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This episode of It's the End of the World

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As We Know it and I feel Fine

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was made possible by contributions

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from slaves like you.

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Spank you very much!

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This amateur footage

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captured the violence of an attack

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on two police officers on Wednesday.

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After kicking in the police car's windows,

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a protestor threw an explosive

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into the vehicle...

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setting it alight.

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The attack occurred while a protest

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was being held BY the police

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not far away at Paris'

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Place de la Republique.

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This spring over 350 of them

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have been injured by protestors

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during the Up All Night movement

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and anti-Labour Law rallies.

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A few hundred people

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defied a state order

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and gathered at the same time

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to march against police brutality,

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chanting Everyone Hates the Police!

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Goooooooooood morning slaves

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and welcome to another sedition of

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It's the End of the World as we Know it

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and I Feel Fine...

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the show where pigs

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get reality checks cashed…

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free of charge.[br]

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It really poses the question -

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what do you want to do?

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Do you want to take a chance

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and risk getting KNOCKED OUT?

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Oh my god!

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Oh......wow!

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What an idiot!

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What a loser!

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Good!

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I am your host the Stimulator

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and though you wouldn't know it from

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watching the corporate fucking media...

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The candidates took to Twitter!

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My word!

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Indeed there was a lot to discuss.

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for months now, peeps in France

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have been teaching the world

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a valuable lesson on how to wage

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a popular mothafuckin insurrection.

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While a fair amount of attention

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has been devoted to Nuit Debout

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- the vibrant movement

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of participatory democracy

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whose participants continue to hold

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nightly assemblies in cities

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across the country,

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outside of these occupations,

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a broader decentralized movement

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has been steadily expanding

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in a nationwide showcase

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of tactical innovation

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and militant fucking resistance.

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In just one example,

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on mothafuckin May Day

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militants in the northern city of Rennes

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stormed and occupied La Maison du Peuple

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- or House of the People - transforming it[br]

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into a public gathering space

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and logistical hub complete with

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its very own guerrilla radio station.

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These badass squatters held down

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the occupation for nearly two weeks,

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before a heavily militarized

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tactical squad managed to take back

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the building on May 13th.

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Buuuuuuuuut rather than accepting defeat,

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peeps just said fuck it!

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And went ahead and re-occupied

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the building on May 27th,

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forcing the cops to come back

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and clear it out again two days later.

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Yup… France has become

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a veritable mosaic of revolt,

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a tapestry of combative street demos,

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occupations, direct actions,

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and nationwide one-day general strikes.

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The latest of these was on May 26th, when

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over 150,000 people took to the streets

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in cities across the country,

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with riots and clashes with police

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breaking out in Toulouse, Nantes,

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Lyon, and Bordeaux.

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In Paris over 20,000 peeps

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took to the streets for a

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particularly rowdy demo.

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During the fracas

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a 28 year old photographer, Romain D,

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was critically injured

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by a police flashbang grenade

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and ended up spending

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eight days in a coma.

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On June 4th a large contingent of antifa

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hit the streets of Paris

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to commemorate the third anniversary

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of the murder of 18 year old anti-fascist

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Clément Méric,

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who was killed by neo-nazi shitbuckets

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back in 2013.

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After a few luxury shops

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and a real estate agency

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were smashed the fuck up,

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the march quickly descended into

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a pitched street battle,

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with the pigs attacking the demo

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with tear gas, flashbang grenades

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and rubber bullets

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- and militants responding in turn, with

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bottles, bricks and other projectiles

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French workers have also thrown down

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in a serious fucking way,

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paralyzing the country with

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a series of coordinated strikes

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and blockades aimed at

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forcing the government to back down

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on its package of proposed labour reforms

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- the so-called Loi de Travail.

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Given French workers' proud history

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of militant wildcat actions,

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bossnappings

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and industrial fucking sabotage,

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the country's tepid union leadership

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has been forced to go along

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with these strikes,

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in a desperate effort to maintain

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their position as

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the legitimate negotiating partners

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of the French State.

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This wave of labour unrest

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has hit the energy and

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transportation sectors particularly hard,

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with workers blockading oil refineries

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and fuel depots,

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and shutting down nuclear power stations

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causing long line-ups at gas stations

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and forcing the government to dip into

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its strategic fuel reserves.

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These workers have been joined by

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striking train operators,

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dock workers, truck drivers,

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air traffic controllers,

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and thousands of striking students.

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Pilots with the national airline,

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Air France, have also joined the fray,

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announcing plans for a three-day strike.

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This ongoing unrest

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comes at a particularly bad time for

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France’s shit-sipping socialist president,

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Francois Hollande.

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At the time of writing, the country

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is bracing itself to play host

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to Euro 2016

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- a month-long football extravaganza

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that will inundate the country

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with tourists,

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and put it firmly under

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the international spotlight.

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With the ruling Parti Socialiste

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stubbornly refusing to back down,

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the national trade unions calling for

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another general strike on June 14th,

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and intransigent French youth

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giving no sign that they're gonna stop

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lobbing rocks and bottles at pigs,

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and setting shit on fire anytime soon,

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the coming days and weeks should make

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for quite the fucking show.[br]

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In my last sedition,

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me and my subMedia slaves

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took a fond look back at

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the mothafuckin Oaxaca Commune,

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an epic six-month long uprising

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that turns ten years old on June 14th.

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In my report, I pointed out that

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the teachers of Section 22

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of the Coordinadora Nacional

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de Trabajadores de la Educación,

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or CNTE,

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who kicked things off back in '06,

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are still holding shit down to this day.

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For three years now,

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they've spearheaded resistance to

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neoliberal education reforms that

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Mexico's taco-smuggling president,

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Enrique Peña Nieto, has been trying to

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impose on the whole fucking country.

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Well... this work paid off.

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And on May 15th - or Mexico’s

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national day of the teacher,

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members of the CNTE launched

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an indefinite mothafuckin strike,

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and peeps around the country took part

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in a day of action that saw marches,

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rallies and plaza occupations,

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or plantóns,

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break out in 23 of Mexico’s 31 states.

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Since then, this strike has

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totally fucking paralyzed Mexico's

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education system,

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with thousands of schools shut down

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in the southern states of Oaxaca,

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Chiapas, Guerrero, Veracruz and Michoacan

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and support going strong in Mexico's

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Federal District - where one in five

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Mexicans live.

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In Chiapas on May 27th,

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thousands of teachers temporarily

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took over a number of private radio

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and television stations

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to call bullshit on the corporate media’s

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framing of the strike,

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and to get their own message out.

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That same day, teachers in Oaxaca,

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in a truly impressive tactical manuever,

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managed to surround a contingent

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of hundreds of federal police,

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forcing the pigs into

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the awkward situation of having to

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negotiate their own withdrawal.

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In the areas most heavily impacted

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by the strikes,

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the teachers enjoy widespread

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public support.

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Not only are they demanding that

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the government scrap their proposed

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education reforms, but they're

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also calling for increased funding

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for education more generally,

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freedom for all political prisoners

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and prisoners of conscience,

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and justice for the 43 missing

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Normalista students from Ayotzinapa.

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And that's why we're marching together...

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for our teachers... for our children...

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and for the generations still to come.

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And a bit further south,

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Colombia has also been

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brought to a standstill,

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in this case by a Paro Nacional,

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or national strike,

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initiated on May 30th by a broad-based

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coalition of Indigenous groups,

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Afro-Colombians, farmers, truck drivers,

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teachers, students and precarious workers.

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As part of the Paro,

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an estimated 100,000 people

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have taken part

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in over 100 blockades, occupations

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and so-called points of concentration

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across the country.[br]

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This is the third Paro this year,

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and each time they've gotten

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more fucking intense.

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A defining tactical feature

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of these strikes has been

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the coordination of mass highway blockades

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by rural peasants, aimed at paralyzing

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the national transportation networks[br]

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in order to force government concessions.

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During the current Paro, participants

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have raised a number of demands,

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many of which focus on the ongoing

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privatization of state assets

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and national resources,

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the failure of Colombia’s

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lizard-faced fuck of a president,

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Juan Manuel Santos,

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to live up to previous agreements

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with social movements,

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and the horrific fucking state

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of human rights in the country

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– where disappearances and assassinations

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of organizers and land defenders

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are still common practice.

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So.... to learn more about just

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what the fuck's going down in Colombia,

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I recently caught up with Marcela

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of las Organizaciones Sociales de Arauca

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- or the Social Organizations of Arauca.

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Hey Marcela... how the fuck are you?

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There is a lot of violence

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against the people.

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So, we are not doing well.

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On May 30th, peeps in Colombia

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staged a Paro National,

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or a nationwide blockage,

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somewhat akin to a general strike.

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What led people to take this action?[br]

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Well, principally it's the economic model.

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The people are tired of the same

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economic policies that the government

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has been implementing for decades.

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These are the same policies that generated

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the armed conflict in the country,

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but they have also has generated

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social issues that the people can

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no longer continue to tolerate.

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So this is what has provoked this

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national agrarian, peasant, ethnic

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and popular strike.

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How was this Paro organized?

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And what has the state's response been?

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Well, the social movements are

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connected to a platform called

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the Agrarian Summit,

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which includes participation from

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peasant, indigenous and afro-descendent

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organizations.

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And there has also been dialogue with

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other members of social sectors,

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such as the truck drivers,

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transporters, labor unions,

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and other trade unions.

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The people have been protesting for

0:11:20.800,0:11:23.036
a few years now and the government has

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made promises that it has not fulfilled.

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This new strike is demanding

0:11:26.658,0:11:29.062
the fulfilment of these prior agreements.

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And the response from the government is

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on one hand, to try and draw out

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this dialogue, prolong these negotiations,

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and on the other to repress.

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To repress the people who are

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mobilizing on the highways

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and in the lands of Colombia.

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One of the issues that organizers

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of the Paro Nacional have raised

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is the National Development Plan

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being proposed by Colombia's president

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Juan Manuel Santos.

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What does this plan entail?

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And why are people so opposed to it?[br]

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The National Development Plan is

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a deepening of the economic policies

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of the government.

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Among other things, it allows

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the land to be concentrated,

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more than it already is,

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into the property of businessmen,

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cattle breeders,

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and owners of agro-business.

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It privileges mining, mineral extraction

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and hydro-carbon extraction

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above protecting the environment...

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above maintaining

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environmental equilibrium.

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So basically it prioritizes extraction

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at the cost of the resources and wealth

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that the Colombian people produce,

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and which exist in Colombian territory.

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And this obviously negatively affects

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the quality of life of the population. [br]

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So this is why the people are against

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the National Development Plan.

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Back in 1998, Billy Clint launched

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Plan Colombia -a bilateral agreement

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framed as an effort to help Colombia

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fight a so-called War on Drugs.

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This arrangement has continued under

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both the Bush and Obama administrations

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and has since served as a model[br]

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for the current war on drugs in Mexico.

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What material effects has Plan Colombia

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had on social movements in your country?

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The consequences have been more poverty

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and more militarization.

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Really, drugs were just an excuse,

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because here the drug problem

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has not been resolved.

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What was gained through Plan Colombia

0:13:07.964,0:13:09.545
was a massive increase to the budget

0:13:09.545,0:13:13.099
and resources required to finance the war,

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to finance the state security forces,

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to militarize the territories, the cities,

0:13:18.283,0:13:19.499
the countryside...

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and so a consequence is that today

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peoples lives are more heavily controlled.

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Now the private sphere

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has been militarized,

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the schools have been militarized,

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civil life in general

0:13:28.887,0:13:30.079
has been militarized.

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That is the consequence of Plan Colombia.

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And the phenomenon of narco trafficking

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and the production of crops

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with illegal uses,

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continues basically the same.

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How have the recent peace negotiations

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between the government

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and guerrilla groups like the FARC

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and ELN affected the overall

0:13:45.599,0:13:47.145
political atmosphere in Colombia?

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Well, the impact has been pretty negative

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because on one hand,

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the talks are not focused on resolving

0:13:52.588,0:13:54.209
the grave social issues that exist

0:13:54.209,0:13:55.379
here in Colombia.

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What it has generated, on the other hand,

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is polarization between

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different sectors of the right-wing.

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The neoliberal right-wing

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of the industrial bourgeoisie, which is

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connected to transnational corporations

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has been supporting the peace process,

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because it's a convenient solution

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for them to pacify the territories,

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in order to guarantee

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the extraction of natural resources.

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And the ultra right-wing, that is

0:14:18.159,0:14:20.518
closer to the cattle-breeding sector,

0:14:20.518,0:14:23.046
the oligarchy that is more closely aligned

0:14:23.046,0:14:25.164
with the land and landowners...

0:14:25.164,0:14:27.319
has not supported this process,

0:14:27.319,0:14:29.430
because they still believe that the state

0:14:29.430,0:14:31.833
has the military and economic capacity

0:14:31.833,0:14:34.163
to terminate and eliminate the guerrillas.

0:14:34.163,0:14:35.862
So this has been a small difference

0:14:35.862,0:14:38.098
in terms of the specific methods that

0:14:38.098,0:14:40.814
the right-wing and the oligarchy advocate

0:14:40.814,0:14:43.141
for ending the country's insurgency.

0:14:43.141,0:14:45.481
And so what the peace talks have done

0:14:45.481,0:14:47.398
is to polarize public opinion

0:14:47.398,0:14:49.795
between the two right-wing positions.

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And as for the position of resolving,

0:14:51.739,0:14:53.113
in a structural way,

0:14:53.113,0:14:55.111
the problems facing the people

0:14:55.111,0:14:56.494
living in bad conditions...

0:14:56.499,0:14:59.020
this position is isolated,

0:14:59.020,0:15:01.233
neutralized and invisibilized.

0:15:01.233,0:15:02.344
As a precursor to

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the current peace process,

0:15:03.590,0:15:06.768
in 2003 the government of Álvaro Uribe

0:15:06.768,0:15:08.680
began negotiations aimed at

0:15:08.680,0:15:10.789
demobilizing right-wing paramilitary

0:15:10.789,0:15:12.091
death squads, such as

0:15:12.091,0:15:14.288
the Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia,

0:15:14.288,0:15:15.456
or AUC.

0:15:15.456,0:15:16.933
This process was supposed to have

0:15:16.933,0:15:18.471
finished in 2006.

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Did these groups actually demobilize?

0:15:20.678,0:15:21.776
And what happened to

0:15:21.776,0:15:22.876
the members of these groups?

0:15:24.736,0:15:27.268
Well, really it is not them...

0:15:27.268,0:15:30.069
paramilitarism is not a group of people.

0:15:30.069,0:15:32.226
Paramilitarism is a strategy,

0:15:32.226,0:15:35.482
or mechanism of extrajudicial violence.

0:15:35.482,0:15:36.826
Of dirty war.

0:15:36.826,0:15:38.813
Paramilitarism was implemented

0:15:38.813,0:15:40.247
by the Colombian government,

0:15:40.247,0:15:41.510
by private armed groups,

0:15:41.510,0:15:42.849
but also by members of

0:15:42.849,0:15:45.003
the state security forces - the police,

0:15:45.003,0:15:48.459
army, security organisms, DAS -

0:15:48.459,0:15:49.841
to be able to carry out

0:15:49.841,0:15:51.424
undercover operations.

0:15:51.424,0:15:53.776
That is what paramilitarism is...

0:15:53.776,0:15:55.764
it's a mechanism that claims to be

0:15:55.764,0:15:58.000
a third actor, external to the government,

0:15:58.000,0:15:59.901
that carries out grave crimes

0:15:59.901,0:16:01.093
such as tortures,

0:16:01.093,0:16:03.700
disappearances, massacres etc.

0:16:03.700,0:16:05.355
It is logical that if there are

0:16:05.355,0:16:07.386
private individuals who participated

0:16:07.386,0:16:08.968
in these structures, they could have

0:16:08.968,0:16:10.725
been demobilized in a dialogue

0:16:10.725,0:16:12.222
with President Uribe.

0:16:12.222,0:16:13.769
Some of these people were.

0:16:13.769,0:16:16.370
But others continue carrying out this role

0:16:16.370,0:16:18.357
- so knowing that, what had to be

0:16:18.357,0:16:19.627
eliminated was not

0:16:19.627,0:16:21.660
the individuals involved, but precisely

0:16:21.660,0:16:23.729
the mechanism of illegal violence

0:16:23.729,0:16:25.354
that has been implemented by

0:16:25.354,0:16:27.207
the Colombian state since the 70s,

0:16:27.207,0:16:29.540
when paramilitarism began.

0:16:29.540,0:16:31.129
And this has not been resolved.

0:16:31.129,0:16:33.283
Paramilitarism continues to exist

0:16:33.283,0:16:35.520
and those in power continue to use it.

0:16:35.520,0:16:37.348
There is the clear case of the

0:16:37.348,0:16:40.108
disappearances of activists demanding

0:16:40.108,0:16:42.771
Land Restitution for displaced people.

0:16:42.771,0:16:43.892
Despite the fact that

0:16:43.892,0:16:45.971
these paramilitary groups no longer

0:16:45.971,0:16:47.505
officially exist, these people

0:16:47.505,0:16:49.594
continue to be assassinated.

0:16:49.594,0:16:51.005
And they continue to be assassinated

0:16:51.005,0:16:52.398
for the same reasons.

0:16:52.398,0:16:54.228
For decades Colombia has been known

0:16:54.228,0:16:56.264
as one of the most dangerous countries

0:16:56.264,0:16:58.495
in the world for trade unionists.

0:16:58.495,0:16:59.963
What is the current situation

0:16:59.963,0:17:01.743
facing workers in Colombia?

0:17:02.743,0:17:04.356
The situation is grave.

0:17:04.356,0:17:05.818
You no longer hear statistics

0:17:05.818,0:17:08.054
of hundreds of dead labour unionists...

0:17:08.054,0:17:10.609
because they have already been killed.

0:17:10.609,0:17:12.162
So... with this violent aggression

0:17:12.162,0:17:13.620
against the labour union sector,

0:17:13.620,0:17:15.533
the unions have become divided

0:17:15.533,0:17:17.314
and the people have been dissuaded

0:17:17.314,0:17:19.190
from joining these labour unions.

0:17:19.190,0:17:20.533
And the few that still exist

0:17:20.533,0:17:22.011
are always threatened.

0:17:22.011,0:17:23.738
They live controlled by the state,

0:17:23.738,0:17:25.564
and repressed by their bosses

0:17:25.564,0:17:27.808
- like the cases of Coca Cola, Nestle,

0:17:27.808,0:17:29.597
and Drummond - where it was proved

0:17:29.597,0:17:31.307
that these companies used

0:17:31.307,0:17:33.453
paramilitarism to control and eliminate

0:17:33.453,0:17:34.760
labour leaders.

0:17:34.760,0:17:36.548
The result is that we don't even have

0:17:36.548,0:17:38.621
10% of the unionized workers

0:17:38.621,0:17:40.354
that we had 20 years ago.

0:17:40.354,0:17:41.598
Anything else you wanna add?

0:17:42.638,0:17:44.644
Well, what the peasants are demanding

0:17:44.644,0:17:46.634
- the peasants, indigenous people,

0:17:46.634,0:17:48.910
afro-descendant people, and the other

0:17:48.910,0:17:50.777
sectors that have joined this strike -

0:17:50.777,0:17:53.002
is the minimum that any inhabitant

0:17:53.002,0:17:54.629
of this country could demand...

0:17:54.629,0:17:56.714
to live in dignified conditions.

0:17:56.714,0:17:58.423
They are not asking for the government

0:17:58.423,0:17:59.967
to fulfil the impossible.

0:17:59.967,0:18:02.087
But the economic sectors that obviously

0:18:02.087,0:18:04.240
hold the political power in Colombia

0:18:04.240,0:18:06.922
do not want to cede absolutely anything.

0:18:06.922,0:18:09.158
They want to continue accumulating all of

0:18:09.158,0:18:11.311
the wealth that the country produces.

0:18:11.311,0:18:13.708
The wealth of the natural resources,

0:18:13.708,0:18:15.756
but also the wealth that is produced

0:18:15.756,0:18:16.962
by the workers.

0:18:16.962,0:18:18.543
And because of this, they won't even

0:18:18.543,0:18:21.407
allow for a decrease in the price of fuel,

0:18:21.407,0:18:22.981
or a lowering in the price of

0:18:22.981,0:18:24.597
agricultural supplies.

0:18:24.597,0:18:25.732
They won't even invest

0:18:25.732,0:18:28.019
a couple million pesos to fix the roads,

0:18:28.019,0:18:30.337
the ones used by the peasants to bring

0:18:30.337,0:18:32.790
their products to the principle cities.

0:18:32.790,0:18:34.616
They won't do it and we don't know

0:18:34.616,0:18:36.760
how long the people will have to protest

0:18:36.760,0:18:38.023
to force the government

0:18:38.023,0:18:39.644
to come to the table.

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Thanks Marcela.

0:18:40.966,0:18:42.888
And that about does it for this sedition

0:18:42.888,0:18:44.368
of it’s the end of the world

0:18:44.368,0:18:46.088
as we know it and I feel fine.

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to Blandine and Milene for facilitating

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our coverage in Mexico and Colombia,

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