratic methods
invite a local fascist league.

849
01:58:50,560 --> 01:58:54,880
This leads us to mobilise our biker 
friends who help lower tension.

850
01:58:54,880 --> 01:58:57,359
Political recuperation is a carnivorous plant

851
01:58:57,359 --> 01:59:00,199
that mimics the form of the movement,

852
01:59:00,199 --> 01:59:03,399
it proposes that the movement stop

853
01:59:03,399 --> 01:59:06,520
and become a party of which
"the movement" is only the name.

854
01:59:07,159 --> 01:59:10,640
A politician declares a legal 
demonstration in Toulouse,

855
01:59:10,640 --> 01:59:12,920
but only 40 demonstrators turn up.

856
01:59:12,920 --> 01:59:14,720
In the mean time, thousands of people

857
01:59:14,720 --> 01:59:17,560
demonstrate spontaneously
without legal declaration.

858
01:59:17,560 --> 01:59:20,760
Attempts to pacify events
come to an end in Toulouse,

859
01:59:20,760 --> 01:59:24,239
and demonstrations are never ever
declared to the authorities.

860
01:59:24,640 --> 01:59:26,199
The following week, in Paris.

861
01:59:26,199 --> 01:59:28,720
The security guards who
improvise themselves

862
01:59:28,720 --> 01:59:31,439
as a police enforcement are
knocked over by the crowd.

863
01:59:31,439 --> 01:59:34,840
An anti-terrorist military car
burns under the Eiffel Tower.

864
01:59:34,840 --> 01:59:36,720
The movement will not be framed.

865
01:59:36,720 --> 01:59:38,159
The direction of the movement

866
01:59:38,159 --> 01:59:39,840
belongs to no one.

867
01:59:40,279 --> 01:59:43,359
Fascists gather in Lyon to confront

868
01:59:43,359 --> 01:59:46,760
the anti-fascist demonstrators
who lead the march.

869
01:59:47,520 --> 01:59:48,960
In these hooliganistic confrontations,

870
01:59:48,960 --> 01:59:52,720
activists are convinced
they defend the movement.

871
01:59:52,720 --> 01:59:55,199
It's not about letting off steam,

872
01:59:55,199 --> 01:59:58,159
but to defend the ongoing
values of revolution.

873
02:00:03,039 --> 02:00:05,960
The fascists lose 
because they are outnumbered,

874
02:00:05,960 --> 02:00:07,920
but also because the movement

875
02:00:07,920 --> 02:00:12,279
as a whole does not accept the
values of authority and order.

876
02:00:12,279 --> 02:00:15,079
In the course of events,
we differentiate between those

877
02:00:15,079 --> 02:00:17,960
who serve the movement
and those who oppose it.

878
02:00:17,960 --> 02:00:19,880
In the following acts of the movement,

879
02:00:19,880 --> 02:00:22,319
there will be no more fascist attacks.

880
02:00:22,319 --> 02:00:25,840
Anti-racist and inclusive
values are defended.

881
02:00:39,399 --> 02:00:42,760
The first assembly of assemblies
is organised in Commercy.

882
02:00:42,760 --> 02:00:46,439
Delegates from many groups share
their local experiences:

883
02:00:46,439 --> 02:00:48,960
"We, in Fougère started

884
02:00:48,960 --> 02:00:52,159
preparatory meetings
before the first action.

885
02:00:52,159 --> 02:00:55,359
On the 17th November, 
we had 1500 people

886
02:00:55,359 --> 02:00:58,479
accross 13 different blockade points.

887
02:00:58,479 --> 02:01:00,520
The town was completely blocked.

888
02:01:00,520 --> 02:01:06,439
The following week, we structured 
ourselves with a general assembly.

889
02:01:06,439 --> 02:01:11,119
Since, there are general assemblies 
every week with 60 to 200 people.

890
02:01:11,119 --> 02:01:13,800
There are also

891
02:01:13,800 --> 02:01:16,760
weekly demonstrations.

892
02:01:16,760 --> 02:01:18,640
We have done many
economic blockades,

893
02:01:18,640 --> 02:01:20,079
blocking of supermarkets.

894
02:01:20,079 --> 02:01:22,680
carpools to commute to big towns.

895
02:01:22,680 --> 02:01:26,359
We had an HQ for three weeks,
but it was dislodged.

896
02:01:26,359 --> 02:01:32,079
We organise themed workshops on: 
ecology, democracy, work.

897
02:01:32,079 --> 02:01:36,319
The main demands that stand out are:

898
02:01:36,319 --> 02:01:42,159
salary increases, social justice,
fiscal justice, more democracy,

899
02:01:42,159 --> 02:01:45,399
with quite a lot of reflections

900
02:01:45,399 --> 02:01:49,880
on the lives and rights of disabled people.

901
02:01:54,800 --> 02:01:57,760
"Now, we must our movement,

902
02:01:57,760 --> 02:02:01,640
we must create places of life
to sustain our organisation,

903
02:02:01,640 --> 02:02:03,960
we must build back-up bases

904
02:02:03,960 --> 02:02:06,800
to fuel the power struggle
that we have engaged against

905
02:02:06,800 --> 02:02:08,920
those who lead our lives
and the planet to ruin.

906
02:02:08,920 --> 02:02:11,880
That is why we, Us, yellow vests
of the house of the people

907
02:02:11,880 --> 02:02:15,640
who have participated in
the assembly of assemblies

908
02:02:15,640 --> 02:02:21,439
call on all yellow vest groups to open
"people houses" (squats) everywhere!"

909
02:02:22,079 --> 02:02:26,359
Collectively, it is decided to take 
over the abandoned retirement home.

910
02:02:53,880 --> 02:02:56,960
They didn't alow us to have a room 
to organise our meetings

911
02:02:56,960 --> 02:03:00,279
so we thought we'd occupy 
the old administrative building

912
02:03:00,279 --> 02:03:04,479
a small group went in through the 
backdoor because it was open

913
02:03:04,479 --> 02:03:07,000
We called our friends
who were at the protest,

914
02:03:07,000 --> 02:03:09,159
50 people came and occupied the place!

915
02:03:09,840 --> 02:03:13,760
"Logistics of organisation
develop every day.

916
02:03:13,760 --> 02:03:16,520
At first, it was to supply food.

917
02:03:16,520 --> 02:03:18,560
Then, a radio for better communication.

918
02:03:18,560 --> 02:03:21,439
Now, a telephone so people can call us

919
02:03:21,439 --> 02:03:23,680
to ask for our help,

920
02:03:23,680 --> 02:03:26,560
we send reinforcements,

921
02:03:26,560 --> 02:03:29,199
If a group needs help,

922
02:03:29,199 --> 02:03:33,119
we call another group 
and they join right away.

923
02:03:36,520 --> 02:03:39,479
Informally, groups form networks.

924
02:03:39,479 --> 02:03:42,920
Groups converge with other active groups

925
02:03:42,920 --> 02:03:46,640
they meet in yellow vest squats 
or in demonstrations

926
02:03:46,640 --> 02:03:50,119
or in events of coordination
such as the Assembly of Assemblies.

927
02:03:50,119 --> 02:03:52,159
In February, the yellow vests try

928
02:03:52,159 --> 02:03:54,479
to block 15 refineries simultaneously.

929
02:03:54,479 --> 02:03:57,439
4 blockades persist and 
initially resist eviction.

930
02:03:57,439 --> 02:03:58,319
In Brittany

931
02:03:58,319 --> 02:04:01,840
The yellow vests block the depot,
as well as the roads around it.

932
02:04:01,840 --> 02:04:05,479
if a blockade is lost, 
another takes over further on.

933
02:04:05,479 --> 02:04:08,079
There may be fewer of us than 
at the beginning of the movement,

934
02:04:08,079 --> 02:04:10,479
but trust and confidence grows.

935
02:04:10,479 --> 02:04:14,239
New tactical possibilities 
emerge thanks to the multiplication

936
02:04:14,239 --> 02:04:17,720
of links between the various groups.

937
02:04:17,720 --> 02:04:19,079
"Thanks for the support!

938
02:04:19,079 --> 02:04:21,439
please share, 
so everyone sees the video.

939
02:04:21,439 --> 02:04:25,520
The refinery is blocked!"

940
02:04:30,079 --> 02:04:33,720
"All the lights you see
are riotpolice buses"

941
02:04:36,520 --> 02:04:39,640
If oil-refinery workers and dockers

942
02:04:39,640 --> 02:04:42,840
were to join the barricades
it would make things easier.

943
02:04:42,840 --> 02:04:46,000
Despite the dockers blocked
the port with the yellow vests

944
02:04:46,000 --> 02:04:47,720
in the early stages of the movement,

945
02:04:47,720 --> 02:04:49,520
they do not participate anymore.

946
02:04:49,520 --> 02:04:52,720
the port acts as a 
powerful means of pressure

947
02:04:52,720 --> 02:04:56,960
and therefore is saved
for their own pay strikes.

948
02:04:56,960 --> 02:04:58,319
Convincing workers

949
02:04:58,319 --> 02:05:03,800
and unions to become 100% involved
in the movement is not an easy task.

950
02:05:04,960 --> 02:05:08,239
However, minor struggles use the 
movement as a threat

951
02:05:08,239 --> 02:05:10,560
to increase salaries or win bonuses.

952
02:05:10,560 --> 02:05:12,479
At a glass bottle factory,

953
02:05:12,479 --> 02:05:15,039
40 yellow vests support 
a first first walkout.

954
02:05:15,039 --> 02:05:17,920
The following week 90% are on strike.

955
02:05:17,920 --> 02:05:19,359
A trade unionist says:

956
02:05:19,359 --> 02:05:22,680
"The management did not think
the employees would go on strike.

957
02:05:22,680 --> 02:05:25,560
I was surprised
by the size of the walkout.

958
02:05:25,560 --> 02:05:28,520
The yellow vest movement has changed

959
02:05:28,520 --> 02:05:31,640
how workerist demands are made."

960
02:05:32,239 --> 02:05:36,680
50 telephonists stand in front of
the gates of their company.

961
02:05:36,680 --> 02:05:39,960
They want a bonus of at least 100 €.

962
02:05:39,960 --> 02:05:44,119
"If nothing changes,
we strike again next week!"

963
02:05:44,680 --> 02:05:47,840
In the Peugeot factory, 
workers announce:

964
02:05:47,840 --> 02:05:52,720
"If they don't want yellow vests in
this factory, they will have to pay us!"

965
02:05:52,720 --> 02:05:55,000
60 workers of a Mercedes-Benz
logistics centre

966
02:05:55,000 --> 02:05:57,520
boycott the annual lunch.

967
02:05:57,520 --> 02:06:00,840
They organise a "barbecue of warning"
and call for better

968
02:06:00,840 --> 02:06:03,520
distribution of wealth among the
employees of the company.

969
02:06:03,520 --> 02:06:06,000
Yellow vests support 
strikers of a retail shop,

970
02:06:06,000 --> 02:06:08,840
who demand a 200€ salary increase.

971
02:06:08,840 --> 02:06:11,359
The management closes the shop,

972
02:06:11,359 --> 02:06:14,760
after three days, the police
settle the conflict with tear gas.

973
02:06:15,680 --> 02:06:17,720
"It is Impossible to deliver customers.

974
02:06:17,720 --> 02:06:19,880
The situation is critical.

975
02:06:19,880 --> 02:06:23,319
20 trucks have to stay at bay".

976
02:06:24,479 --> 02:06:28,680
"We have decided to go in front 
of the amazon warehouse."

977
02:06:28,680 --> 02:06:31,720
The atomisation of tasks 
breaks up class solidarity

978
02:06:31,720 --> 02:06:34,199
A worker controls the 
activity of a subcontactor

979
02:06:34,199 --> 02:06:36,279
who themself control 
second-tier subcontractors.

980
02:06:36,279 --> 02:06:38,319
Temporary employment agencies

981
02:06:38,319 --> 02:06:40,439
provide a permanent turn over.

982
02:06:40,439 --> 02:06:43,079
"Amazon fired workers

983
02:06:43,079 --> 02:06:46,680
because they supported
the yellow vest movement."

984
02:06:46,680 --> 02:06:48,800
The letters of dismissal mention

985
02:06:48,800 --> 02:06:52,000
a serious breach of the duty of loyalty

986
02:06:52,000 --> 02:06:55,199
and opposition to company values.

987
02:06:55,720 --> 02:06:58,359
The trade unionists 
demonstrate massively.

988
02:06:58,359 --> 02:07:01,640
They call for an unlimited strike.

989
02:07:01,640 --> 02:07:03,399
It's time for everyone to stop working

990
02:07:03,399 --> 02:07:07,840
and follow the revolutionary 
trajectory of the movement.

991
02:07:09,239 --> 02:07:11,880
The general strike is 
also announced on roundabouts

992
02:07:11,880 --> 02:07:14,479
and in yellow vest assemblies.

993
02:07:14,479 --> 02:07:17,560
The movement goes beyond
sectoral and corporatist divides

994
02:07:17,560 --> 02:07:20,399
because people meet on 
occupied road infrastructure.

995
02:07:20,399 --> 02:07:24,039
here: employees, entrepreneurs
unemployed, temp workers,

996
02:07:24,039 --> 02:07:25,720
subcontractors and 
self-employed

997
02:07:25,720 --> 02:07:28,039
meet and fight together as one.

998
02:07:28,319 --> 02:07:32,319
The prefect of the department
finds herself blocked

999
02:07:32,319 --> 02:07:36,000
on a roundabout on-which she had
previously ordered an eviction

1000
02:07:36,000 --> 02:07:38,359
Her car's tyres are punctured.

1001
02:07:38,359 --> 02:07:41,840
She escapes and hides in 
a nearby car dealership.

1002
02:07:44,399 --> 02:07:47,520
While some demonstrations
mix red and yellow,

1003
02:07:47,520 --> 02:07:50,399
in others there is a separation.

1004
02:07:50,399 --> 02:07:51,560
We blame the unions for

1005
02:07:51,640 --> 02:07:55,279
initially betraying the movement
and joining very late.

1006
02:07:55,279 --> 02:07:58,479
But above all, nothing is done
to organise the general strike.

1007
02:07:58,479 --> 02:08:02,199
The decision to stop working
is left to the individual.

1008
02:08:05,880 --> 02:08:08,279
In Toulouse, the police
convince temp workers

1009
02:08:08,279 --> 02:08:11,359
to help evict protestors.

1010
02:08:11,359 --> 02:08:14,960
Amazon workers beat us up
and dismantle our barricades.

1011
02:08:14,960 --> 02:08:17,520
We faced the same scenario

1012
02:08:17,520 --> 02:08:20,319
when we occupied ports.

1013
02:08:20,319 --> 02:08:21,800
A manager claims:

1014
02:08:21,800 --> 02:08:27,359
"There are only temps here!"

1015
02:08:35,279 --> 02:08:37,359
In our encounters,

1016
02:08:37,359 --> 02:08:40,079
we understand that in blocking
a supermarket,

1017
02:08:40,079 --> 02:08:43,359
we are not only attacking 
the state and capitalism,

1018
02:08:43,359 --> 02:08:47,319
but also employees who's lives
depend on work.

1019
02:08:47,319 --> 02:08:50,439
Employees tell us they
can't go on strike

1020
02:08:50,439 --> 02:08:53,000
because they need their work to survive.

1021
02:08:53,000 --> 02:08:55,359
The revolutionary deepening of events

1022
02:08:55,359 --> 02:08:58,760
would be to turn against our own
conditions of existence.

1023
02:08:58,760 --> 02:09:01,079
Reject the oppositions 
between life and work,

1024
02:09:01,079 --> 02:09:03,079
between temp and salaried workers

1025
02:09:03,079 --> 02:09:05,119
between unemployed and employed,

1026
02:09:05,119 --> 02:09:06,800
between insiders and outsiders.

1027
02:09:06,800 --> 02:09:08,399
In reciprocity,

1028
02:09:08,399 --> 02:09:12,159
we develop a solidarity that eats 
away all barriers that divide us.

1029
02:09:13,640 --> 02:09:16,960
The revolutionary leap is frightening.

1030
02:09:17,000 --> 02:09:18,720
Do we dare?

1031
02:09:19,479 --> 02:09:23,359
But overall, the call to strike
is a failure.

1032
02:09:23,359 --> 02:09:29,319
The next day,
most people go back to work.

1033
02:09:37,439 --> 02:09:40,880
Yellow vests organise an occupation
camp in the centre of Paris.

1034
02:09:40,880 --> 02:09:44,159
They announce: "Decisive act!
We will not move!"

1035
02:09:44,159 --> 02:09:47,439
The police evacuate the sit-in
in less than 3 hours.

1036
02:09:47,439 --> 02:09:51,520
Parisian yellow vests organise
a nocturnal occupation of a square.

1037
02:09:51,520 --> 02:09:53,880
Despite the legal declaration

1038
02:09:53,880 --> 02:09:58,119
the police evacuate
the square with grenades.

1039
02:09:58,119 --> 02:10:02,119
If the yellow vests are in motion, 
the state tries to bring them to standstill.

1040
02:10:02,119 --> 02:10:06,560
If the yellow vests try to anchor themselves,
the state puts them back in motion.

1041
02:10:06,560 --> 02:10:10,720
Phases of composition and 
decomposition multiply initiative leads,

1042
02:10:10,720 --> 02:10:16,439
we feel agency to defend and determine
revolutionary trajectories.

1043
02:10:20,359 --> 02:10:22,760
100,000 demonstrators gather

1044
02:10:22,760 --> 02:10:26,079
for the biggest climate rally ever.

1045
02:10:26,079 --> 02:10:31,079
10 kilometres away, the most 
determined answer the call:

1046
02:10:31,079 --> 02:10:33,560
Ultimatum on Paris !

1047
02:10:57,399 --> 02:10:59,920
All luxury shops of the Champs-Elysées

1048
02:10:59,920 --> 02:11:02,439
and surrounding areas are smashed.

1049
02:11:02,439 --> 02:11:04,560
The workers who 
manufacture for these shops

1050
02:11:04,560 --> 02:11:07,119
are paid well below
French minimum wage.

1051
02:11:07,119 --> 02:11:10,399
In previous years, strike
attempts have all failed.

1052
02:11:10,399 --> 02:11:13,479
Meanwhile Bernard Arnault,
the owner of Louis Vuitton bags,

1053
02:11:13,479 --> 02:11:16,760
earns 104 billion in profits
during Macron's first mandate.

1054
02:11:16,760 --> 02:11:19,960
Looting is taxing wealth at the source,

1055
02:11:19,960 --> 02:11:23,520
to recover capital surplus
from waged work.

1056
02:11:23,520 --> 02:11:27,399
Looting practices become widespread,

1057
02:11:27,399 --> 02:11:31,560
all cameras focus
on shattering windows.

1058
02:11:37,199 --> 02:11:39,439
The protestors who specialise

1059
02:11:39,439 --> 02:11:42,239
in black bloc techniques
are yellow vests.

1060
02:11:45,119 --> 02:11:47,560
This integrant part of the movement is

1061
02:11:47,560 --> 02:11:50,239
fantasised as an external service

1062
02:11:50,239 --> 02:11:52,880
or toys who fight by proxy

1063
02:11:52,880 --> 02:11:55,840
Filmic voyeurism fetishises direct action

1064
02:11:55,840 --> 02:11:58,079
and generalises self-surveillance.

1065
02:11:58,079 --> 02:12:00,560
Videos provide evidence 
to police investigators,

1066
02:12:00,560 --> 02:12:02,680
which exasperates the movement.

1067
02:12:03,760 --> 02:12:06,159
The revolutionary leap we
described beforehand:

1068
02:12:06,159 --> 02:12:09,279
calls on dissolving the conditions 
of existence of working class life

1069
02:12:09,279 --> 02:12:11,920
by attacking the organisation of work.

1070
02:12:11,920 --> 02:12:14,640
But today, we only attack it's windows.

1071
02:12:14,640 --> 02:12:17,399
The struggle of the yellow vests is
a spectacle of civil war.

1072
02:12:17,399 --> 02:12:20,880
A spectacle which reminds that the state
is not master of situation and time.

1073
02:12:20,880 --> 02:12:23,279
We express that in a
snap of fingers,

1074
02:12:23,279 --> 02:12:26,000
civil war is instantaneously in the capital.

1075
02:12:26,000 --> 02:12:27,279
We shout "Aouh !"

1076
02:12:27,279 --> 02:12:30,039
We express that the force of the movement

1077
02:12:30,039 --> 02:12:33,720
is terrifying and that
the movement has no limit.

1078
02:12:47,359 --> 02:12:52,239
A victory without end

1079
02:12:53,800 --> 02:12:56,520
A new decree introduces a fine

1080
02:12:56,520 --> 02:13:00,319
for participating in illegal protests

1081
02:13:00,319 --> 02:13:06,640
On the following protest, 107 yellow 
vests are fined fined 135 €.

1082
02:13:06,640 --> 02:13:08,520
If you look like a protestor

1083
02:13:08,520 --> 02:13:11,479
or a sympathiser, 
the police can fine you.

1084
02:13:11,479 --> 02:13:13,640
This happens to people who travel
in public transports

1085
02:13:13,640 --> 02:13:17,520
on the way in or out
of a demonstration.

1086
02:13:17,520 --> 02:13:22,119
"135€ for having a yellow vest in a bag ??

1087
02:13:22,119 --> 02:13:24,800
but are they serious ?!"

1088
02:13:24,800 --> 02:13:28,119
A couple visiting Paris after
a demonstration wears a jumper

1089
02:13:28,119 --> 02:13:32,399
that says "yes to Referendums",
are fined for illegal protesting.

1090
02:13:32,399 --> 02:13:35,119
"The offence presupposes that

1091
02:13:35,119 --> 02:13:39,920
the individual by his behaviour
or his outfit is a demonstrator,

1092
02:13:39,920 --> 02:13:44,800
it specifies that the display of slogans

1093
02:13:44,800 --> 02:13:48,520
in connection with the demonstration
and the possession of objects

1094
02:13:48,520 --> 02:13:53,680
such as: the carrying of a sign,
banner, garment or flag,

1095
02:13:53,680 --> 02:13:59,760
or the carrying of other attributes, 
such as a helmet or gas mask,

1096
02:13:59,760 --> 02:14:05,399
substantiates to be subject to a fine.

1097
02:14:06,520 --> 02:14:09,680
Fines become the 
most effective tool of repression,

1098
02:14:09,680 --> 02:14:13,399
more effective than the rubber bullets,
because it attacks the wallet

1099
02:14:13,399 --> 02:14:17,039
which is already empty
for the majority of yellow vests.

1100
02:14:17,039 --> 02:14:19,800
To avoid repression,

1101
02:14:19,800 --> 02:14:24,039
we are made to remove the symbol which
unites us since the beginning.

1102
02:14:28,279 --> 02:14:30,159
To stop the movement:

1103
02:14:30,159 --> 02:14:32,159
the state's strategy has been to divide

1104
02:14:32,159 --> 02:14:37,680
between the peaceful
and violent protestors.

1105
02:14:37,680 --> 02:14:41,159
This strategy failed
because peaceful protestors

1106
02:14:41,159 --> 02:14:44,520
witness unjustifiable
violence against everyone.

1107
02:14:44,520 --> 02:14:48,800
The movement is structured through
the defence of the movement.

1108
02:14:48,800 --> 02:14:51,479
Medics organise autonomously.

1109
02:14:51,479 --> 02:14:54,319
They never miss an event.

1110
02:14:54,319 --> 02:14:59,079
When we thank them, some reply:
"It's us who thank you".

1111
02:14:59,079 --> 02:15:01,960
People who previously
identified themselves as pacifists

1112
02:15:01,960 --> 02:15:04,880
now adopt the position of 
"non-dissociation".

1113
02:15:04,880 --> 02:15:07,079
The experience of the struggle legitimises

1114
02:15:07,079 --> 02:15:11,039
violence as an inseparable character
of the strength of the movement.

1115
02:15:11,039 --> 02:15:14,319
We fight to prevent people
from being arrested.

1116
02:15:14,319 --> 02:15:16,640
This is called: unarresting.

1117
02:15:16,640 --> 02:15:20,840
We move as a bloc and protect each other.

1118
02:15:29,840 --> 02:15:33,000
Magistrates receive new
criminal policy guidelines

1119
02:15:33,000 --> 02:15:35,439
to suppress the social movement.

1120
02:15:35,439 --> 02:15:40,880
Hinder the movement with preventive 
arrests and prolonged custody in jail

1121
02:15:40,880 --> 02:15:44,760
and criminalise associating
with the movement.

1122
02:15:44,760 --> 02:15:49,239
If the defendant uses their right to request
time to prepare their defence,

1123
02:15:49,239 --> 02:15:53,199
They are blackmailed
with pre-trial detention

1124
02:15:53,199 --> 02:15:57,079
Thus, they are made to accept the 
immediate appearance in court procedure.

1125
02:15:57,079 --> 02:16:02,439
without investigtion, on the judges's 
intuition. 500 are sent to prison.

1126
02:16:02,439 --> 02:16:06,119
Every Monday at 2pm we go to
court to show our support.

1127
02:16:06,119 --> 02:16:08,479
We provide guarantees of representation

1128
02:16:08,479 --> 02:16:12,319
to try and save protestors from the
immediate appearance procedure

1129
02:16:12,319 --> 02:16:15,359
and avoid the preventive detention.

1130
02:16:15,359 --> 02:16:19,680
When a person is condemned, 
the whole movement is condemned.

1131
02:16:19,680 --> 02:16:21,800
By making a trial public

1132
02:16:21,800 --> 02:16:24,880
the struggle of the movement is
prolonged through it's repression.

1133
02:16:24,880 --> 02:16:29,199
Trusting lawyers to defend the movement
leads to repressing the movement.

1134
02:16:29,199 --> 02:16:32,319
Lawyers are complicit of repression
because when you are convicted,

1135
02:16:32,319 --> 02:16:36,440
the punitive system forces you 
to plead dissociation from the movement

1136
02:16:36,440 --> 02:16:39,200
and condemn the
movement to get out.

1137
02:16:39,200 --> 02:16:42,399
The collective defence defends
the value of: non-dissociation.

1138
02:16:42,399 --> 02:16:46,280
"Non-dissociation" means we do 
not talk about guilt or innocence.

1139
02:16:46,280 --> 02:16:50,959
it is unconditional solidarity with
all repressed comrades.

1140
02:16:52,239 --> 02:16:56,079
A detainee may feel 
abandoned and alone.

1141
02:16:56,079 --> 02:16:58,719
Personal life experiences often

1142
02:16:58,719 --> 02:17:02,000
teach us that we cannot rely on others.

1143
02:17:02,000 --> 02:17:04,360
It is important to
to resist collectively,

1144
02:17:04,360 --> 02:17:06,840
we are together in these hard moments,

1145
02:17:06,840 --> 02:17:09,120
it's vital if we want to win.

1146
02:17:31,079 --> 02:17:35,079
We spread massively the
prisoner's registration numbers.

1147
02:17:35,079 --> 02:17:38,200
We organise the writing of letters
for those who are locked up.

1148
02:17:38,200 --> 02:17:41,479
In our letters we express
our unconditional solidarity

1149
02:17:41,479 --> 02:17:46,079
and update them on the progress of the
of the movement after their imprisonment.

1150
02:17:46,079 --> 02:17:50,360
Michael receives over 250 letters.

1151
02:17:50,360 --> 02:17:54,239
He writes back to everyone, 
which helps him cope.

1152
02:17:54,239 --> 02:17:56,200
"My cellmate asked me why I am here

1153
02:17:56,200 --> 02:18:00,159
I told her: because I'm a yellow vest 
and I unscrewed a toll barrier.

1154
02:18:00,159 --> 02:18:03,559
She went to the window and screamed:

1155
02:18:03,559 --> 02:18:09,479
Girls! That's it! 
We have our first yellow vest!

1156
02:18:09,479 --> 02:18:13,559
And then, something amazing!

1157
02:18:13,559 --> 02:18:18,319
All the girls in the prison started
shouting yellow vest songs,

1158
02:18:18,319 --> 02:18:22,159
What an amazing feeling,
all in tune:

1159
02:18:22,159 --> 02:18:25,799
We are here, we are here!

1160
02:18:25,799 --> 02:18:29,399
With tears in my eyes,
I cried and sang in the cell

1161
02:18:29,399 --> 02:18:31,959
And i felt accepted

1162
02:18:31,959 --> 02:18:36,079
and almost proud to
be there with them."

1163
02:19:11,959 --> 02:19:15,920
"The escape plan is organised 
by the yellow vests?

1164
02:19:15,920 --> 02:19:19,399
You think they will save us?"

1165
02:19:19,399 --> 02:19:23,920
"Yes! The yellow vests practice 
No Dissociation!"

1166
02:19:35,879 --> 02:19:40,680
"Ban the hornet's nest grenade! 
Stop mutilations!"

1167
02:19:40,680 --> 02:19:42,680
We demonstrate in front of factories

1168
02:19:42,680 --> 02:19:46,200
that manufacture the weapons
that repress the movement.

1169
02:19:47,559 --> 02:19:49,959
The wounds anchor the struggle
in physical reality.

1170
02:19:49,959 --> 02:19:53,520
they make us realise that
that we are at war.

1171
02:19:53,520 --> 02:19:56,719
Families and close friends of the injured

1172
02:19:56,719 --> 02:20:00,399
become full-time anti-repression activists.

1173
02:20:00,399 --> 02:20:06,000
There are 964 serious cases,
99% of the cases are dismissed,

1174
02:20:06,000 --> 02:20:09,559
without support from the 
institutions and the justice system,

1175
02:20:09,559 --> 02:20:13,559
We have decided to help each other 
because the course of action

1176
02:20:13,559 --> 02:20:16,879
is long and painful, 
and should not be faced alone.

1177
02:20:16,879 --> 02:20:19,280
To make our voices heard,

1178
02:20:19,280 --> 02:20:22,920
we organise,
the march of the crippled.

1179
02:20:22,920 --> 02:20:25,159
"Economics news:
the company Alsetex,

1180
02:20:25,159 --> 02:20:28,479
wins a contract of 5 500 000 €.

1181
02:20:28,479 --> 02:20:31,479
the european leading manufacturer of
law enforcement equipment,

1182
02:20:31,479 --> 02:20:34,799
received a large order

1183
02:20:34,799 --> 02:20:38,639
from gendarmerie, police
and prison administration.

1184
02:20:38,639 --> 02:20:41,440
good news for the company..."

1185
02:20:41,879 --> 02:20:45,040
We learn that repression
is an economy.

1186
02:20:45,040 --> 02:20:47,120
The weapons used against us

1187
02:20:47,120 --> 02:20:52,319
are sold abroad and even to 
formerly colonised countries.

1188
02:20:57,520 --> 02:21:05,719
Security & capitalism hegemonise
imperialist interests by repressing struggles,

1189
02:21:05,719 --> 02:21:11,760
Macron supports Bouteflika,
Algerians support the yellow vests.

1190
02:21:14,440 --> 02:21:16,239
"Algerians, what is your profession?!"

1191
02:21:16,239 --> 02:21:19,440
"Aouh aouh aouh!"

1192
02:21:25,079 --> 02:21:29,000
"The government launches
the great national debate."

1193
02:21:29,000 --> 02:21:32,559
in order to recover a
moderate fringe of the movement

1194
02:21:32,559 --> 02:21:35,280
and put an end the street demonstrations.

1195
02:21:35,280 --> 02:21:40,879
One of the reasons for social exasperation is:
the state favours the rich and makes them

1196
02:21:40,879 --> 02:21:45,319
richer while the poor get
get scraped off more and more.

1197
02:21:45,319 --> 02:21:48,280
Work more and earn less

1198
02:21:48,280 --> 02:21:50,559
is the basis of liberal growth.

1199
02:21:50,559 --> 02:21:54,360
But this subject is completely
denied by the debate administration.

1200
02:21:54,360 --> 02:21:56,879
Instead, they try to make us
talk about immigration

1201
02:21:56,879 --> 02:22:00,319
and they use the fact that we ask
for less taxes to falsely claim

1202
02:22:00,319 --> 02:22:03,920
that we ask for less public services.

1203
02:22:03,920 --> 02:22:06,200
The great debate is massively boycotted

1204
02:22:06,200 --> 02:22:09,319
because it is a masquerade
of participatory democracy,

1205
02:22:09,319 --> 02:22:12,840
a staged performance,
a tool of counter-insurgency

1206
02:22:12,840 --> 02:22:16,799
to distract us from the Macronist program:

1207
02:22:16,799 --> 02:22:20,840
The destruction of the French social 
model and its public services.

1208
02:22:20,840 --> 02:22:25,079
"Is our MP here to listen to us

1209
02:22:25,079 --> 02:22:29,959
or to execute the orders of the
of the President ?"

1210
02:22:32,000 --> 02:22:36,639
The wearing of yellow vests is
forbidden during some debates.

1211
02:22:36,639 --> 02:22:39,559
Villages that organise debates

1212
02:22:39,559 --> 02:22:42,959
with Macron are under siege.

1213
02:22:42,959 --> 02:22:45,399
Contrary to what the 
government had hoped

1214
02:22:45,399 --> 02:22:47,639
debates do not replace the demonstrations,

1215
02:22:47,639 --> 02:22:50,959
but on the contrary, increase
opportunities for the movement

1216
02:22:50,959 --> 02:22:54,879
to grow strength, 
sociability and determination.

1217
02:22:54,879 --> 02:22:58,000
Some speak of class consciousness,

1218
02:22:58,000 --> 02:23:01,959
but it is also 
class confidence we discover.

1219
02:23:03,520 --> 02:23:07,639
The debates bring to life forms of 
conviviality specefic to the movement

1220
02:23:07,639 --> 02:23:09,719
but also sketch structures of organisation

1221
02:23:09,719 --> 02:23:14,680
in line with the founding principle: 
anti political representation.

1222
02:23:14,680 --> 02:23:16,520
We go to the assembly of assemblies

1223
02:23:16,520 --> 02:23:20,680
to practice direct democracy,
to write a charter of values.

1224
02:23:20,680 --> 02:23:24,000
We vote and re-vote the fact
the movement is anti-capitalist.

1225
02:23:24,000 --> 02:23:27,360
We create spaces for dialogue
to work on ideas.

1226
02:23:27,360 --> 02:23:30,239
At each assembly, it is re-decided
that there is no hierarchy and

1227
02:23:30,239 --> 02:23:33,520
decisions can only be made locally.

1228
02:23:33,520 --> 02:23:37,639
"geographic structurating
raises a lot of questions,

1229
02:23:37,639 --> 02:23:43,159
my group is structured with groups of it's
department, less so with the entire region.

1230
02:23:43,159 --> 02:23:45,239
There is still a lot of divergence,

1231
02:23:45,239 --> 02:23:49,319
We are here to make contacts from everywhere
and organise simultaneous actions.

1232
02:23:49,319 --> 02:23:52,520
The cacatov becomes the
new popular weapon.

1233
02:23:52,520 --> 02:23:55,120
It proves to be as effective as Molotov cocktails,

1234
02:23:55,120 --> 02:23:57,520
easier to throw and more humiliating.

1235
02:23:57,520 --> 02:23:59,760
Police retreat immediately.

1236
02:24:02,440 --> 02:24:04,479
Internet tutorials show

1237
02:24:04,479 --> 02:24:06,879
a mixture of fish skin and cat poop

1238
02:24:06,879 --> 02:24:09,920
to avoid putting human DNA in the jars.

1239
02:24:09,920 --> 02:24:14,200
It is said that the projectiles make police 
vomit and humiliates them

1240
02:24:14,200 --> 02:24:18,120
as they wear their smelly uniforms all day.

1241
02:24:27,840 --> 02:24:31,520
Facebook pages from
different regions coordinate

1242
02:24:31,520 --> 02:24:35,000
their calls to protest, 
so people can travel from afar.

1243
02:24:35,000 --> 02:24:36,479
We organise camps

1244
02:24:36,479 --> 02:24:40,719
so that people can sleep on the the 
roundabout or in a squat.

1245
02:24:40,760 --> 02:24:44,479
It makes us travel,
discover new places

1246
02:24:44,479 --> 02:24:48,200
and fight the police
in different landscapes.

1247
02:24:50,879 --> 02:24:53,200
It is very dark in the bank branches

1248
02:24:53,200 --> 02:24:57,879
who have permanently replaced
their windows with wooden panels.

1249
02:25:01,920 --> 02:25:05,040
We open a squat to house activists
who are financially vulnerable.

1250
02:25:05,040 --> 02:25:08,920
"And whose house is it? 
It's ours !"

1251
02:25:08,920 --> 02:25:11,200
We fix our cars together.

1252
02:25:11,200 --> 02:25:13,200
We occupy a job centre to regularise

1253
02:25:13,200 --> 02:25:15,639
the situation of a comrade who
had his unemployment benefits cut.

1254
02:25:15,639 --> 02:25:17,559
If so-and-so has a problem with their boss,

1255
02:25:17,559 --> 02:25:20,920
we bring the movement to their
work to put pressure on them.

1256
02:26:00,840 --> 02:26:02,879
"With or without a vest?

1257
02:26:02,879 --> 02:26:05,719
"We'll keep shouting, Aouh Aouh!

1258
02:26:05,719 --> 02:26:08,200
For our locked-up brothers!

1259
02:26:08,200 --> 02:26:09,520
Aouh Aouh!

1260
02:26:09,520 --> 02:26:13,200
Tell me what is your profession?!
Aouh Aouh Aouh!"

1261
02:26:26,840 --> 02:26:29,399
"They want to remove
the right to wear masks,

1262
02:26:29,399 --> 02:26:31,399
we take it back!"

1263
02:26:31,399 --> 02:26:34,799
The saturdays of the yellow vests
look like carnivals

1264
02:26:34,799 --> 02:26:38,239
inscribing our ritual in the calendar.

1265
02:26:39,280 --> 02:26:43,760
"We are here, we are here!

1266
02:26:43,760 --> 02:26:48,360
For the honour of workers 
and for a better world!"

1267
02:26:53,840 --> 02:26:58,440
The yellow vests call for
a 2nd ultimatum on Paris.

1268
02:26:58,440 --> 02:27:01,479
The saturday acts look like
action movies,

1269
02:27:01,479 --> 02:27:04,719
with blockbuster titles
that evoke the end of the world.

1270
02:27:04,719 --> 02:27:05,680
Final act!

1271
02:27:05,680 --> 02:27:06,760
Decisive act!

1272
02:27:06,760 --> 02:27:07,680
Ultimatum!

1273
02:27:07,680 --> 02:27:08,879
Ultimatum 2!

1274
02:27:09,760 --> 02:27:11,000
Ultimatum 3!

1275
02:27:11,000 --> 02:27:13,680
Our word choices evoke 
the finality of the movement.

1276
02:27:13,680 --> 02:27:16,840
The intensity of events constantly revives

1277
02:27:16,840 --> 02:27:22,120
the sensation that we have 
reached the pinnacle of the story.

1278
02:27:38,120 --> 02:27:42,040
"The riotpolice withdraw with difficulty.

1279
02:27:42,040 --> 02:27:46,239
The procession moves towards 
a town square."

1280
02:28:11,239 --> 02:28:15,879
The slogan "The police join us"
is never heard again.

1281
02:28:15,879 --> 02:28:18,840
"This force is instituted for the benefit of all

1282
02:28:18,840 --> 02:28:22,360
and not for the particular use 
of those to whom it is entrusted".

1283
02:28:22,360 --> 02:28:24,000
What does it say?"

1284
02:28:24,000 --> 02:28:26,520
"In the morning,
the demonstrators shouted:

1285
02:28:26,520 --> 02:28:29,479
Don't commit suicide, join us!

1286
02:28:29,479 --> 02:28:37,200
After getting shot with rubber bullets
and grenades all the entire afternoon

1287
02:28:37,200 --> 02:28:43,760
The demonstrators now shout
"Commit Suicide!"

1288
02:28:43,760 --> 02:28:49,319
"Don't join us, commit Suicide!"

1289
02:28:49,319 --> 02:28:51,719
Everyone hates the police

1290
02:28:51,719 --> 02:28:54,319
is chanted all over France.

1291
02:28:54,319 --> 02:29:06,639
"Everybody hates the police!"

1292
02:29:07,479 --> 02:29:10,280
May Day is Workers' Day.

1293
02:29:10,280 --> 02:29:13,399
Yellow vests and trade unionists gather.

1294
02:29:13,399 --> 02:29:15,520
Once again, people talk about

1295
02:29:15,520 --> 02:29:18,680
social justice and
the convergence of struggles.

1296
02:29:22,360 --> 02:29:26,079
Despite the convergence of
environmentalists and leftists groups:

1297
02:29:26,079 --> 02:29:29,040
unions still don't organise strikes.

1298
02:29:29,040 --> 02:29:33,319
Trade union leaders are just like
directors and ministors.

1299
02:29:33,319 --> 02:29:35,399
Our experiences show that everything

1300
02:29:35,399 --> 02:29:38,200
which frames the movement
sufocates it.

1301
02:29:38,200 --> 02:29:41,719
To converge means to move
towards a same geographical point.

1302
02:29:41,719 --> 02:29:44,239
We meet the danger 
of aggressive brigades.

1303
02:29:44,239 --> 02:29:46,520
From the point of view of the police:

1304
02:29:46,520 --> 02:29:49,360
arrests are a bonus-interest business.

1305
02:29:49,360 --> 02:29:51,760
They exercise a politics of provocation

1306
02:29:51,760 --> 02:29:57,120
which resonates with the intervention style
of the anti-crime brigade in the suburbs.

1307
02:29:57,120 --> 02:29:59,799
Asphyxiated by a huge tear gas cloud,

1308
02:29:59,799 --> 02:30:02,280
The demonstrators take refuge in a hospital.

1309
02:30:02,280 --> 02:30:06,079
During three days, mainstream
media runs a campaign of propaganda

1310
02:30:06,079 --> 02:30:08,559
to support a state narrative:

1311
02:30:08,559 --> 02:30:12,360
that the left and the yellow vests want the 
destruction of public services.

1312
02:30:12,360 --> 02:30:15,920
"Imagine the headline news:
The civilian population

1313
02:30:15,920 --> 02:30:19,280
takes refuge in a hospital
to protect themself from repression.

1314
02:30:19,280 --> 02:30:21,399
if it was in Iran, 
this would be a scandal"

1315
02:30:21,399 --> 02:30:24,120
"People attacked a hospital!".

1316
02:30:24,120 --> 02:30:27,399
"What is the point of 
breaking into a hospital?

1317
02:30:27,399 --> 02:30:31,440
Basically, it's to 
challenge public services"

1318
02:30:31,440 --> 02:30:36,559
"But witnessses said they were 
escaping tear gas?

1319
02:30:36,559 --> 02:30:38,559
Throughout summer, non-unionised carers

1320
02:30:38,559 --> 02:30:41,000
converge with the mobilisation.

1321
02:30:41,000 --> 02:30:43,840
213 hospitals are on strike,

1322
02:30:43,840 --> 02:30:46,639
one third of emergency
departments are on stike.

1323
02:30:46,639 --> 02:30:50,399
Throughout the country
the demands are the same:

1324
02:30:50,399 --> 02:30:54,280
More beds, more staff
and more consideration.

1325
02:31:00,520 --> 02:31:05,200
In recent years, the number of beds has
been reduced in country side hospitals.

1326
02:31:05,200 --> 02:31:09,120
Privatisation creates unequal access
to healthcare.

1327
02:31:09,120 --> 02:31:12,159
The opinion of the workers
is brutally ignored,

1328
02:31:12,159 --> 02:31:16,440
which highlights a general problem
of democracy in our society.

1329
02:31:16,440 --> 02:31:20,840
why are the views of workers
denigrated with such contempt?

1330
02:31:20,840 --> 02:31:24,040
Caregivers reach a
point of desperation.

1331
02:31:24,040 --> 02:31:29,120
"We're going to inject insulin,
five units every five minutes.

1332
02:31:29,120 --> 02:31:32,200
it causes: hypoglycemia, coma and death.

1333
02:31:32,200 --> 02:31:35,440
We'll continue until the
ministry does something

1334
02:31:35,440 --> 02:31:38,479
for the emergency services 
and the public hospital,

1335
02:31:38,479 --> 02:31:41,079
decisions that don't only concern Paris,

1336
02:31:41,079 --> 02:31:43,079
but that concern all territories.

1337
02:31:43,079 --> 02:31:45,920
For the patients,
For the caregivers,

1338
02:31:45,920 --> 02:31:52,000
as long as we don't have security in
the emergency services, we'll continue!"

1339
02:31:56,559 --> 02:31:58,440
Numerous controversies highlight

1340
02:31:58,440 --> 02:32:02,680
the perversity of the manipulation of
information by the state and media.

1341
02:32:02,680 --> 02:32:05,000
Geneviève Legay is
assaulted by police officers.

1342
02:32:05,000 --> 02:32:08,040
The police chief prevents the
medics from coming to her aid.

1343
02:32:08,040 --> 02:32:10,959
The Public Prosecutor and 
the police investigative services

1344
02:32:10,959 --> 02:32:13,319
collaborate to hide video evidence.

1345
02:32:13,319 --> 02:32:16,639
in turn, they claim that it was a
photographer who pushed her.

1346
02:32:16,639 --> 02:32:19,280
As she wakes up in the hospital
with a fractured skull.

1347
02:32:19,280 --> 02:32:21,239
The police put pressure on her to testify

1348
02:32:21,239 --> 02:32:24,120
that the cause of
her fall was not the police.

1349
02:32:24,120 --> 02:32:26,399
The only police officer who is fired

1350
02:32:26,399 --> 02:32:29,120
is the one who informed 
the news of the truth.

1351
02:32:29,120 --> 02:32:32,280
Another controversy:
The attack on the National Music Festival

1352
02:32:32,280 --> 02:32:34,920
which caused the death of Steve Maia Caniço.

1353
02:32:34,920 --> 02:32:37,920
And the worst case
we have against the state.

1354
02:32:37,920 --> 02:32:40,479
The police chief who shot and killed

1355
02:32:40,479 --> 02:32:44,360
Zineb Radouane in Marseille,
refuses to cooperate with the investigation.

1356
02:32:44,360 --> 02:32:46,239
The evidence being hidden by the police,

1357
02:32:46,239 --> 02:32:49,280
the Ministry of Interior states: 
"I would not like people to think

1358
02:32:49,280 --> 02:32:53,399
that the police killed
Zineb because it is not true.

1359
02:32:53,399 --> 02:32:55,239
a surgical shock caused her death."

1360
02:32:55,239 --> 02:32:58,040
Disgusted by medical and police corruption,

1361
02:32:58,040 --> 02:33:01,920
Zineb's family organise 
a counter autopsy in Algeria

1362
02:33:01,920 --> 02:33:05,159
that definitively proves that she was

1363
02:33:05,159 --> 02:33:08,719
was killed by the grenade
thrown by the police.

1364
02:33:08,719 --> 02:33:11,239
"Justice for Zineb ! Justice for Steve !"

1365
02:33:11,239 --> 02:33:14,559
"And all the others !"

1366
02:33:21,680 --> 02:33:27,200
July 14th 1789,
the famous storming of the Bastille,

1367
02:33:27,200 --> 02:33:31,079
a centenary symbol of
French Revolution.

1368
02:33:31,799 --> 02:33:35,559
"Suppress yellow !"
An order of royal authority.

1369
02:33:35,559 --> 02:33:39,760
Wearing yellow can get you 
arrested for being political opposition.

1370
02:33:39,760 --> 02:33:44,719
Police stop & search may reveal other 
attributes that legitimise an arrest.

1371
02:33:44,719 --> 02:33:49,760
Today, a colour of clothing and the 
act of singing are criminalisd.

1372
02:33:49,760 --> 02:33:51,959
intolerance is normalised.

1373
02:33:51,959 --> 02:33:54,760
"They chased me and
stabbed my yellow balloon.

1374
02:33:54,760 --> 02:33:57,879
The police have the order
to remove all signs of yellow."

1375
02:33:57,879 --> 02:34:00,440
Our comrades are parked
in open-air custodies

1376
02:34:00,440 --> 02:34:04,239
and transported in buses to jail.

1377
02:34:06,959 --> 02:34:11,159
An armed people founding the Republic.

1378
02:34:11,159 --> 02:34:13,840
They disguise the celebration of the 14th July

1379
02:34:13,840 --> 02:34:18,239
as an anniversary of the 
liberal authoritarian bourgeoisie.

1380
02:34:20,680 --> 02:34:24,399
On Sunday, we watch
videos of the riots in Hong Kong.

1381
02:34:25,959 --> 02:34:29,120
We make a banner in support 
of the siege of the HK assembly

1382
02:34:29,120 --> 02:34:32,840
to respond to their banner
of support to the yellow vest movement.

1383
02:34:32,840 --> 02:34:36,440
The study of other cases of struggle
helps us understand

1384
02:34:36,440 --> 02:34:39,959
technical obstacles we face in 
defending a revolution.

1385
02:34:39,959 --> 02:34:42,239
The 4th Assembly of assemblies

1386
02:34:42,239 --> 02:34:44,840
calls for convergence with strike movements

1387
02:34:44,840 --> 02:34:47,280
and recognising the yellow vest movement

1388
02:34:47,280 --> 02:34:50,360
as being part of an international
planetary uprising.

1389
02:34:50,360 --> 02:34:53,840
While the yellow vests call for
yet another ultimatum on Paris.

1390
02:34:53,840 --> 02:34:57,159
In Indonesia, another
movement erupts.

1391
02:34:57,159 --> 02:34:59,959
Hong Kong's "Be water" tactic means

1392
02:34:59,959 --> 02:35:04,479
to be fluid and elusive, to take the 
underground, divide and multiply

1393
02:35:04,479 --> 02:35:08,840
recompose strength and spontaneity.

1394
02:35:08,840 --> 02:35:12,360
Across the globe protestors
use encrypted chats

1395
02:35:12,360 --> 02:35:15,799
to bypass surveillance devices.

1396
02:35:15,799 --> 02:35:17,840
The "Be Water" tactic

1397
02:35:17,840 --> 02:35:20,200
is difficultly appropriated by yellow vests.

1398
02:35:20,200 --> 02:35:22,760
While some remove the vest to avoid fines,

1399
02:35:22,760 --> 02:35:25,120
In confusion,
some advocate removing the vest

1400
02:35:25,120 --> 02:35:28,000
in the name of the convergence of struggles

1401
02:35:28,000 --> 02:35:30,639
or to sublimate that
they are good citizens.

1402
02:35:30,639 --> 02:35:34,479
These actions legitimise repression 
against the entire social movement.

1403
02:35:34,479 --> 02:35:38,639
But the hype of regional events keep 
the culture of the yellow vests alive.

1404
02:35:38,639 --> 02:35:42,559
In sector-based struggles:
They speak of the yellowing of events.

1405
02:35:42,559 --> 02:35:46,760
The vest shines at all union events
and zone to defend (ZAD).

1406
02:35:46,760 --> 02:35:51,920
Everywhere, people only talk about
yellow and revolutionary perspectives.

1407
02:35:51,920 --> 02:35:56,280
A wave of international uprisings surges!

1408
02:35:58,680 --> 02:36:05,040
The wake of a movement is an opening,
a breach that opens up new possibilities.

1409
02:36:05,040 --> 02:36:07,559
revolution does not stop at insurrection,

1410
02:36:07,559 --> 02:36:09,399
that's when it takes it's start.

1411
02:36:09,399 --> 02:36:14,159
The challenge ahead, is to achieve with 
offensivity a transformation of the world.

1412
02:36:14,159 --> 02:36:15,479
It's Iran's turn.

1413
02:36:15,479 --> 02:36:18,959
Demonstrations break out spontaneously
in 100 towns and villages.

1414
02:36:18,959 --> 02:36:20,959
The country is cut off from the Internet.

1415
02:36:20,959 --> 02:36:23,040
Total black out.

1416
02:36:23,040 --> 02:36:26,520
No more information
circulates outside the country.

1417
02:36:28,559 --> 02:36:31,760
This is it, it's the end.

1418
02:36:31,760 --> 02:36:33,319
It's our anniversary.

1419
02:36:33,319 --> 02:36:34,760
1 year.

1420
02:36:34,760 --> 02:36:37,040
Today is the day the movement

1421
02:36:37,040 --> 02:36:39,399
is once again a day without end.

1422
02:36:39,399 --> 02:36:43,239
On a roundabout, 
yellow vests burn a sundial.

1423
02:36:43,239 --> 02:36:47,799
The mechanics of the 
political system are frozen.

1424
02:36:47,799 --> 02:36:53,479
Like in an action movie, time stops.

1425
02:36:54,719 --> 02:36:59,319
If the film gives us the conrol of time,
let's speed up the story a few years...

1426
02:37:14,799 --> 02:37:17,959
As we finish making the film,

1427
02:37:17,959 --> 02:37:20,920
in the name of:
counter-terrorism and a pandemic,

1428
02:37:20,920 --> 02:37:24,440
international states strengthen their 
police arsenal and judicial system

1429
02:37:24,440 --> 02:37:26,920
to criminalise social struggles.

1430
02:37:26,920 --> 02:37:31,719
Macron is re-elected and in this context,
celebrating the victory of the yellow vests

1431
02:37:31,719 --> 02:37:35,719
and the movements that followed
seems difficult.

1432
02:37:35,719 --> 02:37:38,000
But besides, what is victory ?

1433
02:37:38,000 --> 02:37:41,760
What revolution are we talking about?
How far should we go?

1434
02:37:41,760 --> 02:37:44,680
What should we destroy?
And to build what?

1435
02:37:44,680 --> 02:37:46,559
From within the movement,

1436
02:37:46,559 --> 02:37:47,959
We encounter limits,

1437
02:37:47,959 --> 02:37:51,200
but also create the possibilities
to go beyond them.

1438
02:37:51,200 --> 02:37:54,719
In action, we break
the continuum of history

1439
02:37:54,719 --> 02:37:57,920
and open the streets
on new calendars.

1440
02:37:57,920 --> 02:38:01,120
Saturday is the day
of the yellow vests.

1441
02:38:01,120 --> 02:38:05,520
We pay tribute to the courage 
the movement has had thus far.

1442
02:38:05,520 --> 02:38:09,920
We have shown that dignity is
the motor of collective emotion

1443
02:38:09,920 --> 02:38:13,840
that makes us move in
the most beautiful way.

1444
02:38:13,840 --> 02:38:16,840
We didn't make this film
to tell you how it all ends,

1445
02:38:16,840 --> 02:38:19,840
but to tell you how it starts.

1446
02:38:19,840 --> 02:38:22,079
We are going to stop this film

1447
02:38:22,079 --> 02:38:25,120
and you will see a world
without limits or borders,

1448
02:38:25,120 --> 02:38:29,879
a world where everything is possible, 
where the movement never stops.

1449
02:38:29,879 --> 02:38:35,680
What we do with it is up to us.