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10.00.01 CAPTION:
The world of environmental direct
action has been a secretive one…
…until now.
10.00.13
MARINA
Taking tea is what the British do,
whenever they’re in a difficult
circumstance
10.00.18 MARINA
We’ve got the kettle on, we haven’t got
enough water in it, we’re going to make
loads of tea.
10.00.20 MARINA
Yea I’ve served tea outside the bank of
England on more than one occasion. I’ve
served tea to the silver command which
is the second in overall command on an
action, when the police are involved. I’ve
served tea to politicians, outside
factories I’ve tried to serve tea to
bailiffs as they’re evicting.
Silver Command –British Police
Term
10.00.38 MARINA
It's a free cup of tea or if you want to
make a donation, that's allowed too.
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10.00.43 INTERVIEWER
So you’re a domestic extremist?
10.00.44 MARINA
I’m a domestic extremist.
10.00.47 INTERVIEWER
What makes you a domestic extremist?
10.00.49 MARINA
You will have to ask Special Branch what
makes me a domestic extremist.
Special Branch – British police term
10.00.57 MARINA
I care passionately about politics on a
global level, but work on it on a local
level, so within my own country mostly,
that’s for the domestic bit. I’m extreme
because I’ve gone well beyond in my
climate change activities. I’ve gone well
beyond recycling and walking the kids to
school.
10.01.12 MARINA
I put my body in the way and I don’t
mind being arrested.
10.01.16
CAPTION:
Left Field Films presents
JUST DO IT
A tale of modern-day outlaws
A film by Emily James
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CAPTION:
Left Field Films presents
JUST DO IT
A tale of modern-day outlaws
A film by Emily James
Produced by
Lauren Simpson
Edited and Narrated by
James Leadbitter
10.01.40 JAMES
You know when you’re watching on the
news right, and you see stuff like this.
And then the newsreaders say really
helpful stuff like this.
James has northern England accent.
The word ‘right’ at end of sentence
is slang.
10.01.52 NEWSREADER
Let’s bring you now the latest we’re
getting from this so called camp for
climate action.
10.01.57 NEWSREADER
Environment campaigners have scaled up
a building in central London and unfurled
a banner.
10.02.02 NEWSREADERS
I’m glad he’s cleaning up, but I hope he’s
going to have a shower, his feet were
filthy.
10.02.06 JAMES
Well this is what you don’t see, a
glimpse into the secretive and
clandestine world of environmental
direct action.
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10.02.19 JAMES
I’m James and I’m your guide, and how
do I know what I’m talking about? Well
that’s me climbing into that power
station. But this isn’t a film about me,
it's about people like this.
CAPTION 10:03:31
Lily
10.02.29 LILY
This is not something that I can know
and then not do anything about. I have
to do something.
CAPTION 10:03:40
Rowan
10.02.35 ROWAN
I want to feel like I’m doing something
rather than nothing
CAPTION 10:03:52
Sally
10.02.39 SALLY
I think what we do have a choice about
is the future now.
CAPTION 10:03:59
Paul
10.02.43 PAUL
Lots of playing with the media.
CAPTION 10:04:07
Marina
10.02.47 MARINA
But if you think you can do something
and you can make a difference, through
campaigning or putting your body in the
way, then that’s empowering.
10.02.55 SOPHIE
you’ve just got to do it, like just do it.
Dodgy - illegal
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CAPTION 10:04:17
Sophie
10.03.05 CAPTION:
G20 Summit, London
10.03.13 JAMES
It's April Fool’s day 2009, the world’s
leaders are in London for the G20
meeting, and a flurry of protests are
welcoming them to town.
Climate camp are planning to turn the
heart of the financial district into a
street party.
April Fools Day-1st April
10.03.37 JAMES
Their target, blockading the European
climate exchange. Why? Because they
don’t want the climate to be left in the
hands of the bankers.
10.03.45 SOPHIE
Well exactly, some trouble needs to be
caused.
CAPTIONS 10:03:53
Marina
10.03.49 JAMES
The camp had all the ingredients for a
good party and everyone was there. And
of course Marina’s getting the kettle on.
Even the press were loving it.
10.03.59 NEWSREADER
At the moment things are very calm,
very relaxed.
10.04.03 JAMES
But as evening drew in, a bunch of
Evening drew in – as it became the
evening
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uninvited party poopers gatecrashed.
10.04.36 JAMES
Policing like this would normally go
unnoticed, but a death is harder to
brush under the carpet.
Ian Tomlinson, on his way home from
work, in the wrong place, at the wrong
time, was pushed to his death.
10.04.57 JAMES
The outrage this caused led to a
dramatic change in the policing of
protests. Gone, the police claimed, were
beatings, brute force and random
kettling. In came a PR offensive of
kindly coppers and tea.
PR = public relations
Kettling = a police tactic of
cordoning off groups so they can’t
leave an area.
Coppers = police
10.05.09 JULIA PENDRY
I would love a cup of tea. Thank you
very much, that would be great, thank
you.
10.05.13 JAMES
How long the police would behave
themselves for nobody knew.
10.05.22 JAMES
Down on the Isle of Wight champion tea
maker Marina is about to dig her heels
in.
Dig her heels in = get stuck in =get
involved
10.5.22 CAPTION:
UK
More Wind Less Talk
Isle of Wight
Isle of Wight – an island off the
south coast of UK
10.05.27 MARINA Vestas= a company name
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10.05.27 MARINA
Hello, we’re at the protest camp,
outside the Vestas Blades UK factory,
on the Isle of Wight. The factory is
being occupied by the workers., yay.
Vestas= a company name
10.05.42 MARINA
A wind turbine factory was closed down
because apparently there wasn’t a
demand for wind turbines and over four
hundred workers lost their jobs.
10:05:50 CROWD
Reinstate the workers, reinstate them
now
10.05.53
MARINA
They went in with stuff, but they’d run
out of supplies and food could only be
got into there, in tennis balls being
lobbed from a distance. They were
getting hungry and Vestas, this
multinational company was starving them
out. Well we weren’t having that
obviously. This lady turned up and said
I’ve made some fish and chips and I
want to deliver them to the men in the
factory, and I want to deliver it myself,
and I want them to eat it while it's still
warm.
So I was like, OK, we can facilitate that.
Stuff = she means food / supplies
Lobbed =thrown a long distance
Marina is putting food into tennis
balls to throw to the workers in the
factory
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10:06:38
Fish and chips, run the other way, you
run the other way.
Come on everybody,
10.06.53 And we all went on and half the fish and
chips, got through.
10:06:59
10.07.01
10.07.02
MARINA
Are you going to do a speech?
WOMAN
No
MARINA
Yes come on.
WOMAN
We can’t have bullies like that telling us
what to do.
MARINA
Exactly.
WOMAN
What nonsense.
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10:07:06
MARINA
And it’s an absolutely fantastic
celebration because suddenly all the
locals were like, ‘yay they’ve been fed’,
and people were coming up here and it
was like, ‘oh those terrible
environmental anarchists have just fed
our lads’ and they’ve done it with the
locals. And everyone suddenly are all on
the same side. So now we’re going to
start taking them in soap, shampoo,
things to wash their hair with, new
underwear, socks, T-Shirts, hand
written cards from their children and
family, newspapers.
warms your cockles – warms your
insides/ heart
10.07.35 CAPTION
LONDON
EAT THE BANKERS
10.07.35 JAMES
Back in London a plan is afoot to get the
Vestas struggle into the papers. The
target it Lord Mandelson, minister for
business and everyone’s favourite
unelected slimy politician.
10:07:53
CAPTION
Tamsin
10.07.06 TAMSIN
So what the plan is, is to draw attention
to the fact that he is responsible for
Vestas wind turbine factory closing
down. And what we’re saying is
Mandelson has it in his power to put a
huge amount of investment into the car
industry. But generally he’s quite good
at pushing for and helping out high
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carbon industries but when it comes to
a failing wind turbine factory, he’s
incapable of giving them any incentive to
stay, promising that there will be a
demand in this country within the next
five years.
10.08.11 JAMES
Tomorrow Sally will be chaining herself
to Mandelson’s house and she could be
arrested.
10.08.16 INTERVIEWER
So Sally have you been arrested? If not
are you prepared to be?
10:08:33
CAPTION:
Sally
10.08.21
10:08:43
SALLY
I guess I have to be prepared to be. It’s
a really slow decision, I’d been around a
lot of people who have been arrested,
I’d heard their stories and knew what it
entailed. You make a theoretical
decision, so I guess the crunch point of
the theoretical decision was in saying
that I would get involved with the Peter
Mandelson action.
If they can bail out the banks with 1.4
trillion pounds, then they need to be
bailing out our green future.
10.08.49 JAMES
As hoped the stunt propelled the Vestas
struggle into the headlines.
10:08:52 CAPTIONS
GUARDIAN
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Climate change campaigners stage
protest outside Mandelson’s house
EVENING STANDARD
Protesters target Lord Mandelson as
he takes control
THE SUN
Climate Protest at Mandy House
10.08.57 CAPTION:
Cambridge
10.08.59
SALLY
The great thing about doing activism, is
it's a whole other education outside of
this quite narrow education that you can
sometimes get in Cambridge, where
you’re very much taught to think in an
academic way that's disconnected from
the real world. And I think I want to
use all the education I’ve got here and
put it into the real world, and then learn
more skills from the people. So that's
what really excites me about having
these two worlds.
Cambridge =Cambridge university
10.09.24 JAMES
Pitching up on the doorsteps of places
like airports and power stations, climate
camp and large direct action training
camps have shifted the entire climate
change debate in the UK. But if you’ve
seen climate camp on the news, you’ll
know that they are frequently
portrayed as just a bunch of violent
Hooligans =thugs
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10.09.24 JAMES
Pitching up on the doorsteps of places
like airports and power stations, climate
camp and large direct action training
camps have shifted the entire climate
change debate in the UK. But if you’ve
seen climate camp on the news, you’ll
know that they are frequently
portrayed as just a bunch of violent
hooligans.
Hooligans =thugs
10.09.45 CAPTION
Seized
10.09.43 NEWSREADER
Police say this was the reason they had
to go into the climate camp.
10.09.47 REPORTER
There’s a knife here which was
discovered in a tree and down below we
see grappling irons that of course could
be used to scale any building, and these
are white suits that some of the
protestors might wear, they say. Also
we see bolt croppers, they could be
used to try to take down any fences.
And over here we see wet suits, now the
protesters have said they’ll try to reach
Kingsnorth by any means, by air, by land
and by sea.
Kingsnorth refers to Kingsnorth
power station in England
10.10.13 JAMES
Now climate campers may be
extremists, and they definitely are, and
they may even be prepared to break the
law, which they often do. But let’s be
clear about one thing; previous climate
camps have been marred by police
violence.
10:10:28
POLICE
Get back! Get back!
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CAPTION
LONDON
EAT THE BANKERS
10.10.36 NARRATOR
This year the camp is in London and
they’re targeting the banks that finance
climate change. Marina’s in a group
coming up from the South Coast.
10.10.44 MARINA
We’re doing some basic techniques that
might come in useful for the first 24
hours while we’re settling down with the
police. If we do need to use blockading
techniques before we have our defences
built then these will be the sort of
things we’ll have to use, bodies. Because
that’s all we’ve got.
10.11.02 JAMES
All across London groups of campers are
gathering at designated meeting points,
and are getting ready to pounce on the
secret location for this year’s camp.
10:11:12 CAPTION
Rowan
10:11:12 ROWAN
Today we’re doing the climate camp
bicycle swoop.
Would you like a flyer?
We’ll receive a secret message at some
point today, revealing the location of
the climate camp, and we’ll all be
swooping there as a group together.
Swoop – a term to explain how
people from different locations
approach the site at the same time
10.11.28 MARINA
Who hasn’t taken part in any meetings
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involving consensus? So in a big meeting
if you agree it's hands straight up and
wiggly fingers. We’re not part of a mad
cult, unless you think climate camp is a
mad cult. It feels really ridiculous to
begin with but when meetings are
working, it's very, very effective.
10:11:49 SALLY
Left out of Blackheath Station, up the
hill, bare left onto Hare and Billet road,
walk to the top and the site is on your
right
10.11.58 JAMES
It's then a race across London to
secure the site before the police can
stop them.
10.12.03 MARINA
They’ve done it here, wow.
10.12.07 ROWAN
The climate camp is a temporary
encampment basically, everything is run
through consensus. Climate camp is all
about taking direct action and making
the changes that you want to see
happen. And it's in its nature and it
teaches that to everyone who comes to
the climate camp.
10:12:29
CAPTION
Capitalists
10.12.23 MARINA
Well here we are on Blackheath, in
London taking on capitalism, which is
quite scary for the capitalists I hope.
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And we expected three deep riot police,
we expected to be doing all sorts of
naughty things that I can’t really tell
you because we might need them in
future. And we get here and you can’t
even get a Copper when you need one.
10.12.46
CAPTION:
Julia Pendry
Silver Command
10.12.46 POLICE – JULIA PENDRY
Hi. All right then. Thank you. Have a
successful camp. Bye bye.
POLICE
Have a nice night.
10.12.52 ROWAN
It's a camp where people can come
together, share ideas, meet new people,.
A group of us, we came together to plan
and carry out an action.
10.13:04
CAPTION
Cop Camera
10.13.02 JAMES
The police may have made themselves
scarce, but they’re still watching. Since
the plan needs to remain top secret, the
activists take precautions. They take
the batteries out of their phones and
they are careful about what they say
out loud.
10.13.15 ROWAN
I think talking about the target might
be alright, just as long as the time and
the date is not talked about.
10.13.24 SALLY
There’s no particular reason why we
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have to say it, if everyone’s seen it
though, so we could just refer to it.
10.13.29 CAPTION:
Royal Bank of Scotland
London HQ
Tuesday morning
10.13.30
WOMAN
Can we just maybe use another word
instead of the target and we all know
what we’re talking about.
10.13.40
WOMAN
Um, the target
10.13.43 MAN
I think probably three ladders with
people at the top and people at the
bottom locked on.
Locked on – literally locked to an
item – in this case a step ladder so
the police cannot remove you easily.
10.13.50 WOMAN
The idea of this, it was to blockade it,
to reclaim it as the people, like it's our
bank, we’re reclaiming it and we’re gonna
build it into what we want.
10.14.00 JAMES
Now it wouldn’t be a very good idea to
go directly from the camp to the action,
since a group of activists setting off
with bags full of D locks and ladders,
would be reasonably likely to get
rumbled. So they all leave the camp to
head to temporary base for the night.
Rumbled = caught by the police
10.14.18 SALLY
Cool. So has everyone got their
batteries out of their phones. One thing
we’ve been discussing quite a lot is
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whether we want to have people going
into the building with superglue and
supergluing to each other, not to the
building, because if we superglued to
the building that would be a criminal
damage charge.
10:14:33 ROWAN
If all else fails, it's every man for
themselves, just lock onto whatever you
can.
10.14.39 WOMAN
So basically the likely charges of both
going inside and being outside is
aggravated trespass, and criminal
damage, we have avoided at every cost
in the planning of this action.
10.14.51
WOMAN
So who’s going arrestable?
Can someone count?
Eighteen.
10.15.06 JAMES
Sally has stepped up to be a
spokesperson tomorrow, so she brushes
up on her facts and figures.
10.15.11 MAN
If you were going to quote a figure,
make sure that you say took part in
loans, or were involved in loans, because
what RBS do is they’re like the
intermediary between investors and
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investment projects.
10.15.31 WOMAN
We’re making up the arm locks.
10.15.34
10:15:47
JAMES
Arm locks are a cunning way to lock
yourself to someone, so that it's hard
for the police to separate you.
It may appear like these guys are
seasoned pros, but don’t be fooled, only
a couple of them have ever been
arrested before.
10:15:54
10:16:00
ROWAN
You hold the lock on the front of your
neck so you can personally undo it
WOMAN
Yeah that’s more comfortable as well
10.16.09
10.16.20
WOMAN
Right so can we have a talk through, so
James your first part.
JAMES
I’m going to drive down there and I’m
going to check out RBS subtly, have a
cup of tea. I’ve got to look for any
abnormal security, police movements.
WOMAN
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Animation: Shows the plan
People in the white marquee, people who
are going to be blockading the outside,
go to the van, get everything out. Then
as soon as everything’s out of the van,
that's when arrestable inside need to
go. We follow straight afterwards, and
just behind us we need to have all of
the non arrestables.
10.16.40 CAPTION:
What are you writing on your arm?
10.16.52
SALLY
I’m writing the number of the climate
camp legal support which will be the
number we’ll call from jail or if we’ve
been arrested.
10.16.53 ROWAN
Yes, they say, ‘who do you want to be
informed about you being arrested?’ and
you give them that number.
10.17.28 CAPTION:
Inside Superglue Crew
10.17.34 CAPTION:
Outside Lock-on Crew
10:18:00 MAN
Oi, you’re going to hurt me, you’re going
to hit me in the head
10:18:05 WOMAN
Can somebody take the other side of
this ladder please?
10:18:19 INTERVIEWER
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Can you see them at all?
10:18:21
WOMAN
No I can’t see them they must have got
right inside
10:18:23 Subtitles: Whose future, our future,
whose money, our money
10:18:23 CROWD
Whose future – our future!
Whose Money – our money!
10.18.30 POLICE
Have you got a spokesperson or anyone
I can speak to?
10.18.31 WOMAN
I’m the media spokesperson
10.18.33 POLICE
Okay. I’d just er…
10.18.34 WOMAN
Would you like to know why we’re here?
10.18.36 POLICE
I would like to know why you’re here.
10.18.37
WOMAN
Yes. We’re renovating the Royal Bank of
Scotland because we wont stand for the
fact that the government has invested
thirty three billion pounds in the Royal
Bank of Scotland, to bail it out and that
is financing the climate change, due to
the way that that money is invested.
POLICE OFFICER
Okay. you do realise obviously that
you’re obstructing people’s access and
egress to the premises and things like
Egress= exiting, the right of a
person to leave a property
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Subtitles:Michael Hannard UK security
operations manager.You’ve entered the
building today unlawfully. You’ve been
asked to leave and you’ve all refused.
You’ve caused intimidation to staff and
disrupted the business. As a
representative, let me please finish, as
a representative of the business, I will
inform you that if you do refuse to
leave and if you are arrested, then as a
company we will prosecute you all.
10.19.04
10.19.27
that.
WOMAN
Yes we are aware of that.
POLICE OFFICER
And also you’re obstructing people on
the highway etcetera.
REPRESENTATIVE
Michael Hannard UK security operations
manager.You’ve entered the building
today unlawfully. You’ve been asked to
leave and you’ve all refused. You’ve
caused intimidation to staff and
disrupted the business. As a
representative, let me please finish, as
a representative of the business, I will
inform you that if you do refuse to
leave and if you are arrested, then as a
company we will prosecute you all.
POLICE
Is there anything else that I can
reasonably do or say that will make you
leave the premises?
Subtitles: If you commit that RBS
would stop investing in the fossil fuel
10.19.33 MAN
If you commit that RBS would stop
investing in the fossil fuel industry and
change over to serious investment in
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industry and change over to serious
investment in Renewables, we would
happily leave if that was the
commitment.
Renewables, we would happily leave if
that was the commitment.
10.19.48 JAMES
The new touchy, feely policing, means
the news is not distracted by police
violence and can now find time to
actually report why the activists are
there.
10.19.56 NEWSREADER
Climate campaigners have glued and
chained themselves to the London
headquarters of the Royal Bank of
Scotland.
NEWSREADER
Dressed as construction workers, they
used bike locks and superglue to attach
themselves to the building.
10.20.07 SALLY
We aim to shut down the bank for a
whole working day, this is an anti bank’s
holiday.
10.20.11 MAN
They’re angry at the bank’s investment
in fossil fuel projects.
10.20.15 JAMES
Before long the removal team arrive to
unglue the guys on the trading floor.
10:20:20 Subtitles: 10:20:20 POLICE
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It may sting a little bit It may sting a little bit
10:20:30 CAPTION
frank
10:20:30 INTERVIEWER
How’s it going so far?
FRANK
It's going really well I think, we’re still
here that’s always good.
10.20.35 JAMES
In Fact the blockade has managed to
hang on until the end of the business
day.
10:20:39 SINGING
RBS are funding climate change, its
shit, it’s the tax payers money, we won’t
stand for this
10.20.55 JAMES
Once again, climate camp has grabbed
the nation’s attention and inspired a new
generation of outlaws, who leave
determined to be a thorn in the side of
the capitalists.
10.21.13 CAPTION
Tracy
10.21.13 TRACY
I’m Tracy Howard I am a wife, mother,
resident and local campaigner in the
village of Sipson.
10.21.21 TRACY
At the moment we’re under the threat
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of the third runway, but BAA proposed
to demolish everything that you can see
around here in this beautiful village to
make way for a horrendous runway,
extending Heathrow airport.
10.21.34 JAMES
And a bigger airport means more flights
and more emissions into the
atmosphere. So a third runway at
Heathrow has become a climate change
battleground.
10:21:52
CAPTION
Lily
10.21.47 LILY
I was one of the people who was
occupying the runway at Stansted last
December and the turning point in my
political motivation, was the 2007
climate camp. I’d been on the fringes of
doing stuff then and I’d always been
interested, I’d been to lots of marches
and stuff like that, and then in 2007 I
was like right, enough’s enough, we’ve
got to start actually doing stuff. It's so
drastic and potentially affecting my
future so detrimentally that I have to
try everything I can to do something
about it, yea.
10.22.21 TRACY
I got involved about six to seven years
ago with the threat of the third runway,
they was also threatening to bulldoze
and dig up Cherry Lane cemetery. My
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husband’s Nan is there, so it became
more poignant and something involved in
my own life, so that’s hence I got
involved in all the different action
groups. I go from leaflet dropping to
direct action, I’m quite variable. I go
from the basics right up to the main
squeeze shall we say.
Hence = why
10.22.49 TRACY
my direct action involved a few of us
turning up at the architect of the year
award and we basically sabotaged it.
We awarded Pascal and Watson with the
‘We don’t give a shit award’, because
they don’t give a shit about us.
Pascal and Watson – name of a
company
10.23.01 JOSH
Good evening everybody, we won’t take
up much of your time, but we’re here
from Plane Stupid and the residents
around Heathrow and before the awards
start, we would like to give our own
personal award, and we’d like to give our
award to Pascal and Watson. I think
Pascal and Watson are here somewhere
tonight, and we would like to give them
an award because they’ve been at the
forefront of aviation expansion since
the 1960s.
10.23.26 TRACY
Josh gave the talk about the
environmental issues and I gave the talk
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about my life.
10.23.31 MAN
Ladies and Gentlemen, would you kindly
leave the stage please. Would you please
leave the stage so we can proceed with
our awards ceremony.
10.23.39 JOSH
You’ve been incredible. You may destroy
the climate, people’s homes, and local
community.
10.23.46 TRACY
It’s for Pascal and Watson, anyone else?
anyone else want it? would anyone else
like the award? They’re digging up my
grandmother’s grave, my grandmother’s
grave.
10.24.04 TRACY
When I was asked to leave, I did
actually leave I had to go back on stage
because I left my coat and my bag
there but we did actually leave. We
were non threatening, we were just
there to make a point. We distributed
lots and lots of leaflets about the
situation and it was absolutely fine.
10.24.19 JAMES
Lily, Paul, Rowan, and some other Plane
Stupid members are moving to one of
the
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threatened villages out near Heathrow.
10.24.27 LILY
Here we are, welcome to my new home. a
resident of Harlington now, which is
quite exciting. You can hear the aircraft
noise already, I’m going to have to get
used to that I think.
10.24.44 CAPTION
Isle of Wight
More wind less talk
10.24.44 JAMES
Back at the Vestas factory the workers
have been forced to end their
occupation. But some have joined
Marina and the others who are now
living on the traffic island, and they are
blockading the removal of the
machinery from the plant.
10.24.58
MARINA
Four months I’ve been here, I don’t
know how long I’m going to stay on the
Isle of Wight, I think once you start a
campaign you have to see it through
10.25.11 These are my broad beans, which I’m
particularly proud of.
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10.25.19 INTERVIEWER
Does all of this do any good?
10.25.35 MARINA
One of the problems is, is if people
realise there’s a problem and they don’t
think they can do anything, that is so
depressing, that is suicidal depressing,
that is roll over and die depressing. But
if you think you can do something and
you can make a difference, through
campaigning or putting your body in the
way, then that’s empowering. So you
actually are taking back control of your
life, even though all these decisions are
out of our control, they’re made by
politicians over there. So yes it has
done good.
10.26.04 JAMES
After four months of trying to do good,
the powers that be have had enough and
an eviction order has arrived.
10.26.10 MARINA
Hello
10.26.11 MR QUINN
Hi. My name’s Mr Quinn from High
Court enforcement. We’re here today to
enforce…
10.26.16 MARINA
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Can you turn around a bit so I can get
the sunlight on your face, thank you
dear.
10.26.19 MR QUINN
Is that alright?
10.26.20 MARINA
Yea that’s a bit better.
10.26.23 MR QUINN
Okay?
10.26.24 MARINA
So what are you saying?
10.26.25 MR QUINN
We’re here from high court
enforcement to force the writ today.
10.26.29 MARINA
Okay
10.26.29 MR QUINN
Alright
10.26.30 MARINA
Yea now would you like a cup of tea?
10.26.31 MR QUINN
No, thank you very much but I’ve just
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had coffee.
10.26.35 MARINA
Okay, well the kettle will be on while we
pack up, so any time you think
10.26.37 MR QUINN
Okay. How long do you think it will take
you?
10.26.39 MARINA
Oh it's going to be a few hours.
10.26.42 MR QUINN
Do you reckon an hour, hour and a bit,
shall we give you till twelve o’clock?
10.26.45 MARINA
Ooh I don’t think, I don’t think we’ll
have finished elevenses by twelve
o’clock.
Elevenses – a snack between
breakfast and lunch at 11am
10.26.50 MR QUINN
We’ll go for twelve o’clock.
10.26.52 MARINA
I don’t think we’ll be packed by twelve
o’clock but we’ll see what we can do.
10.26.55 MR QUINN
Okay lovely.
10.27.04 TRUDY: I’m their beat officer
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MARINA
This is Trudy our beat officer.
TRUDY
Marina’s got a favourite police officer
and it's me.
MARINA
I got emotionally engaged, I got so
involved.
10.27.20 TRUDY
I’m not too sure if you’re going to be
able to do this,
MAN: Why?
Trudy: because you’re actually removing
property that belongs to
another person. I know that you planted
the seed, but you’re removing the earth
aren’t you,
10.27.36 WOMAN
Crumpets everybody! Crumpets?
10.27.43
MARINA
No, here they are taking down my tent.
10.27.50 MAN
Excuse me, I now require you to leave
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the site please. Okay.
10.27.53 MARINA
I’m not leaving the site without my
belongings.
10.27.56 MARINA
I want my bed, they’re telling me to go
to, I want my bed.
10.27.59 TRUDY
They’re going to pack it all up and you’ll
be able to collect it at a later date. If
you don’t leave the site now, as
requested, you’ll give me no alternative
but to arrest you.
10.28.07 MARINA
No I’ve got to get my kettle, I’m not
going without my kettle. I’m not going
without my kettle.
10.28.12 MAN
Okay can you come with me please?
10.28.19 MARINA
Ow, ow, oooooow, ow.
10.28.28 TRUDY
Marina, you’re under arrest, under
section ten You do not have to say
anything but it may harm your defence
if you do not mention anything you later
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rely on in court, anything you do say may
be given as evidence. Do you
understand?
10.28.31
MARINA
Being arrested for basically trying to
leave with two things and, it was like the
law, there was just nowhere, there was
no space in the interview for any
understanding of the fact that you’ve
been living somewhere and that’s… And
on top of that, you know the
policewoman who arrested me, the day
before she’d come to visit and I really
thought that we got to know each other.
And she come and visit, you know, she
gave me a hug goodbye when she turned
up with the bailiffs it was all very, very
friendly.
10.29.02
But she arrested me anyway and she
cried during my interview because, I
mean I cried. And even then, I keep
polite and they’re telling me that I
should have packed a bit earlier, and I
left my stuff till last.
10.29.27
You know Rosa Park sat down on a bus,
the law changed, because lots of people
agreed with her. So that's what we have
to do. But it has to be fun and exciting
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and we have good friends and we get
over getting arrested and we get on
with the next job and that’s what we’re
going to do tomorrow. We’re not hoping
for lots of arrests, we’re hoping for lots
of new recruits to the revolution.
10:30.00
CAPTION
Ratcliffe Power Station
Nottingham
10.29.57
JAMES
This is Ratcliffe on Soar coal power
station, the second largest power
station in the UK and soon to be the
target of a publically announced mass
action. An open planning meeting is held
in Nottingham. Anyone is welcome to
come.
POLICE
Morning
INTERVIEWER
Morning
JAMES
Well except the police.
10.30.16 ROWAN
There’s a whole load of secrecy that
goes with taking direct action, and so
the point of the swoop was to publicly
say ‘we’re going to shut down this power
station and we’re going to do it on this
day and we’re going to do it with loads
of people. And anyone who wants to
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10.30.16 ROWAN
There’s a whole load of secrecy that
goes with taking direct action, and so
the point of the swoop was to publicly
say ‘we’re going to shut down this power
station and we’re going to do it on this
day and we’re going to do it with loads
of people. And anyone who wants to
come and help, can come along and do it.
Caption: Sophie 10.30.29 SOPHIE
State sanctioned protests are good for
one thing, but we need to start actually
doing things that will directly impact on
those offenders, and the coal industry
are causing carbon emissions that will
destroy our planet. And one thing about
direct action I suppose, is that it wasn’t
just to stand on the line, with a placard
saying we don’t like what you’re doing. It
was actually to take action, to do
something.
10.31.02 WOMAN
You’re walking in the footsteps of
history and you’re doing it because you
want to stand up and defend the future.
A lot of people have made a lot of
change in history, and they have done it
by working together and challenging the
status quo and finding hope and faith
where it might seem like there is none.
But in the end somebody has to take
down the fences.
10.31.53 SOPHIE
So it wasn’t just about destroying the
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10.32.09
10.32.20
Caption: SALLY
Caption:
people are willing to become outlaws
.
10.32.09 SALLY
This is one way in which we can change
things and a really, really important way
because mass civil disobedience shows
that the law is unjust and people are
willing to become outlaws to change
things.
10:32.43
CAPTION
De-arrest x 8
10.32.32 ROWAN
I didn’t nearly get arrested that day, I
was walking through the woods with my
affinity group and all of a sudden a
police officer grabbed me from behind
and I shouted ‘de arrest’,
CROWD
de arrest.
de arrest.
de arrest.
de arrest.
ROWAN
And all my friends came to my rescue
and helped me.
CROWD
De arrest
ROWAN
So if you get in a position where a police
officer is arresting you, you don’t have
to accept that, that’s going to be your
destiny, that you will be arrested.
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CROWD
De arrest
And I got away and we ran, very fast. If
more people as a collective decided to
de arrest people, then a lot less people
get arrested and the police would find
their job exponentially harder.
10.33.13 JAMES
They didn’t manage to shut down the
power station that day, but as Sally
says, the sight of thousands of people
openly becoming outlaws, sends a very
powerful message.
10.33.26 JAMES
Preparations are being made to travel to
Copenhagen where the United Nations
are holding a two week conference of
world leaders, to hammer out a deal on
tackling climate change.
10.33.36 ROWAN
This is Maalox and it's used to treat
the effects of CS gas. Mix it with
water, pour it on your eyes and face,
and it stops the burning.
10.33.44 PAUL
They’ve got no outside police apart from
intelligence officers. But loads of
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They’ve got no outside police apart from
intelligence officers. But loads of
German police dogs,
10.33.51
JAMES
The Danish government have been
making their own preparations by
granting the police new powers to detain
protesters at will.
10.33.58 ROWAN
It says you will probably be taken to the
police station and placed in a holding
cell.
LILY
The Danish police are arresting not just
for vandalism but can give people forty
days if you inhibit police work.
10.34.11 MAN
Right what do I need for Copenhagen?
10.34.14 INTERVIEWER
Are you expecting to get arrested?
10.34.16 MAN
No not at all, but it seems like a strong
possibility.
10.34.21 WOMAN
Why?
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well I suppose on the 16th of December
the plan is to go and get into the
conference ourselves and hold our own
conference to let the people that have
been affected by climate change, have
their views said and I don’t think
they’re going to be very happy with us
trying to do that. So I’d like not to get
arrested, but never say never.
10:34.50 WOMAN
We’re off!
10.35.09 JAMES
No sooner had they crossed the border
into Denmark than they are stopped.
10.35.15 BORDER PATROL
Can I have a look at your passports?
10.35.17 WOMAN
You can indeed.
10.35.18 BORDER PATROL
And your driver’s licence?
10.35.22 MAN
There’s all the passports
10.35.26 BORDER PATROL
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How many are you?
10.35.27 WOMAN
We are seventeen.
10.35.29 BORDER PATROL
Seventeen?
10.35.29 WOMAN
Yes
10.35.30 BORDER PATROL
Okay
It's okay, have a nice day, okay.
10.35.48 JAMES
It isn’t just our guys who are heading
for Copenhagen, activists from around
the world are joining them because they
believe that corporate interests
supported by powerful governments,
have hijacked the process. So it's highly
unlikely that a fair or effective
agreement will be reached.
10.36.05 Caption
Copenhagen
UN COP15 Confernce
10.36.09 Interviewer:
So where are we going?
Caption: Frank 10.36.11 MAN
we’re going to the candy factory to a
bike bloc meeting.
10.36.17 JAMES
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Bike bloc are going to use bicycles as a
tool for civil disobedience on the day of
mass action
10.36.26
SOPHIE
We were on an old disused candy
factory and there we set up this
outdoor workshop and an indoor
workshop for bike maintenance and
another separate space for bike
welding.
10.36.42.33 ROWAN
This is a double trouble, not a double,
double trouble.
Double double trouble was the name
given to bikes welded together to
make double width and tall bikes.
10:36.47 JAMES
The world’s eyes are on the UN summit
because the scientific community have
made it clear that if a serious deal on
reducing emissions isn’t struck this year
then next year maybe too late.
10.37.00 MAN
Just to let you know, the police are here
10.37.02 MAN
We do games - training at three o’clock.
10.37.04 POLICE
At three o’clock?
10.37.06 JOHN
It’s not a demo, we go down to the park
and we train in the park.
10.37.08 POLICE
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Okay
10.37.10 John
So are you going to stay here and
intimidate people or are you going to go
away, or are you going to.
10.37.13 POLICE
We must take a look so
10.37.15 JOHN
Okay
10.37.18 CAPTION
John
10.37.18 JOHN
Now our role on the 16th of December is
to be a bit like the cavalry, okay? So
always moving, and always taking the
police away from where they’re trying
to stop the people coming in to the Bella
Centre, because what will be happening
on the 16th is that people will be coming
into the Bella Centre but also about five
hundred people, probably more, will be
coming out of the Bella Centre, and
that’s the beauty of the day. So we’re
going to play some games now to get
used to the bikes.
10.37.50 JOHN
Put your bike up like that and you use
your tyre to defend your body against …
10.38.08 JOHN
How does that feel?
MAN
Scary.
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10.38.08 JOHN
How does that feel?
MAN
Scary.
JOHN
Scary, and they were your mates. So in
this one, basically the thing to do oh,
the cops are filming us.
10.38.22 CAPTION
Sally what’s going on now?
10.38.22
INTERVIEWER
Sally what’s going on now?
SALLY
We’re just making very quickly our
carbon trader WACT Association
posters which we’re going to be taking
on the big NGO march today to
illustrate just how important a solution
carbon trading is, to put on the table in
Copenhagen.
WACT – a made up organisation –
the ‘world association of carbon
traders’
10.38.42 JAMES
Carbon trading is the money-man’s
answer to climate change using free
market economics to solve the problem.
It’s the main solution at the Copenhagen
talks so our guys are putting on their
finest capitalist suits for a bit of
satirical fun
10.38.56 MAN/CROWD
one solution – trade pollutions. one
solution – trade pollution.
10.39.00 ROWAN
Is this the first hippy you’ve stopped
today?
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POLICE
Yes, first hippy.
10.39.03
10.39.09
WOMAN
Oh we don’t want those hippies
WOMAN
Just take him away it’s fine, it’s just a
hippy
10.39.13 CROWD:
POWER
POWER TO THE PRIVELEGE
BECAUSE THE PRIVELEGED GOT THE
POWER
TELL ME YOU CAN YOU FEEL IT
WE GET RICHER BY THE HOUR
10.39.32
INTERVIEWER
Is it funny?
10.39.34 MAN
It’s funny yeah
MAN
yeah it’s funny. We thought about it for
a long time and now we find out it’s
irony, yes
10.39.48 ROWAN
One solution is this is a trade pollution.
We can save the world if we embrace
carbon trading.
10.39.52 JAMES
With only a week left at the summit,
the police are taking increasing control
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With only a week left at the summit,
the police are taking increasing control
of the streets.
10.40.02 SALLY
Excuse me, do you have guns? When do
you think you’re going to need to shoot
people?
10.40.13 CROWD: chanting
“Anti-Capitalista”
10.40.31 SALLY
What law are we breaking? We’re not
doing anything wrong, we have a
democratic right to protest.
10.40.42 JOHN
the whole police operation is about
showing their force and their
organisation really, and terrifying us
with their force and organisation. And
arresting people and putting them in
cages and in the cages you know, in a
sense have been designed to look like
Guantanamo you know, all this stuff is
really, it's a fine art of psychological
intimidation really.
10.41.08 POLICE
But we have our orders. We don’t know
the reason but we have our orders.
10.41.15 JAMES
It's the day before the mass action
against the UN conference, and all
hands are on deck.
Subtitles:
Have you got papers?
10.41.40 WOMAN
Have you got papers?
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Subtitles:
The Danish police have got permission
to go into places here according to the
Danish Police Act.
If we find anything that we think can
be used to do anything bad in the
future, the near stage, we will take it
with us.
10.41.42 POLICE
The Danish police have got permission
to go into places here according to the
Danish Police Act.
If we find anything that we think can be
used to do anything bad in the future,
the near stage, we will take it with us.
Subtitle:
I’m a member of the press, I showed
you my accreditation. I’m a journalist,
I’m not turning off the camera.
10.42.03 INTERVIEWER
I’m a member of the press, I showed
you my accreditation. I’m a journalist,
I’m not turning off the camera.
Subtitle:
If you have a press card you have to
wait outside until we have finished,
10.42.09 POLICE
If you have a press card you have to
wait outside until we have finished,
okay.
Subtitle:
No I don’t.
10.42.12
INTERVIEWER
No I don’t.
Subtitle
So we would like you to turn off the
camera and if you don’t get the
message
10.42.13 POLICE
So we would like you to turn off the
camera and if you don’t get the message
Subtitle:
Don’t touch my camera.
10.42.18 INTERVIEWER
Don’t touch my camera.
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Subtitle:
We, we will take it okay? So it's your
own decision.
10.42.19 POLICE
We, we will take it okay? So it's your
own decision.
Subtitle:
I was here filming a piece, this is a
matter of public interest, I’m not going
outside, please stop pushing me. Please
stop pushing me. I’m not being
unreasonable.
10.42.23 INTERVIEWER
I was here filming a piece, this is a
matter of public interest, I’m not going
outside, please stop pushing me. Please
stop pushing me. I’m not being
unreasonable, I am not being
unreasonable.
Subtitle:
Just relax
10.42.37 POLICE
Just relax
Subtitle:
No, why have you removed me
10.42.38 INTERVIEWER
No why have you removed me?
Subtitle:
Excuse me, listen to me
10.42.40 POLICE
Excuse me, listen to me.
Subtitle:
You have removed me so that nobody
can see what you’re doing.
10.42.41 INTERVIEWER
You have removed me so that nobody
can see what you’re doing.
Subtitle:
It’s a crime scene, we have to search
the place.
10.42.43 POLICE
Yeah it's a crime scene, we have to
search the place.
Subtitle: What is the crime? 10.42.46 INTERVIEWER
What is the crime?
Subtitle: 10.42.49 POLICE
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That’s why we don’t want you to film That’s why we don’t want you to film.
Subtitle:
Tell me what the crime is?
10.42.50 INTERVIEWER
Tell me what the crime is?
Subtitle:
We will tell you later
10.42.51 POLICE
We will tell you later.
Subtitle:
You came in there, you said that you
were simply searching for weapons. As
far as I’ve seen you’ve not found any
weapons. If you’re not doing anything
wrong.
10.42.52 INTERVIEWER
You came in there, you said that you
were simply searching for weapons. As
far as I’ve seen you’ve not found any
weapons. If you’re not doing anything
wrong, if you’re not doing anything
wrong.
Subtitle:
You have to turn it off now.
10.43.00 POLICE
You have to turn it off now.
10.43.01 INTERVIEWER
If you’re not doing anything wrong.
10.43.01 POLICE
You will have to turn it off now.
10.43.03 INTERVIEWER
If you’re not doing anything wrong.
10.43.04 POLICE
Okay then I’ll take it.
10.43.21 ROWAN
And then on the day of action we set
off quite quickly, got on our bicycles, it
Nicking you – Arresting you
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was snowing and cold. As we got quite
close to the Bella Centre, all of a sudden
this riot van full of police turned up,
‘Right we’re nicking you’
10.43.41
PAUL
Even though we hadn’t done anything, we
were being arrested and detained in jail
for the day.
ROWAN
Cuffed us all, on the floor, in a blizzard
for about an hour and a half whilst they
rounded up more people. Like ‘oh, we’re
taking you to the chicken coup’ , which is
what they call their temporary prison.
PAUL
But it was alright because we hadn’t
done anything and we’d be released
later. and at that point we felt the full
force of repression from the Danish
state at that time. We were obviously
sanctioned from the world.
10.44.09
10.44.18
CAPTION
Delegates from the inside
People on the outside
10.44.09
CROWD
We are peaceful, why aren’t you?
10.44.28 SOPHIE
It felt like martial law, it really, really
did. I mean it felt like we were in a war
zone. That element of it was a really
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horrible experience actually.
10.44.40 ROWAN
We just got every single road block
armed in this direct confrontation, In
that direct confrontation, there was no
winning ,they always have much better
fire power, much stronger numbers,
they’re fully armed they’re just like
Robocop
10.44.54 SOPHIE
Eighteen arrested from bike block, and
Aimee been bitten by a dog off a leash.
10.45.01 JAMES
Then Paul rings.
10.45.03 INTERVIEWER
Do they know you have this phone?
Subtitles:
No they don’t know. I smuggled it in, in
my pants.
10.45.04 PAUL
No they don’t know. I smuggled it in, in
my pants.
10.45.08 INTERVIEWER
Can you see people in any other cages?
Subtitle:
Yeah I can see loads of people in loads
of cages, hundreds, hundreds of people
here.
10.45.11 PAUL
Yeah I can see loads of people in loads
of cages, hundreds, hundreds of people
here.
10.45.14 INTERVIEWER
Hundreds
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Men and women.
10.45.15 PAUL
Men and women.
UNKNOWN
Subtitle:
The inner wall has just been ripped,
ripped up. Basically the cages are
destroyed, they can’t put people in the
cages because the walls are ripped up.
10.45.21 PAUL
The inner wall has just been ripped,
ripped up. Basically the cages are
destroyed, they can’t put people in the
cages because the walls are ripped up.
10.45.30 ROWAN
All you’ve got to do is lift it out of this
runner at the bottom and you can just
start shaking it from side to side, and it
snaps all of these jubilee clips which are
holding it at the edge. And you just run
all them together in the same one and
then again they come blast you all with
mace.
10.45.44
PAUL
So gradually throughout the day I went
from this position of being totally
gutted that I had gone to go and
participate in a people’s assembly and
you know being really compliant which I
was angry with myself for being
complaint with and being stopped and
searched. And then being arrested for
no reason to a position where I felt like
we were actually breaking down that
process by asserting our humanity.
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Free us all
10.46.09 CROWD CHANTING
Free us all
10.46.13 ROWAN
This was a collaboration, an
international collaboration between
people from all over Europe, all over the
world, and the chanting and singing was
in every language you can imagine, and
you just pick it up as quickly as possible
and try and get everyone chanting it,
and it was such a powerful thing to
hear. Complete indignation about what
was going on there, and we had to unify.
10.46.37 JAMES
After weeks of wrangling, Obama and
his pals cut a back room deal, but they
couldn’t get the rest of the UN to back
it, leaving the process on hold until next
year.
10.46.47 JOHN VIDAL,
The Latin American countries, the left
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CAPTION
John Vidal
Environment Editor, The Guardian
10.46.47 JOHN VIDAL,
The Latin American countries, the left
wing Latin American countries are
completely denouncing the whole thing,
they are saying that the conference has
been a total failure, a complete
disaster. they are saying they want a
world referendum on what should be
done. they are blaming America
specifically and capitalism generally.
10.47.05 CAPTION
Antonio Hill, Oxfam
10.47.05 ANTONIO HILL,
I think it's not even, it can’t even be
called a deal, it could be called a cop
out.
10.47.13 SOPHIE
I think a lot of us came back quite
disheartened. I went there to discuss
climate change and came out discussing
capitalism and state control, so it
totally radicalised me. So thank you,
thank you Copenhagen police for pushing
me into that corner.
10.47.21
CAPTION
Hackney (London)
10.47.21 SOPHIE
Post capitalism it’s better than what
we’ve got already. I’m not sure how
we’re going to get there, I’m not sure of
how it's going to work, but I think we
can give it a go. You’re into post
capitalism aren’t you. Give it a go.
WOMAN
Yay,
SOPHIE
Vote Sophie Nathan.
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10.47.47 SALLY
I think if you were going to sum it up in
one word, it's anti-capitalism. But for a
lot of people that doesn’t really mean
anything and I think what we really need
to understand is the connections that
the system which prioritises profit over
people, time and time again, is the same
system that's driving this.
10.48.01 Caption: Heathrow 10.48.01 JAMES
Back out near Heathrow, Lily and the
Plane Stupid crew are about to try
something completely different.
10.48.08 Lily
Today we’re starting the first big
project of transition Heathrow.
10.48.15 ROWAN
We’ve taken a piece of land which was in
a state of disrepair, it's got these
beautiful green houses on it, and we’re
going to have a land clearing weekend
next weekend, we’re going to get our
community down, lots of friends down,
clear it up and get people to decide
what they want to happen on the land.
10.48.30 TRACY
I’m a council tax payer, they’re welcome
in this village any time of the day.
10.48.35 LILY
The locals have been backing us so much
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in this project, keep dropping around
bags of food and stuff for us and, and
you know and just dropping in blankets
and sleeping bags and everything. And
making sure we’re warm enough and
joining us in the evening, so everybody’s
really excited about what it could
become.
10.48.51 CAPTION
LINDA
10.48.51 LINDA
When climate camp came and these
young people came to support us, we
haven’t looked back.
10.48.57 LILY
It's the autonomy of a project like this
is what makes it direct action for me,
it's disregarding the existing power
structures and just doing it ourselves.
10.49.08 LINDA
We’ve started something and our hearts
are into finishing it. So we hope we are
winning. If we’re not we’ll take a
raincheck and we’ll be in there doing
something. We’ll be in there doing
something.
WOMAN
Will it be legal?
LINDA
It won’t be legal, you can definitely
bank on that.
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WOMAN
Don’t know the meaning of that word.
10.49.34 MAN
She’s not in the way, is she?
11.26.17 MARINA
This is what I’m living to do now, ‘cos it
needs to be done. There is more to life
than you know being judged on your
ability to shop, based on an income and
what you’ve accumulated. I think we all
still agree that the spirit is still an
important aspect of humanity. And it's
to be expressed and lived.
10.50.03 MARINA
I started off making tea and now I’m
just like, ‘oh bloody hell come on, let’s
sit down here’, if anyone out there
thinking I want to do more, just do it. I
don’t mean “I recycle,” I don’t mean
that. I mean civilised disobedience. Do
it.
CAPTION
10.52.22
In May 2010, following years of
campaigning, plans for a third runway
at Heathrow Airport were scrapped
In October 2010, after years of
sustained targeting by Climate Camp
and others EON cancelled plans for a
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10.52.22
In May 2010, following years of
campaigning, plans for a third runway
at Heathrow Airport were scrapped
In October 2010, after years of
sustained targeting by Climate Camp
and others EON cancelled plans for a
new coal powerstation at Kingsnorth,
Kent,
In December 2010 the Danish courts
ruled that the preventative arrests of
nearly 2000 people during the
Copenhagen climate summit were illegal
10.50.42 CREDITS
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Time Code Audio Notes
10.00.01 CAPTION:
The world of environmental direct
action has been a secretive one…
…until now.
10.00.13
MARINA
Taking tea is what the British do,
whenever they’re in a difficult
circumstance
10.00.18 MARINA
We’ve got the kettle on, we haven’t got
enough water in it, we’re going to make
loads of tea.
10.00.20 MARINA
Yea I’ve served tea outside the bank of
England on more than one occasion. I’ve
served tea to the silver command which
is the second in overall command on an
action, when the police are involved. I’ve
served tea to politicians, outside
factories I’ve tried to serve tea to
bailiffs as they’re evicting.
Silver Command –British Police
Term
10.00.38 MARINA
It's a free cup of tea or if you want to
make a donation, that's allowed too.
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10.00.43 INTERVIEWER
So you’re a domestic extremist?
10.00.44 MARINA
I’m a domestic extremist.
10.00.47 INTERVIEWER
What makes you a domestic extremist?
10.00.49 MARINA
You will have to ask Special Branch what
makes me a domestic extremist.
Special Branch – British police term
10.00.57 MARINA
I care passionately about politics on a
global level, but work on it on a local
level, so within my own country mostly,
that’s for the domestic bit. I’m extreme
because I’ve gone well beyond in my
climate change activities. I’ve gone well
beyond recycling and walking the kids to
school.
10.01.12 MARINA
I put my body in the way and I don’t
mind being arrested.
10.01.16
CAPTION:
Left Field Films presents
JUST DO IT
A tale of modern-day outlaws
A film by Emily James
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CAPTION:
Left Field Films presents
JUST DO IT
A tale of modern-day outlaws
A film by Emily James
Produced by
Lauren Simpson
Edited and Narrated by
James Leadbitter
10.01.40 JAMES
You know when you’re watching on the
news right, and you see stuff like this.
And then the newsreaders say really
helpful stuff like this.
James has northern England accent.
The word ‘right’ at end of sentence
is slang.
10.01.52 NEWSREADER
Let’s bring you now the latest we’re
getting from this so called camp for
climate action.
10.01.57 NEWSREADER
Environment campaigners have scaled up
a building in central London and unfurled
a banner.
10.02.02 NEWSREADERS
I’m glad he’s cleaning up, but I hope he’s
going to have a shower, his feet were
filthy.
10.02.06 JAMES
Well this is what you don’t see, a
glimpse into the secretive and
clandestine world of environmental
direct action.
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10.02.19 JAMES
I’m James and I’m your guide, and how
do I know what I’m talking about? Well
that’s me climbing into that power
station. But this isn’t a film about me,
it's about people like this.
CAPTION 10:03:31
Lily
10.02.29 LILY
This is not something that I can know
and then not do anything about. I have
to do something.
CAPTION 10:03:40
Rowan
10.02.35 ROWAN
I want to feel like I’m doing something
rather than nothing
CAPTION 10:03:52
Sally
10.02.39 SALLY
I think what we do have a choice about
is the future now.
CAPTION 10:03:59
Paul
10.02.43 PAUL
Lots of playing with the media.
CAPTION 10:04:07
Marina
10.02.47 MARINA
But if you think you can do something
and you can make a difference, through
campaigning or putting your body in the
way, then that’s empowering.
10.02.55 SOPHIE
you’ve just got to do it, like just do it.
Dodgy - illegal
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Sophie
10.03.05 CAPTION:
G20 Summit, London
10.03.13 JAMES
It's April Fool’s day 2009, the world’s
leaders are in London for the G20
meeting, and a flurry of protests are
welcoming them to town.
Climate camp are planning to turn the
heart of the financial district into a
street party.
April Fools Day-1st April
10.03.37 JAMES
Their target, blockading the European
climate exchange. Why? Because they
don’t want the climate to be left in the
hands of the bankers.
10.03.45 SOPHIE
Well exactly, some trouble needs to be
caused.
CAPTIONS 10:03:53
Marina
10.03.49 JAMES
The camp had all the ingredients for a
good party and everyone was there. And
of course Marina’s getting the kettle on.
Even the press were loving it.
10.03.59 NEWSREADER
At the moment things are very calm,
very relaxed.
10.04.03 JAMES
But as evening drew in, a bunch of
Evening drew in – as it became the
evening
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uninvited party poopers gatecrashed.
10.04.36 JAMES
Policing like this would normally go
unnoticed, but a death is harder to
brush under the carpet.
Ian Tomlinson, on his way home from
work, in the wrong place, at the wrong
time, was pushed to his death.
10.04.57 JAMES
The outrage this caused led to a
dramatic change in the policing of
protests. Gone, the police claimed, were
beatings, brute force and random
kettling. In came a PR offensive of
kindly coppers and tea.
PR = public relations
Kettling = a police tactic of
cordoning off groups so they can’t
leave an area.
Coppers = police
10.05.09 JULIA PENDRY
I would love a cup of tea. Thank you
very much, that would be great, thank
you.
10.05.13 JAMES
How long the police would behave
themselves for nobody knew.
10.05.22 JAMES
Down on the Isle of Wight champion tea
maker Marina is about to dig her heels
in.
Dig her heels in = get stuck in =get
involved
10.5.22 CAPTION:
UK
More Wind Less Talk
Isle of Wight
Isle of Wight – an island off the
south coast of UK
10.05.27 MARINA Vestas= a company name
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Hello, we’re at the protest camp,
outside the Vestas Blades UK factory,
on the Isle of Wight. The factory is
being occupied by the workers., yay.
Vestas= a company name
10.05.42 MARINA
A wind turbine factory was closed down
because apparently there wasn’t a
demand for wind turbines and over four
hundred workers lost their jobs.
10:05:50 CROWD
Reinstate the workers, reinstate them
now
10.05.53
MARINA
They went in with stuff, but they’d run
out of supplies and food could only be
got into there, in tennis balls being
lobbed from a distance. They were
getting hungry and Vestas, this
multinational company was starving them
out. Well we weren’t having that
obviously. This lady turned up and said
I’ve made some fish and chips and I
want to deliver them to the men in the
factory, and I want to deliver it myself,
and I want them to eat it while it's still
warm.
So I was like, OK, we can facilitate that.
Stuff = she means food / supplies
Lobbed =thrown a long distance
Marina is putting food into tennis
balls to throw to the workers in the
factory
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10:06:38
Fish and chips, run the other way, you
run the other way.
Come on everybody,
10.06.53 And we all went on and half the fish and
chips, got through.
10:06:59
10.07.01
10.07.02
MARINA
Are you going to do a speech?
WOMAN
No
MARINA
Yes come on.
WOMAN
We can’t have bullies like that telling us
what to do.
MARINA
Exactly.
WOMAN
What nonsense.
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10:07:06
MARINA
And it’s an absolutely fantastic
celebration because suddenly all the
locals were like, ‘yay they’ve been fed’,
and people were coming up here and it
was like, ‘oh those terrible
environmental anarchists have just fed
our lads’ and they’ve done it with the
locals. And everyone suddenly are all on
the same side. So now we’re going to
start taking them in soap, shampoo,
things to wash their hair with, new
underwear, socks, T-Shirts, hand
written cards from their children and
family, newspapers.
warms your cockles – warms your
insides/ heart
10.07.35 CAPTION
LONDON
EAT THE BANKERS
10.07.35 JAMES
Back in London a plan is afoot to get the
Vestas struggle into the papers. The
target it Lord Mandelson, minister for
business and everyone’s favourite
unelected slimy politician.
10:07:53
CAPTION
Tamsin
10.07.06 TAMSIN
So what the plan is, is to draw attention
to the fact that he is responsible for
Vestas wind turbine factory closing
down. And what we’re saying is
Mandelson has it in his power to put a
huge amount of investment into the car
industry. But generally he’s quite good
at pushing for and helping out high
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carbon industries but when it comes to
a failing wind turbine factory, he’s
incapable of giving them any incentive to
stay, promising that there will be a
demand in this country within the next
five years.
10.08.11 JAMES
Tomorrow Sally will be chaining herself
to Mandelson’s house and she could be
arrested.
10.08.16 INTERVIEWER
So Sally have you been arrested? If not
are you prepared to be?
10:08:33
CAPTION:
Sally
10.08.21
10:08:43
SALLY
I guess I have to be prepared to be. It’s
a really slow decision, I’d been around a
lot of people who have been arrested,
I’d heard their stories and knew what it
entailed. You make a theoretical
decision, so I guess the crunch point of
the theoretical decision was in saying
that I would get involved with the Peter
Mandelson action.
If they can bail out the banks with 1.4
trillion pounds, then they need to be
bailing out our green future.
10.08.49 JAMES
As hoped the stunt propelled the Vestas
struggle into the headlines.
10:08:52 CAPTIONS
GUARDIAN
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Climate change campaigners stage
protest outside Mandelson’s house
EVENING STANDARD
Protesters target Lord Mandelson as
he takes control
THE SUN
Climate Protest at Mandy House
10.08.57 CAPTION:
Cambridge
10.08.59
SALLY
The great thing about doing activism, is
it's a whole other education outside of
this quite narrow education that you can
sometimes get in Cambridge, where
you’re very much taught to think in an
academic way that's disconnected from
the real world. And I think I want to
use all the education I’ve got here and
put it into the real world, and then learn
more skills from the people. So that's
what really excites me about having
these two worlds.
Cambridge =Cambridge university
10.09.24 JAMES
Pitching up on the doorsteps of places
like airports and power stations, climate
camp and large direct action training
camps have shifted the entire climate
change debate in the UK. But if you’ve
seen climate camp on the news, you’ll
know that they are frequently
portrayed as just a bunch of violent
Hooligans =thugs
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10.09.24 JAMES
Pitching up on the doorsteps of places
like airports and power stations, climate
camp and large direct action training
camps have shifted the entire climate
change debate in the UK. But if you’ve
seen climate camp on the news, you’ll
know that they are frequently
portrayed as just a bunch of violent
hooligans.
Hooligans =thugs
10.09.45 CAPTION
Seized
10.09.43 NEWSREADER
Police say this was the reason they had
to go into the climate camp.
10.09.47 REPORTER
There’s a knife here which was
discovered in a tree and down below we
see grappling irons that of course could
be used to scale any building, and these
are white suits that some of the
protestors might wear, they say. Also
we see bolt croppers, they could be
used to try to take down any fences.
And over here we see wet suits, now the
protesters have said they’ll try to reach
Kingsnorth by any means, by air, by land
and by sea.
Kingsnorth refers to Kingsnorth
power station in England
10.10.13 JAMES
Now climate campers may be
extremists, and they definitely are, and
they may even be prepared to break the
law, which they often do. But let’s be
clear about one thing; previous climate
camps have been marred by police
violence.
10:10:28
POLICE
Get back! Get back!
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LONDON
EAT THE BANKERS
10.10.36 NARRATOR
This year the camp is in London and
they’re targeting the banks that finance
climate change. Marina’s in a group
coming up from the South Coast.
10.10.44 MARINA
We’re doing some basic techniques that
might come in useful for the first 24
hours while we’re settling down with the
police. If we do need to use blockading
techniques before we have our defences
built then these will be the sort of
things we’ll have to use, bodies. Because
that’s all we’ve got.
10.11.02 JAMES
All across London groups of campers are
gathering at designated meeting points,
and are getting ready to pounce on the
secret location for this year’s camp.
10:11:12 CAPTION
Rowan
10:11:12 ROWAN
Today we’re doing the climate camp
bicycle swoop.
Would you like a flyer?
We’ll receive a secret message at some
point today, revealing the location of
the climate camp, and we’ll all be
swooping there as a group together.
Swoop – a term to explain how
people from different locations
approach the site at the same time
10.11.28 MARINA
Who hasn’t taken part in any meetings
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involving consensus? So in a big meeting
if you agree it's hands straight up and
wiggly fingers. We’re not part of a mad
cult, unless you think climate camp is a
mad cult. It feels really ridiculous to
begin with but when meetings are
working, it's very, very effective.
10:11:49 SALLY
Left out of Blackheath Station, up the
hill, bare left onto Hare and Billet road,
walk to the top and the site is on your
right
10.11.58 JAMES
It's then a race across London to
secure the site before the police can
stop them.
10.12.03 MARINA
They’ve done it here, wow.
10.12.07 ROWAN
The climate camp is a temporary
encampment basically, everything is run
through consensus. Climate camp is all
about taking direct action and making
the changes that you want to see
happen. And it's in its nature and it
teaches that to everyone who comes to
the climate camp.
10:12:29
CAPTION
Capitalists
10.12.23 MARINA
Well here we are on Blackheath, in
London taking on capitalism, which is
quite scary for the capitalists I hope.
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And we expected three deep riot police,
we expected to be doing all sorts of
naughty things that I can’t really tell
you because we might need them in
future. And we get here and you can’t
even get a Copper when you need one.
10.12.46
CAPTION:
Julia Pendry
Silver Command
10.12.46 POLICE – JULIA PENDRY
Hi. All right then. Thank you. Have a
successful camp. Bye bye.
POLICE
Have a nice night.
10.12.52 ROWAN
It's a camp where people can come
together, share ideas, meet new people,.
A group of us, we came together to plan
and carry out an action.
10.13:04
CAPTION
Cop Camera
10.13.02 JAMES
The police may have made themselves
scarce, but they’re still watching. Since
the plan needs to remain top secret, the
activists take precautions. They take
the batteries out of their phones and
they are careful about what they say
out loud.
10.13.15 ROWAN
I think talking about the target might
be alright, just as long as the time and
the date is not talked about.
10.13.24 SALLY
There’s no particular reason why we
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have to say it, if everyone’s seen it
though, so we could just refer to it.
10.13.29 CAPTION:
Royal Bank of Scotland
London HQ
Tuesday morning
10.13.30
WOMAN
Can we just maybe use another word
instead of the target and we all know
what we’re talking about.
10.13.40
WOMAN
Um, the target
10.13.43 MAN
I think probably three ladders with
people at the top and people at the
bottom locked on.
Locked on – literally locked to an
item – in this case a step ladder so
the police cannot remove you easily.
10.13.50 WOMAN
The idea of this, it was to blockade it,
to reclaim it as the people, like it's our
bank, we’re reclaiming it and we’re gonna
build it into what we want.
10.14.00 JAMES
Now it wouldn’t be a very good idea to
go directly from the camp to the action,
since a group of activists setting off
with bags full of D locks and ladders,
would be reasonably likely to get
rumbled. So they all leave the camp to
head to temporary base for the night.
Rumbled = caught by the police
10.14.18 SALLY
Cool. So has everyone got their
batteries out of their phones. One thing
we’ve been discussing quite a lot is
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whether we want to have people going
into the building with superglue and
supergluing to each other, not to the
building, because if we superglued to
the building that would be a criminal
damage charge.
10:14:33 ROWAN
If all else fails, it's every man for
themselves, just lock onto whatever you
can.
10.14.39 WOMAN
So basically the likely charges of both
going inside and being outside is
aggravated trespass, and criminal
damage, we have avoided at every cost
in the planning of this action.
10.14.51
WOMAN
So who’s going arrestable?
Can someone count?
Eighteen.
10.15.06 JAMES
Sally has stepped up to be a
spokesperson tomorrow, so she brushes
up on her facts and figures.
10.15.11 MAN
If you were going to quote a figure,
make sure that you say took part in
loans, or were involved in loans, because
what RBS do is they’re like the
intermediary between investors and
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investment projects.
10.15.31 WOMAN
We’re making up the arm locks.
10.15.34
10:15:47
JAMES
Arm locks are a cunning way to lock
yourself to someone, so that it's hard
for the police to separate you.
It may appear like these guys are
seasoned pros, but don’t be fooled, only
a couple of them have ever been
arrested before.
10:15:54
10:16:00
ROWAN
You hold the lock on the front of your
neck so you can personally undo it
WOMAN
Yeah that’s more comfortable as well
10.16.09
10.16.20
WOMAN
Right so can we have a talk through, so
James your first part.
JAMES
I’m going to drive down there and I’m
going to check out RBS subtly, have a
cup of tea. I’ve got to look for any
abnormal security, police movements.
WOMAN
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Animation: Shows the plan
People in the white marquee, people who
are going to be blockading the outside,
go to the van, get everything out. Then
as soon as everything’s out of the van,
that's when arrestable inside need to
go. We follow straight afterwards, and
just behind us we need to have all of
the non arrestables.
10.16.40 CAPTION:
What are you writing on your arm?
10.16.52
SALLY
I’m writing the number of the climate
camp legal support which will be the
number we’ll call from jail or if we’ve
been arrested.
10.16.53 ROWAN
Yes, they say, ‘who do you want to be
informed about you being arrested?’ and
you give them that number.
10.17.28 CAPTION:
Inside Superglue Crew
10.17.34 CAPTION:
Outside Lock-on Crew
10:18:00 MAN
Oi, you’re going to hurt me, you’re going
to hit me in the head
10:18:05 WOMAN
Can somebody take the other side of
this ladder please?
10:18:19 INTERVIEWER
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Can you see them at all?
10:18:21
WOMAN
No I can’t see them they must have got
right inside
10:18:23 Subtitles: Whose future, our future,
whose money, our money
10:18:23 CROWD
Whose future – our future!
Whose Money – our money!
10.18.30 POLICE
Have you got a spokesperson or anyone
I can speak to?
10.18.31 WOMAN
I’m the media spokesperson
10.18.33 POLICE
Okay. I’d just er…
10.18.34 WOMAN
Would you like to know why we’re here?
10.18.36 POLICE
I would like to know why you’re here.
10.18.37
WOMAN
Yes. We’re renovating the Royal Bank of
Scotland because we wont stand for the
fact that the government has invested
thirty three billion pounds in the Royal
Bank of Scotland, to bail it out and that
is financing the climate change, due to
the way that that money is invested.
POLICE OFFICER
Okay. you do realise obviously that
you’re obstructing people’s access and
egress to the premises and things like
Egress= exiting, the right of a
person to leave a property
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Subtitles:Michael Hannard UK security
operations manager.You’ve entered the
building today unlawfully. You’ve been
asked to leave and you’ve all refused.
You’ve caused intimidation to staff and
disrupted the business. As a
representative, let me please finish, as
a representative of the business, I will
inform you that if you do refuse to
leave and if you are arrested, then as a
company we will prosecute you all.
10.19.04
10.19.27
that.
WOMAN
Yes we are aware of that.
POLICE OFFICER
And also you’re obstructing people on
the highway etcetera.
REPRESENTATIVE
Michael Hannard UK security operations
manager.You’ve entered the building
today unlawfully. You’ve been asked to
leave and you’ve all refused. You’ve
caused intimidation to staff and
disrupted the business. As a
representative, let me please finish, as
a representative of the business, I will
inform you that if you do refuse to
leave and if you are arrested, then as a
company we will prosecute you all.
POLICE
Is there anything else that I can
reasonably do or say that will make you
leave the premises?
Subtitles: If you commit that RBS
would stop investing in the fossil fuel
10.19.33 MAN
If you commit that RBS would stop
investing in the fossil fuel industry and
change over to serious investment in
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industry and change over to serious
investment in Renewables, we would
happily leave if that was the
commitment.
Renewables, we would happily leave if
that was the commitment.
10.19.48 JAMES
The new touchy, feely policing, means
the news is not distracted by police
violence and can now find time to
actually report why the activists are
there.
10.19.56 NEWSREADER
Climate campaigners have glued and
chained themselves to the London
headquarters of the Royal Bank of
Scotland.
NEWSREADER
Dressed as construction workers, they
used bike locks and superglue to attach
themselves to the building.
10.20.07 SALLY
We aim to shut down the bank for a
whole working day, this is an anti bank’s
holiday.
10.20.11 MAN
They’re angry at the bank’s investment
in fossil fuel projects.
10.20.15 JAMES
Before long the removal team arrive to
unglue the guys on the trading floor.
10:20:20 Subtitles: 10:20:20 POLICE
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It may sting a little bit It may sting a little bit
10:20:30 CAPTION
frank
10:20:30 INTERVIEWER
How’s it going so far?
FRANK
It's going really well I think, we’re still
here that’s always good.
10.20.35 JAMES
In Fact the blockade has managed to
hang on until the end of the business
day.
10:20:39 SINGING
RBS are funding climate change, its
shit, it’s the tax payers money, we won’t
stand for this
10.20.55 JAMES
Once again, climate camp has grabbed
the nation’s attention and inspired a new
generation of outlaws, who leave
determined to be a thorn in the side of
the capitalists.
10.21.13 CAPTION
Tracy
10.21.13 TRACY
I’m Tracy Howard I am a wife, mother,
resident and local campaigner in the
village of Sipson.
10.21.21 TRACY
At the moment we’re under the threat
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of the third runway, but BAA proposed
to demolish everything that you can see
around here in this beautiful village to
make way for a horrendous runway,
extending Heathrow airport.
10.21.34 JAMES
And a bigger airport means more flights
and more emissions into the
atmosphere. So a third runway at
Heathrow has become a climate change
battleground.
10:21:52
CAPTION
Lily
10.21.47 LILY
I was one of the people who was
occupying the runway at Stansted last
December and the turning point in my
political motivation, was the 2007
climate camp. I’d been on the fringes of
doing stuff then and I’d always been
interested, I’d been to lots of marches
and stuff like that, and then in 2007 I
was like right, enough’s enough, we’ve
got to start actually doing stuff. It's so
drastic and potentially affecting my
future so detrimentally that I have to
try everything I can to do something
about it, yea.
10.22.21 TRACY
I got involved about six to seven years
ago with the threat of the third runway,
they was also threatening to bulldoze
and dig up Cherry Lane cemetery. My
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husband’s Nan is there, so it became
more poignant and something involved in
my own life, so that’s hence I got
involved in all the different action
groups. I go from leaflet dropping to
direct action, I’m quite variable. I go
from the basics right up to the main
squeeze shall we say.
Hence = why
10.22.49 TRACY
my direct action involved a few of us
turning up at the architect of the year
award and we basically sabotaged it.
We awarded Pascal and Watson with the
‘We don’t give a shit award’, because
they don’t give a shit about us.
Pascal and Watson – name of a
company
10.23.01 JOSH
Good evening everybody, we won’t take
up much of your time, but we’re here
from Plane Stupid and the residents
around Heathrow and before the awards
start, we would like to give our own
personal award, and we’d like to give our
award to Pascal and Watson. I think
Pascal and Watson are here somewhere
tonight, and we would like to give them
an award because they’ve been at the
forefront of aviation expansion since
the 1960s.
10.23.26 TRACY
Josh gave the talk about the
environmental issues and I gave the talk
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about my life.
10.23.31 MAN
Ladies and Gentlemen, would you kindly
leave the stage please. Would you please
leave the stage so we can proceed with
our awards ceremony.
10.23.39 JOSH
You’ve been incredible. You may destroy
the climate, people’s homes, and local
community.
10.23.46 TRACY
It’s for Pascal and Watson, anyone else?
anyone else want it? would anyone else
like the award? They’re digging up my
grandmother’s grave, my grandmother’s
grave.
10.24.04 TRACY
When I was asked to leave, I did
actually leave I had to go back on stage
because I left my coat and my bag
there but we did actually leave. We
were non threatening, we were just
there to make a point. We distributed
lots and lots of leaflets about the
situation and it was absolutely fine.
10.24.19 JAMES
Lily, Paul, Rowan, and some other Plane
Stupid members are moving to one of
the
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threatened villages out near Heathrow.
10.24.27 LILY
Here we are, welcome to my new home. a
resident of Harlington now, which is
quite exciting. You can hear the aircraft
noise already, I’m going to have to get
used to that I think.
10.24.44 CAPTION
Isle of Wight
More wind less talk
10.24.44 JAMES
Back at the Vestas factory the workers
have been forced to end their
occupation. But some have joined
Marina and the others who are now
living on the traffic island, and they are
blockading the removal of the
machinery from the plant.
10.24.58
MARINA
Four months I’ve been here, I don’t
know how long I’m going to stay on the
Isle of Wight, I think once you start a
campaign you have to see it through
10.25.11 These are my broad beans, which I’m
particularly proud of.
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10.25.19 INTERVIEWER
Does all of this do any good?
10.25.35 MARINA
One of the problems is, is if people
realise there’s a problem and they don’t
think they can do anything, that is so
depressing, that is suicidal depressing,
that is roll over and die depressing. But
if you think you can do something and
you can make a difference, through
campaigning or putting your body in the
way, then that’s empowering. So you
actually are taking back control of your
life, even though all these decisions are
out of our control, they’re made by
politicians over there. So yes it has
done good.
10.26.04 JAMES
After four months of trying to do good,
the powers that be have had enough and
an eviction order has arrived.
10.26.10 MARINA
Hello
10.26.11 MR QUINN
Hi. My name’s Mr Quinn from High
Court enforcement. We’re here today to
enforce…
10.26.16 MARINA
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Can you turn around a bit so I can get
the sunlight on your face, thank you
dear.
10.26.19 MR QUINN
Is that alright?
10.26.20 MARINA
Yea that’s a bit better.
10.26.23 MR QUINN
Okay?
10.26.24 MARINA
So what are you saying?
10.26.25 MR QUINN
We’re here from high court
enforcement to force the writ today.
10.26.29 MARINA
Okay
10.26.29 MR QUINN
Alright
10.26.30 MARINA
Yea now would you like a cup of tea?
10.26.31 MR QUINN
No, thank you very much but I’ve just
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had coffee.
10.26.35 MARINA
Okay, well the kettle will be on while we
pack up, so any time you think
10.26.37 MR QUINN
Okay. How long do you think it will take
you?
10.26.39 MARINA
Oh it's going to be a few hours.
10.26.42 MR QUINN
Do you reckon an hour, hour and a bit,
shall we give you till twelve o’clock?
10.26.45 MARINA
Ooh I don’t think, I don’t think we’ll
have finished elevenses by twelve
o’clock.
Elevenses – a snack between
breakfast and lunch at 11am
10.26.50 MR QUINN
We’ll go for twelve o’clock.
10.26.52 MARINA
I don’t think we’ll be packed by twelve
o’clock but we’ll see what we can do.
10.26.55 MR QUINN
Okay lovely.
10.27.04 TRUDY: I’m their beat officer
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MARINA
This is Trudy our beat officer.
TRUDY
Marina’s got a favourite police officer
and it's me.
MARINA
I got emotionally engaged, I got so
involved.
10.27.20 TRUDY
I’m not too sure if you’re going to be
able to do this,
MAN: Why?
Trudy: because you’re actually removing
property that belongs to
another person. I know that you planted
the seed, but you’re removing the earth
aren’t you,
10.27.36 WOMAN
Crumpets everybody! Crumpets?
10.27.43
MARINA
No, here they are taking down my tent.
10.27.50 MAN
Excuse me, I now require you to leave
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the site please. Okay.
10.27.53 MARINA
I’m not leaving the site without my
belongings.
10.27.56 MARINA
I want my bed, they’re telling me to go
to, I want my bed.
10.27.59 TRUDY
They’re going to pack it all up and you’ll
be able to collect it at a later date. If
you don’t leave the site now, as
requested, you’ll give me no alternative
but to arrest you.
10.28.07 MARINA
No I’ve got to get my kettle, I’m not
going without my kettle. I’m not going
without my kettle.
10.28.12 MAN
Okay can you come with me please?
10.28.19 MARINA
Ow, ow, oooooow, ow.
10.28.28 TRUDY
Marina, you’re under arrest, under
section ten You do not have to say
anything but it may harm your defence
if you do not mention anything you later
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rely on in court, anything you do say may
be given as evidence. Do you
understand?
10.28.31
MARINA
Being arrested for basically trying to
leave with two things and, it was like the
law, there was just nowhere, there was
no space in the interview for any
understanding of the fact that you’ve
been living somewhere and that’s… And
on top of that, you know the
policewoman who arrested me, the day
before she’d come to visit and I really
thought that we got to know each other.
And she come and visit, you know, she
gave me a hug goodbye when she turned
up with the bailiffs it was all very, very
friendly.
10.29.02
But she arrested me anyway and she
cried during my interview because, I
mean I cried. And even then, I keep
polite and they’re telling me that I
should have packed a bit earlier, and I
left my stuff till last.
10.29.27
You know Rosa Park sat down on a bus,
the law changed, because lots of people
agreed with her. So that's what we have
to do. But it has to be fun and exciting
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and we have good friends and we get
over getting arrested and we get on
with the next job and that’s what we’re
going to do tomorrow. We’re not hoping
for lots of arrests, we’re hoping for lots
of new recruits to the revolution.
10:30.00
CAPTION
Ratcliffe Power Station
Nottingham
10.29.57
JAMES
This is Ratcliffe on Soar coal power
station, the second largest power
station in the UK and soon to be the
target of a publically announced mass
action. An open planning meeting is held
in Nottingham. Anyone is welcome to
come.
POLICE
Morning
INTERVIEWER
Morning
JAMES
Well except the police.
10.30.16 ROWAN
There’s a whole load of secrecy that
goes with taking direct action, and so
the point of the swoop was to publicly
say ‘we’re going to shut down this power
station and we’re going to do it on this
day and we’re going to do it with loads
of people. And anyone who wants to
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10.30.16 ROWAN
There’s a whole load of secrecy that
goes with taking direct action, and so
the point of the swoop was to publicly
say ‘we’re going to shut down this power
station and we’re going to do it on this
day and we’re going to do it with loads
of people. And anyone who wants to
come and help, can come along and do it.
Caption: Sophie 10.30.29 SOPHIE
State sanctioned protests are good for
one thing, but we need to start actually
doing things that will directly impact on
those offenders, and the coal industry
are causing carbon emissions that will
destroy our planet. And one thing about
direct action I suppose, is that it wasn’t
just to stand on the line, with a placard
saying we don’t like what you’re doing. It
was actually to take action, to do
something.
10.31.02 WOMAN
You’re walking in the footsteps of
history and you’re doing it because you
want to stand up and defend the future.
A lot of people have made a lot of
change in history, and they have done it
by working together and challenging the
status quo and finding hope and faith
where it might seem like there is none.
But in the end somebody has to take
down the fences.
10.31.53 SOPHIE
So it wasn’t just about destroying the
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10.32.09
10.32.20
Caption: SALLY
Caption:
people are willing to become outlaws
.
10.32.09 SALLY
This is one way in which we can change
things and a really, really important way
because mass civil disobedience shows
that the law is unjust and people are
willing to become outlaws to change
things.
10:32.43
CAPTION
De-arrest x 8
10.32.32 ROWAN
I didn’t nearly get arrested that day, I
was walking through the woods with my
affinity group and all of a sudden a
police officer grabbed me from behind
and I shouted ‘de arrest’,
CROWD
de arrest.
de arrest.
de arrest.
de arrest.
ROWAN
And all my friends came to my rescue
and helped me.
CROWD
De arrest
ROWAN
So if you get in a position where a police
officer is arresting you, you don’t have
to accept that, that’s going to be your
destiny, that you will be arrested.
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CROWD
De arrest
And I got away and we ran, very fast. If
more people as a collective decided to
de arrest people, then a lot less people
get arrested and the police would find
their job exponentially harder.
10.33.13 JAMES
They didn’t manage to shut down the
power station that day, but as Sally
says, the sight of thousands of people
openly becoming outlaws, sends a very
powerful message.
10.33.26 JAMES
Preparations are being made to travel to
Copenhagen where the United Nations
are holding a two week conference of
world leaders, to hammer out a deal on
tackling climate change.
10.33.36 ROWAN
This is Maalox and it's used to treat
the effects of CS gas. Mix it with
water, pour it on your eyes and face,
and it stops the burning.
10.33.44 PAUL
They’ve got no outside police apart from
intelligence officers. But loads of
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10.33.44 PAUL
They’ve got no outside police apart from
intelligence officers. But loads of
German police dogs,
10.33.51
JAMES
The Danish government have been
making their own preparations by
granting the police new powers to detain
protesters at will.
10.33.58 ROWAN
It says you will probably be taken to the
police station and placed in a holding
cell.
LILY
The Danish police are arresting not just
for vandalism but can give people forty
days if you inhibit police work.
10.34.11 MAN
Right what do I need for Copenhagen?
10.34.14 INTERVIEWER
Are you expecting to get arrested?
10.34.16 MAN
No not at all, but it seems like a strong
possibility.
10.34.21 WOMAN
Why?
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10.34.24 MAN
well I suppose on the 16th of December
the plan is to go and get into the
conference ourselves and hold our own
conference to let the people that have
been affected by climate change, have
their views said and I don’t think
they’re going to be very happy with us
trying to do that. So I’d like not to get
arrested, but never say never.
10:34.50 WOMAN
We’re off!
10.35.09 JAMES
No sooner had they crossed the border
into Denmark than they are stopped.
10.35.15 BORDER PATROL
Can I have a look at your passports?
10.35.17 WOMAN
You can indeed.
10.35.18 BORDER PATROL
And your driver’s licence?
10.35.22 MAN
There’s all the passports
10.35.26 BORDER PATROL
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How many are you?
10.35.27 WOMAN
We are seventeen.
10.35.29 BORDER PATROL
Seventeen?
10.35.29 WOMAN
Yes
10.35.30 BORDER PATROL
Okay
It's okay, have a nice day, okay.
10.35.48 JAMES
It isn’t just our guys who are heading
for Copenhagen, activists from around
the world are joining them because they
believe that corporate interests
supported by powerful governments,
have hijacked the process. So it's highly
unlikely that a fair or effective
agreement will be reached.
10.36.05 Caption
Copenhagen
UN COP15 Confernce
10.36.09 Interviewer:
So where are we going?
Caption: Frank 10.36.11 MAN
we’re going to the candy factory to a
bike bloc meeting.
10.36.17 JAMES
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Bike bloc are going to use bicycles as a
tool for civil disobedience on the day of
mass action
10.36.26
SOPHIE
We were on an old disused candy
factory and there we set up this
outdoor workshop and an indoor
workshop for bike maintenance and
another separate space for bike
welding.
10.36.42.33 ROWAN
This is a double trouble, not a double,
double trouble.
Double double trouble was the name
given to bikes welded together to
make double width and tall bikes.
10:36.47 JAMES
The world’s eyes are on the UN summit
because the scientific community have
made it clear that if a serious deal on
reducing emissions isn’t struck this year
then next year maybe too late.
10.37.00 MAN
Just to let you know, the police are here
10.37.02 MAN
We do games - training at three o’clock.
10.37.04 POLICE
At three o’clock?
10.37.06 JOHN
It’s not a demo, we go down to the park
and we train in the park.
10.37.08 POLICE
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Okay
10.37.10 John
So are you going to stay here and
intimidate people or are you going to go
away, or are you going to.
10.37.13 POLICE
We must take a look so
10.37.15 JOHN
Okay
10.37.18 CAPTION
John
10.37.18 JOHN
Now our role on the 16th of December is
to be a bit like the cavalry, okay? So
always moving, and always taking the
police away from where they’re trying
to stop the people coming in to the Bella
Centre, because what will be happening
on the 16th is that people will be coming
into the Bella Centre but also about five
hundred people, probably more, will be
coming out of the Bella Centre, and
that’s the beauty of the day. So we’re
going to play some games now to get
used to the bikes.
10.37.50 JOHN
Put your bike up like that and you use
your tyre to defend your body against …
10.38.08 JOHN
How does that feel?
MAN
Scary.
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10.38.08 JOHN
How does that feel?
MAN
Scary.
JOHN
Scary, and they were your mates. So in
this one, basically the thing to do oh,
the cops are filming us.
10.38.22 CAPTION
Sally what’s going on now?
10.38.22
INTERVIEWER
Sally what’s going on now?
SALLY
We’re just making very quickly our
carbon trader WACT Association
posters which we’re going to be taking
on the big NGO march today to
illustrate just how important a solution
carbon trading is, to put on the table in
Copenhagen.
WACT – a made up organisation –
the ‘world association of carbon
traders’
10.38.42 JAMES
Carbon trading is the money-man’s
answer to climate change using free
market economics to solve the problem.
It’s the main solution at the Copenhagen
talks so our guys are putting on their
finest capitalist suits for a bit of
satirical fun
10.38.56 MAN/CROWD
one solution – trade pollutions. one
solution – trade pollution.
10.39.00 ROWAN
Is this the first hippy you’ve stopped
today?
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POLICE
Yes, first hippy.
10.39.03
10.39.09
WOMAN
Oh we don’t want those hippies
WOMAN
Just take him away it’s fine, it’s just a
hippy
10.39.13 CROWD:
POWER
POWER TO THE PRIVELEGE
BECAUSE THE PRIVELEGED GOT THE
POWER
TELL ME YOU CAN YOU FEEL IT
WE GET RICHER BY THE HOUR
10.39.32
INTERVIEWER
Is it funny?
10.39.34 MAN
It’s funny yeah
MAN
yeah it’s funny. We thought about it for
a long time and now we find out it’s
irony, yes
10.39.48 ROWAN
One solution is this is a trade pollution.
We can save the world if we embrace
carbon trading.
10.39.52 JAMES
With only a week left at the summit,
the police are taking increasing control
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10.39.52 JAMES
With only a week left at the summit,
the police are taking increasing control
of the streets.
10.40.02 SALLY
Excuse me, do you have guns? When do
you think you’re going to need to shoot
people?
10.40.13 CROWD: chanting
“Anti-Capitalista”
10.40.31 SALLY
What law are we breaking? We’re not
doing anything wrong, we have a
democratic right to protest.
10.40.42 JOHN
the whole police operation is about
showing their force and their
organisation really, and terrifying us
with their force and organisation. And
arresting people and putting them in
cages and in the cages you know, in a
sense have been designed to look like
Guantanamo you know, all this stuff is
really, it's a fine art of psychological
intimidation really.
10.41.08 POLICE
But we have our orders. We don’t know
the reason but we have our orders.
10.41.15 JAMES
It's the day before the mass action
against the UN conference, and all
hands are on deck.
Subtitles:
Have you got papers?
10.41.40 WOMAN
Have you got papers?
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Subtitles:
The Danish police have got permission
to go into places here according to the
Danish Police Act.
If we find anything that we think can
be used to do anything bad in the
future, the near stage, we will take it
with us.
10.41.42 POLICE
The Danish police have got permission
to go into places here according to the
Danish Police Act.
If we find anything that we think can be
used to do anything bad in the future,
the near stage, we will take it with us.
Subtitle:
I’m a member of the press, I showed
you my accreditation. I’m a journalist,
I’m not turning off the camera.
10.42.03 INTERVIEWER
I’m a member of the press, I showed
you my accreditation. I’m a journalist,
I’m not turning off the camera.
Subtitle:
If you have a press card you have to
wait outside until we have finished,
10.42.09 POLICE
If you have a press card you have to
wait outside until we have finished,
okay.
Subtitle:
No I don’t.
10.42.12
INTERVIEWER
No I don’t.
Subtitle
So we would like you to turn off the
camera and if you don’t get the
message
10.42.13 POLICE
So we would like you to turn off the
camera and if you don’t get the message
Subtitle:
Don’t touch my camera.
10.42.18 INTERVIEWER
Don’t touch my camera.
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Subtitle:
We, we will take it okay? So it's your
own decision.
10.42.19 POLICE
We, we will take it okay? So it's your
own decision.
Subtitle:
I was here filming a piece, this is a
matter of public interest, I’m not going
outside, please stop pushing me. Please
stop pushing me. I’m not being
unreasonable.
10.42.23 INTERVIEWER
I was here filming a piece, this is a
matter of public interest, I’m not going
outside, please stop pushing me. Please
stop pushing me. I’m not being
unreasonable, I am not being
unreasonable.
Subtitle:
Just relax
10.42.37 POLICE
Just relax
Subtitle:
No, why have you removed me
10.42.38 INTERVIEWER
No why have you removed me?
Subtitle:
Excuse me, listen to me
10.42.40 POLICE
Excuse me, listen to me.
Subtitle:
You have removed me so that nobody
can see what you’re doing.
10.42.41 INTERVIEWER
You have removed me so that nobody
can see what you’re doing.
Subtitle:
It’s a crime scene, we have to search
the place.
10.42.43 POLICE
Yeah it's a crime scene, we have to
search the place.
Subtitle: What is the crime? 10.42.46 INTERVIEWER
What is the crime?
Subtitle: 10.42.49 POLICE
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That’s why we don’t want you to film That’s why we don’t want you to film.
Subtitle:
Tell me what the crime is?
10.42.50 INTERVIEWER
Tell me what the crime is?
Subtitle:
We will tell you later
10.42.51 POLICE
We will tell you later.
Subtitle:
You came in there, you said that you
were simply searching for weapons. As
far as I’ve seen you’ve not found any
weapons. If you’re not doing anything
wrong.
10.42.52 INTERVIEWER
You came in there, you said that you
were simply searching for weapons. As
far as I’ve seen you’ve not found any
weapons. If you’re not doing anything
wrong, if you’re not doing anything
wrong.
Subtitle:
You have to turn it off now.
10.43.00 POLICE
You have to turn it off now.
10.43.01 INTERVIEWER
If you’re not doing anything wrong.
10.43.01 POLICE
You will have to turn it off now.
10.43.03 INTERVIEWER
If you’re not doing anything wrong.
10.43.04 POLICE
Okay then I’ll take it.
10.43.21 ROWAN
And then on the day of action we set
off quite quickly, got on our bicycles, it
Nicking you – Arresting you
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was snowing and cold. As we got quite
close to the Bella Centre, all of a sudden
this riot van full of police turned up,
‘Right we’re nicking you’
10.43.41
PAUL
Even though we hadn’t done anything, we
were being arrested and detained in jail
for the day.
ROWAN
Cuffed us all, on the floor, in a blizzard
for about an hour and a half whilst they
rounded up more people. Like ‘oh, we’re
taking you to the chicken coup’ , which is
what they call their temporary prison.
PAUL
But it was alright because we hadn’t
done anything and we’d be released
later. and at that point we felt the full
force of repression from the Danish
state at that time. We were obviously
sanctioned from the world.
10.44.09
10.44.18
CAPTION
Delegates from the inside
People on the outside
10.44.09
CROWD
We are peaceful, why aren’t you?
10.44.28 SOPHIE
It felt like martial law, it really, really
did. I mean it felt like we were in a war
zone. That element of it was a really
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horrible experience actually.
10.44.40 ROWAN
We just got every single road block
armed in this direct confrontation, In
that direct confrontation, there was no
winning ,they always have much better
fire power, much stronger numbers,
they’re fully armed they’re just like
Robocop
10.44.54 SOPHIE
Eighteen arrested from bike block, and
Aimee been bitten by a dog off a leash.
10.45.01 JAMES
Then Paul rings.
10.45.03 INTERVIEWER
Do they know you have this phone?
Subtitles:
No they don’t know. I smuggled it in, in
my pants.
10.45.04 PAUL
No they don’t know. I smuggled it in, in
my pants.
10.45.08 INTERVIEWER
Can you see people in any other cages?
Subtitle:
Yeah I can see loads of people in loads
of cages, hundreds, hundreds of people
here.
10.45.11 PAUL
Yeah I can see loads of people in loads
of cages, hundreds, hundreds of people
here.
10.45.14 INTERVIEWER
Hundreds
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Men and women.
10.45.15 PAUL
Men and women.
UNKNOWN
Subtitle:
The inner wall has just been ripped,
ripped up. Basically the cages are
destroyed, they can’t put people in the
cages because the walls are ripped up.
10.45.21 PAUL
The inner wall has just been ripped,
ripped up. Basically the cages are
destroyed, they can’t put people in the
cages because the walls are ripped up.
10.45.30 ROWAN
All you’ve got to do is lift it out of this
runner at the bottom and you can just
start shaking it from side to side, and it
snaps all of these jubilee clips which are
holding it at the edge. And you just run
all them together in the same one and
then again they come blast you all with
mace.
10.45.44
PAUL
So gradually throughout the day I went
from this position of being totally
gutted that I had gone to go and
participate in a people’s assembly and
you know being really compliant which I
was angry with myself for being
complaint with and being stopped and
searched. And then being arrested for
no reason to a position where I felt like
we were actually breaking down that
process by asserting our humanity.
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Subtitles
Free us all
10.46.09 CROWD CHANTING
Free us all
10.46.13 ROWAN
This was a collaboration, an
international collaboration between
people from all over Europe, all over the
world, and the chanting and singing was
in every language you can imagine, and
you just pick it up as quickly as possible
and try and get everyone chanting it,
and it was such a powerful thing to
hear. Complete indignation about what
was going on there, and we had to unify.
10.46.37 JAMES
After weeks of wrangling, Obama and
his pals cut a back room deal, but they
couldn’t get the rest of the UN to back
it, leaving the process on hold until next
year.
10.46.47 JOHN VIDAL,
The Latin American countries, the left
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CAPTION
John Vidal
Environment Editor, The Guardian
10.46.47 JOHN VIDAL,
The Latin American countries, the left
wing Latin American countries are
completely denouncing the whole thing,
they are saying that the conference has
been a total failure, a complete
disaster. they are saying they want a
world referendum on what should be
done. they are blaming America
specifically and capitalism generally.
10.47.05 CAPTION
Antonio Hill, Oxfam
10.47.05 ANTONIO HILL,
I think it's not even, it can’t even be
called a deal, it could be called a cop
out.
10.47.13 SOPHIE
I think a lot of us came back quite
disheartened. I went there to discuss
climate change and came out discussing
capitalism and state control, so it
totally radicalised me. So thank you,
thank you Copenhagen police for pushing
me into that corner.
10.47.21
CAPTION
Hackney (London)
10.47.21 SOPHIE
Post capitalism it’s better than what
we’ve got already. I’m not sure how
we’re going to get there, I’m not sure of
how it's going to work, but I think we
can give it a go. You’re into post
capitalism aren’t you. Give it a go.
WOMAN
Yay,
SOPHIE
Vote Sophie Nathan.
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10.47.47 SALLY
I think if you were going to sum it up in
one word, it's anti-capitalism. But for a
lot of people that doesn’t really mean
anything and I think what we really need
to understand is the connections that
the system which prioritises profit over
people, time and time again, is the same
system that's driving this.
10.48.01 Caption: Heathrow 10.48.01 JAMES
Back out near Heathrow, Lily and the
Plane Stupid crew are about to try
something completely different.
10.48.08 Lily
Today we’re starting the first big
project of transition Heathrow.
10.48.15 ROWAN
We’ve taken a piece of land which was in
a state of disrepair, it's got these
beautiful green houses on it, and we’re
going to have a land clearing weekend
next weekend, we’re going to get our
community down, lots of friends down,
clear it up and get people to decide
what they want to happen on the land.
10.48.30 TRACY
I’m a council tax payer, they’re welcome
in this village any time of the day.
10.48.35 LILY
The locals have been backing us so much
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in this project, keep dropping around
bags of food and stuff for us and, and
you know and just dropping in blankets
and sleeping bags and everything. And
making sure we’re warm enough and
joining us in the evening, so everybody’s
really excited about what it could
become.
10.48.51 CAPTION
LINDA
10.48.51 LINDA
When climate camp came and these
young people came to support us, we
haven’t looked back.
10.48.57 LILY
It's the autonomy of a project like this
is what makes it direct action for me,
it's disregarding the existing power
structures and just doing it ourselves.
10.49.08 LINDA
We’ve started something and our hearts
are into finishing it. So we hope we are
winning. If we’re not we’ll take a
raincheck and we’ll be in there doing
something. We’ll be in there doing
something.
WOMAN
Will it be legal?
LINDA
It won’t be legal, you can definitely
bank on that.
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Don’t know the meaning of that word.
10.49.34 MAN
She’s not in the way, is she?
11.26.17 MARINA
This is what I’m living to do now, ‘cos it
needs to be done. There is more to life
than you know being judged on your
ability to shop, based on an income and
what you’ve accumulated. I think we all
still agree that the spirit is still an
important aspect of humanity. And it's
to be expressed and lived.
10.50.03 MARINA
I started off making tea and now I’m
just like, ‘oh bloody hell come on, let’s
sit down here’, if anyone out there
thinking I want to do more, just do it. I
don’t mean “I recycle,” I don’t mean
that. I mean civilised disobedience. Do
it.
CAPTION
10.52.22
In May 2010, following years of
campaigning, plans for a third runway
at Heathrow Airport were scrapped
In October 2010, after years of
sustained targeting by Climate Camp
and others EON cancelled plans for a
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10.52.22
In May 2010, following years of
campaigning, plans for a third runway
at Heathrow Airport were scrapped
In October 2010, after years of
sustained targeting by Climate Camp
and others EON cancelled plans for a
new coal powerstation at Kingsnorth,
Kent,
In December 2010 the Danish courts
ruled that the preventative arrests of
nearly 2000 people during the
Copenhagen climate summit were illegal
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