0:00:00.260,0:00:02.608 Greetings Troublemakers[br]... welcome to Trouble. 0:00:02.608,0:00:04.538 My name is not important. 0:00:05.018,0:00:08.215 From the endless turf battles [br]found within the animal kingdom, 0:00:08.215,0:00:10.721 to the mechanized [br]carnage of modern warfare... 0:00:10.721,0:00:15.755 the drive to control territory is a[br]potent and recurring source of conflict. 0:00:16.515,0:00:21.375 Yet within the artificial borders that[br]fortify the so-called “developed world”, 0:00:21.375,0:00:25.452 this type of conflict, like all others, [br]is carefully managed. 0:00:25.452,0:00:28.219 Which is not to say it doesn’t exist. 0:00:28.219,0:00:32.227 People quarrel with their neighbours [br]all the time, even in suburbia 0:00:32.227,0:00:34.808 … and in places like [br]Chicago’s South Side, 0:00:34.808,0:00:38.563 young men routinely get shot[br]fighting over street corners. 0:00:38.563,0:00:40.298 As groups and individuals, 0:00:40.298,0:00:44.578 we face differing types and levels [br]of conflict in our everyday lives 0:00:44.578,0:00:46.110 ... but at the end of the day, 0:00:46.110,0:00:50.227 the ultimate manager and [br]mediator of these conflicts is the state. 0:00:50.227,0:00:53.657 Through their police, [br]courts and prison systems, 0:00:53.657,0:00:56.840 states enforce laws [br]that reproduce power dynamics, 0:00:56.840,0:01:00.236 restrict our choices, [br]and regulate our behaviour. 0:01:00.236,0:01:02.738 The allocation of resources is determined 0:01:02.738,0:01:05.567 by the logic of [br]the so-called “free market”, 0:01:05.567,0:01:08.955 whereby ownership over [br]land is given official sanction 0:01:08.955,0:01:12.413 by the state-backed illusion [br]of private property. 0:01:12.413,0:01:14.884 The key to the state’s [br]control over our lives 0:01:14.884,0:01:19.526 lies in its ability to regulate all [br]conflict within a given physical area. 0:01:19.526,0:01:23.521 It follows, then, that those of us[br]seeking to steal back the power 0:01:23.521,0:01:28.524 to resolve conflicts on our own terms [br]must first draw a firm line in the sand, 0:01:28.524,0:01:33.583 and deny access to the state and its [br]sophisticated apparatus of social control. 0:01:33.583,0:01:36.343 In order to meaningfully [br]assert collective autonomy, 0:01:36.343,0:01:39.051 we must be capable of defending territory. 0:01:39.051,0:01:42.728 Over the next thirty minutes,[br]we will explore three autonomous zones 0:01:42.728,0:01:46.504 serving as living embodiments [br]of defiance to state rule: 0:01:46.504,0:01:51.336 the ZAD, or Zone to Defend, [br]in Notre-Dame-des-Landes, France, 0:01:51.336,0:01:56.369 the Unist’ot’en Camp located on the [br]Wet’suet’en territories of so-called BC, 0:01:56.369,0:02:00.294 and the autonomous spaces movement [br]in Ljubljana, Slovenia. 0:02:00.294,0:02:03.203 Along the way, we will speak [br]with a number of individuals 0:02:03.203,0:02:05.057 who are flaunting state authority, 0:02:05.057,0:02:07.884 asserting control over [br]the spaces they inhabit 0:02:07.884,0:02:09.985 ... and making a whole lot of trouble. 0:02:48.293,0:02:50.946 The ZAD has many realities. 0:02:51.836,0:02:55.635 But mostly it’s kind of a[br]community where people try to 0:02:55.635,0:03:00.277 experiment other ways to live[br]their social and political life. 0:03:00.727,0:03:06.091 In the end of the 1960s, [br]somebody came up with an airport project 0:03:06.091,0:03:10.370 for this area, [br]Notre-Dame-des-Landes. 0:03:10.370,0:03:16.263 And during all those years, the bocage[br]itself is put under the status of ZAD 0:03:16.263,0:03:19.090 – which basically means [br]Postponed Planning Zone, 0:03:19.090,0:03:22.317 which was transformed one day[br]into Zone to be Defended. 0:03:22.317,0:03:26.355 So there was a big resistance [br]with lots of different forms of action, 0:03:26.355,0:03:33.908 including sabotage, black bloc [br]demonstrations, quite offensive defense. 0:03:47.268,0:03:51.020 Occupying land is quite [br]similar to a political squat, 0:03:51.020,0:03:54.856 but with a strong dimension [br]regarding the environment 0:03:54.856,0:03:56.953 and the territory we live in. 0:03:57.543,0:03:58.571 During all those years, 0:03:58.571,0:04:02.362 we did not simply organize [br]politically against the airport, 0:04:02.362,0:04:04.979 but we also made connections locally. 0:04:05.699,0:04:07.235 We took care of the land. 0:04:07.235,0:04:09.133 Some of us settled for good. 0:04:09.133,0:04:13.010 And we thought out [br]the future of the ZAD together. 0:04:13.010,0:04:18.363 So it’s been ten years now that [br]structures have been created on the ZAD 0:04:18.363,0:04:21.842 to figure out how to live [br]as autonomously as possible. 0:04:21.842,0:04:27.000 It necessarily means that we have [br]to be able to answer our basic needs. 0:04:27.000,0:04:30.753 Like be fed, sleep under a roof,[br]have access to medicine. 0:04:30.753,0:04:35.005 It’s a place that has become [br]a place where you can live for free. 0:04:35.005,0:04:37.072 You can build your house, your cabin... 0:04:37.072,0:04:41.613 The occupation movement was created[br]at a time when some of the peasants 0:04:41.613,0:04:45.203 had called for illegal [br]occupation themselves. 0:04:45.203,0:04:50.450 When squatters came in 2007 [br]they were close to anarchist 0:04:50.450,0:04:53.354 and/or antiauthoritarian ideas. 0:04:53.354,0:04:57.838 Trying to work together [br]and allowing for a diversity of tactics, 0:04:57.838,0:04:59.817 and knowing that that is our strength. 0:04:59.817,0:05:03.405 We’re fighting against [br]this state and this project. 0:05:03.405,0:05:04.526 Also we come here.... 0:05:04.526,0:05:07.690 we fight against things, but we [br]also try to create things together. 0:05:07.690,0:05:11.980 And making things available [br]and trying to share. 0:05:11.980,0:05:16.370 That everybody has possibilities [br]and access to a place to live 0:05:16.370,0:05:19.443 ... to water and food. 0:05:25.413,0:05:29.940 So there’s a kind of hegemonic ideology. 0:05:29.940,0:05:34.825 Diversity of tactics has been much more[br]of a theory for the past few months. 0:05:34.825,0:05:39.224 Certain ideas that become [br]ways of judging people, 0:05:39.224,0:05:41.734 of excluding people from discussions. 0:05:41.734,0:05:45.432 So yeah there’s some kind [br]of really well-organized, 0:05:45.432,0:05:50.852 sort of communist ideas that have taken [br]a lot of place in the past few years 0:05:50.852,0:05:54.476 that will have a kind of discourse about 0:05:54.476,0:05:59.045 “you have to go to our meetings, and if[br]you don’t agree you might have to leave, 0:05:59.045,0:06:04.923 or shut up... or maybe later on we’ll[br]come beat you up with baseball bats.” 0:06:04.923,0:06:08.362 Some people who used sabotage[br]as a tactic have been pressured 0:06:08.362,0:06:13.726 and even attacked for [br]having dug holes in the concrete 0:06:13.726,0:06:16.591 of one of the roads which crosses the ZAD. 0:06:16.591,0:06:21.048 And someone especially was [br]put in the trunk and taken out of there, 0:06:21.048,0:06:25.389 molested and left almost naked [br]in front of a psychiatric hospital. 0:06:25.389,0:06:29.139 And it’s been some years that[br]contesting this hegemonic power 0:06:29.139,0:06:32.293 of the dominant group [br]has been much more difficult. 0:06:32.293,0:06:34.301 They tend to concentrate wealth. 0:06:34.301,0:06:38.139 To concentrate strategic discussions[br]regarding the movement. 0:06:38.139,0:06:39.882 Bonds with local farmers 0:06:39.882,0:06:44.450 and people governing other [br]institutions of the movement. 0:06:44.450,0:06:48.231 And they of course, deny it [br]when it comes to critique. 0:06:48.231,0:06:51.870 We provoked a number of discussions [br]on the place that their reading group, 0:06:51.870,0:06:54.741 called the CMDO, [br]has been held among us. 0:07:05.261,0:07:09.753 But they never recognized, publicly, [br]their group as a group of power. 0:07:09.753,0:07:14.639 And thus, never wanted to share that [br]power with other groups or individuals. 0:07:14.639,0:07:19.976 It was mainly this group of [br]persons which pushed towards 0:07:19.976,0:07:22.800 the negotiations during the evictions. 0:07:22.800,0:07:24.963 Well as you can see [br]all around us it’s pitch black. 0:07:24.963,0:07:29.381 People were not expecting the expulsions [br]to happen until 6am this morning, 0:07:29.381,0:07:30.695 local time here in France. 0:07:30.695,0:07:34.292 Tiny groups of people [br]chose their means of actions. 0:07:34.292,0:07:37.356 When the police attack, [br]making barricades, 0:07:37.356,0:07:41.156 going to harass the police [br]in any form, or any way 0:07:41.156,0:07:46.318 ... to throwing back their own grenades [br]or other forms of explosives, 0:07:46.318,0:07:48.280 or molotov cocktails. 0:07:48.280,0:07:51.653 From sabotage attempts[br]... especially on the tanks. 0:07:51.653,0:07:54.350 We really wanted to see one burn. 0:07:54.350,0:07:57.992 Digging holes to prevent [br]the tanks from going further. 0:07:59.142,0:08:02.361 And of course, erecting barricades [br]and defending them. 0:08:28.819,0:08:32.607 Deep in the central interior forests [br]of so-called British Columbia 0:08:32.607,0:08:35.971 lies the unceded territory [br]of the Wet’suwet’en nation. 0:08:35.971,0:08:39.566 Never surrendered to the [br]settler-colonial Canadian state, 0:08:39.566,0:08:44.652 the gateway to these remote territories[br]is the headwaters of the Wedzinkwah River, 0:08:44.652,0:08:49.095 which lies under the stewardship [br]and protection of the Unist’ot’en clan, 0:08:49.095,0:08:53.013 one of the five house groups[br]that make up the Wet’suwet’en nation. 0:08:53.013,0:08:56.042 For the past decade, the Unist’ot’en [br]have been physically blocking 0:08:56.042,0:08:59.636 the construction of three major [br]oil and fracked gas pipelines 0:08:59.636,0:09:03.270 slated to pass through their [br]territories en route to refineries 0:09:03.270,0:09:05.395 and tankers on the Pacific coast. 0:09:05.395,0:09:08.442 Ground zero in this stand [br]has been the Unis’to’ten Camp, 0:09:08.442,0:09:12.242 constructed in 2010 as a [br]permanent resistance community, 0:09:12.242,0:09:16.075 located smack dab in the path [br]of the originally proposed route 0:09:16.075,0:09:20.638 of the Northern Gateway, Pacific Trails, [br]and Coastal Gaslink pipelines. 0:09:20.638,0:09:24.350 The Unist’ot’en have also established [br]a checkpoint system, 0:09:24.350,0:09:27.706 with access to the territories [br]conditional on completing 0:09:27.706,0:09:30.905 a Free Prior and [br]Informed Consent Protocol. 0:09:30.905,0:09:33.189 This system grants [br]the Unis’tot’en authority 0:09:33.189,0:09:35.499 over who gains access to their territory, 0:09:35.499,0:09:39.327 which has allowed them to keep [br]representatives of the extractive industry 0:09:39.327,0:09:41.704 and Canadian state at bay. 0:09:58.532,0:10:02.503 This territory is unceded [br]Unist’ot’en territory, 0:10:02.503,0:10:05.169 which is part of [br]the Wet’suwet’en territory. 0:10:05.169,0:10:09.467 Knedebease is the hereditary chief[br]that manages this territory, 0:10:09.467,0:10:15.158 and I am a member of that house group,[br]so we manage these territories. 0:10:15.158,0:10:20.281 And in my view, it is not Canada. [br]It’s not BC. 0:10:20.281,0:10:22.534 This has always been [br]Wet’suwet’en territory 0:10:22.534,0:10:25.771 because we’ve never ceded [br]or surrendered it to anybody. 0:10:25.771,0:10:27.341 Doesn’t belong to the crown. 0:10:27.341,0:10:29.553 Doesn’t belong to the federal government. 0:10:29.553,0:10:31.333 Doesn’t belong to [br]the provincial government. 0:10:31.333,0:10:34.617 It belongs to Unist’ot’en.[br]To my people. 0:10:36.566,0:10:38.238 We started travelling [br]through the territories 0:10:38.238,0:10:40.020 back here a lot more frequently. 0:10:40.020,0:10:42.723 And the reason why we started [br]spending a lot of time back here 0:10:42.723,0:10:44.741 is because there were some[br]proposed pipelines that were 0:10:44.741,0:10:47.974 being proposed [br]by industry and by government, 0:10:47.974,0:10:51.503 to begin doing some preliminary[br]work back here to stop them. 0:10:51.503,0:10:55.406 You guys can’t be doing any work in here,[br]because we’ve already told them no. 0:10:55.406,0:10:57.381 That they can’t access our territory. 0:10:58.151,0:11:02.103 Once we found out that industry[br]was trying to force their way in, 0:11:02.103,0:11:08.225 we put our cabin directly in the path[br]of the initial proposal for Enbridge, 0:11:08.225,0:11:11.390 for the bitumen pipeline that[br]was proposed to come through here. 0:11:11.390,0:11:15.379 So the log cabin sits right[br]en route of their GPS points 0:11:15.379,0:11:19.209 of where Enbridge initially had planned[br]to put their pipelines through here. 0:11:19.209,0:11:23.894 At the same time, there was Coastal [br]Gaslink and Pacific Trails Pipeline 0:11:23.894,0:11:27.618 that wanted also to put [br]pipelines through our territory. 0:11:27.618,0:11:29.293 To me that’s not self-sustaining. 0:11:29.293,0:11:31.689 When it’s really quick, [br]it’s boom and bust. 0:11:31.689,0:11:35.841 And they’ll come, and then they’ll be gone[br]and they’ll leave their mess behind. 0:11:38.990,0:11:41.935 As you see on the sign behind [br]it says checkpoint. 0:11:41.935,0:11:46.293 So whenever industry, [br]or just anybody comes through here 0:11:46.293,0:11:49.973 you go through protocol, [br]which you ask a series of six questions: 0:11:49.973,0:11:51.668 Who are you? [br]Where are you from? 0:11:51.668,0:11:53.886 How long do you plan to stay[br]if we let you in? 0:11:53.886,0:11:57.513 And do you work for industry or government[br]that’s destroying our lands? 0:11:57.513,0:11:59.853 And how will your visit [br]benefit Unist’ot’en? 0:12:01.183,0:12:03.685 And one of the key questions [br]that they could not answer, 0:12:03.685,0:12:07.159 truthfully and honestly, [br]was the question where we ask 0:12:07.159,0:12:10.041 “how will your visit benefit[br]the people of this land?”. 0:12:10.953,0:12:14.375 Uhh.. I really don’t think [br]there is any benefit. 0:12:14.375,0:12:17.304 And the reason why we turn them back 0:12:17.304,0:12:20.719 is because they could not pass[br]simple protocol questions. 0:12:21.309,0:12:25.893 The RCMP was created by the government [br]to keep our people off our land. 0:12:25.893,0:12:30.052 So, they are part of the government, [br]so they too don’t pass protocol. 0:12:30.252,0:12:33.602 We don’t trust police, [br]because we’re suspicious that your forces 0:12:33.602,0:12:37.365 would in to scope out our layout[br]so that if there is an injunction, 0:12:37.365,0:12:40.192 you guys would be better prepared [br]about how you’re gonna deal with us. 0:12:43.382,0:12:48.506 The camp serves as a beacon for other [br]people who are struggling with these ideas. 0:12:48.506,0:12:51.040 That they might not [br]be able to stop a project 0:12:51.040,0:12:52.605 from coming through their territories. 0:12:52.605,0:12:53.763 And you know, 0:12:53.763,0:12:57.294 for anybody to stand up to something[br]like that is quite a daunting task. 0:12:57.294,0:13:00.641 But a lot of people who [br]have studied us over the years, 0:13:00.641,0:13:02.909 and learned from the [br]resistance that we’ve taken 0:13:02.909,0:13:06.750 ... they’ve taken those lessons [br]and have started their own actions. 0:13:06.750,0:13:10.742 And there’s an incredible amount [br]of economic and logistical disruption 0:13:10.742,0:13:13.580 that arise from that type of activity. 0:13:13.580,0:13:16.515 We are here today in solidarity[br]with the Unist’ot’en camp. 0:13:16.515,0:13:20.026 We wish to share the Unist’ot’en [br]hereditary chief’s clear statement 0:13:20.026,0:13:22.702 that they do not consent [br]to having pipelines built 0:13:22.702,0:13:24.994 on their unceded traditional territory. 0:13:30.534,0:13:35.511 This colonization has always been [br]about the taking of Indigenous lands. 0:13:44.249,0:13:47.394 We always said if we heal our people,[br]then we’ll heal our land. 0:13:47.394,0:13:52.407 The healing center idea [br]came when we realized that 0:13:52.407,0:13:55.597 “why aren’t our own people [br]coming out here to visit us?” 0:13:55.597,0:13:58.862 And even though some do come, there’s[br]not a high number of our own people. 0:13:58.862,0:14:02.388 And we realized that a lot of our people[br]are still struggling 0:14:02.388,0:14:04.246 because of colonization. 0:14:04.246,0:14:06.264 From the Residential School era. 0:14:06.264,0:14:09.202 From the public school system[br]... lotta racism. 0:14:09.502,0:14:13.277 We realized that a lot of our people [br]are struggling because of trauma. 0:14:13.277,0:14:16.193 And we realized that [br]we needed a healing facility 0:14:16.193,0:14:21.034 that incorporated all the whole [br]wellness thing that we were talking about. 0:14:21.034,0:14:23.517 And we wanna put our[br]culture back into our people. 0:14:23.517,0:14:25.998 So that they will be strong [br]and they will stand up. 0:14:26.708,0:14:28.583 When people come out [br]to a space like this, 0:14:28.583,0:14:32.092 what they experience is land[br]that's actually beginning to go 0:14:32.092,0:14:33.354 through the healing process. 0:14:33.589,0:14:37.190 This land back here that [br]we’re walking through and passing through, 0:14:37.190,0:14:40.139 is land that was devastated [br]from logging already. 0:14:40.139,0:14:42.390 And it’s in a process of healing. 0:14:42.390,0:14:45.985 It actually has berry bushes, [br]so we’re surrounded by berry bushes here. 0:14:45.985,0:14:49.010 There are grizzly bear tracks [br]a half a kilometer from here. 0:14:49.010,0:14:50.922 So when people come up[br]to spend time here, 0:14:50.922,0:14:55.469 they begin to learn about the [br]importance of connecting themselves 0:14:55.469,0:14:59.217 to the planet that is in need of healing. 0:15:04.340,0:15:07.687 While defending territory from [br]state incursions is hard enough 0:15:07.687,0:15:10.147 in rural, or remote natural terrains, 0:15:10.147,0:15:13.925 those seeking to establish autonomous [br]spaces in urban environments 0:15:13.925,0:15:16.070 face an additional set of challenges. 0:15:17.270,0:15:20.144 Cities are sites of concentrated[br]state power. 0:15:20.144,0:15:23.257 Not only are they strongholds of [br]surveillance and repression, 0:15:23.257,0:15:26.275 but they are also areas where [br]the logic of state control 0:15:26.275,0:15:30.716 is thoroughly integrated [br]into everyday social relations. 0:15:30.716,0:15:35.153 This opens the door to recuperation,[br]a process whereby state power 0:15:35.153,0:15:39.346 constantly shifts and adapts itself [br]in order to preemptively cut off 0:15:39.346,0:15:43.539 and assimilate potential threats [br]to its authority and legitimacy. 0:15:43.539,0:15:46.843 This is the balancing act faced by[br]urban squatter movements 0:15:46.843,0:15:50.971 in cities around the world, whose [br]participants must constantly navigate 0:15:50.971,0:15:54.206 the twin minefields of eviction[br]and legalization. 0:15:54.996,0:15:58.279 This means simultaneously [br]avoiding the social isolation 0:15:58.279,0:16:02.513 that would make full-scale repression [br]possible, while also combating 0:16:02.513,0:16:06.185 state and real estate developers’ [br]attempts to transform these spaces 0:16:06.185,0:16:09.617 into nothing more than [br]edgy tourist destinations. 0:16:14.321,0:16:18.111 One of the really important [br]functions of the urban occupation 0:16:18.111,0:16:20.502 is that it becomes [br]a source of inspiration. 0:16:23.802,0:16:29.811 Despite being surrounded by hostile forces[br]- in the form of state, police, capital - 0:16:29.811,0:16:33.338 that it is possible to have a [br]space in which you can experiment 0:16:33.338,0:16:35.112 with different forms of existing. 0:16:35.112,0:16:36.557 With different forms of living. 0:16:36.557,0:16:39.124 With different forms of [br]relating to one another. 0:16:40.461,0:16:45.679 We could speak about three distinct phases[br]of squatting experiments in Ljubljana. 0:16:45.679,0:16:48.020 First one is early 90s. 0:16:48.020,0:16:51.090 This is the time of the [br]destruction of Yugoslavia. 0:16:51.090,0:16:54.876 It’s a time of massive changes [br]in Slovenian society. 0:16:54.876,0:16:57.994 This movement had a clear continuity with 0:16:57.994,0:17:03.325 alternative cultural movements of the 80s[br]that was heavily influenced 0:17:03.325,0:17:06.669 by progressive currents such as [br]feminism, LGBT movement, 0:17:06.669,0:17:10.525 anti-militarist tendencies, [br]ecological movements. 0:17:10.525,0:17:14.855 This movement found its highest [br]expression in the squatting 0:17:14.855,0:17:18.042 of Metelkova military barracks [br]in 1993. 0:17:21.682,0:17:26.411 The second wave of squatting [br]can be traced to the late 90s. 0:17:26.411,0:17:31.826 In around 98 and 99, several different [br]initiatives and individuals 0:17:31.826,0:17:35.056 were squatting different [br]spaces in the city of Ljubljana 0:17:35.056,0:17:38.005 and were all evicted from those squats. 0:17:38.005,0:17:41.114 And in the middle of this wave [br]of repression over the movement, 0:17:41.114,0:17:44.947 the community of Metelkova decided[br]to give one empty space 0:17:44.947,0:17:48.544 in the Autonomous Cultural Center [br]to the anarchist infoshop. 0:17:49.714,0:17:53.700 The third wave of squatting [br]in Ljubljana is symbolized 0:17:53.700,0:17:59.105 by the squatting of ROG Factory, which is[br]maybe the biggest squat in Ljubljana. 0:17:59.105,0:18:04.405 It was squatted in 2006 [br]by a new precarious generation 0:18:04.405,0:18:08.849 of younger people that [br]later came to be identified 0:18:08.849,0:18:11.060 as the generation without future. 0:18:12.667,0:18:15.507 It has always been understood by us[br]that the front 0:18:15.507,0:18:18.858 between the two different squats [br]is the same front. 0:18:18.858,0:18:22.444 Because if one of us is attacked, [br]or evicted for instance, 0:18:22.444,0:18:26.154 that will mean a huge attack[br]on the ability of the other 0:18:26.154,0:18:30.260 to actually be part of any kind [br]of political process in the city. 0:18:31.250,0:18:35.823 The relationship of the state has been[br]slightly different in its expression. 0:18:35.823,0:18:39.968 So for instance, when it comes to ROG [br]they have had constant attempts 0:18:39.968,0:18:44.082 of the city to either evict them [br]or attack them in different ways. 0:18:44.082,0:18:47.143 And just two years ago[br]there was the most serious attempt 0:18:47.143,0:18:50.251 to tear down several [br]buildings in that area. 0:18:50.251,0:18:54.245 That attempt was stopped [br]by a broader political mobilization. 0:19:01.665,0:19:04.416 The nature of an urban occupation[br]is that it is faced 0:19:04.416,0:19:08.337 with different kinds of factors that[br]perhaps escape rural occupations. 0:19:08.337,0:19:13.325 Our squats are part of [br]the neoliberal capitalist society 0:19:13.325,0:19:17.803 that is progressing further and further [br]towards social devastation. 0:19:17.803,0:19:22.121 Every time we are faced with the [br]processes that are destroying our cities, 0:19:22.121,0:19:24.100 we always have to question our position 0:19:24.100,0:19:26.251 and our changing position [br]within those processes. 0:19:26.941,0:19:32.078 Metelkova and ROG both [br]generate quite wide public support. 0:19:32.078,0:19:36.407 So this forced the public authorities [br]to be cautious. 0:19:37.427,0:19:41.893 And even though there are several [br]softer attempts to push Metelkova 0:19:41.893,0:19:46.092 into the state of legalization, [br]we haven’t in the last decade 0:19:46.092,0:19:48.591 really been faced with[br]an attempt of eviction. 0:19:49.404,0:19:53.258 That of course brings a different[br]set of questions for all of us 0:19:53.258,0:19:54.852 who are part of Metelkova squat. 0:19:54.852,0:19:58.544 And that is, in such moments, where[br]the city is actually trying to sell you 0:19:58.544,0:20:02.552 as one of its premium tourist destinations[br]... how do you maintain yourself 0:20:02.552,0:20:05.862 as a space that can still produce [br]radical social movements 0:20:05.862,0:20:07.599 and interventions in the city? 0:20:07.599,0:20:10.663 That of course comes with [br]every question of recuperation. 0:20:10.663,0:20:14.591 How do we still manage to [br]keep our practices DIY? 0:20:14.591,0:20:17.093 How do we still manage to stay [br]ungovernable, 0:20:17.093,0:20:21.331 which is basically the only way [br]not to become a squatting museum, 0:20:21.331,0:20:24.599 or a sort of caricature [br]of what a squat should be? 0:20:26.829,0:20:32.106 Many people and many activities [br]that are cleaned from the city center 0:20:32.106,0:20:37.057 because of the demands of the tourist [br]industry... we all end up in squats 0:20:37.057,0:20:41.992 with different trajectories [br]and different positions that we occupy 0:20:41.992,0:20:44.738 in the current social-economic order. 0:20:45.978,0:20:51.230 This naturally leads to tensions. [br]Some more serious than others. 0:20:51.230,0:20:57.076 And the consequence also can be seen in [br]what recently happened to club Jalla Jalla 0:20:57.076,0:20:59.378 - it was destroyed in a fire. 0:21:00.538,0:21:04.673 As a community this was [br]immediately recognized as an effect 0:21:04.673,0:21:10.362 of the general state in which [br]the whole city is being pushed. 0:21:10.362,0:21:15.481 And our focus is not only [br]to rebuild Jalla Jalla the club, 0:21:15.481,0:21:21.790 but also to rebuild and reclaim [br]our collective capacity to resist 0:21:21.790,0:21:27.114 the processes of devastation [br]that are everywhere destroying 0:21:27.114,0:21:30.742 the conditions of living [br]for so many people in this town. 0:21:41.957,0:21:46.233 Establishing and effectively securing [br]an autonomous space isn’t something 0:21:46.233,0:21:47.807 that happens overnight. 0:21:48.377,0:21:52.689 States cannot afford to let challenges[br]to their legitimacy go unanswered, 0:21:52.689,0:21:55.923 lest they serve as examples [br]for others to follow. 0:21:56.483,0:22:01.080 For this reason, any political attempt[br]to reject state authority over a territory 0:22:01.080,0:22:04.155 is likely to provoke a serious reaction. 0:22:04.825,0:22:07.589 It is therefore crucially important[br]that those involved 0:22:07.589,0:22:11.293 anticipate the state’s response, [br]and are in a strong enough position 0:22:11.293,0:22:13.369 to weather the inevitable storm. 0:22:13.369,0:22:16.823 Autonomous territories allow [br]for the building of dual power. 0:22:16.823,0:22:20.244 They are alternative focal [br]points of legitimacy that can 0:22:20.244,0:22:23.642 effectively challenge the [br]state’s monopoly on authority. 0:22:24.052,0:22:28.763 Indigenous Nations draw this legitimacy[br]from spiritual and cultural practices 0:22:28.763,0:22:34.014 rooted in generations of deep connection[br]to the lands claimed by their colonizers. 0:22:34.874,0:22:38.839 For those of us more alienated [br]from the lands and spaces we occupy, 0:22:38.839,0:22:42.846 the process of asserting autonomy [br]must begin with navigating the tensions 0:22:42.846,0:22:46.395 and contradictions that [br]exist in dominant society, 0:22:46.395,0:22:48.635 cultivating strong bonds of solidarity, 0:22:48.635,0:22:50.987 and fuelling antagonism towards the state. 0:22:54.948,0:22:57.936 We’d rather not pass lessons to anyone. 0:22:57.936,0:23:02.859 If people get inspired from what they’ve [br]done here, it will always be a pleasure 0:23:02.859,0:23:07.097 to share experiences and knowledge [br]of those years spent here. 0:23:07.896,0:23:11.537 I think it has been proven several times [br]that building the infrastructure 0:23:11.537,0:23:15.448 for the movement and of the movement [br]really becomes crucial in moments 0:23:15.448,0:23:19.764 of high and demanding political [br]mobilization in the society. 0:23:19.764,0:23:23.560 To have the kind of spaces [br]that enable you to maintain 0:23:23.560,0:23:25.417 the historical memory of movements, 0:23:25.417,0:23:29.171 that enable us to find different [br]kinds of accomplices 0:23:29.171,0:23:32.509 in our struggles for [br]a different kind of world. 0:23:35.087,0:23:39.047 With the help of allies [br]all around the world 0:23:39.047,0:23:43.857 ... we’ve garnered lots of support through[br]Indigenous, non-Indigenous, professionals, 0:23:43.857,0:23:45.474 ... everyday citizens. 0:23:45.837,0:23:51.077 A lot of people do support what we’re [br]doing and have vocalized it to us. 0:23:51.400,0:23:52.523 We have come here to be with you, 0:23:52.523,0:23:55.325 to make sure you understand [br]you’re doing the right thing. 0:23:55.752,0:23:58.998 There’s always people who come here [br]also who have connections, 0:23:58.998,0:24:03.159 or who have been to other [br]places where people are struggling 0:24:03.159,0:24:05.823 and bring us information. 0:24:05.823,0:24:09.650 And so that creates solidarity[br]between different struggles. 0:24:09.650,0:24:13.957 You need to ensure that [br]the Indigenous people 0:24:13.957,0:24:16.070 who have always lived on those lands, 0:24:16.070,0:24:19.837 since millennia, [br]are involved in that struggle. 0:24:19.837,0:24:21.394 They have long stories. 0:24:21.394,0:24:25.714 Ancient, ancient stories that talk about [br]how and why they have responsibilities. 0:24:28.607,0:24:31.983 The mere fact that a squat [br]exists as a potential 0:24:31.983,0:24:36.702 of development of autonomous ideas, [br]of politically radical ideas, 0:24:36.702,0:24:41.447 is of course already a threat to the [br]state, a threat to capital’s interests. 0:24:41.447,0:24:43.115 And therefore we will never be safe, 0:24:43.115,0:24:45.877 no matter how many [br]selfies tourists make here. 0:24:45.877,0:24:49.818 If it is possible that in a city that [br]is so increasingly gentrified, 0:24:49.818,0:24:53.196 so penetrated with[br]different capitalist forces 0:24:53.196,0:24:57.717 – if it is able to have a space [br]where experimentation with our freedom 0:24:57.717,0:25:00.786 is possible, [br]then it kind of gives us hope 0:25:00.786,0:25:04.336 that other kinds of political [br]projects are also possible. 0:25:04.336,0:25:08.533 And what we would really love to see [br]is more of these kinds of inspirations 0:25:08.533,0:25:12.127 around the world, around different cities,[br]around different communities. 0:25:23.908,0:25:28.996 As for our inspiration, [br]we take as much inspiration as possible 0:25:28.996,0:25:31.249 from as many struggles as possible. 0:25:31.249,0:25:36.339 The Zapatistas movement, even though [br]we’re far far from what they achieved. 0:25:36.339,0:25:39.815 The Landless Peasant Movement,[br]especially in South America, 0:25:39.815,0:25:43.266 or Reclaim the Field network [br]all over Europe. 0:25:43.266,0:25:47.845 Or occupied neighbourhoods, [br]like in Exarchia in Greece. 0:25:47.845,0:25:51.195 Or people protecting seeds like in India. 0:25:51.195,0:25:53.775 Rojava is, of course, an insight 0:25:53.775,0:25:56.489 – especially regarding [br]feminist self-defence. 0:25:56.489,0:26:00.882 Some of us are also really[br]close to the Italian struggle 0:26:00.882,0:26:04.235 against the train line [br]crossing the Val di Susa. 0:26:04.235,0:26:08.793 The most important thing is that we have[br]to ask ourselves “what are our needs?” 0:26:08.793,0:26:12.311 And then find ways through [br]which we can express them. 0:26:15.651,0:26:17.926 We’re absolutely going to win this fight. 0:26:17.926,0:26:22.783 Y’know, this is a fight that belongs [br]to not only us, but all of our unborn. 0:26:22.783,0:26:25.145 This is a fight that belongs[br]to all of our ancestors 0:26:25.145,0:26:29.674 who died fighting for these spaces, [br]and protecting them. 0:26:29.674,0:26:31.748 So this is a fight that [br]doesn’t belong to us. 0:26:31.748,0:26:33.536 We’re not selfish people. 0:26:33.536,0:26:37.810 This fight belongs to all of [br]our Wet’suwet’en people 0:26:37.810,0:26:39.469 – past, present and future. 0:26:43.061,0:26:46.580 Some of us went to fight [br]the world of the airport. 0:26:46.580,0:26:50.780 And the airport was a pretext[br]to fight the system behind it. 0:26:50.780,0:26:52.422 I’d say for me, the ZAD, 0:26:52.422,0:26:57.484 it helps me burn the social [br]and structural boundaries in my head 0:26:57.484,0:27:00.652 ... and then almost everything [br]became possible. 0:27:19.969,0:27:23.890 We live in a historical moment [br]in which the global neoliberal order, 0:27:23.890,0:27:28.372 wracked by overlapping social, [br]economic and ecological crises, 0:27:28.372,0:27:31.479 is rapidly unraveling [br]before our very eyes. 0:27:32.569,0:27:35.063 Yet far from being a [br]cause for celebration, 0:27:35.063,0:27:40.284 the dark new reality rising to take[br]its place promises to be even worse. 0:27:40.284,0:27:43.830 New and resurgent forms of [br]state power are being constructed 0:27:43.830,0:27:46.817 on foundations of [br]hyper-nationalist reaction, 0:27:46.817,0:27:50.845 armed with sophisticated new tools [br]of surveillance and repression. 0:27:51.595,0:27:55.299 A proliferation of civil wars, [br]surging levels of inequality 0:27:55.299,0:27:59.429 and climate change-fuelled catastrophes [br]are provoking historical levels 0:27:59.429,0:28:01.377 of forced human migration. 0:28:01.737,0:28:04.081 But while things look undoubtedly bleak, 0:28:04.081,0:28:07.684 the rapid transformations [br]currently underway have the potential 0:28:07.684,0:28:11.233 to uncover new cracks [br]in the facade of state power. 0:28:11.933,0:28:16.341 Revolutionaries must be ready to take[br]advantage of any and all opportunities 0:28:16.341,0:28:19.159 that these shifting [br]new dynamics may produce, 0:28:19.159,0:28:22.527 establishing a decentralized [br]network of autonomous zones 0:28:22.527,0:28:27.212 that can sustain projects of mutual aid, [br]respond to emergent 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