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The charming and hospitable
capital of Minas Gerais.

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I want to ask help from all of you

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who've been sitting
quietly together for over an hour.

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I'd like everyone to stand up, please.

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You can take the opportunity
to change your position.

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I'd like a round of applause to those
who prepared our breakfast, our lunch,

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and who are once again
preparing our meals.

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And also to those workers who,
while we're here discussing new ideas,

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carry on cleaning
the toilets we've soiled.

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(Applause)

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Thank you.

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I know I'm ridiculous. I know it.

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For us to talk about how our history

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has led us to have enslaved individuals

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who use this type of uniform
eight hours a day,

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six days a week for many years,
I'd need more than 18 minutes.

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However, I'd like to say
some important things to you about this.

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First of all, I'm not alone on this stage.

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On my left: Ernesto Che Guevara,
John Lennon, Mahatma Gandhi,

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Sigmund Freud and Karl Marx.

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On my right: Moises, Nilce,
Joăo, Tonhăo, and many others

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who taught me to understand these guys,
and who are very dear to me.

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I was a student in Psychology
in my second year at USP.

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There was a work assignment
in a discipline called Social Psychology.

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The professor said,
"In addition to the academic tasks

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you'll need to do a manual task for a day

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that doesn't require technical
or school education.

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Some went to work
as packers in supermarkets.

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Others worked as ticket agents in cinemas.

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Some colleagues and I worked
as street cleaners

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inside the university campus itself.

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OK. The first problem:

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at USP, as in every university campus,

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every building,
every institute, has a sign.

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No one has any problem
finding these places.

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The Psychology Institute is this way,
the College of Economy over there.

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The University Hospital, straight ahead.

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I arrived at USP, where I'd already
been studying for two years,

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went up to some people and asked,

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"Could someone please tell me
where the street cleaners' lockers are?"

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Silence.

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When there was no silence,
there was shock. Street cleaners?

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Street cleaners in USP?

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Well, yes. Why not?
Do the streets clean by themselves?

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Are we in Disneyland
where the leaves fall from the trees

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and land straight inside the garbage bins?

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After that, I went
to the appointed workplace.

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Everyone was waiting
for the "foreigner" to arrive,

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the Psychology student
who'd be among the street cleaners.

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I noticed that the workers
came in garbage trucks

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together with brooms, shovels,
hoes, bins, trash bags,

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and often the garbage itself.

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I noticed that
all their tools were trashy,

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like this one here.

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This one is a bit better
because the broomstick is a little longer.

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But try to imagine someone
eight hours a day doing this.

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Sorry director about stepping out
of the red carpet.

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Imagine the pain in your forearms,

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imagine your back after a few months work.

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So when I arrived at the workplace,

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everyone was working
with a spade and hoe

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because it had been raining
the day before in Săo Paulo.

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Heavy dirt had accumulated
in the street corners,

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you couldn't work with a broom.

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Everyone with spades and hoes
working in this position.

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The man in charge says, "Not you.
You go sweep on the other side."

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I went to the other side.

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When I looked, it seemed
they'd already cleaned the place

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and put two or three leaves so the playboy
would think he was sweeping.

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I obeyed the boss.

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Incidentally, they say
some are born to give orders,

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and others to obey.

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Please raise your hands those of you
who feel they were born to obey

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One. OK, fine.

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And those born to give orders,
are there many here?

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Interesting. OK

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What happened from then onward
was extremely curious,

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because there was this distance,
not just a geographical distance,

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but a psychological one,
because they're different worlds.

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How could they meet here?

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A student of Psychology
inside the University of Săo Paulo

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- note the paradox -
working with semi-illiterate individuals.

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This is very curious,
and it draws attention.

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Then the work was interrupted,

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and they'd been no contact
whatsoever between us.

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What happened then onward was:

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they put a thermos flask
onto a concrete platform,

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and I didn't see any mugs around,

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nor any type of cup or utensil.

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Moises, like any good Northeasterner,
carried a big knife.

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He went to the garbage bin
and speared three cans with this knife,

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cut them in half and with these cans
they started to serve themselves coffee.

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Cans scavenged from a public rubbish tip,
where the cleanest things are cockroaches.

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That's how they had their coffee.

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I stood there not quite
knowing what to do,

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anxiously waiting for them
to carry on and forget about me.

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Because I had two problems
with this coffee.

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The first is that I don't drink coffee.

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The second is having to drink coffee
in those conditions.

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Moises remembered me
just when I thought he wouldn't.

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He poured the coffee
and handed me the mug,

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or rather, a soda can
salvaged from the trash.

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He poured the coffee and handed it to me.

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The can was so grimy,
if I opened my hand, it wouldn't drop.

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They all watched me

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to see if the playboy,
the rich young student,

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would drink the coffee or not
in those circumstances.

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Something told me I should drink
the coffee because, if I didn't,

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and I'll take poetic license,
since no one's said a swear word,

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but I was basically screwed.
You're screwed.

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Or you drink the damn coffee,

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or they won't be
any researching here, my friend.

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You come to an agreement.

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Either you're with us or you're not.

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I mean, "Or ya with us or ya ain't."

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Understand?

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So I drank the coffee.

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As I drank it, all my anxiety went away.

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Anthropologists usually call this
the rite of passage or entrance test.

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Of course, I wasn't wholly accepted
into the group yet,

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but it was fraternizing in some ways.

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From that moment onward they'd bring me
things salvaged from the dumps,

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and show me what their reality was like,
tell jokes, funny stories,

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or talk about their nicknames,

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or the sexual performance of each one.

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After the work had been interrupted
we continued sweeping.

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Actually, we didn't continue sweeping,
because I'd hardly pick up the broom

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before they'd say,

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"See how we're treated?

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Do you see these wretched brooms?
Tell them what the brooms are like.

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And the coffee? Did you see
the filthy way we're treated here?

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The way we drink coffee?

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Tell them we're treated in this manner."
And I thought: "Tell who?"

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(Laughter)

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Tell who?

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Nineteen years of age
with no important connections.

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I'm not a friend of Aécio Neves,
nor of the President or governor.

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Tell this to who?
I'm not from the Sarney family.

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What can we do in this damn country
if we're not well connected? Tell me.

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How could I imagine that 20 years later
I'd be talking to an audience,

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not just here, but also on the Internet.
I hope this reaches other places,

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because this doesn't appear to be
a problem only here in Brazil.

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The problem of dominating others
happens all over the world.

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In fact, there are nations ruling over
other nations and this isn't anything new.

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What was to come was even more surprising,

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because I had to go
through the Psychology college

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with a red uniform,
not this orange one.

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And I thought, "I play soccer, ping-pong,
I know a lot of people, I have classmates.

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This will be interesting.

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They'll look at me and say,

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"What's up? What are you doing
in these clothes?"

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I went to the ground floor,
through the library,

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the Academic Center, the canteen,
and no one saw me.

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When my workmates learned about this

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and my expectations, they said,

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"Don't be ridiculous. Did you think
they'd notice you in this uniform?"

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Do you think we walk around
with this uniform?

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Who'll sit next to us on the bus?
Who'll talk to us?

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At best we're useful
for giving information."

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So I'm here on behalf of these guys,
because I spent 10 years there

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sweeping the streets twice a week,

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cleaning garbage bins,
picking up dead animals.

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And I'd say, after half an hour
working on the first day,

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that street cleaning is stupid.

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And when I say it's stupid,
it's in respect to these guys,

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like Wagner who was cleaning a toilet,
who I was talking to a moment ago.

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They're extremely intelligent,
with great creative potential,

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and we enslave them.

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We don't call this slavery,
we call it wage labor.

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A lie.

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Wage labor is a worldwide evil.

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No human relationship is authentic
from the moment one bosses the other.

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I thank Eloah's talk and also
Pamela's for this reason.

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From the moment we're implanted
in an asymmetrical situation,

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truth doesn't exist.

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And if we're far from the truth,
we're also far from our humanity.

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This is a very old problem.

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This is because we live
in segregated class societies,

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something that capitalism didn't invent.

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This isn't the invention
of capitalist production.

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But capitalism learned
to spread this problem in a perverse way.

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We learned that
we should have a profession,

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we learned that we should be
leaders, or subordinates,

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and that these symbolic places
are immutable.

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That's all crap. It's all nonsense.

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And despite having studied a lot
in the largest university in the country,

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I learned this with Moises, with Nilce.

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I learned with people who shared
their bread at the canteen,

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who gave me an orange.

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It wasn't with a class colleague,
busy studying, or setting up a practice,

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or having some little article
published in a scientific journal,

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because that's what academic students do.

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Nowadays, academics aren't interested
in teaching, or giving back.

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They're interested
in publishing articles, books,

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appear in the media and whatever else.

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This is really lousy.
So what I want to say is:

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Geopolitical borders

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- something that I think
similarly to Ernesto Guevara -

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are illusory.

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I speak especially
to our fellow Latin Americans.

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I speak especially to our fellow Africans.

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What unites us is domination.
We're a dominated people.

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If I ask you to give me the name of a city
in the United States, you'll give me 18.

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Washington, New York, Miami,
Orlando, and so on.

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Tell me, please.
What's the capital of Sudan?

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The country responsible
for sending a large portion

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of the black population who built Brazil.

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We don't even know the name
of the capital of Sudan.

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This is called domination.

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The only way to overcome domination
is through resistance,

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not with bullets or weapons,
because the American bomb,

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the Western European bomb,
is bigger than ours.

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We need to borrow ideas
from John Lennon and Mahatma Gandhi.

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In other words, resistance.

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Volkswagen and Fiat,
all the pharmaceutical industries

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aren't here for our good. They're not.

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Or do you think they're here
for us to drive in comfortable cars?

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Obviously not.

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They're here to collect taxes
to maintain their yachts.

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This supports their health systems,
which we drool over as if they're great.

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But their wealth
is the result of our poverty.

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This is obvious.

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The only way we can combat this mess,
this crap, is through resistance.

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This will only happen
if we reclaim our schools

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and reclaim our education.

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All we do is reproduce models
that are passed down from top to bottom.

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I learned at school, for example,

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things about the American independence,
the Civil War, or whatever.

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What crap is that?

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What good is this to me
here in Brazil?

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I need to learn the history of our people.
The history of Africa.

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I need to hear the losers,
not the winners.

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I need to hear what the Indians
have to say about what the pioneers did,

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and I'll say in English,
so Laisse won't dirty her mouth:

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motherfuckers, right?

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They decimated lots of Indians
and are honored in the state of Săo Paulo:

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Borba Gato highway, Bandeirantes Palace.

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They were the first
big deforesters in Brazil.

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They killed loads of people,

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and the Catholic Church washed their hands
like in the time of the Holocaust.

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If negligence wasn't a form of violence,
failure to rescue wasn't a crime.

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Isn't that right?

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And what can we do about this?

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We need, of course,
to regain control of our land.

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We need to nationalize and expulse
those transnational companies.

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Either it works our way, or out they go,

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because they're here to exploit
our people, to exploit our souls.

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We've got life running through our veins,
we've got a body and soul.

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We're human beings,
we've got feelings and thoughts,

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and we're capable
of changing this reality.

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We'll only change this by resistance,

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and resistance will come
through an open mind,

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through in-depth studies to understand
when William Bonner says on TV:

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"Communist China".

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Communism, yeah sure.

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China isn't communist.
Cuba isn't communist.

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The Soviet Union wasn't communist.

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If you've read three lines
from Marx you'd know

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that communism didn't envisage
someone sitting in power for 50 years.

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What they have is state capitalism.

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Why doesn't Mr. William Bonner say on TV,
"The capitalist United States?"

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When they talk crap
about a country, it's always,

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"Communist North Korea."

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We need communism,
but we need to study communism.

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Communism doesn't mean
three people sharing our bedroom,

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sleeping underneath our bed, or whatever.

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It means we're all responsible
for producing wealth. Everybody.

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Except that this wealth
is taken over by a few.

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This is the problem. And it's unfair.

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If we don't change our ways of production,

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we'll go on creating invisible,
humiliated people.

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While we're here thinking
we're going to change the world,

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they're out there baking our cheese rolls,
washing the cups that we've dirtied.

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This is really shameful.
It's more than shameful.

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What good are we here
discussing ideas and revolution

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if we continue maintaining
humiliated and invisible people?

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That's why I say if the revolution
doesn't start in Latin America,

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if it doesn't start in Africa
as a resistance, like Gandhi thought,

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we won't achieve anything.

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We're the owners of our land.
We're the owners of our territory,

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and we're the owners of our workforce.

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I also think this way
about any environment,

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any work environment.

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This isn't only for intellectual things.
It's also for our workforce,

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exploited by these industries
that come to make money here.

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Or do you think

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the money that the rich countries
exhibit comes from where?

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They used to steal our precious stones.

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Now our treasures
are our minds, our bodies.

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I've still got two minutes left,
which I'm very glad about.

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I'm not a singer,
but I'll tell you something,

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since I'm subversive I'll step out again.

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We need to learn to change places.
We need to learn to be subversive,

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to think different things.

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Otherwise, and I repeat,
while we think we're revolutionizing,

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Wagner is cleaning the toilets
that we dirty. This is shameful.

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(Rap) A black woman
and a child in her arms,

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alone in a jungle of concrete and steel.

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See a face in the crowd again,

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the crowd is the monster
without a face or heart.

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Hey. Săo Paulo, skyscraper land,

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the flesh-tearing rain,
it's the Tower of Babel.

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Brazilian family, two against the world,

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single mother of a promising vagabond.

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Lights, camera, action,
let's record the scene.

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A bastard? Another dark son without a dad.

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Hey. Landowner I know who you are.

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Who are you alone?
You can't handle this alone.

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You said it was good
and the slums heard you,

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they've got whiskey, Red Bull
Nike shoes and rifles.

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I admit, your cars are fancy,

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and I don't know Internet,
videos cassettes and crazy cars.

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Yes, I'm a little backward.

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Your game is dirty and I don't fit in,

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I'm too much trouble
from carnival to carnival.

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I'm from the jungle, a lion.

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I'm too much for you,
I've too many school problems.

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Believe it or not, your son imitates me.
He's the smartest of you all.

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He's got swing and talks slang.
No, not slang, dialect.

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He's no longer yours, he's gone.

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I entered your radio
and took him. No one saw.

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We're this and we're that.
What? Didn't you say?

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Your son wants to be black. How ironic.
Sticks a poster of 2Pac. How about that?

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Feel the black drama.
Go on, try to be happy.

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Hey cool guy, what makes
you think you're so good?

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What'd you give? What'd you do?
What'd you do for me?

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I got your open sewage
and plywood walls, I didn't die of shame.

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I'm good. I'm here, not you.
You won't cross when the Red Sea opens.

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I'm a tough guy, from the ghetto.

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Brown. Yeah. That crazy guy
who can't mess up,

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the one you love and hate right now.

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Brown skin, I listen to funk.
Where do diamonds come from?

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From the mud. Thank you.

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(Applause)