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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.


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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


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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.


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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.


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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


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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?


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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

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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

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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?


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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. 


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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


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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

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was a massive increase to the budget

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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,

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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

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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

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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

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the grave social issues that exist

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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

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closer to the cattle-breeding sector,

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the oligarchy that is more closely aligned

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with the land and landowners...

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has not supported this process,

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because they still believe that the state

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has the military and economic capacity

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to terminate and eliminate the guerrillas.

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So this has been a small difference

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in terms of the specific methods that

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the right-wing and the oligarchy advocate

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for ending the country's insurgency.

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And so what the peace talks have done

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is to polarize public opinion

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between the two right-wing positions.

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And as for the position of resolving,

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in a structural way,

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the problems facing the people

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living in bad conditions...

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this position is isolated,

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neutralized and invisibilized.

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As a precursor to

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the current peace process,

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in 2003 the government of Álvaro Uribe

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began negotiations aimed at

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demobilizing right-wing paramilitary

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death squads, such as

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the Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia,

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or AUC.

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This process was supposed to have

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finished in 2006.

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Did these groups actually demobilize?

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And what happened to

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the members of these groups?

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Well, really it is not them...

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paramilitarism is not a group of people.

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Paramilitarism is a strategy,

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or mechanism of extrajudicial violence.

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Of dirty war.

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Paramilitarism was implemented

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by the Colombian government,

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by private armed groups,

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but also by members of

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the state security forces - the police,

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army, security organisms, DAS -

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to be able to carry out

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undercover operations.

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That is what paramilitarism is...

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it's a mechanism that claims to be

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a third actor, external to the government,

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that carries out grave crimes

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such as tortures,

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disappearances, massacres etc.

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It is logical that if there are

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private individuals who participated

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in these structures, they could have

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been demobilized in a dialogue

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with President Uribe.

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Some of these people were.

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But others continue carrying out this role

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- so knowing that, what had to be

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eliminated was not

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the individuals involved, but precisely

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the mechanism of illegal violence

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that has been implemented by

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the Colombian state since the 70s,

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when paramilitarism began.

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And this has not been resolved.

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Paramilitarism continues to exist

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and those in power continue to use it.

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There is the clear case of the

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disappearances of activists demanding

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Land Restitution for displaced people.

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Despite the fact that

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these paramilitary groups no longer

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officially exist, these people

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continue to be assassinated.

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And they continue to be assassinated

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for the same reasons.

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For decades Colombia has been known

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as one of the most dangerous countries

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in the world for trade unionists.

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What is the current situation

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facing workers in Colombia?

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The situation is grave.

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You no longer hear statistics

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of hundreds of dead labour unionists...

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because they have already been killed.

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So... with this violent aggression

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against the labour union sector,

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the unions have become divided

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and the people have been dissuaded

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from joining these labour unions.

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And the few that still exist

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are always threatened.

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They live controlled by the state,

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and repressed by their bosses

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- like the cases of Coca Cola, Nestle,

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and Drummond - where it was proved

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that these companies used

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paramilitarism to control and eliminate

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labour leaders.

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The result is that we don't even have

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10% of the unionized workers

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that we had 20 years ago.

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Anything else you wanna add?

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Well, what the peasants are demanding

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- the peasants, indigenous people,

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afro-descendant people, and the other

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sectors that have joined this strike -

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is the minimum that any inhabitant

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of this country could demand...

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to live in dignified conditions.

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They are not asking for the government

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to fulfil the impossible.

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But the economic sectors that obviously

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hold the political power in Colombia

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do not want to cede absolutely anything.

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They want to continue accumulating all of

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the wealth that the country produces.

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The wealth of the natural resources,

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but also the wealth that is produced

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by the workers.

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And because of this, they won't even

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allow for a decrease in the price of fuel,

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or a lowering in the price of

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agricultural supplies.

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They won't even invest

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a couple million pesos to fix the roads,

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the ones used by the peasants to bring

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their products to the principle cities.

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They won't do it and we don't know

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how long the people will have to protest

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to force the government

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to come to the table.

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Thanks Marcela.

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And that about does it for this sedition

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of it’s the end of the world

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as we know it and I feel fine.

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We’d like to give a huge mothafuckin

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welcome to the newest member of

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the person known as Agent Charlie

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will be producing a mustard-like

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for the next few months.

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to be a lean mean fascist-killing machine.

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Tortas!

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Janitzio!

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Finally I’d like to send a shout out

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to Blandine and Milene for facilitating

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our coverage in Mexico and Colombia,

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and to our incredible translation team

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for taking the time to interpret the word

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fuck in many muthafuckin languages.

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Domo Arigato!

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Stay tuned next time for more news

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Hasta la pasta compañeros!