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Dialogue: 0,0:00:03.06,0:00:11.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When the government announced on national TV that the World Cup and Olympics would be here,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:11.08,0:00:19.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,everyone thought it would bring progress, that was everyone's first reaction - rich or poor.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.01,0:00:28.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then, the manner in which things started being done is what turned out to be wrong.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.03,0:00:34.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,8,000 people have already lost their homes in Rio de Janeiro since preparations began for the
Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.02,0:00:36.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympic Games.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:37.58,0:00:39.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is one of their stories.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.04,0:00:50.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've lived in Pavãozinho since I was 7 or 8 years old.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.03,0:00:53.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's peaceful and calm here, as you can see.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.03,0:00:57.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The people are nice, everyone is friendly.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.09,0:01:04.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I like it here very much, I wish my mom could get the house so I could live with her.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.08,0:01:09.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I love my community, and I want to stay here.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:09.02,0:01:11.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No one will take me away from here.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:22.09,0:01:27.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everything started here in the community in January of 2011.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.03,0:01:32.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wasn't even home at the time, only my daughter and niece.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.00,0:01:38.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They asked for the owner of the house, and I told them my mother wasn't home.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.01,0:01:42.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then they said they were going to tear the house down, right then and there.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:42.02,0:01:44.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I said: 'No, you can't, my mom isn't even home'
Dialogue: 0,0:01:44.09,0:01:47.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(And they said): 'so you have to call her, because it has to happen now'.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:47.07,0:01:50.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then I called my mom and she came up right away, running.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.02,0:01:59.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I got here, the house was already flooded, they had removed the water pipes.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.07,0:02:03.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There were several men from the city government, with sledgehammers.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.01,0:02:06.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I tried to negotiate a deadline to leave,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:06.10,0:02:11.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that I could find another place for us to stay, we had no other place to go.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.01,0:02:14.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Where were we supposed to stay, in the middle of the street?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:14.01,0:02:17.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So he told my daughter: 'Talk to your mother, she's being too stubborn, tell her to leave,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:17.56,0:02:21.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or else she's going to end up getting hurt.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:21.07,0:02:24.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And at that moment I was very scared,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.09,0:02:27.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because a bunch of police officers, city guards,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:27.08,0:02:32.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all of them pressuring me, saying that if I didn't leave on good terms I would leave on bad terms,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.05,0:02:39.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so I realized what was happening was dishonest, something outside of the law.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.01,0:02:42.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And my daughter was asking me to go, so I did.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:42.04,0:02:46.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't like to remember that.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:57.07,0:03:02.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After Elisângela lost her house, her daughter had to go live with her grandmother,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:02.05,0:03:05.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and ended up missing six months of school.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.04,0:03:10.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Over a year later, the family still hasn't been compensated or ressettled by the government.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:10.02,0:03:13.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mother and daughter are still living separately.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:13.05,0:03:16.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then they promised to give me another house.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:16.09,0:03:27.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After two months of me going (to City Hall) every day, they offered a house in Campo Grande.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:27.09,0:03:38.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we got the address and went to visit the condo where they had built these houses.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:38.07,0:03:43.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We got to Campo Grande after two and a half hours.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:43.05,0:03:48.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then to get to the house we had to take another bus,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:48.05,0:03:54.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because there's only one line that goes all the way there. (60km from downtown Rio)
Dialogue: 0,0:03:54.08,0:03:58.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's not a single shop on the street, there isn't a school,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:58.02,0:04:00.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so we had to consider all of this,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:00.05,0:04:03.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I decided not to accept the house.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:05.09,0:04:10.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every day I would go to City Hall, sometimes they wouldn't meet with me,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:10.09,0:04:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or they would say no one was there, tell me to come back.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:15.00,0:04:23.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I stood in the hallway to wait for (Housing Secretary) Jorge Bittar to go to lunch.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:23.01,0:04:26.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When he goes to lunch, I'll stop him.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:26.04,0:04:28.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's what happened!
Dialogue: 0,0:04:28.06,0:04:31.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When he was going to lunch, I grabbed his arm and said:
Dialogue: 0,0:04:31.09,0:04:38.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'I live in Pavão-Pavãozinho, SEOP (government agency) went to my house and demolished it,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:38.04,0:04:43.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,without giving me any prior notice, without any compensation or resettlement,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:43.07,0:04:52.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they gave me this piece of paper saying I would get another home in three months at most,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:52.60,0:04:55.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and up to now nothing has happened.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:55.09,0:05:01.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So he took down my contacts and said one of his secretaries would get back to me.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:01.05,0:05:04.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That secretary never answered my calls.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:04.08,0:05:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's been more than a year now since they promised the resettlement, and still nothing.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:11.06,0:05:16.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Despite stories like Elisângela's, Rio's municipal government continues to say that all expropriations
Dialogue: 0,0:05:16.10,0:05:22.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are being done according to the law and in respect of human rights.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:23.04,0:05:25.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Jorge Bittar, Municipal Housing Secretary - Nov/11)
Dialogue: 0,0:05:25.07,0:05:28.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Nothing will be defined without dialogue with the (affected) residents."
Dialogue: 0,0:05:28.09,0:05:31.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Nothing. There will not be any impositions."
Dialogue: 0,0:05:31.06,0:05:33.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Rio Mayor Eduardo Paes - March/11)
Dialogue: 0,0:05:33.07,0:05:37.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"We've already done more than 3,000 expropriations of houses, buildings, shops."
Dialogue: 0,0:05:37.05,0:05:40.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"The expert makes an assessment and the government pays an adequate and fair amount."
Dialogue: 0,0:05:40.63,0:05:42.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"In fact we've paid very adequate amounts."
Dialogue: 0,0:05:44.01,0:05:48.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How do you respond to someone who reads the paper or watches TV and believes
Dialogue: 0,0:05:48.08,0:05:52.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the assertions being made by Mayor Paes and Secretary Bittar?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:52.03,0:06:00.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even I believed that before it happened to me and my neighbors!
Dialogue: 0,0:06:00.02,0:06:04.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We believed it, because we see all the commercials...
Dialogue: 0,0:06:04.06,0:06:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We don't know if it's true or not, but the way they present it makes it seem real.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:12.49,0:06:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My feelings after all that happened, one year after my house was demolished,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:22.00,0:06:25.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are of indignation.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:25.00,0:06:35.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I get angry because, as you see, I have all the documentation, all the receipts
Dialogue: 0,0:06:35.09,0:06:40.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that prove how much I spent and invested in my home.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:40.93,0:06:46.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nothing was given to me for free.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:46.04,0:06:52.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everything was bought with lots of sweat and years of work.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:52.02,0:06:59.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If I walked into an elevator and ran into Mayor Paes, I'd have a lot to say to him.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:59.03,0:07:11.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'd tell him my story, and say that it's similar to millions of other families in Rio.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:11.01,0:07:17.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'd also say that he won my vote (last time). I campaigned for him, I believed him,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:17.01,0:07:21.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and next time that's definitely not going to happen again.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:21.08,0:07:29.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I won't vote for him or whoever he's supporting, and I'll campaign against him, for sure.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:29.00,0:07:34.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everyone from the communities will do the same, because no one is stupid.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:34.96,0:07:40.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Still living away from each other more than a year later, mother and daughter see each other on weekends.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:44.76,0:07:48.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My dream for my daughter is something she's already told me she wants.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:48.56,0:07:56.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When she finishes high school, she wants to study French or Italian culinary.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:57.70,0:07:59.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She's the one who wants that.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:00.12,0:08:06.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She's seen me cook since she was 7, and today she cooks very well too.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:06.85,0:08:15.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I miss my mom sometimes, of course, I had always been raised by her and close to family.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:15.04,0:08:18.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I hope to live with my mom again.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:18.11,0:08:20.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm going to keep fighting until the end.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:20.95,0:08:31.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Until the courts say I win or lose, it doesn't matter, I'm going to keep fighting.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:32.23,0:08:35.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I handed it over to justice, and I'm confident I will win.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:49.82,0:08:53.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,More than 20,000 people are still at risk of losing their homes in Rio.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:53.81,0:08:58.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We demand an end to forced evictions, respect for our laws, and the guarantee of the right to housing in our city.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:58.61,0:09:03.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Share this video and join the fight for a #RioWithoutEvictions
Dialogue: 0,0:09:03.04,0:09:06.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,http://rio.portalpopulardacopa.org.br
Dialogue: 0,0:09:07.38,0:09:13.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A special thanks to Elisângela and Angel for sharing their story and for the courage to keep fighting.
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