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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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Bill Clinton had become president

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with the vision of using political power

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to transform America.

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But he had been persuaded

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to give away that power

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to the financial markets

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with the promise that this time

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they would create a new kind of stability.

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A new kind of democracy

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free of the corruption of elite politics.

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But it was now becoming clear

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that in reality, America's political power

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had just been transferred to another elite

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-- the financiers on Wall Street.

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And when faced by a crisis,

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they had simply used that power

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to rescue themselves.

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In the process,

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far from creating stability,

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their actions were leading to a chaotic

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and far more unstable world.

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Gooooooooooooooood 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... the show where

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you don’t have to be a monk to discover

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the sound of one hand clapping

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Motherfucker!

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That hit me in the ear!

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I am your host the Stimulator,

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and if you’re a Gen-Xer like me

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y’all probably remember the early 90s

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as a magical fucking time.

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NAS had just dropped Ill-matic...

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all over the world peeps were

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getting fucked up and going to raves...

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and we all got our first taste of

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surfing the world wide web.

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The first thing that you need to know

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is that the Internet is amazing

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and it's changing every day.

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Once you've learned how to get

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online yourselves, you'll start seeing

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web pages everywhere.

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TV shows have them, schools,

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Disney World... even the White House.

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What's a web page...

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something ducks walk on?

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And then, to top it off

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in 1993, the United Snake’s smooth

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sax-playing President, Billy Clint

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told us all about a great new trade deal

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called NAFTA

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that was going to make the world a better

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more prosperous fucking place.

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We have made a decision now,

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that will permit us to create

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an economic order in the world

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that will promote more growth,

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more equality,

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better preservation of the environment,

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and a greater possibility of world peace.

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Buuuuuuuuut like all politicians,

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Slick Willy was full of shit.

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Blue collar workers in the United Snakes

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and Klanada got totally fucked by NAFTA,

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with millions losing their jobs

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to corporate outsourcing,

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while millions of independent

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Mexican farmers lost their livelihood,

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leading to a crisis of mass migration

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that has continued, unabated,

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to this fucking day.

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Fast-forward more than twenty years

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and politicians are still

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up to the same fucking tricks.

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They confuse the BAD trade deals

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in the past, with this one,

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which is the first time when

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we've been able to get one

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that's even steven.

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Understandably, folks in labour

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and some progressives

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are suspicious generally,

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because of the experiences they saw

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in the past.

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But, my point is, don't fight

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the last war, wait and see

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what we actually have in THIS deal.

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The latest incarnation of NAFTA - the TPP,

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or Totalitarian Proletarian Pulverizer,

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has been expanded to include

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an additional nine countries,

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and has been dubbed by its critics

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as NAFTA on steroids.

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After years of top-secret negotiations

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these Taco Pinching Pandejos

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finally released the text of the agreement

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back in November, and since then,

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high-priced corporate trade lawyers

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from the United Snakes have added their

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own special brand of legalese shit-varnish

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granting corporations even more protection

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for intellectual property rights.

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I hereby inform you under powers

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entrusted to me under section 47

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paragraph 7 of council order #438476,

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that Mr. Buttle Archibald, residing at

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412 North Tower, Shangrila Towers

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has been invited to assist the Ministry

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of Information with certain inquiries,

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and that he is liable to certain

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financial obligations as specified in

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council order RB/CZ/907/X.

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Sign here please.

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This subtle re-write will have grave

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implications on the costs of medicine

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in poorer countries in South America

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and Southeast Asia, and will

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force governments in all twelve countries

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to criminalize even small

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instances of copyright infringement.

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Uhh.... Stim.

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Yeah, I know... Agitator.

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We’re going to motherfuckin jail!

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Downloading films is stealing!

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If you do it....

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you WILL face the consequences.

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The Throbbing Purple-headed Peoplefucker

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was signed on February 4th,

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in Auckland, New Zealand,

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as thousands of peeps hit the streets

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to denounce their government

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as the puppets of the international

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corporate elite that they are.

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Massive protests have also rocked the

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streets of Chile and Lima, Peru

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where 5,000 militants threw down

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on Thursday February 25th,

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lobbing molotovs at the pigs,

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who responded with live fucking rounds.

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We reject the TPP because it's

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another step, another attempt by

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the government that bends its knees

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before capitalists and global corporations

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Buuuuuut by far the most militant protests

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have taken place in Japan.

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Check this shit out!

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Fucking intense!

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The Transnational Power Project

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now only needs to be ratified by the

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governments of each participating country

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before it officially becomes law.

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Here in Klanada...

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while Justin Trudeau has yet to officially

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make up his mind,

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it’s pretty fucking obvious that he's

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going to use his Parliamentary majority

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to pass it.

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Because, let’s be fucking real...

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as Trudeau’s International Trade Minister

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Chrystia Freeland explains, when

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it comes to fucking people over...

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That is my job... and the job

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great Canadian companies.

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And in other news, on Saturday

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February 27th in Anaheim California,

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anti-racist militants confronted

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several members of the KKK

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on their way to a racist fucking rally,

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beating the living shit out of them.

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During the fracas, several comrades

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were stabbed -- one with the

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sharpened business end of a flagpole --

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and seven were arrested.

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Copwatch Santa Ana,

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and the LA Anarchist Black Cross are

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currently accepting donations to help

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cover these comrades

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medical and legal bills.

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For more info on how you can help,

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check out my fucking website:

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Last October, so-called South Africa

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was rocked by a powerful student movement,

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which paralyzed the country with

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three weeks of intense protests

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sparked by a proposed tuition increase.

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Under the banner of #FeesMustFall,

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thousands of pissed off students

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stormed a parliamentary precinct

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in Cape Town,

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and marched on the headquarters of

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the African National Congress, or ANC,

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in Durban and Johannesburg.

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This wave of struggle culminated

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on October 23rd, when tens of thousands

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of protestors rallied outside the office

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of the country's corrupt,

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neoliberal strongman, Jacob Zuma,

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throwing down with the pigs

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and torching several porta-potties.

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Faced with the protestors'

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unwavering determination,

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and the sheer fucking size of the crowds,

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Zuma backed down.

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There will be a zero increase

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of university fees.

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Buuuuuuuuuuuut rather than settling

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for this minor concession,

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student organizers have kept their eye

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on the motherfuckin prize....

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namely, free universal education

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and an end to the deep structural racism

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that continues to divide the nation

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into haves and have-nots.

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Despite the fall of Apartheid in 1994,

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South Africa remains one of the most

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economically polarized countries on earth.

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In fact, under the ANC, inequality has

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only gotten worse.

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Almost 80% of its population

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are indigenous Africans, yet

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thanks to the nation's colonial history

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whites still own over 70%

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of the fucking land.

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And despite being the second largest

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economy in Africa,

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millions of its inhabitants live

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in sprawling rural slums, struggling to

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survive on less than a dollar per day.

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Life is very rough.

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There are more than 40 of us

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sharing one toilet and a tap.

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Zuma has been on the ropes since 2013,

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after it was discovered that he spent

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shit-tons of public skrilla

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on opulent renovations to his casa.

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In recent months, a growing movement

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has been calling for him to be impeached,

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and for an end to the ANC's

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twenty-two year rule.

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So... within this context

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of political crisis, the student movement

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exploded back on the scene

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in mid-February to remind peeps

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that shit is still fucking on.

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On February 15th,

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students at the University of Cape Town

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erected a corrugated tin shack on campus

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to highlight the lack of

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affordable housing available for students.

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Pigs responded with flash bang grenades,

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which kicked things off.

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Militants soon torched two vehicles,

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including a university shuttle bus,

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then proceeded to engage the po-po

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in pitched street battles

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late into the night.

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On February 22nd,

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students and campus workers

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at the University of Free State

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disrupted a school rugby match,

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to demonstrate their opposition to

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staff outsourcing, and to show solidarity

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with striking workers.

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Soon after the disruption, a mob

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of white spectators swarmed the field

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and began attacking the protestors,

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in a gross display of racist violence.

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Two days later

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at North West University in Mafiking,

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the school administrator appointed a new

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Student Representative Council,

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after dissolving the previous one

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for being too fucking radical.

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In the protests that followed,

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a private security guard opened fire

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with live ammunition,

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with some reports suggesting that

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a student was killed.

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In response, militants torched

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several campus buildings,

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leading to a total suspension of classes.

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At the time of this writing,

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protests are continuing in

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numerous universities across the country,

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and show no signs of stopping

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anytime soon.

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To learn more about this situation

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I recently caught up with Alex Hotz,

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a member of #RhodesMustFall,

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a grassroots student group

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that came together in March of 2015

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and which has been a major force in the

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student movement ever since.

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Hey Alex... how the fuck are you?

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Ummm... it's a very loaded question.

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I'm surviving.

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For viewers who might not know,

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who was Cecil Rhodes?

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And why do people want his statue removed

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from the University of Cape Town campus?

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Cecil John Rhodes is a symbol of

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white supremacy. He was a colonizer...

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he was one of the first British governors

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in colonized South Africa, and he

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plundered the resources of this country,

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genocided millions of Black people

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and enslaved them, if not killed them.

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But also was the founder of racialized

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capitalism in this country, because he

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started the first huge mining companies

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which used and exploited the cheap labour

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of Black people.

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In recent years, university and

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high school students from

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so-called Quebec to Chile have

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shown that when students get organized,

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they can be a serious fucking force

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to be reckoned with.

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Can you tell us a bit about how

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the current student movement

0:12:25.799,0:12:27.273
has spread throughout South Africa

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and how it is organized?

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We've seen the South African government

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become a very repressive government that

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almost kind of mimics the Apartheid state.

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So there's a lot of repression...

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police brutality, a clampdown on activity.

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So it's been a bit difficult

0:12:48.055,0:12:51.608
to be coordinated in the same way in which

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it seems the Chilean students,

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the students of India, Montreal etc.

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So what you find now, is a country that is

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deeply polarized and students who are

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entering institutions that have had

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no change.. they're almost the exact same

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institutions. They exist in the same way

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they did under Apartheid.

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And now Black students having to go into

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these institutions and experience

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incredible psychological and epistemic

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violence, but also physical violence...

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as we've seen recently from white students

0:13:24.197,0:13:27.378
management of the university, and police.

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So... it's been amazing to see how

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these protests have spread.

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They started... at first it moved to us,

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and we had a national shutdown, which we

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coordinated through WhatsApp and, y'know...

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facebook, etc, etc. And obviously that's

0:13:44.526,0:13:46.639
getting a little bit more difficult to do

0:13:46.639,0:13:49.379
because we know that the state, through

0:13:49.379,0:13:51.469
the National Intelligence Agency,

0:13:51.469,0:13:54.684
is trying to infiltrate our movements,

0:13:54.684,0:13:56.728
and to spy on many of us.

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Last year saw an incredible level of

0:13:59.084,0:14:00.467
student mobilization for the

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#FeesMustFall movement,

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which ultimately succeeded in rolling back

0:14:04.542,0:14:06.368
planned tuition increases.

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How were peeps involved in this movement

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able to keep momentum going after

0:14:10.043,0:14:11.485
achieving its initial aims?

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So I think for us, and for many of us,

0:14:14.793,0:14:18.056
it was never just about the 0% increase.

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We were calling for free education,

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and still call for free education, and an

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ending of outsourcing at all of these

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institutions.

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And so while, that has been a victory

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and it's been used to de-mobilize,

0:14:32.069,0:14:35.057
you know, masses of students who supported

0:14:35.057,0:14:38.826
and were active in #FeesMustFall, it was

0:14:38.826,0:14:44.167
interesting to see the masses of students

0:14:44.167,0:14:46.524
who joined #FeesMustFall, and I think

0:14:46.524,0:14:48.253
that was because it never necessarily

0:14:48.253,0:14:51.585
articulated a radical politic, in the way

0:14:51.585,0:14:54.604
in which we do in #RhodesMustFall,

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where we have ideological pillars like

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Black consciousness, Pan-Africanism,

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Black radical feminism...

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so it was able to galvanize masses of

0:15:05.218,0:15:07.584
students who not necessarily - who had

0:15:07.584,0:15:11.847
never been politicized before, and where

0:15:11.847,0:15:14.142
this was like, their first kind of

0:15:14.142,0:15:18.871
entering of marches, or protest actions.

0:15:18.871,0:15:22.562
And I think it was useful to start in that

0:15:22.562,0:15:25.430
kind of mobilization for the world,

0:15:25.430,0:15:26.800
and for South Africans to see

0:15:26.800,0:15:28.935
the police brutality and management

0:15:28.935,0:15:32.164
brutality that students faced for such

0:15:32.164,0:15:37.724
simple, nonviolent demands, and how that

0:15:37.724,0:15:39.885
was met with the violence of the state

0:15:39.885,0:15:41.893
and the violence of the institution.

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So it's been very difficult, but I think

0:15:44.938,0:15:48.046
it is clear in a country with such high

0:15:48.046,0:15:50.415
inequality and poverty, and racism

0:15:50.415,0:15:52.171
where Black students are completely

0:15:52.171,0:15:53.881
alienated and marginalized from the

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institutions, that free education

0:15:55.825,0:15:59.471
must happen in 2016 in order for the

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Black majority in this country to be able

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to enter these institutions and not be

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excluded.

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Because of its historic role

0:16:06.690,0:16:08.513
in the struggle against Apartheid,

0:16:08.513,0:16:11.354
the African National Congress or ANC

0:16:11.354,0:16:13.679
is seen by many people around the world

0:16:13.679,0:16:16.316
as a torch-bearer for anti-colonial struggles

0:16:16.316,0:16:17.385
more broadly.

0:16:17.385,0:16:19.259
Yet many people, including members of the

0:16:19.259,0:16:21.495
#RhodesMustFall movement, feel the ANC

0:16:21.495,0:16:23.842
has betrayed their original mission.

0:16:23.842,0:16:24.825
Why is that?

0:16:24.825,0:16:27.082
We went through a negotiated settlement

0:16:27.082,0:16:29.056
with the Apartheid regime,

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which means that many of the

0:16:30.904,0:16:33.540
oppressive instruments that existed

0:16:33.540,0:16:35.641
in this country to repress, alienate,

0:16:35.641,0:16:37.985
exploit and marginalize Black people,

0:16:37.985,0:16:41.051
and oppress Black people, were left intact

0:16:41.051,0:16:43.463
--especially the economy of the country.

0:16:43.463,0:16:47.899
So, mining stayed intact.... agriculture

0:16:47.899,0:16:49.469
a bit of people retained the wealth,

0:16:49.469,0:16:51.152
white people retained the wealth.

0:16:51.152,0:16:52.545
White people retained the land...

0:16:52.545,0:16:55.645
and you never saw--Black people

0:16:55.645,0:16:57.421
to this day have not seen any kind of

0:16:57.421,0:17:01.531
redistribution, or even compensation

0:17:01.531,0:17:04.921
or reparation for what has happened to us

0:17:04.921,0:17:06.036
in this country.

0:17:06.036,0:17:09.204
So I think, for me the ANC continues

0:17:09.204,0:17:12.223
and has always been, like a buffer

0:17:12.223,0:17:14.604
and a gate-keeper for white supremacy

0:17:14.604,0:17:17.494
--white supremacist capitalist patriarchy.

0:17:17.494,0:17:19.805
And their position now

0:17:19.805,0:17:21.988
as Fanon would speak of, is they are

0:17:21.988,0:17:24.171
the comprador class, the middle-man

0:17:24.171,0:17:26.202
between those who still retain power

0:17:26.202,0:17:28.349
and the Black majority.

0:17:28.349,0:17:30.661
The ANC is currently facing a challenge

0:17:30.661,0:17:32.727
from the left, coming from a new party

0:17:32.727,0:17:34.492
called the Economic Freedom Fighters,

0:17:34.492,0:17:36.107
or EFF.

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What is the relationship between

0:17:37.963,0:17:39.904
the student movement and the EFF?

0:17:39.904,0:17:41.562
And do you feel that the betrayal of

0:17:41.562,0:17:43.954
the ANC has soured many South Africans'

0:17:43.954,0:17:46.694
opinions on traditional electoral politics

0:17:46.694,0:17:49.247
So the EFF, the rise of the EFF, I think

0:17:49.247,0:17:52.569
is incredibly important in this country

0:17:52.569,0:17:54.797
to challenge this notion that this

0:17:54.797,0:17:58.224
generation is apathetic, or apolitical.

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And you can see the EFF, over a very short

0:18:02.170,0:18:04.910
period of time gained huge support.

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And I suppose the EFF, just like the ANC

0:18:07.302,0:18:11.121
has an incredible amount of contradictions

0:18:11.121,0:18:14.214
... so many of them come from the ANC

0:18:14.214,0:18:16.995
and have grown up in the ANC, and in

0:18:16.995,0:18:20.269
other movements that are very close to

0:18:20.269,0:18:23.725
the ANC, like [inaudible], and the Young

0:18:23.725,0:18:25.983
Communist League, and the ANC League

0:18:25.983,0:18:29.457
which are all kind of linked to the ANC.

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And, you know they talk about economic

0:18:32.000,0:18:34.194
freedom, etc, and nationalizing

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the economy, but there's the challenge

0:18:36.876,0:18:40.208
of how within that organization

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materialism through its leadership is

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kind of accepted, and it goes unchallenged

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South Africa has a variety of other powerful

0:18:50.692,0:18:52.759
social movements, such as the country's

0:18:52.759,0:18:54.663
trade unions, and the shack dwellers

0:18:54.663,0:18:58.389
movement, Abahlali baseMjondolo or AbM,

0:18:58.389,0:19:00.456
which I understand has a large section

0:19:00.456,0:19:01.663
in Cape Town.

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Has there been much overlap and solidarity

0:19:04.508,0:19:06.157
between students and some of these

0:19:06.157,0:19:07.434
other social movements?

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I think for us, to see the rise

0:19:09.509,0:19:10.568
in social movements like

0:19:10.568,0:19:13.053
Abahali baseMjondolo, and the way in which

0:19:13.053,0:19:17.756
they raised and put the issue of housing

0:19:17.756,0:19:22.016
and land to the fore of political

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discussion and debates has been

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incredibly important.

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But I think what's also been really

0:19:26.961,0:19:29.585
interesting in our engagements as young

0:19:29.585,0:19:31.803
people with these political organizations

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and social movements, to say that as young

0:19:35.274,0:19:38.214
people... from one generation to another,

0:19:38.214,0:19:42.252
you know, "We are forging our own struggle

0:19:42.252,0:19:45.480
and we are fighting our own battles...

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and we would like your support.

0:19:47.428,0:19:49.891
But in a way that is not patronizing,

0:19:49.891,0:19:53.339
is not telling us what to do, but really

0:19:53.339,0:19:55.360
being able to learn together and

0:19:55.360,0:19:57.473
unlearn together and build a bigger

0:19:57.473,0:20:00.069
broader movement. Because we know that

0:20:00.069,0:20:02.906
we cannot do this by ourselves."

0:20:02.906,0:20:04.309
Anything else you'd like to add?

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Maybe just to say that I think

0:20:06.457,0:20:11.739
it's critical that we build genuine

0:20:11.739,0:20:16.152
trans-national solidarity as young people

0:20:16.152,0:20:18.381
and as students across the world.

0:20:18.381,0:20:21.724
So to support the students of India,

0:20:21.724,0:20:24.058
to support the students of Chile, Brazil,

0:20:24.058,0:20:27.262
South Africa, Canada, Kenya...

0:20:27.262,0:20:31.233
who are struggling for the same things

0:20:31.233,0:20:34.275
we are... in countries where we are

0:20:34.275,0:20:37.630
repressed, brutalized, etc.

0:20:37.630,0:20:40.208
I think we can learn a lot from each other,

0:20:40.208,0:20:41.752
and support each other.

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Thanks Alex!

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