REBELLION SHOOTING SCRIPT
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Ok, and yeah |
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INTERVIEWER Are we rolling on both? |
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DP Yep |
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Now? [laugh] |
Savannah in interview, looking down and listening to interviewer |
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INTERVIEWER So, first question: |
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If you could go back in time, |
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would you join Extinction Rebellion again? |
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Savannah takes a breath and smiles |
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Savannah speaking in interview |
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SAVANNAH (INTERVIEW) I think it's hard to know whether I would do it again, |
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cos I still am not fully aware yet of how it's affected me. |
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I think the biggest questions XR should have been asking itself was |
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OK, so what if this works out, what if we do it? |
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Crowd at a protest with XR flags |
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What if we get a platform and a voice? How are we going to be different? |
Spray Paint FX: “BFI DOC SOCIETY |
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CROWD |
FUND PRESENTS” |
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- Extinction! |
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- Rebellion! |
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- Extinction! |
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- Rebellion! |
Spray Paint FX: “HALCYON PICTURES PRESENT” |
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DAVID LAMMY MP The government's bill |
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Flashing blue police light |
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says that those who cause annoyance |
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could be jailed for up to ten years. |
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Fist hammers on door |
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POLICE Police! |
Spray Paint FX: “EXECUTIVE PRODUCER KEVIN MACDONALD” |
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REPORTER The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill |
Alarm clock reads “5:27” Hand turns light on |
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2021 is the first major change... |
Spray Paint FX: “EXECUTIVE PRODUCER LISA MARIE RUSSO” |
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SIR DAVID AMESS MP Madame Deputy Speaker, I have long complained |
Feet going down the stairs |
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about the endless demonstrations which take place on Parliament Square. |
Spray Paint FX: “ORIGINAL MUSIC WAYNE ROBERTS” |
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REBECCA LONG BAILEY MP The bill should send chills down the spines of anyone |
Police putting on blue gloves Woman opens door from inside |
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who believes in democracy. |
Police boot steps into house |
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POLICE Police! |
Spray Paint FX: “FILM EDITOR MICHAEL NOLLET” |
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CAROLINE LUCAS MP This bill is a disgrace |
Silhouette in doorway of woman being arrested |
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It is dangerous, undemocratic and disproportionate |
Police searching through drawers and removing a laptop |
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PRITI PATEL Madame Deputy Speaker, |
Spray Paint FX: “PRODUCER KAT MANSOOR” |
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the punishment must fit the crime. |
Police bagging the laptop, sealing the bag and writing details |
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Handcuffs fixed onto woman’s hands |
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REPORTER Co-founder of Extinction Rebellion |
Handcuffed woman being taken along street by police |
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Gail Bradbrook, was arrested earlier this morning on suspicion of conspiracy to commit |
Spray Paint FX: “A FILM BY MAIA KENWORTHY & ELENA SÁNCHEZ BELLOT” |
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criminal damage |
Spray Paint FX: “REBELLION” |
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CROWD Kill the Bill! Kill the Bill! |
Gail’s garden, washing hanging up TEXT: “MAY 2021” Gail at kitchen sink Kettle boiling |
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STEPHEN FARRY MP This legislation marks an undermining of human rights and civil liberties. |
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It represents a slide towards authoritarianism. |
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Gail pouring boiling water |
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GAIL They arrested me about 5:30 in the morning when I was fast asleep, |
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took me off in handcuffs. |
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Gail speaking to camera as she moves to fridge to collect milk |
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It was four police officers from the Met. |
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Turned out they'd stayed the night before in a hotel. |
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Weird thought. |
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Gail sitting into chair for interview |
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GAIL (INTERVIEW) I've always been really interested in how things change, from a young age |
Gail speaking in interview |
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so I did join the Green Party as a young woman, |
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which was unusual, cos I lived in a coal mining community |
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and my dad was a miner. |
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Photographer in front of line of police |
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GAIL This year Britain has had |
Gail speaking to crowd |
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the worst wheat harvest in 40 years |
Protest banner: ‘Can’t bare the truth?’ |
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GAIL (INTERVIEW) I used to say to people, |
Gail speaking to crowd |
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"Here's all the evidence why life on earth is dying" |
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And they go, "Yes, we know." |
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Gail speaking in interview |
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"And here's how things change. It's civil disobedience." |
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"You've heard of them, haven't you, |
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Gandhi, Martin Luther King, suffragettes?" “Yes.” |
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"Why don't you do it?" |
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Like, you know... |
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You may as well have just asked them |
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to get naked and take a shit in the corner or something. |
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They're like, "Are you serious? What, me get arrested?" |
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Protest visuals (crowds, banners) |
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GAIL (INTERVIEW) The last few years have been like getting strapped into a funfair ride. |
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It's mental, and I haven't got off the ride yet. |
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Spray Paint FX: “THREE YEARS EARLIER” |
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Aerial shots of fires, factories and flooded towns |
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REPORTER 1 Scientists have issued their starkest warning yet |
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about the danger of climate change |
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in a dramatic report... |
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REPORTER 2 Today's report has been described as a global wake-up call for the planet. |
Spray Paint FX: “XR PRESS LAUNCH” |
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ROGER I'm a farmer, |
Laptop screen reads “It’s worse than we thought” |
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been a farmer for 20 years. |
Roger speaking at press conference TEXT: “NOVEMBER 2018” |
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Farmers are committing suicide around the world. |
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And I know why. |
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Because they're fucked. |
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Reporter listening in the audience |
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GAIL (INTERVIEW) In terms of trying to start a social movement, |
Gail in interview |
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it was a really significant moment |
Roger in interview lifting a cup of water |
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when I met Roger Hallam. |
Roger claps |
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Could you just do another sync clap? |
Roger in interview |
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ROGER (INTERVIEW) That was a high-class clap. |
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INTERVIEWER I'm just gonna start with beginnings of XR |
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ROGER Well, it all originated with me. |
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That's the main thing you need to establish. |
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That's a joke. |
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Gail at press conference |
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GAIL If you think this system is toxic |
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and we're all in it, we're all complicit, we're all doing stuff, |
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Reporter listening in audience |
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then step outside of it by breaking the law. |
Roger at press conference |
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ROGER The best way to bring about economic disruption is to close down the city. |
Roger in interview |
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ROGER (INTERVIEW) Well, I'm a non-violence nerd, right? |
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If you're going to effectively challenge state power, |
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you go to the capital and you stay there, right? |
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You don't go for a day. No one gives a damn about you going for a day. |
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And what that does is it builds up pressure on the regime to respond. |
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Roger listening at press conference |
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REPORTER Roger Harrabin, BBC News |
Reporter at press conference |
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I just wonder if you're not setting yourself up to fail |
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by setting demands that are so extreme? |
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Roger at press conference |
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ROGER We're not playing around anymore. We're in absolute crisis. |
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It's a complete mess. |
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Gail in interview |
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GAIL (INTERVIEW) We felt it was really important to have three clear demands. |
Hands pinning a patch that reads ‘Tell the Truth’ onto a jacket |
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Tell the truth. |
Spray Paint Fx: “DEMAND 1 TELL THE TRUTH” |
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We are in this climate and ecological emergency. |
Spray Paint FX: “DEMAND 2 NET ZERO EMISSIONS BY 2025” |
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The second one was that we go to net zero carbon emissions by 2025. |
Gail in interview |
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And then the third one was, like, well, how are you gonna go about |
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such a rapid decarbonisation? |
Spray Paint FX: “DEMAND 3 FORM A CITIZENS’ ASSEMBLY” |
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We want a citizens' assembly, selected like a jury, to decide that, |
Gail in interview |
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and what they come up with should be legally binding. |
Roger in interview |
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ROGER (INTERVIEW) Can I be a bit tricky and say |
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please don't mention climate change in your movie? |
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Cos, you know, that's just the corporate framing. |
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This is not intellectually complicated, right? |
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You know, what we're entering into |
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is the most fucked, |
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bollocksy situation imaginable. |
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Cut there. |
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Wales GV Roger’s farmhouse |
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Roger weeding in polytunnel |
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ROGER We used to do, like, 18 acres of vegetables 15 years ago |
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And now I don't grow outside at all because the weather's so unpredictable. |
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And you can't grow food when the weather's unpredictable, |
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cos you don't really know what to grow. |
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ROGER (INTERVIEW) On June 2nd it started raining and it didn't stop for seven weeks, |
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and I didn't manage to grow a single |
Roger in interview |
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vegetable, |
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and I had about three quarters of a million plants waiting to go in. |
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Polytunnel blowing in breeze |
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And I employed about 25 people. |
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They've all lost their jobs. |
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Weighing scales |
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And then we had the coldest winter ever. |
Empty crates labelled ‘Salad packs’ |
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It's only a matter of time, |
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10, 20, 30 years, |
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Roger in interview |
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until this is happening every other year, |
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and then it's gonna be happening everywhere |
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and then there's going to be no food. |
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Sam sitting into interview |
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Sam in interview |
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SAM (INTERVIEW) I read a couple of books that had been on my bedside table |
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and I'd been putting off reading for a long time |
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and suddenly I felt just very open to the magnitude of the crisis. |
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It didn't make sense to sign a petition |
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or to join an NGO |
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or to go on a march from A to B, |
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and eventually I found this tiny little group online |
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called Extinction Rebellion. |
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And I think at the time they had fewer Twitter followers than my mum, |
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and I reached out to them and said, |
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"Look, if you guys were ever coming to London, |
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you can have my living room as a meeting space." |
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Protest visuals (drums) TEXT: “NOVEMBER 2018” |
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Banners at protest: ‘Fossil fuel era over’ ‘Save our home’ ‘Fossil Fuels RIP’ |
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GAIL We have asked our government to meet us and address our demands. |
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They have ignored us. |
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KOFI Let us emphasise, |
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Kofi on the mic |
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we are rebelling for life |
Protest visuals |
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SAM (INTERVIEW) I really vividly remember walking up from the underground tube station |
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and seeing a thousand people in the square, |
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and it was the first time that I thought, |
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"We've captured a moment here." |
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Sam in interview |
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That this genuinely had the possibility |
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to turn into something bigger than it was. |
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Band playing at protest |
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REPORTER They are the new protest group asking people to break the law. |
Placard: ‘Awfully sorry to be a pain but we’re saving our planet’ |
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Extinction Rebellion is fighting climate change and has been making headlines. |
Protestor chanting |
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CROWD Climate justice! Now! |
Liam on the mic |
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LIAM We are a non-violent movement, |
Protestors digging in Parliament square |
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and we're committed to non-violent civil disobedience |
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- PROTESTOR: Our air is so toxic... - CROWD: Our air is so toxic... |
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PROTESTOR: ..that the United Kingdom is breaking the law. |
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CROWD: ...that the United Kingdom is breaking the law. |
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Police pushing in |
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PROTESTOR 1 Can everyone just take a deep breath? |
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PROTESTOR 2 Non-violence, remember! |
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PROTESTOR 1 Stop, stand still, take a breath. |
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You don't need to resist arrest. |
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If you don't want to be arrested, stand back. |
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If you're happy to be arrested, go easily. |
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We're a non-violent movement. |
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Roger in interview |
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ROGER (INTERVIEW) How far you should push it depends on how right you are. |
Police pushing protestors |
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Roger in interview |
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Things need to change and they need to change fast, |
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because the climate is not gonna wait. |
Banner on bridge: ‘We’re Fucked’ |
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You know, if you destroy it, it's gone. |
Protestors marching |
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SAM (INTERVIEW) The movement was building steam |
Farhana getting ready for interview |
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And then we met Farhana. |
Farhana sitting down |
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INTERVIEWER Sirens. |
Farhana in interview |
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FARHANA (INTERVIEW) This is London. |
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INTERVIEWER Yeah. |
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FARHANA There'll be loads of those. |
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SAM (INTERVIEW) You name it, Farhana has done it. |
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FARHANA What about my hair? Is it sticking out? |
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SAM She has worked at the UN for several decades. |
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She was instrumental in negotiating the Paris Climate Agreement. |
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Sam in interview |
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She's one of the world's most respected climate lawyers and diplomats |
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And basically from that day onwards, |
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I kind of followed her around and forced her to be my mate. |
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Photo of Farhana as a little girl with her family |
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FARHANA (INTERVIEW) I was born in Pakistan and I moved here when I was eight and a half, |
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only speaking three words of English: |
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red, blue and thank you. |
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I think my parents just thought, |
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"England is wonderful, lots of education." |
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And they hadn't really thought about |
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the difficult things that we would confront as children. |
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People called wogs and Pakis. I was called a Paki all the time. |
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Farhana in interview |
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This was just after, you know, Enoch Powell, "Rivers of Blood", |
Archive footage of National Front march |
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National Front. |
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CROWD Keep Britain white! Keep Britain white! |
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Farhana in interview |
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FARHANA (INTERVIEW) I think it shaped me to being someone who's a fighter |
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like I'm fighting to prove my worth |
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and to, you know, demand my share of |
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voice and presence and... |
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I like the idea of being a lawyer |
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and representing people and fighting for justice. |
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UN conference in Poland: Farhana |
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SAM (INTERVIEW) A couple of weeks after meeting Farhana, |
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she managed to smuggle us into the UN conference on climate change. |
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So we went all the way to Poland, |
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on a train, |
walking through the conference building and sitting at the main plenary session, working on her laptop |
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and she did a lot more of the official UN negotiating stuff, |
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and we were there to protest and to meet other activists |
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and to build the movement. |
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ANTONIO GUTERRES What we need is the political will to move forwards. |
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FARHANA (INTERVIEW) I'd come into the UN system thinking it's a fair fight. |
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We've got science and we've got law and we've got the economic analysis. |
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But you had intensive lobbying from the fossil fuel industries, |
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from the financial industries that support them, |
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and it wasn't a fair fight. |
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Mohamed Nasheed addresses press conference at UN. Farhana and Sam sit in the audience. |
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MOHAMED NASHEED Now it's time to tell ourselves some hard truths. |
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This conference is going to cost us. |
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Every year we are spending more than 60, 70 million dollars |
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And we are achieving nothing. |
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SAM (INTERVIEW) Spending time with Farhana, you realise she has seen these conferences |
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come and go and come and go |
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and nothing ever really change. |
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FARHANA So I've said other countries can come, |
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but they have to be absolutely firmly |
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on the talking points. |
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Farhana sitting on bed in Poland, speaking to camera |
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FARHANA I'm really conflicted about being here. |
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It's a very draining, exhausting process |
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that takes thousands of people's |
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energy and time |
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just to move a millimetre forward. |
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Farhana walking towards conference centre and meeting Sam inside, where they take their seats |
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SAM (INTERVIEW) This process isn't working, |
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and people on the outside can see that, |
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but so can people on the inside. |
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And every single year she's seen deals being made |
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and then governments promise things |
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and then not deliver on them. |
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And you have to decide, |
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what's worth doing now? |
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Do you do another conference, |
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or do you try and put pressure on your government? |
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Farhana addressing the room at UN |
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FARHANA Hi. My name's Farhana Yamin. I've been in these negotiations since 1991. |
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I've been to 22 of the last 24 COPs. |
Conference in Poland |
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And I'm very frustrated with how things are going, |
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so I've joined the rebellion |
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for good reasons, |
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because I think all the amazing things that we've done internationally |
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are in need of, frankly, a bit of emergency help. |
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Sam in interview |
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SAM (INTERVIEW) From that point onwards, |
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we knew that she was part of the team. |
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XR meeting: lots of people gathered in a room TEXT: “JANUARY 2019” |
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Farhana presenting to room at XR meeting with new members |
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FARHANA My name's Farhana Yamin. |
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I've joined XR. |
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I feel a bit of a newbie, but there's so many thousands of us, |
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I feel like I'm an important part of the newbie induction and learning process. |
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Roger in interview |
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ROGER (INTERVIEW) I was thinking she was great, cos she was a really headstrong woman |
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who had really dedicated her life to getting stuff done. |
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Farhana presenting to room at XR meeting with new members |
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FARHANA I'm going to introduce the strategy process and documents. |
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That document is the main document that we're now using |
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to elicit feedback from XR |
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and other people who want to join the movement. |
Roger presenting to room at XR meeting with new members |
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ROGER So here's the plan. |
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The main show is on the 15th of April. |
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Take that month off work. |
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So the first thing is |
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people have to break the law. |
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If you don't like doing that or don't feel you can, that's cool, |
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but that's what the plan is. |
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OK. The next critical element is you have to focus your resources. |
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So the place to go is the capital city. |
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We need to get enough people down to create a dilemma for the authorities. |
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And it goes a little bit like this. |
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They can let you stay on the streets, |
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in which case there's big economic problems, |
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or they can arrest you. |
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Neither of those are what they want, |
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so the third option is they negotiate. |
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And then the French will come and finish the job. |
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If you're listening to me now |
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and trying to make a sort of calculation on whether this is gonna work or not, |
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it definitely isn't gonna work, right? |
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How it works is people go, |
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"I'm gonna do it anyway." OK? |
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Farhana in interview |
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FARHANA (INTERVIEW) His main role was to help convince people to break the law, |
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that it was time, that all the other techniques had sort of failed |
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And that was fertile ground for me |
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cos I sort of have to say I agree with him. |
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I definitely thought, yeah, he's charming and committed and really smart. |
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Farhana and Roger embrace at the end of the meeting |
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- ROGER: Yeah, well done - FARHANA: Yeah, well done you. |
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ROGER Yeah, yeah. Yeah, it's good, isn't it? |
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Farhana in interview |
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FARHANA (INTERVIEW) You know, he's got a lot of integrity and charisma, yeah, |
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but not a lot of detail. |
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Roger at XR strategy meeting, presenting his theory at drawing board |
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ROGER Shall I do a little summary? |
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So most of the strategies of the past |
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sort of don't actually concentrate their resources. |
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So the logic of it |
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is to choose the particular point |
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where you're gonna go for it, and it's a bit like sort of a high jump, |
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and you get up to here, and if you fail, then it goes back down again, right? |
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But when it wins, you basically get to that tipping point. |
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Once you get to that tipping point, then you go up here, right? |
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What we need to understand is the absolute priority |
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of throwing everything we've got and the kitchen sink at that point. |
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Do you see what I mean? |
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Facilitator speaks at XR strategy meeting |
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STU So that is gonna be the discussion that happens in the timeline piece, |
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do we throw everything into April, is April the right date, etc? |
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Farhana speaking to the room at XR strategy meeting |
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FARHANA I am Farhana. |
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I'm wondering why I don't bring all of me |
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and all that I actually think to some of these meetings, |
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including the documents I write. |
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So I wondered why no one had put the word "justice" into the soup. |
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I wonder why when I know everything in my intellect and my heart |
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says revolutions take a lifetime |
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if not longer, |
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I'm sitting with a bunch of people who want to focus it on April. |
Gail in interview |
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GAIL (INTERVIEW) That's Roger's thing, it's all out for April. |
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We're gonna go into London, |
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we're gonna put this agenda on the map, and we're not leaving. |
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We're gonna only leave by being arrested. |
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And then other people in the room are saying |
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we've got to build resilience, we've got to build capacity, |
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this is a long struggle, a long fight. |
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They're both true. |
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Savannah sits into shot for her interview |
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Savannah in interview |
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SAVANNAH (INTERVIEW) I guess for me, joining XR was a feeling for the first time |
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like anything was possible. |
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And it felt like a very obvious thing to do. |
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Wales: Savannah in garden cutting kale |
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Photos of Roger with Savannah as a baby on the mantelpiece |
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Because of my upbringing, because of my parents being who they are, |
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I was always aware of climate change. |
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Savannah washing kale in kitchen sink at home, hear radio in background |
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But when I was in university, |
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there was nowhere you could go to talk about that. |
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And being surrounded by so many people who were so disengaged with the world, |
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that's kind of where the decision to leave uni came from. |
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REPORTER Leading climate scientists say |
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that urgent and unprecedented changes are needed now. |
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SAVANNAH (INTERVIEW) So I ended up making the decision to join |
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because that's what my family was doing |
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and that's what the aware people in my life were doing. |
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Non-violent direct action training workshop (indoors) |
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ROMAN (TRAINER) The point of this is to give people practice |
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of dealing with the kind of scenarios they're gonna come up against. |
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So I really need you to try and feel that anger. |
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SAVANNAH (INTERVIEW) Then I decided to go to this non-violent direct action training, |
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and it essentially goes through the kind of tactics around non-violence |
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from a physical point of view, |
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of this is how you lock arms, this is how you flop. |
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Witnessing an arrest training (outdoors) |
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VISHAL (TRAINER) So, witnessing an arrest. |
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Greg is being arrested, |
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and this gentleman here is a police officer arresting him. |
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What kind of information would we like to gather? |
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STUDENT Where he's going. |
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VISHAL Does the police officer have to tell you? |
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No. He might just not know. |
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Which is why you'd note down the ID number of the police van. |
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XR Strategy Meeting |
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STU This is a process moving very rapidly. Lots of eyes will be watching us. |
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And this is world changing. |
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Two fingers up is a direct point. |
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A “C” is for clarification. |
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If I do this, a circle, this means round off your point. |
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FARHANA So, can I just say |
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it hasn't been clear who to signal to. |
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STU I'm going to pause you there. |
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I didn't hear anything you just said |
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because you didn't raise your hand. |
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I'm going to say another hand signal. |
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You've got a hand up. |
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FARHANA I've got two hands. |
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Cos I feel we should balance this out with a degree of informality, |
XR Strategy Meeting |
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given it's six of us who are mainly talking |
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And I don't wanna be told I'm a UN person or this or that, |
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because nobody in the UN does that degree of procedure. |
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HOWARD I'm quite up for this, like, being a little bit informal. |
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FARHANA I feel I've come so far as a result of this XR energy that I felt, |
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and this determination, Roger, which you inspired, |
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that I'm so far out of my comfort zone |
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in how we strategise, |
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and how we do it, |
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and what I've learned in my own soul, |
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that I may sit this one out in April and see how it goes, |
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cos I'm not sure I'm kind of there. |
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FACILITATOR Can we just come straight to Roger? |
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ROGER In my mind, we don't have to decide everything now, OK? |
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We'll see how it goes. |
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If it's just 300 of us, it'll be a 300 show. |
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Do you see what I mean? |
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So what we could do is plan for different scenarios. |
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STU My take on this is it will never feel ready, |
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it will never seem possible, |
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but it's still worth going for. |
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FARHANA (INTERVIEW) It was an absolute leap of faith. |
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I did feel quite nervous but decided we're just gonna have to go with it, |
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and, frankly, there was a part of me thinking, |
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"This is all gonna be over in three days. Stop worrying about it." |
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Rebellion ‘prep’ sequence: people in XR office and warehouse with lots of boxes of equipment, flyers etc |
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SAVANNAH (INTERVIEW) I don't think I had any real idea what was gonna happen in April. |
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ZEPH Eva gave me some instructions |
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to do with forwarding calls or something to you, |
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but I didn't quite understand them, and she's now gone. |
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Treat me like you would a ten-year-old. |
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SAVANNAH (INTERVIEW) For me, a lot of it felt like a game, |
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and because you don't know what's gonna happen, |
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you don't know how the police are gonna react, |
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you don't know really who's gonna turn up. |
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ROBIN |
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Does this one have an earth? |
Roger in interview |
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ROGER (INTERVIEW) On the morning of the first day of the April rebellion, |
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I was shitting myself. |
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Spray Paint FX: “APRIL REBELLION” |
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April Rebellion Montage: people pulling trees onto Waterloo bridge, drawing on the streets in chalk, aerial shot of pink boat at Oxford Circus, people dancing, children at the protest |
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Rebellion montage continues: woman stirring huge pot of food, XR flags blowing in wind, people on statue |
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REPORTER Protesters wanting the government to take urgent action on climate change |
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have descended on the capital. |
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They have painted their messages on the streets and blocked key roads, |
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saying they'll stay as long as it takes for the government to listen. |
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Roger in interview |
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ROGER (INTERVIEW) It took me until about three o'clock in the afternoon to sort of calm down. |
Oxford Circus site at night: DJ plays, lots of people dancing around the pink boat, people being arrested |
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Oxford circus: police speaking to people |
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POLICE I'll let you have a minute to think about it, but I'm not... |
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I'm going to watch you |
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cos if you choose not to comply, |
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I said you will be arrested. |
Protestor being arrested and taken to police van |
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CROWD We love you! |
Roger walking along street at night, speaking to camera |
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ROGER I was feeling a bit pessimistic. |
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Cos, you know, I just wanna change the whole world in a week |
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and then I can just go back to the day job. |
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And so it was a bit like, no, this isn't gonna quite work. |
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But then in the last 24 hours, |
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you know, the police don't seem to be able to clear the sites, |
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and I'm starting to think, ah, maybe it's gonna grow. |
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Oxford Circus site at night with pink boat; Roger addresses the crowd |
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CLARISSA Your hair looks beautiful, Roger |
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Yes, Roger! |
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ROGER Hello, hello. |
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So… |
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VOICE FROM CROWD Is that Roger Hallam? |
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ROGER Yeah, yeah, I'm Roger Hallam. |
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We were a little bit worried it was all gonna sort of fizzle out a bit. |
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ROGER: But it's totally amazing... CROWD: We’re staying! |
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ROGER ...that you're still here |
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Arrest count FX: “DAY 1 – 124 ARRESTS” |
00:24:11:13 - 00:24:14:24 |
If things are fucked, you have to cause a fuss. |
Farhana’s kitchen, see unopened superglue on the table |
00:24:18:19 - 00:24:21:10 |
RADIO VOICE There's a pink yacht at Oxford Circus. |
00:24:21:13 - 00:24:24:04 |
Have I woken up in some strange dimension here? |
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00:24:24:07 - 00:24:26:12 |
MIKE (FARHANA’S HUSBAND) Superglue on skin, right? |
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00:24:26:14 - 00:24:29:21 |
FARHANA OK, yeah, no, you google. |
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00:24:31:00 - 00:24:33:00 |
- MIKE: I will google. - FARHANA: You google it. |
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00:24:33:16 - 00:24:37:25 |
MIKE Trying to pull apart skin that has been superglued can cause it to tear. |
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This type of glue can also cause burns. |
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If you get superglue on your skin, it shouldn't cause any lasting damage. |
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The glue will dissolve on its own within a few days. |
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I think the thing is not to get it in your eyes. |
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Waterloo bridge
site |
00:24:52:12 - 00:24:54:25 |
CROWD - Extinction! - Rebellion! |
Members of public speak from their cars / vans in the traffic, around Waterloo Bridge |
00:25:02:06 - 00:25:04:03 |
MEMBER OF PUBLIC 1 Half an hour late for a meeting already |
00:25:04:06 - 00:25:06:07 |
MEMBER OF PUBLIC 2 I've got every sympathy we've got to do something, |
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but this is not the way to do it. |
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It's mad. |
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00:25:09:01 - 00:25:11:10 |
MEMBER OF PUBLIC 3 I think you can always take the negative view of life, |
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and they're all very peaceful people, |
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everyone's in a good place. |
00:25:16:21 - 00:25:20:00 |
MEMBER OF PUBLIC 4 It slows everything down, which is good in some ways. |
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If you slow the world down, they take notice, don't they? |
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News reporter interviews one of the protestors on Waterloo Bridge |
00:25:23:14 - 00:25:26:00 |
REPORTER Some people have accused you of targeting London commuters. |
00:25:26:02 - 00:25:28:06 |
Are you targeting the right people with this action? |
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PROTESTOR Yes, because the only way we can get the message to the government |
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is to hit their priority. |
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Government priority, above all else, is the economy. |
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So we have to cause economic disruption |
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to the level where we get the government to meet with us and meet our demands. |
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Waterloo bridge site, arrests taking place; Farhana on the phone |
00:25:42:07 - 00:25:43:07 |
CROWD Climate justice! |
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- When do we want it? - Now! |
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- What do we want? - Climate justice! |
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- Extinction! - Rebellion! |
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00:25:48:26 - 00:25:50:26 |
- Extinction! - Rebellion! |
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00:25:50:28 - 00:25:52:26 |
- Extinction! - Rebellion! |
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Move back! |
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00:25:58:09 - 00:25:59:28 |
POLICE Do you wish to walk now? |
00:26:00:01 - 00:26:02:01 |
POLICE Do you wanna walk? |
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00:26:05:16 - 00:26:07:09 |
CROWD - Extinction! - Rebellion! |
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00:26:07:12 - 00:26:09:18 |
FARHANA Hello? Can you hear me? |
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Are you at Shell, or are you...? |
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OK, OK. All right, I'll probably come over in 10, 15 minutes as well. |
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Then we can just take it from there. |
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Shell HQ: activists graffiti building and break a window |
00:26:18:06 - 00:26:20:18 |
We are Extinction Rebellion, |
00:26:20:20 - 00:26:24:28 |
and we are doing this on behalf of Stop the Ecocide. |
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We must hold companies like Shell accountable for their action. |
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Shell is the world's most carbon-intensive oil company. |
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Shell are dirty, thieving, |
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morally bankrupt! |
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Police arrive at Shell and start arresting people |
00:27:04:16 - 00:27:06:25 |
- PROTESTOR 1: How are you doing, mate? - POLICE: Yeah, not too bad. How are you? |
00:27:06:27 - 00:27:08:09 |
PROTESTOR 1 To be honest, I don't wanna be here. |
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I'm doing this for my niece and nephew, |
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and for all life on the planet. |
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00:27:11:10 - 00:27:14:00 |
- PROTESTOR 2: Actually making people aware - POLICE: Did you break that as well? |
00:27:14:02 - 00:27:15:09 |
PROTESTOR 2 Yes, I did. |
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Farhana chats to another protestor at Shell about how she can join the action |
00:27:15:12 - 00:27:19:13 |
KAT You could climb up the scaffolding and then up the ladder and replace them. |
00:27:19:15 - 00:27:23:04 |
I don't know how you are with heights. It is quite high up there. |
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Or you could glue yourself into the middle window. |
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FARHANA That's what I like. |
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00:27:29:15 - 00:27:31:03 |
So what about my phone? |
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00:27:31:06 - 00:27:33:02 |
I need to know what to do with my phone |
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Farhana stands in front of the Shell building, looking around at all the police, and then dashes under the police tape towards Shell’s entrance. The police grab her so she glues herself to the pavement. |
00:27:46:18 - 00:27:49:22 |
PROTESTOR The long and short of it is, you know, we're more afraid of climate change |
00:27:49:25 - 00:27:52:01 |
than we are of arrest and imprisonment. |
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MEGAPHONE Shell, Exxon, IBM, Total and Pfizer have, by their industry association, |
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the largest negative impact on climate policy. |
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00:28:03:12 - 00:28:08:08 |
PROTESTOR We need an emergency reaction to climate change! |
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POLICE No, no, no, no. Come here, come here |
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FARHANA I'm glued to the floor! |
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I'm glued to the floor. Do not remove. |
Farhana speaks from the pavement |
00:28:25:07 - 00:28:26:06 |
FARHANA Every year |
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Shell spend millions delaying legislation, |
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spend millions confusing people. |
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They do a great job of whitewashing what's going on. |
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And I have spent 25 years negotiating international legal rules |
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that they've done their best to thwart. |
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That's why I'm here. |
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00:28:46:16 - 00:28:47:28 |
CROWD Thank you! |
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Farhana’s son speaks to cameras / press |
00:28:57:18 - 00:28:59:15 |
RAFI (FARHANA’S SON) I think it's great, because it proves |
00:28:59:18 - 00:29:02:15 |
that she cares about what's happening today |
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00:29:02:18 - 00:29:06:15 |
and the fact that she's willing to do anything to make people listen |
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00:29:06:18 - 00:29:09:12 |
and care about what's going on. |
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Farhana led in handcuffs to the police van |
00:29:18:25 - 00:29:21:10 |
FARHANA (INTERVIEW) There was quite a few people cheering and clapping, |
00:29:21:13 - 00:29:22:15 |
and I felt, |
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00:29:23:18 - 00:29:25:10 |
"Why didn't I do this a long time ago?" |
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Marble Arch site, lots of tents TWITTER FX - re Farhana’s arrest “The moment environmental lawyer Farhana Yamin superglues herself at Shell” |
00:29:28:06 – 00:29:42:06 |
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Arrest count FX: “DAY 2 - 290 |
00:29:42:06 – 00:29:48:00 |
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ARRESTS” |
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Farhana with her family at home, celebrating her action at Shell |
00:29:48:03 - 00:29:49:15 |
Hello. |
00:29:52:10 - 00:29:54:02 |
FARHANA Hi, sweetie. Thank you. |
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00:29:54:25 - 00:29:56:22 |
SAFI (FARHANA’S SON) I've gotten so many messages about you. |
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00:29:56:25 - 00:29:58:04 |
Hello? |
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00:29:58:07 - 00:30:01:10 |
FARHANA All the children are here. That's so exciting. |
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00:30:01:13 - 00:30:02:24 |
ALIYA (FARHANA’S DAUGHTER) I turn on my phone... |
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00:30:03:08 - 00:30:05:09 |
Your mum. Oh, my God, your whole family. |
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00:30:05:12 - 00:30:07:16 |
Oh, my... everyone... You know, you're everywhere. |
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00:30:07:19 - 00:30:10:27 |
FARHANA And now I'm doing Channel 4 News and Newsnight. |
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00:30:11:22 - 00:30:15:20 |
We've totally broken the police system in London right now |
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00:30:15:20 – 00:30:16:12 |
SAFI Are you gonna get, tomorrow - |
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00:30:16:12 – 00:30:17:18 |
FARHANA I’d better go |
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00:30:17:18 – 00:30:18:12 |
SAFI Mum? |
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00:30:18:12 - 00:30:19:08 |
FARHANA Just hold on a second |
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Cos I have to go to Channel 4 now |
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but I thought I was going in a little while. |
Oxford Circus site; woman addressing crowd from the pink boat. Lots of people glued to the base of the boat. |
00:30:30:28 - 00:30:34:07 |
PROTESTOR This is where I've been here for several days now, |
00:30:34:09 - 00:30:38:22 |
with my feet firmly planted on the ground, through this boat, |
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being held by beautiful barnacles down here. |
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So keep breathing. Remember that we are non-violent, we are peaceful. |
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Roger working in XR office, late at night |
00:30:58:03 - 00:31:00:08 |
RADIO VOICE Major parts of Central London remain blocked |
00:31:00:10 - 00:31:02:26 |
by environmental group Extinction Rebellion |
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00:31:02:28 - 00:31:04:20 |
who want the government to act on climate change |
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00:31:05:13 - 00:31:07:03 |
ROGER 500 arrests! |
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00:31:10:03 - 00:31:13:19 |
I'm not supposed to look like I'm pleased, |
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cos I get into trouble, |
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00:31:14:24 - 00:31:17:13 |
but just from an analytical point of view, |
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00:31:17:15 - 00:31:22:13 |
500 arrests in a week is pretty significant |
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in British political history, isn't it? |
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It's getting up towards suffragette-ville. |
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Get up to a thousand and we're into Martin Luther King territory. |
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RAFI (ON TV) - Climate change is a serious threat... - That's Rafi! |
00:31:39:08 - 00:31:40:25 |
Rafi! |
Farhana’s house: Farhana is with her family, watching her TV interview |
00:31:40:27 - 00:31:42:07 |
FARHANA Call Rafi down. |
00:31:42:09 - 00:31:45:03 |
TV REPORTER Well, with me now is Farhana Yamin, a climate change lawyer. |
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Let's just have a look at what you did yesterday. |
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00:31:47:07 - 00:31:52:14 |
You went from respected lawyer to direct action protestor. |
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00:31:52:16 - 00:31:54:26 |
FARHANA (ON TV) Well, I hope I'll still be a respected lawyer. |
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Many respected lawyers in the past, |
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you know, Gandhi, Nelson Mandela and others, |
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have broken the law at certain periods in history. |
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00:32:02:10 - 00:32:06:14 |
It's become necessary to say that the political system is stuck |
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and that something needs to happen. |
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Arrest count FX – see it rise through the days, settling on “DAY 8 – 1130 ARRESTS” |
00:32:09:10 – 00:32:37:00 |
Hello, beautiful rebels |
Marble Arch site: huge crowd being addressed by speakers on a stage |
00:32:37:19 - 00:32:40:04 |
NEWS VOICE More than a thousand protestors were arrested |
00:32:40:07 - 00:32:43:10 |
after bringing parts of the capital to a standstill. |
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00:32:45:08 - 00:32:47:06 |
GRETA THUNBERG Hi. |
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It's an honour for me to be here with you today. |
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Together we are making a difference. |
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Humanity is at a crossroads. |
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We have chosen which path we want to take. |
00:33:10:10 - 00:33:16:06 |
SOPHIE We're entering into serious discussions on Newsnight, on BBC, on Channel 4. |
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00:33:18:14 - 00:33:19:21 |
So we've opened up this space |
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00:33:19:24 - 00:33:24:04 |
for conversation around that change that is necessary... |
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Sophie in interview |
00:33:24:07 - 00:33:27:19 |
SOPHIE (INTERVIEW) Wow, I mean, April was... |
00:33:29:02 - 00:33:31:26 |
a sort of other-worldly experience. |
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00:33:31:28 - 00:33:33:28 |
Every day I'd look at the Evening Standard. |
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00:33:34:01 - 00:33:36:07 |
How many pages are we in today? Oh, no. |
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And it would just sort of increase. |
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00:33:38:20 - 00:33:40:19 |
It was such a surprise. |
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00:33:40:21 - 00:33:46:04 |
We were just looking at each other going, "Oh, my God! How? We did it." |
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Savannah speaks from Marble Arch stage |
00:33:46:07 - 00:33:48:12 |
SAVANNAH In us we have a fire. |
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We have a fire that is burning, and we can rise up and we can use that. |
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Crowd at Marble Arch |
00:33:55:28 - 00:33:59:28 |
SAM (INTERVIEW) It was really one of those moments where things just open up, |
00:34:00:01 - 00:34:03:28 |
and things that weren't possible previously become possible. |
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Sam in interview |
00:34:04:01 - 00:34:08:18 |
We knew that we were only ever gonna get one meeting with the government, |
Protestors at Trafalgar |
00:34:08:20 - 00:34:09:24 |
and so it was incredibly important |
00:34:09:26 - 00:34:11:21 |
that we get it right. |
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So we crowd-sourced ideas, |
00:34:14:14 - 00:34:16:15 |
and what came back from the rest of the movement was |
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Sam in interview |
00:34:16:18 - 00:34:19:02 |
we want you to go hard on our first demand, |
00:34:19:04 - 00:34:22:09 |
which is that the government should declare a state of climate emergency. |
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Farhana and Sam in XR office |
00:34:34:21 - 00:34:37:04 |
FARHANA I'm very excited, |
00:34:37:07 - 00:34:39:08 |
but really sort of tired as well, |
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00:34:39:10 - 00:34:42:08 |
so I'm just eating my comfort food |
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00:34:42:10 - 00:34:45:15 |
which is, you know, aloo chaat and samosas, |
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washed down with a Diet Coke. |
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00:34:47:16 - 00:34:50:28 |
That's what Pakistanis do. That's our, like, shepherds pie. |
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Roger in interview |
00:34:54:13 - 00:34:57:07 |
ROGER (INTERVIEW) I don't give a damn about politicians. |
00:34:57:09 - 00:34:58:20 |
Trust doesn't come into it. |
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00:34:58:22 - 00:35:02:06 |
It's about getting the job done, and that's what I'm here to do. |
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Michael Gove meeting with Farhana and Sam |
00:35:02:08 - 00:35:05:19 |
I'm not here to shake hands with Michael Gove. |
00:35:05:21 - 00:35:06:21 |
Fuck that. |
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00:35:13:13 - 00:35:15:19 |
SAM (INTERVIEW) I mean, nobody likes Michael Gove. |
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00:35:15:21 - 00:35:19:09 |
He is an embodiment of everything that we're fighting against, |
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00:35:19:12 - 00:35:22:08 |
which was all the more important why we're in the room with him, |
Michael Gove meeting with Farhana and Sam |
00:35:22:10 - 00:35:26:24 |
why we're taking the message directly to the government. |
00:35:26:26 - 00:35:29:25 |
GOVE What we want to do in this meeting was listen as much as possible. |
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I suspect through this process |
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00:35:31:14 - 00:35:33:12 |
there will be some areas where we will disagree. |
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00:35:33:14 - 00:35:35:16 |
I'm not a great fan of direct action, |
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00:35:35:19 - 00:35:37:06 |
though I understand why people embrace it. |
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00:35:37:08 - 00:35:39:22 |
FARHANA I'm just gonna light-touch MC this a little bit. |
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00:35:39:25 - 00:35:41:25 |
From your side we hear confusion. |
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00:35:41:27 - 00:35:43:12 |
Are we in a crisis? Are we not in a crisis? |
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00:35:43:14 - 00:35:46:15 |
Is it an emergency? Is it not an emergency? What does that mean? |
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00:35:46:18 - 00:35:50:03 |
Why are you resisting what is obviously a fact? |
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00:35:50:06 - 00:35:52:20 |
GOVE One of the impressive things about your movement |
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00:35:52:22 - 00:35:55:24 |
is the way in which it has grown so quickly, animated by the need to act. |
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00:35:55:26 - 00:35:58:12 |
One of the things that I'm doing, along with other colleagues, |
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00:35:58:14 - 00:36:00:09 |
is working out what the correct response is, |
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00:36:00:12 - 00:36:02:07 |
so I can't make that commitment today... |
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00:36:02:09 - 00:36:06:03 |
SAM (INTERVIEW) What Farhana brought was somebody that's already been in that position |
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00:36:06:06 - 00:36:07:26 |
and could just cut through the bullshit. |
00:36:07:28 - 00:36:09:07 |
FARHANA When you say "I personally", |
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00:36:09:09 - 00:36:12:21 |
you mean "I as minister" can understand the crisis? |
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00:36:12:24 - 00:36:17:08 |
What would it take for you to join, accepting there is a crisis? |
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00:36:17:10 - 00:36:21:15 |
GOVE In a way, dealing with the challenge of climate change, |
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00:36:21:18 - 00:36:26:15 |
the intimate relationships between public health and the environment... |
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00:36:28:02 - 00:36:32:13 |
SAM (INTERVIEW) During the meeting, Michael Gove had been very polite and obsequious. |
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Speaking to press after the Michael Gove meeting |
00:36:32:15 - 00:36:35:10 |
Afterwards we came out and slated him, |
00:36:35:13 - 00:36:38:28 |
because it was important to us to keep the pressure on. |
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00:36:39:01 - 00:36:42:04 |
FELIX This meeting's been slightly disappointing, well, very disappointing. |
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00:36:42:07 - 00:36:44:01 |
He hasn't accepted any of our demands. |
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00:36:44:03 - 00:36:46:04 |
SAM The fact that Michael Gove cannot even commit |
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00:36:46:07 - 00:36:49:16 |
to declaring a climate and ecological emergency at the moment |
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00:36:49:19 - 00:36:51:21 |
is not only a political failure, |
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00:36:51:24 - 00:36:55:19 |
we believe that's a moral failure on the behalf of our politicians. |
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00:36:55:21 - 00:36:57:12 |
This is an emergency. |
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00:36:57:14 - 00:37:00:24 |
FARHANA We had a lot of past tenses in the meeting |
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and a lot of future tenses |
00:37:00:26 - 00:37:04:21 |
but not very much action that was gonna be taken now. |
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Sam in interview |
00:37:04:24 - 00:37:07:28 |
SAM (INTERVIEW) 24 hours later, the government changed their position. |
00:37:08:01 - 00:37:11:01 |
It was a rare moment where we were quite clever. |
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Parliament Square: crowd gathered to hear announcement of climate emergency declaration; Farhana is present and speaks to the crowd |
00:37:11:03 - 00:37:15:19 |
CORBYN And I'm pleased to say it's been agreed by Parliament, |
00:37:15:21 - 00:37:19:27 |
that is we have now declared a climate emergency. |
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00:37:23:10 – 00:37:24:17 |
FARHANA It works! |
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00:37:25:04 – 00:37:26:06 |
JOURNALIST What works? |
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00:37:26:27 - 00:37:28:01 |
FARHANA Rebelling works. |
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00:37:29:09 - 00:37:31:16 |
- Extinction! - Rebellion! |
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00:37:31:19 - 00:37:34:04 |
- Extinction! - Rebellion! |
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FARHANA Thank you. This is one of the youth strikers, Rafi, who's 11. |
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And they're here with me because this issue involves families. |
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We are a family here. You can feel that. |
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Look around you. |
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The person behind you, next to you, has got your back, |
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we've got yours, you've got ours. |
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That is the birth of a movement of movements. |
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That's what today is for me. |
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HOST One more time for Farhana! |
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Sophie in interview |
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SOPHIE (INTERVIEW) By the end of the rebellion, it's not climate change any more, |
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it's far gone from global warming, |
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it is a climate emergency. |
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Everywhere people were just talking about it. |
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Farhana in taxi, on the phone |
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NEWS VOICE 1 The UK becomes the first country to declare a climate emergency. |
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NEWS VOICE 2 The measure comes after increasing pressure |
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from the vocal activist group Extinction Rebellion. |
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FARHANA Extinction Rebellion's place is to galvanise and catalyse others to act. |
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Farhana in interview |
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FARHANA (INTERVIEW) National press, public opinion, you know, |
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it seems like every time you switch on the TV, |
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I feel like it's constantly saturated |
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I just wanna, you know, go back to watching EastEnders or something |
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without hearing about climate change. |
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FARHANA Let's not leave it to me and you. |
Farhana speaking at an event hosted by Ed Miliband |
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Let's have an emergency energy efficiency act, with money attached. |
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When there's a true emergency, the Treasury finds the money. |
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Trafalgar Square protest with Farhana FARHANA TWEET FX: - “The UK confirms it will legislate net zero emissions!” - “But we can do better than a 2050 target..” - “UK-wide citizens’ assembly on climate change just announced” - “Another key XR demand. Politicians listening to the people!” |
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NEWS VOICE Just a couple of months after Extinction Rebellion blocked Central London, |
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the government has committed the UK to net zero by 2050. |
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There's no question that the group has propelled climate |
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up the political agenda. |
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Farhana in interview |
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FARHANA (INTERVIEW) April changed the landscape of activism |
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and put climate back on the global agenda, |
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not just here in the UK, but then all over the world. |
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New York Council Meeting |
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And a resolution declaring a climate emergency in the city of New York... |
News announcement with Eiffel Tower in background |
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The city of Paris has declared a climate emergency. |
Japan’s Parliament |
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Japan's lawmakers have declared a climate emergency. |
EU Parliament |
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The vote is closed and the resolution is adopted. |
Sophie in interview |
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SOPHIE (INTERVIEW) I never imagined that that many countries and cities |
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would do it so quickly. |
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Boom, boom, boom, one after another, |
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and that's politicians listening to activists. |
Wales GVs |
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Roger at home cooking and eating |
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ROGER (INTERVIEW) It's important to understand, |
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they start talking about it because it's disruptive, right? |
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We're not making a statement, sending emails or having conferences. |
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Roger in interview |
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There's a thousand people getting banged up in London because they're over it. |
Roger in his car |
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And that's what made XR the number one influencer in the world in 2019. |
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Disruption. That's the key thing. |
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NEWS VOICE One thing is clear, |
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they've highlighted the issue of climate change in a way not seen for many years. |
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Roger speaking to a lecture hall full of people |
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ROGER Now, I'd just profoundly love |
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to give you a general report, right, on Extinction Rebellion |
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and we could all have a nice session where we all go, "Isn't it great?" |
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But we're in an emergency, |
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and if we're in an emergency, |
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I would suggest it means that we have to focus on what's most effective, |
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which is going to prison. |
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Roger in interview |
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My view is if you're not in prison, you're not in resistance. |
Savannah and Izzy practicing climbing up a ladder |
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- IZZY: Ready? - SAVANNAH: Ready |
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ROGER There's nothing complicated about high sacrifice, right? |
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Roger in interview |
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Action speaks louder than words. |
Savannah and Izzy getting into a van |
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So you keep going. |
Roger in interview |
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Until you're banged up. Or dead. |
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That's what civil resistance means. |
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Van arrives at Youtube office |
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IZZY (PROTESTOR) Climbing up on a five-metre-tall ladder. |
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Scared of heights. |
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It's gonna be fine. It's gonna be so fine. |
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XR Youth action at Youtube: climbing up ladders onto entrance of building and holding a banner which reads, “Youtube: Stop Platforming Climate Denial” |
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CROWD People got the power! |
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Tell me, can you hear us? Tell me, can you hear us? |
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- Power to the people! - Power to the people! |
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SAVANNAH We demand that you make this platform one which tells the truth. |
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CROWD We demand that you make this platform one which tells the truth. |
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SAVANNAH Yours faithfully, Extinction Rebellion Youth. |
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CROWD Extinction Rebellion Youth. |
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SAVANNAH (INTERVIEW) I guess for me there was an aspect of that action being like a... |
Savannah in interview |
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I just wanna kind of fit in for once, within XR, |
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and do something that everybody knows to cheer. |
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Visual: XR Youth being arrested |
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Because that's what we're supposed to do. |
Visual: Sam being arrested |
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And with XR, our strategy is dictated by someone who doesn't ever rest |
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and doesn't ever really reflect. |
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Visual: Roger working in office |
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My dad. |
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SAM (INTERVIEW) After April, we got a huge influx of people. |
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Sam in interview |
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I remember wanting to talk about what happens to Extinction Rebellion next, |
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like, how do you respond and collaborate with other movements? |
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Visual: Roger working in office |
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But Roger has a very particular way of seeing the world, |
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and anything that doesn't fit into that vision |
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is kind of irrelevant to him. |
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What Roger cares about is arrests. |
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Alejandra in interview intercut with visuals of people at XR protests and getting arrested |
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INTERVIEWER So just clap. |
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Were you hesitant about getting involved with XR? |
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ALEJANDRA (INTERVIEW) Yes. Wow. |
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XR had galvanised so much attention, and so many people were like, |
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"Oh, my God, I'm so interested. I wanna get involved." |
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People were really stuck in this "get arrested, get arrested" mode. |
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Yes, you are a piece of the puzzle, but you're not everything. |
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You're not the whole solution. |
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Maybe it's time that we talk to other groups, reach out to other people |
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who also care about this and want to change things. |
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Speakers address a gathering of people in a park |
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SPEAKER 1 The Niger Delta people are dying of pollution caused by Shell, |
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and we are fighting this thing for 30 years now. |
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SPEAKER 2 We can't begin to say Black lives matter |
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until Black lives in the Niger Delta matter, |
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until the Black lives in Somalia matter. |
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Zoom call with African activists |
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ALEJANDRA We're here to learn from young African voices |
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who have been actively involved in their communities. |
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Amy is based in Cape Town in South Africa. |
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AMY Climate justice brings so many people together. |
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ALEJANDRA (INTERVIEW) We cannot talk about the climate crisis without talking about justice. |
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Typical white Western environmentalism, |
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they only usually think about emissions, |
Alejandra in interview |
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that the only issue is climate change |
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Why are we wasting any time talking about racism, or colonialism? |
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If you think about making the green transition, right, |
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to renewable energies, |
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where do you think the minerals for the electric car batteries come from? |
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Photos of kids working in mines |
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Where do you think that lithium comes from? |
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Where do you think all the metals for turbines come from? |
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All of that is still heavily reliant on extractivism. |
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We're displacing whole communities. |
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There's kids in mines as young as five getting cobalt |
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Alejandra in interview |
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so that we can have that solar panel. |
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That's the world that we live in right now, |
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and I don't want to simply have the same world but eco. |
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Sam walking along street to Bank station |
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That's where justice is key. |
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SAM (INTERVIEW) The whole world is out of kilter |
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We have constructed a global political and economic system |
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which relies on infinite growth on a finite planet. |
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And that's not sustainable, right? |
Sam in interview |
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That's not extremist to say that. |
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It's not extremist to say look at how inefficient it is |
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to have gross inequality in the world, |
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to have the 1% owning so much wealth, |
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so many resources, so much land. |
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People on a march, XR flags |
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CROWD - What do we want? - Climate justice! |
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CROWD - When do we want it? - Now! |
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Sam in interview intercut with some protest visuals |
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SAM (INTERVIEW) There were many of us in XR at the time saying, |
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OK, brilliant, we've raised the alarm |
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We need to start spelling out a political analysis. |
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We need a demand on climate and ecological justice |
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which shows that this is a full systems issue. |
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That conversation was completely derailed |
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about whether we were gonna fly drones over Heathrow or not. |
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Plane coming in for landing TEXT: “JUNE 2019” |
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Visuals: Planes at airport |
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REPORTER Environmental activists are planning to fly drones |
Messages FX – ‘XR MEDIA’ - “Just turned on radio…drone plan?!” - “First I’ve heard of it!” - “OMG! Big mistake!” |
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in Heathrow Airport's exclusion zone in an attempt to shut it down. |
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Today the airport warned that anyone operating a drone in the exclusion zone |
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will be subject to the full force of the law. |
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Roger in interview |
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ROGER (INTERVIEW) Heathrow has this ridiculous law that you can't fly a drone at head height |
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five miles from the runway. |
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Perfect. |
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Let's go and poke that point. |
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XR Strategy meeting about Heathrow action |
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LARCH It's all about building pressure and we know from the research, |
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the longer we leave it, the pressure starts to drop |
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so it's important to keep some pressure building. |
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SOPHIE From the feedback that we got on Friday, |
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it didn't seem like there was very much support behind this action. |
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ROGER Maybe just have a go-round. |
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People can say if they individually want to be involved, |
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and if not, then, you know, who in their group |
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might wish to be involved in it. |
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SAM I find the proposition to go round the room |
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asking whether we wanna work on this going forward a little bit patronising, |
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cos a lot of us have been forced to work on it. |
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DOUGLAS The really concerning thing, to my mind, is the decision process, |
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and this is not the first time where we're giving our membership base |
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a feeling of being frozen out and being told what to do. |
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ROGER I'm a bit worried it's gonna go round in circles |
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If people want to join it or not is entirely up to them. |
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Sophie in interview |
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SOPHIE (INTERVIEW) We had thousands of people from the movement going, |
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"No, actually, Extinction Rebellion isn't for me." |
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And then on the other side you had Roger going, "But we have to do this." |
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Roger in interview |
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ROGER (INTERVIEW) I'm not a naturally aggressive, bolshie sort of guy. |
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I'm a "let's all work together" guy. |
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But if we're looking at mass death, then there's no alternative, right? |
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And obviously that's my role in the movement, |
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is to be unpopular and say to people, |
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"You're not cutting the mustard, guys, unless you up the game." |
Gail in interview |
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GAIL (INTERVIEW) Roger, he's always into the next thing. |
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He's like a boy with a new toy. |
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And that's initiator energy, and it's got its value, absolutely, |
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and sometimes people need things to slow down. |
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Sophie in interview |
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SOPHIE (INTERVIEW) It wasn't even about Heathrow itself. |
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It was about the way in which we were doing things. |
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Farhana’s house at night. Farhana speaks to camera. |
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NEWS VOICE The Met Police have said it will do everything in its power |
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to prevent climate campaigners using drones |
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to disrupt flights at Heathrow Airport next month. |
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FARHANA So it's like one of those showdown moments, |
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where is it just a small, tiny number of people within XR |
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who get to have their way |
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despite the misgivings and stated opposition of so many others, |
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or is it a movement that is in fact listening to its own members? |
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I just feel |
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Roger and a handful of other men in his circle |
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think they know best. |
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You just get worn down. I'm a bit worn down. |
Sophie in interview |
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SOPHIE (INTERVIEW) So many people were totally burnt out from it all. |
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And Roger I don't think believes in burnout. |
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Savannah in interview |
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SAVANNAH (INTERVIEW) This term "burnout" is thrown about around activism |
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in a way which has no bearing on what it actually is. |
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And I was one of those people that was like, burnout's this thing, |
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burnout's when you can't really think any more, |
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you've gotta go home and lie down for a bit. |
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Burnout's when you turn off your phone for a week or something. |
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Wales GV |
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And then it hit me. |
Savannah at home, making a fire and then walking outside |
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SAVANNAH (INTERVIEW) I was exhausted. |
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I had an overload of emotion. |
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And I just couldn't stop crying. |
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Feeling like the work that I was doing wasn't doing anything, |
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and so that meant that I wasn't worth anything. |
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Savannah hugging her mum in the garden |
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And my mum was incredible. |
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She's always said, "You need to feel what you're feeling, and I'm here." |
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And it saved me being at home in nature. |
Savannah in the greenhouse, looking out |
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Cos nature went at the speed at which I was going at. |
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I find it really hard to talk to Dad |
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about anything other than the kind of practical elements of anything. |
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I was ill for a month. |
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Savannah in interview |
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We didn't have the type of relationship where I could tell him that. |
00:51:04:02 - 00:51:05:24 |
And he didn't ask. |
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XR strategy meeting |
00:51:10:16 - 00:51:12:16 |
FACILITATOR XR Youth have met this weekend |
00:51:12:19 - 00:51:17:09 |
and they have something that we would love to hear, actually. |
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00:51:19:12 - 00:51:22:24 |
SAVANNAH We've written something which I'm gonna read to you. |
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00:51:24:07 - 00:51:29:09 |
And I'd like it, Dad, if you could look at me as well. Thank you. |
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Savannah in interview |
00:51:29:12 - 00:51:33:16 |
SAVANNAH (INTERVIEW) I wanted to create a feeling of respect and of vulnerability |
00:51:33:19 - 00:51:35:14 |
of kindness and empathy, |
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00:51:35:16 - 00:51:40:25 |
an ability to just go, "Let's just stop and listen." |
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00:51:40:27 - 00:51:44:25 |
That's what I wanted. I wanted that to happen. |
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00:51:46:26 - 00:51:51:12 |
SAVANNAH Extinction Rebellion says its actions are done for the children |
Savannah reads aloud to the room at XR Strategy meeting |
00:51:51:14 - 00:51:55:27 |
We are those children. You are doing this in our name. |
00:51:57:08 - 00:52:00:00 |
And yet we are here today to say that you're failing. |
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00:52:00:02 - 00:52:02:13 |
No longer can we let you use our name |
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00:52:02:15 - 00:52:06:09 |
while denying us agency and voice within this organisation. |
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00:52:06:12 - 00:52:10:27 |
If we want to change anything, if we want to do anything radically different, |
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00:52:11:00 - 00:52:14:24 |
we have to start putting different voices at the centre. |
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00:52:14:26 - 00:52:18:14 |
So although we support the idea of an action aimed at Heathrow, |
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00:52:18:16 - 00:52:21:15 |
we cannot support the current proposal. |
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00:52:21:18 - 00:52:24:14 |
If this action is announced and supported in any way |
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00:52:24:16 - 00:52:26:22 |
under the banner of Extinction Rebellion, |
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we will begin the process of walking our own path. |
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Gail responds to Savannah at XR Strategy meeting |
00:52:34:06 - 00:52:37:21 |
GAIL I just want you to know that I don't know what to do. |
00:52:37:24 - 00:52:41:07 |
I don't know what to do, so... |
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00:52:41:09 - 00:52:42:22 |
Like, I agree. |
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Gail in interview |
00:52:42:25 - 00:52:46:07 |
GAIL (INTERVIEW) Sometimes I felt I probably look really two- faced, |
00:52:46:09 - 00:52:49:03 |
because I can listen to this person and really see their perspective, |
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00:52:49:06 - 00:52:51:14 |
and this other person and really see their perspective. |
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00:52:51:16 - 00:52:54:16 |
A part of that comes from a compassionate and kind place |
00:52:54:19 - 00:52:56:24 |
but there's another place of the pleaser, |
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00:52:56:26 - 00:52:59:09 |
just wanting to keep everybody happy. |
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Roger responds to Savannah at XR Strategy meeting |
00:53:01:21 - 00:53:04:21 |
ROGER Obviously you might feel betrayed or annoyed, |
00:53:04:24 - 00:53:06:28 |
but I would hope that you will understand |
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00:53:07:01 - 00:53:11:02 |
that if people don't do what you want, it's not because of an act of power, |
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00:53:11:04 - 00:53:15:07 |
it's because basically we're only on this planet for a certain amount of time |
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00:53:15:09 - 00:53:18:25 |
and I think if you ever want to split off from XR, |
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00:53:18:27 - 00:53:21:10 |
then that's a path which may be the right path |
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00:53:21:13 - 00:53:22:22 |
or it might be the wrong path, |
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00:53:22:25 - 00:53:24:25 |
but you may not know until you do it. |
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Savannah storms out of the room |
00:53:27:12 - 00:53:30:24 |
SAVANNAH Fuck you! Fuck you! |
Roger in interview |
00:53:40:19 - 00:53:43:21 |
ROGER (INTERVIEW) Well, I think in retrospect, |
00:53:43:24 - 00:53:49:16 |
I should have just listened and reflected where they were at. |
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00:53:50:19 - 00:53:56:26 |
I felt like I had an obligation to do the work I was doing |
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00:53:56:28 - 00:53:58:24 |
and it was really time critical. |
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00:53:59:16 - 00:54:03:24 |
So that was, you know, it wasn't a good day. |
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00:54:06:20 - 00:54:08:25 |
SKEENA I think that within our system, |
Skeena addresses the room at XR Strategy meeting |
00:54:08:27 - 00:54:13:08 |
we have been unconsciously recreating |
00:54:13:10 - 00:54:15:28 |
the hallmarks of power and privilege, |
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00:54:16:01 - 00:54:18:10 |
and Heathrow is one of those stories |
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00:54:18:13 - 00:54:21:02 |
that demonstrates the tussle |
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00:54:21:04 - 00:54:25:24 |
between power and privilege and everybody else. |
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Savannah in interview, intercut with visuals from the strategy meeting including XR youth hugging eachother and Roger sitting by himself on his laptop |
00:54:27:10 - 00:54:31:07 |
SAVANNAH (INTERVIEW) I guess society was playing out in that room big time. |
00:54:32:27 - 00:54:36:15 |
From the micro version of mine and Dad's relationship |
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00:54:36:18 - 00:54:40:10 |
to the kind of macro power dynamics and all of that kind of stuff. |
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00:54:40:13 - 00:54:45:20 |
Why that impacted me so much was because I was sat there crying, |
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00:54:45:22 - 00:54:50:24 |
and my dad said to me, "I don't want to deal with this." |
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00:54:53:00 - 00:54:55:04 |
And I've been seeing that message |
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00:54:55:07 - 00:54:59:21 |
over and over and over again for months, for a lot of my life. |
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Heathrow action: Roger sitting on side of the road with toy drone - before being approached by police and arrested |
00:55:01:14 - 00:55:04:07 |
REPORTER Members of new activist group Heathrow Pause |
00:55:04:09 - 00:55:07:20 |
are attempting to fly drones within the airport's exclusion zone. |
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00:55:07:22 - 00:55:11:10 |
ROGER I've got myself a quality drone. |
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00:55:11:13 - 00:55:17:04 |
It's not that big, as you can see, but apparently it's a quality one and... |
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00:55:17:07 - 00:55:19:03 |
POLICE I'm Sergeant Aitkin. |
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00:55:19:06 - 00:55:21:14 |
You're under arrest for attempting to cause a public nuisance. |
00:55:21:16 - 00:55:22:19 |
You don't have to say anything. |
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00:55:22:21 - 00:55:25:00 |
It may harm your defence if you fail to mention when questioned |
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00:55:25:02 - 00:55:26:08 |
something you later rely on in court |
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00:55:26:10 - 00:55:28:06 |
and anything you do say may be given in evidence. |
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00:55:28:08 - 00:55:34:08 |
ROGER (INTERVIEW) You get to the point where not doing action is what's stressful. |
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00:55:36:16 - 00:55:39:14 |
And it might be a bit rubbish. |
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00:55:39:16 - 00:55:42:03 |
But it's a hit-and-miss process. |
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00:55:42:06 - 00:55:43:15 |
POLICE One person in. Help him sit down. |
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00:55:43:18 - 00:55:49:03 |
ROGER (INTERVIEW) And I find myself driven to do things that people don't agree with, |
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00:55:49:06 - 00:55:53:04 |
and so I have a lot of internal conflict because of my need to be loved. |
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00:55:54:13 - 00:56:00:03 |
But also I know that if I don't do what I need to do, then I get depressed. |
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Farhana’s house: her family gather around a laptop screen to talk to her via facetime |
00:56:09:03 - 00:56:10:18 |
RAFI This is also dirty. |
00:56:10:20 - 00:56:12:12 |
- ISAAC: Safi. - SAFI: Yeah? |
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00:56:12:14 - 00:56:13:21 |
ISAAC It's happening now. |
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00:56:13:24 - 00:56:15:28 |
- FARHANA: Hello, Isaac. - ISAAC: Hello. |
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00:56:16:01 - 00:56:17:28 |
- FARHANA: How are you? - ISAAC: I’m very good. How are you? |
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00:56:18:01 - 00:56:19:21 |
- FARHANA: Hey, Safi - SAFI: Hello |
00:56:19:24 - 00:56:23:20 |
FARHANA I can see you guys. Yeah. Oh, look. One, two, three, four |
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00:56:24:26 - 00:56:26:08 |
Oh, me. |
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00:56:29:16 – 00:56:30:19 |
I'm six! |
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00:56:32:00 – 00:56:34:11 |
ISAAC I didn't know you were in America. |
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00:56:35:16 - 00:56:37:09 |
FARHANA (INTERVIEW) I think I work too hard, |
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00:56:37:12 - 00:56:43:15 |
and I've learned that this sense of urgency makes me like a workaholic. |
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00:56:43:18 - 00:56:45:03 |
Every year has been urgent. |
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00:56:45:06 - 00:56:48:09 |
The science has been urgent from the early '90s |
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00:56:48:12 - 00:56:49:24 |
FARHANA I'm so excited about coming home. |
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00:56:49:26 - 00:56:52:12 |
SAFI When is that? When are you coming home? |
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00:56:52:14 - 00:56:56:08 |
FARHANA (INTERVIEW) I feel I've missed out on large parts of my kids' upbringings. |
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00:56:56:10 - 00:56:59:21 |
They supported me to the hilt, really. |
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00:56:59:24 - 00:57:03:03 |
I guess I'm not as fun a person as I would like. |
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00:57:03:06 - 00:57:05:10 |
Cos I'm still quite, you know, in my head |
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00:57:05:13 - 00:57:10:19 |
and still worrying about... about the world and what to do about it |
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00:57:10:21 - 00:57:14:15 |
instead of "Let's go and build a LEGO set" |
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00:57:15:28 - 00:57:20:00 |
FARHANA They asked me to be one of the three speakers for the UN General Assembly |
00:57:20:02 - 00:57:22:01 |
to request an advisory opinion. |
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00:57:22:03 - 00:57:24:27 |
FARHANA (INTERVIEW) I thought we'd fix this problem |
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00:57:25:00 - 00:57:27:15 |
I thought we'd be in a better world |
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Sam’s house: Sam is sitting at his desk, looking at his laptop |
00:57:36:20 - 00:57:38:24 |
MAIA How you doing, Sam? |
00:57:40:10 - 00:57:44:03 |
SAM A little bit confused, a little bit unsettled. |
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00:57:46:14 - 00:57:49:03 |
So I was banned by the police |
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00:57:49:06 - 00:57:51:27 |
from the Labour Party Conference this year, |
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00:57:53:22 - 00:57:56:25 |
and managed to get that overturned in the High Court. |
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00:57:57:24 - 00:57:59:24 |
But I did a little bit of digging, |
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00:57:59:26 - 00:58:02:12 |
submitted a Freedom of Information request, |
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00:58:03:15 - 00:58:07:10 |
and it's just come back with some slightly strange things. |
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Printer reveals a redacted document |
00:58:07:10 – 00:58:11:21 |
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Sam stands with the redacted document, reading the key sections aloud |
00:58:13:16 - 00:58:15:16 |
OK, here we go. |
00:58:16:12 - 00:58:21:03 |
So this is the reason I've been banned from the Labour Party Conference. |
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00:58:21:06 - 00:58:23:16 |
As you can see, heavily redacted on the first page. |
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00:58:23:19 - 00:58:26:00 |
It's always a good sign, isn't it? |
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00:58:26:02 - 00:58:28:27 |
And then this is the official reason that they're giving, right? So... |
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00:58:29:00 - 00:58:32:06 |
"I believe that Sam Knights' presence would present a risk |
00:58:32:08 - 00:58:36:24 |
to the safety and the security of the Labour Party Conference." |
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00:58:36:26 - 00:58:39:04 |
So what they're basically saying here is that, you know, |
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00:58:39:07 - 00:58:43:04 |
they've had to consider me a national security risk. |
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00:58:43:07 - 00:58:47:26 |
And if that's what they're saying there, I don't know what they're saying there. |
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00:58:50:18 - 00:58:53:13 |
MAIA How could you be a threat to national security? |
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00:58:53:15 - 00:58:55:24 |
SAM I don't know. I don't know. |
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00:58:55:26 - 00:58:58:08 |
Because I'm involved in climate activism? |
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00:59:00:19 - 00:59:04:02 |
But, you know, I wasn't even there to protest. |
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00:59:04:04 - 00:59:06:09 |
I was there to engage in debate. |
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00:59:06:12 - 00:59:08:07 |
I was an elected delegate to the conference, |
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00:59:08:09 - 00:59:10:00 |
fighting for a Green New Deal, |
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00:59:10:02 - 00:59:14:03 |
trying to get the party to support climate legislation. |
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00:59:14:06 - 00:59:16:04 |
I think we're gonna keep on seeing this, right? |
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00:59:16:07 - 00:59:19:25 |
We're gonna see a concerted effort by the state, by power and capital, |
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00:59:19:27 - 00:59:22:07 |
to delegitimise peaceful protest. |
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00:59:22:09 - 00:59:25:16 |
And obviously we've got to keep on fighting back, |
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00:59:25:19 - 00:59:28:04 |
cos the climate crisis isn't going anywhere. |
Spray Paint FX: “OCTOBER REBELLION 2019” |
00:59:30:22 – 00:59:32:17 |
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Protest visuals: kangeroo costumes, a skeleton, chained ankles, big crowds |
00:59:32:17 - 00:59:37:00 |
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00:59:37:20 - 00:59:39:16 |
REPORTER 1 Extinction Rebellion back again |
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00:59:39:19 - 00:59:42:27 |
six months after they brought Central London to a standstill. |
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Fire engine approaches |
00:59:43:00 - 00:59:46:18 |
The group says it wants to do it on a bigger scale than last time. |
Treasury action: protestors use fire engine hose to spray fake blood on the building |
00:59:46:21 – 00:59:55:00 |
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00:59:55:03 - 00:59:57:21 |
REPORTER 2 Climate change protestors have sprayed fake blood |
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00:59:57:24 - 01:00:00:16 |
across the steps of the Treasury building in Central London, |
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01:00:00:19 - 01:00:04:08 |
although the stunt didn't appear to go quite to plan. |
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Gail being interviewed by Democracy Now |
01:00:04:10 - 01:00:06:20 |
REPORTER ON TV Gail Bradbrook, what are the immediate demands |
01:00:06:22 - 01:00:09:04 |
of the Extinction Rebellion movement? |
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01:00:09:07 - 01:00:10:26 |
GAIL ON TV We have three demands. |
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01:00:10:28 - 01:00:15:18 |
The first one is for government and other institutions to tell the truth. |
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01:00:15:20 - 01:00:18:03 |
That's not just some lip service by declaring emergencies |
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01:00:18:06 - 01:00:20:27 |
and then carrying on with business as usual. |
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01:00:21:00 - 01:00:23:02 |
We have fracking happening in this country, |
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01:00:23:04 - 01:00:24:15 |
we're opening up new coal mines, |
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01:00:24:18 - 01:00:28:24 |
and what we need is for governments to act like it's an emergency. |
Trafalgar square full of protestors and tents |
01:00:28:26 - 01:00:32:24 |
PROTESTOR We are together, and this is what we need in a time of emergency. |
01:00:32:26 - 01:00:36:27 |
Come together in peaceful non-violent civil disobedience. |
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01:00:37:00 - 01:00:40:02 |
ALEJANDRA (INTERVIEW) I had just joined XR Youth that summer. |
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01:00:40:04 - 01:00:44:02 |
And we wanted to create a different space |
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01:00:44:04 - 01:00:46:14 |
that was non-arrestable, |
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Setting up camp at St James Park |
01:00:46:16 - 01:00:48:27 |
so we did it in a park. |
01:00:49:19 - 01:00:52:02 |
It was more of a dialogue space. |
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Inside main tent at St James Park |
01:00:53:28 - 01:00:55:20 |
FARHANA Hello! |
01:00:55:22 - 01:00:57:25 |
These are all the people who are... |
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01:00:57:27 - 01:00:58:18 |
This is Savannah, |
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01:00:58:20 - 01:01:00:20 |
Alejandra who is from the... |
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01:01:00:22 - 01:01:02:26 |
Well, you can describe it better, actually |
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01:01:02:28 - 01:01:06:28 |
ALEJANDRA The way I see this space, it's about centring climate justice |
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01:01:07:01 - 01:01:10:00 |
at the heart of the environmental movement. |
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Marble Arch at nighttime: lots of people are gathered around a fire, Savannah speaks on the microphone |
01:01:11:12 - 01:01:17:01 |
SAVANNAH So tomorrow will be my year anniversary of being with XR. |
01:01:17:24 - 01:01:21:01 |
I was at uni trying to live my normal life, trying to get on with things, |
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01:01:21:03 - 01:01:24:13 |
but there was this niggling worry that something big was happening, |
01:01:24:15 - 01:01:27:07 |
and this fire that we talked about, I felt it. |
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Night time visuals: campsite, big flags, people dancing |
01:01:28:08 – 01:01:39:03 |
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Sophie standing in the street at night, looking at protest visuals sent from around the world on a group whatsapp chat |
01:01:41:27 - 01:01:44:24 |
SOPHIE The Blue Brigade takes Plaza Mayor in Spain. |
01:01:46:20 - 01:01:49:22 |
New York - ‘You can't comb over climate change’. |
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01:01:51:26 - 01:01:53:13 |
Extinction symbol on a beach. |
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01:01:53:15 - 01:01:55:07 |
So beautiful. |
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01:01:55:09 - 01:01:58:01 |
Red Brigade under water. Wow. |
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01:01:59:07 - 01:02:01:16 |
That's amazing. |
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01:02:01:19 - 01:02:04:27 |
Just so many beautiful things, so much creation. |
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01:02:05:00 - 01:02:08:22 |
It just makes me feel like it's just so much part of a greater whole, |
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01:02:08:25 - 01:02:12:28 |
like this rebellion's really connecting a global movement |
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01:02:12:28 – 01:02:18:14 |
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Visuals: police approaching Messages FX: ‘XR BROADCAST’ - “Police surrounding XR warehouse!” - “Most of our kit inside – get here ASAP” - “THIS IS NOT A DRILL!” |
01:02:19:01 – 01:02:26:21 |
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01:02:31:09 - 01:02:32:18 |
- ARCHER: Fuck. - MAIA: What's going on, Archer? |
01:02:32:20 - 01:02:35:20 |
ARCHER They might be coming to seize either the |
XR WAREHOUSE: outside |
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building or the vehicles, |
01:02:35:22 - 01:02:37:10 |
we're not sure. |
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01:02:37:13 - 01:02:42:02 |
ARCHER Out the way, guys. Let them in. Move, move, move. Thank you, guys. |
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01:02:42:04 - 01:02:44:12 |
SAM (XR YOUTH) I think the police are about to search the building, |
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01:02:44:14 - 01:02:47:18 |
so we're trying to get everything in so we can close it up. |
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01:02:54:13 - 01:02:56:15 |
MAN 1 I don't know if you're aware you're blocking the road. |
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01:02:56:18 - 01:02:59:22 |
So we need to get vans in here to move stuff. |
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01:02:59:25 - 01:03:02:04 |
That's our plan, basically. |
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01:03:02:07 - 01:03:04:08 |
Have you got a plan? |
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01:03:04:10 - 01:03:06:20 |
POLICE If I did, I wouldn't be telling you, would I? |
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Police gathered at entrance to XR warehouse. XR legal advisor arrives and speaks to police about what powers they’re using; police go ahead and bash down the door using a battering ram. |
01:03:10:01 - 01:03:11:22 |
MAN 2 Good luck, guys |
01:03:11:25 - 01:03:15:01 |
MAN 3 You have a duty to arrest the offenders. |
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01:03:15:03 - 01:03:17:25 |
The oil companies are killing people. |
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01:03:17:27 - 01:03:19:26 |
MAN 4 Knock on the door nicely. |
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01:03:19:28 - 01:03:22:22 |
TIM CROSSLAND So I'm legal advisor to XR. |
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01:03:22:25 - 01:03:24:28 |
I just need to know what powers you're using, please. |
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01:03:25:01 - 01:03:26:24 |
POLICE I'll have a discussion with you in a minute. |
01:03:26:26 - 01:03:29:08 |
We're just gonna make entrance into the building first, OK? |
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01:03:29:10 - 01:03:31:16 |
TIM You don't think it'd be a better idea just to check? |
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01:03:31:19 - 01:03:33:13 |
POLICE No, I don't need to check. I've already checked. |
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01:03:33:15 - 01:03:36:19 |
- TIM: Cos we've got fundamental rights. - POLICE: That's fine, yeah, yeah. |
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01:03:36:21 - 01:03:38:25 |
TIM So we'd just like to know which power is being used? |
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01:03:38:27 - 01:03:41:02 |
POLICE You've been told. I told this gentleman here already. |
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01:03:41:04 - 01:03:42:04 |
Section 32. |
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01:03:42:07 - 01:03:44:26 |
TIM Grounds to believe there's a danger presented to somebody? |
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01:03:44:28 - 01:03:47:10 |
POLICE It doesn't matter about that part. That's not in Section 32. |
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01:03:47:13 - 01:03:50:07 |
- TIM: It is in Section 32. - POLICE: No, it isn't. |
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01:03:50:09 - 01:03:51:16 |
POLICE We've had the conversation. |
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01:03:51:19 - 01:03:53:22 |
We're gonna do it and we'll talk about it afterwards. |
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01:03:53:25 - 01:03:55:27 |
CROWD - Extinction! |
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- Rebellion! |
01:03:56:00 - 01:03:58:18 |
CROWD - Extinction! - Rebellion! |
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Police huddle outside warehouse |
01:04:04:21 - 01:04:07:03 |
POLICE He's saying he didn't hear us banging on the door. |
01:04:07:06 - 01:04:08:26 |
Let's just cop his details for the moment. |
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01:04:08:28 - 01:04:10:18 |
Will do. |
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Phone call while walking away |
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SAM Things are not good here, Robin. |
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We just got out of the building |
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as it was being raided by the Territory Support people |
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I don't know what's gonna happen, to be honest. |
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Campsite with police approaching |
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Police approaching people camped at park; Alejandra collects pieces of tent |
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POLICE - Section 14's been enforced. - You've been given your notice. |
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ALEJANDRA (INTERVIEW) We had permission from the council to be in the park, |
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but the police still were like, |
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"You can't be here, you have to get out, or we're gonna start arresting you." |
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And I think they showed more of their true colours than they did in April. |
Police officer questions stops and searches a woman at an XR protest |
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POLICE What's your intention? Where are you going now? |
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You're being detained because I suspect you might be in possession |
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of items connected to commit criminal damage. |
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WOMAN Gingerbread, scarf, a waterproof. |
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- POLICE: Thank you very much. - WOMAN: Flask of tea. |
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Zeph from XR Legal team hands out bust cards to people at XR protest |
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- ZEPH: Has everyone got bust cards? - WOMEN: No, we don't, no. |
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ZEPH List of your basic legal rights. Protest solicitors on the back. |
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- WOMEN: Thank you so much. - ZEPH: No worries. Good luck, everyone. |
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Zeph reads the XR statement regarding the high court case against the police |
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ZEPH Section 14 of the Public Order Act: |
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"Any assembly linked to the Extinction Rebellion autumn uprising |
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must now cease their protests." |
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"Anyone who fails to comply with the conditions |
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is liable for arrest and prosecution." |
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"Tomorrow morning at 10am, lawyers for XR |
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will submit an application for judicial review to the high court |
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for an urgent hearing later in the day." |
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"The ban is a disproportionate and unprecedented curtailment |
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of the right to free speech and free assembly." |
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The reason that the police are doing this feels very political. |
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They're under enormous political pressure |
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from the government to make us go away. |
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Police start clearing XR protests around Vauxhall |
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POLICE Start clearing this road now, please. |
01:06:10:25 - 01:06:13:26 |
Section 14's in place. No protests allowed. |
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ZEPH It's basically the move towards criminalising that movement. |
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POLICE It's the whole of London. London-wide. |
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No Extinction Rebellion protests whatsoever. |
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SOPHIE (INTERVIEW) The whole of London was just out of bounds for Extinction Rebellion. |
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Literally just two people standing chatting in a street |
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with an XR sticker on could be arrested. |
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REPORTER London just became the first city to ban protests |
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linked to environmentalist group Extinction Rebellion. |
Trafalgar Square XR Protests: lots of people gathered behind Kofi; police arrive with cherry pickers and start pushing people back and dragging tents away. A man is held face down on the ground, shouting in pain. |
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CROWD - Extinction! - Rebellion! |
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CROWD - Extinction! - Rebellion! |
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KOFI Once again, XR has proved |
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it can mobilise huge numbers of people to take action |
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in such a way that it can no longer be ignored, |
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either by the government or by public opinion. |
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SOPHIE Oh, shit. Look at all the police. |
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POLICE Move back! Move back! Move back! |
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- MAN: Please, please, officers. - POLICE: Move back! Move back! |
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MAN You don't need to do that, come on. |
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Please be peaceful. |
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POLICE Move back! |
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SAVANNAH (INTERVIEW) The energy was just different. Tents were being dragged. |
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MAN 2 There's a guy with a baby! |
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SAVANNAH (INTERVIEW) Cherry pickers were just going straight through crowds. |
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There was no bewilderment any more. |
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MAN Please, officers, please be peaceful. |
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MEMBER OF PUBLIC The protestors are not being violent, |
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but yet the police are trying to provoke the protestors into violence. |
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Why? |
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Roger & Gail on a zoom call |
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ROGER The main thing for XR now is to keep its nerve |
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and maintain the radical edge that it has. |
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GAIL Like I said last week, |
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person X was a bit pissed off with how you were in that meeting, |
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and then I just, you know... |
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Your focus is laser-like on getting stuff done and forwards |
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and your own perspective on what the best thing to do is, |
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and sometimes it's like you don't see the other things that are going off |
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cos you're on that laser thing. |
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It's not gonna stop happening, cos it's who you are, |
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but I'm just telling you, back off. |
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ROGER The fundamental point is fuck all's gonna happen |
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until there's mass disruption, period, right? |
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That's it, you know. Sorry, it hasn't worked yet. Don't stop. |
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Protestors climb onto an overground train; members of the public start shouting at them |
01:08:59:07 - 01:09:02:16 |
MAN FILMING Right, guys, we're here at Canning Town Station. |
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We have no choice but to act, and act with emergency action. |
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This is peaceful protest. |
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01:09:08:09 - 01:09:13:20 |
MEMBER OF PUBLIC 1 Gluing themselves to an electric train on an electric platform, right? |
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Electricity. |
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Look at that train over there. |
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People are stuck on there, can't get off. |
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MEMBER OF PUBLIC 2 Don't protest there, you fucking dickhead! |
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Do it on the right fucking train. |
Visuals: Crowd swarms around protestor who’s been dragged to the ground; woman tries to push people back TWEET FX: - “Huge own goal for XR” - “Middle class folk telling working class what to do!” - “I’m also delayed…but turning to violence?!” |
01:09:36:07 – 01:09:47:14 |
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XR office |
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SOPHIE We've got to recognise that there are many voices |
01:09:55:09 - 01:09:58:15 |
and that people are gonna be angry at this. |
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01:09:59:06 - 01:10:01:22 |
JOEL Obviously we worry and we listen. |
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This was an independent group, |
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and we are organised so that individuals can make their own action |
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in line with their own conscience. |
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This was not planned by some central committee. |
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Sam in interview |
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SAM (INTERVIEW) There is a kind of blind fanaticism around disruption, |
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and that was a huge problem. |
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XR Zoom Call |
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GAIL How do we hold Roger? |
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And if we're not gonna hold him, if we don't think we can, |
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how do we ask him to leave? |
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FACILITATOR The proposal is just to take Roger out of the role. |
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WOMAN In his tunnel vision and his panic about the climate and all that, |
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he's unable to take an overview |
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at how his interactions cause a negative effect. |
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GAIL Asking Roger to step down from this strategy lead role |
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feels slightly punitive. |
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MAN We should be criticising the behaviour, not the person, if that's possible. |
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FACILITATOR I guess type into the chat either, like... |
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Remove or Don't Remove? |
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And we'll all hit enter at the same time. |
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Zoom chat FX - REMOVE - REMOVE - DON’T REMOVE - REMOVE - REMOVE - REMOVE - REMOVE – with love and appreciation |
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XR Zoom call continued |
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Fairly conclusive. |
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GAIL Roger's gonna join, and I just need to send him the link. |
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FACILITATOR Roger, can you hear us? |
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- ROGER: Yeah, yeah. - FACILITATOR: Welcome. |
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ROGER I think it's best to just say, obviously we have a difference of opinion, |
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and you made a democratic vote, and that's fine, |
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and we'll leave it at that. |
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Gail in interview |
01:11:36:01 - 01:11:37:26 |
GAIL (INTERVIEW) What Roger does, what I say |
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has a much bigger impact than other people. |
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There had been attempts, you know, |
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to bring together teams to look at these issues, |
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and they almost always immediately fell apart, |
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because these issues are so charged for people. |
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Savannah walking along street and ringing on doorbell |
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- SAVANNAH: Hey, Dad. - ROGER: Hello. Come in. |
Savannah meets Roger for a chat Savannah meets Roger for a chat |
01:12:16:02 - 01:12:18:02 |
SAVANNAH It smells like you already. |
01:12:20:09 - 01:12:22:09 |
ROGER Do you want a biscuit? |
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- SAVANNAH: How's your tag? - ROGER: Let's show the world my tag. |
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SAVANNAH It's very fashionable. |
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ROGER I've got to be in bed, as it were, by 10:30 every evening. |
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It's all good. |
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SAVANNAH Yeah. I wish that we could work together on stuff. |
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But I just don't think that anything particularly different |
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is gonna come from people who are stressed and in survival state |
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and continuously doing and doing and doing. |
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I got caught up in that because I think that was rife in XR. |
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It was making me ill. |
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ROGER Well, I think... I think... |
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I think you just have to live your own truth, you know. |
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SAVANNAH But what if your own truth is hurting other people around you? |
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Because the relationships outside of your work life are failing. |
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ROGER Well, then, I have to adapt it and take that on board. |
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I'm not trying to be the best person in the world any more |
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You know, I accept my fundamental fallenness, |
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my fundamental fuckedness, right? |
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I'm not trying to be a saint. You see what I mean? |
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And if at the end of it, you know, |
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I've got six out of ten on the personal relationship front, then so be it. |
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You know, because I can't live with that amount of stress. |
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At the end of the day, I have to do what I have to do, |
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and I'll live with the consequences of it, you know? |
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01:14:09:02 - 01:14:11:20 |
SAVANNAH I really love him, and I think he's incredible. |
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My work now with him is about trying to find a balance where I love him |
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but not at the expense of my own love of myself. |
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Savannah gardening with her mother at home in Wales |
01:14:29:27 - 01:14:33:00 |
The way that my mum does things really inspires me, |
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because she has never forgotten that she is of earth. |
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- SAVANNAH: What is that? - BELL: This is mibuna. |
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And how she slots into the web that she exists in. |
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- BELL: Has it got a smell? - SAVANNAH: Yeah, that's what I smelt. |
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What is it? |
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SAVANNAH We need fully aware, compassionate, loving people. |
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BELL I'm gonna plant the spring greens in here. |
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- SAV: Next year, or straight afterwards? - BELL: Well, I've got them in the greenhouse. |
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SAVANNAH More than ever, it's absolutely essential |
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that we have each others' backs, |
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because there are really powerful people pushing back, hard. |
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And we've got to be there for each other. |
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PRITI PATEL Madame Deputy Speaker, the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill |
01:15:19:22 - 01:15:22:16 |
will give the police the power to take a more proactive approach |
Kill the Bill montage: starts with debate in Houses of Parliament then moves to the protest on the streets |
01:15:22:19 - 01:15:25:14 |
in tackling dangerous and disruptive protests. |
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DAVID LAMMY Madame Deputy Speaker, the government has prioritised giving the police |
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the power to prohibit the fundamental freedoms of protest |
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that the British public hold dear. |
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The government's bill targets protesters causing too much noise |
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and says that those who cause annoyance could be jailed for up to ten years. |
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WOMAN When we don't get help from the justice system... |
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01:15:47:24 - 01:15:49:15 |
CAROLINE LUCAS This bill is a disgrace. |
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It is dangerous, undemocratic and disproportionate. |
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WOMAN If I can't talk and if people can't hear me, |
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there's no point in us coming out here. |
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So that's a technicality, right? |
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01:16:00:06 - 01:16:03:08 |
CROWD - This is oppression! - This is oppression! |
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01:16:03:10 - 01:16:05:12 |
WOMAN: This affects you too. POLICE: I know that |
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01:16:05:14 - 01:16:09:03 |
POLICE: But I’m informing you of the law WOMAN: You don’t need to enforce this |
Kill the Bill montage: starts with debate in Houses of Parliament then moves to the protest on the streets |
01:16:10:10 - 01:16:14:28 |
FARHANA (ON TV) I think it's a bill that isn't aiming at reducing crime or making people safe, |
01:16:15:01 - 01:16:16:13 |
it's doing the opposite. |
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I think it's expanding police powers. |
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01:16:18:27 - 01:16:23:06 |
It's politicised protest, which is a fundamental part of democracy. |
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It's really a silencing bill. |
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This government want to now ban |
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even the smallest, most safe forms of protest. |
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01:16:31:06 - 01:16:34:09 |
WOMAN Ten years in prison for defacing a statue? |
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01:16:34:12 - 01:16:37:04 |
You know, please, get your priorities right. |
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01:16:40:01 - 01:16:42:04 |
GAIL (INTERVIEW) One of the clearest signs that Extinction Rebellion |
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01:16:42:07 - 01:16:44:09 |
and other social movements are effective |
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is that the government is trying to make protest |
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this ineffective, semi-pointless exercise |
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in pretending that we've actually got a democracy when we haven't. |
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INTERVIEWER What have you learned through your XR experience? |
Roger in interview |
01:17:06:12 - 01:17:08:12 |
ROGER (INTERVIEW) I'm so much better now. |
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I was lost and now I'm found. |
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What was the question again? |
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Final montage: interviews intercut with protest visuals – people marching, banners, speakers etc |
01:17:19:22 - 01:17:23:12 |
SAM (INTERVIEW) I learnt a lot from Extinction Rebellion. |
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The political journey that so many of us have gone on has been huge. |
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01:17:27:19 - 01:17:31:02 |
ASAD When we talk about climate justice, it's not simply a slogan, |
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it actually means something. |
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01:17:32:19 - 01:17:36:04 |
SAM (INTERVIEW) Grappling with the scale of the crisis |
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opens you up to the horror of what power is doing to the powerless. |
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SAVANNAH (INTERVIEW) I think XR was important because it pushed people. |
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And those people who were pushed towards showing up, |
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those people who were pushed towards passion, |
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had such an effect on this country. |
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01:17:54:13 - 01:17:58:03 |
GAIL (INTERVIEW) The last few years have been emotional on so many levels. |
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Such immense joy at times. |
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01:18:01:01 - 01:18:02:27 |
And then it's been horrendous. |
01:18:03:00 - 01:18:08:07 |
The grief of these times is always coming in. |
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01:18:08:09 - 01:18:10:19 |
GAIL (ON MIC) The system relies on us feeling powerless. |
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01:18:10:21 - 01:18:12:13 |
Who's feeling powerless today? |
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When we come together, we're not powerless. |
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FARHANA (INTERVIEW) There's something really joyous |
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about bringing together different people from different walks of life. |
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And I think it allowed people to connect to their own emotional selves. |
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ROGER (INTERVIEW) I think I've learned |
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how enormously tragic it is to be human. |
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Because humans are enormously... |
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find it enormously difficult to get their act together. |
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SOPHIE (INTERVIEW) It's really easy to become apathetic. |
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To step out of that apathy is incredibly liberating. |
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ESTHER (ON MIC) We rebuild community. We rebuild family. |
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We rebuild our relationships with each other, with nature. |
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ALEJANDRA (INTERVIEW) Realising the potential that a movement like XR has, |
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despite its many imperfections, |
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there's many things about it that are really, really powerful. |
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We are in rebellion. |
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Just that is hella powerful. |
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Farhana speaking from an XR boat to a crowd gathered outside the Royal Courts of Justice |
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FARHANA (ON MIC) There are protests going on all over the world |
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where people who are defending nature |
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are being harassed, arrested, in many cases murdered. |
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And that's why we need in this country |
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for all of us to rise up and use our power, use our voice, use our vote. |
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Farhana in interview |
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INTERVIEWER How do you feel about the question: |
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is it too late? |
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FARHANA (INTERVIEW) Yeah, I think the reason why that question "is it too late" annoys me is |
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is it too late for whom, and for what? |
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You know, so I feel like it's very important |
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for people to ask a better question, frankly, which is, |
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"What can I do, and what needs to be done?" |
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CARD 1: “XR GROUPS CONTINUE TO ENGAGE IN NON-VIOLENT CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE” Visuals: Criminal damage action at Barclays bank; police arrive and arrest protestors |
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CARD 2: “THE POLICE BAN ON XR PROTESTS WAS RULED UNLAWFUL BY THE HIGH COURT” Visuals: Police striding along at XR protests |
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CARD 3: “ROGER’S STILL TELLING PEOPLE TO GET THEIR ACT TOGETHER” Visuals: Roger speaking and protestor being carried by police |
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CARD 4: “SAVANNAH LEFT XR AND PLANS TO TEACH AT A FOREST SCHOOL” Visuals: Roger and Savannah stand together under an umbrella; Savannah smiling in Wales |
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CARD 5: “FARHANA IS POWERING AHEAD WITH A CLIMATE JUSTICE COALITION” Visuals: Farhana speaking at events |
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Protest visuals: huge crowds |
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END CREDITS |
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