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♪ Stranger's arms ♪

♪ reach out to me ♪

♪ 'Cause they know ♪

♪ I'm so lonely ♪

♪ Then my mind ♪

♪ goes back to you ♪

♪ Your sweet love ♪

♪ sees me through ♪

♪ Your sweet love ♪

♪ sees me through ♪

♪ Strangers take ♪

♪ my lonely hands ♪

♪ Tell me that ♪

♪ they understand ♪

♪ I'm tempted ♪

♪ then I think of you ♪

♪ And your sweet love ♪

♪ sees me through ♪

♪ Your sweet love ♪

♪ sees me through ♪

The world is watching us.

We are responsible people,

and we'll conduct ourselves with dignity and discipline.

You get some dinosaur trade unionists

that are stopping the very jobs we want to see.

Maggie Maggie Maggie!

Out out out!

Maggie Maggie Maggie!

Out out out!

Reporter: For more than two months now,

these women have occupied the Lee Jeans factory

to stop it from closing down.

200 of them taking it in turns to keep the occupation going.

We're determined, we'll just keep fighting on.

Reporter: This is the first tractor made at Caterpillar since the work-in began.

It's become far more than just a tractor,

This 'Pink Panther' is now a symbol of what the workers are trying to achieve.

It is a special privilege to be a guest of this great city, Glasgow.

The people of Glasgow, 6,000 miles away, declared us to be free.

We love you all.

- - Thank you.

♪ Strangers take... ♪

Reporter: Pupils at a school in Glasgow are campaigning

to support a family who were turned down for asylum.

♪ Tell me that ♪

♪ they understand... ♪

♪ Then I think of you... ♪

Reporter: The unarmed Mr Floyd, who was black, died in Minneapolis

after being pinned down by a white police officer.

In Britain, a London police officer has been arrested

for the kidnap, rape and murder of a young woman.

In the aftermath of Sarah Everard's murder,

shock, grief and anger were shared at vigils around the country.

Well, I've lived in that close for 32 years,

and you could write a novella about the couples,

the families that have come and gone.

My partner Liv was...

41 weeks pregnant... so I was a week past my due date.

So, you know, the birth pool was inflated, the plastic sheeting was down.

And I had a maternity appointment, so I left the house quite early.

I decided that I'd spend the day writing.

Part of our flat looks down onto Kenmure Street,

and that's where I work, I have a wee study there.

I'm conscious there's some sort of commotion going on, on the landing.

I was working at the kitchen table and I heard some noise...

Because it was roundabout Eid,

I thought it was maybe kids playing outside, in the back garden.

- So I went out and looked... - It's not the kind of thing

you expect to see when you open your curtains in the morning.

I was quite surprised actually at how blatant it was.

The van had 'Immigration Enforcement', in big letters on the side.

I messaged some friends and I tweeted about it as well,

saying precisely, 'What do you do in this situation?'

Because I had no idea.

I opened up the door and I was saying, 'Lakhvir, what's going on?'

And he was being marched down the stairs by Home Office officials,

heads down, don't-talk-to-you or anything.

And so I just, still in my pyjamas,

ran out onto the street to see what was going on.

I just started sending messages out to anyone

that I thought would be up for coming down.

Babysitting exchange groups, reading groups.

There was like a WhatsApp group for our building.

Eid was going to be one of those days that was going to be really special.

I guess it would be the same for anyone celebrating Christmas or Diwali.

Pandemic, the world, and then, an opportunity to come together.

I started getting these text messages

that there was an immigration van on Kenmure Street

and I don't live too far, just around the corner.

I don't have anything to do yet.

All the family are still asleep.

I can go, I could do this.

There'll be a situation, but maybe it'll just be a couple of hours.

I'll see how it goes.

What's really going to happen on Eid day?

I got there within three minutes of receiving the text message.

I think one of the things that have become quite evident

in recent years,

is how important it is to document things yourself.

And I just started live recording.

This is Immigration.

These people are here.

I think this is part of that new... Home Office dawn raid thing.

The Home Office Immigration Enforcement.

As soon as I woke up, I looked at my phone

and I had a text saying, 'Raid on Kenmure Street.'

'Can people get there now?'

Jumped out of bed, got dressed, walked straight to Kenmure Street.

I didn't really think about what I was going to do

when I went out onto the street, I just knew that I had to do something.

When I was sitting on the ground and the police kept turning up

this is when I was like, 'Oh, God, what have I done?'

Soon after we arrived, somebody whispered to me that there's somebody under the van.

This man just ran underneath to stop the van.

If it wasn't for him,

the van would have left.

It would have happened so quickly.

And his actions delayed things.

It delayed things enough for people to come round.

Hey, folks.

Who's all here as part of the protest?

Anybody?

Anyone here protesting?

I thought it was actually an accident.

I thought it was an ambulance and two police cars.

So I was telling myself not to be nosy and not to look.

And just as I was getting on my bike, I had a little glance

and then I noticed someone was filming it.

And I thought, that's odd.

Why would you film an accident?

There must be something else happening.

And then I realised the person filming it was my colleague and friend...

Tab.

Hey, John, it's the Home Office raid,

the dawn raids.

I didn't know the guys,

but their next-door neighbour's a good friend of mine, Jonathan.

Hi, Jonathan. Hi, Jonathan.

One of the neighbours who's a mutual friend came up to me

and said, Tab, this is awful.

What's going on?

These are my neighbours.

They're such good people.

And it's terrible.

You couldn't have actually done anything

that was conceivably as provocative

as to launch a Home Office eviction on the day of Eid

in Scotland's most diverse community.

So he put me in the picture quickly about what it was about.

These two men had been here for ten years.

They're part of the community

and they're now in this van.

So that was enough for me.

It was just a strange thing, it was a dystopian sight

not what you'd expect in a quiet suburban street.

I'll take one, thank you.

I was in my sixth year of high school

and I was heading to my biology class.

I was leaving and my mum told me about what was happening

on the front doorstep.

I still brought all of my school stuff

because in my head, I was like, I'll still make it to biology on time.

Police officer: Alright, pal?

You alright still, down there?

You got some water?

You need anything else?

Give us a shout if you do.

I've been involved in demonstrations before

but being in that kind of epicentre of things, not really.

Hi...

I'm Van Man and this isn't my face but these are my words.

Getting under the van was a bit cramped, I'm not a small guy

but once I got under there and I was able to get my hands

around the axle and just kind of cling on...

I don't think anyone would have been able to drag me out of there if they'd tried.

Who's under the van?

My initial thoughts were good, good, good.

I couldn't see anything beyond boots stomping around the van.

I thought they knew I was already in the van

because I thought my friend from the network might have told them, but...

fair enough, she hadn't.

So they'd already gotten into the van with the guys

and they were sitting ready to drive off when they were told, or found out,

I'm not exactly sure.

I'm glad they did because they could have put the keys in the ignition, and...

run in with my head directly in front of the tyre, I was that close.

Police officer: Keep going.

The idea is to delay the van and delay the removal team

because if they have to spend another hour milling around this address,

that's an hour taken out of their schedule and you're buying time for other people.

They tried to tell us that one of the people in the van

wanted to be returned to his country of origin,

which I don't know whether or not that's true.

We want them to have the choices.

Let the other guy go.

Getting a bit cold now.

When people started gathering, there were friends

and one gave me a shawl, one gave me a jacket

and they're like, 'You just make yourself comfortable, Tab!'

and I'm like, 'Thank you.'

People were coming out of the neighbouring buildings

to stand around or to give blankets.

Someone turned up quite quickly who was a nurse

and who spoke to the person under the van about their own safety

and their well-being under there.

Van Man: There was an amazing off-duty nurse

who appeared and just didn't leave.

This is not my face, but these are my words.

I was a bit worried about this guy.

He was squashed in and nobody seemed to know who he was

or was speaking to him.

So I wanted to check that he was all right.

Do you have any health problems?

Anything I should know about?

She was sitting at the back of the van, by the bumper, checking in on me.

I had to keep explaining, he needs to keep warm, he needs to be looked after.

Can we bring in a water bottle?

'No, we need to check what's in it.'

You've just seen this old lady bringing it out of her house.

They were very strict.

Only after a while they sort of would let me pass some things.

Let them go!

As a nurse, we have a duty of care.

It happens to me quite a bit in and about the city,

finding people collapsed in the street.

I think I have a bit of bad luck with that.

Van Man: She would check in with me every 15-20 minutes.

Not just to see if I was conscious,

but also reminding me to move whatever I could

to prevent nerve damage and that kind of stuff.

So much hinged on the fact that it had been his decision

to get underneath the van, which is not how safety and health work.

Lots of people do loads of things that put them at risk

for different reasons.

That doesn't mean it should change how we think about their safety.

I'd done zero logistics, I was...

I was just so lucky to have good friends and good strangers around me.

I remember when I was in nursing school,

in the introductory days,

we're told about our code of conduct.

And somebody asked, what do I do if I don't agree with the situation?

And the teacher said, you're talking about politics, no nursing.

We're trying to keep as much of a sterile space in here as possible.

The prisoner removal team's going to come in and try and get them out soon.

Protestor: Guys are trying to pray there, guys. It's a mosque. It's Eid.

Protestor: The prisoner removal service?

Cameraperson: People celebrating, like, and living.

It was still quite early in the day when I was making my way

back to the south side.

As the road opens up, you can get quite a clear view

from a while away,

and there was a small crowd in the middle of the road,

and there was a van sitting there.

It sort of had the feeling of just people from the flats

who'd just come outside.

I suppose that's exactly what it was.

And I got a sense, there's something going on here.

I'm going to stick about.

Stop deportation!

No borders! No nations!

Stop deportation!

No borders! No nations!

Stop deportation!

I had to put my phone off.

It's first thing in the morning I put all this stuff on 'Do not disturb.'

But then after maybe like two hours, I was like,

I'm just going to have a wee look at social media,

look at the internet, see what's happening in the world.

And then when I turned my phone on, I had all these notifications.

Let them go! Let them go!

Let them go!

I couldn't believe this had erupted, and I'd only left two months previously.

So, I caught a bus

as far up Pollokshaws Road as I could,

and then cut down towards Kenmure Street.

I didn't expect it to take very long.

As I expected, there wouldn't be a lot of us.

I suppose it was an element of a token resistance.

It was a gobsmacking scene, let's face it.

It's hard to believe that somebody was under the van

or that the two men were in the van.

This was somewhere I'd lived for 30-odd years.

Pollokshields has always been a fairly racy place.

The majority of people who were there still at this point

didn't know why they were there.

The Home Office doing what the Home Office do...

I don't think there was any expectation

that they were going to change anything.

I think the expectation was that they were there to be witnesses to something.

It's a tight-knit community, and it's quite built up

with those big rows of tenements.

Tenements almost form this, like, natural amphitheatre.

Out of my window, just turned slightly left,

and it was the back of the van.

Let them go!

These are our neighbours!

Let them go!

That's a powerful thing, to know that the community is watching.

And so we opened the window, and we sat out on the ledge

and the Kenmure Street sign is beside it.

And then I filmed it as much as I could on my smartphone.

We won't leave! Until the people are free!

We won't leave!

- Who are you guys filming for? - STV.

STV.

Crowd: We won't leave!

We won't leave!

I work at a farm out in Neilston,

but we have a small site at the side of Bellahouston Park.

So we were working there, planting up tomato plants.

I got a text through from a friend.

'There's an attempted dawn raid at Kenmure Street.'

'Come down if you can.'

And then I started to hear the sirens

going down Dumbreck Road.

There was a lot of them, so I'm assuming that's where they were going.

I was texting back friends, saying, 'Are you there?'

'There's a lot of police coming.'

I came out of the maternity appointment, and while I was walking home

my phone kept buzzing.

But also I was walking through Queen's Park.

It was like a strange feeling, because it felt like

so many people in the park were also walking back to my house.

Let them go! Let them go!

God knows how many vans are here now, police vans.

Just for two men.

I was driving towards the mosque, and I saw a lot of police presence there.

And I became worried.

I thought, there's something that's happened, or it's been done.

So I quickly parked up.

I met someone who was coming out, and I said, 'What's happening?'

And he said, 'I think a couple of people have been arrested,

and it's got nothing to do with the mosque.'

Being in that peaceful mode, coming right outside,

boom, right in my face.

Let them go!

What did I just walk out to here?

I mean, it was literally at the doorstep of the mosque.

We've not seen so many police

in Pollokshields in such a small area before.

They were everywhere.

There was a rumour two Muslims will be deported.

So I think that must have angered some of the attendees

who had come for Eid prayer,

whose cars were blocked, actually.

They couldn't really move.

So without the Eid prayer, there is no Eid.

You can imagine, it's very busy in the morning.

Council tax, mate, everything.

All the tax we pay, mate.

You don't need to lie to anybody.

It's all on social media now.

People are live here on Facebook.

Never abuse your power.

- This is live. - Disgusting.

You go into the mosque, you pray, you come out.

You just want to go home and start eating and be normal again.

But obviously it wasn't time to be normal at all.

Let them go!

I phoned to my mum.

I said, 'Mum, you better just put my food in the fridge,

because I'm not coming home anytime soon.'

Let them go!

Let them go!

It was Eid al-Fitr, the small Eid.

I pray with the Afghan community.

So I was at Scotstoun before the 8 o'clock prayer.

My nephew, who's quite young, he sent me a small video.

And then I left immediately.

I knew what it was.

So I arrived there and parked

near my sister's house and then walked.

More vans have parked up, Ruby.

There's a lot, there's a lot of them.

Yeah, yeah. It just seems very unnecessary.

Like two guys that they could just let out.

Yeah, exactly.

Does it really mean that much to them?

They've got the whole community out now.

They're coming into this community on Eid.

No one should be dragged out their house.

It has a really...

It resonates all those things that you've heard in the past,

of the way people have committed atrocities

and the way countries have dealt with foreigners.

I thought the Home Office said

that they were not carrying out dawn raids anymore.

And this was very visible on the date

where many people are going around meeting friends and family.

Yeah, look.

Cordoned completely off.

Salam alaikum, Asif.

How are you?

I was at the prayer.

- Yeah, I've been here for a while. - What's happening here?

Two men, they've got two men in the immigration van.

And they won't let them go.

I have a good list of journalists on my phone.

I started texting my friends and others.

In total, like, Messenger messages, WhatsApp, normal messages,

I sent, like, maybe 600 messages.

I sent a Twitter message to Nicola.

Then I texted Anas Sarwar, the Labour Party leader.

And I said, this is happening in your area, in Nicola's area.

Whatever you want to say, you must say.

Let them go!

These are our neighbours!

Let them go!

These are our neighbours!

Let them go!

You only find out about a dawn raid taking place if people say it

to campaigners or if somebody in the community spots it.

It's very difficult to identify and say, yeah, a dawn raid took place.

The moment I got a WhatsApp and realised how close it was,

sitting down, eating my muesli, I was just, well, OK, that's my day then.

And I figured out that then what I would do,

to be honest, I figured it would work.

I just assumed I was going to spend the night in a cell.

Let them go!

They're our neighbours!

Let them go!

They're our neighbours!

Let them go!

Nurse: I overheard them saying things were OK because there was a nurse,

yet they wouldn't let me do my job.

They didn't even check I was an actual nurse.

I didn't have any equipment, I barely had access to him.

That was enough for them.

That's a leak under there, that's worrying.

Have we worked out what the leak is yet?

Uh...no.

We have a couple of ideas and this man said, 'We'll send our sergeant round.'

Our sergeant went round and didn't look at it.

All of the cops near the leak have now backed away from it

and we still don't know what it is.

At one point, there was something leaking from the van,

running down this guy's head.

There was something dripping on me after a while.

I was worried it was a fuel leak or something.

And they were refusing to check what it was.

Is this vehicle safe?

What is it?

They said they couldn't ask anyone because they couldn't move from where they were.

It took an hour and a half to find out

that it was maybe, probably, the air conditioning.

Van Man: The good news was it wasn't petrol.

The bad news was it was everyone's sweat

up there, dripping directly down onto my back.

If something happened, things would escalate very quickly

and it would have been hard to help him in any way.

He was practically invisible under there.

Sometimes people panic or hyperventilate.

Also, the van was always moving.

Police officers going in and out.

It wasn't a good place to be.

There was half a dozen dudes inside moving around

and when they moved around inside the van, I could feel the whole thing

shift on me.

It was intense.

Because any time they stomped their feet or pounded the walls,

I could feel the vibrations.

They were strangers, but we spent...

all that time

cooped up together.

I didn't know anything about them or...

who they were.

Everyone gets nervous at a time like that.

At first, I didn't know what was going on.

After a few minutes, I realised why we weren't moving.

There's a person underneath.

When the police began to intervene, that's when I knew: there's someone underneath.

I'm a mechanic myself.

Another one or two people get into the van.

Their weight goes onto him.

Even more weight on him! There are six people in the van now.

These are our neighbours!

Let them go!

These are our neighbours!

Let them go!

Protestor: Let them out!

OK, can you ask him if...

I'm not, no, I'm not...

Lots of police officers don't know much about the asylum and immigration system

so if they're stonewalling you, It's not necessarily because they're...

trying to be difficult,

it's quite often because they don't know.

They have a right to legal representation.

Their lawyer needs to know that this is going on.

I don't know if a solicitor's aware of what's happening with them just now.

- OK, well... - OK?

And if you, as a concerned member of the public, wish to phone a lawyer,

then I can't stop you from doing that.

No, but I don't want to phone a lawyer now,

if they've already got a lawyer and the lawyer's not aware,

because that's just a waste of everyone's time.

No legal agent has made themselves known to us.

- Can you ask them? - Crowd: Let them go!

I could see that that was a possible way out that wouldn't end in...

the police really violently clearing everyone.

Let them go!

No justice, no peace! No racist police!

No justice, no peace! No racist police!

No justice, no peace! No racist police!

We were walking down Kenmure Street to my gran's, I was panicked.

I was like, 'What's happening? What's going on?'

I recognised a few faces.

So then, by the time I reached my grandmother's house,

I immediately jumped onto social media and I found Tabassum's livestream.

We're here on Facebook Live, we've been here the whole time.

Eid Mubarak, everyone, this is how I'm spending my Eid.

Crowd: Shame on you! Shame on you!

It's not just South Asians.

There's people there from all different backgrounds and you're like, actually,

there is love here, even at this most stressful point.

And the radical people around you,

you didn't realise were your neighbours this whole time.

I had some paints from the middle of Lidl that I'd bought a while ago

and a couple of bits of hardboard

that were the back of my sister's Billy bookcase

that I was supposed to get back to her.

And I just spent half an hour rather quickly painting on the kitchen floor.

I stuck the banner out and I'm slightly deaf

and I suddenly realised there was this noise

and it was actually the crowd's cheering.

So I think I gave them a thumbs up.

We thought a good idea would be to open our mosque

for toilets

because the police and the protesters would both need to use them.

And that was interesting

because you would see the police

and the protesters both coming in to use the bathroom,

but then outside they're shouting and screaming in their own line of defence,

I presume.

Police officer: You're not wearing any face mask, are you?

Get back.

I've got my hands behind my back.

You're putting your hands on me, not the other way around.

You're trying to assault me?

- Police officer: No, we're not. - Right, well don't come to me then.

Police officer: OK, so nobody's assaulted anybody.

Everything's calm.

Why don't you stay back and leave it alone?

Stay here.

Typical, typical.

What did I say to the sergeant?

If youse don't escalate it, it won't get escalated

and yet youse have escalated it.

- Police officer: I'm lawfully touching you. - No, you're not.

No, you're not.

- No, no, no. - He's not moved!

He's not moved! Now you've said it.

This community hasn't given you...

...do you know about policing by consent?

This community hasn't given you consent.

Please don't push me.

Don't push me.

Don't push me.

You've approached me.

You've approached me.

I'm not happy with this.

Just step back, he's doing nothing.

Just look around.

BBC cameras, Scotsman, STV, everywhere.

Do your job.

Go and get the two kidnapped guys out of the van.

They've got no powers to do what they're doing.

Let them out.

Do your job, and then we'll go home.

Come on tae fuck, man.

Abusing that uniform, man.

Bullies! Bullies! That's what you are, bullies!

Smile, mate.

Smile to all these cameras.

Smile, mate, smile.

I had to remind my son to not get too close to the police.

You're going to be trending in Glasgow.

So I was a little concerned for him.

I thought, OK, if your mum gets taken away, that's OK

but I don't want anyone to take you away.

No justice, no peace! No racist police!

No justice, no peace! No racist police!

I read a tweet.

I immediately was concerned.

And I said to my boss, I actually need to go.

I'm going to take the half day off.

And I was very fortunate because I work for an MP.

We put out tables.

We thought, let's make a wee

Eid celebration out of this.

We said to some of the folk, just stay.

You know, your cars are blocked.

Have tea and biscuits with us.

I'd stopped at the shop to pick up some snacks because

I thought, if this is going to go on for a long time,

probably people need some food.

And when I got there, one of the bus stops on the street

was completely full of water and snacks.

So everybody else had had the same idea.

The bus stop was turned into, like, water station and with snacks and everything.

You know, samosas, pakoras...

Refreshments.

People were bringing out blankets, water.

They were bringing things in.

We went into our flats and took any packets of biscuits and crisps.

People constantly trying to get you to take bags of crisps

and biscuits and stuff like that.

Shopkeepers arrived with, you know, blocks of water.

And then you would get the bin bag to put the crisps in

to make sure you're not leaving the place in a state.

The bus shelter became a kind of support station, a tuck shop,

a first-aid post.

And that really struck me because it was just such

a kind of act of care around the broader act of care.

Got any water, mate?

Somebody brought this great big cookie that said 'Eid Mubarak' on it.

And they obviously brought it to share and it just sat on top of a car roof all day.

I think people were too polite to break into it.

As we were growing, we were growing in confidence.

Like, everybody was getting jobs to do,

looking after each other, organising in the community.

It does show you amazingly how challenging the system

gives people this confidence

to take control of our lives and start running things for ourselves.

Let them go! Let them go! Let them go!

Five hours in, there was a point where the police were asking

someone who had parked their car if they could remove it.

And people shouting back,

'Could the owner of this immigration van please remove it?'

When everyone else arrived, the noise got even louder.

We knew they were fighting for us.

We heard it all.

The lady Immigration Officer asked me:

'Who are you?

Who are you that all these people have gathered here?

In Pollokshields, who are you?'

I'm nobody. I'm normal.

Van Man: I overheard someone on a megaphone addressing the cops, actually.

I'm paraphrasing, but the gist of if it was...

I don't think you realise that we're here for the long haul.

It's Eid.

We've just come from the mosque.

We spent an entire last week preparing.

We have all the logistics here.

And you don't, you may as well give up now.

It was incredible.

We would not have a mafia from London who can take us

from our houses and throw us in the van.

You're trying to remove any negative energy in the month of Ramadan.

You're spiritually growing yourself.

And I know mentally I had prepared myself,

and I had a whole month of fasting.

It's what it's all about, this battle within yourself to be a better person.

I could have easily lasted a whole night and day there.

We call it the personal jihad.

Stand tall and nobody's moving until those people are released.

The fact that I'm a nurse gives some level of protection to me

that other people wouldn't experience.

I'm sure there were lots of people there

who were doctors and lawyers and all sorts.

Some teenagers around the van were saying very similar things

to the police that I was saying,

but they were getting shouted at and pushed back.

I'm not un-arrestable.

I could be arrested.

And that means I couldn't work as a nurse pending an investigation.

But it's a bit of a strange area, to be honest.

I have to sign a statement saying I'm of good character as part of the job.

Never to get arrested for something presumes that anything you could do

or be arrested for is presumably a bad thing.

It's a very critical position to take in the context of a protest.

These are my words, but this isn't my face.

When I realised that the car was being moved,

I was on my own at the other end of the street.

I could see a recovery truck, so I just ran.

Let them go! Let them go!

If that car gets moved, they might be able to move the van

so I dived under there, just feet first underneath the car.

Dickhead!

Get off him!

Get off, please!

You proud of yourself, you?

Arrest him for what?

Let her go!

You do not need to do this!

Let her go!

Let her go!

Let her go!

Let her go!

It felt really lonely.

Just a swarm of people with cameras and camera phones.

People shouting to let me go and things like that.

De-escalate it and take it away!

That doesn't mean you can just do whatever you want.

She's done fuck all!

There was one Glaswegian voice in particular

who really put himself in the way.

I did really appreciate that.

But at the same time, there was just something

really dystopian about the whole thing.

You're pushing people against...

Move, move! Get back!

Just let her go!

De-escalate the situation.

Get back!

Get your hands off me!

They've already let this guy go under the van.

They couldn't stop him because he went under the van before they arrived.

Immigration had phoned the police, the police had turned up.

But they could stop her.

And they stopped her with a lot of force.

And it's a show of force to show everybody else.

It's not just about her and stopping her, it's about showing the rest of us.

'If you try anything like this that's not just standing about chanting,

we'll drag you through the courts.'

Get back, get back!

Get back!

Get back!

- Shut up. - Get back!

Look, excuse me.

Can I speak to you honestly?

This officer, excuse me, this officer, he's the worst officer I have ever seen.

The worst...

You have no respect for women, for children, for nobody.

This guy is the worst man I've ever seen, this guy.

Listen, you're a police officer, get your guy...

This guy, send him home.

Trust me, send him home, this guy.

I don't want to speak to anyone. That's it.

I'm telling you, this guy, send him home.

You know, he should be cutting potatoes.

And then I got angry and I said, he's good to sell potatoes or tomatoes.

He's not good to be a police officer in this tense situation.

Get back, get back.

Get back, get back.

Move to side.

Protestor: Don't fucking push me, wee man!

Keep moving.

Off the road, please, off the road.

Off the road, off the road!

Guys, get off to the pavement!

Off of the road!

You can walk on the pavement.

Get on the pavement.

Get off the road.

You can live here for 200 years,

but in the eyes of the establishment, you are not British.

I mean, yes, the people are different from the regimes.

And I experience it every time I travel abroad,

I come in and get picked from the queue.

I was asked in 2005 if I know where bin Laden was.

I said, 'Are you serious?' He said, 'Yes.'

I said, 'Look, if I know where bin Laden was,

I wouldn't be coming to Glasgow today.'

He said, 'Then where will you be?' I said, 'Downing Street.

I'll be telling Tony Blair, there's bin Laden.

The five million reward, give it to me.'

They want this to become ugly.

So we're not going to get ugly.

We're going to continue the peaceful protest,

no matter if it takes one day, two days, three days.

If they have the time, we have the water.

I think in that moment, she's off to jail.

It's important to try and keep everybody unified around a singular thing.

Folks, listen up, listen up.

The police are issuing orders.

They're moving their vans.

They are going to get prepared to move this van.

If they try, everybody has to sit on the ground.

I want to see a show of hands!

Who's prepared to get arrested?!

Who's prepared!?

Do not allow them to move us.

If we're standing, they can push us back.

If we're sitting, they're going to have to lift every single person,

and they cannot do that.

It got to that point where there was too many protesters

for the police to lift them all, to pick them all up.

And there was no way that the protesters were going to go home

or going to go anywhere.

I thought there's going to have to be a clash.

There's going to be a riot.

Shame on you! Shame on you! Shame on you!

A lot of people there were other mums and dads from the school run.

I think my instinct is to act as a journalist.

It's to record, it's to capture, it's to document.

But...these are my neighbours, these are my friends...

Let them go! Let them go!

Let them go! Let them go!

Let them go! Let them go!

I was meeting my children for a spot of lunch and started getting text messages

and I'm sitting trying to concentrate because the kids are saying:

'Dad, stop looking at your phone.'

I'm trying to look at what's going on.

I could see from the videos, something in the region of 40 riot vans.

When people were coming in, they were saying,

'Wow, the whole of the area is surrounded by the police.'

So if something was to kick off, I'm sure it would have been an absolute riot.

At one point, there was a helicopter.

It was just, why is there a helicopter here?

What's going to happen?

And I remember the liaison police officers had told us,

'We're going to change the police who are outside the van because they're tired.

Be peaceful, don't react.'

And for me, that showed the police being scared of ordinary people.

Difficult situation for the police, as well, because it's not like

you're driving protesters out of the area they'd marched,

let's say, to the City Chambers, or they marched to Trafalgar Square.

This is their homes.

These are their communities.

Are they going to go door to door, battering folk?

Are they going to smash the windows in?

If you've got young children, you've got old people,

they're just going to drive through and people are going to get hurt.

And that inflames the situation because I know as a young lefty,

one of the things I was told was there's nothing more radicalising

than being hit with a baton.

It almost felt like as though it was a trap that was set for everyone.

A trap set for the Scottish government, a trap set for the people of Glasgow,

for the people of Pollokshields.

It's a trap set for Police Scotland.

Kenmure Street, like many other streets across Glasgow,

carries the name of an individual or a property

that has connections to Britain's Atlantic slavery economy.

In this case, it refers to Sir William Stirling-Maxwell, born in Kenmure House.

Their family seat was in Pollok

and they had long-term imperial connections in India

as well as estates in Jamaica.

They built Kenmure House in Bishopbriggs using the wealth from the plantations

and on those plantations, you'll find at least 400 enslaved people.

There are two sources of revenue for the construction

of the great industrial cities within Britain in the 19th century.

One, of course, is the exploitation of labour,

indigenous labour, if you like, within the factories.

So particularly within Glasgow,

you've got a lot of Highland labour coming down,

Gaelic speakers working in the early mills and the mines and factories and so on.

But the other half of the equation is, of course,

to do with the plantation economy and the history of the slave trade.

Glasgow has a long historical connection with Atlantic slavery

from the mid-17th century.

We begin to see the Atlantic slavery economy

and the import of slave-grown produce,

particularly sugar, dramatically shift Glasgow's economy.

Slave-grown commodities are the driving forces

behind the Scottish Industrial Revolution.

Glasgow really becomes the epicentre of Scotland's Atlantic commerce.

They had limited involvement in the triangular trade,

historically known as the slave trade,

and we think there is only 27 recorded Scottish slave trade voyages.

The majority of them would have left from Port Glasgow and Greenock,

but it's a tiny amount compared to the major English slaving ports,

Liverpool, Bristol and, of course, London.

But where the Scots really monopolised

was the trade in slave-grown produce, especially tobacco.

In one year, 1758, they import more tobacco to Clyde Ports

than all the other English ports put together.

And Robin Blackburn, the great economic historian of slavery,

estimates that anything up to 50% of the capital needed to finance

urban construction in the 19th century came directly from the plantation economy.

The Stirling family themselves

are Scotland's most prominent Jamaica enslavers,

and they own two plantations, Hampden and Frontier.

The Maxwell family had connections

with St Kitts, plantations and enslaved people.

There is then a marriage, and their estate in Scotland was vast.

It was sustained and maintained by profits from India and then the Caribbean.

After the abolition of slavery, the last plantation is sold off in 1850.

And the very next year, the development of Pollokshields began.

At the time, people who profited

from the labour of enslaved people were not ashamed.

In the UK, it was abolished in 1833.

And then in 1837, you get the Compensation Act,

where people who now have to free their enslaved labourers

are getting compensated for the loss of income.

The British government had to take out a massive loan of twenty million pounds

in order to pay off all of this compensation.

And as British taxpayers, we have been repaying that loan

through our taxes right up until 2015.

In today's money, we've paid off about £16.5 billion

to compensate people for the abolition of slavery.

Slavery is a practice of empire.

This city benefited through violence,

exploitation, particularly to people who were racialised.

Many of the systems that we see replicated over and over again

were developed to divide us through wealth, race, gender and class.

Enslavers made wealth very, very quickly.

Being able to show that off is building these magnificent buildings,

making their money visible.

The rage around that... of course, people are angry.

Pushed to the margins, witnessing injustice,

turning that into something positive

we can achieve through protest.

Glasgow is a city of paradox.

We like to think of ourselves as a city that's anti-racist,

that's radical, that is willing to stand up

and protest for people's rights.

But on the other hand, we're also a city that was built off

the back of enslaved and chatteled African people.

My grandmother, she was probably one of the few women

who was in George Square in Glasgow on strike in 1919 when the police rioted.

And in running away she lost her shoes and she used to tell us

she was more worried about going home to her mother in Ibrox

to say she'd lost her shoes than she was of the police.

My grandmother was a suffragist and anti-war.

She was very disappointed at the start of the war

that the suffragettes as they were then

had actually called off the actions demanding the vote,

part of a group of women who probably invested too much in it

because they actually thought it would bring about change.

There are those in society that try to diminish

our own ability and our own intelligence,

who try and inculcate into us almost from childhood

that we're here to be ruled and somebody else is here to rule us.

Jimmy's speeches, they gave the shipyards an identity

and they were key to the success of the whole thing.

Nelson Mandela: It is a special privilege to be a guest of this great city, Glasgow.

It will always enjoy a distinguished place

in the records of the international campaign against apartheid.

The people of Glasgow in 1981 were the first in the world

to confer on me the freedom of the city.

We respect, admire, and above all, love you all.

Thank you.

Nelson Mandela Place used to be St George's Place.

They changed the name of that particular street

as opposed to any other street in Glasgow

because it was the location of the South African consulate

and it meant that the consulate had to receive mail

with the name of their most notorious political prisoner on it.

The most important thing that has emerged for all men and women of good will

who regard that the whole world is the theatre of their efforts,

you are part of that generation.

In a way, Kenmure Street brought like a lot of memories back.

You know, when we were young, the same thing happened.

- Hello. - Hi, Agnesa.

Can you tell me exactly what happened on Sunday morning?

They came inside the room, I was sleeping.

When I heard immigration, I screamed.

Hello?

One of our friends was detained to be deported.

We started a petition for Agnesa's family and hundreds of people signed it.

I'm afraid, they come to our door in the middle of night

and they take us away like Agnesa.

That's where all the Scotland people have seen us, so it's good.

Agnesa was one of my best friends.

I knew her for like about three years and I was very upset about what happened.

Seven girls saved their friend Agnesa

and we managed to end child detention in the UK.

Ground!

And it's been added into the education curriculum.

Children can learn about the Glasgow Girls' Campaign

and what it means to be a refugee and asylum seeker.

Half a mile away, the Govanhill Baths was the longest sit-in protest

in British history.

The council were determined they were closing our swimming pool,

which was in the street I lived in at the time.

And the community were equally determined that they weren't.

I was tiny when they shut the Govanhill Baths.

I was four and I lived on Calder Street.

Eventually, a little group of people went for a swim one Wednesday night

and when they came out, they got dressed and then chained themselves

to various parts of the building and refused to leave.

We occupied it from that night in March until the 7th of August.

Perhaps now I would go, 'How could you possibly prevent

the police entering a building just by standing there?'

But at the time, we just felt anything was possible

and within that campaign, anything was possible.

I saw people hold police back by just drawing a chalk line on the ground

and saying: 'There and no further.'

And they didn't cross the chalk line

and we were just thinking, 'That's bizarre.'

It was vibrant, there was a clown and a unicycle, juggling and music

and then there was the absolute attack on people by the police,

the kettling, getting charged by police horses,

folk getting wrestled to the ground.

But it was that sense of almost being like a community under occupation, you know?

Like, it was like, 'No, we fucking live here.'

Do you know what I mean?

I think with Govanhill and Pollokshields, they're very distinct communities

but they're also part of the one broader community when it comes to resistance.

And then of course, because of all the Islamophobia,

we had a lot of far-right activity in the area as well.

And lots of people from the Baths campaign,

occupying streets to prevent the far-right marching towards us.

At times, standing basically toe-to-toe with them

to prevent them entering Pollokshields.

The day they came to remove us from Govanhill Baths,

they came with 300 police officers and horses

and a helicopter and riot police.

So of course, that can make people fearful.

Being a child of a migrant family... I'm second generation Pakistani.

These things resonate with me in a way maybe it doesn't with other people

because it's fragile, our space here.

We've had these conversations with our parents

about our place in this country

and there was always a little fear in our parents' hearts

that whatever's happening, there'll be a time when we're not welcome.

It was a shock to my system that this happened outside my door.

But as I spoke to some of my neighbours, and people I've got to know

in the community, particularly who are of Pakistani origin,

you realise that that is just their life experience.

They have to deal with this throughout their life.

Beside the mosque on the side, there's around 50 police officers

just on standby, numerous vans and really it was, I would say,

an overreaction to the situation.

And I lived through Pollokshields through the 90s,

there was a lot of race riots and a lot of fighting.

But this was the first time I felt quite vulnerable

just because my children were there and my daughter,

my younger daughter Zainab, she was asking me:

'Baba, why is there so much police outside the mosque?'

'What is happening?' And it's Eid,

and they've got the pretty dresses on

and they don't really know what's happening.

Refugees are welcome here!

Refugees are welcome here!

Refugees are welcome here!

They had a line of police that linked arms and just tried to charge.

Oh!

Stop!

Scum! Scum! Scum! Scum!

We're trying to get them out the of van.

We're all on the same boat here, mate.

If you want an ambulance through, fair enough.

If youse come in shoving people when there's a big crowd, that causes stuff.

If youse come up and speak to people properly, it's fine.

But if youse come in heavy-handed, people will stand their ground.

Protestor: Put the paramedic through. We'll let him through, no bother, mate.

Seriously.

I will personally let the paramedic through, send them through.

They then later claimed that this was them trying to get the paramedic

to the guy under the van,

but of course we just let the paramedic through because why would you not do that?

Hey there, buddy, you can film but can you just stand back

while we're discussing with the paramedics.

Alright, it's to do with personal information.

You guys still not sent the paramedic through?

Cops go home! Cops go home! Cops go home!

The police, they are doing their work but you shouldn't be here.

I respect your daily job but you shouldn't be here.

In 2005 I campaigned with my friends to stop

the inhumane detention and dawn raids.

We see this again happening in our great city, Glasgow.

Shame on the police being here protecting the immigration and the UK.

Shame on you!

Crowd: Shame on you!

I was watching. I saw the police make a chain and charge the van.

I've spent half my life here.

This is where our family has been made.

I came here in my youth and I've made my friends here.

I wanted to stay here, that's why we were fighting the case.

I did have a lawyer, my case was ongoing.

And then the phone calls start to come in.

One of the main individuals, Mohammad Asif...

I said, 'You must come', and he said he's with children

and I say, 'No, you must come, Aamer. This is a very difficult day. You must...'

At that point, I thought I need to go.

I made several calls trying to find out from people in the government

what they're saying - the Scottish government - what the position is.

I've seen texts and tweets coming out

from the Scottish government at the time which were supportive.

And I was told by a senior police officer that it was a volatile situation

and they would welcome some intervention.

There was definitely some sort of power dynamics.

It's interesting, of course, because obviously,

Immigration is reserved to Westminster,

so the Home Office Immigration Enforcement is Westminster

but Police Scotland is reserved.

This is wonderful, trust me.

You are an example for the rest of the United Kingdom

or whatever kingdom you call it.

I hope that Scotland parts company with an imperialist state soon.

I parked some distance because the roads are blocked up.

I went up to one of the junior officers

and I said, 'Look can you get ahold of senior officers in command

and can you tell that I'm here, I'd like to speak to them.'

I don't know these guys, you don't know these guys.

We're here...anyway I'm going to cut my speech, I have my very good friend here.

Police described him some years ago that,

"You are a black man with a big mouth and your big mouth needs to be shut!"

So his mouth is getting wider and bigger and he's here.

My very good friend Aamer Anwar.

Eid Mubarak to everybody in our community.

The first thing I want to say is this:

What that Immigration Enforcement van did, the Home Office did,

by picking today of all days - one of the holiest days in the Muslim calendar -

was deliberate.

It was provocative

and it was intended to incite this.

What the hell did they think they were doing by bringing an enforcement van

right into the heart of Pollokshields?

We should be proud of the fact that these pictures

are going out right across this country.

That every single politician,

including Nicola Sturgeon, and the Cabinet Secretary for Justice

have tried to pick up the phone

to the Home Secretary, to the Home Office

For some reason, that Priti Patel and her racist government

are not answering the telephone.

There is only one way that this is going to end today

and it is simple and the message is clear

to Police Scotland, to the chief constable, to the area commander

that people want this to be resolved peacefully.

They want to go home to their families

but there's only one way this is going to end:

that the two men in that van must be released without condition!

In order that the Home Office learns...

In order to de-escalate...

Crowd: Let them go! Let them go! Let them go!

If the Home Office wishes to de-escalate the situation,

there is only one way they can do this:

Open the van doors. Let those men go.

So our community can go home to our families!

And there is a simple message to Police Scotland today:

What exactly do you call community policing?

What do you call policing by consent?

We take no pleasure in having to do this

but we will not let our neighbours be dragged out of their houses

off their streets,

or any more dawn raids.

We have the Glasgow Girls amongst our midst!

We showed the way forward to the people of Scotland and to the United Kingdom

And we will do so again

as this racist government ratchets it up trying to divide us.

They will not divide us!

Black and white, unite and fight!

Thank you, Aamer!

Thank you, Aamer.

He's negotiating with the police

because he knows most of the high-ranking officers in Scotland.

Aamer: I went into the portable control room.

They'd already been informed I was coming down

and I said the only way I see it, you have two options.

I said, 'Well, Plan A is that you

obviously want this to come off peacefully.

These two men, release the men into my custody.'

So I presented that as an option.

I was told that's not possible it's a Home Office... thing.

Then I said, 'Well you're Police Scotland.

You're not the Metropolitan Police. You don't work for the Home Secretary.'

But I understood the mechanics of it.

The safety of the men's a priority, the safety of the crowd,

the people of Pollokshields

but the community is filling up.

People will be coming back from colleges, from school...

Those streets are going to be bursting.

You already got about a thousand, to a thousand and a half people.

When we get to about 5 o'clock, you're talking about 4,000-5,000 people,

maybe more.

You're not going to be able to stop them.

So Plan B was... I think the words I used was,

'You have 140 officers. You seem to have over 40 riot vans.

You got shields, you got batons, send them in. Use your batons. Use your violence.

Smash up the crowd. Get the the detainees out of there.

But you will be picking up the pieces for the next 20, 30 years.'

We've not had a Bradford in Scotland.

We've not had the Toxteth riots, which is where I grew up.

We've not had a Brixton.

But that's what you will trigger, if you go in.

It'll be a disaster for Scotland

if that's the way you chose to deal with this.

So, of course, the police then said to me:

'Okay we're going to need to speak to people.'

I was aware of the fact

that the Home Office wasn't communicating with them,

that people weren't picking up phones.

I knew from Humza Yousaf, the Scottish Justice Minister,

that London weren't discussing anything with anyone.

Van Man: The passage of time under there was a little hazy.

Nurse: It'd been 8 hours.

Holding on to the axle gave me a thing to focus on that was, like...

OK, this is my job.

We were not there to give up; to just go for one hour, two hours and leave.

If it's going to take the whole night, we are going to stay here the whole night.

The crowd had grown. There was nearly 2,000 of us.

There was just a feeling of strength and unity.

We've all decided, if we're all going to get arrested, we're going to get arrested.

If we're all going to make a stand, we're going to make a stand.

This is where we're going to be.

I said to my husband,

'This is going to turn nasty

and I'm frightened for the people down there',

including our daughter and our friends.

Let them go! Let them go! Let them go! Let them go!

They have sent millions of pounds worth of resources

in to stop us preventing this.

You can have quite a bleak outlook

and it can be difficult to appreciate the importance of an act like that.

The way the UK government's decided it wants to interact

with the rest of the world, and the way that it wants to treat people

that weren't born here, it's been...

absolutely horrible.

Drawing a line like that, I think, that has implications.

It changes their sense of what they can get away with

and it changes our sense of what we can achieve.

Let them go! Let them go! Let them go! Let them go!

Let them go! Let them go!

The privilege that I have is only because I was born in this country

but even that could be stripped away now.

Things are changing fast.

Let them go! Let them go! Let them go! Let them go!

I firmly took that space and I held that space.

That moment in time, whatever was happening, I was present, I was there,

and I wasn't going to budge.

I was nervous.

I didn't want to leave.

- People! - People!

- People! - People!

- Power! - Power!

- People! - People!

Everything happened extremely quick.

Fatima from Govanhill Baths gave me her phone,

and she said, 'Pinar, read this out!'

I have a message from Police Scotland. Please listen!

...having taken the well-being of all people involved in the detention...

and subsequent protest on Kenmure Street, Pollokshields today.

Chief Mark Sutherland has,

following a suitable risk assessment, taken the operational decision

to release the men!

Cameraperson: They're letting them out!?

We should make a path for the detainees.

So they can go and walk to their home in dignity.

With their heads held high.

And most importantly,

this teaches the lesson to the rest of the United Kingdom

that the people of Scotland should not be messed with.

The people of Glasgow should not be messed with.

Right, can I just say... we've negotiated with the police.

Negotiations have come off.

We have an agreement, it is in writing, these men will be released safely.

They will not be arrested, there will be no enforcement action against them,

and I have an agreement that they will then...

The police will form a cordon around the van with myself and the two men.

And then we will be walked to the mosque where they will be released.

I would ask everyone to disperse so that the vans, the horses,

the police officers can disperse from this community.

Everyone in this community should be extremely proud of what we have achieved.

One last message, I am going to go to the van

when I get told to go to the van,

the police will need you to move back.

Right, move, I will need you to move back

in order that we can get the two men out.

And when they say move back,

I don't want anyone to try and do any antics.

We won this today but we have got big battles ahead,

and also don't forget we have the demonstration for Palestine on Sunday.

No justice, no peace! No justice, no peace!

No justice, no peace! No justice, no peace!

Some of the words that Aamer used, I remembered,

about conducting ourselves peacefully,

not being intimidated, the world is watching us.

There will be no vandalism, there will be no bevvying

because the world is watching us.

I thought, 'My goodness, Dad.' Of course, he would have loved this.

First of all,

What I want to do is to thank every single one of you.

You've done an incredible thing today.

You've come out and stood up against the hostile environment.

You have come out and stood up against the Home Office.

I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for what you have done today.

We have done together an amazing thing.

Thank you.

I am so proud of all of you, I am so proud of Glasgow, I could cry...

Thank you all so very much.

I thought, it's just a ruse.

There's no chance that that's going to happen.

You know it just takes one thing to happen for chaos to unfold.

There's a lot of mistrust there.

Surely to God, they won't blow up and turn on the crowd.

Please make some space so we can have some...

Go back, please, go back down.

Go back please, yeah.

Can we have some space...

What we've done in Glasgow today is going to change the narrative

and framing of asylum and immigration.

Thank you.

The family appreciates your support.

But this is the last few very important moments.

When these two men are taken away, everybody stay in their places, please.

Thank you for your support, thank you.

The female officer who was in charge, she came to me:

'Mr Anwar, could you do us one last favour?'

I was like, 'Yep, aye, what's that?'

She says, 'Van Man, the man underneath, he's not moving.'

So I was like, right, OK, so, I got on my knees.

A guy in a suit squats down underneath the van and introduces himself.

'I'm not moving, I'm not moving...' He says, 'I want guarantees, those men...'

I said: 'Look, I'm giving you guarantees.'

'Those men will be released now and they'll be free to go.

But they can't be released until you get out from underneath the wheels of the van

because the van needs to get out of our community.'

I was pretty sceptical about giving up the only leverage that we had

on a good-faith basis but yeah...

this is Aamer, he's not a naive dude.

So I went, 'OK, sure, all right.'

And then he said,

'Do you want me to include your release as part of that?'

And I remember

just laughing at the time

because I didn't realise that was an option but...

sure!

So I had to get off my feet and I go back to the police officer,

'That's fine, I'll get him to move

but could you just give me one more guarantee?'

The notion of getting to walk seemed ludicrous.

Let them go! Let them go!

Nurse: Eventually, Aamer said, 'Okay, you have to go now.'

I'm going to walk to the mosque, but you have to move.

Nobody's going to get arrested, go right now.

I was mostly worried about this throng of cops surrounding the van

and I was worried about accidentally tapping one of their boots with my elbow

and getting done for assault on an officer.

I'd been hoping the guys would get out first

partly because I wasn't entirely sure I'd be able to crawl out

while I still had all that extra weight on me.

I went straight through the crowds and into the back streets.

Missed seeing them being released, just put my hood up and left.

We felt it vibrate underneath,

we could feel him moving out.

We could feel it in the van.

People have surrounded the van, they're moving it.

It felt to me as if everyone was connected with the van.

The people united!

Shall never be defeated!

When I was released, I stepped out,

I looked up to check everything's fine,

that my dad is watching what's going on.

I felt so happy that all these people

have come together for us.

The people here won't stand for injustice.

They stand for each other, not just for me, but for each other.

Refugees are welcome here!

Refugees are welcome here!

When Aamer passed, with the huge crowd behind him,

he looked up and I looked down at him.

And I recognised the woman, it was Eileen Reid,

the daughter of the great Jimmy Reid.

There just was a moment of complete recognition.

I remember tears started rolling down my eyes because

I was thinking of Jimmy,

and I was thinking of Glasgow,

and I was thinking of all the years, the three decades,

because you could see the faces I had seen from previous marches,

previous campaigns that we fought,

who were young boys at the time, who were now parents themselves or grandparents.

Thank you, thank you!

Start moving back, please!

It's about being part of a continuum, you know.

I might not see what we want just now,

but my grandchildren might.

I feel very privileged, actually, to be part of that day,

because I have a lot of friends who grew up with me

in Pollokshields, but missed that day.

It changes your mental landscape, having a moment like that,

that's shared with your whole community.

I think it was sort of an alchemy, frankly,

and a damn bit of good luck.

Our Eid became more colourful.

We need to have a moment of celebration, because it happened

this doesn't usually happen.

Craig, who stays up the road, did a painting of the demonstration,

and I have that up in the kids' bedroom, and quite often at bedtime,

they ask to have the story of the van,

and it kind of has this mythic place in their childhood.

That's how we talk about it with our kids now.

We tell the story of the baddies coming,

and then putting our neighbours in the van,

and then everyone coming out to look after each other

and then finally the neighbours being freed and the baddies having to go home.

Everybody put a day in that day,

for something very special.

A day is nothing in your life.

Please listen to instructions, please listen to instructions.

Half of my life I have been in Scotland.

Kenmure was one of the best days.

It's just like, you know, Maradona scoring the winning goal.

I ended up getting a D in biology.

I never showed up.

I sleep like a baby.

Maybe that's a good tip for people to sleep well.

Go on protests and campaign on things that you believe in.

I've never experienced anything like it, because people were watching

from all over the world,

and seeing the full force of the police.

For them to back down was quite extraordinary.

Please make way, please make way.

Please, thank you.

Crowd: Bye, bye, bye!

Policies are being made, but...

what you're essentially doing is you're telling people

that they're not worthy.

Who gets to decide that?