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Hello, I'm Johanna.

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I am a media activist.

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I have been filming strikes and
social movements for 20 years.

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And it was very late in
the day that I realised

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what a disaster
climate change is.

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When the penny finally dropped,

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I decided that
I would try

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to bring everything I had
learned in the workers' movement

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to the climate movement.

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Because there's something
we should all know.

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So, let's get started.

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Look here:

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This is the Paris Climate
Conference in 2015.

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Since the UN Climate Conferences
began in 1992,

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annual CO2 emissions
have not gone down,

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they have gone up by 60%.

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In the last 40 years

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we have lost half of all the earth’s
mammals, fish, birds and reptiles.

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And deforestation,

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the melting of the polar ice caps,

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the acidification of the oceans,

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the erosion of soils,

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ever more severe forest fires and floods

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are doing their bit to
destroy life on Earth.

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In 2020,
20 million people

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had to flee the consequences
of climate change.

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Governments are letting these
people die by the thousands.

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You can imagine what will happen

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when billions of people
have lost their livelihoods.

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Governments knew what they had to do,

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but they didn't do it.

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We are here, we are loud,
because your steal our future.

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Why do you think governments haven’t
done anything to stop climate change?

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Don't know.

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They might think that things
get better even if you don’t do anything.

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I don’t get why politicians 
who have kids themselves

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can’t think ahead.

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The climate policies of the
government are awful.

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Seen from a future perspective
perhaps even criminal.

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We have created so much
damage to Mother Earth

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and this damage that we've
created, it's what makes

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that our seasons are
not the same anymore.

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Every year our
climate is changing

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because we're causing
damage to our Mother Earth.

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It’s been clear for 50 years
that we can’t go on like this.

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It’s about money,
a lot of money.

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Every kilo of coal that they
extract and that is subsidised

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makes them money
and so they won’t stop mining.

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The questions and answers
are always the same.

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This system is about
making profits.

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We have to go to the root of the
problems, not just treat the symptoms.

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We have to get rid of those in power,
that is a revolutionary task.

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It took me time to realise this.

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I thought it’s all
about understanding

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that we have to understand
what is necessary,

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since the climate is getting to hot,
we have to change that,

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that we understand that we have
to do something and then we do it -

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but that’s not the case.

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The first thing we need to
understand to remedy the situation

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is why governments
have done nothing.

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The fossil fuel industry has
done everything it can

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to prevent effective
climate legislation.

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Author and climate scientist
Andreas Malm has pointed out

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that we are ultimately
dealing with a systemic problem.

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The consequences of all these
constraints are cruel.

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According to the OECD,

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every year fossil fuels
are subsidised

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to the tune of 100 to
200 billion dollars.

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That is 4 times as much
as states spend

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on the development
of renewable energies.

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But states also pay for the damage
caused by the fossil fuel industry,

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such as heat waves,
droughts and floods.

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These indirect subsidies
(according to the IMF)

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amounted to
5.9 trillion dollars

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- in 2020 alone.

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That is 11 million dollars
per minute.

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But states do not limit themselves
to subsidize the use of fossil fuels.

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In countries like Namibia,
Botswana or Colombia,

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they literally conspire
against their own people

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to promote the extraction and export
of oil, gas and other raw materials.

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In the Colombian province
of Casanare, for example,

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oil was discovered
in the 1990s.

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And paramilitaries, hand
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murdered 2600 people

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in order to give British Petroleum (BP)
access to the oil deposits.

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There were police and army
all around. - Didn't help.

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Colombia is an extreme example
of rotten state institutions.

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But left-wing governments
are also under pressure

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to extract fossil fuels
and other raw materials.

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Esteban Servat, who himself
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because he fought against
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describes it like this:

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The official answer to the climate crisis
is called Green Capitalism.

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Green Capitalism is essentially the idea
of replacing fossil fuels with renewables,

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capturing CO2 from the air

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and otherwise carrying
on as before.

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This is the global energy mix
of pre-pandemic 2019.

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25% of energy comes from coal,

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31% from oil and
23% from natural gas.

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Nuclear power is contested, the potential
for hydro-power nearly exhausted

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and with bio mass energy there
are conflicts when it comes to land use.

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The official strategy is

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that this small, pink coloured part
should replace all the others.

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By 2050.

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In order to create that
amount of renewable energy

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we would have to create
an enormous infrastructure

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that would require huge
amounts of raw materials.

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Raw materials that are
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and the extraction of which

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destroys the livelihoods of 
people in the global south.

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Could there be a
green capitalism?

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There could be a new
regime of accumulation,

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a new model
of capitalism,

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that is based on profiting
from the climate catastrophy

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creating new investment opportunities
in the ecological transformation.

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This is a fast growing sector.

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Take for example
the electrical car.

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But it would be
an illusion to think

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that green capitalism would
lower emissions fast enough.

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And, as far as we know,

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this type of so-called green capitalism
aggravates the biodiversity crisis.

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because the resources for electrical
cars, bio fuels, batteries

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have to come
from somewhere!

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This creates new problems
and neo-colonial inequalities.

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So the problem is not
solved, just relocated.

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Green capitalism is a lie.

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It does not make sense to
just switch to green energy,

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but otherwise to continue
with heavy consumerism.

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I think the hope that technology
will rescue us is very problematic.

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Because we would just
delay to act.

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We would rely on some possible
inventions in the future,

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and yes, there might be
some developments,

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but that doesn't change the fact
that we have to act now

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and reduce the consumption
of ressources here and now

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and reduce the use of fossil fuels
and the emissions here and now.

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This is the very big
problem with this logic

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that we could progress with green
technologies and green capitalism.

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Using much less energy and resources
would not be a big problem in itself.

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Today, about half of the food and a third
of the energy we produce is wasted.

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If we stop this waste and, 
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eliminate pointless or 
harmful production,

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we can save a large part
of the resources we use today

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and a large part of the
emissions.

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Producing less, however,
is in sharp contradiction

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to a central feature
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it must grow.

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The only ones who are
really facing up to this fact

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are the people in the
global climate movement.

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They were able to get
the issue on the agenda.

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In order to achieve such
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the climate movement must overcome
the powers that maintain capitalism

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and develop a concrete idea
of how this could be done.

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The debate about that
is in full swing.

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We have to continue mobilising
more and more people.

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We have to fight
a big media battle.

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And we have to show that
there are many alternatives

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that have already
been implemented,

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to achieve a real transition, and to
stop the massacre of the living.

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We have to organise ourselves,
that’s the most important thing.

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Whether that is in 
a garden collective

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or a solidarity collective, 
or where you live,

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Organized we're
much much stronger.

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Also, inform
yourselves,

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use your privilege, it's enormous
what we can do here, in the global north.

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Show solidarity with other communities.

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And do something, whether that is
gardening or occupying an open-cast mine.

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We can attack
from many sides.

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And the more we are
the weaker it becomes.

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All these activists are of course
right in what they say.

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But it seems that
there is a blind spot

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on the question of
how the climate movement

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can build the political power
it needs to achieve its goals.

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This is true in theory, but how
do we get everyone involved?

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Overcoming capitalism is not something
you do with your friends after work.

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The climate movement can only be
successful if everyone pulls together:

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Those who are dancing here,

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as well as the security guy,

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and a not insignificant part
of the police officers.

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To get rid of capitalism, we need
to build a broad movement from below,

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that learns from the
struggles of the past

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and goes one
step further.

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Many times over
the last 20 years,

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people have taken to the barricades
en masse against their governments.

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In Argentina in 2001, for example,
people chased 5 governments out of office.

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10 years later, there
was the Arab Spring.

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People in Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain,
 Syria, Yemen, Sudan, Saudi Arabia,

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Palestine, Oman, Mauritania,
Morocco, Kuwait, Jordan,

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Iraq, Djibouti and Algeria

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took to the streets en masse,

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overthrowing four governments
and demanding better living conditions.

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Again almost 10 years later,
 since 2018/2019,

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there have again been uprisings
in dozens of countries,

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including Sudan, France, Chile,
Hong Kong, Lebanon and Iraq.

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And in the US, there has been the largest
mobilisation in the country's history:

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Black Lives Matter.

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But the interesting question
about an uprising is always:

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what comes after?

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None of these mass uprisings could
bring about fundamental change.

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Why not?

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If neither mass uprisings nor
left parties change anything,

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we need a new strategy:

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Amazon workers and trade union activists
Agnieszka Mróz and Magda Malinowska

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suggest turning our gaze
away from parliaments.

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They see the key to change
in the sphere of production.

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Many people in the European climate
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the possibilities that open up
when we look at production.

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For example, when I was
researching this film,

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a well-known German
climate activist told me

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that he didn't understand

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why it was the workers who should be
able to disempower the fossil fuel industry

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and not, for example,
the Beatles fans of the world!

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Here is the answer.

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As wage-earners we are forced to
participate in a capitalist economy

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that is destroying
life on earth.

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We are forced to
dig our own grave.

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You go home from your shift
and sometimes you just cry,

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because you are
so exhausted.

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All we want is
a good life.

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That we are not simply
thrown in the rubbish.

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We want dignity.

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Slavery must end.

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But no matter how
powerful it may seem,

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capitalism has one
crucial weakness:

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it is totally dependent
on our labour.

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We can bring it to a halt
by going on strike together,

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we can overcome it

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by taking over the
means of production,

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and we can replace it

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by planning and organising
production ourselves.

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The structural impotence of the
climate movement will continue

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exactly as long as it ignores this
structural power of the working class.

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If we want to stop the
destruction of the world

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we have to make sure
that the next uprising

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will involve the
main workplaces

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and expand into
the whole of society.

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The key is that workers take
over the control at work

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and secure the
provision for everyone.

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If we don't want to continue
to be defenseless against capitalism,

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we need to start imagining

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what a successful revolutionary
uprising could look like.

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So, let's look to
the year 2024.

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In the spring of 2024,
revolution flares up again.

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And in Berlin, too, people are
taking to the streets en masse.

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Almost everyone realises
that things can't go on like this

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and many stop working
to take part in the uprising.

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The people in the essential
workplaces continue to work

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and the others look for 
something meaningful to do,

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including the people who
were unemployed before

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and had felt
excluded.

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People discuss how to ensure
the daily survival of everyone.

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It is difficult to deny that we are totally
dependent on the capitalist world market

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when we want to
cook our dinner,

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and that production-chains
have become long and complex.

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But as soon as we have
taken over production,

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we can reconstruct
these structures

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and free ourselves and the planet
from wasteful and unnecessary production.

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Because even today, it is us
who create everything

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and make
everything run.

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The revolutionaries realise that
the success of the revolution

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ultimately depends on
whether enough people join in.

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They storm radio and
television stations

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to reach those still sitting at home,
isolated and frightened.

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Hello,

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here is Radio Plantón with a report
from the first Berlin delegate assembly

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that took place yesterday.

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This is a call to everyone
to join the revolution.

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There are no bosses anymore
and there is no state.

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We don’t pay rent anymore.

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Stop working, if your
job was useless.

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If you produce food or
medication or deliver it,

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or if you work in a hospital
or care for others,

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the success of the revolution depends
on you to continue working.

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Open a canteen in
your neighbourhood.

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Eat together, get to
know each other.

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Organise a daily assembly.

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Create a rallying point for
everyone who has trouble coping

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or has to put up with
violent relationships.

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Talk about your problems
at the assembly.

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This is a call to everyone who
works in the police force or the army.

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Join the revolution!

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The order that you have protected
has destroyed the foundations of our lives.

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We will start now to rebuild
these foundations.

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That’s all for today,
here from Radio Plantón.

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We call you to trust in your
instincts and humanity.

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As in any revolution,

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spontaneous neighbourhood assemblies
are springing up everywhere.

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Without the  feminists present, however,
the meetings would have failed.

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Such a small rule had
such an impact.

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Suddenly we
were all equal.

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In the first days, the
movement pays a visit

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to the coal workers
in the Lausitz region.

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The workforce discusses
what could now be done

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with the coal mine
and the power plants.

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I discussed with my workmates that
we will stop working for the moment,

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and see what comes
out of the assembly.

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At Vattenfall, the first
thing the workers decide

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is to restore electricity
to all 40,000 households

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that had had their
electricity cut off.

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But the staff are
also discussing

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how to maintain the electricity
supply in the region.

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In Berlin the electricity comes from
the local wind and solar farms

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and from Russian
gas supplies.

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We first started
contacting all suppliers.

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With the worker colleagues
in Russia this was more difficult.

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It is still unclear how the
situation will develop there.

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But they continue
supplying for the moment.

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Luckily there is a contract
that runs till 2030.

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We told the assembly
that by then

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we will have to expand
our own energy plants,

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so that we don't need
the gas anymore.

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For many it is clear
that it is necessary

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to occupy the banks in order to be
able to pay bills in the initial phase,

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while the revolution is spreading,

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and also to take this financial power
out of the hands of the reactionary forces.

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If our enemies can use
the money against us

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then we will be lost
within a few weeks time.

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I was surprised that half of
the workforce was on our side

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and that they wanted
to support us.

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I think the time was ripe.

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Many workers are
occupying their factories

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and for the first time

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there is a real reason to discuss
which products should still be produced

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and which should not.

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Many who have never been
to a climate demo before

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are beginning to see that there is
a real opportunity opening up here.

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And of course, life changes
 radically for everyone involved.

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Everyone is suddenly needed
and everyone can contribute.

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People appropriate spaces, build
canteens and fix up empty flats.

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I wanted to be
part of this,

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so I joined in.

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My boys also enjoyed it.

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Finally something happens, in the real
world, that we can afford.

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Hey, it’s us, from
the canteen!

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We’re making dinner
for the neighbourhood.

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Do you want to come
down and join in?

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Warehouse workers decide to distribute
what is lying around in the warehouses

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to the assemblies.

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I was prepared when
it started to kick off.

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I took this job, because I knew that
it would be of strategic importance.

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Food is the most important
thing that people need.

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I wanted to know how food
gets into the supermarkets.

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So I started working
at Lidl six years ago.

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Lidl has over 500 food
suppliers in Germany,

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and I called them up

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one by one.

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I told them what was happening here
and if they can continue supplying.

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Some were on our
side, others not.

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And some telephone
lines were dead.

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Where the phones
were dead,

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we tried to use the local assemblies
to find out what was going on.

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Germany is doing quite well
as far as food is concerned

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at the start of the revolution,

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only 22% of the food
has to be imported.

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What is lacking is mainly
fruit and vegetables.

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This is largely grown by illegalised
workers in southern Europe,

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who don't think twice
about joining the revolution.

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In Puglia, migrant workers
 decide to occupy the fields.

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The Caporale came, but we
refused to go into the fields.

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He threatened us,
but we were fed up.

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We decided to occupy
the land together.

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Afterwards we went to
the Assembly in Foggia

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and said that we
needed more people.

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To defend the occupation
and to collaborate.

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And many people
from the village came!

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There were so many of us

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that we decided that everyone
only had to work three hours.

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Many unemployed
young people came.

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There is a nice
atmosphere, festive.

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Workin three hours means that
everyone can attend the assembly.

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Even those people with children.

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We have started to
fix ourselves real flats

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we took over two empty
buildings in the center

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Here in the South
the houses are empty.

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I met a nice lady.

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She is a therapist.

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They do this free therapy
for everybody who wants.

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It's great.

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As in every revolution, also in 2024
the biggest problem is repression.

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On the 4th day of the uprising,

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the authorities send the police and
military to clear the occupied factories.

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Hey, we are here at the
Volkswagen factory in Wolfsburg.

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Workers here need our support.

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They occupied the factory yesterday.

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They are here to
guard the machines.

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More police show up and we
even saw a tank on the bridge.

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It’s of essential importance
that we don’t lose these major factories,

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because here we can
practically produce anything,

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from incubators
to solar panels.

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We urgently need
more support.

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Come to gate number 5.

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We'll post the adress and
the coordinates in the chat.

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When we have taken over
the productive fabric of society,

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then and only then can we finally
start doing what is needed

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to curb climate change.

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We would start building a decentralised
democratic energy system.

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Back to local power
to make decisions.

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I think we need, 
on the one hand,

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a re-localisation 
of economic cycles

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and desicion making;

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and that we need a 
socialisation of production

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where people who are impacted
can decide about what is done.

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In smaller local units, that
allow this desicion making,

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and which are, at the same
time, networked globally,

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by virtual networking.

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...taking care for each other to make
sure that there is enough for everyone.

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We review everything according
to the real needs of the people,

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in terms of work
and distribution.

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We must end
this system

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and take care of
our real needs

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and of the survival 
of the human species.

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There are ways out
of the climate crisis.

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And a strategy with which
we can get rid of capitalism.

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The rest is organisation.

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But what does that mean
concretely for the here and now

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and for the climate movement?

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There are hundreds of
thousands of people preparing,

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building a different world.

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People organising in their
workplaces, for example,

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taking over production sites when
they are threatened with closure.

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There are indigenous people
who live off the land

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and defend it with
their bodies.

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There are thousands of people
who risk their lives

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in big uprisings and
demonstrations.

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There has been and continues to be
incredible solidarity and activism.

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All over the world
and at all times.

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And that is what we all need to have
 in mind when making our life choices.

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We need to develop the
mindset of a deserter:

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we turn our backs
on a society

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that wants us to accept our
own extinction as inevitable.

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We think ahead.

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We do research and make a map
where we can see:

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Where are the essential
industries in our region?

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Where is the fuel stored?

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And where are
the grain silos?

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00:59:31,748 --> 00:59:34,084
Who works there?

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Should I get a job in these places
to get to know the people there?

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00:59:40,822 --> 00:59:43,853
Should I join the police
or the military

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to be there when the time
comes to lay down the arms?

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00:59:55,327 --> 00:59:59,921
Should I start working at
Vattenfall? Or at Commerzbank?

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01:00:00,640 --> 01:00:02,878
If we all start
working strategically

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instead of trying to make a career
in a system that burns the world,

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if we join the concrete struggles
of people in the Global South.

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and if we meet each other with
revolutionary friendliness,

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then we have a chance to put
an end to the general madness,

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at the right moment.