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Dialogue: 0,0:00:02.06,0:00:04.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Greetings Troublemakers... \Nwelcome to Trouble.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:04.74,0:00:06.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My name is not important.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:07.14,0:00:10.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Capitalism, as an international \Nand inter-connected system of
Dialogue: 0,0:00:10.65,0:00:13.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,economic domination, \Nassumes different forms
Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.18,0:00:14.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in different parts of the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.88,0:00:18.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is partly due to the need to adapt \Nto local customs and conditions,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:18.80,0:00:20.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and partly by design.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.34,0:00:24.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In some territories, local life is \Ncoloured by the region's significance
Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.20,0:00:27.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the global economy as a \Nsource of agricultural production,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.18,0:00:29.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or a site of resource extraction.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.44,0:00:31.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,\NI come from coal country.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.36,0:00:35.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My grandfather was a coal miner\N… actually all my grandfathers.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.57,0:00:39.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Others, such as the Pearl River Delta \Nregion in southeast China,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.46,0:00:42.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have been selected for their \Ndeep reservoirs of cheap labour
Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.52,0:00:47.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and built up into global epicentres \Nof low-wage industrial manufacturing.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:47.13,0:00:49.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here, high-tech gadgets are mass-produced
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.33,0:00:52.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,under the watchful eye of\Nthe Chinese Communist Party
Dialogue: 0,0:00:52.18,0:00:55.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and shipped off to consumer markets\Nin the Global North,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.02,0:00:57.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ending up in any number \Nof metropolitan cities,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.73,0:01:00.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,each competing for prominence \Nas hubs of cultural production,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.64,0:01:03.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,research and development, \Nand IT.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:03.07,0:01:06.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But although the local character \Nof capitalist exploitation
Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.06,0:01:09.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and alienation differs, \Neach corner of its global empire
Dialogue: 0,0:01:09.16,0:01:11.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is connected by a unifying logic,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.45,0:01:15.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one that aims to coerce the vast majority\Nof us to toil our lives away
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.35,0:01:17.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the benefit of a tiny minority.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.71,0:01:24.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Gentrification, as one of the primary \Nmethods of urban transformation
Dialogue: 0,0:01:24.05,0:01:25.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,under capitalism,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.54,0:01:29.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,plays out differently in different cities \Nand neighbourhoods for similar reasons.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.06,0:01:32.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But like the broader \Neconomic system it's part of,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.11,0:01:35.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,gentrification has a tendency \Ntowards homogenization,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.15,0:01:37.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,creating neighbourhoods \Nthat look strangely similar
Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.31,0:01:39.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to their counterparts \Nhalf-way across the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.94,0:01:42.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As we saw in the \Nfirst part of this series,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:42.05,0:01:44.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,those caught up in this process \Nexperience these changes
Dialogue: 0,0:01:44.40,0:01:46.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,through the first-hand \Nviolence of displacement,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.61,0:01:49.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the general dislocation \Nbrought about by changes
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.08,0:01:50.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the communities they grew up in.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.96,0:01:53.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many people, \Nrather than be passive observers
Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.40,0:01:56.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to their own forced removal \Nfrom their homes, decide to resist.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.98,0:01:58.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Over the next thirty minutes, \Nwe will look at some of
Dialogue: 0,0:01:58.78,0:02:02.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the stories of resistance coming out of \Nthe San Francisco Bay Area,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:02.41,0:02:04.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Berlin \Nand Montreal.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.16,0:02:06.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Along the way, we will speak with\Na number of individuals
Dialogue: 0,0:02:06.94,0:02:09.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who are marking their territory,\Nfighting back against the encroachment
Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.78,0:02:12.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of tech companies and high-price\Nboutiques into their hoods
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.63,0:02:14.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,... and making a whole lot of trouble.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.87,0:02:47.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Silicon Valley is south of\NSan Francisco and Oakland,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:47.11,0:02:52.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and emerged as this Cold War project\Nthat was receiving a lot of military and
Dialogue: 0,0:02:52.68,0:02:55.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,government funding to produce\Ndifferent technology during the Cold War.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:55.85,0:03:01.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After the Cold War a lot of these\Ncompanies became more consumer-oriented.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:01.06,0:03:05.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we can really see this moment\Ncoinciding with the birth of the Internet
Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.21,0:03:07.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the rise of the dot com boom.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:07.40,0:03:10.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And what we’re seeing now is that \Nthe models of Google and Apple
Dialogue: 0,0:03:10.73,0:03:13.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,aren’t going to necessarily\Nbust in the same ways
Dialogue: 0,0:03:13.46,0:03:16.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the companies of the \Nlate 90s and early 2000s busted.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:16.49,0:03:18.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In San Francisco there are\Nlots of smaller start-ups.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:18.64,0:03:21.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are also now big companies,\Nlike Twitter, right in downtown.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:21.56,0:03:25.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These companies in Silicon Valley\Nhave enabled their workers
Dialogue: 0,0:03:25.36,0:03:27.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to reverse-commute to and from work,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:27.51,0:03:31.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that they can live in these\Nkind of cool, culturally interesting
Dialogue: 0,0:03:31.40,0:03:34.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,neighbourhoods in San Francisco, \Nor in Oakland.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:35.21,0:03:37.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Gentrification is impacting \Nall of the Bay Area.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:37.93,0:03:40.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are smaller, personal, \Nbeautiful acts of resistance
Dialogue: 0,0:03:40.71,0:03:44.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,committed by exploited and oppressed\Npeople in their daily lives everywhere.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:44.17,0:03:48.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The largest flashpoints of resistance\Nhave been in San Francisco and Oakland.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:48.81,0:03:51.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many galleries and artists, \Neven the well-intentioned,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:51.29,0:03:54.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,participate in this process by\Ndeveloping spaces and creating works
Dialogue: 0,0:03:54.88,0:03:57.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that cater to a gentrifier audience.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:57.31,0:04:01.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And by not honestly engaging with\Nthe dynamics around how their projects
Dialogue: 0,0:04:01.43,0:04:05.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,actually assist the real estate industry\Nand the erasure of local cultures.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:12.08,0:04:18.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,KHY serves as a graffiti crew, \Na network of creatives and radicals,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:18.19,0:04:22.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as well as a broader movement\Nthrough which people from various hoods,\N
Dialogue: 0,0:04:22.30,0:04:25.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,spaces and communities express \Ntheir love, rage and solidarities.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:26.25,0:04:30.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We participate in local \Nstreet-rooted projects that produce
Dialogue: 0,0:04:30.06,0:04:34.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,both cultural and material resistance \Nand prioritize building with
Dialogue: 0,0:04:34.04,0:04:39.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,local oppressed and exploited folks.\NMany who have had little or no access
Dialogue: 0,0:04:39.27,0:04:42.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to established activist\Nand art institutions.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:42.33,0:04:43.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Most street art is legal,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:43.90,0:04:47.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,thereby not challenging\Nthe concept of private property.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:47.34,0:04:51.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nor contributing to the fight against\Ncapital for our public social spaces.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:51.03,0:04:55.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every act of graffiti challenges the logic\Nof property and shatters the illusion
Dialogue: 0,0:04:55.08,0:04:57.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the state can \Ncontrol us at all times.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:57.80,0:05:01.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even so, graffiti writers and their work\Ncan align with the goals of gentrification
Dialogue: 0,0:05:01.95,0:05:04.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if they are aren’t conscious\Nof several factors.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:04.32,0:05:09.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When graffiti is both illegal\Nand explicitly radical in intention,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:09.29,0:05:11.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it is not only a material \Nact of resistance,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:11.66,0:05:15.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but also a way through which \Nto communicate and inspire,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:15.65,0:05:20.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to explore and familiarize ourselves\Nwith our physical environments,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:20.74,0:05:25.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to develop confidence in one’s agency\Nand the capacity to execute actions
Dialogue: 0,0:05:25.67,0:05:28.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,alone and as part of \Nan affinity group or crew.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:30.45,0:05:33.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project \Nis a data visualization
Dialogue: 0,0:05:33.35,0:05:36.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and digital story-telling collective\Nthat makes web maps,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:36.97,0:05:38.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that creates community events,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:38.83,0:05:42.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that does collaborative research\Nto fight the eviction crisis.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:42.78,0:05:46.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We work collectively with a number\Nof different community partners
Dialogue: 0,0:05:46.18,0:05:49.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and right now we have probably \Nabout 50 people working in it.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:49.38,0:05:52.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We’ve actually found that\Nevictions are proximate
Dialogue: 0,0:05:52.00,0:05:56.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to these phenomenon that \Npeople call Google bus stops.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:56.20,0:05:59.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But basically they’re bus stops that \Nbig companies - not just Google -
Dialogue: 0,0:05:59.42,0:06:02.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can use to transport their workers.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:02.96,0:06:06.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we’ve found that 69% \Nof evictions are happening
Dialogue: 0,0:06:06.38,0:06:08.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,within four blocks of these bus stops.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:08.41,0:06:11.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Around 2013, \Nwe decided we would block one.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:11.97,0:06:15.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it was a collective of different \Nhousing activists in the Bay Area
Dialogue: 0,0:06:15.73,0:06:17.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that engaged in the first bus protest.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:17.94,0:06:20.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Afterwards other groups \Nlike Eviction Free San Francisco
Dialogue: 0,0:06:20.78,0:06:22.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,created its own bus blockade.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:22.61,0:06:26.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Different anarchist collectives in Oakland\Nalso created bus blockades.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:26.20,0:06:28.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The media got very involved in these.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:28.66,0:06:32.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And everyone suddenly, \NI think, became aware locally
Dialogue: 0,0:06:32.40,0:06:34.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but also nationally and internationally,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:34.18,0:06:37.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the sort of correlation \Nbetween real estate speculation
Dialogue: 0,0:06:37.63,0:06:40.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and eviction and high tech.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:41.58,0:06:43.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The police are complicit in gentrification\N
Dialogue: 0,0:06:43.89,0:06:46.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because they provide \Nthe physical violence necessary.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:46.57,0:06:48.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The police carry out evictions,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:48.61,0:06:52.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,intimidate and threaten \Nworking-class venues and projects,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:52.07,0:06:57.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,harass houseless folks, criminalize \Nsex workers, enforce gang injunctions
Dialogue: 0,0:06:57.52,0:07:00.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and just wage general violence \Nagainst us to show that
Dialogue: 0,0:07:00.54,0:07:03.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we aren’t “allowed” \Nin these spaces anymore.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:03.22,0:07:05.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In both cities there \Nhave been police murders,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:05.56,0:07:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,primarily of Black and Latinx folks, \Nrelated to gentrification.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:10.00,0:07:14.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many were of people who were simply \Nexisting in contested social spaces,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:14.63,0:07:19.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,such as working-class streets and parks in\Nareas being targeted for gentrification.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:19.65,0:07:24.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The city has created apps so that\Nyou can reserve public playgrounds.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:24.19,0:07:30.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can pay on this app to reserve, y'know\Na portion of a public park or playground.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:30.44,0:07:34.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And there was this very epic event \Nin which some employees
Dialogue: 0,0:07:34.03,0:07:37.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from Drop Box and from Air BnB \Nscheduled a soccer match
Dialogue: 0,0:07:37.52,0:07:39.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in this public playground\Nthrough their app,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:39.69,0:07:44.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and proceeded to try to kick youth\Nof colour off the playground because,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:44.87,0:07:46.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,y’know, they had reserved it on this app.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:46.20,0:07:49.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And meanwhile these youth of colour\Nhad been playing soccer
Dialogue: 0,0:07:49.27,0:07:51.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for years on this playground\Nand didn’t know about the app.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:51.80,0:07:54.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Never had to pay\N… that’s just where they played.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:54.90,0:07:57.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you wanna play pick-up, \Nyou play pick-up like the rest of us.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:57.30,0:07:59.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s not pick-up. You can book the field.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:59.80,0:08:02.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just because you got money \Nand can pay for the field
Dialogue: 0,0:08:02.12,0:08:05.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you don’t get to book it for an hour, \Nto take over these kids fuckin, like…
Dialogue: 0,0:08:05.18,0:08:07.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s like 80 bucks! \NIt’s like 80 bucks per person.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:07.03,0:08:08.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s bullshit. No, it’s bullshit!
Dialogue: 0,0:08:08.45,0:08:12.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Luckily there was a protest \Nthat ensued after that incident
Dialogue: 0,0:08:12.74,0:08:16.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the youth won their right to keep on \Nplaying in their playground
Dialogue: 0,0:08:16.58,0:08:17.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,without the app.\N
Dialogue: 0,0:08:23.64,0:08:27.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sideshows are essentially large, \Nunpermitted moving car shows\N
Dialogue: 0,0:08:27.39,0:08:28.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that perform stunts.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:28.59,0:08:31.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These shows are hosted by mostly \Nworking-class youth of colour,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:31.65,0:08:36.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are organized in a decentralized manner\Nand gather dozens to hundreds,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:36.32,0:08:38.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and sometimes even thousands, \Nof participants.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:38.92,0:08:41.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Approaching police vehicles have \Ntheir dispersal commands ignored
Dialogue: 0,0:08:41.98,0:08:46.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and are often attacked with bottles, \Nother projectiles, and are stomped out.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:47.09,0:08:48.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Fuck the police!
Dialogue: 0,0:08:52.72,0:08:54.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When sideshows hold space in the streets,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:54.75,0:08:58.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it is a group effort which can \Nrelieve the alienation,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:58.19,0:09:00.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,anxiety and depression \Nthat comes with living
Dialogue: 0,0:09:00.43,0:09:03.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in neighbourhoods struggling \Nwith violence and poverty.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:07.39,0:09:11.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Berlin, average housing prices \Njumped more than 20% last year,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:11.63,0:09:15.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,earning the city the dubious title of the\Nhottest real estate market in the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:15.98,0:09:19.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Much of this increase has to do \Nwith a wave of property speculation,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:19.16,0:09:21.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,triggered in part by the \Nlarge-scale sell-off,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:21.74,0:09:24.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by the city’s former mayor, \NKlaus Wowereit,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:24.53,0:09:28.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of over 110,000 social housing units \Nto private real estate firms
Dialogue: 0,0:09:28.77,0:09:31.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and investment banks like Goldman Sachs. \N
Dialogue: 0,0:09:31.53,0:09:33.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The rapid spike in property values \Nhas been accompanied
Dialogue: 0,0:09:33.89,0:09:36.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by a flurry of new high-rise \Ncondo construction
Dialogue: 0,0:09:36.67,0:09:39.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is transforming the character \Nof working-class neighbourhoods.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:39.98,0:09:44.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this is happening in a city \Nwhere 85% of residents are renters.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:44.71,0:09:48.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Alongside this meteoric rise \Nin the cost of living, for years now,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:48.27,0:09:52.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Berlin has been positioning itself \Nas the new Silicon Valley of Europe.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:52.47,0:09:55.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Already home to a growing number \Nof global tech start-ups,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:55.50,0:09:58.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the city was recently chosen \Nas the site of a new Google campus,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:58.78,0:10:02.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,planned to set up shop in the trendy \Nworking-class neighbourhood of Kreuzberg.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:02.79,0:10:06.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This announcement triggered an \Nimmediate backlash from local residents
Dialogue: 0,0:10:06.20,0:10:08.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and digital privacy advocates alike,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:08.38,0:10:11.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,transforming the proposed \NGoogle outpost into a potent symbol
Dialogue: 0,0:10:11.49,0:10:14.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the city's IT-fuelled \Ngentrification woes,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:14.15,0:10:16.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the broader restructuring \Nof the global economy
Dialogue: 0,0:10:16.65,0:10:18.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,being led by the tech industry.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:20.78,0:10:23.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People are very much concerned \Nhere that Berlin would turn into
Dialogue: 0,0:10:23.87,0:10:27.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a new San Francisco, or a new Toronto, \Nor a new London,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:27.58,0:10:33.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where the most vulnerable people\Ngot evicted from the centres
Dialogue: 0,0:10:33.32,0:10:35.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and pushed towards the periphery.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:35.68,0:10:40.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Kreuzberg has historically been \Nthe hot spot for social struggles.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:40.85,0:10:44.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anarchist communities have\Nthrived there since the 90s,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:44.80,0:10:48.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and many movements \Ngot organized in the neighbourhood.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:48.83,0:10:52.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Since last year, \Nmany communities and individuals
Dialogue: 0,0:10:52.58,0:10:56.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,mobilized against the implantation\Nof the Google campus in Kreuzberg.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:08.84,0:11:10.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On the one hand many \Npeople from the neighborhood
Dialogue: 0,0:11:10.72,0:11:12.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who are affected \Nby the ongoing displacement
Dialogue: 0,0:11:12.60,0:11:15.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are fighting against capitalist \Nrestructuring of the city.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:15.11,0:11:18.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They have felt the increase \Nin living cost during the past years
Dialogue: 0,0:11:18.11,0:11:19.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of start-ups moving into the area.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:19.91,0:11:23.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Google Campus \Nwill only accelerate this process.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:23.28,0:11:26.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On the other hand more and more people\Nare starting to realize that Google
Dialogue: 0,0:11:26.35,0:11:30.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is at the center of a growing system \Nof totalitarian technological control.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:32.39,0:11:39.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In a very decentralized way, \Na network of opponents got together.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:39.54,0:11:41.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,First, posters in the streets,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:41.73,0:11:46.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then public meetings \Nin the anarchist library, Kalabal!k.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:46.01,0:11:51.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What is really impressive here is \Nto see these decentralized networks
Dialogue: 0,0:11:51.58,0:11:58.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of actors with no real center engaging \Nin many diverse direct actions
Dialogue: 0,0:11:58.64,0:12:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from graffiti on the walls of the \NGoogle Campus, to paint attacks.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:04.00,0:12:05.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There have been unregistered \Nnoise demonstrations
Dialogue: 0,0:12:05.95,0:12:07.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,every month at the campus site,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:07.60,0:12:12.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and a Molotov attack on tech co-working \Nspace Start-Up Factory Görlitzer Park.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:12.20,0:12:15.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Also, The newspaper "Shitstorm"\Nwith a print of 8000
Dialogue: 0,0:12:15.23,0:12:18.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,contains articles criticizing Google \Nand the world it stands for,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:18.58,0:12:20.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from an anarchist perspective.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:20.66,0:12:23.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Google is one of the strongest forces \Nbehind the present convergence
Dialogue: 0,0:12:23.31,0:12:27.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of information tech, cybernetics, \Nnano-tech, neuroscience, and bio-tech.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:27.70,0:12:30.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this is more than just an \Nupgrade to the industrial system,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:30.68,0:12:33.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it is a fundamental change \Ntowards power-as-domination.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:34.57,0:12:39.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Therefore we don’t want \Nthis entity at all as a neighbour.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:39.61,0:12:44.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s not any form of hyper-capitalist \Ndriven gentrification.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:44.10,0:12:45.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is Google.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:45.67,0:12:52.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Google empire responsible for mass\Nsurveillance of everyone on this planet.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:52.04,0:12:56.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That actually normalized this business \Nmodel based on that mass surveillance.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:56.89,0:13:02.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Where fighting gentrification \Nalso means fighting mass surveillance.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:02.15,0:13:05.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Also means fighting \Ntechnological dystopia.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:05.73,0:13:09.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Also means fighting \Nthis hyper-capitalism.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:12.63,0:13:16.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Security around the site of \Nthe projected Google Campus
Dialogue: 0,0:13:16.60,0:13:24.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has tremendously increased when activists\Nstarted attacking the building itself.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:24.46,0:13:29.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We don’t count anymore the number\Nof paint attacks and graffiti attacks.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:29.16,0:13:33.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In several fonts and colours \Nalready was written ‘Fuck Google’
Dialogue: 0,0:13:33.18,0:13:36.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all over the facade of the building.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:36.60,0:13:42.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So at first they put some security guards,\Nthen some security guards day and night.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:42.47,0:13:44.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then several security guards.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:44.88,0:13:48.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then frequently we \Nalso see the police there.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:48.56,0:13:51.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Google has been trying to counter \Nour efforts to articulate this critique
Dialogue: 0,0:13:51.77,0:13:53.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by throwing money at business owners,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:53.60,0:13:56.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,politicians and other\Ninstitutions in the city
Dialogue: 0,0:13:56.43,0:13:59.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and doing their own \Ncounter public relations.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:59.00,0:14:02.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Until recently most of the groups\Nhad been united in their practices
Dialogue: 0,0:14:02.07,0:14:03.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of not negotiating with officials.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:03.92,0:14:05.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But divide and conquer \Nstrategies are starting
Dialogue: 0,0:14:05.83,0:14:08.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to take hold within this community.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:08.01,0:14:14.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Berlin police are reacting as\Na way to serve these financial interests
Dialogue: 0,0:14:14.25,0:14:19.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of Google and the ones \Nwho want to take over our city.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:19.87,0:14:24.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We also see that there is a political\Nwill by the local administration
Dialogue: 0,0:14:24.54,0:14:28.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the city to accompany \Nthis tech-based gentrification.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:28.19,0:14:31.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This ‘start-up-ification’ of \Nour lives and neighbourhoods.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:31.70,0:14:35.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is clear to us that it doesn't \Nmatter what politician is in power
Dialogue: 0,0:14:35.24,0:14:38.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,since they will decide \Nin favour of capital every time.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:38.35,0:14:41.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What we hope to do is somehow to lower
Dialogue: 0,0:14:41.90,0:14:45.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the attractiveness of the city \Nfor these companies.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:45.74,0:14:49.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If we kick Google out of Kreuzberg,\Nwe hope that other companies,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:49.61,0:14:53.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,other giants from Silicon Valley, \Nwould think twice
Dialogue: 0,0:14:53.48,0:14:55.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,before thinking to do the same.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:01.93,0:15:05.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Within the colonially-occupied \Nterritories ruled by the Canadian state,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:05.67,0:15:08.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Montréal stands out among large cities,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:08.37,0:15:10.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,both in terms of its militant \Nculture of resistance,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:10.67,0:15:12.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and its relatively affordable rents.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:12.49,0:15:15.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But while it hasn't seen \Nthe same rapid pace of gentrification
Dialogue: 0,0:15:15.48,0:15:17.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as the country's other \Nmetropolitan regions,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:17.62,0:15:20.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,such as the Greater Toronto \Nand Vancouver Areas,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:20.12,0:15:23.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Montréal still faces many \Nof the same gentrification pressures
Dialogue: 0,0:15:23.64,0:15:27.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,seen in countless other \Nurban environments around the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:27.06,0:15:31.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Namely, an increase in condo construction\Nand other luxury development projects,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:31.20,0:15:33.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a saturation of Air B&B rentals,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:33.52,0:15:37.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the opening of countless boutiques,\Ntrendy restaurants and hipster cafes
Dialogue: 0,0:15:37.79,0:15:41.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,seeking to cater to tourists \Nand the city’s more affluent residents.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:41.69,0:15:45.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We bought a building in, \Nyou know, what was once considered
Dialogue: 0,0:15:45.34,0:15:52.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a 'hood’ and transformed what was a, \Nyou know, disheveled building into this,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:52.31,0:15:57.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you know, overly-luxurious, \Nfantasious, men’s club-type place,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:57.00,0:16:00.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we could only dream of attending.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:00.35,0:16:03.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These changes are leading to\Nsignificant levels of displacement
Dialogue: 0,0:16:03.46,0:16:05.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from working-class \Nand immigrant neighbourhoods,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:05.59,0:16:08.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which in turn has provoked \Nwidespread community resistance,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:08.42,0:16:10.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,including a good number \Nof anonymous attacks
Dialogue: 0,0:16:10.27,0:16:14.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,emerging from the shadowy ranks of \Nthe city's sizable network of anarchists.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:18.95,0:16:23.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In a lot of ways people tend \Nto use a lot of settler colonial tropes
Dialogue: 0,0:16:23.90,0:16:27.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as a way of legitimizing \Ngentrification in Parc Ex.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:27.17,0:16:30.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People frequently refer to \Nthe neighbourhood as being “exotic”,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:30.86,0:16:34.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as a “hidden gem”, \Nor a “newly discovered neighbourhood”.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:34.73,0:16:39.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People express a lot of interest in \Nits restaurants but very little concern
Dialogue: 0,0:16:39.21,0:16:43.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with respect to the lives of the folks who\Nactually do live in the neighbourhood.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:43.73,0:16:47.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Parc Extension is a \Npredominantly working class,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:47.84,0:16:50.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,immigrant, and poor \Npeople of colour neighbourhood
Dialogue: 0,0:16:50.75,0:16:55.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,located in sort of the central north part\Nof Tio’tia:ke, or so-called Montréal.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:55.74,0:16:59.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today Parc Extension is one of Canada's\Npoorest neighbourhoods.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:59.86,0:17:03.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Plaza Hutchison has long served \Nas a community center
Dialogue: 0,0:17:03.63,0:17:06.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and meeting place for Parc-Ex residents.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:06.04,0:17:10.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Spring 2017, the Plaza Hutchison\Nbuilding was purchased
Dialogue: 0,0:17:10.13,0:17:14.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by the BSR group to be converted\Ninto luxury apartment suites.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:14.93,0:17:18.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,From the outset, its manager Ron Basal\Nhas been very up-front
Dialogue: 0,0:17:18.68,0:17:22.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about stating that the units are all to be\Nrented out at so-called "market price"
Dialogue: 0,0:17:22.75,0:17:24.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and are not meant \Nto be affordable housing.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:24.74,0:17:28.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We tried to intervene \Nin the permit approval process,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:28.20,0:17:32.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we also disrupted a number \Nof city council meetings in an effort
Dialogue: 0,0:17:32.52,0:17:36.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to prevent elected officials \Nfrom granting the permit.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:36.15,0:17:39.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We were fairly violently \Nforced out of the room by the police.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:39.74,0:17:42.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And committee members \Nwere actually forced to the ground,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:42.20,0:17:43.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,arrested and charged.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:43.59,0:17:47.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think it’s very clear from his actions\Nthat Basal is not in the least bit
Dialogue: 0,0:17:47.85,0:17:50.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,interested in the well-being \Nof the neighbourhood
Dialogue: 0,0:17:50.04,0:17:54.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and is only seeking to profit off \Nof the displacement of its residents.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:54.02,0:17:57.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our experience suggests \Nthat engaging in municipal politics
Dialogue: 0,0:17:57.72,0:17:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,only ever brought us to a dead end.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:59.99,0:18:01.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There’s a number of instances
Dialogue: 0,0:18:01.43,0:18:05.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- be it through the rent strikes \Nin Toronto and Hamilton,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:05.36,0:18:08.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or building occupations \Nthat have taken place in Montréal -
Dialogue: 0,0:18:08.91,0:18:12.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that there’s actually a number \Nof tactics that exist outside
Dialogue: 0,0:18:12.42,0:18:15.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of administrative and \Npolitical channels that can be
Dialogue: 0,0:18:15.32,0:18:18.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,far more effective \Nin terms of stopping gentrification.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:18.32,0:18:23.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think we’ve drawn some inspiration \Nfrom Hochelaga and St. Henri
Dialogue: 0,0:18:23.09,0:18:27.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as places where there have been \Nbroader based community movements,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:27.09,0:18:30.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but also autonomous, \Naffinity-based groups that have been able
Dialogue: 0,0:18:30.38,0:18:33.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to engage in much more \Nconfrontational actions,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:33.60,0:18:36.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we believe those groups \Nhave done really important work
Dialogue: 0,0:18:36.38,0:18:40.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in terms of highlighting the ways in\Nwhich gentrification is a violent process
Dialogue: 0,0:18:40.26,0:18:44.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and how a lot of the\Ncafés and vintage stores
Dialogue: 0,0:18:44.05,0:18:47.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,actually are very inaccessible \Nto the people who
Dialogue: 0,0:18:47.22,0:18:50.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,live in those neighbourhoods\Nand we definitely hope to do more work in
Dialogue: 0,0:18:50.75,0:18:55.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the coming months to sent a clear message\Nto developers and would-be gentrifiers
Dialogue: 0,0:18:55.35,0:18:57.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that if they try to get \Nthese projects off the ground,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:57.100,0:19:00.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that they will be confronted \Nat every step along the way.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:00.92,0:19:04.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We know that gentrification\Ntends to be accompanied
Dialogue: 0,0:19:04.72,0:19:07.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by more police violence \Nand state repression.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:07.50,0:19:12.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And Parc-Ex in particular is a \Nneighbourhood where there already exists
Dialogue: 0,0:19:12.34,0:19:17.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a significant amount of racial profiling,\Nof police surveillance and harassment.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:17.51,0:19:21.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,An important question we’ve been \Nasking ourselves is how we can work
Dialogue: 0,0:19:21.19,0:19:24.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to make the neighbourhood an uncomfortable\Nplace for would-be gentrifiers,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:24.91,0:19:28.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but also to try to limit the \Nways in which that could contribute
Dialogue: 0,0:19:28.18,0:19:30.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to police presence in the neighbourhood.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:30.65,0:19:33.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, St. Henri was a historically \Nwhite working-class neighbourhood.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:33.59,0:19:36.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well... historically\Nit’s Kanienkehaka territory
Dialogue: 0,0:19:36.90,0:19:39.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but this is one of the problems \Nwhen talking about gentrification.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:39.93,0:19:43.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It can erase ongoing colonial \Nviolence and dispossession.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:43.18,0:19:47.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sometimes, anti-gentrification \Nstruggles get framed as just
Dialogue: 0,0:19:47.15,0:19:50.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“we want to stay” and that can lend \Nitself to some pretty shitty things,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:50.46,0:19:53.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,especially in the context of a white \Nworking-class francophone population
Dialogue: 0,0:19:53.62,0:19:56.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and reactions to displaced folks \Nfrom elsewhere in the world moving here.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:56.96,0:20:00.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There have been some \Ngood moments in the South West.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:00.06,0:20:04.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For example, the squat in 2013 \Nthat the POPIR was involved in
Dialogue: 0,0:20:04.30,0:20:08.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that forced the city to take a few lots in\Nthe neighbourhood off the private market.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:08.37,0:20:12.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have nothing, no sympathy, zero! \N
Dialogue: 0,0:20:12.14,0:20:17.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They’re punks, they’re anarchists.\NThey’re from the black bloc.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:17.30,0:20:19.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is a wide range of tactics \Nused by the struggle
Dialogue: 0,0:20:19.54,0:20:22.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,against gentrification in Montreal \Nand there always has been.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:22.77,0:20:26.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The sausage heist was an interesting one.\NA very Robin Hood-inspired action.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:26.82,0:20:30.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just before closing Saturday night \Nat Maxine Tremblay’s store,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:30.12,0:20:32.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,30 people in masks stormed in.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:32.68,0:20:37.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Half of them came inside with bags,\Nput food in their bags...
Dialogue: 0,0:20:37.20,0:20:40.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They told the employee \N‘just shut up, don’t move.’
Dialogue: 0,0:20:40.93,0:20:43.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'Don’t do nothing, \Nwe just want to steal some stuff.'
Dialogue: 0,0:20:43.88,0:20:47.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They threw smoke bombs, \Nstole food, spray painted graffiti
Dialogue: 0,0:20:47.40,0:20:49.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and glued posters to the windows.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:49.18,0:20:51.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Their message? \NGentrifiers, get out.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:51.51,0:20:54.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was a brazen attack \Non several businesses
Dialogue: 0,0:20:54.14,0:20:56.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at close to midnight on Saturday.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:56.15,0:20:58.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A group of individuals \Nwearing ski masks at the time,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:58.97,0:21:00.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,broke the windows of four businesses.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:00.78,0:21:03.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dressed all in black, \Nthe vandals damaged store fronts,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:03.53,0:21:06.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as seen in this security video \Nobtained by Global News.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:06.39,0:21:10.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If we’re just talking about attacks, \NI’d say that most of the communication
Dialogue: 0,0:21:10.19,0:21:13.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,happens through anonymous \Ncommuniques on the internet.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:13.21,0:21:16.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sometimes there are posters, \Nsometimes there is some graff,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:16.04,0:21:19.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sometimes, you know, \Npeople drop off flyers somewhere.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:19.34,0:21:22.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People have gone door to door \Nto put flyers in mailboxes.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:22.38,0:21:25.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The mainstream media, they pick up \Nthe most spectacular attacks,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:25.00,0:21:28.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they're not on our side and \NI wouldn't say that people rely on them
Dialogue: 0,0:21:28.43,0:21:30.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to communicate motivations\Nand rationale fairly.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:30.68,0:21:33.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s no longer vandalism, \Nit’s causing terror
Dialogue: 0,0:21:33.42,0:21:35.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the people who are living in the area.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:35.54,0:21:38.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Corey Shapiro owns \Nseveral businesses in St. Henri.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:38.52,0:21:40.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Two of them were attacked\Nover the weekend.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:41.25,0:21:43.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A few years ago, Corey Shapiro,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:43.35,0:21:46.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the almost comical evil figurehead \Nof gentrification in St. Henri…
Dialogue: 0,0:21:46.83,0:21:51.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or as they call me in the area \Nwhere we populate in Montreal
Dialogue: 0,0:21:51.03,0:21:52.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,... ‘The Notorious Gentrifier’.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:52.75,0:21:54.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,called for business owners \Nto band together
Dialogue: 0,0:21:54.78,0:21:56.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and hire private security for their shops.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:56.71,0:22:00.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His super fancy glasses store, \NL’Archive, kept getting spat on
Dialogue: 0,0:22:00.58,0:22:02.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he was pissed about it.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:02.08,0:22:05.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One person got a ticket for spitting \Non L’Archive cause undercover cops
Dialogue: 0,0:22:05.22,0:22:07.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were stationed outside the store at night.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:07.45,0:22:09.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Cops have always protected\Nthose with money.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:16.19,0:22:19.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Hochelaga specifically, \Nthe coming of yuppie businesses,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:19.59,0:22:24.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the place valois, and the condos\Nwere definitely a major factor.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:24.08,0:22:28.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The city is trying to rebrand the \Nneighbourhood by renaming the area HOMA
Dialogue: 0,0:22:28.38,0:22:31.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- which is just some fuckin’ hipster \Nremix of Hochelaga-Maisonneuve.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:32.33,0:22:35.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They wanna change the image of this \Nneighbourhood from a rugged working-class,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:35.88,0:22:38.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like, somewhat criminal area \Nto a yuppie playground.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:39.52,0:22:41.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And of course that is just a continuation
Dialogue: 0,0:22:41.74,0:22:44.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the colonial capitalist \Nproject of occupation.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:44.88,0:22:48.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Montreal’s police force plays a huge\Nrole in the process.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:48.17,0:22:51.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They remove street-based sex-workers, \Ndrug-users, and homeless folks.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:51.90,0:22:54.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They can pretend to be \Nobjective and neutral all they want
Dialogue: 0,0:22:54.60,0:22:58.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the laws that they enforce \Nbenefit business and property owners.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:58.15,0:23:01.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There’s been numerous \Ndemands by business owners,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:01.02,0:23:03.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,specifically those who’ve been \Ntargeted by direct action,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:03.100,0:23:06.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for an increase in \Ncameras in the neighbourhood.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:06.66,0:23:09.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They wanna make sure that \Nif anyone steps out of line
Dialogue: 0,0:23:09.04,0:23:11.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there’s gonna be proof and convictions.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:11.23,0:23:15.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The collaboration between the state \Nand capitalists is pretty fuckin’ blatant.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:15.60,0:23:19.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s Projet Montreal calling \Nfor so-called 'social mixity',
Dialogue: 0,0:23:19.20,0:23:21.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a fucking code word for gentrification.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:21.81,0:23:25.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These people are friends and they \Njust can’t wait for the area to be nicer,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:25.28,0:23:27.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,meaning richer and “cleaned up”.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:27.37,0:23:29.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are community groups \Ndoing harm reduction
Dialogue: 0,0:23:29.52,0:23:31.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and mutual aid which is good work.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:31.46,0:23:33.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There’s interesting \Ndecentralized direct action
Dialogue: 0,0:23:33.95,0:23:36.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that goes on which has \Nbeen effective in some ways.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:36.78,0:23:41.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some businesses were so badly hit, \Nthey were forced to close for clean-ups.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:42.35,0:23:44.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s scary, \Nbecause it’s not the first time.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:44.70,0:23:48.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It worries business owners.\NIt angers the rich.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:48.09,0:23:50.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It shows that cops \Nare somewhat ineffective,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:50.67,0:23:54.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and definitely allows \Nfor some cathartic revenge.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:54.02,0:23:58.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When we think of territoriality, \Nwe should think about it in terms of land
Dialogue: 0,0:23:58.34,0:24:01.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and not neighbourhoods \Nas clearly defined spaces.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:02.42,0:24:06.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We shouldn’t be dividing the \Nisland into lots and smaller lots.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:06.08,0:24:09.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s not our decision to make and \Nit’s usually just used by the state
Dialogue: 0,0:24:09.39,0:24:12.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to map out and better \Ncontrol the city anyways.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:14.08,0:24:17.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Municipal politicians try to \Npacify struggles constantly.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:17.99,0:24:22.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If we listened to them, action other\Nthan voting would never be the solution.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:22.54,0:24:25.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They’re inherently against conflictuality.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:31.10,0:24:34.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,While it can often feel like it, \Nthe struggle against gentrification
Dialogue: 0,0:24:34.37,0:24:36.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is not a zero-sum game.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:36.38,0:24:38.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,By organizing and mounting \Ncollective resistance
Dialogue: 0,0:24:38.64,0:24:41.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the forces fueling \Nand pushing this process,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:41.10,0:24:43.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,communities grow stronger \Nand more resilient,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:43.52,0:24:46.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even as they face the attrition \Nbrought on by displacement.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:47.66,0:24:49.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lessons learned in a campaign \Nto stop the construction
Dialogue: 0,0:24:49.78,0:24:52.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of a luxury condo development \Ncan be applied to future battles
Dialogue: 0,0:24:52.85,0:24:55.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to halt the selling-off \Nof social housing units.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:55.79,0:24:58.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Tactics developed \Nin a battle against a new cafe
Dialogue: 0,0:24:58.78,0:25:02.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can be used to bring pressure to bear \Nagainst a notorious slumlord.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:04.80,0:25:06.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When we navigate \Nnew terrains intentionally,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:06.89,0:25:10.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whether they be darkened back alleyways\Nto take out surveillance cameras,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:10.41,0:25:13.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or the hallways of apartment buildings \Nto knock on our neighbours doors
Dialogue: 0,0:25:13.93,0:25:16.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,-- each provide us with skills that \Nwe wouldn't have developed
Dialogue: 0,0:25:16.26,0:25:18.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if we hadn't first taken \Nthe initiative to act.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:18.90,0:25:21.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Confidence and militancy are contagious.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:21.28,0:25:24.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Tactics and strategies honed \Nin one struggle can be catalytic,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:24.30,0:25:26.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,spreading beyond \Ntheir initial participants
Dialogue: 0,0:25:26.40,0:25:29.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and inspiring others to take similar \Naction to defend their own blocks.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:31.46,0:25:35.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think a great deal about \Nthe importance of, you know, of centering,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:35.12,0:25:38.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,directly affected folks in organizing.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:38.06,0:25:42.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We believe it’s important to think about\Nwho’s coming to our meetings.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:42.47,0:25:46.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who are our events being geared towards?\NHow are we reaching out to people?
Dialogue: 0,0:25:46.71,0:25:50.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Are we doing the important groundwork \Nof handing out flyers,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:50.18,0:25:53.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of you know, \Nof knocking on people’s doors,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:53.21,0:25:54.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of reaching people where they’re at?
Dialogue: 0,0:25:55.35,0:25:57.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Start with homies and \Ncomrades you really trust.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:57.56,0:26:01.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can start as small as stickering,\Nor as big as you’d like,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:01.43,0:26:03.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but act as soon as you can.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:03.33,0:26:07.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Make sure your crew is not only \Nrooted in shared views,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:07.09,0:26:09.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but also in friendship and solidarity.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:09.16,0:26:12.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Above all, we also think it’s\Nimportant to align ourselves with
Dialogue: 0,0:26:12.60,0:26:18.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,other struggles against poverty, racism, \Nand displacement in the neighbourhood. \N
Dialogue: 0,0:26:18.36,0:26:22.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Learn from and grow and build \Nwith folks who occupy different spaces
Dialogue: 0,0:26:22.95,0:26:27.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and cultures so that networks grow\Nbeyond smaller, radical circles.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:27.51,0:26:33.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Organize these networks\Nfrom the local perspective
Dialogue: 0,0:26:33.51,0:26:37.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but with a global objective \Nand a global reach.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:37.100,0:26:42.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ensure to do all to inspire\Nthe world with what’s happening.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:42.24,0:26:46.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think it’s important for us to \Nremember that we’re on stolen land,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:46.48,0:26:48.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to remember those who \Nwere initially displaced
Dialogue: 0,0:26:48.98,0:26:53.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to continue to support struggles \Nfor Indigenous solidarity as well.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:53.98,0:26:56.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To create that knowledge \Nand that fight from the ground up
Dialogue: 0,0:26:56.80,0:27:01.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to do data work but \Nto also do direct action work.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:02.20,0:27:05.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Different groups can \Nprioritize different things.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:05.38,0:27:07.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not everyone has to work on policy.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:07.60,0:27:09.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not everybody has to produce the maps,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:09.59,0:27:12.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not everybody has to, you know, \Norganize direct actions.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:12.80,0:27:15.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But if different groups can \Nkind of take on different things,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:15.78,0:27:18.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or maybe different groups can, you know,\Nwork in different neighbourhoods
Dialogue: 0,0:27:18.40,0:27:22.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or have different regional scopes, \NI think struggles can be
Dialogue: 0,0:27:22.68,0:27:24.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,more powerful and effective.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:24.73,0:27:29.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, you gotta broaden your analysis, you\Ngotta find ways to connect your struggle
Dialogue: 0,0:27:29.27,0:27:31.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to community autonomy and mutual aid.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:31.49,0:27:34.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You gotta be focused on \Nyour short-term goal,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:34.39,0:27:36.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but also connecting them \Nto the longer term goals.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:36.44,0:27:38.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Try to stay in your neighbourhood,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:38.11,0:27:41.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,build relationships with your \Nneighbours who aren’t anarchists
Dialogue: 0,0:27:41.42,0:27:45.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,… don’t be afraid of combative tactics, \Nbut don’t fetishize them either.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:45.01,0:27:49.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Fighting gentrification isn’t necessarily \Nfighting capitalism and colonialism.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:49.04,0:27:52.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It has a more limited scope, \Nand that opens it up to recuperation.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:52.67,0:27:56.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Unfortunately, I think that \Nthere has been a fetishization
Dialogue: 0,0:27:56.31,0:27:58.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of tactics and discourse on all sides.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:58.73,0:28:02.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Both in community organizing \Nand decentralized attacks.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:02.12,0:28:04.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I guess I’d say I’m annoyed \Nwith populist discourse
Dialogue: 0,0:28:04.18,0:28:06.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and abstract community-building \Non the left,
Dialogue: 0,0:28:06.31,0:28:08.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and badass posing in informal circles.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:08.82,0:28:12.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think it’s interesting to \Ndiscuss these different tactics.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:12.36,0:28:16.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To be honest about what they accomplish\Nand what are their limitations.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:16.62,0:28:19.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And to be open to \Ndifferent things happening.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:19.16,0:28:22.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And engaging in these fights \Nthrough a variety of scales
Dialogue: 0,0:28:22.70,0:28:24.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and with a variety of tactics,
Dialogue: 0,0:28:24.57,0:28:30.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is really important, and I think \Nit’s imperative that these processes
Dialogue: 0,0:28:30.26,0:28:36.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and these struggles maintain \Nanti-racist, and anti-capitalist, feminist
Dialogue: 0,0:28:36.07,0:28:40.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,approaches to their organizing \Nand to their theorizing.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:40.10,0:28:42.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think that’s extremely important.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:42.12,0:28:46.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The conscious desire for total freedom \Nrequires a transformation of ourselves
Dialogue: 0,0:28:46.07,0:28:49.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and our relationships in the \Ncontext of revolutionary struggle.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:49.02,0:28:52.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It becomes necessary not merely to rush\Ninto this that, or the other activity.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:52.92,0:28:56.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But to grasp and learn to use all \Nof those tools that we can take
Dialogue: 0,0:28:56.39,0:28:58.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as our own and use\Nagainst the current existent
Dialogue: 0,0:28:58.81,0:29:00.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,based on domination.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:00.48,0:29:03.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In particular, the analysis of \Nthe world and our activity in it,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:03.62,0:29:06.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,relationships of affinity and \Nindomitable spirit.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:06.73,0:29:09.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It has also become necessary\Nto recognize and resolutely
Dialogue: 0,0:29:09.44,0:29:12.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,avoid those tools of social change \Noffered by the current order
Dialogue: 0,0:29:12.95,0:29:16.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that can only reinforce \Nthe logic of domination and submission,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:16.51,0:29:20.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,delegation, negotiation, \Npetition, evangelicalism,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:20.87,0:29:24.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the creation of media \Nimages of ourselves, and so on.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:24.42,0:29:27.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These wider tools precisely \Nreinforce hierarchy, separation,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:27.64,0:29:29.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and dependence on the power structure,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:29.63,0:29:32.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is the reason why they are \Noffered to us for use in our struggles.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:33.34,0:29:44.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Fuck off Google (x 6)
Dialogue: 0,0:29:44.05,0:29:45.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don’t know if it helps.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:58.08,0:30:00.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As our cities continue \Nto be steadily transformed
Dialogue: 0,0:30:00.56,0:30:02.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,according to dictates of capital,
Dialogue: 0,0:30:02.38,0:30:05.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tossing more working-class, \Nracialized and immigrant populations
Dialogue: 0,0:30:05.73,0:30:07.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into new suburban ghettos,
Dialogue: 0,0:30:07.39,0:30:11.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,struggles against gentrification will only\Nbecome more urgent and more desperate.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:11.30,0:30:13.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But as long as people \Ncontinue to live in cities,
Dialogue: 0,0:30:13.64,0:30:16.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,these urban environments \Nwill continue to be sites of resistance.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:16.86,0:30:20.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The shape that this resistance takes, \Nand the measure of its effectiveness
Dialogue: 0,0:30:20.86,0:30:24.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will depend on the concrete actions taken\Nto build solidarity among our neighbours,
Dialogue: 0,0:30:24.62,0:30:28.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,prepare our collective defences, \Nand sharpen our tools of attack.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:28.41,0:30:31.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This process will require \Nactive and dedicated engagement
Dialogue: 0,0:30:31.68,0:30:34.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the part of revolutionaries \Nequipped with the patience
Dialogue: 0,0:30:34.39,0:30:37.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to build relationships of\Nmutual trust and respect,
Dialogue: 0,0:30:37.30,0:30:41.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the humility to learn and adapt\Nour strategies and tactics as required.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:42.20,0:30:44.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So at this point, \Nwe’d like to remind you that Trouble
Dialogue: 0,0:30:44.24,0:30:45.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is intended to be watched in groups,
Dialogue: 0,0:30:45.80,0:30:49.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to be used as a resource to promote\Ndiscussion and collective organizing.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:49.41,0:30:52.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Are you interested in getting \Nmore involved in fighting gentrification
Dialogue: 0,0:30:52.52,0:30:54.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and defending your block?
Dialogue: 0,0:30:54.25,0:30:56.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Consider getting together \Nwith some comrades,
Dialogue: 0,0:30:56.47,0:31:00.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,organizing a screening of this film, \Nand discussing where to get started.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:00.34,0:31:02.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Interested in running \Nregular screenings of Trouble
Dialogue: 0,0:31:02.65,0:31:06.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at your campus, infoshop, community center\Nor even just at home with your friends?
Dialogue: 0,0:31:06.64,0:31:08.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Become a Trouble-Maker!
Dialogue: 0,0:31:08.12,0:31:11.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For 10 bucks a month, we’ll hook you up\Nwith an advanced copy of the show,
Dialogue: 0,0:31:11.36,0:31:13.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and a screening kit \Nfeaturing additional resources
Dialogue: 0,0:31:13.58,0:31:16.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and some questions you can use\Nto get a discussion going.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:16.48,0:31:18.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you can’t afford to support us \Nfinancially, no worries!
Dialogue: 0,0:31:18.86,0:31:22.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can stream and/or download \Nall our content for free off our website:
Dialogue: 0,0:31:25.32,0:31:28.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you’ve got any suggestions for show \Ntopics, or just want to get in touch,
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Dialogue: 0,0:31:31.33,0:31:35.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This month, sub.Media bids a fond farewell\Nto one of our collective members,
Dialogue: 0,0:31:35.45,0:31:39.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Tierra Morena, as they leave\Nto focus more attention on other projects.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:39.72,0:31:42.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Tierra has been an integral \Npart of our team here at Trouble,
Dialogue: 0,0:31:42.71,0:31:45.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we look forward to the chance\Nfor future collaborations\N
Dialogue: 0,0:31:45.01,0:31:45.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,further down the line.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:45.95,0:31:48.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Last but not least, this episode \Nwould not have been possible
Dialogue: 0,0:31:48.48,0:31:50.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,without the generous support of Magdalena.\N
Dialogue: 0,0:31:50.83,0:31:53.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now get out there\N…. and make some trouble!