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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.26,0:00:02.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Greetings Troublemakers\N... welcome to Trouble.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:02.61,0:00:04.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My name is not important.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:05.02,0:00:08.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,From the endless turf battles \Nfound within the animal kingdom,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:08.22,0:00:10.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the mechanized \Ncarnage of modern warfare...
Dialogue: 0,0:00:10.72,0:00:15.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the drive to control territory is a\Npotent and recurring source of conflict.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.52,0:00:21.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yet within the artificial borders that\Nfortify the so-called “developed world”,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.38,0:00:25.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this type of conflict, like all others, \Nis carefully managed.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.45,0:00:28.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Which is not to say it doesn’t exist.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.22,0:00:32.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People quarrel with their neighbours \Nall the time, even in suburbia
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.23,0:00:34.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,… and in places like \NChicago’s South Side,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.81,0:00:38.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,young men routinely get shot\Nfighting over street corners.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.56,0:00:40.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As groups and individuals,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.30,0:00:44.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we face differing types and levels \Nof conflict in our everyday lives
Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.58,0:00:46.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,... but at the end of the day,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.11,0:00:50.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the ultimate manager and \Nmediator of these conflicts is the state.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.23,0:00:53.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Through their police, \Ncourts and prison systems,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.66,0:00:56.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,states enforce laws \Nthat reproduce power dynamics,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:56.84,0:01:00.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,restrict our choices, \Nand regulate our behaviour.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.24,0:01:02.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The allocation of resources is determined
Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.74,0:01:05.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by the logic of \Nthe so-called “free market”,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.57,0:01:08.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whereby ownership over \Nland is given official sanction
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.96,0:01:12.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by the state-backed illusion \Nof private property.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.41,0:01:14.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The key to the state’s \Ncontrol over our lives
Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.88,0:01:19.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,lies in its ability to regulate all \Nconflict within a given physical area.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.53,0:01:23.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It follows, then, that those of us\Nseeking to steal back the power
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.52,0:01:28.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to resolve conflicts on our own terms \Nmust first draw a firm line in the sand,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.52,0:01:33.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and deny access to the state and its \Nsophisticated apparatus of social control.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.58,0:01:36.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In order to meaningfully \Nassert collective autonomy,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.34,0:01:39.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we must be capable of defending territory.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.05,0:01:42.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Over the next thirty minutes,\Nwe will explore three autonomous zones
Dialogue: 0,0:01:42.73,0:01:46.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,serving as living embodiments \Nof defiance to state rule:
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.50,0:01:51.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the ZAD, or Zone to Defend, \Nin Notre-Dame-des-Landes, France,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.34,0:01:56.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Unist’ot’en Camp located on the \NWet’suet’en territories of so-called BC,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.37,0:02:00.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the autonomous spaces movement \Nin Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:00.29,0:02:03.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Along the way, we will speak \Nwith a number of individuals
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.20,0:02:05.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who are flaunting state authority,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.06,0:02:07.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,asserting control over \Nthe spaces they inhabit
Dialogue: 0,0:02:07.88,0:02:09.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,... and making a whole lot of trouble.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:48.29,0:02:50.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The ZAD has many realities.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:51.84,0:02:55.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But mostly it’s kind of a\Ncommunity where people try to
Dialogue: 0,0:02:55.64,0:03:00.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,experiment other ways to live\Ntheir social and political life.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:00.73,0:03:06.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the end of the 1960s, \Nsomebody came up with an airport project
Dialogue: 0,0:03:06.09,0:03:10.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for this area, \NNotre-Dame-des-Landes.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:10.37,0:03:16.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And during all those years, the bocage\Nitself is put under the status of ZAD
Dialogue: 0,0:03:16.26,0:03:19.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,– which basically means \NPostponed Planning Zone,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:19.09,0:03:22.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which was transformed one day\Ninto Zone to be Defended.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:22.32,0:03:26.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So there was a big resistance \Nwith lots of different forms of action,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:26.36,0:03:33.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,including sabotage, black bloc \Ndemonstrations, quite offensive defense.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:47.27,0:03:51.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Occupying land is quite \Nsimilar to a political squat,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:51.02,0:03:54.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but with a strong dimension \Nregarding the environment
Dialogue: 0,0:03:54.86,0:03:56.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the territory we live in.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:57.54,0:03:58.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,During all those years,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:58.57,0:04:02.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we did not simply organize \Npolitically against the airport,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:02.36,0:04:04.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but we also made connections locally.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:05.70,0:04:07.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We took care of the land.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:07.24,0:04:09.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some of us settled for good.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:09.13,0:04:13.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we thought out \Nthe future of the ZAD together.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:13.01,0:04:18.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So it’s been ten years now that \Nstructures have been created on the ZAD
Dialogue: 0,0:04:18.36,0:04:21.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to figure out how to live \Nas autonomously as possible.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:21.84,0:04:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It necessarily means that we have \Nto be able to answer our basic needs.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:27.00,0:04:30.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like be fed, sleep under a roof,\Nhave access to medicine.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:30.75,0:04:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s a place that has become \Na place where you can live for free.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:35.00,0:04:37.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can build your house, your cabin...
Dialogue: 0,0:04:37.07,0:04:41.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The occupation movement was created\Nat a time when some of the peasants
Dialogue: 0,0:04:41.61,0:04:45.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had called for illegal \Noccupation themselves.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:45.20,0:04:50.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When squatters came in 2007 \Nthey were close to anarchist
Dialogue: 0,0:04:50.45,0:04:53.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and/or antiauthoritarian ideas.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:53.35,0:04:57.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Trying to work together \Nand allowing for a diversity of tactics,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:57.84,0:04:59.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and knowing that that is our strength.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:59.82,0:05:03.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We’re fighting against \Nthis state and this project.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:03.40,0:05:04.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Also we come here....
Dialogue: 0,0:05:04.53,0:05:07.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we fight against things, but we \Nalso try to create things together.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:07.69,0:05:11.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And making things available \Nand trying to share.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:11.98,0:05:16.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That everybody has possibilities \Nand access to a place to live
Dialogue: 0,0:05:16.37,0:05:19.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,... to water and food.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:25.41,0:05:29.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So there’s a kind of hegemonic ideology.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:29.94,0:05:34.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Diversity of tactics has been much more\Nof a theory for the past few months.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:34.82,0:05:39.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Certain ideas that become \Nways of judging people,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:39.22,0:05:41.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of excluding people from discussions.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:41.73,0:05:45.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So yeah there’s some kind \Nof really well-organized,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:45.43,0:05:50.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sort of communist ideas that have taken \Na lot of place in the past few years
Dialogue: 0,0:05:50.85,0:05:54.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that will have a kind of discourse about
Dialogue: 0,0:05:54.48,0:05:59.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“you have to go to our meetings, and if\Nyou don’t agree you might have to leave,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:59.04,0:06:04.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or shut up... or maybe later on we’ll\Ncome beat you up with baseball bats.”
Dialogue: 0,0:06:04.92,0:06:08.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some people who used sabotage\Nas a tactic have been pressured
Dialogue: 0,0:06:08.36,0:06:13.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and even attacked for \Nhaving dug holes in the concrete
Dialogue: 0,0:06:13.73,0:06:16.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of one of the roads which crosses the ZAD.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:16.59,0:06:21.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And someone especially was \Nput in the trunk and taken out of there,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:21.05,0:06:25.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,molested and left almost naked \Nin front of a psychiatric hospital.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:25.39,0:06:29.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it’s been some years that\Ncontesting this hegemonic power
Dialogue: 0,0:06:29.14,0:06:32.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the dominant group \Nhas been much more difficult.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:32.29,0:06:34.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They tend to concentrate wealth.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:34.30,0:06:38.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To concentrate strategic discussions\Nregarding the movement.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:38.14,0:06:39.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bonds with local farmers
Dialogue: 0,0:06:39.88,0:06:44.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and people governing other \Ninstitutions of the movement.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:44.45,0:06:48.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they of course, deny it \Nwhen it comes to critique.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:48.23,0:06:51.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We provoked a number of discussions \Non the place that their reading group,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:51.87,0:06:54.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,called the CMDO, \Nhas been held among us.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:05.26,0:07:09.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But they never recognized, publicly, \Ntheir group as a group of power.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:09.75,0:07:14.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And thus, never wanted to share that \Npower with other groups or individuals.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:14.64,0:07:19.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was mainly this group of \Npersons which pushed towards
Dialogue: 0,0:07:19.98,0:07:22.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the negotiations during the evictions.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:22.80,0:07:24.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well as you can see \Nall around us it’s pitch black.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:24.96,0:07:29.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People were not expecting the expulsions \Nto happen until 6am this morning,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:29.38,0:07:30.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,local time here in France.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:30.70,0:07:34.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Tiny groups of people \Nchose their means of actions.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:34.29,0:07:37.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When the police attack, \Nmaking barricades,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:37.36,0:07:41.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,going to harass the police \Nin any form, or any way
Dialogue: 0,0:07:41.16,0:07:46.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,... to throwing back their own grenades \Nor other forms of explosives,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:46.32,0:07:48.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or molotov cocktails.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:48.28,0:07:51.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,From sabotage attempts\N... especially on the tanks.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:51.65,0:07:54.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We really wanted to see one burn.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:54.35,0:07:57.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Digging holes to prevent \Nthe tanks from going further.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:59.14,0:08:02.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And of course, erecting barricades \Nand defending them.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:28.82,0:08:32.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Deep in the central interior forests \Nof so-called British Columbia
Dialogue: 0,0:08:32.61,0:08:35.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,lies the unceded territory \Nof the Wet’suwet’en nation.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:35.97,0:08:39.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Never surrendered to the \Nsettler-colonial Canadian state,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:39.57,0:08:44.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the gateway to these remote territories\Nis the headwaters of the Wedzinkwah River,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:44.65,0:08:49.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which lies under the stewardship \Nand protection of the Unist’ot’en clan,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:49.10,0:08:53.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one of the five house groups\Nthat make up the Wet’suwet’en nation.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:53.01,0:08:56.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For the past decade, the Unist’ot’en \Nhave been physically blocking
Dialogue: 0,0:08:56.04,0:08:59.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the construction of three major \Noil and fracked gas pipelines
Dialogue: 0,0:08:59.64,0:09:03.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,slated to pass through their \Nterritories en route to refineries
Dialogue: 0,0:09:03.27,0:09:05.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and tankers on the Pacific coast.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:05.40,0:09:08.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ground zero in this stand \Nhas been the Unis’to’ten Camp,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:08.44,0:09:12.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,constructed in 2010 as a \Npermanent resistance community,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:12.24,0:09:16.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,located smack dab in the path \Nof the originally proposed route
Dialogue: 0,0:09:16.08,0:09:20.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the Northern Gateway, Pacific Trails, \Nand Coastal Gaslink pipelines.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:20.64,0:09:24.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Unist’ot’en have also established \Na checkpoint system,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:24.35,0:09:27.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with access to the territories \Nconditional on completing
Dialogue: 0,0:09:27.71,0:09:30.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a Free Prior and \NInformed Consent Protocol.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:30.90,0:09:33.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This system grants \Nthe Unis’tot’en authority
Dialogue: 0,0:09:33.19,0:09:35.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,over who gains access to their territory,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:35.50,0:09:39.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which has allowed them to keep \Nrepresentatives of the extractive industry
Dialogue: 0,0:09:39.33,0:09:41.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Canadian state at bay.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:58.53,0:10:02.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This territory is unceded \NUnist’ot’en territory,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:02.50,0:10:05.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is part of \Nthe Wet’suwet’en territory.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:05.17,0:10:09.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Knedebease is the hereditary chief\Nthat manages this territory,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:09.47,0:10:15.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I am a member of that house group,\Nso we manage these territories.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:15.16,0:10:20.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And in my view, it is not Canada. \NIt’s not BC.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:20.28,0:10:22.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This has always been \NWet’suwet’en territory
Dialogue: 0,0:10:22.53,0:10:25.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because we’ve never ceded \Nor surrendered it to anybody.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:25.77,0:10:27.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Doesn’t belong to the crown.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:27.34,0:10:29.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Doesn’t belong to the federal government.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:29.55,0:10:31.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Doesn’t belong to \Nthe provincial government.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:31.33,0:10:34.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It belongs to Unist’ot’en.\NTo my people.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:36.57,0:10:38.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We started travelling \Nthrough the territories
Dialogue: 0,0:10:38.24,0:10:40.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,back here a lot more frequently.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:40.02,0:10:42.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the reason why we started \Nspending a lot of time back here
Dialogue: 0,0:10:42.72,0:10:44.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is because there were some\Nproposed pipelines that were
Dialogue: 0,0:10:44.74,0:10:47.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,being proposed \Nby industry and by government,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:47.97,0:10:51.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to begin doing some preliminary\Nwork back here to stop them.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:51.50,0:10:55.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You guys can’t be doing any work in here,\Nbecause we’ve already told them no.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:55.41,0:10:57.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That they can’t access our territory.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:58.15,0:11:02.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Once we found out that industry\Nwas trying to force their way in,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:02.10,0:11:08.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we put our cabin directly in the path\Nof the initial proposal for Enbridge,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:08.22,0:11:11.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the bitumen pipeline that\Nwas proposed to come through here.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:11.39,0:11:15.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the log cabin sits right\Nen route of their GPS points
Dialogue: 0,0:11:15.38,0:11:19.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of where Enbridge initially had planned\Nto put their pipelines through here.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:19.21,0:11:23.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At the same time, there was Coastal \NGaslink and Pacific Trails Pipeline
Dialogue: 0,0:11:23.89,0:11:27.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that wanted also to put \Npipelines through our territory.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:27.62,0:11:29.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To me that’s not self-sustaining.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:29.29,0:11:31.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When it’s really quick, \Nit’s boom and bust.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:31.69,0:11:35.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they’ll come, and then they’ll be gone\Nand they’ll leave their mess behind.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:38.99,0:11:41.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As you see on the sign behind \Nit says checkpoint.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:41.94,0:11:46.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So whenever industry, \Nor just anybody comes through here
Dialogue: 0,0:11:46.29,0:11:49.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you go through protocol, \Nwhich you ask a series of six questions:
Dialogue: 0,0:11:49.97,0:11:51.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who are you? \NWhere are you from?
Dialogue: 0,0:11:51.67,0:11:53.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How long do you plan to stay\Nif we let you in?
Dialogue: 0,0:11:53.89,0:11:57.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And do you work for industry or government\Nthat’s destroying our lands?
Dialogue: 0,0:11:57.51,0:11:59.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And how will your visit \Nbenefit Unist’ot’en?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:01.18,0:12:03.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And one of the key questions \Nthat they could not answer,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:03.68,0:12:07.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,truthfully and honestly, \Nwas the question where we ask
Dialogue: 0,0:12:07.16,0:12:10.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“how will your visit benefit\Nthe people of this land?”.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:10.95,0:12:14.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Uhh.. I really don’t think \Nthere is any benefit.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:14.38,0:12:17.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the reason why we turn them back
Dialogue: 0,0:12:17.30,0:12:20.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is because they could not pass\Nsimple protocol questions.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:21.31,0:12:25.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The RCMP was created by the government \Nto keep our people off our land.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:25.89,0:12:30.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, they are part of the government, \Nso they too don’t pass protocol.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:30.25,0:12:33.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We don’t trust police, \Nbecause we’re suspicious that your forces
Dialogue: 0,0:12:33.60,0:12:37.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would in to scope out our layout\Nso that if there is an injunction,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:37.36,0:12:40.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you guys would be better prepared \Nabout how you’re gonna deal with us.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:43.38,0:12:48.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The camp serves as a beacon for other \Npeople who are struggling with these ideas.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:48.51,0:12:51.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That they might not \Nbe able to stop a project
Dialogue: 0,0:12:51.04,0:12:52.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from coming through their territories.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:52.60,0:12:53.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you know,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:53.76,0:12:57.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for anybody to stand up to something\Nlike that is quite a daunting task.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:57.29,0:13:00.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But a lot of people who \Nhave studied us over the years,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:00.64,0:13:02.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and learned from the \Nresistance that we’ve taken
Dialogue: 0,0:13:02.91,0:13:06.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,... they’ve taken those lessons \Nand have started their own actions.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:06.75,0:13:10.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And there’s an incredible amount \Nof economic and logistical disruption
Dialogue: 0,0:13:10.74,0:13:13.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that arise from that type of activity.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:13.58,0:13:16.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are here today in solidarity\Nwith the Unist’ot’en camp.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:16.52,0:13:20.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We wish to share the Unist’ot’en \Nhereditary chief’s clear statement
Dialogue: 0,0:13:20.03,0:13:22.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that they do not consent \Nto having pipelines built
Dialogue: 0,0:13:22.70,0:13:24.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on their unceded traditional territory.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:30.53,0:13:35.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This colonization has always been \Nabout the taking of Indigenous lands.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:44.25,0:13:47.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We always said if we heal our people,\Nthen we’ll heal our land.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:47.39,0:13:52.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The healing center idea \Ncame when we realized that
Dialogue: 0,0:13:52.41,0:13:55.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“why aren’t our own people \Ncoming out here to visit us?”
Dialogue: 0,0:13:55.60,0:13:58.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And even though some do come, there’s\Nnot a high number of our own people.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:58.86,0:14:02.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we realized that a lot of our people\Nare still struggling
Dialogue: 0,0:14:02.39,0:14:04.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because of colonization.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:04.25,0:14:06.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,From the Residential School era.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:06.26,0:14:09.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,From the public school system\N... lotta racism.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:09.50,0:14:13.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We realized that a lot of our people \Nare struggling because of trauma.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:13.28,0:14:16.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we realized that \Nwe needed a healing facility
Dialogue: 0,0:14:16.19,0:14:21.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that incorporated all the whole \Nwellness thing that we were talking about.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:21.03,0:14:23.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we wanna put our\Nculture back into our people.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:23.52,0:14:25.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So that they will be strong \Nand they will stand up.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:26.71,0:14:28.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When people come out \Nto a space like this,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:28.58,0:14:32.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what they experience is land\Nthat's actually beginning to go
Dialogue: 0,0:14:32.09,0:14:33.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,through the healing process.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:33.59,0:14:37.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This land back here that \Nwe’re walking through and passing through,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:37.19,0:14:40.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is land that was devastated \Nfrom logging already.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:40.14,0:14:42.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it’s in a process of healing.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:42.39,0:14:45.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It actually has berry bushes, \Nso we’re surrounded by berry bushes here.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:45.98,0:14:49.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are grizzly bear tracks \Na half a kilometer from here.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:49.01,0:14:50.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So when people come up\Nto spend time here,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:50.92,0:14:55.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they begin to learn about the \Nimportance of connecting themselves
Dialogue: 0,0:14:55.47,0:14:59.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the planet that is in need of healing.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:04.34,0:15:07.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,While defending territory from \Nstate incursions is hard enough
Dialogue: 0,0:15:07.69,0:15:10.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in rural, or remote natural terrains,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:10.15,0:15:13.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,those seeking to establish autonomous \Nspaces in urban environments
Dialogue: 0,0:15:13.92,0:15:16.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,face an additional set of challenges.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:17.27,0:15:20.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Cities are sites of concentrated\Nstate power.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:20.14,0:15:23.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not only are they strongholds of \Nsurveillance and repression,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:23.26,0:15:26.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but they are also areas where \Nthe logic of state control
Dialogue: 0,0:15:26.28,0:15:30.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is thoroughly integrated \Ninto everyday social relations.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:30.72,0:15:35.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This opens the door to recuperation,\Na process whereby state power
Dialogue: 0,0:15:35.15,0:15:39.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,constantly shifts and adapts itself \Nin order to preemptively cut off
Dialogue: 0,0:15:39.35,0:15:43.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and assimilate potential threats \Nto its authority and legitimacy.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:43.54,0:15:46.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the balancing act faced by\Nurban squatter movements
Dialogue: 0,0:15:46.84,0:15:50.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in cities around the world, whose \Nparticipants must constantly navigate
Dialogue: 0,0:15:50.97,0:15:54.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the twin minefields of eviction\Nand legalization.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:54.100,0:15:58.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This means simultaneously \Navoiding the social isolation
Dialogue: 0,0:15:58.28,0:16:02.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that would make full-scale repression \Npossible, while also combating
Dialogue: 0,0:16:02.51,0:16:06.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,state and real estate developers’ \Nattempts to transform these spaces
Dialogue: 0,0:16:06.18,0:16:09.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into nothing more than \Nedgy tourist destinations.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:14.32,0:16:18.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One of the really important \Nfunctions of the urban occupation
Dialogue: 0,0:16:18.11,0:16:20.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that it becomes \Na source of inspiration.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:23.80,0:16:29.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Despite being surrounded by hostile forces\N- in the form of state, police, capital -
Dialogue: 0,0:16:29.81,0:16:33.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that it is possible to have a \Nspace in which you can experiment
Dialogue: 0,0:16:33.34,0:16:35.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with different forms of existing.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:35.11,0:16:36.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,With different forms of living.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:36.56,0:16:39.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,With different forms of \Nrelating to one another.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:40.46,0:16:45.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We could speak about three distinct phases\Nof squatting experiments in Ljubljana.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:45.68,0:16:48.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,First one is early 90s.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:48.02,0:16:51.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the time of the \Ndestruction of Yugoslavia.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:51.09,0:16:54.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s a time of massive changes \Nin Slovenian society.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:54.88,0:16:57.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This movement had a clear continuity with
Dialogue: 0,0:16:57.99,0:17:03.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,alternative cultural movements of the 80s\Nthat was heavily influenced
Dialogue: 0,0:17:03.32,0:17:06.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by progressive currents such as \Nfeminism, LGBT movement,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:06.67,0:17:10.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,anti-militarist tendencies, \Necological movements.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:10.52,0:17:14.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This movement found its highest \Nexpression in the squatting
Dialogue: 0,0:17:14.86,0:17:18.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of Metelkova military barracks \Nin 1993.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:21.68,0:17:26.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The second wave of squatting \Ncan be traced to the late 90s.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:26.41,0:17:31.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In around 98 and 99, several different \Ninitiatives and individuals
Dialogue: 0,0:17:31.83,0:17:35.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were squatting different \Nspaces in the city of Ljubljana
Dialogue: 0,0:17:35.06,0:17:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and were all evicted from those squats.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:38.00,0:17:41.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And in the middle of this wave \Nof repression over the movement,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:41.11,0:17:44.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the community of Metelkova decided\Nto give one empty space
Dialogue: 0,0:17:44.95,0:17:48.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the Autonomous Cultural Center \Nto the anarchist infoshop.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:49.71,0:17:53.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The third wave of squatting \Nin Ljubljana is symbolized
Dialogue: 0,0:17:53.70,0:17:59.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by the squatting of ROG Factory, which is\Nmaybe the biggest squat in Ljubljana.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:59.10,0:18:04.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was squatted in 2006 \Nby a new precarious generation
Dialogue: 0,0:18:04.40,0:18:08.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of younger people that \Nlater came to be identified
Dialogue: 0,0:18:08.85,0:18:11.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as the generation without future.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:12.67,0:18:15.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It has always been understood by us\Nthat the front
Dialogue: 0,0:18:15.51,0:18:18.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,between the two different squats \Nis the same front.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:18.86,0:18:22.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because if one of us is attacked, \Nor evicted for instance,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:22.44,0:18:26.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that will mean a huge attack\Non the ability of the other
Dialogue: 0,0:18:26.15,0:18:30.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to actually be part of any kind \Nof political process in the city.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:31.25,0:18:35.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The relationship of the state has been\Nslightly different in its expression.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:35.82,0:18:39.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So for instance, when it comes to ROG \Nthey have had constant attempts
Dialogue: 0,0:18:39.97,0:18:44.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the city to either evict them \Nor attack them in different ways.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:44.08,0:18:47.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And just two years ago\Nthere was the most serious attempt
Dialogue: 0,0:18:47.14,0:18:50.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to tear down several \Nbuildings in that area.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:50.25,0:18:54.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That attempt was stopped \Nby a broader political mobilization.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:01.66,0:19:04.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The nature of an urban occupation\Nis that it is faced
Dialogue: 0,0:19:04.42,0:19:08.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with different kinds of factors that\Nperhaps escape rural occupations.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:08.34,0:19:13.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our squats are part of \Nthe neoliberal capitalist society
Dialogue: 0,0:19:13.32,0:19:17.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is progressing further and further \Ntowards social devastation.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:17.80,0:19:22.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every time we are faced with the \Nprocesses that are destroying our cities,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:22.12,0:19:24.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we always have to question our position
Dialogue: 0,0:19:24.10,0:19:26.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and our changing position \Nwithin those processes.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:26.94,0:19:32.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Metelkova and ROG both \Ngenerate quite wide public support.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:32.08,0:19:36.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So this forced the public authorities \Nto be cautious.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:37.43,0:19:41.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And even though there are several \Nsofter attempts to push Metelkova
Dialogue: 0,0:19:41.89,0:19:46.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into the state of legalization, \Nwe haven’t in the last decade
Dialogue: 0,0:19:46.09,0:19:48.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,really been faced with\Nan attempt of eviction.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:49.40,0:19:53.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That of course brings a different\Nset of questions for all of us
Dialogue: 0,0:19:53.26,0:19:54.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who are part of Metelkova squat.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:54.85,0:19:58.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that is, in such moments, where\Nthe city is actually trying to sell you
Dialogue: 0,0:19:58.54,0:20:02.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as one of its premium tourist destinations\N... how do you maintain yourself
Dialogue: 0,0:20:02.55,0:20:05.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as a space that can still produce \Nradical social movements
Dialogue: 0,0:20:05.86,0:20:07.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and interventions in the city?
Dialogue: 0,0:20:07.60,0:20:10.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That of course comes with \Nevery question of recuperation.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:10.66,0:20:14.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How do we still manage to \Nkeep our practices DIY?
Dialogue: 0,0:20:14.59,0:20:17.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How do we still manage to stay \Nungovernable,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:17.09,0:20:21.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is basically the only way \Nnot to become a squatting museum,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:21.33,0:20:24.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or a sort of caricature \Nof what a squat should be?
Dialogue: 0,0:20:26.83,0:20:32.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many people and many activities \Nthat are cleaned from the city center
Dialogue: 0,0:20:32.11,0:20:37.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because of the demands of the tourist \Nindustry... we all end up in squats
Dialogue: 0,0:20:37.06,0:20:41.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with different trajectories \Nand different positions that we occupy
Dialogue: 0,0:20:41.99,0:20:44.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the current social-economic order.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:45.98,0:20:51.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This naturally leads to tensions. \NSome more serious than others.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:51.23,0:20:57.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the consequence also can be seen in \Nwhat recently happened to club Jalla Jalla
Dialogue: 0,0:20:57.08,0:20:59.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- it was destroyed in a fire.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:00.54,0:21:04.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As a community this was \Nimmediately recognized as an effect
Dialogue: 0,0:21:04.67,0:21:10.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the general state in which \Nthe whole city is being pushed.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:10.36,0:21:15.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And our focus is not only \Nto rebuild Jalla Jalla the club,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:15.48,0:21:21.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but also to rebuild and reclaim \Nour collective capacity to resist
Dialogue: 0,0:21:21.79,0:21:27.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the processes of devastation \Nthat are everywhere destroying
Dialogue: 0,0:21:27.11,0:21:30.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the conditions of living \Nfor so many people in this town.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:41.96,0:21:46.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Establishing and effectively securing \Nan autonomous space isn’t something
Dialogue: 0,0:21:46.23,0:21:47.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that happens overnight.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:48.38,0:21:52.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,States cannot afford to let challenges\Nto their legitimacy go unanswered,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:52.69,0:21:55.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,lest they serve as examples \Nfor others to follow.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:56.48,0:22:01.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For this reason, any political attempt\Nto reject state authority over a territory
Dialogue: 0,0:22:01.08,0:22:04.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is likely to provoke a serious reaction.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:04.82,0:22:07.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is therefore crucially important\Nthat those involved
Dialogue: 0,0:22:07.59,0:22:11.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,anticipate the state’s response, \Nand are in a strong enough position
Dialogue: 0,0:22:11.29,0:22:13.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to weather the inevitable storm.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:13.37,0:22:16.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Autonomous territories allow \Nfor the building of dual power.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:16.82,0:22:20.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They are alternative focal \Npoints of legitimacy that can
Dialogue: 0,0:22:20.24,0:22:23.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,effectively challenge the \Nstate’s monopoly on authority.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:24.05,0:22:28.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Indigenous Nations draw this legitimacy\Nfrom spiritual and cultural practices
Dialogue: 0,0:22:28.76,0:22:34.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,rooted in generations of deep connection\Nto the lands claimed by their colonizers.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:34.87,0:22:38.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For those of us more alienated \Nfrom the lands and spaces we occupy,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:38.84,0:22:42.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the process of asserting autonomy \Nmust begin with navigating the tensions
Dialogue: 0,0:22:42.85,0:22:46.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and contradictions that \Nexist in dominant society,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:46.40,0:22:48.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,cultivating strong bonds of solidarity,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:48.64,0:22:50.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and fuelling antagonism towards the state.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:54.95,0:22:57.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We’d rather not pass lessons to anyone.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:57.94,0:23:02.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If people get inspired from what they’ve \Ndone here, it will always be a pleasure
Dialogue: 0,0:23:02.86,0:23:07.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to share experiences and knowledge \Nof those years spent here.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:07.90,0:23:11.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think it has been proven several times \Nthat building the infrastructure
Dialogue: 0,0:23:11.54,0:23:15.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the movement and of the movement \Nreally becomes crucial in moments
Dialogue: 0,0:23:15.45,0:23:19.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of high and demanding political \Nmobilization in the society.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:19.76,0:23:23.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To have the kind of spaces \Nthat enable you to maintain
Dialogue: 0,0:23:23.56,0:23:25.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the historical memory of movements,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:25.42,0:23:29.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that enable us to find different \Nkinds of accomplices
Dialogue: 0,0:23:29.17,0:23:32.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in our struggles for \Na different kind of world.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:35.09,0:23:39.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,With the help of allies \Nall around the world
Dialogue: 0,0:23:39.05,0:23:43.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,... we’ve garnered lots of support through\NIndigenous, non-Indigenous, professionals,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:43.86,0:23:45.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,... everyday citizens.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:45.84,0:23:51.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A lot of people do support what we’re \Ndoing and have vocalized it to us.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:51.40,0:23:52.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have come here to be with you,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:52.52,0:23:55.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to make sure you understand \Nyou’re doing the right thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:55.75,0:23:58.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There’s always people who come here \Nalso who have connections,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:58.100,0:24:03.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or who have been to other \Nplaces where people are struggling
Dialogue: 0,0:24:03.16,0:24:05.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and bring us information.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:05.82,0:24:09.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so that creates solidarity\Nbetween different struggles.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:09.65,0:24:13.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You need to ensure that \Nthe Indigenous people
Dialogue: 0,0:24:13.96,0:24:16.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who have always lived on those lands,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:16.07,0:24:19.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,since millennia, \Nare involved in that struggle.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:19.84,0:24:21.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They have long stories.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:21.39,0:24:25.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ancient, ancient stories that talk about \Nhow and why they have responsibilities.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:28.61,0:24:31.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The mere fact that a squat \Nexists as a potential
Dialogue: 0,0:24:31.98,0:24:36.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of development of autonomous ideas, \Nof politically radical ideas,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:36.70,0:24:41.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is of course already a threat to the \Nstate, a threat to capital’s interests.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:41.45,0:24:43.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And therefore we will never be safe,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:43.12,0:24:45.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,no matter how many \Nselfies tourists make here.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:45.88,0:24:49.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If it is possible that in a city that \Nis so increasingly gentrified,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:49.82,0:24:53.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so penetrated with\Ndifferent capitalist forces
Dialogue: 0,0:24:53.20,0:24:57.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,– if it is able to have a space \Nwhere experimentation with our freedom
Dialogue: 0,0:24:57.72,0:25:00.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is possible, \Nthen it kind of gives us hope
Dialogue: 0,0:25:00.79,0:25:04.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that other kinds of political \Nprojects are also possible.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:04.34,0:25:08.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And what we would really love to see \Nis more of these kinds of inspirations
Dialogue: 0,0:25:08.53,0:25:12.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,around the world, around different cities,\Naround different communities.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:23.91,0:25:28.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As for our inspiration, \Nwe take as much inspiration as possible
Dialogue: 0,0:25:28.100,0:25:31.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from as many struggles as possible.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:31.25,0:25:36.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Zapatistas movement, even though \Nwe’re far far from what they achieved.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:36.34,0:25:39.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Landless Peasant Movement,\Nespecially in South America,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:39.82,0:25:43.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or Reclaim the Field network \Nall over Europe.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:43.27,0:25:47.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or occupied neighbourhoods, \Nlike in Exarchia in Greece.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:47.84,0:25:51.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or people protecting seeds like in India.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:51.20,0:25:53.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Rojava is, of course, an insight
Dialogue: 0,0:25:53.78,0:25:56.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,– especially regarding \Nfeminist self-defence.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:56.49,0:26:00.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some of us are also really\Nclose to the Italian struggle
Dialogue: 0,0:26:00.88,0:26:04.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,against the train line \Ncrossing the Val di Susa.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:04.24,0:26:08.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The most important thing is that we have\Nto ask ourselves “what are our needs?”
Dialogue: 0,0:26:08.79,0:26:12.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then find ways through \Nwhich we can express them.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:15.65,0:26:17.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We’re absolutely going to win this fight.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:17.93,0:26:22.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Y’know, this is a fight that belongs \Nto not only us, but all of our unborn.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:22.78,0:26:25.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is a fight that belongs\Nto all of our ancestors
Dialogue: 0,0:26:25.14,0:26:29.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who died fighting for these spaces, \Nand protecting them.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:29.67,0:26:31.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So this is a fight that \Ndoesn’t belong to us.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:31.75,0:26:33.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We’re not selfish people.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:33.54,0:26:37.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This fight belongs to all of \Nour Wet’suwet’en people
Dialogue: 0,0:26:37.81,0:26:39.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,– past, present and future.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:43.06,0:26:46.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some of us went to fight \Nthe world of the airport.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:46.58,0:26:50.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the airport was a pretext\Nto fight the system behind it.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:50.78,0:26:52.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I’d say for me, the ZAD,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:52.42,0:26:57.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it helps me burn the social \Nand structural boundaries in my head
Dialogue: 0,0:26:57.48,0:27:00.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,... and then almost everything \Nbecame possible.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:19.97,0:27:23.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We live in a historical moment \Nin which the global neoliberal order,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:23.89,0:27:28.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,wracked by overlapping social, \Neconomic and ecological crises,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:28.37,0:27:31.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is rapidly unraveling \Nbefore our very eyes.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:32.57,0:27:35.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yet far from being a \Ncause for celebration,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:35.06,0:27:40.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the dark new reality rising to take\Nits place promises to be even worse.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:40.28,0:27:43.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,New and resurgent forms of \Nstate power are being constructed
Dialogue: 0,0:27:43.83,0:27:46.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on foundations of \Nhyper-nationalist reaction,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:46.82,0:27:50.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,armed with sophisticated new tools \Nof surveillance and repression.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:51.60,0:27:55.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A proliferation of civil wars, \Nsurging levels of inequality
Dialogue: 0,0:27:55.30,0:27:59.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and climate change-fuelled catastrophes \Nare provoking historical levels
Dialogue: 0,0:27:59.43,0:28:01.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of forced human migration.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:01.74,0:28:04.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But while things look undoubtedly bleak,
Dialogue: 0,0:28:04.08,0:28:07.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the rapid transformations \Ncurrently underway have the potential
Dialogue: 0,0:28:07.68,0:28:11.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to uncover new cracks \Nin the facade of state power.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:11.93,0:28:16.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Revolutionaries must be ready to take\Nadvantage of any and all opportunities
Dialogue: 0,0:28:16.34,0:28:19.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that these shifting \Nnew dynamics may produce,
Dialogue: 0,0:28:19.16,0:28:22.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,establishing a decentralized \Nnetwork of autonomous zones
Dialogue: 0,0:28:22.53,0:28:27.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that can sustain projects of mutual aid, \Nrespond to emergent threats,
Dialogue: 0,0:28:27.21,0:28:29.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and coordinate solidarity across borders.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:29.95,0:28:30.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So at this point,
Dialogue: 0,0:28:30.83,0:28:34.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we’d like to remind you that Trouble \Nis intended to be watched in groups,
Dialogue: 0,0:28:34.47,0:28:39.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to be used as a resource to promote\Ndiscussion and collective organizing.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:39.02,0:28:42.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Are you interested in offering \Nsustained material support
Dialogue: 0,0:28:42.15,0:28:44.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for existing autonomous spaces,
Dialogue: 0,0:28:44.01,0:28:47.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or figuring out what steps would\Nbe involved in launching your own?
Dialogue: 0,0:28:47.86,0:28:50.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Consider getting together \Nwith some comrades,
Dialogue: 0,0:28:50.18,0:28:54.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,organizing a screening of this film, \Nand discussing where to get started.
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Dialogue: 0,0:29:32.47,0:29:36.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,without the generous support of \NKomunal, Group Groix and Michael.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:36.96,0:29:39.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now get out there\N…. and make some trouble!