0:00:02.680,0:00:04.120 Greetings troublemakers. 0:00:04.160,0:00:06.860 Welcome to Trouble… my name is not important. 0:00:06.860,0:00:09.300 The past couple of years have been a real 0:00:09.300,0:00:11.860 kick in the teeth for those of us who dream 0:00:11.860,0:00:13.180 of a world without borders... 0:00:13.180,0:00:15.880 not to mention the countless people around the world 0:00:15.880,0:00:18.780 who had the distinct misfortune of not being born 0:00:18.780,0:00:19.940 in the United States 0:00:20.700,0:00:22.280 yet still had the audacity 0:00:22.280,0:00:25.160 to imagine they'd be able to visit Disneyland 0:00:25.160,0:00:26.980 at some point in their lives. 0:00:26.980,0:00:28.120 Oh well. 0:00:28.120,0:00:31.070 I guess Euro-Disney's still a thing... right? 0:00:31.070,0:00:33.740 Standing in firm opposition to bleeding-heart, 0:00:33.740,0:00:36.609 snowflake values of multiculturalism, equality 0:00:36.609,0:00:39.700 of opportunity, solidarity, and the inherent 0:00:39.700,0:00:41.860 value of all human life, 0:00:41.860,0:00:43.289 a strident new form 0:00:43.289,0:00:46.360 of nationalist reaction has been steadily 0:00:46.360,0:00:49.160 gaining ground in countries all around the globe. 0:00:49.240,0:00:51.720 Often narrowly associated with Brexit, 0:00:51.720,0:00:54.140 the rise of the European far-right, 0:00:54.240,0:00:55.560 and the election of Donald Trump, 0:00:55.560,0:00:57.720 this racist and panic-driven 0:00:57.720,0:01:01.039 form of populism is a truly global phenomenon 0:01:01.039,0:01:03.409 – and one with incredibly deep roots. 0:01:03.409,0:01:06.720 Nationalism is, after all, a central pillar 0:01:06.720,0:01:09.560 of state power, and a default go-to 0:01:09.620,0:01:11.320 during times of crisis. 0:01:11.320,0:01:14.220 So it's no great mystery that after nearly 0:01:14.220,0:01:17.050 a decade of punishing austerity measures, 0:01:17.050,0:01:19.360 and more than fifteen years living under 0:01:19.360,0:01:21.580 the spectre of a global War on Terror, 0:01:21.620,0:01:24.880 many have fallen prey to the tempting illusion 0:01:24.880,0:01:27.620 of security conjured up by strong walls, 0:01:27.620,0:01:29.780 and the politicians who promise to build them... 0:01:29.820,0:01:31.880 ...and make Mexico[br]pay for it. 0:01:31.880,0:01:34.220 But even within this context of generalized 0:01:34.220,0:01:36.340 paranoia and resurgent nationalism 0:01:36.340,0:01:39.580 there are many who continue to bravely fight for 0:01:39.580,0:01:42.760 a better world – a world in which human beings 0:01:42.840,0:01:44.960 are granted the same freedom of movement 0:01:44.960,0:01:46.980 currently reserved for commodities. 0:01:47.080,0:01:50.020 Over the next thirty minutes, we'll share 0:01:50.020,0:01:52.440 the voices of some of these individuals, as 0:01:52.440,0:01:55.100 they speak about their experiences resisting 0:01:55.260,0:01:56.860 increased border militarization, 0:01:56.920,0:01:59.080 thwarting immigration enforcement... 0:01:59.080,0:02:01.500 and making a whole lotta trouble. 0:02:29.000,0:02:30.420 People have been crossing through this area 0:02:30.420,0:02:31.860 since.... forever. 0:02:31.860,0:02:33.700 A lot of the areas that we work are actually 0:02:33.700,0:02:35.440 routes that people used to migrate through, 0:02:35.450,0:02:37.500 seasonally -- a lot of the folks whose land 0:02:37.500,0:02:39.370 this is: the Tohono O'Odham and Yaqui people. 0:02:39.370,0:02:41.860 But more recently the whole idea is, you know... 0:02:41.860,0:02:43.600 to get from Mexico to the US. 0:02:45.520,0:02:47.420 I'm a volunteer with the organization 0:02:47.420,0:02:48.180 No More[br]Deaths. 0:02:48.190,0:02:50.380 We are a non-hierarchical, consensus based 0:02:50.380,0:02:54.060 group and we do humanitarian aid 0:02:54.060,0:02:55.880 in the border regions. 0:02:55.920,0:02:58.400 We put out water on known migrant trails. 0:02:58.400,0:03:00.610 We also do search and rescue. 0:03:00.610,0:03:03.040 We document abuses by border patrol and different 0:03:03.040,0:03:06.600 organizations, and we also provide assistance 0:03:06.660,0:03:08.640 to people who have been deported and provide 0:03:08.640,0:03:10.880 harm reduction kits for people who are going 0:03:10.880,0:03:12.240 to be crossing the desert. 0:03:12.240,0:03:14.880 As we've expanded our work, we've expanded 0:03:14.880,0:03:17.180 the areas we're working in, and that includes 0:03:17.190,0:03:19.740 some of the areas in the west desert around 0:03:19.740,0:03:22.540 Ajo Arizona where people are walking across 0:03:22.540,0:03:24.660 Organ Pipe National Monument, into Cabeza 0:03:24.660,0:03:27.280 Prieta National Wildlife Refuge and then across 0:03:27.280,0:03:29.300 about 20 miles of active bombing range. 0:03:29.720,0:03:31.540 The journey north has changed 0:03:31.540,0:03:33.500 a lot in the last 15 years. 0:03:33.520,0:03:36.320 The urban centers were sealed in the mid-90s, 0:03:36.320,0:03:39.080 pushing people out into the geography of the desert. 0:03:39.180,0:03:42.140 It's a very intentional strategy on the part 0:03:42.140,0:03:45.340 of the US government and border patrol 0:03:45.380,0:03:49.780 to increase human suffering and death along the 0:03:49.780,0:03:52.240 border as an ostensible deterrent. 0:03:52.240,0:03:55.020 Over the years we've also seen the areas we've 0:03:55.020,0:03:56.660 done water drops and the areas that we've seen 0:03:56.670,0:03:59.330 water drops moving have also become more remote. 0:03:59.330,0:04:01.060 Essentially what we've done is we've mapped 0:04:01.060,0:04:03.500 north-south trails and we'll drive roads 0:04:03.540,0:04:04.840 and do drops. 0:04:04.840,0:04:07.200 But a lot of the drops that are closer to 0:04:07.200,0:04:09.380 roads we've just seen a really big uptick 0:04:09.380,0:04:12.140 in vandalism, and we've also seen an increased 0:04:12.140,0:04:15.260 amount of use in extremely remote areas. 0:04:15.260,0:04:17.500 A lot of migrants get separated from their 0:04:17.500,0:04:20.480 guides because the border patrol dusts them. 0:04:20.480,0:04:24.680 A helicopter will come and fly very close 0:04:24.680,0:04:27.560 to a group, people will scatter, get separated 0:04:27.560,0:04:30.040 from their guides and in this manner get lost 0:04:30.040,0:04:34.620 and frequently spend weeks walking in circles. 0:04:34.620,0:04:36.220 Folks generally travel at night, 0:04:36.220,0:04:38.230 the pace of the group is very quick. 0:04:38.230,0:04:40.800 If folks can't keep up with the group 0:04:40.800,0:04:42.170 they're frequently left behind. 0:04:42.170,0:04:46.160 So a lot of the patients we get at camp are 0:04:46.160,0:04:48.810 very close to death when we find them. 0:04:48.810,0:04:50.680 There's also been an increase in militarization 0:04:50.680,0:04:55.480 in the immigration enforcement in Mexico, 0:04:55.480,0:04:58.280 so Mexico actually deported more Central Americans 0:04:58.280,0:05:00.080 last year than the United States did. 0:05:00.080,0:05:02.080 And part of that is with US support 0:05:02.080,0:05:04.130 through Plan Frontera Sur. 0:05:04.130,0:05:07.020 The United States is actually funding the[br]Mexican government 0:05:07.020,0:05:08.889 to implement border security 0:05:08.889,0:05:10.790 on their southern border with Guatemala. 0:05:10.790,0:05:12.940 I've talked to people who were riding the 0:05:12.940,0:05:14.660 train and then to get around checkpoints walked 0:05:14.660,0:05:16.660 for 8 or 9 days in Mexico. 0:05:16.680,0:05:19.080 So by the time they get here they've often 0:05:19.080,0:05:20.440 traveled for over a month. 0:05:20.560,0:05:23.240 Being identified as a migrant in Mexico from 0:05:23.240,0:05:26.660 further south makes people vulnerable to extortion, 0:05:26.660,0:05:28.080 kidnapping and assault. 0:05:28.080,0:05:32.100 I would say many of the women who have made 0:05:32.100,0:05:35.440 it to the US-Mexican border experienced some 0:05:35.449,0:05:39.000 form of traumatic violence during their journey. 0:05:39.000,0:05:42.660 The goal is for people to have such a devastating 0:05:42.660,0:05:45.370 and traumatic experience crossing that they 0:05:45.370,0:05:47.190 are deterred from further attempts. 0:05:47.190,0:05:50.100 It's very short-sighted and it does not take into 0:05:50.100,0:05:53.300 account the reasons that people are migrating north 0:05:53.520,0:05:55.520 A lot of reason that folks are coming from 0:05:55.520,0:05:58.940 Central America have to do with US economic 0:05:58.940,0:06:01.960 and foreign policy, now and in the past. 0:06:01.960,0:06:03.740 One of the things that happens under the auspices 0:06:03.740,0:06:06.380 of democracy-building, with things like Plan Frontera Sur 0:06:06.500,0:06:08.200 or the Merida Initiative is that 0:06:08.200,0:06:11.680 the US government is funding military, and 0:06:11.820,0:06:15.080 via extension paramilitary in torture techniques 0:06:15.080,0:06:16.580 and repression of social movements. 0:06:16.580,0:06:20.000 So not only is it keeping people from traveling 0:06:20.000,0:06:21.919 north to escape violence, it's actually creating 0:06:21.919,0:06:23.520 and perpetuating more violence. 0:06:23.520,0:06:26.800 If you look at the School of the Americas 0:06:26.800,0:06:29.270 and the funding of the Mexican military to 0:06:29.270,0:06:32.940 fight terrorism and to fight drugs, one of 0:06:32.940,0:06:35.710 the groups, the Zetas, was initially an arm 0:06:35.710,0:06:37.680 of the Mexican military and then they decided 0:06:37.680,0:06:40.870 to break off and kind of took over the drug 0:06:40.870,0:06:44.620 trade in Texas and in Matamoros and Tamaulipas, 0:06:44.620,0:06:47.400 and they've become one of the most violent gangs 0:06:47.400,0:06:48.920 And they were trained and funded and given 0:06:48.920,0:06:50.620 guns by the US government. 0:06:50.780,0:06:52.780 It's like a joint business venture between 0:06:52.780,0:06:54.660 the US government and cartels. 0:06:54.660,0:06:58.340 They have similar interests and they are exploiting 0:06:58.340,0:07:00.600 vulnerable populations for money 0:07:00.600,0:07:02.240 through different routes 0:07:02.260,0:07:03.980 Cartels make money because people have to 0:07:03.980,0:07:06.320 contract with them now to cross, and then 0:07:06.330,0:07:09.180 the US government and private corporations 0:07:09.180,0:07:12.300 make money by incarcerating undocumented people 0:07:12.300,0:07:14.220 before deporting them. 0:07:14.220,0:07:16.060 There's a group called the American Legislative 0:07:16.060,0:07:19.780 Exchange Council comprised of Republican legislators 0:07:19.780,0:07:22.320 and corporate interests and one of the corporations 0:07:22.320,0:07:24.960 involved in this group is the Corrections 0:07:25.020,0:07:26.500 Corporation of America, one of the largest 0:07:26.500,0:07:28.160 private prison groups in the country. 0:07:28.170,0:07:30.440 They got together and they wrote SB 10-70, 0:07:30.440,0:07:33.540 which was the law in Arizona that got passed 0:07:33.600,0:07:36.700 a few years ago that deputized police 0:07:36.700,0:07:37.960 to check immigration status. 0:07:37.970,0:07:39.400 We live in the border zone. 0:07:39.400,0:07:42.100 Within 100 miles of the border police and 0:07:42.100,0:07:43.650 border control have always had discretion 0:07:43.650,0:07:44.960 to do whatever they want. 0:07:44.960,0:07:47.160 But this kind of took that experience of the 0:07:47.160,0:07:48.870 border lands and internalized it and expanded 0:07:48.870,0:07:52.040 it to all of Arizona, and then with copycat 0:07:52.040,0:07:55.120 laws that were passed, to other parts of the country 0:07:55.120,0:07:56.780 It makes the risk of deportation 0:07:56.780,0:07:57.700 that much higher. 0:07:57.700,0:08:00.580 So if, y'know, an employer refuses to pay 0:08:00.580,0:08:03.660 their employee and they wanna seek justice, 0:08:03.720,0:08:06.400 it's really easy for an employer to just threaten 0:08:06.400,0:08:07.220 calling ICE on them. 0:08:07.229,0:08:08.480 And it creates an extremely, 0:08:08.480,0:08:10.840 extremely vulnerable population. 0:08:10.840,0:08:12.640 And that seems very intentional, because it 0:08:12.640,0:08:14.400 definitely benefits a lot of companies who 0:08:14.400,0:08:16.380 are able to exploit this group of people 0:08:16.380,0:08:17.420 who are now here. 0:08:23.770,0:08:24.770 I watch Trouble 0:08:24.770,0:08:26.470 We gotta Stop it 0:08:26.470,0:08:29.620 The colonial construct widely known as Canada 0:08:29.620,0:08:32.539 is often depicted as the US' mild-mannered 0:08:32.539,0:08:34.340 and polite neighbour to the north. 0:08:34.349,0:08:35.349 Oh hey there! 0:08:35.349,0:08:36.539 Do I know you from somewhere? 0:08:36.539,0:08:37.539 Oh me, no. 0:08:37.539,0:08:39.229 Then what can I do for you buddy? 0:08:39.229,0:08:40.510 Well this is a mugging? 0:08:40.510,0:08:41.510 What? 0:08:41.510,0:08:42.529 Yeah I’m sorry about that. 0:08:42.529,0:08:44.760 If I could just get that waller right there 0:08:47.640,0:08:48.220 Ok! 0:08:49.080,0:08:51.560 Keeping in line with this popular caricature, 0:08:51.560,0:08:54.340 many well-meaning and progressive Canadians 0:08:54.350,0:08:57.460 see their country as a bastion of multiculturalism, 0:08:57.460,0:09:00.140 and a welcoming home for refugees escaping 0:09:00.140,0:09:02.540 war and persecution around the globe. 0:09:02.620,0:09:05.740 We have a celebration of diversity here that 0:09:05.740,0:09:07.420 is just not found anywhere else. 0:09:07.440,0:09:09.220 I mean is not much a question of the rules, 0:09:09.220,0:09:12.240 so much as it is the spirit of openness, that 0:09:12.250,0:09:15.760 we cherish, that we’re finding ourselves 0:09:15.760,0:09:18.260 increasingly alone in the world with that spirit 0:09:18.260,0:09:21.560 But behind this self-righteous veneer lurks 0:09:21.560,0:09:23.940 a more sinister reality of Canada’s history 0:09:23.960,0:09:25.720 and its place in the world. 0:09:25.720,0:09:27.680 Putting aside the inconvenient facts that 0:09:27.680,0:09:29.720 the country was founded on the genocide of 0:09:29.720,0:09:31.940 the land's original inhabitants, 0:09:31.940,0:09:34.860 a near-blanket ban on non-European migration 0:09:34.860,0:09:39.460 until 1967, and remains one of the only countries 0:09:39.460,0:09:43.120 in the world to allow indefinite migrant detention, 0:09:43.120,0:09:46.140 it's often overlooked that Canada only shares 0:09:46.140,0:09:48.180 a land border with one country 0:09:48.200,0:09:49.800 – the United States. 0:09:49.800,0:09:52.140 I would not build a wall on the Canadian border 0:09:52.320,0:09:54.360 This particular quirk of geography has long 0:09:54.360,0:09:57.180 granted the Canadian state near-total control 0:09:57.190,0:09:59.980 over who enters its borders, and shielded 0:09:59.980,0:10:03.520 it from mass influxes of irregular migration, 0:10:03.580,0:10:06.760 outside of a few historical examples, such 0:10:06.760,0:10:09.400 as the Underground Railroad and Vietnam-era 0:10:09.520,0:10:12.500 draft-dodgers, or the more recent arrival, 0:10:12.500,0:10:15.120 in the summer of 2010, of a ship carrying 0:10:15.130,0:10:17.580 490 Tamil migrants 0:10:17.580,0:10:19.980 on the shores of so-called British Columbia. 0:10:19.980,0:10:23.220 But as the political atmosphere south of 0:10:23.220,0:10:25.830 the border continues to worsen for undocumented 0:10:25.830,0:10:28.620 migrants and anyone perceived to be a Muslim, 0:10:28.620,0:10:31.670 Canada is witnessing a rise in refugees seeking 0:10:31.670,0:10:34.820 to make use of its porous frontier to flee 0:10:34.820,0:10:38.260 the overt hostility and repression of Trump’s America 0:10:48.440,0:10:50.140 This is cardamom. 0:10:50.140,0:10:53.120 It’s a nice smell, nice, 0:10:53.120,0:10:55.430 very very nice with coffee. 0:10:55.430,0:10:57.820 This is kanafeh, it’s Palestinian. 0:10:57.820,0:10:59.820 I made it 0:10:59.920,0:11:01.900 Now when you take the coffee, 0:11:01.900,0:11:05.100 you can taste it, it’s very very nice. 0:11:05.100,0:11:06.340 You’ll like it, man. 0:11:07.880,0:11:11.900 My name is Omar Ben Ali, I’m from Palestine. 0:11:11.900,0:11:15.180 I left my country almost ten years ago. 0:11:15.180,0:11:19.640 I left my family, left my kids, left everything. 0:11:20.780,0:11:24.360 Because everybody here knows what the Israeli 0:11:24.360,0:11:26.660 occupation does to the Palestinian people. 0:11:26.660,0:11:29.360 This is my son, Yazan. 0:11:29.360,0:11:32.640 This is my small daughter, Tala. 0:11:32.840,0:11:38.000 She’s thirteen years old now, 0:11:38.000,0:11:40.340 when I left she was three. 0:11:40.800,0:11:44.500 This is my father, he died in 2014. 0:11:44.520,0:11:48.380 This is my mother, my love, my heart. 0:11:48.500,0:11:53.940 She died, she left me in September. 0:11:53.940,0:11:56.610 I didn’t see her. 0:11:58.180,0:12:02.240 I made a refugee claim in the airport in 2008. 0:12:02.250,0:12:06.080 After three years, I sat down with 0:12:06.080,0:12:08.900 somebody from immigration. 0:12:08.900,0:12:11.360 And in 20 minutes he refused me! 0:12:11.440,0:12:18.120 And he sent me a letter with around 38 reasons 0:12:18.120,0:12:21.720 why he refused me—38! 0:12:21.920,0:12:25.240 And he sat with me for 20 minutes. 0:12:26.540,0:12:29.820 I can’t return because I’ll be in danger 0:12:29.820,0:12:31.520 if I return. 0:12:31.640,0:12:35.560 They didn’t let me bring my family here. 0:12:35.570,0:12:39.020 Now if you ask me what I really want, well 0:12:39.020,0:12:42.899 okay, I live here and I’m safe, but my family 0:12:42.899,0:12:44.029 is not safe. 0:12:44.029,0:12:45.980 I need my family, I need my life, 0:12:45.980,0:12:47.920 I need my wife. 0:13:00.300,0:13:03.460 We’re at the Lacolle border crossing. 0:13:03.460,0:13:06.200 This is the main border crossing between Quebec 0:13:06.200,0:13:07.730 and the United States. 0:13:07.730,0:13:09.920 This is highway 15 on the Canadian side, 0:13:09.920,0:13:13.880 and on the other side of the border crossing it’s 0:13:13.880,0:13:16.080 I-87, that will take you down to Plattsburgh, 0:13:16.080,0:13:18.260 and Albany, and New York City. 0:13:18.260,0:13:19.900 And this is the border crossing that you want 0:13:19.900,0:13:22.320 to avoid if you want to make a refugee claim, 0:13:22.320,0:13:24.140 because according to the Safe Third Country 0:13:24.140,0:13:26.660 Agreement, if you’re coming from a safe 0:13:26.660,0:13:28.140 third country—which the United States is 0:13:28.140,0:13:30.690 defined to be—if you try to make a refugee 0:13:30.690,0:13:33.880 claim here, at the Canadian border crossing, 0:13:33.880,0:13:37.040 you will be turned back. 0:13:37.040,0:13:38.840 Then if you try to make a irregular crossing after that 0:13:38.960,0:13:40.140 and they realize you’re making a regular one 0:13:40.140,0:13:42.440 you’ll be forbidden from making a refugee claim. 0:13:42.440,0:13:44.460 So there’s an incentive, there’s a logical, 0:13:44.460,0:13:46.440 completely understandable reason why people 0:13:46.440,0:13:48.500 will make irregular crossings. 0:13:49.200,0:13:52.820 We’re on the Quebec side of the Quebec-US 0:13:52.820,0:13:55.740 border, and this is a place called Roxham Road 0:13:55.920,0:13:58.980 Roxham Road ends right there, and it continues 0:13:58.980,0:14:01.000 right over that little hill on the US side. 0:14:01.010,0:14:02.840 And it’s a place that’s internationally 0:14:02.840,0:14:05.399 famous, because people come here from the 0:14:05.399,0:14:08.340 US in order to enter Canada irregularly and 0:14:08.340,0:14:09.490 make refugee claims. 0:14:09.490,0:14:11.260 Last time I was here there was an abandoned 0:14:11.260,0:14:12.790 baby carriage on the other side, you know, 0:14:12.790,0:14:15.840 here you have some kids clothing that was left. 0:14:20.820,0:14:22.900 So this is about as far as I can go 0:14:22.900,0:14:26.740 Because if I went further another step or two 0:14:26.860,0:14:29.840 I'd be on the American side, and that’s technically 0:14:29.840,0:14:31.460 illegal, and I’m not gonna do that with 0:14:31.460,0:14:33.280 the cops right there. 0:14:33.290,0:14:37.580 People will come up this road, get off whatever 0:14:37.580,0:14:40.540 vehicle they’re in, or cab, and then come across 0:14:40.700,0:14:43.280 “Stop, if you cross here you will be arrested. 0:14:44.120,0:14:46.140 Do you speak French, do you speak English?” 0:14:51.520,0:14:53.900 Plattsburgh New York is the main gateway, 0:14:53.900,0:14:56.079 and you can get to Plattsburgh in a several 0:14:56.079,0:14:57.410 hours ride from New York City. 0:14:57.410,0:14:58.760 It also has an airport, 0:14:58.760,0:14:59.700 so people can fly in there. 0:14:59.700,0:15:01.800 And in Plattsburgh, you can take a cab here. 0:15:01.800,0:15:06.120 There’s nothing mystical or dangerous about it. 0:15:06.120,0:15:08.380 There’s thousands of miles of border. 0:15:08.380,0:15:10.140 So we’re here at a place where the RCMP 0:15:10.140,0:15:11.660 has 24 hour surveillance, but there aren't 0:15:11.660,0:15:14.760 walls, there aren't drones, there are motion 0:15:14.760,0:15:16.660 detectors, but there’s no way this can be 0:15:16.660,0:15:17.660 fully enforced. 0:15:17.660,0:15:19.220 And if there are basic networks of mutual 0:15:19.220,0:15:23.279 aid on either side, we can effectively render 0:15:23.280,0:15:25.120 this border nonexistent. 0:15:32.080,0:15:38.060 We are in Dundee, Quebec, the border is actually[br]a few kilometers from here. 0:15:38.060,0:15:42.180 Since January, there have been a lot of people, 0:15:42.180,0:15:45.280 more than usual, that have been crossing here. 0:15:45.280,0:15:48.500 A lot of people in the region have seen, have 0:15:48.580,0:15:53.700 helped, and it just so happens that a community 0:15:53.700,0:15:55.960 group which deals with a lot of the community 0:15:55.960,0:15:59.720 groups in the area was having a spaghetti supper 0:15:59.820,0:16:01.420 So we came down from Montreal 0:16:01.420,0:16:04.130 to give them information. 0:16:06.280,0:16:08.800 Here we have people that are fleeing persecution, 0:16:09.860,0:16:12.020 people that are afraid for their lives, people 0:16:12.030,0:16:14.780 that want to have a better life 0:16:14.780,0:16:17.130 and want to participate in society. 0:16:17.130,0:16:20.660 And they’re being told that “sorry, if 0:16:20.660,0:16:23.420 you want to come here, you can’t come to 0:16:23.420,0:16:26.410 our port of entry or to our airports.” 0:16:26.410,0:16:30.360 So for us it was evident that, not just making 0:16:30.360,0:16:31.990 information for the people in this region, 0:16:31.990,0:16:34.320 but also for the people crossing, to give 0:16:34.320,0:16:36.420 them a little bit of a step up. 0:16:36.420,0:16:38.460 What are the hurdles 0:16:38.460,0:16:39.960 that they’re going to have to face? 0:16:39.960,0:16:41.760 And we’d like for them to know about it 0:16:41.760,0:16:42.840 before they come. 0:16:46.480,0:16:49.040 The attitude that our team takes regarding 0:16:49.040,0:16:52.360 these people is, if someone is here for nefarious 0:16:52.360,0:16:55.140 purposes or to commit crimes, we want to do 0:16:55.140,0:16:57.520 everything we can to find out before we give 0:16:57.520,0:17:00.180 them to the Canada Border Services Agency. 0:17:00.180,0:17:01.952 Once they’ve crossed, as you said, you can 0:17:01.960,0:17:06.000 actively help, you can organize in your community 0:17:06.079,0:17:06.980 to help people. 0:17:07.000,0:17:08.319 And I think it’s also important to say, 0:17:08.319,0:17:10.500 there’s absolutely no reason to think—absolutely 0:17:10.599,0:17:12.520 no reason to think—that people who have 0:17:12.520,0:17:14.740 crossed irregularly, or illegally, however 0:17:14.740,0:17:16.560 you want to put it, are any more dangerous 0:17:16.560,0:17:18.240 than anybody in this room. 0:17:18.240,0:17:19.880 And so even little gestures, like putting 0:17:19.880,0:17:21.940 up a poster that says “welcome refugees, 0:17:21.940,0:17:24.180 welcome immigrants,” that makes a difference 0:17:24.180,0:17:25.819 you know, it just sets a tone. 0:17:29.920,0:17:32.700 During the summer of 2015, the world watched 0:17:32.700,0:17:35.540 in collective awe as tens of thousands of 0:17:35.540,0:17:37.700 migrants arrived on the shores of Greece, 0:17:37.700,0:17:41.520 and began gradually making their way north, 0:17:41.520,0:17:44.560 past heavily militarized borders in Macedonia, 0:17:44.560,0:17:48.080 Serbia, Croatia and Hungary before ultimately 0:17:48.080,0:17:49.820 reaching destination countries 0:17:49.820,0:17:51.399 such as Germany and Sweden. 0:17:51.399,0:17:54.360 At the time, sympathy for the refugees, many 0:17:54.360,0:17:56.850 of whom were fleeing brutal wars in Syria, 0:17:56.850,0:17:58.740 Afghanistan and Iraq, was high. 0:17:58.740,0:18:02.049 But it wasn't long before popular opinion shifted. 0:18:02.049,0:18:04.800 That year during New Year’s Eve celebrations, 0:18:04.800,0:18:07.580 a spate of sexual assaults took place in cities 0:18:07.580,0:18:10.360 across Germany, most notably in Cologne, 0:18:10.360,0:18:12.809 where hundreds of women reported being attacked 0:18:12.809,0:18:14.240 by groups of young men 0:18:14.240,0:18:15.900 from the Middle East and North Africa. 0:18:15.900,0:18:19.900 While it later emerged that some of these incidents were fabricated 0:18:19.970,0:18:21.230 such as an alleged 0:18:21.230,0:18:23.850 mob attack by Syrian refugees in Frankfurt, 0:18:23.850,0:18:27.420 the horrendous events of that night nonetheless 0:18:27.420,0:18:30.830 cemented the racist caricature of the “rapeugee” 0:18:30.830,0:18:34.030 in the popular consciousness, and helped kick-start 0:18:34.030,0:18:36.830 a furious anti-migrant reaction that was soon 0:18:36.830,0:18:39.300 exacerbated by terrorist attacks in France 0:18:39.300,0:18:40.470 and Belgium. 0:18:40.470,0:18:42.450 In the months and years that have followed, 0:18:42.450,0:18:45.350 the gates of Fortress Europe have slammed 0:18:45.350,0:18:47.770 shut, and the Schengen treaty guaranteeing 0:18:47.770,0:18:50.670 free movement within Europe's interior borders 0:18:50.670,0:18:54.050 has been effectively torn up, leaving thousands 0:18:54.050,0:18:56.900 of migrants stranded in perpetual limbo. 0:18:56.900,0:18:59.910 Responding to this dire situation, many anarchists 0:18:59.910,0:19:02.480 and other activists have stepped up to try 0:19:02.480,0:19:05.430 and help provide services and a sense of community 0:19:05.430,0:19:07.920 to those who have been rendered stateless 0:19:07.930,0:19:09.250 in a foreign land. 0:19:14.130,0:19:16.130 We had a tent camp in the beginning, for two 0:19:16.130,0:19:19.590 months, in the outskirts of Amsterdam. 0:19:19.590,0:19:21.410 Where people were camping in the mud, in the 0:19:21.410,0:19:24.540 rain, in bad tents, getting sick, without 0:19:24.540,0:19:27.150 any assistance from the state, just from the 0:19:27.150,0:19:29.730 neighbors, and people like me being there 0:19:29.730,0:19:31.250 to support them. 0:19:31.250,0:19:33.470 So they had a hard time, they suffered, and 0:19:33.470,0:19:35.510 then winter came, and there was an empty church 0:19:35.510,0:19:37.090 building, that was facilitated by 0:19:37.090,0:19:38.480 squatters in the neighborhood. 0:19:38.480,0:19:41.750 And from there, they took about 25 other buildings 0:19:41.750,0:19:44.310 to give shelter to We Are Here. 0:19:48.010,0:19:50.190 We Are Here is a collective of refugees from 0:19:50.190,0:19:52.110 different countries, different nationalities. 0:19:52.110,0:19:53.810 We focus on the people who 0:19:53.810,0:19:56.470 demand asylum in[br]the Netherlands. 0:19:56.470,0:19:59.310 Since 2002, a lot refugees have been kicked 0:19:59.350,0:20:00.610 out on the street. 0:20:00.610,0:20:03.250 Women, children, have been detained. 0:20:03.250,0:20:05.110 In Holland, there’s a long tradition, especially 0:20:05.110,0:20:08.590 in Amsterdam, to take empty buildings and 0:20:08.590,0:20:11.090 use them as a space for living, for working, 0:20:11.090,0:20:12.960 for culture, for anything. 0:20:12.960,0:20:15.590 However, the state has managed to control 0:20:15.590,0:20:17.480 the squatting movement by making it illegal, 0:20:17.480,0:20:20.550 so it’s hard to squat and stay inside. 0:20:20.550,0:20:22.430 Because opening a building is one thing, but 0:20:22.430,0:20:24.560 staying inside for a longer time is something 0:20:24.560,0:20:25.560 completely different. 0:20:25.560,0:20:27.510 And in a way you could say that We Are Here, 0:20:27.510,0:20:30.610 the refugee collective, has saved squatting. 0:20:31.270,0:20:36.250 Because it’s easier for people to accept 0:20:36.250,0:20:41.290 squats for refugees than for punks from England, 0:20:41.290,0:20:42.520 or tourists from Spain. 0:20:42.520,0:20:44.670 So the squatters were quite eager to help 0:20:44.670,0:20:48.540 find buildings for the refugees. 0:20:48.540,0:20:51.430 And for the police, and for the justice and 0:20:51.430,0:20:54.180 the politicians, it was not so easy to evacuate 0:20:54.180,0:20:56.670 a thing that’s raised a lot of compassion 0:20:56.670,0:20:59.340 and solidarity and sympathy among the society 0:20:59.340,0:21:00.910 in general. 0:21:00.910,0:21:03.050 People need to move from place to place because 0:21:03.050,0:21:05.840 we’re always facing eviction from one building 0:21:05.840,0:21:06.840 to another. 0:21:06.840,0:21:08.530 It’s very important for the system to keep[br]us 0:21:08.530,0:21:11.340 busy with something, because if they give 0:21:11.340,0:21:13.350 you a chance to relax then you will think 0:21:13.350,0:21:16.310 on your situation, and you’ll create more 0:21:16.310,0:21:19.230 demonstrations, and that will stop the system. 0:21:19.230,0:21:20.650 So that’s why they have to keep you busy, 0:21:20.650,0:21:22.630 from building to building. 0:21:22.630,0:21:24.890 We are here to get a life, a better life, 0:21:24.890,0:21:26.690 than we had in Somalia. 0:21:26.690,0:21:28.770 Life is not so good, like it is in Canada! 0:21:28.810,0:21:31.330 And this building here, we will stay here! 0:21:31.330,0:21:34.280 But still, we don’t have anything, we’re waiting. 0:21:34.290,0:21:36.430 We still have hope that we will have something. 0:21:37.600,0:21:41.050 The self-organized solidarity towards refugees 0:21:41.050,0:21:44.350 started more or less two years ago, when we 0:21:44.360,0:21:49.200 had the first Afghani refugees stranded in Athens. 0:21:49.200,0:21:52.250 So what happened was we had a lot of refugees 0:21:52.250,0:21:54.760 residing in a nearby park, in the Exarchia 0:21:54.760,0:21:55.760 neighborhood. 0:21:55.760,0:21:58.970 We tried somehow to help them out with water, 0:21:58.970,0:21:59.800 and stuff like that. 0:21:59.800,0:22:02.350 Then we realized that they were around 300 0:22:02.350,0:22:04.000 people, and water wasn’t enough. 0:22:04.000,0:22:07.290 So we made the call to an assembly, hoping 0:22:07.290,0:22:09.060 that we would get enough people to support 0:22:09.060,0:22:11.510 them for another five days at least. 0:22:11.510,0:22:12.970 And hundreds of people showed up, 0:22:12.970,0:22:15.100 from all around Athens. 0:22:15.100,0:22:18.890 All together, we tried to self organize, and 0:22:18.890,0:22:24.150 at the same time re-learned what self-organization is 0:22:24.530,0:22:29.370 So for a month we provided medical care, clothing, 0:22:29.370,0:22:34.690 three meals a day, tents, sleeping bags that 0:22:34.700,0:22:37.810 they could take with them on their journey. 0:22:37.810,0:22:41.110 That was the beginning of the major self-organization 0:22:41.110,0:22:44.630 of solidarity towards refugees. 0:22:44.630,0:22:49.630 From there, two more initiatives popped up. 0:22:49.630,0:22:53.290 One was Notara squat, the first housing squat 0:22:53.290,0:22:56.790 for refugees, and the other was Platanos, 0:22:56.790,0:23:00.570 a self-organized camp that was in Lesbos, 0:23:00.570,0:23:03.170 that was in the front lines. 0:23:05.510,0:23:07.530 When we were in Chios island, 0:23:07.530,0:23:11.090 there were demonstrations. 0:23:11.090,0:23:12.770 We talked with them, 0:23:12.770,0:23:15.660 we made friendship with them. 0:23:15.660,0:23:19.170 They told us “when you go to Athens, we 0:23:19.170,0:23:22.150 know a place that’s very good.” 0:23:22.150,0:23:25.310 So the first time we came to Athens, 0:23:25.310,0:23:27.830 we went to City Plaza. 0:23:28.470,0:23:32.830 I would say that City Plaza is a refugee accommodation 0:23:32.830,0:23:37.130 space, but not just this, it’s also a political project 0:23:37.130,0:23:40.830 More or less 400 people are living inside of City Plaza. 0:23:40.890,0:23:44.670 You have so many different nationalities inside 0:23:44.670,0:23:46.530 here, so many different people with so many 0:23:46.530,0:23:49.270 different backgrounds and intentions. 0:23:49.270,0:23:53.050 I know the history of Plaza, it was a hotel 0:23:53.050,0:23:55.510 for the Olympics in Athens. 0:23:55.510,0:23:58.720 It was closed, and nobody used it. 0:23:58.720,0:24:03.170 So the anarchists, they opened it, they repaired 0:24:03.170,0:24:05.810 it, they helped lots of people, lots of refugees, 0:24:05.810,0:24:09.190 to come here and live a little bit better 0:24:09.190,0:24:12.130 than the other camps. 0:24:12.130,0:24:15.790 As far as I know, we haven’t lost even one 0:24:15.790,0:24:17.360 immigrant or refugee. 0:24:17.360,0:24:21.060 No one has committed suicide or got killed. 0:24:21.060,0:24:23.270 In camps, you have all the time suicides, 0:24:23.270,0:24:26.210 desperate people, people that are dislocated 0:24:26.210,0:24:29.230 from the major city centers. 0:24:29.230,0:24:31.710 And in contrast to that, you have the squats 0:24:31.710,0:24:34.150 that are inside the fabric of the city. 0:24:34.150,0:24:37.370 Especially in Exarchia, where we have more 0:24:37.370,0:24:40.100 than six squats, housing squats for refugees. 0:24:40.100,0:24:43.230 You see the people in the squats that are 0:24:43.230,0:24:45.000 not integrated, but they feel like they’re 0:24:45.000,0:24:47.410 a part of this small community. 0:24:52.450,0:24:54.950 Given the central role that they play in shaping 0:24:54.950,0:24:57.570 and determining the course of our lives, and 0:24:57.580,0:25:00.970 the massive amount of resources put into militarizing 0:25:00.970,0:25:03.770 and securing them, it's important to remember 0:25:03.770,0:25:05.610 that, at the end of the day, 0:25:05.610,0:25:08.650 borders are just imaginary lines. 0:25:08.650,0:25:10.690 For the vast majority of human history, 0:25:10.690,0:25:12.050 borders didn't exist. 0:25:12.050,0:25:15.630 They are, and have always been, tools of colonization, 0:25:15.630,0:25:18.870 used to divide the world into distinct populations 0:25:18.870,0:25:21.450 that can be placed at the service of competing 0:25:21.450,0:25:24.430 centres of power.Their imposition has always 0:25:24.430,0:25:27.470 provoked resistance, and has only been made 0:25:27.470,0:25:30.080 possible through the massive application of 0:25:30.080,0:25:31.080 organized violence. 0:25:31.080,0:25:33.970 Under today's increasingly globalized capitalist 0:25:33.970,0:25:36.770 system, their primary function is to carve 0:25:36.770,0:25:39.470 the world into distinct economic markets that 0:25:39.470,0:25:42.610 can be more easily managed by local governments 0:25:42.610,0:25:46.130 for the benefit of a transnational corporate elite. 0:25:46.130,0:25:49.270 Politicians and media outfits simultaneously 0:25:49.270,0:25:52.220 present borders as impenetrable barriers and 0:25:52.220,0:25:55.130 fragile bulwarks of civilization constantly 0:25:55.130,0:25:58.090 under threat from dangerous outside forces... 0:25:58.090,0:26:01.110 but the reality is that they are arbitrary 0:26:01.110,0:26:03.990 make-believe lines intended to keep regular 0:26:03.990,0:26:07.110 people divided and fighting amongst ourselves. 0:26:07.110,0:26:10.750 By demystifying borders and robbing them of 0:26:10.750,0:26:13.340 their power to control our lives, we can come 0:26:13.340,0:26:15.990 to a better understanding of our collective 0:26:15.990,0:26:18.810 interests as human beings and begin to act 0:26:18.810,0:26:20.670 together to dismantle the system 0:26:20.670,0:26:21.970 they're meant to uphold. 0:26:24.690,0:26:29.680 We were something like 80 people on that boat. 0:26:29.680,0:26:32.330 It was so dangerous. 0:26:32.330,0:26:35.610 They just told us “you have to go straight.” 0:26:35.610,0:26:38.410 They said “you have to just go straight 0:26:38.410,0:26:41.190 and those mountains in front of you: 0:26:41.190,0:26:42.870 that is Greece. 0:26:43.810,0:26:48.410 And anybody of you know how to drive this boat?” 0:26:48.550,0:26:54.470 The current political climate is pretty terrifying 0:26:54.470,0:26:56.670 for a lot of directly-affected communities, 0:26:56.670,0:26:59.290 and it's not clear how it's gonna shake out. 0:26:59.290,0:27:01.530 This is a really crucial moment for people 0:27:01.530,0:27:04.430 to be doing organizing against the internalization 0:27:04.430,0:27:05.590 of the border. 0:27:05.610,0:27:08.450 Having a criminal history, even if that just 0:27:08.450,0:27:11.090 means crossing, disqualifies you from most 0:27:11.110,0:27:12.010 forms of relief. 0:27:12.010,0:27:14.030 So what that means is that anybody who has 0:27:14.030,0:27:16.690 been caught crossing the border has almost 0:27:16.690,0:27:19.110 no prospect of ever having legal status in 0:27:19.110,0:27:20.730 this country as it stands currently. 0:27:20.830,0:27:25.330 So it's really important to push against this 0:27:25.330,0:27:28.490 idea that it is okay to deport criminals, 0:27:28.730,0:27:32.710 or that somehow the category of criminal 0:27:32.710,0:27:34.650 is a legitimate one. 0:27:34.650,0:27:37.370 People should approach local organizing, wherever 0:27:37.370,0:27:39.500 they are, with the same urgency that we approach 0:27:39.500,0:27:41.030 organizing on the border. 0:27:41.030,0:27:42.730 If you can keep somebody in their community 0:27:42.730,0:27:45.620 by doing anti-deportation work or creating 0:27:45.620,0:27:47.110 protection networks, that means people aren't 0:27:47.110,0:27:49.450 going to be coming back through the border 0:27:49.590,0:27:51.510 and aren't going to be crossing through the desert. 0:27:51.590,0:27:53.710 That might be putting together protection 0:27:53.710,0:27:54.850 packets and different things. 0:27:54.860,0:27:56.650 It's not always glamorous work but it's extremely 0:27:56.650,0:27:59.930 important to keep communities whole. 0:27:59.930,0:28:02.090 Just show up and be humble, and be ready to 0:28:02.090,0:28:06.590 listen and do your homework and learn about 0:28:06.590,0:28:09.130 what's going on, and have a real open heart. 0:28:09.130,0:28:10.930 Once they're here, or they've crossed the 0:28:10.930,0:28:12.350 border... where are they gonna go? 0:28:12.350,0:28:14.250 What are they gonna do? 0:28:14.250,0:28:16.860 What's their possibilities of staying? 0:28:16.860,0:28:19.590 How are we going to help give them the proper 0:28:19.590,0:28:23.610 community support that we would want in the 0:28:23.610,0:28:25.050 same situation? 0:28:25.150,0:28:28.430 We need to make regular and normal irregular[br]crossings. 0:28:28.430,0:28:31.330 We need to make regular and normal the idea 0:28:31.330,0:28:34.890 that it's perfectly natural to just walk across, 0:28:34.890,0:28:36.650 and that these states that are defined as 0:28:36.650,0:28:38.490 the Canadian colonial state and the American 0:28:38.490,0:28:41.250 imperialist colonial state are things that 0:28:41.250,0:28:42.870 we resist and we oppose, but we're not going 0:28:42.870,0:28:44.430 to let the borders get in the way of us having 0:28:44.430,0:28:45.590 mutual solidarity. 0:28:45.590,0:28:47.620 We can't say “hey we don't want you here. 0:28:47.620,0:28:50.430 But we go there and we destroy your land and 0:28:50.430,0:28:52.840 we take your resources, and we say hey now 0:28:52.840,0:28:55.610 there's no clean water, but we got tonnes 0:28:55.610,0:28:56.350 of clean water here. 0:28:56.350,0:28:57.400 We're not gonna help you.” 0:28:57.400,0:29:00.070 We all have a history and we all have a lineage 0:29:00.070,0:29:04.340 of how we got here, to this exact place on 0:29:04.340,0:29:05.380 the earth. 0:29:05.380,0:29:07.390 There's an expression that often the police 0:29:07.390,0:29:08.750 is in our head, and I feel the border is in 0:29:08.750,0:29:09.840 our head as well. 0:29:09.840,0:29:11.990 Yes... if you cross right here, the RCMP are 0:29:11.990,0:29:13.970 right there, and there's likely some level 0:29:13.970,0:29:17.300 of ICE enforcement going on. 0:29:17.300,0:29:20.510 But just a few hundreds of meters that way 0:29:20.510,0:29:22.110 or that way, you could cross. 0:29:22.110,0:29:24.930 There's no way that this thousands of miles 0:29:24.930,0:29:26.690 of border can be enforced. 0:29:26.690,0:29:29.270 I think, you know, closing borders is not 0:29:29.270,0:29:31.910 really the solution and it's not gonna work. 0:29:31.910,0:29:33.930 As long as they close the borders, the longer 0:29:33.930,0:29:36.450 the people will get more motivation to communicate 0:29:36.450,0:29:37.830 with each other. 0:29:37.830,0:29:42.410 Look, the Berlin border, which divided West 0:29:42.410,0:29:43.720 and East Germany before. 0:29:43.720,0:29:47.050 Look at after how long, people were breaking out. 0:29:47.050,0:29:48.630 And Germany now is one country. 0:29:48.630,0:29:50.510 I'm not sure about you but I was born with 0:29:50.510,0:29:53.510 two legs and they function, so I walk. 0:29:53.510,0:29:55.390 And I walk where I want to go. 0:29:55.390,0:29:57.150 That's called freedom of movement. 0:29:57.150,0:29:59.610 We found out ourselves in the street, the 0:29:59.610,0:30:02.910 only one thing we can do to help ourselves 0:30:02.910,0:30:04.770 - solidarity and togetherness, 0:30:04.770,0:30:06.090 that's how we start. 0:30:06.090,0:30:07.990 Solidarity and creating visibilities. 0:30:07.990,0:30:12.310 In my view solidarity requires the capacity 0:30:12.310,0:30:14.420 to step into the other's shoes. 0:30:14.420,0:30:17.550 Not so much erasing the differences, but using 0:30:17.550,0:30:20.220 the diversity to move forward. 0:30:20.220,0:30:24.550 We learn from them how to evolve our language 0:30:24.550,0:30:31.130 and how we can break the borders of our mind 0:30:31.130,0:30:33.870 and political beliefs and lower them so that 0:30:33.870,0:30:34.910 we can listen to them. 0:30:34.910,0:30:37.590 So the whole process of finding the common 0:30:37.590,0:30:41.910 ground with people who come from completely 0:30:41.910,0:30:44.430 different cultural, social, political background 0:30:44.430,0:30:46.710 and meeting somewhere in the middle and there 0:30:46.710,0:30:49.110 trying to form a new kind of space... 0:30:49.110,0:30:51.950 I think it's one of the best political actions 0:30:51.950,0:30:53.030 that can happen. 0:30:53.030,0:30:55.790 Because you know, afterwards what follows 0:30:55.790,0:30:59.480 is that the person who is next to you... he/she 0:30:59.480,0:31:03.150 might not say anarchist, but you know he/she 0:31:03.150,0:31:06.920 is a comrade in a much deeper kind of sense. 0:31:06.920,0:31:09.050 Charity is not the right approach in my view, 0:31:09.050,0:31:10.730 because that's not solidarity. 0:31:10.730,0:31:12.570 Compassion is okay. 0:31:12.570,0:31:14.590 Compassion in the sense of trying to feel 0:31:14.590,0:31:16.910 what the other feels and see how you can walk 0:31:16.910,0:31:17.910 along together. 0:31:17.990,0:31:19.950 But again, compassion itself is not enough. 0:31:19.950,0:31:23.150 You have, as an individual, to use your powers 0:31:23.150,0:31:25.030 and your skills and put them to use 0:31:25.030,0:31:26.590 like everybody else 0:31:26.590,0:31:29.010 And I think that we can learn a lot from each 0:31:29.010,0:31:31.250 other as long as we're rooted and grounded 0:31:31.250,0:31:33.300 geographically in our place. 0:31:33.300,0:31:35.830 It's great to go other places to learn about 0:31:35.830,0:31:38.520 struggles... as long as you can bring it home. 0:31:38.530,0:31:41.270 We have a tendency to react to things. 0:31:41.270,0:31:43.330 They do something and we react to it. 0:31:43.330,0:31:46.790 We have to create the events that they will 0:31:46.790,0:31:49.210 make the others react to us. 0:31:49.210,0:31:52.210 If it's a movement it has to be everywhere. 0:31:52.220,0:31:54.750 We have to create a network. 0:31:54.750,0:31:57.610 We have to, all-together, to organize. 0:31:57.610,0:32:01.170 Self-organize into something grander. 0:32:01.170,0:32:04.550 Migrants who are not able to return to their 0:32:04.550,0:32:07.190 country and are not allowed to stay... 0:32:07.190,0:32:08.190 where can they go? 0:32:09.390,0:32:11.190 They ask for a normal life. 0:32:17.990,0:32:21.090 As we continue to face increasingly destabilizing 0:32:21.090,0:32:24.630 wars, surging global inequality and climate-change 0:32:25.130,0:32:27.830 fueled ecological devastation, the coming 0:32:27.830,0:32:30.390 century is poised to see unprecedented levels 0:32:30.610,0:32:32.130 of human migration. 0:32:32.130,0:32:35.690 Exactly what form this takes will depend, 0:32:35.690,0:32:38.610 in part, on our collective initiative, and 0:32:38.610,0:32:41.730 our capacity for enacting meaningful solidarity 0:32:41.730,0:32:45.330 that stretches across, and ultimately undermines 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