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Go ahead and make some tea.
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Oh, a lovely cup of char.
One with sugar.
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Tell me about the relationship
between tea and the revolution.
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Taking tea is what the British do,
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when they're
in a difficult circumstance.
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If you have some bad news,
you have a cup of tea.
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At a funeral, you have a cup of tea.
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If they bomb your homes,
you have a cup of tea.
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We're going to make loads of tea.
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So, you serve tea at most events?
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Hiya. Like a cup of tea?
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I've often served tea
outside the Bank of England.
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I've served tea to the Silver Command,
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the second in command on an action,
when the police are involved.
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I've served tea to politicians.
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Outside factories I've served bailiffs
as they're evicting.
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It's a free cup of tea, or if you want
to make a donation, that's allowed.
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Yes, but we don't have a...
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As an anti-capitalist,
it would be hypocritical
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to start selling people tea.
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You don't want alcohol on the front
line, because your judgment goes,
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so if you just drink tea
and save the drinking for the party,
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when you eventually go home...
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We're professional
domestic extremists -
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we don't drink while we're working.
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- So, you're a domestic extremist?
- I'm a domestic extremist.
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What makes you a domestic extremist?
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You will have
to ask Special Branch that.
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I care passionately about politics
on a global level,
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but work on it on a local level,
within my own country, mostly.
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That's the domestic bit.
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I'm extreme
because I've gone well beyond
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in my climate-change activities.
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I've gone beyond recycling
and walking the kids to school -
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all that goes without saying.
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I put my body in the way,
and I don't mind being arrested.
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You know when you watch the news
and see things like this?
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Our dogs will be used!
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And the newsreaders
say helpful stuff like this.
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Let's bring you now the latest
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from this so-called
"camp for climate action".
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Environment campaigners have scaled
a London building, unfurling a banner.
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I hope he's going to have a shower -
his feet were filthy!
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Well, this is what you don't see -
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a glimpse into the secretive
and clandestine world
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of environmental direct action.
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We just f***ing do it.
We've got a banner.
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We've got four D-Locks.
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I'm James, and I'm your guide.
How do I know what I'm talking about?
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That's me
climbing into a power station.
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But this film isn't about me.
It's about people like this.
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The climate science scared the crap
out of me - I'm not going to lie.
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And I went,
"This is not something I can know
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and not do anything about.
I have to do something."
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I want to feel
like I'm doing something,
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and not just watching the world
go to shit.
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We don't really have that much choice
about the fact
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that we've put so much carbon dioxide
in the atmosphere.
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What we do have a choice about
is the future.
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Lots of getting arrested,
running around, hiding, escaping,
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playing with the media.
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But if you think
you can make a difference,
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through campaigning
then that's empowering.
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It doesn't matter if it's illegal
or if it's dodgy.
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It doesn't matter
if it's big or small.
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You've just got to do it.
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Just do it.
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It's April Fool's Day, 2009.
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The world's leaders are in London
for the G20 meeting,
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and a flurry of protests
are welcoming them to town.
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More tents. More tents!
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Climate Camp plan to turn
the heart of the financial district
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into a street party.
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Their target: blockading
the European Climate Exchange.
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Why? They don't want the climate left
in the hands of the bankers.
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Exactly.
Some trouble needs to be caused.
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The camp had all the ingredients
for a good party,
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and everyone was there.
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Here's Paul getting his groove on.
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There's Sophie climbing into trouble,
as usual.
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And of course,
Marina's getting the kettle on.
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Even the press were loving it.
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At the moment things are very calm,
very relaxed.
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But as evening drew in,
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a bunch of uninvited party-poopers
gate-crashed.
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This is not a riot! This is not
a riot! This is not a riot!
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Sit down!
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We want a revolution now
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We are resisting for climate action
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We want some climate action now
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Policing like this
would normally go unnoticed,
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but a death
is harder to brush under the carpet.
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Ian Tomlinson,
on his way home from work,
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in the wrong place at the wrong time,
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was pushed to his death.
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The ensuing outrage led to a dramatic
change in the policing of protests.
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Gone, police claimed, were beatings,
brute force and random kettling.
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In came a PR offensive
of kindly coppers and tea.
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This is public land, and the police
are entitled to come in here.
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Be reasonable.
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I would love a cup of tea.
Thank you very much.
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How long the police would behave for,
nobody knew.
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Down on the Isle of Wight,
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champion tea-maker Marina
is about to dig her heels in.
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Hello?
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We're at the protest camp,
outside the Vestas Blades UK factory,
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on the Isle of Wight.
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The factory is being occupied
by the workers. Yay!
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A wind-turbine factory
was closed down,
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because there was no demand
for wind turbines,
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and over 400 workers lost their jobs.
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- Reinstate the workers!
- Reinstate them now!
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People think that people making wind
turbines must be cool people, hippies.
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No, no, they are capitalists.
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Profit, bottom line,
is all they're interested in.
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They went in with stuff,
but they'd run out of supplies,
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and food could only be got into there
in tennis balls being lobbed in.
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They were getting hungry, and Vestas,
this multinational company,
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was starving them out.
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Well, we weren't having that,
obviously.
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This lady turned up and said,
"I've made fish and chips,
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and I want to deliver them
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to the men in the factory,
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and I want to deliver it myself, and I
want them to eat it while it's warm."
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I was like,
"OK. We can facilitate that."
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She wants to deliver them herself,
and I think that's right.
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You have to cause a diversion.
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OK. Are we ready? Coming?
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Fish and chips! You run the other way.
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Come on, everybody!
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And half the fish and chips
got through.
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- Are you gonna give a speech?
- No!
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Yes. Come on.
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We can't let bullies
tell us what to do.
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- Exactly.
- What nonsense!
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It was a fantastic celebration,
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because the locals were like,
"Yay! They've been fed!"
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And people were saying, "Oh, those
terrible environmental anarchists
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have fed our lads,
and they've done it with the locals."
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And everyone's
suddenly on the same side.
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But the beautiful thing about it,
and what warms your cockles, is...
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it was direct action for two days.
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We took direct action.
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We did it with manners,
and we just did it with courage,
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and we did it with humour.
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And now Vestas has said...
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"Shit. We can't have this. We're gonna
feed the guys whatever they want.
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And the guys
want a roast dinner today."
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So now we're going to take in soap,
shampoo,
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things to wash their hair with,
new underwear, socks, T-shirts,
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hand-written cards from their children
and family, newspapers...
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In London, a plan is afoot to get
the Vestas struggle into the papers.
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The target is Lord Mandelson,
Minister for Business
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and everyone's favourite unelected,
slimy politician.
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The plan is to draw attention
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to the fact that he is responsible
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for the Vestas factory closing down.
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We're saying Mandelson
has the power
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to put a huge investment
into the car industry.
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Generally, he's good at helping
high-carbon industries,
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but when it comes to a failing
wind-turbine factory,
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he's incapable of giving them
any incentive to stay,
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promising that there will be a demand
within five years.
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Tomorrow Sally chains herself
to Mandelson's house
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and could be arrested.
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So, have you been arrested?
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You've not? Are you prepared to be?
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I guess I have to be prepared to be!
Yeah.
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It's a slow decision. I'd met people
who had been arrested.
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I'd heard their stories
and knew what it entailed.
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You make a theoretical decision...
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I guess the crunch point
of the decision
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was in saying I'd get involved
with the Mandelson action.
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If they can bail out the banks
with 1.4 trillion pounds,
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they need to bail out
our green future.
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As hoped, the stunt propelled the
Vestas struggle into the headlines.
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When I changed from medicine, there
was a lot of uncertainty in my life
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about what I would do
instead of this career plan,
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but as I've got more involved
in activism,
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I think it's become really clear to me
what the most urgent things are.
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Activism is a whole other education,
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outside of this narrow education
you sometimes get in Cambridge,
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being taught
to think in an academic way,
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disconnected from the real world.
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And I want to use the education
I've got here
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and put it into the real world,
and learn from the people.
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So, that's what really excites me
about having these two worlds.
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Pitching up on the doorsteps of places
like airports and power stations,
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Climate Camp
run direct-action training camps
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and have shifted the climate-change
debate in the UK.
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But if you've seen Climate Camp
on the news,
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you'll know they are frequently
portrayed as violent hooligans.
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Police say this was why they had to go
into the Climate Camp.
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There's a knife
which was discovered in a tree,
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and here we see grappling irons
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that could be used
to scale a building,
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and these are white suits
that protestors might wear, they say.
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Also, we see bolt croppers.
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They could be used
to try to take down any fences.
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And over here we see wetsuits.
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The protesters said they'll try
to reach Kingsnorth by any means -
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by air, by land and by sea.
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Now, Climate Campers may be
extremists, and they definitely are,
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and they may even be prepared
to break the law, which they often do.
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But let's be clear - previous Climate
Camps have faced police violence.
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But the campers have resisted this
peacefully.
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This is not a riot!
This is not a riot!
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This year the Camp is in London,
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targeting banks
that finance climate change.
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Marina's in a group
from the south coast.
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Today's Times.
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Page 12 and 13.
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An image of a petrol bomb exploding -
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which is ludicrous,
because we use biodiesel, not petrol!
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We're doing some basic techniques
that might come in useful
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for the first 24 hours, while
we settle down with the police.
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If we do need to use
blockading techniques,
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before we have our defences built,
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then these will be the sort of things
we'll use - bodies.
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That's all we've got.
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If you were going to give me
the bumps, you'd do it like this.
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Yeah, so four people.
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That's rigid. Easy to pick up.
Now, try floppy.
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Face the other way!
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That's a lot harder.
That's a really good way of doing it.
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Across London, groups of campers
are gathering at meeting points,
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ready to pounce on the secret location
for this year's camp.
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Today we're doing
the Climate Camp bicycle swoop.
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Would you like a flyer?
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We'll receive a secret message,
revealing the location of the camp,
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and we'll all be swooping there.
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We've received a text message.
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It says there is an intricate plan,
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and they would like us
to all stay together.
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I'm very excited about today.
There's a lot of unknown things,
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so that kind of makes me nervous,
as well.
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We don't know where it is.
It's a secret.
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Who hasn't taken part in any meetings
involving consensus?
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In a big meeting, if you agree,
it's hands up and wiggly fingers.
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We're not a mad cult, unless you think
Climate Camp is a mad cult.
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It feels ridiculous to begin with,
242
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but when meetings are working,
it's very effective.
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"Left out of Blackheath station.
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Up the hill,
bear left onto Hare and Billet Road.
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Walk to the top,
and the site is on your right."
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It's then a race across London
to secure the site,
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before the police can stop them.
248
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They've done it here. Wow!
249
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You've had your training. It will
count more when the police arrive.
250
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Months of meticulous planning
has paid off,
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and the site is occupied
before the police arrive.
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Let me hear a massive cheer
for getting Climate Camp 2009 started!
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The Climate Camp is a temporary
encampment, totally autonomous.
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There's no hierarchical
power structures.
255
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Everything is run through consensus.
256
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It doesn't seek
to be given permission to be there.
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Climate Camp is about direct action
and seizing power
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and making the changes
that you want to see.
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And it's in its nature
and it teaches that
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to everyone who comes.
261
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Well, here we are on Blackheath,
in London,
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taking on capitalism, which is quite
scary for the capitalists, I hope.
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And we expected
three-deep riot police.
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We expected to be doing
all sorts of naughty things
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that I can't tell you,
cos we might need them in future.
266
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And we get here, and you can't even
get a copper when you need one.
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Hi. All right.
Have a successful camp. Bye-bye.
268
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Have a nice night.
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It's a camp where people can come
together and do workshops,
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training, share ideas,
plan direct action together.
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A lot of us knew each other.
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We already had a form of affinity.
273
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We'd done a few different things
together already.
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And we came together
to plan and carry out an action.
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The police may have made themselves
scarce, but they're watching.
276
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Since the plan needs to be top-secret,
the activists take precautions.
277
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They remove batteries from phones
278
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and are careful about what they say.
279
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I was just gonna say another thing.
I don't know...
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Talking about the target might be OK,
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just as long as the time and the date
is not talked about.
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I don't know.
283
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There's no need to say it,
if everyone's seen it,
284
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so we could just refer to it.
285
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Can we use another word,
instead of the target?
286
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And we all know
what we're talking about.
287
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"The target", maybe?
288
00:20:01,780 --> 00:20:04,980
So, I don't think we'll be able
to blockade the whole building,
289
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but we wanted to blockade
the front of the building
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and stop people getting in there.
291
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I think probably three ladders,
with people at the top,
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and people at the bottom locked on.
293
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The idea of this was to blockade it,
to reclaim it as the people.
294
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It's our bank. We're reclaiming it.
295
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And we're gonna build it
into what we want.
296
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So it can be read
in a more anti-capitalist way.
297
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Now, it wouldn't be a very good idea
298
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to go directly from the camp
to the action,
299
00:20:38,260 --> 00:20:41,940
since a group of activists setting off
with D-locks and ladders
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would be likely to get rumbled.
301
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So, they head to a temporary base
for the night.
302
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- Shall I start the sauce?
- Yeah.
303
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Has everyone got their batteries
out of their phones?
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We've discussed
whether we want people
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going into the building
with superglue.
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Either trying to get past the barriers
up the escalators,
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and into offices, or a trading space,
308
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and supergluing to each other.
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If we superglued to the building,
that would be criminal damage.
310
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But we'll be supergluing
to each other.
311
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And the idea was to sing songs.
312
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Not nasty disruption, but disruption,
nonetheless, inside the building.
313
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So the likely charges of both
going inside and being outside
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is aggravated trespass,
315
00:21:35,020 --> 00:21:38,940
although going inside
will probably be slightly more.
316
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If this goes to court, you're likely
to get a fine or community service.
317
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Nothing too heavy,
but it will be more if you go inside.
318
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Criminal damage we have avoided
at every cost in planning this action,
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which has
much more severe consequences,
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00:21:55,180 --> 00:21:58,300
so I think we should keep it that way.
321
00:21:58,780 --> 00:22:02,620
They could just try and bail us for
a long time away from Climate Camp.
322
00:22:02,740 --> 00:22:05,700
With the Stansted protest
that some people did,
323
00:22:05,820 --> 00:22:08,980
it happened in less than a month
that we went to court.
324
00:22:09,100 --> 00:22:11,940
But in other cases,
like the Drax case,
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00:22:12,260 --> 00:22:14,780
it took almost a year,
so it can be any time.
326
00:22:14,900 --> 00:22:18,700
And if you get called to court,
you have to go right then and there?
327
00:22:18,820 --> 00:22:21,460
So, who's going arrestable?
328
00:22:25,140 --> 00:22:27,860
- Can someone count?
- 18.
329
00:22:30,780 --> 00:22:32,940
Oh, yeah!
330
00:22:33,100 --> 00:22:36,460
Has anyone used superglue?
How do they deal with it?
331
00:22:36,580 --> 00:22:37,820
I'd like to hear about that.
332
00:22:37,940 --> 00:22:42,340
If they use the solvent, it shouldn't
hurt at all. It does just come off.
333
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It slides off.
334
00:22:44,380 --> 00:22:46,620
If all else fails,
it's every man for himself.
335
00:22:46,740 --> 00:22:48,980
Just lock onto whatever you can.
336
00:22:55,180 --> 00:22:59,740
Sally will be a spokesperson tomorrow,
so she checks her facts and figures.
337
00:22:59,860 --> 00:23:04,420
As well as oil and gas, they're
also involved in the coal industry.
338
00:23:04,540 --> 00:23:08,500
And specifically Eon.
They've given Eon loads of loans.
339
00:23:08,620 --> 00:23:13,380
They've given them £6 billion of loans
since the bail-out.
340
00:23:13,500 --> 00:23:17,380
To Eon, who are the company
who are involved in Kingsnorth.
341
00:23:17,780 --> 00:23:19,580
If you were going to quote a figure,
342
00:23:19,700 --> 00:23:23,140
make sure you say,
"Took part or were involved in loans,"
343
00:23:23,260 --> 00:23:26,980
because what RBS do is,
they're like the intermediary
344
00:23:27,100 --> 00:23:32,620
between investors
and investment projects...
345
00:23:37,420 --> 00:23:40,220
We're making up the arm locks.
346
00:23:40,380 --> 00:23:42,980
Arm locks are a cunning way
to lock yourself to someone,
347
00:23:43,100 --> 00:23:45,980
so that it's hard to be separated.
348
00:23:58,260 --> 00:24:02,100
It may appear like these guys are
seasoned pros, but don't be fooled.
349
00:24:02,220 --> 00:24:05,020
Only a couple of them
have been arrested before.
350
00:24:05,180 --> 00:24:08,500
The lock is on the front
of your neck, so you can undo it.
351
00:24:12,460 --> 00:24:14,500
That's more comfortable.
352
00:24:18,820 --> 00:24:20,820
How quick was that, guys?
353
00:24:20,940 --> 00:24:23,060
- Pretty quick
- That was really good.
354
00:24:28,100 --> 00:24:31,700
Can we have a talk-through?
James, your first part.
355
00:24:31,900 --> 00:24:36,060
I'm going to drive down and check out
RBS subtly, have a cup of tea.
356
00:24:36,180 --> 00:24:39,060
Look for any abnormal security,
police movements.
357
00:24:39,180 --> 00:24:43,140
If that's all fine, I'm going to park
up and wait for you guys.
358
00:24:43,300 --> 00:24:45,460
If it's not fine,
I'm going to call you.
359
00:24:45,620 --> 00:24:49,700
People in the white marquee,
people blockading the outside -
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00:24:49,860 --> 00:24:52,260
go to the van, get everything out.
361
00:24:52,420 --> 00:24:55,660
Then, as soon
as everything's out of the van,
362
00:24:56,260 --> 00:24:58,900
that's when arrestable inside
need to go.
363
00:24:59,020 --> 00:25:02,060
We follow straight afterwards,
and just behind us,
364
00:25:02,180 --> 00:25:04,380
we need to have the non-arrestables.
365
00:25:08,300 --> 00:25:12,820
I'm writing the number
of the Climate Camp legal support,
366
00:25:13,180 --> 00:25:18,380
which will be the number we'll call
from jail, if we've been arrested.
367
00:25:18,500 --> 00:25:22,940
And they'll contact our solicitors
and put all of that into action.
368
00:25:24,420 --> 00:25:28,180
It's good to have it on you,
rather than on a piece of paper...
369
00:25:29,420 --> 00:25:32,140
..because your possessions
might be taken away.
370
00:25:32,300 --> 00:25:35,940
They say, "Who do you want
to be informed about your arrest?"
371
00:25:36,060 --> 00:25:37,620
Give them that number.
372
00:25:38,460 --> 00:25:41,140
Yeah, I've got one of our phones,
373
00:25:41,260 --> 00:25:44,140
so when we're in position,
I'm going to call James.
374
00:27:04,700 --> 00:27:08,260
Oi, you're gonna hurt me.
You're gonna hit my head.
375
00:27:08,380 --> 00:27:09,940
Oi! Whoa!
376
00:27:10,060 --> 00:27:13,460
Can somebody
take the other side of this ladder?
377
00:27:24,340 --> 00:27:25,860
Can you see them at all?
378
00:27:26,180 --> 00:27:28,300
No, they must have got right inside.
379
00:27:28,460 --> 00:27:31,060
Our money! Our future!
380
00:27:31,220 --> 00:27:35,020
- Whose money?
- Our money!
381
00:27:35,660 --> 00:27:38,300
- Have you got a spokesperson?
- I'm the spokesperson.
382
00:27:38,500 --> 00:27:40,900
- OK.
- You'd like to know why we're here?
383
00:27:41,180 --> 00:27:44,020
I would. Obviously,
you are causing a disruption.
384
00:27:44,140 --> 00:27:48,020
We're renovating the RBS,
because we won't stand for the fact
385
00:27:48,180 --> 00:27:51,780
that the government
has invested £33 billion
386
00:27:51,940 --> 00:27:55,740
in the RBS, to bail it out,
and that is financing climate change,
387
00:27:55,860 --> 00:27:58,140
due to the way
that money is invested.
388
00:27:58,260 --> 00:28:01,300
You do realise that you're obstructing
389
00:28:01,420 --> 00:28:04,340
people's access and egress
from the premises?
390
00:28:04,460 --> 00:28:06,740
And obstructing people on the highway.
391
00:28:09,700 --> 00:28:12,420
Michael Hannard,
UK Security Operations Manager.
392
00:28:12,540 --> 00:28:14,380
You've entered unlawfully.
393
00:28:14,540 --> 00:28:17,380
You've been asked to leave
and you've refused.
394
00:28:17,500 --> 00:28:22,100
You've caused intimidation to staff
and disrupted the business.
395
00:28:22,220 --> 00:28:26,300
Let me finish. As a representative
of the business, I will inform you
396
00:28:26,420 --> 00:28:28,740
that if you refuse to leave
and are arrested,
397
00:28:28,860 --> 00:28:31,580
then as a company,
we will prosecute you all.
398
00:28:31,700 --> 00:28:34,220
Is there anything else
that I can do or say
399
00:28:34,540 --> 00:28:37,740
that will make you leave the premises?
400
00:28:39,420 --> 00:28:44,380
If you commit that RBS would stop
investing in the fossil-fuel industry
401
00:28:44,740 --> 00:28:48,340
and change over to serious investment
in renewables,
402
00:28:48,700 --> 00:28:52,220
we would happily leave,
if that was the commitment.
403
00:28:53,180 --> 00:28:55,660
The touchy-feely policing means
the news is not distracted
404
00:28:55,780 --> 00:28:57,220
by police violence
405
00:28:57,940 --> 00:29:01,940
and can now find time to actually
report why the activists are there.
406
00:29:02,060 --> 00:29:06,940
Campaigners have chained themselves
to the London headquarters of the RBS.
407
00:29:07,060 --> 00:29:10,900
Dressed as construction workers,
they used bike locks and superglue
408
00:29:11,060 --> 00:29:12,500
to attach themselves.
409
00:29:12,620 --> 00:29:14,740
We aim
to shut down the bank for a day.
410
00:29:14,980 --> 00:29:16,500
This is an anti-bank's holiday.
411
00:29:16,780 --> 00:29:20,060
They're angry at the investment
in fossil-fuel projects.
412
00:29:20,220 --> 00:29:22,500
Can I just ask
where you guys are from?
413
00:29:22,900 --> 00:29:24,540
I'm from Hackney.
414
00:29:24,660 --> 00:29:27,420
- And you?
- Bedfordshire.
415
00:29:28,660 --> 00:29:31,620
- Where are you from?
- Daily Express, unfortunately.
416
00:29:31,740 --> 00:29:34,300
Well, the Daily Express.
Shit. Where's that?
417
00:29:37,580 --> 00:29:41,860
Before long the removal team arrive to
unglue the guys on the trading floor.
418
00:29:42,020 --> 00:29:44,140
Just move out of the way, please.
419
00:29:44,260 --> 00:29:47,180
- Is it superglue, or...?
- Yes.
420
00:29:48,060 --> 00:29:49,780
It may sting a little bit.
421
00:29:57,700 --> 00:30:02,180
I just heard that the people
who are sitting on the second floor
422
00:30:02,300 --> 00:30:03,620
are at the police station.
423
00:30:03,740 --> 00:30:05,700
They must have been taken
by a back way.
424
00:30:05,860 --> 00:30:07,740
Are you happy with these at the front?
425
00:30:07,900 --> 00:30:09,580
- Whose bank?
- Our bank!
426
00:30:10,420 --> 00:30:13,220
- How's it going?
- Really well, I think.
427
00:30:13,340 --> 00:30:15,540
We're still here
- that's always good.
428
00:30:15,700 --> 00:30:19,740
The blockade has managed to hang on
until the end of the business day.
429
00:30:19,860 --> 00:30:23,660
RBS are funding climate change
430
00:30:23,780 --> 00:30:28,660
It's shit, it's tax-payers' money
431
00:30:28,780 --> 00:30:32,620
We won't stand for this
432
00:30:32,780 --> 00:30:35,060
We won't stand for this
433
00:30:36,220 --> 00:30:39,700
Once again, Climate Camp
has grabbed the nation's attention
434
00:30:39,820 --> 00:30:42,220
and inspired
a new generation of outlaws,
435
00:30:42,340 --> 00:30:45,380
determined to be a thorn in the side
of capitalists.
436
00:30:54,300 --> 00:30:56,900
I'm Tracy Howard.
I am a wife, mother,
437
00:30:57,020 --> 00:31:00,900
resident and local campaigner
in the village of Sipson.
438
00:31:01,220 --> 00:31:03,460
What's going on
in the village of Sipson?
439
00:31:03,580 --> 00:31:07,140
At the moment we're under the threat
of the third runway.
440
00:31:07,260 --> 00:31:10,100
BAA propose to demolish everything
around here
441
00:31:10,260 --> 00:31:11,940
in this beautiful village,
442
00:31:12,060 --> 00:31:16,380
to make way for a horrendous runway,
extending Heathrow airport.
443
00:31:16,540 --> 00:31:19,020
And a bigger airport
means more flights
444
00:31:19,140 --> 00:31:21,380
and more emissions
into the atmosphere.
445
00:31:21,780 --> 00:31:25,860
So, a third runway at Heathrow has
become a climate-change battleground.
446
00:31:27,220 --> 00:31:32,860
Plane Stupid is a grass-roots,
direct-action network...
447
00:31:33,020 --> 00:31:36,220
..that focused
on the aviation industry
448
00:31:36,340 --> 00:31:39,260
as a key contributor
to climate change.
449
00:31:39,700 --> 00:31:44,940
Since 2006, Plane Stupid have been
bringing aviation back down to earth,
450
00:31:45,100 --> 00:31:48,980
with actions like a banner drop
from the Houses of Parliament
451
00:31:49,100 --> 00:31:52,420
and occupying the runway
at Stansted Airport.
452
00:31:56,660 --> 00:32:00,860
I have been involved with Plane Stupid
for the last couple of years.
453
00:32:01,020 --> 00:32:04,780
I was occupying the runway
at Stansted last December.
454
00:32:04,940 --> 00:32:07,620
And I've been involved
in Climate Camp, as well,
455
00:32:07,740 --> 00:32:11,860
which was the turning point
in my political motivation -
456
00:32:11,980 --> 00:32:13,580
the 2007 Climate Camp.
457
00:32:13,700 --> 00:32:16,820
I'd been on the fringes
and I'd always been interested.
458
00:32:16,940 --> 00:32:19,420
I'd been to lots of marches.
459
00:32:19,540 --> 00:32:22,140
And then in 2007 I was like, "Right...
460
00:32:23,300 --> 00:32:25,700
Enough's enough.
We've got to start doing stuff."
461
00:32:25,900 --> 00:32:29,580
It's so drastic and potentially
affecting my future so detrimentally
462
00:32:29,700 --> 00:32:35,060
that I have to try everything I can
to do something about it.
463
00:32:36,940 --> 00:32:40,180
Through Plane Stupid,
I've had a lot of connections
464
00:32:40,300 --> 00:32:43,460
with the campaign and communities
around Heathrow
465
00:32:43,580 --> 00:32:47,780
that were facing complete destruction.
466
00:32:48,100 --> 00:32:51,100
Tarmacing, effectively,
of their communities.
467
00:32:51,260 --> 00:32:53,780
The community there
are trying to resist.
468
00:32:53,900 --> 00:32:55,900
They need more support,
469
00:32:56,020 --> 00:32:59,460
and there's lots of people who need
to get engaged with the debate.
470
00:32:59,580 --> 00:33:01,940
So, I think the idea
of us moving down there
471
00:33:02,060 --> 00:33:06,180
is to do some real, grass-roots,
community-resistance-style stuff,
472
00:33:06,300 --> 00:33:08,340
to really build the community there
473
00:33:08,460 --> 00:33:12,580
and make it a resistant hub, an
example for places across the country,
474
00:33:12,700 --> 00:33:16,700
where there's plans for airport
expansion or coal power stations.
475
00:33:17,340 --> 00:33:20,620
If you look at this map, this is
the proposed site of the third runway.
476
00:33:20,740 --> 00:33:23,180
It's going to cut
right across Harlington,
477
00:33:23,380 --> 00:33:26,820
which is next door to Sipson,
which is going to get demolished
478
00:33:26,940 --> 00:33:28,620
if the 3rd runway plans go ahead.
479
00:33:29,060 --> 00:33:34,260
I got involved about six years ago,
with the threat of the third runway.
480
00:33:34,380 --> 00:33:38,500
They was also threatening
to bulldoze Cherry Lane cemetery.
481
00:33:38,620 --> 00:33:42,180
My husband's nan's there,
so it became more poignant
482
00:33:42,300 --> 00:33:43,740
and involved my own life,
483
00:33:43,860 --> 00:33:47,020
so I got involved
in all the different action groups.
484
00:33:47,220 --> 00:33:52,340
I go from leaflet dropping to direct
action. I'm quite variable.
485
00:33:52,460 --> 00:33:57,180
I go from the basics right up
to the main squeeze, shall we say?
486
00:33:57,700 --> 00:33:59,660
My direct action involved
487
00:33:59,820 --> 00:34:01,980
going to the Architect
of the Year award
488
00:34:02,100 --> 00:34:03,900
and sabotaging it.
489
00:34:04,020 --> 00:34:06,900
We gave Pascal and Watson
the We Don't Give A Shit award,
490
00:34:07,020 --> 00:34:08,780
as they don't give a shit about us.
491
00:34:08,980 --> 00:34:11,820
Good evening.
We won't take up much of your time.
492
00:34:11,940 --> 00:34:16,380
We're here from Plane Stupid
and the residents around Heathrow.
493
00:34:16,500 --> 00:34:20,340
And before the awards start,
we'd like to give our own award,
494
00:34:20,460 --> 00:34:23,100
and we'd like to give it
to Pascal and Watson.
495
00:34:23,220 --> 00:34:27,700
I think Pascal and Watson are here,
and we want to give them an award,
496
00:34:27,820 --> 00:34:33,780
because they've been at the forefront
of aviation expansion since the 1960s.
497
00:34:34,820 --> 00:34:37,740
Josh gave a talk
about the environmental issues,
498
00:34:37,860 --> 00:34:39,380
and I gave a talk about my life.
499
00:34:39,540 --> 00:34:43,060
Ladies and gentlemen,
would you kindly leave the stage?
500
00:34:43,180 --> 00:34:47,220
Would you leave the stage,
so we can proceed with our ceremony?
501
00:34:47,380 --> 00:34:51,220
You've been incredible!
You've been destroying the climate,
502
00:34:51,340 --> 00:34:54,220
people's homes and local community.
503
00:34:54,380 --> 00:34:58,900
It's for Pascal and Watson!
Anyone else want it?
504
00:34:59,020 --> 00:35:00,860
Would anyone else like the award?
505
00:35:00,980 --> 00:35:06,260
They're digging up my grandmother's
grave! My grandmother's grave!
506
00:35:12,460 --> 00:35:14,540
When I was asked to leave,
I did leave.
507
00:35:14,740 --> 00:35:17,700
I had to go back on stage,
cos I left my coat there,
508
00:35:17,820 --> 00:35:19,940
but we did actually leave.
509
00:35:20,060 --> 00:35:22,700
We were non-threatening.
We just made a point.
510
00:35:22,820 --> 00:35:27,700
We distributed lots of leaflets
about the situation, and it was fine.
511
00:35:28,060 --> 00:35:31,980
It would be really interesting
to put a transition town
512
00:35:32,100 --> 00:35:36,860
in the space where they would like
to put the third runway,
513
00:35:36,980 --> 00:35:39,140
and contrast those two things.
514
00:35:39,260 --> 00:35:43,020
So, start to build the world
that we'd like to live in,
515
00:35:43,140 --> 00:35:45,100
where they'd like to Tarmac.
516
00:35:45,660 --> 00:35:48,340
Lily, Paul, Rowan
and other Plane Stupid members
517
00:35:48,460 --> 00:35:51,420
are moving to a threatened village
near Heathrow.
518
00:35:51,540 --> 00:35:55,220
How long do you think
you'll be living out by Heathrow?
519
00:35:55,980 --> 00:36:01,060
I'm committing in my mind
to being there for at least a year.
520
00:36:01,180 --> 00:36:04,540
Hopefully, by next year, they'll say,
"It's getting dropped,"
521
00:36:04,660 --> 00:36:08,020
or, "We've changed our minds
and we're gonna do it."
522
00:36:08,980 --> 00:36:10,820
- So, here we are.
- Here we are.
523
00:36:11,180 --> 00:36:13,220
Welcome to my new home.
524
00:36:14,340 --> 00:36:18,380
A resident of Harlington now,
which is quite exciting.
525
00:36:18,780 --> 00:36:21,260
You can hear the aircraft noise
already.
526
00:36:21,620 --> 00:36:23,740
I'm going to have to get used to that.
527
00:36:25,620 --> 00:36:29,060
I suppose people live with it
every day,
528
00:36:29,180 --> 00:36:32,700
so I'll just get used to it eventually.
529
00:36:36,140 --> 00:36:37,380
At the Vestas factory,
530
00:36:37,860 --> 00:36:40,580
the workers have been forced
to end their occupation.
531
00:36:40,700 --> 00:36:44,300
But some have joined Marina
on the traffic island,
532
00:36:44,420 --> 00:36:47,620
blockading the removal
of the machinery from the plant.
533
00:36:48,860 --> 00:36:51,380
Living on a roundabout,
poking two fingers up
534
00:36:51,500 --> 00:36:54,100
to a multinational corporation
535
00:36:54,220 --> 00:36:58,340
which makes profits out of climate
change, rather than helping.
536
00:36:58,460 --> 00:37:00,580
It feels like direct action every day.
537
00:37:00,700 --> 00:37:03,180
We're making it difficult
for them to work.
538
00:37:03,300 --> 00:37:06,260
Quite right.
They've sacked 400 workers.
539
00:37:08,660 --> 00:37:14,300
This is our living room,
which is a bit too comfortable.
540
00:37:17,340 --> 00:37:18,660
Four months I've been here.
541
00:37:20,900 --> 00:37:25,020
I don't know how long I'm going
to stay on the Isle of Wight.
542
00:37:25,140 --> 00:37:27,700
Once you start a campaign,
you see it through.
543
00:37:29,780 --> 00:37:33,580
These are my broad beans,
which I'm particularly proud of.
544
00:37:35,460 --> 00:37:38,180
Earlier in the year, back in Brighton,
545
00:37:38,300 --> 00:37:41,900
I planted broad beans
in memory of the Diggers of 1649.
546
00:37:43,500 --> 00:37:47,660
I brought the seeds from that crop
that came up for G20 Meltdown,
547
00:37:47,780 --> 00:37:50,900
the anniversary of the Diggers
taking St George's Hill.
548
00:37:51,020 --> 00:37:55,220
I put them in just before Halloween,
and now I have beautiful broad beans.
549
00:37:57,940 --> 00:37:59,740
Does all of this do any good?
550
00:38:16,220 --> 00:38:18,460
I think you can't do...
Thank you.
551
00:38:18,580 --> 00:38:22,900
You can't do nothing.
That wouldn't have done any good.
552
00:38:23,020 --> 00:38:25,540
I think there have been...
553
00:38:29,820 --> 00:38:32,380
One problem is,
if people realise there's a problem
554
00:38:32,700 --> 00:38:36,780
and don't think they can do anything,
that is suicidal-depressing.
555
00:38:37,020 --> 00:38:39,940
That is roll-over-and-die depressing.
556
00:38:40,660 --> 00:38:43,180
But if you think
you can make a difference,
557
00:38:43,300 --> 00:38:46,500
through campaigning or obstruction,
that's empowering.
558
00:38:46,620 --> 00:38:48,980
So, you are taking control
of your life,
559
00:38:49,100 --> 00:38:54,620
even though all these decisions
are made by politicians over there.
560
00:38:55,420 --> 00:38:58,500
So, yes, it has done good.
561
00:38:59,300 --> 00:39:02,940
After four months of trying to do
good, the authorities have had enough,
562
00:39:03,060 --> 00:39:05,300
and an eviction order has arrived.
563
00:39:05,620 --> 00:39:09,180
- Hello.
- Mr Quinn, High Court enforcement.
564
00:39:09,820 --> 00:39:11,060
We're here today...
565
00:39:11,180 --> 00:39:14,380
Can you turn round, so I can get
the sunlight on your face?
566
00:39:14,500 --> 00:39:17,380
- Is that all right?
- Yeah, that's better.
567
00:39:17,740 --> 00:39:19,780
- OK?
- Yeah. So, what are you saying?
568
00:39:20,220 --> 00:39:23,580
We're here from High Court
enforcement to enforce the writ.
569
00:39:23,700 --> 00:39:26,420
OK. Now, would you like a cup of tea?
570
00:39:26,780 --> 00:39:29,620
No, thank you very much.
I've just had coffee.
571
00:39:29,900 --> 00:39:32,220
Well, the kettle will be on
while we pack up.
572
00:39:32,340 --> 00:39:36,340
- How long will it take you?
- Oh, it's going to be a few hours.
573
00:39:37,340 --> 00:39:40,140
Do you reckon an hour?
Shall we give it till 12?
574
00:39:40,260 --> 00:39:44,340
Oh, I don't think we'll have finished
elevenses by 12 o'clock.
575
00:39:44,460 --> 00:39:46,740
OK. We'll go for 12 o'clock.
576
00:39:47,060 --> 00:39:49,620
I don't think we'll be packed by 12,
but we'll try.
577
00:39:49,740 --> 00:39:50,740
OK, lovely.
578
00:39:59,020 --> 00:40:01,620
- I'm their beat officer!
- Too late now!
579
00:40:01,740 --> 00:40:04,980
This is Trudy, our beat officer.
580
00:40:05,140 --> 00:40:08,660
Marina's got a favourite
police officer, and it's me!
581
00:40:08,780 --> 00:40:12,500
I got emotionally engaged.
I got so involved.
582
00:40:14,740 --> 00:40:19,020
I'm not too sure
if you're going to be able to do this.
583
00:40:19,140 --> 00:40:22,220
You're removing property
that belongs to another person.
584
00:40:22,340 --> 00:40:26,900
I know that you planted the seed...
585
00:40:27,500 --> 00:40:29,940
..but you're removing the earth,
aren't you?
586
00:40:30,980 --> 00:40:32,940
Marina, I don't know.
587
00:40:33,060 --> 00:40:39,380
I'm just saying that this is all being
recorded. You are removing some earth.
588
00:40:40,180 --> 00:40:42,980
- If they wish to...
- Prosecute me.
589
00:40:43,140 --> 00:40:45,580
- I'll have my day in court.
- OK!
590
00:40:47,060 --> 00:40:49,060
Crumpets, everybody!
591
00:40:50,060 --> 00:40:51,740
Crumpets?
592
00:40:53,940 --> 00:40:56,460
We require you
to leave in five minutes.
593
00:40:57,100 --> 00:40:59,420
I hated the way
the authorities tell you,
594
00:40:59,540 --> 00:41:02,180
"Your campaign is ending today."
How dare they?
595
00:41:02,340 --> 00:41:06,540
So, let me get this straight. You're
not giving a woman long enough
596
00:41:06,660 --> 00:41:08,100
to put her crockery away,
597
00:41:08,220 --> 00:41:12,500
because you think an hour is a
reasonable time to tat down a camp?
598
00:41:12,980 --> 00:41:15,620
We've given you enough time,
and nothing's been done,
599
00:41:15,740 --> 00:41:17,380
so this is what we now require.
600
00:41:17,620 --> 00:41:18,740
No!
601
00:41:20,860 --> 00:41:23,340
Here they are, taking down my tent.
602
00:41:23,900 --> 00:41:27,780
Excuse me, I now require you
to leave the site, please.
603
00:41:28,300 --> 00:41:30,460
I'm not leaving
without my belongings.
604
00:41:30,580 --> 00:41:33,860
We've given you a chance
to get your personal possessions.
605
00:41:33,980 --> 00:41:36,900
You haven't given us a chance.
606
00:41:37,020 --> 00:41:39,460
Because I'm packing up
all three places.
607
00:41:39,580 --> 00:41:41,980
I now require you
to leave the site.
608
00:41:42,100 --> 00:41:44,500
- Are you going with them?
- I want my bed.
609
00:41:44,620 --> 00:41:46,700
They're telling me to go.
610
00:41:46,820 --> 00:41:49,580
They're going to pack it up.
You can collect it later.
611
00:41:49,980 --> 00:41:54,540
If you don't leave the site now,
I'll have to arrest you.
612
00:41:54,700 --> 00:41:59,380
No, I've got to get my kettle.
I'm not going without my kettle.
613
00:42:01,420 --> 00:42:03,140
Where's my kettle?
614
00:42:11,300 --> 00:42:12,860
Can you come with me, please?
615
00:42:26,500 --> 00:42:29,140
Marina, you're under arrest,
under Section Ten.
616
00:42:30,060 --> 00:42:33,220
You do not have to say anything,
but it may harm your defence,
617
00:42:33,340 --> 00:42:36,620
if you do not mention anything
you later rely on in court.
618
00:42:36,740 --> 00:42:40,220
Anything you do say
may be given as evidence.
619
00:42:40,620 --> 00:42:44,820
Being arrested for trying
to leave with two things.
620
00:42:44,940 --> 00:42:46,900
There was just nowhere...
621
00:42:47,860 --> 00:42:51,260
There was no space in the interview
for any understanding
622
00:42:52,260 --> 00:42:54,780
of the fact
that you've been living somewhere.
623
00:42:56,780 --> 00:42:58,580
The policewoman
who arrested me,
624
00:42:58,700 --> 00:43:03,460
the day before, she visited and
I thought we got to know each other.
625
00:43:04,420 --> 00:43:09,780
She gave me a hug goodbye
when she turned up with the bailiffs.
626
00:43:11,260 --> 00:43:12,460
She arrested me, anyway.
627
00:43:12,980 --> 00:43:15,940
She cried during my interview
because...
628
00:43:17,460 --> 00:43:19,140
I mean, I cried.
629
00:43:21,380 --> 00:43:24,220
And even then, I keep polite.
It was like...
630
00:43:24,340 --> 00:43:28,380
They're telling me that
I should have packed a bit earlier.
631
00:43:29,460 --> 00:43:31,780
I left my stuff till last.
632
00:43:37,060 --> 00:43:39,660
So I suppose my tears were
more for the sadness
633
00:43:39,780 --> 00:43:41,780
that there's so much to overcome.
634
00:43:41,900 --> 00:43:44,620
The only way we can overcome
635
00:43:44,740 --> 00:43:49,380
is if lots of people agree the law is
an ass and start ignoring the laws.
636
00:43:49,500 --> 00:43:52,100
Because that's how you get
the laws changed.
637
00:43:52,500 --> 00:43:54,140
Rosa Park sat down on a bus.
638
00:43:54,780 --> 00:43:58,740
The law changed because
lots of people agreed with her.
639
00:44:00,380 --> 00:44:02,260
So that's what we have to do.
640
00:44:03,140 --> 00:44:05,100
But it has to be fun and exciting.
641
00:44:05,220 --> 00:44:08,020
We have good friends
and we get over getting arrested
642
00:44:08,140 --> 00:44:11,380
and we get on with the next job.
643
00:44:13,260 --> 00:44:15,740
That's what we'll do.
We're not hoping for arrests.
644
00:44:15,860 --> 00:44:19,540
We're hoping for lots of new recruits
to the revolution.
645
00:44:22,460 --> 00:44:24,500
This is Ratcliffe on Soar Coal
power station,
646
00:44:24,940 --> 00:44:27,100
the second largest power station
in the UK
647
00:44:27,500 --> 00:44:31,260
and soon to be the target
of a publicly announced mass action.
648
00:44:32,660 --> 00:44:36,460
A planning meeting is held
in Nottingham. Anyone is welcome.
649
00:44:36,580 --> 00:44:37,660
Morning.
650
00:44:38,620 --> 00:44:40,380
Well, except the police.
651
00:44:41,580 --> 00:44:44,460
There's a load of secrecy
that goes with taking direct action.
652
00:44:44,580 --> 00:44:48,100
It's hard for any member of the public
to take direct action.
653
00:44:48,220 --> 00:44:51,380
If they want to stop a power station,
they don't know how.
654
00:44:51,540 --> 00:44:54,100
The point of the swoop
was to say:
655
00:44:54,220 --> 00:44:58,300
"We'll shut down this power station
on this day, with loads of people.
656
00:44:58,420 --> 00:45:00,540
Anyone who wants to help
can come along."
657
00:45:00,700 --> 00:45:03,300
A power station
is on high alert tonight
658
00:45:03,420 --> 00:45:07,180
as environmental campaigners
have vowed to shut it down.
659
00:45:07,300 --> 00:45:09,660
One advantage
of a publicly announced action
660
00:45:09,780 --> 00:45:12,900
is that news coverage starts
before the target is in sight.
661
00:45:13,220 --> 00:45:16,060
Protestors arrive
at Nottingham tonight.
662
00:45:16,180 --> 00:45:18,340
Hundreds more
are expected tomorrow.
663
00:45:18,580 --> 00:45:22,340
I'll show you how extensive
the security operation is here.
664
00:45:22,460 --> 00:45:26,020
There are dozens of police officers.
Some are in riot gear.
665
00:45:26,420 --> 00:45:29,540
All day, the police helicopter's
hovered overhead.
666
00:45:29,660 --> 00:45:34,420
Take a look at this. Mile after mile
of razor wire and fencing
667
00:45:34,540 --> 00:45:36,180
has been put up around the site.
668
00:45:36,300 --> 00:45:38,580
All this security is with one aim:
669
00:45:38,700 --> 00:45:41,180
to stop the protestors
from getting inside.
670
00:45:41,300 --> 00:45:45,860
State-sanctioned protests
are good for one thing.
671
00:45:45,980 --> 00:45:48,020
But we need to start
doing things
672
00:45:48,140 --> 00:45:51,140
that will directly impact
on those offenders.
673
00:45:51,580 --> 00:45:54,020
And the coal industry
is a massive offender.
674
00:45:54,180 --> 00:45:59,940
They are causing carbon emissions
that will destroy our planet.
675
00:46:00,340 --> 00:46:02,780
And one thing about direct action,
I suppose,
676
00:46:02,900 --> 00:46:05,540
the target is meant
to have an immediate effect.
677
00:46:05,660 --> 00:46:07,580
The idea with the climate swoop
678
00:46:07,740 --> 00:46:11,620
was to shut down a power station
and stop it emitting
679
00:46:11,740 --> 00:46:14,300
dangerous chemicals
into the atmosphere.
680
00:46:14,420 --> 00:46:15,540
To actively stop it.
681
00:46:15,660 --> 00:46:18,980
It wasn't just to stand on the line,
with a placard saying,
682
00:46:19,100 --> 00:46:20,660
"We don't like what you do."
683
00:46:20,780 --> 00:46:23,620
It was actually to do something.
684
00:46:23,780 --> 00:46:27,580
On an action, it's important
to look after each other.
685
00:46:27,700 --> 00:46:30,020
So everybody has a buddy
to watch their back.
686
00:46:30,140 --> 00:46:34,540
So Sophie and Mary are buddies,
and they will stick together.
687
00:46:34,660 --> 00:46:39,180
They are paired with Rowan and Paul
to make what we call a brick.
688
00:46:39,300 --> 00:46:43,060
As a four, they can make quick
decisions and work as a tactical unit.
689
00:46:43,220 --> 00:46:47,900
So there might be someone
that's happy to cut a fence open.
690
00:46:48,020 --> 00:46:49,620
There might be someone else
that's not.
691
00:46:49,740 --> 00:46:52,260
But they'll support someone
cutting a fence.
692
00:46:52,740 --> 00:46:54,140
And so they work out their roles
693
00:46:54,260 --> 00:46:56,980
so that one person
might be carrying all the food.
694
00:46:57,100 --> 00:47:00,460
That enables the person that's happy
to cut a fence open, to do it.
695
00:47:01,300 --> 00:47:04,220
Their brick is part of what we call
an affinity group,
696
00:47:04,340 --> 00:47:06,860
who will work together for the day.
697
00:47:07,940 --> 00:47:12,100
Their affinity group joins others so
they can move en masse to the target.
698
00:47:12,300 --> 00:47:14,500
You walk in the footsteps of history.
699
00:47:14,620 --> 00:47:18,460
You're doing it because you want
to stand up and defend the future.
700
00:47:18,620 --> 00:47:21,780
A lot of people have made
a lot of change in history.
701
00:47:21,900 --> 00:47:24,660
And they have done it
by working together
702
00:47:24,780 --> 00:47:26,980
and challenging the status quo
703
00:47:27,100 --> 00:47:29,060
and finding hope and faith
704
00:47:29,180 --> 00:47:31,540
where it might seem
like there is none.
705
00:47:31,700 --> 00:47:35,860
But, in the end, somebody has
to take down the fences.
706
00:48:13,220 --> 00:48:15,580
There are campaigns
involving letter writing.
707
00:48:15,740 --> 00:48:18,020
You can do frightfully nice picnics.
708
00:48:18,180 --> 00:48:20,180
But sometimes,
you have to get messy.
709
00:48:20,340 --> 00:48:22,460
The coal just has to be stopped.
710
00:48:22,580 --> 00:48:25,100
So I've come with a messy attitude.
711
00:48:25,260 --> 00:48:29,020
I'm just getting in there, being a bit
ooh and ah with my balaclava up.
712
00:48:34,020 --> 00:48:38,420
Somebody's cut a hole in the fence
over by the bridge. That way.
713
00:48:38,540 --> 00:48:39,820
Let's not point.
714
00:48:39,980 --> 00:48:42,660
He's waiting for
some kind of critical mass
715
00:48:43,140 --> 00:48:45,180
to make their way
and storm it.
716
00:48:47,020 --> 00:48:49,060
It wasn't just
about destroying the fence.
717
00:48:49,180 --> 00:48:52,260
It was about getting through it
718
00:48:52,420 --> 00:48:55,140
and locking ourselves
onto different points.
719
00:49:04,820 --> 00:49:07,900
This is one way
in which we can change things.
720
00:49:08,820 --> 00:49:10,860
And a really important way
721
00:49:10,980 --> 00:49:15,380
because mass civil disobedience
shows that the law is unjust
722
00:49:15,500 --> 00:49:19,740
and people are willing
to become outlaws to change things.
723
00:49:22,060 --> 00:49:25,340
Keep moving back, please.
724
00:49:26,660 --> 00:49:30,660
It empowers people
to take control of their own lives
725
00:49:30,820 --> 00:49:33,060
and their own actions
and futures.
726
00:49:33,780 --> 00:49:38,820
Criminal damage pointed at the right
organisation is completely warranted.
727
00:49:38,940 --> 00:49:43,220
Especially when you figure
that the damage that they're causing
728
00:49:43,380 --> 00:49:47,900
is a billion times worse than what
those people inflicted on the fences.
729
00:49:50,380 --> 00:49:52,700
I nearly got arrested that day.
730
00:49:52,820 --> 00:49:57,500
I was walking through the woods
with my affinity group.
731
00:49:58,100 --> 00:50:01,860
Suddenly, a police officer grabbed me
from behind. I shouted "De-arrest."
732
00:50:07,180 --> 00:50:10,180
And all my friends came to my rescue
and helped me.
733
00:50:10,300 --> 00:50:13,620
If you get in a position where
a police officer is arresting you,
734
00:50:13,740 --> 00:50:18,340
you don't have to accept
that's going to be your destiny.
735
00:50:19,100 --> 00:50:21,180
I got away. We ran, very fast.
736
00:50:21,820 --> 00:50:25,340
If more people, as a collective,
decided to de-arrest people,
737
00:50:25,460 --> 00:50:27,660
then less people
would get arrested
738
00:50:27,820 --> 00:50:30,940
and the police would find their job
much harder.
739
00:50:31,460 --> 00:50:34,500
They didn't manage to shut down
the power station that day.
740
00:50:34,620 --> 00:50:36,380
But, as Sally says,
741
00:50:36,540 --> 00:50:41,740
the sight of people becoming outlaws
sends a powerful message.
742
00:50:48,100 --> 00:50:49,460
London streets are buzzing
743
00:50:49,620 --> 00:50:53,100
as the biggest climate change march
in UK history is about to start.
744
00:50:53,980 --> 00:50:55,220
Our guys are attending,
745
00:50:55,340 --> 00:50:58,940
but today dressed
in their finest capitalist suits.
746
00:50:59,340 --> 00:51:03,620
Don't worry about climate change.
Just keep shopping.
747
00:51:04,020 --> 00:51:07,020
And yeah, that's me.
And that's my mum.
748
00:51:07,340 --> 00:51:10,020
She's not totally sure
what she's let herself in for.
749
00:51:10,140 --> 00:51:11,740
- Cap?
- Cap and trade.
750
00:51:11,860 --> 00:51:14,940
What that means is that...
751
00:51:15,700 --> 00:51:19,140
Governments set a cap on the
amount of carbon that can be emitted.
752
00:51:19,260 --> 00:51:24,940
And they give permits to large
polluters like power stations
753
00:51:25,660 --> 00:51:27,180
to emit things.
754
00:51:27,340 --> 00:51:30,540
- So they could then sell it?
- And make a lot of money.
755
00:51:30,660 --> 00:51:32,900
And literally, it's money, is it?
756
00:51:33,020 --> 00:51:37,020
It's a financial mechanism
to manage climate change.
757
00:51:37,180 --> 00:51:40,300
- So we're saying ironically...
- Ironically.
758
00:51:40,420 --> 00:51:43,020
- ..that actually that's a good idea?
- Yeah.
759
00:51:43,580 --> 00:51:44,740
Power!
760
00:51:45,900 --> 00:51:47,660
Power...
761
00:51:47,820 --> 00:51:53,420
Power to the privileged,
because the privileged got the power.
762
00:51:53,580 --> 00:51:57,380
Tell me, can you feel it?
763
00:51:58,380 --> 00:52:01,980
I'm ready to tell those
well-meaning liberals what's what,
764
00:52:02,100 --> 00:52:05,180
how to make some money
out of this crisis.
765
00:52:05,340 --> 00:52:07,900
- How did you get involved?
- Well, you know...
766
00:52:08,020 --> 00:52:11,140
I've always had an eye
for an opportunity.
767
00:52:13,220 --> 00:52:15,460
This is the biggest one
I've ever seen.
768
00:52:15,580 --> 00:52:19,820
So, if there's going to be
a "three tree in a year" market,
769
00:52:19,940 --> 00:52:23,140
I'll get in there at the ground floor
and go to the top.
770
00:52:23,260 --> 00:52:25,020
Yeah, baby!
771
00:52:25,180 --> 00:52:27,620
That's a beautiful moustache
you've got.
772
00:52:27,980 --> 00:52:31,180
- Oh, you're a girl! Sorry.
- Yeah, it's a fake moustache.
773
00:52:31,580 --> 00:52:32,980
I thought you were a boy.
774
00:52:33,300 --> 00:52:36,140
Greed is green, greed is green!
775
00:52:36,420 --> 00:52:39,580
- Carbon Trader!
- Eco Crusader!
776
00:52:39,700 --> 00:52:42,700
- One solution!
- Trade pollution!
777
00:52:44,180 --> 00:52:45,500
Carbon trade!
778
00:52:45,660 --> 00:52:48,140
Trust us with your futures.
779
00:52:48,300 --> 00:52:50,940
We are bankers.
Give us your money.
780
00:52:51,100 --> 00:52:54,980
We'll trade it for carbon.
Go back home, watch your TVs,
781
00:52:55,420 --> 00:52:57,020
and we'll just make lots of money.
782
00:52:57,180 --> 00:52:59,020
Let's hear it for carbon trading!
783
00:53:10,860 --> 00:53:15,780
My sister said to me today,
"Are you excited about your holiday?"
784
00:53:17,500 --> 00:53:22,260
She slightly misunderstood the purpose
of my trip to Denmark, but yeah.
785
00:53:22,540 --> 00:53:25,500
Preparations are being made
to travel to Copenhagen,
786
00:53:25,620 --> 00:53:29,540
where the United Nations are holding
a conference of world leaders,
787
00:53:29,660 --> 00:53:31,860
to hammer out a deal
on tackling climate change.
788
00:53:32,380 --> 00:53:35,060
Do you reckon they'll take this off us
if they find it?
789
00:53:35,220 --> 00:53:38,300
- They might.
- Keep it hidden in the mini bus.
790
00:53:38,420 --> 00:53:41,580
It's only the Danish border
that it will be a problem.
791
00:53:41,700 --> 00:53:44,660
Everywhere else, it's legal,
it's bought in a chemist.
792
00:53:44,780 --> 00:53:47,540
It's legal, it's just
they stopped selling it.
793
00:53:47,660 --> 00:53:50,180
They've banned the sale of it.
794
00:53:52,100 --> 00:53:55,020
- What is it?
- This is Maalox.
795
00:53:55,140 --> 00:53:58,460
And it's used to treat
the effects of CS gas.
796
00:53:59,020 --> 00:54:02,260
Mix it with water, pour it on your
eyes, and it stops the burning.
797
00:54:02,420 --> 00:54:06,380
They've got no outside police,
apart from intelligence officers,
798
00:54:06,780 --> 00:54:09,260
but loads of German police dogs.
799
00:54:09,580 --> 00:54:13,580
Does that mean
they just come in on their own?
800
00:54:13,700 --> 00:54:15,900
Just unleash the dogs.
801
00:54:16,060 --> 00:54:19,100
The Danish government
have prepared
802
00:54:19,220 --> 00:54:22,860
by granting the police new powers
to detain protesters at will.
803
00:54:23,260 --> 00:54:27,140
It says: "You will be taken to the
police station and placed in a cell."
804
00:54:27,300 --> 00:54:31,620
"The Danish police are arresting
not just for vandalism,
805
00:54:31,780 --> 00:54:35,260
they can give you 40 days
if you inhibit police work."
806
00:54:35,380 --> 00:54:38,660
This is obstruction.
That's anything, basically, standard.
807
00:54:38,780 --> 00:54:42,220
But 40 days for obstruction
is quite a long time.
808
00:54:43,100 --> 00:54:48,540
Obstruction is a flexible term.
It could mean standing in front of them.
809
00:54:49,220 --> 00:54:52,020
What do I need for Copenhagen?
810
00:54:52,700 --> 00:54:54,540
Are you expecting to get arrested?
811
00:54:54,660 --> 00:54:59,300
No, but it seems like
a strong possibility.
812
00:54:59,500 --> 00:55:00,980
Why?
813
00:55:02,900 --> 00:55:06,540
Well, I suppose,
on the 16th of December,
814
00:55:06,660 --> 00:55:11,540
the plan is to go and get
into the conference ourselves
815
00:55:11,660 --> 00:55:14,020
and hold our own conference
816
00:55:14,420 --> 00:55:18,420
to let people who have been affected
by climate change have their say.
817
00:55:19,220 --> 00:55:21,940
They won't be very happy
with us doing that.
818
00:55:22,580 --> 00:55:27,580
I'd like not to get arrested,
but never say never.
819
00:55:28,460 --> 00:55:29,900
We're off!
820
00:55:42,580 --> 00:55:44,300
The Kyoto protocol was ending.
821
00:55:44,860 --> 00:55:48,460
And there was going to be
a new UN conference
822
00:55:48,620 --> 00:55:52,300
to discuss how the world would then
take up those climate issues.
823
00:55:52,620 --> 00:55:56,460
And I decided
that I wanted to be there.
824
00:55:56,580 --> 00:55:57,980
I felt it was important
825
00:55:58,140 --> 00:56:01,060
to put your body in a place
just to say:
826
00:56:01,180 --> 00:56:03,820
"I care about this,
I'm a citizen of this world."
827
00:56:04,180 --> 00:56:07,860
I took on organising transport
and accommodation.
828
00:56:08,380 --> 00:56:10,540
We're on the ferry.
It's very exciting.
829
00:56:10,860 --> 00:56:12,860
The world's eyes are on the UN summit
830
00:56:12,980 --> 00:56:15,460
because the scientific community
made it clear
831
00:56:15,580 --> 00:56:19,340
that, if a deal on reducing
emissions isn't struck this year,
832
00:56:19,460 --> 00:56:21,700
then next year may be too late.
833
00:56:23,180 --> 00:56:26,580
"Danish police haven't much used
border patrols recently.
834
00:56:26,700 --> 00:56:30,780
It's the Danish police
who decide who they want to reject.
835
00:56:30,900 --> 00:56:33,420
Lists of activists
and activists with criminal records
836
00:56:33,580 --> 00:56:36,420
are a possible way
of selecting who comes in.
837
00:56:36,580 --> 00:56:38,740
We're going the right way.
It's cool.
838
00:56:40,300 --> 00:56:42,700
No sooner do they cross the border
into Denmark
839
00:56:42,860 --> 00:56:46,020
than they are stopped and searched.
840
00:56:46,940 --> 00:56:50,220
- Can I have a look at your passports?
- You can indeed.
841
00:56:54,020 --> 00:56:55,980
There's all the passports.
842
00:56:57,740 --> 00:57:00,380
- How many are you?
- We are 17.
843
00:57:00,500 --> 00:57:02,180
- 17?
- Yes.
844
00:57:05,580 --> 00:57:07,700
- It's OK.
- Thank you.
845
00:57:07,820 --> 00:57:09,860
Have a nice day.
846
00:57:13,820 --> 00:57:16,900
That's it. You can see the end.
847
00:57:20,260 --> 00:57:23,100
It isn't just our guys
heading for Copenhagen.
848
00:57:23,220 --> 00:57:25,460
Activists from round the world
are coming
849
00:57:25,580 --> 00:57:29,460
because they believe that corporate
interests supported by governments
850
00:57:29,580 --> 00:57:31,580
have hijacked the process.
851
00:57:31,700 --> 00:57:36,580
So it's highly unlikely that a fair or
effective agreement will be reached.
852
00:57:45,980 --> 00:57:50,420
We've gone to our little building
where we're staying, which is nice.
853
00:57:51,140 --> 00:57:53,620
It's warm, which is a plus.
854
00:57:55,700 --> 00:57:57,900
We have to cross a riot.
855
00:57:58,740 --> 00:58:00,500
Where are we going?
856
00:58:00,620 --> 00:58:04,660
We're going to the candy factory,
857
00:58:04,780 --> 00:58:07,780
to a bike bloc meeting,
but we're late.
858
00:58:07,900 --> 00:58:10,100
Because we missed the bus.
859
00:58:10,260 --> 00:58:14,220
The bike bloc will use bicycles
as a tool for civil disobedience
860
00:58:14,340 --> 00:58:16,340
on the day of mass action.
861
00:58:19,980 --> 00:58:23,500
We were on
an old, disused candy factory
862
00:58:23,620 --> 00:58:29,060
that was a community art space
and a legalised squat.
863
00:58:29,460 --> 00:58:32,860
And there we set up
this outdoor workshop,
864
00:58:32,980 --> 00:58:34,940
an indoor one
for bike maintenance,
865
00:58:35,060 --> 00:58:38,420
and another separate space
for bike welding.
866
00:58:38,580 --> 00:58:41,020
Every evening, we had training.
867
00:58:48,420 --> 00:58:52,420
We started making some of the DDTs,
the Double Double Trouble.
868
00:58:53,660 --> 00:58:56,500
We'll cause some
double double trouble with them.
869
00:58:56,860 --> 00:58:59,700
This is a double trouble,
not a double double trouble.
870
00:59:09,140 --> 00:59:11,580
That worked.
And so this is...
871
00:59:11,980 --> 00:59:13,740
The police are here.
872
00:59:14,100 --> 00:59:16,700
We do games, training,
at three o'clock.
873
00:59:16,820 --> 00:59:17,780
At three o'clock?
874
00:59:17,900 --> 00:59:20,940
It's not a demo. We go to the park
and train in the park.
875
00:59:21,740 --> 00:59:22,820
So...
876
00:59:22,980 --> 00:59:26,180
Are you going to stay
and intimidate people or going away?
877
00:59:26,300 --> 00:59:28,140
We just take a look.
878
00:59:29,820 --> 00:59:35,820
Just to announce that the cops just
said they were coming to have a look
879
00:59:35,940 --> 00:59:38,620
because they thought that
we were stealing bikes.
880
00:59:38,740 --> 00:59:41,260
I said we love bikes
and wouldn't steal them.
881
00:59:41,380 --> 00:59:44,980
So they said they weren't going
to stand there and intimidate us.
882
00:59:45,460 --> 00:59:48,020
Now, our role on the 16th of December
883
00:59:48,140 --> 00:59:51,700
is to be a bit like the cavalry,
OK?
884
00:59:52,100 --> 00:59:57,060
So, always moving,
and always taking the police away
885
00:59:57,180 --> 01:00:01,540
from where they're trying to stop the
people coming into the Bella Centre.
886
01:00:01,660 --> 01:00:03,620
Because what will be happening
887
01:00:03,740 --> 01:00:06,540
is that people will be coming
into the Bella Centre
888
01:00:06,660 --> 01:00:10,100
but also about 500 people
will be coming out.
889
01:00:10,540 --> 01:00:12,180
And that's the beauty of the day.
890
01:00:12,340 --> 01:00:16,180
So we're going to play some games
to get used to the bikes.
891
01:00:16,340 --> 01:00:21,420
Put your bike up like that. You use
your tyre to defend your body...
892
01:00:22,340 --> 01:00:24,180
Ready? Go!
893
01:00:34,780 --> 01:00:36,780
- How does that feel?
- Scary.
894
01:00:37,140 --> 01:00:40,180
Scary! And that was your mates.
895
01:00:40,900 --> 01:00:43,740
So, in this one,
the thing to do...
896
01:00:44,300 --> 01:00:46,620
The cops are filming us.
897
01:00:48,300 --> 01:00:50,180
We're in Copenhagen.
898
01:00:50,300 --> 01:00:51,940
This is the UN talks,
899
01:00:52,100 --> 01:00:56,340
where carbon trading is one
of the only solutions on the table.
900
01:00:56,460 --> 01:00:59,460
- Carbon trading is the table.
- It is the table, indeed.
901
01:00:59,580 --> 01:01:02,900
We are in the seat of that.
It's not like we're away.
902
01:01:03,020 --> 01:01:05,980
It's not just about capitalism,
though that's great.
903
01:01:06,100 --> 01:01:09,900
It's that the UN summit that's taking
place in Copenhagen right now
904
01:01:10,020 --> 01:01:14,060
is presenting capitalist solutions
to something that shouldn't.
905
01:01:17,220 --> 01:01:19,500
We're just making very quickly
906
01:01:19,620 --> 01:01:25,380
our carbon trader
WACT Association posters
907
01:01:25,500 --> 01:01:28,620
which we're going to be taking
on the big NGO march today
908
01:01:28,740 --> 01:01:32,460
to illustrate just how important
a solution carbon trading is
909
01:01:32,580 --> 01:01:35,020
to put on the table in Copenhagen.
910
01:01:35,180 --> 01:01:37,540
Just subverting
what Greenpeace is doing
911
01:01:37,660 --> 01:01:40,180
and flipping the tables around.
912
01:01:40,980 --> 01:01:42,460
What do you want out of it?
913
01:01:42,620 --> 01:01:44,620
Just to look at it. Just open it.
914
01:01:44,740 --> 01:01:47,580
You can check it for weapons
if that's what you want.
915
01:01:47,700 --> 01:01:51,140
We just found a lot of explosives.
So we're looking around.
916
01:01:51,300 --> 01:01:54,220
- OK, thanks.
- No, no, that's cool.
917
01:01:59,980 --> 01:02:00,940
Now then, bankers.
918
01:02:01,100 --> 01:02:04,060
Let's shake off
any goodwill of humanity,
919
01:02:04,180 --> 01:02:05,780
starting at your feet.
920
01:02:05,940 --> 01:02:09,100
Three cheers for the police.
Hip, hip, hooray!
921
01:02:12,580 --> 01:02:15,180
- Have a nice walk.
- And you!
922
01:02:15,340 --> 01:02:17,020
Let's go, then.
923
01:02:17,660 --> 01:02:20,180
- One solution!
- Trade pollution!
924
01:02:20,300 --> 01:02:22,700
- One solution!
- Trade pollution!
925
01:02:22,860 --> 01:02:25,220
Is this the first hippy
you've stopped today?
926
01:02:25,380 --> 01:02:29,060
- We don't want those hippies!
- Are you gonna stop lots more?
927
01:02:29,180 --> 01:02:33,020
He's a hippy.
Just take him away, it's fine.
928
01:02:33,140 --> 01:02:35,860
It's just a hippy.
We don't want him.
929
01:02:36,020 --> 01:02:37,660
Power!
930
01:02:37,780 --> 01:02:39,540
Power!
931
01:02:39,700 --> 01:02:43,020
Power to the privileged!
932
01:02:43,140 --> 01:02:46,420
Because the privileged got the power.
933
01:02:46,860 --> 01:02:49,060
Tell me, can you feel it?
934
01:02:50,300 --> 01:02:53,380
We get richer by the hour.
935
01:02:54,900 --> 01:02:57,620
We are singing for carbon trading.
936
01:02:57,740 --> 01:03:01,100
We want to make some money now.
937
01:03:01,260 --> 01:03:04,580
- Is it funny?
- Is it funny?
938
01:03:04,740 --> 01:03:06,700
Yes, it's funny.
939
01:03:06,820 --> 01:03:12,180
We thought about it for a long time
and now we find out it's irony. Yes.
940
01:03:16,460 --> 01:03:19,260
One solution is to trade pollution.
941
01:03:19,380 --> 01:03:24,140
200,000 people turned out that day
for an entirely peaceful march.
942
01:03:24,260 --> 01:03:27,260
However, late in the afternoon,
as temperatures dropped,
943
01:03:27,380 --> 01:03:33,220
the police used their new powers
and pre-emptively detained 968 people.
944
01:03:52,060 --> 01:03:53,820
With a week left at the summit,
945
01:03:53,940 --> 01:03:57,220
the police are taking
increasing control of the streets
946
01:03:57,380 --> 01:03:59,740
and tensions are rising.
947
01:04:02,100 --> 01:04:04,660
Excuse me, do you have guns?
948
01:04:08,940 --> 01:04:11,580
When do you think
you'll need to shoot people?
949
01:04:38,220 --> 01:04:41,740
What law are we breaking?
We're not doing anything wrong.
950
01:04:41,900 --> 01:04:44,820
We have a democratic right to protest.
951
01:04:55,100 --> 01:04:57,540
Kettle escaped!
952
01:04:57,700 --> 01:05:00,660
That was so funny
when you climbed into the kettle.
953
01:05:00,980 --> 01:05:04,620
But, on returning to base, they find
the police are already there.
954
01:05:05,060 --> 01:05:07,300
They're not allowed
into their accommodation.
955
01:05:07,460 --> 01:05:11,420
- How come we can't go inside?
- Because they are making a police...
956
01:05:12,140 --> 01:05:16,540
With a girl inside,
they're talking to her.
957
01:05:16,660 --> 01:05:18,940
Lauren, the film's producer,
958
01:05:19,060 --> 01:05:22,900
is being arrested under anti-terrorism
law and tapes are being seized.
959
01:05:23,020 --> 01:05:26,140
She works with me.
So, can I please go inside?
960
01:05:26,260 --> 01:05:27,980
No, not at this moment.
961
01:05:28,100 --> 01:05:31,980
But she's only come here
because she's my assistant.
962
01:05:32,100 --> 01:05:34,580
So I think I should be allowed to.
963
01:05:34,740 --> 01:05:37,420
She's probably quite scared.
964
01:05:37,580 --> 01:05:41,780
I'm a card-carrying member of the
press and you're taking my material.
965
01:05:41,900 --> 01:05:46,540
And that's a really illegal thing
to do, as far as I'm concerned.
966
01:05:46,700 --> 01:05:48,580
Thank you very much.
967
01:05:48,700 --> 01:05:52,940
It won't take a long time. Do you want
your bags? Or you can leave them here.
968
01:05:53,260 --> 01:05:55,180
You trust these guys?
969
01:05:55,340 --> 01:05:59,060
Can I just give her a hug?
Because I'm sure she's very upset.
970
01:05:59,420 --> 01:06:03,900
Now, what the police don't realise
is that Emily's hug was just an excuse
971
01:06:04,020 --> 01:06:07,740
for Lauren to palm off some
potentially incriminating footage.
972
01:06:10,500 --> 01:06:13,820
Lauren, you haven't done
anything wrong.
973
01:06:15,740 --> 01:06:17,940
- Probably not.
- No, definitely not.
974
01:06:18,060 --> 01:06:21,700
She hasn't. We know
she's not done anything wrong.
975
01:06:21,860 --> 01:06:24,860
We just have to get that confirmed,
that's all.
976
01:06:32,580 --> 01:06:36,540
The whole police operation is about...
977
01:06:38,020 --> 01:06:40,140
..showing the force
in their organisation,
978
01:06:40,300 --> 01:06:43,820
terrifying us
with their force and organisation,
979
01:06:43,940 --> 01:06:45,780
arresting people
and putting them in cages.
980
01:06:45,900 --> 01:06:49,140
Even the cages have been designed
to look like Guantanamo.
981
01:06:49,460 --> 01:06:51,060
All this stuff is really...
982
01:06:51,500 --> 01:06:54,180
It's a fine art
of psychological intimidation.
983
01:06:59,380 --> 01:07:01,140
But we have our orders.
984
01:07:01,700 --> 01:07:04,420
We don't know the reason
but we have our orders.
985
01:07:05,780 --> 01:07:07,940
Not all of the outlaws
have headed to Copenhagen.
986
01:07:08,060 --> 01:07:12,060
In London, Marina and co
have something up their sleeve.
987
01:07:15,820 --> 01:07:18,700
The politicians are going
to Copenhagen to cop out.
988
01:07:19,060 --> 01:07:22,660
So we're taking to the streets
of London to camp out.
989
01:07:22,820 --> 01:07:27,180
We're going to take a space in the
centre of London, pop up our tents.
990
01:07:27,620 --> 01:07:29,460
All over the world,
there'll be actions.
991
01:07:29,580 --> 01:07:33,900
Our personal bit is camping out
for cop out in London.
992
01:07:37,180 --> 01:07:39,260
What's supposed to be happening is,
993
01:07:39,380 --> 01:07:42,180
four groups
coming from four directions
994
01:07:42,300 --> 01:07:44,420
will swoop at three o'clock.
995
01:07:44,540 --> 01:07:47,140
And no-one else is here.
996
01:07:50,780 --> 01:07:53,420
What's your text said?
997
01:07:56,180 --> 01:07:57,860
That's changed.
998
01:07:59,420 --> 01:08:02,860
Jubilee Gardens,
outside the Shell HQ.
999
01:08:03,780 --> 01:08:06,900
We should have just gone
with f***ing Parliament Square.
1000
01:08:10,980 --> 01:08:12,220
Oh, God.
1001
01:08:18,260 --> 01:08:19,700
This is my worst nightmare.
1002
01:08:28,580 --> 01:08:30,460
Stay where you were.
1003
01:08:33,020 --> 01:08:35,020
We're going back
to where we came from.
1004
01:08:35,140 --> 01:08:37,220
Apparently, this is the diversion.
1005
01:08:41,540 --> 01:08:44,620
I've never given up
and gone home on an action before,
1006
01:08:45,260 --> 01:08:49,020
but I'm getting a little bit tired
and a bit confused.
1007
01:08:50,140 --> 01:08:52,780
And a little bit longing
for a hierarchy.
1008
01:08:54,460 --> 01:08:57,580
Tell me what to do!
Be my leader!
1009
01:08:59,180 --> 01:09:01,140
I'm going to go and sit on a bench.
1010
01:09:03,740 --> 01:09:07,180
I would have to look into
my crystal ball to tell you.
1011
01:09:07,300 --> 01:09:08,820
Nothing is happening.
1012
01:09:08,940 --> 01:09:15,460
We have a decoy in Jubilee Gardens
and a no-show on the site.
1013
01:09:15,580 --> 01:09:20,060
I don't know where the vehicles are,
what's happened to the communications.
1014
01:09:21,220 --> 01:09:23,500
I don't see
what was difficult about them.
1015
01:09:26,260 --> 01:09:31,100
And then, like a Christmas miracle,
tents pop up in Trafalgar Square.
1016
01:09:35,060 --> 01:09:38,220
As fast as can be, the camping elves
get everything set up.
1017
01:09:39,340 --> 01:09:43,300
Before Marina can get the kettle on,
the police arrive and ask for tea.
1018
01:09:43,740 --> 01:09:46,220
It's a very hard surface
to be sleeping on.
1019
01:09:46,340 --> 01:09:49,380
Yes, it is, and I'm hoping
we've come prepared.
1020
01:09:50,340 --> 01:09:53,740
But it's a pretty forbidding floor.
1021
01:09:53,860 --> 01:09:55,980
When did you leave the Isle of Wight?
1022
01:09:56,100 --> 01:09:57,820
When they threw me off.
1023
01:09:57,940 --> 01:09:59,900
If you're going to set up here...
1024
01:10:02,460 --> 01:10:07,180
Trafalgar Square is not running out of
tea, and neither is Copenhagen.
1025
01:10:07,300 --> 01:10:13,580
I'm worried about them.
Those Danish police, they've no manners.
1026
01:10:15,220 --> 01:10:17,140
Let's hope they all come back
safe and sound.
1027
01:10:17,260 --> 01:10:21,300
I wouldn't get plastic cups out
in front of those Danish cops.
1028
01:10:21,700 --> 01:10:23,580
Never mind the second best China.
1029
01:10:24,180 --> 01:10:27,820
It's the day before the mass action
against the UN conference.
1030
01:10:27,940 --> 01:10:29,260
All hands are on deck.
1031
01:10:51,420 --> 01:10:53,860
Have you got papers?
1032
01:10:53,980 --> 01:10:58,060
The Danish police has permission
to go into places here.
1033
01:10:58,180 --> 01:11:00,420
According to the Danish Police Act,
1034
01:11:00,540 --> 01:11:04,420
we are to see what's in here
and then we will leave again.
1035
01:11:08,380 --> 01:11:10,500
If we find anything
1036
01:11:10,620 --> 01:11:15,820
that we think can be used
to do anything bad in the future,
1037
01:11:15,940 --> 01:11:17,820
we will take it with us.
1038
01:11:17,940 --> 01:11:22,420
We don't need any papers at all
to go in here.
1039
01:11:22,540 --> 01:11:27,260
We'd like you to turn off the camera.
I got the message from my chief.
1040
01:11:27,380 --> 01:11:30,420
- I've showed you my press card.
- This is a crime scene.
1041
01:11:30,540 --> 01:11:32,260
A crime scene?
1042
01:11:32,380 --> 01:11:36,460
I'm a member of the press.
I showed you my accreditation.
1043
01:11:36,580 --> 01:11:38,580
I'm not turning off the camera.
1044
01:11:38,700 --> 01:11:41,620
If you have a press card,
you have to wait outside.
1045
01:11:41,740 --> 01:11:42,900
No, I don't.
1046
01:11:43,220 --> 01:11:46,420
- But it's private property.
- That doesn't matter.
1047
01:11:46,540 --> 01:11:49,060
The Danish police act
gives the permission.
1048
01:11:49,180 --> 01:11:53,540
I am aware you have another system
in those countries where you are from.
1049
01:11:53,660 --> 01:11:56,100
But in Denmark
we are actually allowed.
1050
01:11:56,220 --> 01:12:00,500
We'd like you to turn off the camera.
If you don't get the message...
1051
01:12:00,620 --> 01:12:05,140
- Don't touch my camera.
- We will take it. It's your decision.
1052
01:12:05,260 --> 01:12:10,660
I was here filming a piece.
This is a matter of public interest.
1053
01:12:10,780 --> 01:12:14,780
I'm not going outside.
Please stop pushing me.
1054
01:12:14,900 --> 01:12:18,420
I am not being unreasonable.
1055
01:12:20,140 --> 01:12:21,060
Just relax.
1056
01:12:21,180 --> 01:12:23,540
- Why have you removed me?
- Excuse me.
1057
01:12:23,660 --> 01:12:26,100
It's so that nobody can see
what you're doing.
1058
01:12:26,220 --> 01:12:30,660
It's a crime scene. We have
to search the place. That's why.
1059
01:12:30,780 --> 01:12:33,380
- What is the crime?
- So we don't want you to film.
1060
01:12:33,500 --> 01:12:35,420
- Tell me.
- We will tell you later.
1061
01:12:35,540 --> 01:12:39,340
You came in there, you said that
you were searching for weapons.
1062
01:12:39,460 --> 01:12:42,340
You've not found any.
1063
01:12:42,460 --> 01:12:45,460
You will have to turn it off now.
1064
01:12:45,580 --> 01:12:48,940
- If you're doing nothing wrong...
- Then I'll take it.
1065
01:13:03,380 --> 01:13:06,340
Everyone needs to be at the table
having a conversation
1066
01:13:06,460 --> 01:13:08,540
about what to do
to stop climate change.
1067
01:13:09,060 --> 01:13:11,460
But that wasn't what was happening
at Copenhagen.
1068
01:13:12,180 --> 01:13:14,820
The action, 16th of December,
1069
01:13:14,940 --> 01:13:20,500
where NGOs and small nations
and countries,
1070
01:13:20,620 --> 01:13:22,860
all sorts of people
from inside the conference...
1071
01:13:22,980 --> 01:13:25,020
Delegates were going to come out
1072
01:13:25,140 --> 01:13:28,340
and meet the grass-roots movements
on the outside
1073
01:13:28,460 --> 01:13:30,900
and meet at the fence,
meet in the middle,
1074
01:13:31,020 --> 01:13:33,460
and have a people's assembly
1075
01:13:33,580 --> 01:13:37,780
to find an actual solution
to climate change.
1076
01:13:37,900 --> 01:13:41,380
And then, on the day of action,
we set off quite quickly,
1077
01:13:41,500 --> 01:13:43,380
got on our bicycles.
1078
01:13:43,500 --> 01:13:45,820
It was snowing and cold.
1079
01:13:45,940 --> 01:13:48,860
As we got quite close
to the Bella Centre,
1080
01:13:48,980 --> 01:13:53,340
all of a sudden, this riot van
full of police turned up.
1081
01:13:53,460 --> 01:13:55,420
"Right, we're nicking you."
1082
01:13:56,580 --> 01:13:58,140
We hadn't done anything,
1083
01:13:58,260 --> 01:14:02,820
we were being arrested
and detained in jail for the day.
1084
01:14:02,940 --> 01:14:05,220
Cuffed us all, on the floor,
in a blizzard
1085
01:14:05,340 --> 01:14:08,860
for about an hour and a half,
whilst they rounded up more people.
1086
01:14:08,980 --> 01:14:13,380
"We're taking you to the chicken
coup," their temporary prison.
1087
01:14:13,500 --> 01:14:16,940
We'd done nothing
and we'd be released later.
1088
01:14:17,700 --> 01:14:23,980
At that point, we felt the full force
of repression from the Danish state,
1089
01:14:24,100 --> 01:14:25,780
sanctioned from the world.
1090
01:14:27,940 --> 01:14:30,540
We are peaceful.
What are you?
1091
01:14:30,660 --> 01:14:32,180
Why do you do that?
1092
01:14:44,500 --> 01:14:47,460
It felt like martial law.
It really did.
1093
01:14:48,660 --> 01:14:52,620
It felt like we were in a war zone.
And it was...
1094
01:14:52,740 --> 01:14:56,620
That element of it was
a really horrible experience.
1095
01:14:56,740 --> 01:15:00,820
They'd just got every road block armed
in this direct confrontation.
1096
01:15:00,940 --> 01:15:03,820
In that direct confrontation,
there was no winning.
1097
01:15:03,940 --> 01:15:08,580
They always have better firepower,
stronger numbers.
1098
01:15:08,700 --> 01:15:10,940
They're fully armed,
just like Robocop.
1099
01:15:11,060 --> 01:15:12,900
18 arrested from bike bloc.
1100
01:15:13,020 --> 01:15:16,140
Aimee's been bitten
by a dog off leash.
1101
01:15:17,820 --> 01:15:19,420
Then Paul rings.
1102
01:15:19,540 --> 01:15:23,220
- Do they know you have this phone?
- No, they don't, no.
1103
01:15:23,340 --> 01:15:26,860
- I smuggled it in, in my pants.
- Can you see people in other cages?
1104
01:15:27,420 --> 01:15:31,020
Yeah, I can see loads of people.
There are hundreds of people here.
1105
01:15:31,140 --> 01:15:33,100
- Hundreds?
- Men and women.
1106
01:15:33,220 --> 01:15:38,140
We were trying to go to the People's
Assembly. We got lifted on the way.
1107
01:15:42,740 --> 01:15:45,900
The inner wall
has just been ripped up.
1108
01:15:48,020 --> 01:15:51,700
The cages are destroyed.
They can't put people in them.
1109
01:15:51,820 --> 01:15:54,980
There was this general feeling of,
if we demolish our cells,
1110
01:15:55,100 --> 01:15:57,140
they can't hold us physically.
1111
01:15:57,780 --> 01:16:01,660
It was a matter of getting
everyone on each side of the cage
1112
01:16:01,780 --> 01:16:05,020
to put their back towards
the dividing wall and hold it.
1113
01:16:05,140 --> 01:16:07,260
You lift it out of the runner
at the bottom
1114
01:16:07,380 --> 01:16:09,860
and you can start shaking it
from side to side.
1115
01:16:09,980 --> 01:16:14,020
It snaps all of these jubilee clips
which are holding it at the edge.
1116
01:16:15,060 --> 01:16:19,260
You just run in together and
they come and blast you all with mace.
1117
01:16:19,380 --> 01:16:21,620
So, gradually, throughout the day,
1118
01:16:21,740 --> 01:16:25,340
I went from this position
of being totally gutted
1119
01:16:25,460 --> 01:16:28,580
that I had gone to go and participate
in a people's assembly
1120
01:16:28,700 --> 01:16:30,580
and been really compliant...
1121
01:16:30,700 --> 01:16:34,900
I was angry with myself for being
compliant and being searched.
1122
01:16:35,020 --> 01:16:36,700
Then I was arrested for no reason.
1123
01:16:36,820 --> 01:16:41,020
..to a position where I felt like we
were breaking down that process
1124
01:16:41,620 --> 01:16:43,860
by asserting our humanity.
1125
01:16:43,980 --> 01:16:47,980
Let us all free! Let us all free!
1126
01:16:48,100 --> 01:16:52,740
What was quite beautiful about it was,
this was a collaboration
1127
01:16:52,860 --> 01:16:57,380
between people from all over Europe
and all over the world.
1128
01:16:57,500 --> 01:17:00,580
The chanting and singing
was in every language.
1129
01:17:00,700 --> 01:17:04,860
You pick it up as quickly as possible
and try and get everyone chanting it.
1130
01:17:04,980 --> 01:17:10,340
It was so powerful to hear complete
indignation about what was going on,
1131
01:17:10,460 --> 01:17:12,700
and we had to unify.
1132
01:17:16,460 --> 01:17:20,580
After weeks of wrangling, Obama
and his pals cut a back-room deal.
1133
01:17:20,700 --> 01:17:23,380
But they couldn't get
the rest of the UN to back it,
1134
01:17:23,500 --> 01:17:25,980
leaving the process on hold
until next year.
1135
01:17:26,100 --> 01:17:30,780
The left-wing Latin American countries
are denouncing the whole thing.
1136
01:17:30,900 --> 01:17:34,700
They are saying that the conference
has been a total failure.
1137
01:17:34,820 --> 01:17:38,660
They are saying they want a world
referendum on what should be done.
1138
01:17:38,780 --> 01:17:44,020
They are blaming America specifically
and capitalism generally.
1139
01:17:44,140 --> 01:17:48,180
I think it's not even...
It can't even be called a deal.
1140
01:17:48,300 --> 01:17:50,060
It could be called a cop-out.
1141
01:17:51,540 --> 01:17:56,300
Technically, our politicians are meant
to be on our side but they're not.
1142
01:17:59,300 --> 01:18:03,700
So I went to Copenhagen to protest
at what was being proposed
1143
01:18:03,820 --> 01:18:08,300
by the governments taking part
in the summit, which is carbon trading,
1144
01:18:08,420 --> 01:18:10,260
and disrupt that conference.
1145
01:18:10,380 --> 01:18:15,620
In doing that,
hopefully, you hoped that...
1146
01:18:17,100 --> 01:18:21,580
..governments would seek another path
to solving climate change,
1147
01:18:21,700 --> 01:18:25,180
which wouldn't be
a capital-based money system.
1148
01:18:25,300 --> 01:18:27,220
Everything would be solved
1149
01:18:27,340 --> 01:18:31,660
because we told them
not to do that and they listened.
1150
01:18:33,100 --> 01:18:36,980
- But they didn't listen to you?
- They didn't listen. Of course not.
1151
01:18:38,260 --> 01:18:39,860
You say, "Of course not".
1152
01:18:39,980 --> 01:18:43,420
Some people would say you knew
it was futile from the beginning.
1153
01:18:43,540 --> 01:18:45,060
Of course it was futile.
1154
01:18:45,180 --> 01:18:48,860
But sometimes, even when
you know something is futile,
1155
01:18:48,980 --> 01:18:52,540
it doesn't mean you shouldn't try,
because you've got to have hope.
1156
01:18:52,660 --> 01:18:59,940
If you don't try, then you never know
if you're going to win or lose.
1157
01:19:00,060 --> 01:19:02,860
Because you might surprise yourself
sometimes.
1158
01:19:02,980 --> 01:19:07,260
Other people might surprise you.
And you've got to try.
1159
01:19:07,380 --> 01:19:09,380
A lot of us came back disheartened.
1160
01:19:09,500 --> 01:19:11,660
I know I certainly...
1161
01:19:12,620 --> 01:19:17,100
..interestingly, have shifted my
perspective away from climate change,
1162
01:19:17,220 --> 01:19:20,780
and realised I need to shout
more loudly about capitalism.
1163
01:19:21,380 --> 01:19:24,580
I need to shout much more loudly
about the system,
1164
01:19:25,020 --> 01:19:27,620
rather than what the system's doing.
1165
01:19:28,180 --> 01:19:32,060
Copenhagen forced me
into that position.
1166
01:19:32,740 --> 01:19:35,580
I went there to discuss climate change
1167
01:19:35,700 --> 01:19:41,940
and came out discussing capitalism
and state control.
1168
01:19:42,340 --> 01:19:44,180
It totally radicalised me.
1169
01:19:44,300 --> 01:19:50,260
So, thank you, Copenhagen police
for pushing me into that corner.
1170
01:19:50,940 --> 01:19:54,180
Post-capitalism. It's better
than what we've got already.
1171
01:19:54,300 --> 01:19:58,180
I'm not sure how to get there,
I'm not sure how it's going to work.
1172
01:19:58,300 --> 01:20:00,140
But I think we can give it a go.
1173
01:20:00,260 --> 01:20:03,740
You're into post-capitalism,
aren't you? Give it a go.
1174
01:20:03,860 --> 01:20:05,900
Vote Sophie Nathan!
1175
01:20:06,300 --> 01:20:07,700
- Have you voted?
- Yes.
1176
01:20:07,820 --> 01:20:11,180
Good, nice, like it.
Are you pleased with your choice?
1177
01:20:11,660 --> 01:20:13,540
- No.
- I wasn't either.
1178
01:20:13,660 --> 01:20:16,340
I think they're trying
to trick everybody.
1179
01:20:16,460 --> 01:20:19,820
All right, well,
you didn't vote for me, I'm guessing?
1180
01:20:19,940 --> 01:20:22,980
I'm standing as an independent,
Sophie Nathan.
1181
01:20:23,100 --> 01:20:26,100
I set up my own party
called the Post-Capitalist party
1182
01:20:26,220 --> 01:20:29,380
for a life beyond profit and growth.
1183
01:20:29,620 --> 01:20:34,140
You never know.
Fingers crossed.
1184
01:20:34,860 --> 01:20:36,580
Back out near Heathrow,
1185
01:20:36,700 --> 01:20:38,500
Lily and the Plane Stupid crew
1186
01:20:38,620 --> 01:20:41,260
are about to try something different.
1187
01:20:41,380 --> 01:20:45,420
Today, we're starting the first big
project of Transition Heathrow.
1188
01:20:48,220 --> 01:20:51,700
We've taken a piece of land
which was in a state of disrepair.
1189
01:20:51,820 --> 01:20:55,940
It's got these beautiful green houses.
We'll have a land clearing weekend.
1190
01:20:56,060 --> 01:20:58,100
We're going to get our community down
1191
01:20:58,580 --> 01:21:01,220
and get people to decide
what they want to happen here.
1192
01:21:03,420 --> 01:21:06,580
I'm a council tax payer.
They're welcome in this village.
1193
01:21:08,940 --> 01:21:11,740
The locals have been backing us
in this project.
1194
01:21:11,860 --> 01:21:14,540
They keep dropping around
bags of food
1195
01:21:14,660 --> 01:21:18,340
and just dropping in blankets
and sleeping bags and everything,
1196
01:21:18,460 --> 01:21:20,780
making sure we're warm,
joining us at night.
1197
01:21:20,900 --> 01:21:24,460
So everybody's really excited
about what it could become.
1198
01:21:24,580 --> 01:21:28,180
When Climate Camp came and these
young people came to support us,
1199
01:21:28,300 --> 01:21:29,860
we haven't looked back.
1200
01:21:30,700 --> 01:21:35,020
It's the autonomy of a project
like this that makes it direct action.
1201
01:21:35,140 --> 01:21:39,420
It's disregarding the existing power
structures and doing it ourselves.
1202
01:21:39,540 --> 01:21:41,300
When my life's over,
1203
01:21:41,420 --> 01:21:44,780
I hope that my contribution to it
added something positive
1204
01:21:44,900 --> 01:21:46,980
rather than took something away.
1205
01:21:47,100 --> 01:21:51,140
If you want the future world to be
a certain way, or to be different,
1206
01:21:51,740 --> 01:21:57,020
then we should start to pre-figure
that future world in the here and now,
1207
01:21:57,140 --> 01:21:58,740
and be the change we want to see.
1208
01:21:58,860 --> 01:22:02,580
We've started something
and our hearts are into finishing it.
1209
01:22:03,660 --> 01:22:06,620
So we hope we are winning.
1210
01:22:07,260 --> 01:22:08,780
If we're not,
1211
01:22:09,220 --> 01:22:13,860
we'll take a rain check
and we'll be in there doing something.
1212
01:22:15,100 --> 01:22:18,220
- We'll be in there doing something.
- Will it be legal?
1213
01:22:18,340 --> 01:22:21,780
It won't be legal.
You can definitely bank on that.
1214
01:22:22,460 --> 01:22:24,500
Don't know the meaning of that word.
1215
01:22:27,260 --> 01:22:30,100
I want to see a future
where people work together
1216
01:22:30,220 --> 01:22:34,100
and create things together and have
control over their workplaces
1217
01:22:34,220 --> 01:22:36,020
and their housing and their lives.
1218
01:22:36,140 --> 01:22:38,420
That's really important to me.
1219
01:22:38,540 --> 01:22:41,260
I don't want to sell my time to people
1220
01:22:41,780 --> 01:22:45,580
to do jobs I don't care about to gain
a lifestyle which won't make me happy.
1221
01:22:45,700 --> 01:22:48,340
I want to carry on working with people
in this way.
1222
01:22:48,460 --> 01:22:51,220
Everything's changed for me
about the future.
1223
01:22:52,460 --> 01:22:57,540
If you were going to sum it up
in one word, it's anti-capitalism.
1224
01:22:57,660 --> 01:23:00,660
But, for a lot of people,
that doesn't mean anything.
1225
01:23:00,780 --> 01:23:03,980
I think what we need to understand
is the connections.
1226
01:23:04,100 --> 01:23:09,020
The system that puts profit over
people is the same one driving this.
1227
01:23:10,500 --> 01:23:12,340
Revolution!
1228
01:23:14,060 --> 01:23:17,100
I can see the end of capitalism
1229
01:23:17,220 --> 01:23:22,460
as the only rational solution
to solving climate change.
1230
01:23:23,500 --> 01:23:27,500
I've tried thinking and reading
about all sorts of different things.
1231
01:23:28,220 --> 01:23:31,500
Every time it comes back
to money and power.
1232
01:23:32,540 --> 01:23:37,660
I see capitalism as the epitome
of money and power.
1233
01:23:37,780 --> 01:23:40,980
It worries the people
in power what we're saying.
1234
01:23:41,100 --> 01:23:42,860
You've got to ask why.
1235
01:23:43,540 --> 01:23:45,700
Because it's not threatening
to anyone.
1236
01:23:45,820 --> 01:23:49,580
It's asking for a better quality
of life for everyone else.
1237
01:23:51,220 --> 01:23:54,700
If capitalism wants to stop that,
1238
01:23:54,820 --> 01:23:57,220
then capitalism has to go.
1239
01:24:03,580 --> 01:24:06,420
The yield of something is limited
only by your imagination.
1240
01:24:06,540 --> 01:24:09,380
A site like this is giving so much
in different ways,
1241
01:24:09,500 --> 01:24:13,980
in ways that I didn't think about
before we started talking about it,
1242
01:24:14,100 --> 01:24:17,900
like being drawn together
by principles of growing.
1243
01:24:18,020 --> 01:24:22,180
They're rebuilding a community
blighted by the threat of the airport.
1244
01:24:24,620 --> 01:24:27,860
We're doing a fundraiser
for the Grow Heathrow project,
1245
01:24:27,980 --> 01:24:31,580
a thank you to everyone
who's helped set up this project,
1246
01:24:31,700 --> 01:24:34,580
who are currently involved
in keeping it all going,
1247
01:24:34,700 --> 01:24:38,380
and a way to celebrate how much
we've achieved in such a short time.
1248
01:24:38,500 --> 01:24:40,620
Because we couldn't have done it
alone.
1249
01:24:40,740 --> 01:24:42,460
Yeah, I'm the sous chef.
1250
01:24:43,460 --> 01:24:46,620
He's in charge, he's head chef.
I'm just helping out.
1251
01:24:49,300 --> 01:24:51,460
So our tale is coming to a close.
1252
01:24:51,860 --> 01:24:55,740
But before we say goodbye,
Rowan's got one last story for us.
1253
01:24:56,140 --> 01:24:57,580
We had a plan
1254
01:24:57,700 --> 01:25:00,700
to shut down Didcot Power Station.
1255
01:25:01,460 --> 01:25:05,780
We ended up at four in the morning,
a convoy of maybe 20 of us.
1256
01:25:05,900 --> 01:25:08,260
Cycled straight past
security barriers,
1257
01:25:08,380 --> 01:25:10,700
split into two groups.
1258
01:25:11,180 --> 01:25:14,020
One group was headed
for the coal conveyor belt,
1259
01:25:14,540 --> 01:25:17,020
and the other group
headed for the chimney.
1260
01:25:17,340 --> 01:25:18,340
I was in the chimney team.
1261
01:25:18,460 --> 01:25:22,980
Got to the base of the chimney,
cut the lock off the gate.
1262
01:25:24,140 --> 01:25:26,700
We got inside.
We ran up this chimney.
1263
01:25:26,820 --> 01:25:28,780
We thought we were being chased.
1264
01:25:28,900 --> 01:25:33,740
And it was a spiral staircase,
a square spiral staircase going up.
1265
01:25:34,100 --> 01:25:36,300
We had no idea
of how high we were.
1266
01:25:36,820 --> 01:25:38,860
It was pitch black.
We only had torches.
1267
01:25:38,980 --> 01:25:42,900
You can't see anything.
It's just a void below and above.
1268
01:25:43,020 --> 01:25:46,300
It was like, "We're screwed."
We thought we were halfway up.
1269
01:25:46,820 --> 01:25:49,380
And then someone was like,
"I can see stars."
1270
01:25:49,500 --> 01:25:53,620
And we realised we were at the top.
We cheered and it was amazing.
1271
01:25:53,740 --> 01:25:55,180
We got out on top
1272
01:25:55,300 --> 01:25:59,180
and it was like a flood of endorphins,
an unbelievable feeling.
1273
01:26:02,580 --> 01:26:07,700
The police begin removing the
other crew locked on a conveyor belt.
1274
01:26:07,940 --> 01:26:10,580
Give me a feeling about
what your intentions are.
1275
01:26:10,700 --> 01:26:13,780
- We intend to be here three days.
- Three days?
1276
01:26:13,900 --> 01:26:16,700
Any particular reason why three days?
1277
01:26:17,020 --> 01:26:19,340
Because that's how much food
we've got.
1278
01:26:25,540 --> 01:26:28,940
By day three, the power station
had stopped burning coal.
1279
01:26:29,060 --> 01:26:32,620
Their supplies running low,
but mission accomplished,
1280
01:26:32,740 --> 01:26:35,900
Rowan and crew came back down
to face the consequences.
1281
01:26:36,020 --> 01:26:38,660
So were you making a point
or stopping emissions?
1282
01:26:38,780 --> 01:26:40,580
We were doing both.
1283
01:26:40,700 --> 01:26:44,820
We were making a point
that this shouldn't be continued.
1284
01:26:44,940 --> 01:26:47,820
We were trying to make a point
to RWE NPower,
1285
01:26:47,940 --> 01:26:50,300
who owned Didcot Power Station,
1286
01:26:50,420 --> 01:26:52,140
that this isn't a good thing to do
1287
01:26:52,260 --> 01:26:55,780
and you shouldn't plan to build
new coal firepower stations.
1288
01:26:55,900 --> 01:27:00,700
At the same time, we were directly
stopping carbon emissions.
1289
01:27:23,580 --> 01:27:25,260
I'm not in the way now.
1290
01:27:25,380 --> 01:27:28,580
Are you going to stand up for us?
1291
01:27:28,700 --> 01:27:31,980
She's not actually in the way.
You're quite right.
1292
01:27:32,340 --> 01:27:36,780
This is what I'm living to do now,
cos it needs to be done.
1293
01:27:37,380 --> 01:27:40,740
I hope that doesn't sound nonsense.
It's what life is all about.
1294
01:27:40,860 --> 01:27:44,260
There is more to life than
being judged on your ability to shop,
1295
01:27:44,380 --> 01:27:47,500
based on an income
and what you've accumulated.
1296
01:27:47,620 --> 01:27:49,900
I think we all still agree
1297
01:27:50,020 --> 01:27:53,380
that the spirit is still
an important aspect of humanity.
1298
01:27:54,020 --> 01:27:57,580
And it's to be expressed and lived,
and I try to do that.
1299
01:27:58,220 --> 01:28:00,100
I can't help doing that.
1300
01:28:03,100 --> 01:28:07,100
People think "I can't glue or lock on,
I don't want to be arrested."
1301
01:28:07,220 --> 01:28:10,380
It doesn't matter. Get involved.
1302
01:28:10,500 --> 01:28:12,420
I started off making tea.
1303
01:28:12,900 --> 01:28:16,500
Now I'm just like, "Oh, bloody hell,
come on, let's sit down here."
1304
01:28:16,620 --> 01:28:21,020
If anyone out there is thinking,
"I want to do more", just do it.
1305
01:28:24,380 --> 01:28:26,260
Doing something is better
than nothing?
1306
01:28:26,380 --> 01:28:27,740
Absolutely.
1307
01:28:28,220 --> 01:28:32,420
Doing nothing about climate change
makes climate change worse.
1308
01:28:32,940 --> 01:28:36,180
So even doing a little something
is better than doing nothing?
1309
01:28:36,460 --> 01:28:39,940
And I don't mean "I recycle".
I don't mean that.
1310
01:28:40,060 --> 01:28:42,780
I mean civilised disobedience.
1311
01:28:43,500 --> 01:28:44,300
Do it.
1312
01:31:16,060 --> 01:31:20,060
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