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Message from the president of the United States
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To the Congress
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This generation has altered the composition of the atmosphere
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on a global scale through radioactive materials and
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a steady increase in carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels.
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President Lyndon B. Johnson
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1965
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Last year was the hottest ever by the largest margin on record
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Earth has just experienced the hottest year since record begin
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This was the worst drought to hit South Africa
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New El Niño phenomena has changed the weather from coast to coast
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12 thousand square kilometers of coral are in danger of being wiped out
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Food sources for many of our people in the other islands
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Climate change migrants, people who can no longer grow crops on their lands
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Scientists are highlighting the urgency of cutting greenhouse gas emissions
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2015 is the hottest year ever recorded by mankind
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Over 750 deaths have been recorded
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Powerful category 5 storm is the strongest ever to hit the South Pacific nation
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Data published by the US and UK meteorologists say the sharp increase in 2015
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can be attributed to human activities
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notably the burning of fossil fuels
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We begin this news hour in Paris where world leaders
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have gathered for the UN Climate Conference known as COP21
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It's now or never to reduce the world's dependence on fossil fuels
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Over the next few days, we will decide
the fate of this planet
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Breaking news: after years of negotiations,
a Climate Deal has finally been reached
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The real headline, the real news
is the voluntary aspect of this
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Yeah,
NOT LEGALLY BINDING
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This is the same old thing
There is no enforcement mechanism
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The original goal was to limit emissions so the planet would only warm by 2°C
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Every scientist who has looked into the agreement says "that's not going to happen"
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The planet will still warm by 3.5°C by the end of the century
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And that's not nearly enough to stop the very worse impacts of climate change from impacting the planet
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More needs to be done
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DISOBEDIENCE
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Coming out of this climate summit
we see a very clear gap
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The politicians are not stepping up
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We are seeing the people and the movement stepping up to close that gap
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There are groups around the world organizing to shut down the fossil fuels industry during May 2016
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It's time to get issues that impact our climate and our environment seriously
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Break Free is a global moment
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where for the first time in a movement we’re seeing very concrete time frame
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when escalated actions are happening across 6 continents
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targeting major fossil fuels projects with the message that oil, gas and coal
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need to be kept in the ground
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It's our future! We must say no!
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The level of urgency is coming together very clearly worldwide
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We need to introduce May 15 to people.
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We can't wait for the politicians to catch up with that understanding
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So people are basically taking things into their own hands
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and doing what needs to be done on the ground
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Batangas, Philippines
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What is legal is not necessarily just
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Proposed Batangas coal plant
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JG Summit Holdings, INC.
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Coal per year:
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3+ million metric tons
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CO2 emissions per year:
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7+ million metric tons
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We cannot simply confine ourselves to what the law offers
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it is for us to demand a different world
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I remember the time when to even distribute flyers about the issue of oil
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was against the law
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Things remain the way they are because we allow it
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The moment we do not allow it, we take away our consent
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then change happens very, very rapidly
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EDSA REVOLUTION, 1986
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In 1986, we were able to successfully oust the dictatorship Marcos
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It was not just a struggle
against repression of our civil and political liberties
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It was also a struggle against
the dictatorship that had many dirty and harmful energy projects
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We create change through empowerment of people
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because we believe that's the only change that will last
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From what you see here on our coast,
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do you see any change in our lifestyle?
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Of our homes?
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Of our citizens, who they said were supposed to benefit
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from the rise of this type of energy?
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The promise of job opportunities,
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roads, schools
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You don't see any of it
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I'm turning 60 soon
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I was only 22 when these industries began taking over
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I've been fighting for so many years
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and now there are more of us!
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How could I lose hope now?
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Will this stop if more of us stand up to them?
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We are not alone
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The citizens of the world are calling for the shut down of these power plants
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And in May, we will join the global movement
against the coal industry
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We allow our nature to be destroyed by selfishness
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And the progress that has been achieved
is only for the few
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The church has to educate our people
to oppose this false progress
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Globalization cannot be avoided
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What is globalized materialism
consumerism, lack of care for others
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What must be globalized is concern for one another
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The whole world is our responsibility
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Everything that we do, we are responsible before God
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to make our world better each day
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Most changes in society come from ordinary people
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who band themselves together and embrace the same vision
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and really sacrifice for the accomplishment of their common purpose
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we have to protect every individual
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and we have to protect our environment
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The laws of nature and the laws of economics are in conflict at the moment
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Either everything changes because the climate changes
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and it changes our physical world
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in ways that we can barely fathom
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Or we change our economy in fundamental ways
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but the idea that there is some middle road
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where we continue on pretty much as is, that's actually not available to us
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Vancouver like a lot of port cities in the Pacific Northwest is being eyeballed
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to be a significant export point to fossil fuels
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Kinder Morgan is, I think, the biggest, baddest project on the table right now
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It would be expanding a pipeline currently moving 300 thousand barrels of tar sands a day
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to close to 900 thousand barrels a day
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5 TANKERS A MONTH
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TO OVER 30 TANKERS A MONTH
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KINDER MORGAN PIPELINE SPILLS IN THE PAST 60 YEARS: 70
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There is no way to clean up a tar sands spill in this kind of water
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They are saying the best they can get in ideal conditions
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is 50% cleaned up
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If there is one thing about this part of the world
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it's that ideal conditions are pretty few and far between
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The pipeline itself crosses a lot of very important rivers
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for people's drinking water, for communities,
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for the salmon stocks, which are so important for this region
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All the way as it goes back to Northern Alberta, where we already know the impacts that it's having
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on the Athabasca river, which is becoming one of the most polluted waterways in the world
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and human health
impacts that's having on First Nations communities downstream
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Alberta tarsands, the biggest industrial project in the world
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where the size the of Earth that you wanna move is the size of Texas
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Kinder Morgan makes 13 million dollars a day
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and not only do they make that much but they’re subsidized by the Canadian government
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We are mobilizing the community, with 100% consensus
by this Tsleil-Waututh nation
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where we had a referendum and they said
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"we can negotiate for millions of dollars with Kinder Morgan
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That can help some of our people out of poverty
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Or we can use our own little resources that we have and fight them"
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100% consensus we chose to fight them
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So right here, is home
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you know, we haven't left. This is where we've been for thousands of years
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85% of our diet came from the waters behind us
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We've been measuring the quality of water here for 20 years
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It's getting progressively worse
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We are devastated, and what we are trying to do is rehabilitate
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the damage it has caused
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We are going to court to sue for Canada for not consulting us on Kinder Morgan expansion
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One of the ministers said "why the first nations don't take the money, they need it"
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we don't need it more than our land
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We will do it, whatever it takes to make sure this doesn't happen
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in anyway possible
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We are going to launch a massive flotilla of boats from here
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and surround the terminal on the other side, where tankers fill up
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as well as have a group of folks on land march to the gates of the marine terminal
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so that we block it from both the land and the water
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That is in a lot of ways a battle between a story of the old and a story of the new
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There's a lot of powerful forces trying to make sure that the story of the old continues for as long as it can
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We've seen disobedience move from being something that
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A few people do to the mass movement confronting the fossil fuels industry
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SEATTLE, WASHINGTON
JULY 18, 2015
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A massive oil rig outfitted for Royal Dutch Shell's remote Artic exploration
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parked in Seattle’s harbor on Thursday
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But not everyone is happy about it
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They have convinced us that progress is only made from the exploitation of the Earth
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Everyone is coming to protest
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We have scientists, ecologists and city council members
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who are willing to get arrested because they understand the severity of this moment
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Stand up in whatever manner you can
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This is our lunch counter to sit on
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This is our history to be made
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We hold the world in our hands
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SHELL TO CEASE OIL EXPLORATION
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SHELL ABANDONS ALASKA ARTIC DRILLING
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Civil disobedience is a powerful tool
in social justice work
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The law, its not sacred
and to challenge it shakes our consciousness
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If you can take that radical action
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in a way that genuinely speaks to everybody else
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Then you not only have their attention
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You have their inspiration
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And you build movements that way
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Number one: preparation
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Calibrate what you are asking for
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And how you ask for it,
so that you can win it
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Then you've got to choose your strategy
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You've got choose a tactic,
a target that can successfully grab public attention
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Then you've got to make sure that you execution is flawless
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The media will look to every opportunity to delegitimize you
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If there is one misstep, one act of violence, it's over
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I've never been in the White House
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But the ability to chain myself to the outside of the White House
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turned out to be important, and empowering,
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and anyone could do it
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Most of us don't have huge sums of money
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All of us have a body that we can put in the way
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I wanna say very clearly that civil disobedience is but one tools in the activists' toolbox
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It is not the first one you should reach for
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and if you use it all the time, then like any other tool,
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it's going to get dull
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That said, civil disobedience has a role to play
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Nobody should have to go to jail about the climate change
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in a rational system, that would be the last thing that would happen
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But because the way power is distributed in our world, sometimes we have to
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One of the central threats to democracy today
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is the corporate capture of government
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We are up against tremendous resources, and those resources are smart
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The corporations go strait to the politician that is going to be in the committee,
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that is going to pass the law they want to pass
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and threaten their reelection exactly the right time
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The strategy of global corporations on Climate Change
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was partly to recognize that they had a trump card with the United States' government
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They could stand in the way of global action
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by blocking American action
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There's a lot of state failure in the United States
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The legislator is bought and paid for oil companies
and another companies
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We have to roll back the corporate capture of our governments
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if we want to try to fix these problems that conflict directly
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with their industry bottomline
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There's nothing radical about anything we are talking about
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Radicals work at oil companies
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If you are willing to get up in the morning
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and make your fortune by altering the chemical composition of the atmosphere,
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and you're willing to do it when scientists told you what will happen
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and when you've seen it happen, when you watched the Artic start to melt
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If you're willing to do that, than you're radical and our job is to try and check that radicalism
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An investigation is underway on Exxon Mobile
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The huge oil company buried research about the effects of climate change
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Reports suggest that more than 30 years ago
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Exxon's own scientists were taking climate change projections into account
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in its operational plans
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Exxon was on the cutting edge of science
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They wanted to be in the cutting edge of science 40 years ago in climate change
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October 31, 1997
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The Greenhouse Effect
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assess the potential environmental damage of CO2
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They understood that farther down the road, if the science was accurate
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there would be limits placed on emissions from fossil fuels
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so their strategy at that time was that "we want to have a say on what those limits look like"
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When their senior scientist told their senior executive about what was coming,
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Exxon started making sure that all its drilling rigs were climate proof,
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so they could stand the rising sea level
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But they did not tell the rest of us
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Just the opposite
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Exxon is providing leadership through API
in developing the petroleum industry position
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Exxon position
Emphasize the uncertainty
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Around 1989, there was a shift in the thinking of the executive level
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and that was when Exxon joined this group called the Global Climate Coalition
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which sounds very green, but in fact they were put together
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to fight any policy reaction to climate change
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Victory will be achieved when average citizens "understand"
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Media "understands"
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uncertainties in climate science
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Exxon and others ended up hiring the veterans of the tobacco industry
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to try to make the same
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The basic argument that the cigarette's guys have made
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After 3 decades of investigation,
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no causal link between smoking and disease has been established
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Scientific evidence remains inconclusive as whether the human activities affect global climate
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It was effective, and it cost us a generations worth of time
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man has a time window of 5 to 10 years
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before the need for hard decisions regarding
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changes in energy strategies might become critical
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JUNE 6, 1978
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We just recently crossed 400 parts per million of CO2 in the atmosphere
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We are literally releasing all that CO2 that got buried underneath Earth surface
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over a 100 million years
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And we are releasing it over a time frame of a 100 years
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a million times faster than nature buried it
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That is without precedent
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It's unclear that living things, including human beings,
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can adapt to changes that occur that quickly
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In the Philippines, at least 6 thousand farmers were blocking a highway
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to demand the government to provide rice
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The farmers are starving
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Behind all this, there is the rising global temperatures
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causing the whole region to suffer the worst drought in more than 20 years
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We've began to see serious stress on the global food system
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And we simply won't be able to grow enough food to feed 10 billion people
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in a warming world
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There is a study that looks at temperatures to come
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in much of the Middle East
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And what they found was that the combination of heat
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and humidity for stretches of time, by 2100
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would not be compatible with human life
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A new study published yesterday finds climate change exarcebated
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the worst drought ever in modern Syria,
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aggravating social unrest in the country and helping to push it over the brink into civil war
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A record of 1 million refugees and migrants that have now crossed into Europe
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in Europe's worse refugees crisis since the 2nd world war
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In other words, the very real security threat posed by climate change
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is only going to get worse
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You got to put your bodies upon the gears,
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and upon the wheels, upon the levers
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upon all the aparatus, and you got to make them stop
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And you got to indicate to the people who run it,
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to the people who own it, that unless you are free
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the machine will be prevented from working at all
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Social movements are different from ordinary politics
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in that they are not simply about how to divide up the goods
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but about what a good is
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it enters a domain that goes beyond immediate self-interest
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into what's - we're part of this as responsible human beings
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The secret of civil disobedience is moral clarity
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Gandhi said "I'm a human being first
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and a citizen of my country second"
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He targeted the fact that Indians weren't allowed to make their own salt
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And had a massive salt march, across India to the coast
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where he bends down and picks up sea salt
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How could someone possibly prevent you from doing something like that?
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He was taking the weakness point of his opponent,
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and targeted it to generate the most moral clarity
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Different forms of civil disobedience shaped the basis of the abolition movement
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the women suffrage movement
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of the civil rights movement
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It is time for us to say that if you don't do something about it
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we will have no alternative but to engage in broader
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and more drastic forms of civil disobedience
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in order to bring the attention of a nation to this whole issue in Selma, Alabama
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In the core of activism is one single things, and it is voice
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So many people in the world, their voice is actually not heard
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The civil rights movement had a grounded belief that the first and most important thing to do
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was to allow the people who are on the ground to be able to shape the direction
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and to be the front of what was happening
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It was about building the capacity to organize one action
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and mobilizing the public, to show up in support of an action
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The effect of civil disobedience is often to raise the cost of business as usual
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to disrupt normal processes and procedures,
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which makes it more costly to resist change
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than to agree to it
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The African people are realizing that apartheid means nothing else
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but oppression and exploitation
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To change these conditions, the leading Black liberation organization,
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the African National Congress, has began a mass movement of civil disobedience
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defying the laws of the racial superiority, called apartheid
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Civil disobedience brings a spotlight to the violence of oppressive states and industries
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The civil disobedience that occurred in South Africa the Apartheid years
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Defied all the Apartheid laws
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and it was really, really strong
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because it happened everywhere, from street committees
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to unions, to labour movements, to students' movements
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Everybody found an aspect of Apartheid laws that affected them
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And then used some kind of mechanism to defy it
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It didn't change over night, and it wasn't one day of civil disobedience
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It takes time and you will have obstacles
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But I really don't that there's any fight that we cannot win
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if we have the numbers
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We've been struggling against this pollution for years,
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by which I mean the reeckless industrialization in the Aliaga region,
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called the "industrial zone"
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TURKEY
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101 coal power plants by 2023
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TURKEY CO2 EMISSIONS
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268+ million tons of CO2
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We've been through times dominated by capitalism
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and we still are
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Now it is the private companies
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They conduct environmental studies among themselves
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When we stand up against it,
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they prepare another environmental report and study
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to build those plants
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When new plans were built, or in development,
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people were promised new jobs and money
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- people were deceived a lot
- it has always been like this
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In March 1989, me and my friends had been elected mayors
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A lady from the General Directorate of Environmental Management
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in Ankara called and said "we haven't met, but I will give you
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some bad news about Aliaga
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because it's important"
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"A thermal power plant of 1000 megawatts
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using imported coal will be built in Aliaga"
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I summoned all the mayors from çigli to Kinik
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Such an attack of wild capitalism starting in Aliaga
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will spread to other areas in Turkey.
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The thermal power plant will not be built here,
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because our people don't want it!
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We will plant our trees,
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in the thermal power plant site, with our children!
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Come and uproot them if you can
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On May 6, 1990, then Izmir mayor Yusek Cakmur,
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and our 18 municipalities
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made a human chain in protest
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Approximately an area of 60 kilometers,
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with over 50 thousand people
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When we did it,
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it was the biggest environmental action ever held in Turkey
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We managed to stop a thermal plant by our struggle
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But we couldn't prevent a wider industrial site
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Today, in Aliaga, several thermal plants are being built
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No one speaks up
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People there were almost about to chase us out
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They openly said it. "You're destroying our source of living"
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We said, "you get cancer, you'll die here"
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"But we don't have jobs. Shall we live in hunger?"
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They tame people by hunger
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I put them on buses and took them to Yatagan
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We arrived in a village where villagers told about
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the impacts of the thermal power plant
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One villager had a nose like a rabbit's
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One had half an ear
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They told about births with malformation
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because of the power plant
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When we returned,
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everyone joined the protest
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We have a movement plan
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We invite all the anti fossil fuel, life advocates
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both in Turkey and around the world
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to help us stop the rot caused by the fossil fuels
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hand in hand, altogether
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We'll keep that 90's spirit alive
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You cannot pretend that we do not exist
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You cannot plead ignorance to our problems, because we are here
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What power means in the context of social change
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is of course the story of David and Goliath
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When the Philistines sent their powerful warrior Goliath
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to go confront the Israelites, who are afraid
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Until finally David, who is not a warrior, but a shepherd
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went to king Saul and said "let me go fight Goliath"
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the king said "you are not equipped, you've got take my sword, my shield, my helmet"
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he is so heavy that he can't move. And he reflects for a second
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He says "Wait a second. I'm a shepherd, not a warrior"
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He takes off all that armor, picks up a few stones
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goes to face Goliath
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It's only when he discovers his own resources,
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not those of his opponent,
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as the foundation of his strategy, that things became to shift
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And that's what creates those moments of opportunity for the Davids of this world
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Lignite has a very low energy density
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That means that you have to dig up a lot of it to get not that much energy
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And in burning it, you emit a whole bunch of other dirt
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essentially which it is why this is not just bad just for the climate, but it is also terrible for people's health
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GERMANY PRODUCES 178 MILLION METRIC TONS OF LIGNITE COAL PER YEAR
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OR 248 MILLION METRIC TONS OF CO2
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Germany produces and burns more lignite than any other country in the world
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in absolute terms, including India and China
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We look at this now and we see the dirtiest of all the fossil fuels being dug up
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And of course it is the central driver of climate change
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which is a central driver of conflict, hunger, destitution, depravation around the world
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This stuff has to be left in the ground
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This little town called Proschim produces 100% of it's own electricity from renewables
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and still exports stuff into the grid
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Like this village is actually the future we need
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Here you have agriculture, biogas, solar power,
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you have a functioning community
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And this is the frontline in the struggle against the madness of profit-driven extraction
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The government has slated Proschim for destruction
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because there is coal underneath it
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What was seem here is the future being eaten by the past
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Fossil fuels are the past in more than one way
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They are the past of the capital,
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the past of energy, the past of our relationship to nature
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Hello! We can leave your land if you want
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Ok, so this was Frau Rösch, who was asking what we were doing in her land
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and her... I started explaining "we are doing this film"
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she said "are you against lignite?"
"yeah"
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"ok, so you can walk wherever you want"
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Folks lived here a few years ago, this is their lives
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The government said "you can't be here, because we are going to dig this up.
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Because there is coal underneath"
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They have grown up here, they were planning to maybe die here
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This kind of images, that's also why we are doing this
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This folks here being evicted from their homes
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because we cannot stop destroying the environment
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This cannot go on
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All the political work that you do when you're mobilizing for a big disobedience action
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will ultimately be for naught if the action is not a success in tactical terms
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We are telling the situation as it was last year
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Here is the opencast mine in Garzweiler
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This whole area was our action target
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Now, there are always 2 kinds of obstacles that you have to have in mind
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The first is geographic, or let's call "technical obstacles"
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Then, second challenge: police and corporate security. let's call this human or political problems
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Our goal is not to fight the police
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Our goal is to get around, because they are not our enemy
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Our enemy is lignite production inside the pit
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So when the police started forming a line,
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with sheer determination, we are walking through the police
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Not hitting them, not engaging violently
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just walking through
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We ensure that all the four actions that managed to get into the pit
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I've been doing civil disobedience actions for 17 or 18 years now
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It's very hard to get a sense of empowerment,
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to actually feel with every fiber in your body that you can make it
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that we can actually stop this
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The moment when we were running towards this diggers,
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when we saw that they were all shut down
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I remember this moment us "we've done it!"
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It was an unbelievable moment of personal and collective empowerment
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in a struggle that all too often seems brutally hopeless
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In May we're gonna be more people,
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and hopefully they won't be able to stop us
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Last year they couldn't, so let's see if we can do this again
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We think we can
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If you say you can't deal with climate change without
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a revolution in values, a revolution in the way we think,
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people will say: well, we don't have time for that kind of thing.
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The truth is, what we don't have time for is continuing to try the same thing that hasn't worked
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for two and a half decades.
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We continue to be inspired by ordinary people
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having the courage to stand up against corporate interests,
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even against government policies that will bring harm to their communities.
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Hope is belief in the plausibility of the possible,
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as opposed to the necessity of the probable.
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Organize, organize, organize
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There is no other way
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We don't have the tanks, and we don't have the armed forces.
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Nonviolent civil disobedience is me making my voice heard
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against a powerful force that is holding us back.
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Keystone turned out the be a great victory because all over the country and the world,
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people looked up and saw that you actually can beat big oil.
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It may seem impossible right now to defeat climate chaos,
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but social movement have shown
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that the limits of the possible are there to be moved.
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My hope is that we come out the other side of this
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with a global sense of a new kind of power for the climate movement.
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What we need are new ways to do new things.
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To practice civil disobedience is necessary to be able to pursue a better life for our people.
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Batangas now is the center of action against fossil fuel
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It's quite possible that a more radical approach will bring rapid change.
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It's straight math.
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How many people are active and engaged on this issue?
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How hard are they pushing? How coordinated are they?
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It's the people who are engaged that determine what government does.
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And all we have is a choice to make about whether we're going to be one of those people or not.
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The science is pretty dark and things are changing very fast.
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But I am absolutely sure there is going to be one hell of a fight.
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Join the global movement to keep fossil fuels in the ground
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