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This film is part of the
Madrid.15M.cc project, together with

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a book, a website, and other local
and themed projects,

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all under the umbrella of 15M.cc.

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This documentary is not an 'official' 15M film,
nor does it represent the movement,

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or anyone, in any way. It is exclusively
the director's personal view

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of the 15M he experienced, which is
just one among so many others.

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15M.cc presents

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A Madrid.15M.cc
production

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The 15M movement
is many different things.

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In fact, 15M was badly needed
but nobody expected it to happen.

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It's like a breath of fresh air.

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A change in the atmosphere.

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A new climate.
Not so much a new structure,

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as a new climate.

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Well I think the best description
is the sign in Sol square:

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'We were asleep, we woke up:
square occupied'.

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A whole bunch of myths,

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especially myths about this country,
are ending, they're worthless,

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they're no use to most people,
and so many other things are starting,

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new images, new ways
of living, of thinking.

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For me, this is 15M.

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I think 15M reflects
the people's feeling

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that they can't live
and breathe freely

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in which democracy
is lacking.

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For me 15M is a collective
wake-up call.

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So in the end it became
a space for thinking,

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for proposals, undefined
but dynamic decisions,

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constantly being redefined.

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A collective mind functioning
in the same way.

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I refuse to define
what 15M is because I think

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it diminshes
the movement.

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Well I don't think
you can reach

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a consensus on what
the 15M movement is.

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Interview
with José Luis Sampedro

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- "What do you think of the 15M movement?"
- "I think it's excellent,"

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"I think it's a wake-up call,
I think it's important,"

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"and that it has already
managed to stir things up a lot..."

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"Excellent. A wake-up call. Important."
A personal vision of the 15M movement

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A film by
Stéphane M. Grueso

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Sunday, May 15th, 2011

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Many of us met up and recognised
each other in the streets of Madrid

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and in other Spanish cities
at the demonstrations

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called by 'Real Democracy Now' and many
other organisations and citizens' groups.

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Tens of thousands of people took
to the streets all over the country,

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protesting against the economic
situation and lack of democracy.

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These protests were
different, with no flags,

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the atmospere was new and exciting.
It was different, fresh ...

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But, where did this come from?
How did we arrive at this new situation,

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this "climate" as the 15M movement
has been called?

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Hands up! This is a crisis!
Hands up! This is a crisis!

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15M BEFORE 15M

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One of the many precedents and beginnings
of 15M happened in Galicia in 2002

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during the Prestige disaster:
the oil spill, tar and volunteers.

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Civil society acting on the margins of the state,
which watched impassively not knowing what to do.

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In my case, this was one of the first times
I took part in voluntary or community work,

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and I realize now that it was
one of the beginnings of my 15M.

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A massive demonstration took place
in the streets of Madrid today...

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I was in Berlin during the massive
demonstrations against the Iraq war in 2003,

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and they were as big
as in Spain.

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Everyone took to the streets
and everyone was in agreement.

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Civil society sending a clear message
to the minority political establishment.

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Another clear precedent for 15M.

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The famous night of the cell
phones on March 13th, 2004,

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two days after the bomb attacks
in Atocha train station on March 11th,

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is another reference
point for 15M.

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At the PP head office in Génova
street, demanding the truth.

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Spontaneosly called protests,
no parties, no flags,

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using the new technology
of the moment, sms, ...

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The harshly repressed sit-ins in public spaces of V
for Vivienda, (Housing), in 2006, is another reference.

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And speaking of housing, one
of the key concerns for everyone,

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including the 15M of course,
which is nothing other than

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a cut-back
in population.

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Lastly, in 2009 and 2010,

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the fight against Intellectual
Property, and the Sinde Law.

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[Protest at the Goya Awards ceremony]

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The online emergence of the distributed
movement #nolesvotes (don't vote for them).

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The power of the
anonymous masses.

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Doubts as to whether protests could
move from mailing lists to the streets.

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Well, in the end,
it happened.

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[CONVENED BY
REAL DEMOCRACY NOW]

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[Demonstrations in 50 cities against
the political and social system]

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But in 2011, something different
also happened outside Spain.

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Something new and
previously unheard of.

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[Tahrir Square, Cairo, Egypt]

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The protests in North Africa
inspired the 15M movement.

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Seeing how common people, all sorts of
different people could unite to defend their rights

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in the face of injustice and
unfairness was a wake-up call.

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And not only in Africa. Also in
Greece and other countries.

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The spirit of struggle and outcry
caught on throughout the world.

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At the start of 2011, we witnessed
countries in the Arab world

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rising up, not only against
bloody and repressive dicatorships,

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but also, and this is fundamental,
against the economic situation.

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And, above all, against
the political decisions

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being taken in response
to that economic situation.

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The same things had been happening
in the Arab world as in Spain:

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massive privatizations,
deterioration of social rights,

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destruction of public health services,
cutbacks in investment in public education.

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And an ever widening rift
between rich and poor.

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The experiences in Tunisia and Egypt

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were obviously in the collective
mind of the 15M movment,

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and in the minds of the those
who decided to camp.

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In fact, the camp
model of protest

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and the taking of the square
were copied from them.

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Before May 2011, many people had
already started to create their own 15M.

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Things were happening:
actions, lockdowns, protests, humor ...

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[malestar.org (discontent):
Friday meetings in public spaces]

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We see what's happening in Tunisia,
Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Yemen...

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And this long list, which
now includes Portugal,

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and Iceland long before,

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these are states where supposedly
'spontaneous' revolutions are taking place.

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They are not spontaneous.

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[malestar.org: Executions
on May 2nd, 2011]

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Aim!

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Fire!

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[Risastencia:
Laughter protest]

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Since everybody laughs at us,
what with the crisis, politicians, bankers...

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Why shouldn't we laugh
at all this and at them, too?

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That's why we are here,
to laugh at these things.

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Let's all crack up lauging!

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[Our slogan is: "We'll laugh at you
until you take us seriously"]

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[flo6x8: action at
Santander Bank, Seville]

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The most significant task was contacting
all the associations in Madrid one by one.

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I imagine that other nodes were doing
the same, as this was nationwide.

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And it was a very direct contact, explaining
the reasons for the demonstration,

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inviting them to participate, and making
a commitment to work together

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like with the Anti-Evictions Platform (PAH)
with whom we work closely.

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Today we have decided
to leave aside our symbols,

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our own interests...

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The May 2011 protests were not
conventional in any sense.

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There were lots of new
faces on the streets.

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And I went along because
I didn't know who these people were

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and that appealed to me.
I had been observing for some time

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this new kind of horizontal
and distributed organisation.

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The demonstration was organized
by Real Democracy Now

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and other organzations I didn't know,
such as Youth without a Future.

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Youth without a Future was formed
in the bleak times of demobilisation,

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and brought together the remnants
of the anti-Bologna student movement

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and university assocations.

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We got together and said,
"We have to do something".

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We started having meetings
and became a platform.

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Our slogan was: 'No house,
no job, no fear'.

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Practically every young person
could identify with that,

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even if they weren't in
that position, lucky them,

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they knew people experiencing this.
And our aim was to revitalize things.

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It may sound a bit arrogant,
but we wanted to get across to people:

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Here's what's going on. If you
don't think we need to mobilize,

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it's because
we're doing it wrong.

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FROM TAKING THE STREET
TO BUILDING THE SQUARE

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We're back in Madrid on May 15th, 2011.
The demonstration had ended

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for all of us who went home.

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There were several incidents in Callao
(near Sol) and a police intervention

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that many deemed excessive.
It was unfortunate, but all too common.

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And while many, including me,
were sleeping soundly,

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in Sol Square something
very unusual was happening

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which gave birth to this marvelous
rebellion: the Sol Square Camp

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Tonight, nobody is leaving!
Tonight, nobody is leaving!

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We can set up the camp
right here, ok?

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And that's when it started.
"Why don't we stay over? Right?"

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"They did it in Egypt... Why not here?
We need to have a square too."

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And someone grabbed
a microphone and said:

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"Hey, some people are saying
we should stay. What can we do?"

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"What if we keep protesting?
What if we sleep here?"

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It was exactly one week
before the elections.

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"What if we stay here
until election day?"

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Let's make as much noise as we can,
bring all the people here that we can

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so the demonstration
doesn't just end today.

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Let's make a stand
and create a movment.

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Now we have to decide
what we are going to do

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while we are here.

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This is a call for people
to join the movement now.

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Let's not wait until tomorrow
or the day after, but do it right now.

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Let's invite other cities to take
their squares and do the same.

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Someone said "Assembly!"
and everyone sat down

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and that's how the
15M format started:

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a space where no conclusions
can be reached

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and practically no decisions
can be made.

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But where being able to express themselves
is necessary for many people,

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and being able to share
what is happening.

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Those who can't sleep over tonight
but can stay here for a while

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to keep us company and support us
are very welcome, all right?

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And it would be great if tomorrow
some people could stay in the camp

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as there are others
who have to go to work.

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Even if there are fewer of us,
we need to show that we're mobilising

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and that we'll be here
until election day, ok?

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Those of you who can sleep over,
come over here;

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let's start getting
together and organizing.

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That night,  about 40 people
slept in the square.

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I found out about acampadasol,
the Sol square camp,

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at 9.00 in the morning
on Monday.

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Here is my first photo.

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At first, I didn't understand
what was going on

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but I loved it, so I started to help,
like everyone else.

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I know how to document
and communicate

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and that's what I did:
symbols, logistics...

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The first assembly I took part in
early in the morning.

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Marian working with the 3G.

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Pablo talking to the media.
The first press conference.

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We didn't know there would be
dozens after that.

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Another assembly later in the day:
here with Miguel and Marta.

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At 8 p.m., the first big assembly.
Lots of people.

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Javier and Pablo

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Dani, who spent the whole day trying to set up
wifi in the square and stuff like that.

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My cousin Julio. I didn't know him from Seville
yet we lived in the square. So strange...

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That first day events were livestreamed
from the square.

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And at that big assembly, we read
the first manifesto of acampadasol.

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[The first manifesto of acampadasol.]

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Who are we? We are people
who have come here freely and voluntarily.

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After the demonstration
we decided to stay together

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to continue defending our dignity
and social and political consciousness.

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We don't represent
any party or group.

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We share a will to change.

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We are here because
we want a new society

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which values life over
economic and political interests.

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After the main assembly, small
thematic groups started meeting.

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After 15 or 16 hours in the square,
I went home to sleep.

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I was very excited. I didn't understand
what was happening

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but I was very happy.

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Then came the second night:
the eviction and then everything took off.

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Acampadasol was born.

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And the following night,
I remember that about 250 of us

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slept in the square the second night.
Another difficult night

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because we would go to sleep
at four in the morning

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and two hours later, the police
would suddenly arrive to throw us out.

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Stop, please!
No violence!

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Video temporarily unavailable.

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The police eviction of those few people
had the opposite effect.

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Thousands of people came
back to the square that afternoon.

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And we came back to stay.

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...the financial powers who control
everything through their economic power.

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We have a right
to be outraged.

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At the first general assembly,
when Miguel said:

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"This is an assembly, the assembly is starting"
and everybody sat down and was quiet

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There in the crowded square, I thought:
"This can't be, I must be dreaming".

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Very, very nice.

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This is much more than a meeting.
This is an assembly.

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We are going to be in charge of reading
a manifesto and coordinating things.

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But the assembly is
every single one of us.

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As we have always said, we're not
a collective, we're not an association.

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We don't belong to any trade union.
We are PEOPLE.

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Until now we have been
hanging out here in Sol

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meeting together in assemblies,
creating work committees...

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There are two very important questions
that we want to ask everybody, ok?

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First: Do we want to
stay here tonight?

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YESSSSSSSSS!

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The Revolution has begun!
The Revolution has begun!

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It's the system, not the crisis!
It's the system, not the crisis!

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And at daybreak, everything took off
and it just got crazy.

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That first week
the Government could have fallen.

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All the squares in the world could have
risen up and started something new.

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Anything could have happened,
because our energy was boundless.

00:20:09.000 --> 00:20:14.320
All of our personal concerns and problems
suddenly seemed to just disappear.

00:20:14.360 --> 00:20:17.760
We're changing the world
and we can change it for the first time.

00:20:17.800 --> 00:20:20.680
This feeling of hope,
of really being able to change things,

00:20:20.680 --> 00:20:24.040
that anything could happen
and now is the time to define it,

00:20:24.040 --> 00:20:30.160
was really unique; it was unlike
anything I'd ever experienced.

00:20:33.520 --> 00:20:37.680
Real democracy!
Real democracy!

00:20:40.000 --> 00:20:42.600
And right then, we started
building our town,

00:20:42.600 --> 00:20:45.600
our mini-city: acampadasol,
the Sol square camp.

00:20:45.960 --> 00:20:49.280
Hanging tarpaulins, ropes,
cardboard on the ground.

00:20:49.480 --> 00:20:50.680
A lot of people helping.

00:20:50.705 --> 00:20:53.905
And in a few minutes, the awnings
and tents were set up.

00:20:54.280 --> 00:20:58.840
It grew from day to day.
And we grew too.

00:20:59.840 --> 00:21:02.480
I remember a sofa flying
over our heads,

00:21:02.480 --> 00:21:06.040
being passed from hand to hand
into the square from Carretas street.

00:21:06.480 --> 00:21:11.040
It was fantastic.
The square was ours.

00:21:17.320 --> 00:21:21.520
Acampadasol, the physical presence
of the 15M movment in Madrid

00:21:21.520 --> 00:21:23.520
started in Sol square,
the Puerta de Sol.

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Was it just by chance?
Did it need to be in a square?

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Was this one chosen on purpose?
Why did this happen?

00:21:30.800 --> 00:21:34.000
Because squares have always been
marketplaces

00:21:34.000 --> 00:21:37.160
where financial transactions take place.
And the bigger the square

00:21:37.240 --> 00:21:41.240
there has always been
a sympol of power: an institution.

00:21:41.300 --> 00:21:45.500
Something that is there. A church or
very often a municipal institution.

00:21:50.000 --> 00:21:53.800
Ok, so squares are important. I suppose
it was a question of being visible

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and, let's not forget, of copying
what we saw in Egypt.

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Tahrir Square, one of the most
central and important squares in Cairo.

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Since then, Puerta del Sol has
for me changed in meaning

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and will never just be
any square.

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I looked up a dictionary
of the period I study

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'Covarrubias', a dictionary from 1611,
the first one in Castilian Spanish.

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If we look up the word 'plaza', it says:
"From the Latin word platea."

00:22:20.200 --> 00:22:23.000
"Large and spacious place
inside the town."

00:22:23.000 --> 00:22:26.240
"Public place where
goods are sold...

00:22:26.240 --> 00:22:28.640
...and where residents conduct
their common affairs."

00:22:28.840 --> 00:22:31.840
In that definition from the 1600s,
the words 'public' and 'common' appear.

00:22:31.865 --> 00:22:34.565
I think that is what a square is,
a place that is, above all, public

00:22:34.640 --> 00:22:37.440
and in particular, where
common affairs are conducted.

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In acampadasol we had
a residential area and one for services

00:22:42.160 --> 00:22:46.960
in the middle of the square.
And of course the ágora for the assemblies.

00:22:47.200 --> 00:22:49.600
You could find all sorts
of services:

00:22:49.680 --> 00:22:54.480
kitchens that served hot food three times
a day, study and conversation areas,

00:22:54.620 --> 00:22:58.020
the library with thousands
of catalogued books,

00:22:58.320 --> 00:23:01.720
the media centre
for the press.

00:23:01.800 --> 00:23:04.920
Our nursery which I think
was the best equipped

00:23:04.920 --> 00:23:09.000
in the Madrid area,
and had the best carers.

00:23:09.240 --> 00:23:12.720
The first aid area and the
tents for each commission

00:23:12.720 --> 00:23:16.000
where we worked nonstop.
A completely self-sufficient city.

00:23:16.600 --> 00:23:19.640
We took care of each other and
we took care of our surroundings.

00:23:21.120 --> 00:23:25.600
Very often we use
spaces intuitively

00:23:25.600 --> 00:23:30.120
and history teaches us that
that's what those spaces are for.

00:23:30.600 --> 00:23:33.720
That what we are doing is reclaiming,
occupying a space that is ours

00:23:33.720 --> 00:23:37.280
and which has always been ours.
Both the word and the space.

00:23:37.520 --> 00:23:39.320
And I believe that is
really interesting.

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WE ARE THE MEDIA

00:23:43.480 --> 00:23:46.320
I think there were different phases
in the way the media treated 15M.

00:23:46.320 --> 00:23:50.320
The first was absolute denial and obstruction
because they didn't understand anything.

00:23:50.320 --> 00:23:54.120
The traditional media
took out the three lenses

00:23:54.120 --> 00:23:58.880
they use for the news,
and said:

00:23:59.080 --> 00:24:03.680
"OK, with this lens? I don't understand
what's happening here."

00:24:03.720 --> 00:24:08.920
"And with this lens? I don't understand,
I don't get what's happening here."

00:24:09.400 --> 00:24:14.120
I think they didn't see it coming,
and it was beyond them.

00:24:14.400 --> 00:24:18.400
They didn't understand
what was happening at all.

00:24:18.425 --> 00:24:19.625
And then finally,

00:24:19.700 --> 00:24:23.700
some of them came to their senses
while others, unfortunately,

00:24:23.700 --> 00:24:28.820
stuck to their guns, manipulating
the news and publishing lies.

00:24:30.600 --> 00:24:35.400
Because you can agree
with the movement or not,

00:24:35.400 --> 00:24:40.200
but the person who has been there
and seen it, knows what the reality is.

00:24:40.520 --> 00:24:46.520
And we may see it a little bit distorted,
but it is what it is.

00:24:47.120 --> 00:24:51.000
And because they did not understand it completely,
they decided not to report it in a new way,

00:24:51.000 --> 00:24:54.920
but tried to pigeonhole it in
one of the compartments

00:24:54.920 --> 00:24:59.160
where they classify
all news that comes in.

00:24:59.400 --> 00:25:03.640
"Who does this benefit? Rubalcaba?
Rajoy? Chacón? Esperanza Aguirre?"

00:25:03.840 --> 00:25:10.360
"Who?" And until they realised
that it was not about that,

00:25:10.360 --> 00:25:13.800
they didn't start reporting news.
I think they began to report

00:25:13.800 --> 00:25:17.200
because the pressure, including in the
social networks, was so great

00:25:17.200 --> 00:25:19.960
that it got to the stage
where people were saying

00:25:19.960 --> 00:25:22.680
if the media continue like this,
we will shout

00:25:22.680 --> 00:25:25.480
you don't represent us'. And I insist,
it is the media, not the journalists,

00:25:25.480 --> 00:25:28.400
because there were journalists
at all times, from the first day in Sol.

00:25:28.440 --> 00:25:30.640
It's not true to say there weren't
any journalists.

00:25:30.840 --> 00:25:34.320
That very Monday, May 16th,
the media pretty much ignored...

00:25:34.320 --> 00:25:37.240
the previous day's demonstrations,
which, despite having been called

00:25:37.240 --> 00:25:40.160
by organisations like Real Democracy
Now and others that were unknown,

00:25:40.160 --> 00:25:44.160
had been hugely successful,
with thousands of people taking part,

00:25:44.160 --> 00:25:46.520
in dozens of cities
around the country.

00:25:46.600 --> 00:25:50.200
Only a few centre-left newspapers mentioned
the protests on their front pages.

00:25:51.320 --> 00:25:55.200
Tuesday May 17th, Strauss-Kahn's story
of power and skirts filled the front pages.

00:25:55.200 --> 00:25:58.200
And only Público and El País
continued to analyze the phenomenon,

00:25:58.200 --> 00:26:00.200
of what they called
"the indignant ones,"

00:26:00.225 --> 00:26:02.225
but always in view
of the upcoming elections.

00:26:02.250 --> 00:26:05.850
In the rest of the national
newspapers there was silence.

00:26:07.000 --> 00:26:09.800
By Wednesday May 18th, tens of
thousands had taken Sol

00:26:09.800 --> 00:26:13.360
and people had started
to build a mini-city. At last!

00:26:13.480 --> 00:26:19.600
However, on the front pages:
bullfighting, Rajoy, Rajoy, Rajoy, Rajoy,...

00:26:19.600 --> 00:26:23.920
Queen Elizabeth II
What can I say, I don't know...

00:26:25.200 --> 00:26:28.800
The following day, on the 19th,
all the national Spanish papers

00:26:28.800 --> 00:26:31.100
finally featured on their front pages
what, in my opinion,

00:26:31.225 --> 00:26:33.425
should have been the image of the day
a few days back.

00:26:33.520 --> 00:26:36.720
The main square of Spain's capital
filled with thousands of citizens

00:26:36.800 --> 00:26:41.320
demanding change and democracy.
ABC, El Mundo, and even La Razón.

00:26:41.720 --> 00:26:45.640
But, do you know which was the first big
newspaper that featured on its front page

00:26:45.640 --> 00:26:50.040
a picture of Sol thronged with people,
to the shame of our national newspapers?

00:26:50.800 --> 00:26:53.800
The Washington Post. And of course,
a few hours later,

00:26:53.825 --> 00:26:56.825
when our national
newspapers appeared,

00:26:56.900 --> 00:27:00.300
they realized that maybe it was time
to consider putting

00:27:00.300 --> 00:27:04.100
"what was happening in Sol"
on their front pages.

00:27:09.320 --> 00:27:12.600
The 15M movement has used
technology brilliantly:

00:27:12.680 --> 00:27:16.200
it has understood, used, tapped, developed,
reinvented, and hacked this technology.

00:27:16.320 --> 00:27:20.200
Many big businesses and governments
should study us and learn from the movement.

00:27:20.680 --> 00:27:22.880
How so much can be done
with so little.

00:27:23.080 --> 00:27:26.680
And this did not start with the 15M.
This knowledge of networks came from before,

00:27:26.680 --> 00:27:29.760
but with 15M it has multiplied
and accelerated.

00:27:32.840 --> 00:27:37.600
As to the internet tools,
buying the domain and all that,

00:27:37.600 --> 00:27:43.720
it was people who already had
experience in social movements

00:27:43.720 --> 00:27:46.600
in communicating through internet
and that sort of thing.

00:27:47.120 --> 00:27:50.320
Everything started really fast: the
Twitter account @acampadasol...

00:27:50.320 --> 00:27:53.680
was created in the square
in the early hours of May 16th, 2011,

00:27:53.680 --> 00:27:55.880
the first night of the camp.

00:27:55.880 --> 00:27:59.000
That same night a blog was created
and emails sent

00:27:59.000 --> 00:28:03.880
from the square to mailing lists
asking for help and devising strategies.

00:28:05.120 --> 00:28:09.120
"If we communicate this, if you give us permission
and we set up a communication group

00:28:09.120 --> 00:28:12.920
and devise a strategy,
this could lead to many other people

00:28:12.945 --> 00:28:16.145
feeling the same as us;
they would see our actions

00:28:16.240 --> 00:28:19.920
as an opportunity
and take their squares too."

00:28:21.200 --> 00:28:26.600
So, I created a Twitter account,
@acampadasol

00:28:26.920 --> 00:28:31.680
I can't remember very well, to be honest.
I think I saw on Twitter,

00:28:31.680 --> 00:28:35.920
that someone was already talking
about acampadasol and I thought that name

00:28:35.920 --> 00:28:39.520
could work to talk
about this.

00:28:40.720 --> 00:28:43.120
Our way of working
is based on copying;

00:28:43.145 --> 00:28:45.445
our form of communicating
is copying the best we find,

00:28:45.520 --> 00:28:48.320
mixing it, combining it
and offering it free

00:28:48.320 --> 00:28:49.920
so that others
can do the same.

00:28:50.760 --> 00:28:53.560
[We have just set up a camp in Sol square in Madrid,
and we will not leave until we reach an agreement.]

00:28:53.600 --> 00:28:56.400
This was the first tweet that was sent
from the @acampadasol account at about 4am.

00:28:56.400 --> 00:28:59.920
After that, everything
grew very fast.

00:29:00.320 --> 00:29:03.120
During the first days the
main domains were bought:

00:29:03.200 --> 00:29:05.200
such as tomalaplaza
and takethesquare.

00:29:05.225 --> 00:29:07.825
And, through internet, hundreds
of Twitter and Facebook accounts

00:29:07.900 --> 00:29:11.100
and mailing lists were transmitting
information nonstop.

00:29:12.000 --> 00:29:14.800
The dissemination and documentation
of the 15M movment

00:29:14.800 --> 00:29:17.440
via internet
had just begun.

00:29:21.400 --> 00:29:25.800
The coverage of 15M in social networks
has been spectacular.

00:29:26.200 --> 00:29:32.200
The community management of the @acampadasol
Twitter account has been fantastic.

00:29:35.240 --> 00:29:37.640
They have not spread rumours.

00:29:38.000 --> 00:29:41.360
Those of us who manage this account
have great respect for

00:29:41.385 --> 00:29:44.185
collective decision-making processes
and for an assembly movement.

00:29:44.720 --> 00:29:46.920
And we are very aware
of the need to use a tone

00:29:46.920 --> 00:29:49.120
that can be accepted
by everyone.

00:29:49.440 --> 00:29:53.920
Things began to happen that surpassed
by far the communication strategy

00:29:53.920 --> 00:29:58.120
of traditional social movements.

00:29:58.120 --> 00:30:02.720
And the political communication strategy
of any self-respecting political organisation.

00:30:02.900 --> 00:30:07.100
They would give anything to have the wealth
of communication enjoyed by the 15M.

00:30:10.240 --> 00:30:12.520
Once the initial challenges
had been solved

00:30:12.520 --> 00:30:14.520
other more concrete
media projects were developed.

00:30:14.600 --> 00:30:19.000
AudioviSol, a news-video service
of the 15M movement in Madrid.

00:30:19.120 --> 00:30:21.520
Agora Sol Radio, a radio station
that began to broadcast

00:30:21.545 --> 00:30:23.545
only a few days after
the camp was set up.

00:30:24.080 --> 00:30:28.000
madrid15m, a monthly newspaper
with a large print run.

00:30:28.160 --> 00:30:30.600
Or TomalaTele,
a video aggregator site

00:30:30.600 --> 00:30:33.320
for live and streamed
broadcasts.

00:30:35.880 --> 00:30:38.840
IN LEGITIMATE DISOBEDIENCE

00:30:39.000 --> 00:30:40.200
Sol is not asleep tonight.

00:30:40.225 --> 00:30:42.525
The more than one hundred people
who camped here yesterday

00:30:42.600 --> 00:30:43.800
have become thousands today.

00:30:43.825 --> 00:30:46.925
After the eviction and in less than 24 hours
the movement has become organized

00:30:47.020 --> 00:30:49.020
and they have attracted
more and more people

00:30:49.100 --> 00:30:51.600
who are protesting against
a system they consider to be unfair.

00:30:51.600 --> 00:30:54.400
They are demanding
economic and political changes.

00:30:56.520 --> 00:31:00.520
The days went by and our city grew.
We continued organising.

00:31:00.600 --> 00:31:03.600
We already have stoves
and the most basic services.

00:31:03.600 --> 00:31:05.700
The police are watching us,
but they don't intervene.

00:31:05.760 --> 00:31:07.760
Many people
are staying to sleep

00:31:07.785 --> 00:31:09.785
and there are more
and more people in the square.

00:31:17.960 --> 00:31:22.120
The night of the 20th of May
was the eve of the elections.

00:31:22.120 --> 00:31:23.960
Day of reflection.

00:31:24.080 --> 00:31:27.600
A court order had banned people
from congregating in Sol.

00:31:27.680 --> 00:31:30.920
As an upstanding citizen, I met
Marga, Amador and some friends

00:31:30.920 --> 00:31:33.240
to break the law.

00:31:33.600 --> 00:31:40.720
Sol was completely packed.
At midnight,

00:31:40.720 --> 00:31:45.320
like in the fairy tale, we became illegal.
The Electoral Commission had said that

00:31:45.320 --> 00:31:51.000
there was a sort of tension about
the legitimacy of being in the street

00:31:51.000 --> 00:31:57.920
of being all together.
We are here to protest

00:31:57.920 --> 00:32:03.600
against a serious situation;
they are condemning a lot of

00:32:03.600 --> 00:32:10.520
people to harsh living conditions,
and we have every right

00:32:10.520 --> 00:32:15.920
to gather here to reclaim
the true meaning of the word 'democracy'

00:32:15.920 --> 00:32:22.080
the power of the people as
an open and public discussion

00:32:22.080 --> 00:32:25.080
and you are not going to tell us
that we are illegal

00:32:25.120 --> 00:32:28.120
because of this nonsense about
the day of reflection.

00:32:41.920 --> 00:32:49.840
We... I don't know... shouted in silence.
It was amazing to see

00:32:49.840 --> 00:32:53.800
the number of people
who were there.

00:32:53.920 --> 00:32:56.600
And it was not everybody
minding their own business;

00:32:56.600 --> 00:33:00.960
everybody was there for the same reason
because we all shared the same concerns,

00:33:00.985 --> 00:33:05.185
so we all became silent at the same time.
We all knew what we had to do,

00:33:05.520 --> 00:33:10.800
and we behaved
in accordance with the situation

00:33:10.800 --> 00:33:17.560
because we realised what was happening.
That was beautiful. Really beautiful.

00:34:05.240 --> 00:34:09.080
And that was when the "silent shout"
was born one of the 15M icons.

00:34:09.080 --> 00:34:12.000
It was the first time, as far as I knew,
that I was breaking a law.

00:34:12.159 --> 00:34:14.519
Disobeying authority.

00:34:14.760 --> 00:34:16.760
The Supreme Court
no less

00:34:16.760 --> 00:34:18.840
where the appeals
had ended.

00:34:19.159 --> 00:34:22.959
I can assure you that I have never been
so sure that I was doing the right thing.

00:34:23.239 --> 00:34:25.279
What joy!

00:34:26.840 --> 00:34:30.640
Without us, you are nothing!
Without us, you are nothing!

00:34:42.800 --> 00:34:49.360
It was like a gift
we gave each other.

00:34:49.639 --> 00:34:53.839
A free gift. Just being there
at a certain moment,

00:34:53.840 --> 00:34:57.240
at a certain time,
at a certain place. Just that.

00:35:01.640 --> 00:35:07.720
And tomorrow we vote,
tomorrow we vote!

00:35:16.280 --> 00:35:20.680
[Sunday, May 22nd, 2011]

00:35:20.680 --> 00:35:26.080
[Municipal and Regional Elections
(in 13 Autonomous Regions)]

00:35:27.200 --> 00:35:35.200
[The Popular Party won both
with a comfortable majority]

00:35:38.480 --> 00:35:42.000
[At the same time,
life continues in acampadasol]

00:35:42.000 --> 00:35:45.520
[Here, people keep working,
thinking, and building]

00:36:01.320 --> 00:36:07.600
WHO ARE WE THE MEMBERS OF 15M?
WHAT IS THE 15M?

00:36:17.400 --> 00:36:19.400
Who are we,
the 15M people?

00:36:19.400 --> 00:36:21.600
Those of us who met
on the streets and in the squares?

00:36:21.640 --> 00:36:25.560
What kind of people were we,
the acampadasol dwellers?

00:36:26.560 --> 00:36:28.560
Well, there was and is,
a little bit of everything.

00:36:28.580 --> 00:36:30.580
Obviously, there were
more "young people"

00:36:31.080 --> 00:36:34.240
and "left-wing" people,
as a rough classification.

00:36:34.320 --> 00:36:36.320
But there were whole families,
old people,

00:36:36.360 --> 00:36:39.120
People with different
socio-economic backgrounds.

00:36:39.200 --> 00:36:42.480
And what I find, ultimately,
more interesting:

00:36:42.560 --> 00:36:45.760
many people with no previous background
in political or social activism,

00:36:45.760 --> 00:36:49.560
of whom I was one.
A lot of new faces.

00:36:51.760 --> 00:36:54.880
Very enthusiastic people,
very keen.

00:36:56.960 --> 00:37:03.560
For me, what is most important is that
there has been an upgrade

00:37:03.560 --> 00:37:08.640
in the political dimension of life.
Like an update.

00:37:08.680 --> 00:37:14.960
Like with sofware, when you
upgrade to a better version.

00:37:16.240 --> 00:37:21.680
Because politics in the sense
of managing the commons

00:37:21.680 --> 00:37:26.280
has been completely
undermined.

00:37:26.440 --> 00:37:28.840
As if nobody
cared anymore.

00:37:28.880 --> 00:37:31.960
The dominant idea,
the stereotype

00:37:32.040 --> 00:37:35.560
is that everyone minds
their own business.

00:37:35.640 --> 00:37:38.940
Other people's concerns
are their tough luck.

00:37:38.965 --> 00:37:41.465
Maybe some concern
for friends and maybe not.

00:37:41.520 --> 00:37:45.400
But 15M belies that.

00:37:46.320 --> 00:37:48.640
This is the main difference
between before and after.

00:37:48.680 --> 00:37:51.200
Because what happened before
was we felt alone.

00:37:51.240 --> 00:37:53.400
We all knew that things
needed to be done.

00:37:53.480 --> 00:37:57.560
But, as as individual,
what can I do?

00:37:57.680 --> 00:38:01.080
The idea was not what can we do?
Because that 'we' ...

00:38:01.080 --> 00:38:05.280
you don't know how to contact
others, how to organise.

00:38:07.480 --> 00:38:09.480
Then you thought,
what can I do?

00:38:09.560 --> 00:38:13.160
And 'what can I do?' faced with all this,
leaves you without alternatives in the end.

00:38:13.160 --> 00:38:16.360
So, I don't know
what I can do really.

00:38:16.520 --> 00:38:22.560
This business of "they don't
represent us" chanted in Sol

00:38:22.560 --> 00:38:27.640
becomes,
for a lot of people,

00:38:27.640 --> 00:38:33.720
"we don't need them",
or not much, anyway.

00:38:34.000 --> 00:38:40.000
In what sense? In that many people
have realised that relating to people,

00:38:40.000 --> 00:38:45.400
proposing things,
reaching agreements,

00:38:45.400 --> 00:38:48.400
can be done in a city.
In this case, Sol City.

00:38:48.525 --> 00:38:51.525
In other words, this has been
an experiment

00:38:51.620 --> 00:38:56.620
in the power we have
when nobody is controlling us,

00:38:56.800 --> 00:39:01.600
when we agree;
when we willingly cooperate,

00:39:01.600 --> 00:39:06.120
which creates something
bigger than us, more important,

00:39:06.120 --> 00:39:10.680
and which cares for us. And I think
that acampadasol cares for us.

00:39:10.680 --> 00:39:16.120
In fact, the whole 15M experienece,
not just acampadasol, cares for us.

00:39:16.400 --> 00:39:21.000
The people who protest are normal people.
And normal people have these problems.

00:39:21.080 --> 00:39:23.240
We think we have
these problems in common.

00:39:23.320 --> 00:39:26.220
It's not a matter of "I'm going to find
my answers for me and my family,

00:39:26.400 --> 00:39:28.500
for me and my friends,
for me and my political tribe,

00:39:28.540 --> 00:39:31.540
to build a squat on a piece of land
on the outskirts of Madrid

00:39:31.565 --> 00:39:33.565
and to grow our food."

00:39:34.400 --> 00:39:36.800
No, we all have
these problems.

00:39:36.920 --> 00:39:39.920
Therefore, in a way,
we have to talk to everyone.

00:39:39.920 --> 00:39:43.120
This problem affects all society. Society
as a whole needs to get into action.

00:39:43.120 --> 00:39:45.520
There has to be a dialogue with
many different people, right?

00:39:45.620 --> 00:39:48.320
That's what I see in the 15M.
We don't want to be seen as marginal.

00:39:48.360 --> 00:39:51.360
Because what we are talking
about affects us all, millions of us.

00:39:51.420 --> 00:39:54.620
That's why I reject stereotypes: we are not
perroflautas; we are not anti-system

00:39:54.640 --> 00:39:57.640
the system is against us. We are talking
about problems in society.

00:39:57.640 --> 00:40:00.640
We don't want to separate
ourselves from society.

00:40:00.665 --> 00:40:02.865
Instead, we want  society
to deal with those issues.

00:40:02.940 --> 00:40:05.140
We should think
about them together.

00:40:05.165 --> 00:40:08.065
No one person has the solution,
so let's think about them altogether.

00:40:08.120 --> 00:40:11.120
We don't want the movement
to be stereotyped as

00:40:11.800 --> 00:40:14.200
a minority movement.

00:40:15.920 --> 00:40:23.560
WHATEVER YOU KNOW
TO WHATEVER DEGREE
YOU ARE WELCOME

00:40:26.085 --> 00:40:29.085
In the early days of acampadasol
commissions and working groups were set up

00:40:29.160 --> 00:40:32.120
as needs arose
in the camp:

00:40:32.200 --> 00:40:35.120
action, communication,
food, coordination,

00:40:35.120 --> 00:40:38.320
infrastructure,
legal, respect...

00:40:39.240 --> 00:40:42.040
And this process grew
and was self-regulating.

00:40:44.400 --> 00:40:47.240
One of the working groups
created was Economy

00:40:47.240 --> 00:40:52.040
which wanted
to approach social change

00:40:52.040 --> 00:40:54.440
through the economy.

00:40:54.440 --> 00:40:57.400
This is seen as one
of the fundamental problems.

00:40:58.440 --> 00:41:03.240
The Sol Legal commission was created
by a number of lawyers

00:41:03.240 --> 00:41:07.680
who saw the need to give
legal and technical support

00:41:07.680 --> 00:41:10.760
to the camp
and the movement

00:41:10.760 --> 00:41:16.080
that was developing
from the camp.

00:41:16.640 --> 00:41:19.600
We spend our time
talking to people.

00:41:19.600 --> 00:41:25.280
Our purpose is to coordinate,
to liaise and put people in contact.

00:41:25.360 --> 00:41:29.880
And, also, since
we have experience,

00:41:29.880 --> 00:41:32.680
there may be camps
being set up right now

00:41:32.680 --> 00:41:34.480
and they need to be connected.

00:41:34.560 --> 00:41:40.360
In Europe, it worked
in the beginning with the expats

00:41:40.520 --> 00:41:44.720
And then mixed assemblies
were held with local people.

00:41:44.760 --> 00:41:48.960
In the case of the United States
there is a direct relationship.

00:41:49.400 --> 00:41:53.600
In Wall St the reference point
was Sol and the way things worked.

00:41:57.480 --> 00:42:00.160
One of the things that amazed me
was the work of the people in the

00:42:00.160 --> 00:42:03.080
Assembly Energizing groups and
the Respect Commission;

00:42:03.080 --> 00:42:06.880
with infinite patience they mediated
in the conflicts that arose...

00:42:06.880 --> 00:42:08.980
and trained us in these new
practices of the commons,

00:42:09.005 --> 00:42:11.005
which were new
for many of us.

00:42:11.520 --> 00:42:14.360
I, personally,
on May 16th, 2011,

00:42:14.360 --> 00:42:17.280
took part in the first
assembly in my life.

00:42:17.560 --> 00:42:19.560
[Assembly of the Respect Commission]

00:42:19.600 --> 00:42:25.000
There are people talking about things
that have been spoken about five or six times.

00:42:25.120 --> 00:42:28.760
I am hearing things that
have been discussed since the first day.

00:42:28.800 --> 00:42:35.520
Decisions have been made about these issues
and the most appropriate measures.

00:42:35.600 --> 00:42:39.280
I believe that we should
listen to those who are

00:42:39.305 --> 00:42:43.005
taking action instead questioning
everything, because there are some of us

00:42:43.080 --> 00:42:47.600
who have attended
five 2-hour meetings today,

00:42:47.600 --> 00:42:51.240
And, in all honesty,
we are a little tired.

00:42:55.280 --> 00:43:00.680
And it began organizing itself to provide
legal and technical support

00:43:00.680 --> 00:43:06.080
to the people who were arrested
in the first days.

00:43:06.120 --> 00:43:09.120
Because from the start,
this movement

00:43:09.120 --> 00:43:13.160
and these events have been
harrassed by the police.

00:43:13.600 --> 00:43:18.200
During the May 15 demonstration
the police charged and made arrests.

00:43:18.400 --> 00:43:24.680
So, when the camp was starting,
there were many questions.

00:43:24.680 --> 00:43:28.200
"What is legal? What is illegal?
Is the camp legal or not?"

00:43:28.480 --> 00:43:35.160
And there was a first group of people
that began to meet.

00:43:35.200 --> 00:43:40.000
They created a text explaining how
the right to meeting works,

00:43:40.000 --> 00:43:43.360
what is guaranteed by
Article 21 of the Consitution.

00:43:43.520 --> 00:43:48.600
All kinds of people joined
the Economy group.

00:43:48.920 --> 00:43:53.120
Experts,
well-known economists,

00:43:53.120 --> 00:44:00.320
lecturers and specialists
in different areas, journalists, etc,

00:44:00.760 --> 00:44:06.920
There were writers,
meeting up with philosphers,

00:44:07.200 --> 00:44:12.920
and all sorts
of creative minds

00:44:12.920 --> 00:44:17.120
which has led to some
impressive synergies.

00:44:17.400 --> 00:44:21.200
We have learned
so much from each other

00:44:21.240 --> 00:44:25.040
and we have realized
that so many things can be done.

00:44:25.440 --> 00:44:29.040
Anything is possible: the space provided
by the general assembly

00:44:29.040 --> 00:44:32.920
is a meeting where
we can say what we want to do

00:44:32.920 --> 00:44:36.840
in what group it can be done
that everyone can contribute

00:44:36.840 --> 00:44:41.040
that everyone can make suggestions
in the assembly, which are debated

00:44:41.040 --> 00:44:45.640
and then taken to the working groups where
they can be worked on the important things...

00:44:45.640 --> 00:44:48.920
There we were in the Puerta del Sol,
in acampadasol trying to change the world.

00:44:48.920 --> 00:44:52.920
And something wonderful had happened:
people were copying us.

00:44:53.120 --> 00:44:57.120
Us! And we in turn we had seen
the best of other protests

00:44:57.120 --> 00:45:00.400
and we had adapted them to our
circumstances, remixed and reused.

00:45:00.520 --> 00:45:04.040
So now we were being copied
all over the country and the world.

00:45:04.160 --> 00:45:08.240
It was fantastic. All that information
flowing freely around the globe.

00:45:08.400 --> 00:45:12.200
Yes, friends, this is it!:
copyleft.

00:45:17.920 --> 00:45:21.240
Those days, in hundreds of cities
all over the world camps were being set up.

00:45:21.240 --> 00:45:24.240
Both small and big.
In Spain and abroad.

00:45:24.320 --> 00:45:27.160
It was not about conquering
the world or overthrowing the system.

00:45:27.160 --> 00:45:30.280
It was more a matter
of the symbolic significance.

00:45:30.320 --> 00:45:33.480
But it was very intense.
And very exciting.

00:45:35.320 --> 00:45:39.600
COPYLEFT: Allowing your creation
to be freely copied and transformed.

00:45:39.600 --> 00:45:43.240
and demanding the same
of those who use it.

00:45:43.440 --> 00:45:50.840
The best expression of copyleft of the
camp has been its ability to be replicated.

00:45:51.760 --> 00:45:55.920
What was being shared by all
was precisely

00:45:55.920 --> 00:45:58.240
the information that was being
produced all over the world.

00:45:58.280 --> 00:46:03.840
When I retweet something
I am saying "please copy me".

00:46:04.120 --> 00:46:07.400
So the model which said

00:46:07.400 --> 00:46:11.440
"forbidden to copy,
all rights reserved"

00:46:11.440 --> 00:46:14.960
was no longer
valid intellectually.

00:46:14.960 --> 00:46:18.160
And it is not working
in practice either.

00:46:20.560 --> 00:46:24.160
It was happening in towns,
cities,... everywhere.

00:46:24.280 --> 00:46:28.840
People were gathering in the streets and squares
to do something that was very, very dangerous.

00:46:29.000 --> 00:46:31.000
Something that the authorities
did not like at all.

00:46:31.025 --> 00:46:33.225
Something we had not done
for years.

00:46:33.840 --> 00:46:36.040
To get together and talk about
the public affairs.

00:46:37.280 --> 00:46:41.480
Yes, it was just that: meeting,
talking about people's problems

00:46:41.480 --> 00:46:44.000
big and small,
to find solutions.

00:46:44.000 --> 00:46:46.200
and to do as much as we could
to help our neighbours.

00:46:48.280 --> 00:46:50.280
It was happening.

00:46:50.680 --> 00:46:52.800
And it was global.

00:46:54.360 --> 00:47:00.640
SOME OF THE 15M ACHIVEMENTS

00:47:03.400 --> 00:47:07.280
The philosopher Zygmunt Bauman
and a sector of society had branded 15M

00:47:07.280 --> 00:47:11.280
as a movement of emotions
not of thought. As if we spent

00:47:11.280 --> 00:47:14.480
the whole day in assemblies,
waving our hands and loving each other,

00:47:14.480 --> 00:47:16.800
but without offering solutions
or creating alternatives.

00:47:17.480 --> 00:47:20.280
Well, that description seems to me
to be unfair and is, in fact,

00:47:20.280 --> 00:47:23.240
one of the reasons
why we made this film.

00:47:23.680 --> 00:47:26.680
In acampadasol almost 15,000 proposals
were collected and classified,

00:47:26.705 --> 00:47:29.905
suggestions made by citizens
to improve democracy, among other things.

00:47:30.600 --> 00:47:33.400
In any event, anybody who has followed
the 15M movement closely

00:47:33.580 --> 00:47:36.780
would have noticed the wealth
of proposals and actions.

00:47:39.120 --> 00:47:41.920
You bet the 15M
has accomplished things...

00:47:43.120 --> 00:47:46.760
HOUSING

00:47:47.720 --> 00:47:51.800
15M supports the Anti-Eviction Platform
in its fight against evictions.

00:47:51.800 --> 00:47:55.680
Hundreds of evictions halted
in a year and a half.

00:47:55.680 --> 00:47:59.400
Searching for a solution
to housing the evicted.

00:48:00.120 --> 00:48:02.720
Changes in laws have been
forced through.

00:48:02.745 --> 00:48:06.745
Banks have had to buy back properties in auctions
at 60% of their rated value instead of 50%.

00:48:06.820 --> 00:48:10.660
The minimum tax exemption
went from 625 to 900 euros.

00:48:14.120 --> 00:48:18.000
The fact that today everyone knows
what in lieu of payment means

00:48:18.000 --> 00:48:21.320
is probably thanks to 15M.

00:48:23.000 --> 00:48:26.000
JUSTICE

00:48:26.240 --> 00:48:31.680
15MpaRato, a group of people
related to 15M, offers legal assistance

00:48:31.680 --> 00:48:36.760
to people who bought shares
in Bankia and feel swindled.

00:48:38.120 --> 00:48:40.920
They raised
a public collection for them,

00:48:40.920 --> 00:48:44.400
and openly and transparently
provided them with a lawyer.

00:48:44.400 --> 00:48:46.700
Thirty-two Bankia directors
were accused

00:48:46.725 --> 00:48:49.225
including the government's deputy
prime minister, Rodrigo Rato.

00:48:52.120 --> 00:48:56.400
15MpaRato announced on its website
what it was going to do and how it was going to do it.

00:48:56.400 --> 00:48:59.400
And they made the campaign's
expenses publicly available!

00:49:00.960 --> 00:49:03.360
ECONOMY

00:49:03.640 --> 00:49:07.640
#OperaciónEuribor is an investigation into
the European interbank offered rate

00:49:07.640 --> 00:49:11.200
which many mortgages and other
financial instruments depend on,

00:49:11.200 --> 00:49:14.680
while the Public Prosecutor and other
institutions look the other way.

00:49:15.680 --> 00:49:18.880
The idea is to offer tools to find out
if the bank is cheating you.

00:49:18.880 --> 00:49:21.800
To make up for the fact
that the state doing nothing.

00:49:21.825 --> 00:49:25.225
Lastly,  #OpOposición attempts
to halt foreclosures

00:49:25.240 --> 00:49:28.120
while the vality of Euribor
is being studied.

00:49:30.200 --> 00:49:34.400
A Barcelona court has already
allowed opposition proceedings.

00:49:34.400 --> 00:49:37.200
Will there be many more?

00:50:10.760 --> 00:50:17.040
VIOLENCE / NON-VIOLENCE
STATE VIOLENCE

00:50:18.200 --> 00:50:22.000
A lot has been said about police brutality
which has been experienced,

00:50:22.000 --> 00:50:26.060
suffered and documented in Madrid
during the first year and a half of the 15M.

00:50:26.280 --> 00:50:29.840
Even though non-violence has been
one of the hallmarks of 15M,

00:50:29.840 --> 00:50:32.240
and the movement has endured
numerous provocations,

00:50:32.240 --> 00:50:35.400
we haven't been able to avoid
being beaten up again and again.

00:50:36.000 --> 00:50:39.280
In this documentary, we could show
dozens of photos and videos of the police

00:50:39.280 --> 00:50:42.880
brutally up beating protestors
during the 15M protests,

00:50:42.880 --> 00:50:46.160
children, students, old people...
There are lots of images online.

00:50:46.600 --> 00:50:49.800
But I am going to talk about
our own personal experience

00:50:49.800 --> 00:50:52.640
and how we came across
this violence.

00:50:52.720 --> 00:50:55.520
Or more accurately,
how this violence found us.

00:50:56.680 --> 00:51:00.000
It was August 17th, at a protest
called by grassroots lay

00:51:00.000 --> 00:51:03.760
and Catholic organizations
to protest against

00:51:03.760 --> 00:51:07.720
the excessive expense to the public
of the Pope's visit to Madrid.

00:51:09.160 --> 00:51:12.460
Up until then in Madrid there had only been
isolated incidents  of police violence

00:51:12.500 --> 00:51:15.700
bur nothing like the police charges
in Barcelona, in the Plaça de Catalunya

00:51:15.760 --> 00:51:19.760
which were the most blatant example
of police brutality against 15M.

00:51:24.560 --> 00:51:28.480
The demonsration was badly organised.
There were a lot of people.

00:51:28.600 --> 00:51:32.000
The police weren't effective
and hadn't secured the route.

00:51:32.000 --> 00:51:34.300
They didn't separate
the demonstraters from the pilgrims.

00:51:34.325 --> 00:51:36.825
There were too few organisers
and they had little information.

00:51:36.880 --> 00:51:40.080
In Puerta de Sol, the protestors
and pilgrims were all mixed up.

00:51:40.080 --> 00:51:44.080
I was with Pablo Soto when we saw
the police were closing off the square.

00:51:46.000 --> 00:51:51.080
On the side of the lay proestors,
we suddenly realised that

00:51:51.080 --> 00:51:53.380
the square had been closed off
and we were trapped inside.

00:51:53.405 --> 00:51:55.005
They were letting
the pilgrims get out

00:51:55.100 --> 00:52:00.100
but not the demonstrators of a protest
which had been duly notified.

00:52:00.200 --> 00:52:02.400
At one point, when you ran off
towards Montera street,

00:52:02.425 --> 00:52:04.425
all the police ran the same way

00:52:05.080 --> 00:52:10.520
because they were starting
to charge up the street.

00:52:10.680 --> 00:52:16.200
At that point, I was taking photos
at the other end of the square.

00:52:16.200 --> 00:52:20.800
The journalists ran off but I can't run
so I stayed where I was

00:52:20.800 --> 00:52:23.300
trying not to call
attention to myself.

00:52:23.325 --> 00:52:26.125
But when the journalists ran
to the other end of the square,

00:52:26.200 --> 00:52:28.800
they stopped charging over there
and began charging where I was.

00:52:28.825 --> 00:52:30.825
The police aren't stupid.

00:52:40.320 --> 00:52:44.320
Well, nothing serious happened,
I was just knocked over.

00:52:44.345 --> 00:52:48.345
What struck me was
the feeling of helplessness

00:52:48.760 --> 00:52:56.760
when a policeman insulted me.
But I don't want to create an issue.

00:52:56.840 --> 00:53:04.840
That's the way they are and I think...
Well, I was scared then,

00:53:05.200 --> 00:53:10.720
but, once I was helped out
of the square, I didn't go home.

00:53:10.720 --> 00:53:13.320
And I wasn't afraid
to go back the next day.

00:53:13.760 --> 00:53:16.660
He went back the next day, and
the day after, and the day after that.

00:53:17.885 --> 00:53:20.685
Pablo has mobility problems.
He can't get up by himself.

00:53:20.740 --> 00:53:24.440
Fortunately another friend
found him and helped him,

00:53:24.460 --> 00:53:27.260
because the police knocked him
to the ground and ran off.

00:53:27.480 --> 00:53:29.880
Patricia tells us the second
story of that night.

00:53:29.960 --> 00:53:32.360
Patricia, Pablo and I are the founders
of the 15M.cc project,

00:53:32.460 --> 00:53:35.060
and this documentary
forms part of the project.

00:53:35.060 --> 00:53:37.740
Patricia was working in the square,
reporting on events

00:53:37.840 --> 00:53:40.640
and she had an encounter
with a police officer.

00:53:41.320 --> 00:53:43.820
At a certain point, I was left behind
on my own in that corner,

00:53:43.845 --> 00:53:45.345
and I continued recording:

00:53:45.400 --> 00:53:47.600
I kept on recording videos
and taking photos.

00:53:47.640 --> 00:53:52.520
And then, I saw what there was
a man... a police officer.

00:53:52.640 --> 00:53:57.000
He came over to me
and asked what I was doing.

00:53:57.120 --> 00:54:01.920
I told him I was a journalist and that
I was recording what was happening.

00:54:02.720 --> 00:54:05.240
Police officer: Give me your identity card.

00:54:05.360 --> 00:54:08.560
Patricia: What for?
Police: Because I need to identify you fully.

00:54:08.680 --> 00:54:12.800
Police: This is not a complete identification,
parents' names, home address...

00:54:12.920 --> 00:54:18.320
Patricia: First, don't raise your voice to me.
Police: What? I'll beat the shit out of you!

00:54:18.400 --> 00:54:23.360
Police: Show me your ID card.
Patricia: What did you just say to me?

00:54:23.560 --> 00:54:28.520
Patricia: For goodness sake!
Police: You shitty... You're under arrest.

00:54:28.800 --> 00:54:33.760
She: What do you mean, arrested?!
Police: Put the handcuffs on!

00:54:34.720 --> 00:54:39.520
There are some people who think
that I "was asking for it."

00:54:39.600 --> 00:54:43.120
And I sincerely believe that
we are wrong and we've forgotten

00:54:43.120 --> 00:54:46.120
what it means
to know our rights.

00:54:46.120 --> 00:54:50.240
This man could not possibly have
considered me to be a threat, I was not.

00:54:50.320 --> 00:54:56.000
In the real meaning of, "real threat,"
that I could do something violent, no way.

00:54:56.320 --> 00:55:01.920
I am a small girl of 1m60 surrounded
by four guys who are 2 metres tall,

00:55:01.920 --> 00:55:06.320
So, what kind of threat was I...? That was
my threat, a telephone that records

00:55:06.320 --> 00:55:10.720
and that can tell the tale. That was
the threat but I was no threat at all.

00:55:12.040 --> 00:55:15.320
This was our mini experience
that night. Other friends of ours,

00:55:15.320 --> 00:55:18.600
also journalists, were dragged into
a police van and insulted and threatened.

00:55:18.800 --> 00:55:24.400
So yes, nothing happened to us, but...
what about the others? And in other places?

00:55:24.400 --> 00:55:26.000
And on other nights?

00:55:27.240 --> 00:55:30.840
Personally, I'm sad, horrified,
pained, and above all,

00:55:30.840 --> 00:55:34.640
disappointed to have discovered this
strategy of terror, and how the entire

00:55:34.640 --> 00:55:37.720
policy apparatus was designed to
terrorize individuals and stop them

00:55:37.720 --> 00:55:41.960
from exercising their 'annoying'
civil rights. That's really bad.

00:55:41.960 --> 00:55:44.920
And very inappropriate for a state
governed by the rule of law.

00:55:45.120 --> 00:55:49.680
The problem, the detail, is that Patricia,
Pablo, me and thousands of others

00:55:49.680 --> 00:55:52.280
are here to stay.

00:55:52.400 --> 00:55:56.120
We think what we have at stake
is really too important.

00:55:57.000 --> 00:56:00.400
So that you all will see
what you are doing...

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WE'RE LEAVING SOL
WE'RE MOVING INTO YOUR CONSCIENCE

00:56:06.760 --> 00:56:09.160
Now is the time to work
in the neighbourhoods and towns.

00:56:09.585 --> 00:56:13.185
We are the masters
of our own acts.

00:56:13.260 --> 00:56:18.260
We came to Sol on our
own terms and we'll leave

00:56:18.260 --> 00:56:23.060
when and how we choose.
And never, never by force

00:56:23.060 --> 00:56:28.100
or due to outside agents
nor internal dysfunction...

00:56:29.080 --> 00:56:31.440
We arrived mid-June

00:56:31.440 --> 00:56:34.000
and the truth is, it was hard
for us to come to an agreement.

00:56:34.120 --> 00:56:37.160
Endless assemblies and discussions,
but in the end, we managed.

00:56:37.480 --> 00:56:39.580
We decided to take down
the Puerta del Sol Encampment

00:56:39.705 --> 00:56:41.705
for a month and move out
to the neighbourhoods

00:56:41.780 --> 00:56:44.980
where, by the end of May, the first
local assemblies had already started.

00:56:45.000 --> 00:56:48.280
We would leave an information desk
in the centre of the square and move

00:56:48.280 --> 00:56:51.320
the library and some other
material and documentation

00:56:51.320 --> 00:56:53.960
to different social centres
in Madrid.

00:56:54.280 --> 00:56:58.440
We decided to leave Puerta del Sol
exactly or better than we had found it.

00:57:00.400 --> 00:57:03.360
"Operation Spotless"
was started.

00:57:47.520 --> 00:57:53.360
Only one wooden structure
was left in Sol, an information desk

00:57:53.360 --> 00:57:59.080
that would be knocked down
on August 2nd by the City.

00:58:02.120 --> 00:58:05.440
After four weeks of encampment,
we left Puerta del Sol.

00:58:05.520 --> 00:58:08.760
Since last May 28th, we have been
holding assemblies in the neighbourhoods

00:58:08.760 --> 00:58:11.200
and decentralizing
Sol's activities.

00:58:11.360 --> 00:58:14.040
But up to now, we haven't been
able to erect an encampment.

00:58:14.120 --> 00:58:17.640
From that time on, we would meet
on Sundays in Sol

00:58:17.640 --> 00:58:21.560
for a general assembly,
and work out of the neighbourhoods.

00:58:26.080 --> 00:58:30.680
How time flies... It seems like
centuries since that 15th May 2011.

00:58:30.680 --> 00:58:32.920
And it's only been
a year and a half.

00:58:33.320 --> 00:58:36.600
One thing is for sure, in all this time, we
haven't stopped protesting, fighting,

00:58:36.600 --> 00:58:41.160
thinking and building... The economic
crisis, which is really a fraud

00:58:41.160 --> 00:58:44.280
and, especially, the irresponsible
behaviour of our political leaders

00:58:44.280 --> 00:58:46.680
hasn't allowed us to return
to the life we had before.

00:58:47.000 --> 00:58:50.440
So this is how we keep going: in the street,
in groups, alone, in networks,

00:58:50.440 --> 00:58:54.240
at home, from our workplaces,
if we still have them.

00:58:54.320 --> 00:58:58.120
And also from within the embrace of
of the 'making 15M' family.

00:58:58.640 --> 00:59:00.760
Many things have happened
over the past 18 months.

00:59:08.160 --> 00:59:13.560
[4.189.619]
[UNEMPLOYED in MAY 2011]

00:59:14.880 --> 00:59:20.280
[#19J Demonstrations
Against the Euro Pact]

00:59:22.200 --> 00:59:27.600
[#MareaVerde (GreenTide) Protests
Defending Public Education]

00:59:29.080 --> 00:59:34.480
[#17S Occupy Wall Street]

00:59:36.040 --> 00:59:41.440
[#15O Global Demonstration:
1,060 cities, 90 countries]

00:59:42.560 --> 00:59:47.960
[4.420.462 +230.843]
[UNEMPLOYED in NOVEMBER 2011]

00:59:48.560 --> 00:59:54.080
General Elections in November 2011.
The PP (People's Party) wins by an absolute majority.

00:59:55.520 --> 01:00:00.920
[4.750.867 +330.405]
[UNEMPLOYED in MARCH 2012]

01:00:02.400 --> 01:00:07.800
[February 2012. Valencia Spring:
student protests]

01:00:08.840 --> 01:00:14.240
[#1215MM First anniversary of 15M]

01:00:15.440 --> 01:00:20.840
[Support for striking civil servants,
miners... and other protests]

01:00:22.120 --> 01:00:27.520
[#25S #RodeaElCongreso (SurroundCongress)
Police Brutality, Arbitrary Detentions]

01:00:28.720 --> 01:00:32.440
November 2012.
530 evictions per day.

01:00:32.440 --> 01:00:36.040
20% of Spaniards (1 in 5)
live below the poverty line.

01:00:36.040 --> 01:00:39.400
The youth dropout rate is at 52%.

01:00:48.800 --> 01:00:50.800
I'm trying not to lapse into
sentimentality.

01:00:51.380 --> 01:00:54.100
We're ending the film
and have arrived at the moment

01:00:54.100 --> 01:00:57.100
where we ask the people
that we lived with during

01:00:57.100 --> 01:01:00.500
the Madrid encampment, my people,
what is to become of us, where do we go

01:01:00.500 --> 01:01:03.900
and what is to become of what we
are building amongst everything

01:01:03.900 --> 01:01:07.900
and what, for the moment, with more or less certainty,
we're calling the 15M movement.

01:01:09.400 --> 01:01:13.800
I have no idea... I can tell you what
I would like, and be a bore because

01:01:13.800 --> 01:01:17.800
I've repeated it four times, but
I would like an encampment

01:01:17.800 --> 01:01:22.200
lasting until we have
a new constitution.

01:01:23.320 --> 01:01:27.000
That is what I want.
And the 15M be

01:01:27.000 --> 01:01:31.600
the social movement
that brings this about.

01:01:32.240 --> 01:01:35.240
That brings about this
yearning for democracy.

01:01:35.480 --> 01:01:39.680
What scenario do I see? Well, that's
hard to say... The scenario is tough.

01:01:39.820 --> 01:01:42.020
It's going to be very difficult.

01:01:42.080 --> 01:01:46.920
We want the world to be a
reasonable place. It's not that

01:01:46.920 --> 01:01:50.280
we're asking for something outlandish.
A reasonable place where

01:01:50.280 --> 01:01:54.320
there is dignity in life, something
that works, that we don't have... right?

01:01:54.480 --> 01:01:59.280
I don't know how to tell you more than
that I believe the strength of the moment is

01:01:59.280 --> 01:02:03.720
to always reload, refresh from
within ourselves,

01:02:03.720 --> 01:02:06.280
using all
of our potential.

01:02:06.280 --> 01:02:12.680
So I think that the strength of what
we have is the strength of respect,

01:02:12.680 --> 01:02:15.840
inclusion, horizontalism,
collective intelligence,

01:02:15.840 --> 01:02:18.240
non-violence...

01:02:18.720 --> 01:02:22.960
If we manage to construct tools
that generate the ability to pressure

01:02:22.960 --> 01:02:27.520
from our numbers, that can pressure
multinationals, that can pressure

01:02:27.520 --> 01:02:31.840
local, independent and state
governments. And to act so that

01:02:31.840 --> 01:02:36.120
we cause them enough damage so
that they must heed our demands

01:02:36.320 --> 01:02:39.560
Then we could achieve
many things.

01:02:39.880 --> 01:02:44.720
If a method comes out of this that is
not institutionalized, constant

01:02:44.720 --> 01:02:51.120
pressure from the people,
I'll leave with a song in my heart.

01:02:51.280 --> 01:02:55.840
We're focused on tools for
coordinating globally.

01:02:55.920 --> 01:03:00.080
If the whole world thinks the same
way, it doesn't matter where we are.

01:03:00.400 --> 01:03:07.240
The only important thing will be
the 15M style. That means:

01:03:07.760 --> 01:03:14.480
self-convened, neither left
nor right, inclusive, etc.

01:03:14.480 --> 01:03:21.160
With those characteristics...
copyleft... it will be in this style.

01:03:21.520 --> 01:03:27.600
And anything not in this style,
doesn't matter.  In my opinion, ok?

01:03:27.800 --> 01:03:32.160
For example, the elections coming
up. A lot of people are going to vote.

01:03:32.520 --> 01:03:38.840
It doesn't matter. It's the same to me.
A lot of people go to football games, no matter...

01:03:39.240 --> 01:03:43.120
If we're able to focus a little on
the idea that we really have to

01:03:43.120 --> 01:03:46.640
reinvent ourselves, that we have to find
new methods to achieve all of this

01:03:46.640 --> 01:03:51.280
we have to see what we do,
I believe that sooner or later, we're

01:03:51.280 --> 01:03:56.680
going to find the right keys, right?
If we always concentrate on what

01:03:56.680 --> 01:04:01.720
we want to achieve and stay focused
on getting there, it'll work, right?

01:04:05.160 --> 01:04:08.160
Over this year and a half, I have learned
many things, one of which

01:04:08.160 --> 01:04:11.760
is to believe what Miguel is saying.
Yes, that Miguel with the megaphone

01:04:11.785 --> 01:04:15.785
and the cardboard in Sol.
One Miguel amongst many.

01:04:17.760 --> 01:04:20.720
Since this film is a
personal vision, I'll allow myself

01:04:20.720 --> 01:04:24.520
to save the last word for me,
with sincere humility.

01:04:24.960 --> 01:04:28.920
I believe that the 15M movement
has been a success. The mobilizations,

01:04:28.920 --> 01:04:31.880
encampments, assemblies and all that
has happened has been really positive.

01:04:31.960 --> 01:04:35.160
But I believe the most important thing
about the 15M is also what

01:04:35.160 --> 01:04:37.440
is the most difficult to see:
how people have changed.

01:04:37.480 --> 01:04:40.680
People who will never be the same.
People who turned into a problem

01:04:40.680 --> 01:04:43.560
for their governments and
a help for their neighbours.

01:04:43.560 --> 01:04:45.720
Into good citizens, yeah.

01:04:45.880 --> 01:04:50.680
That 15M that isn't seen but is still there, and,
what's more, I believe will never go away.

01:04:51.280 --> 01:04:54.280
So now, what has to be done is
try to use our imagination, keep going,

01:04:54.280 --> 01:04:58.200
follow up, reinvent ourselves... Maybe
even get rid of this annoying trademark

01:04:58.200 --> 01:05:00.680
that could be
the very name of "15M."

01:05:00.880 --> 01:05:04.480
At the end of the day, we only want
to do what every generation tries

01:05:04.480 --> 01:05:07.120
to do for so many year:
change the world.

01:05:07.400 --> 01:05:10.720
And so, as Miguel says, we'll go
looking for the right key.

01:05:10.920 --> 01:05:15.360
And we're about to find it,... right?

01:06:45.480 --> 01:06:48.120
so now what are we going to do

01:06:52.160 --> 01:06:53.040
evicted

01:07:10.200 --> 01:07:11.080
poverty

01:07:18.480 --> 01:07:21.120
the country we're already in

01:07:21.120 --> 01:07:23.400
stopping evictions

01:07:23.400 --> 01:07:26.040
losing fear

01:07:26.040 --> 01:07:29.040
creating the republic of the 99%

01:08:11.560 --> 01:08:12.760
what are we going to do

01:08:15.040 --> 01:08:23.040
eXpain / www.exlandia.net
Let's declare the government irrelevant

01:08:26.000 --> 01:08:28.200
we have declared the government

01:08:28.279 --> 01:08:32.239
irrelevant

01:08:33.040 --> 01:08:36.280
the world is changing

01:08:36.359 --> 01:08:40.119
you're the one changing it

01:08:49.120 --> 01:08:54.040
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01:08:54.040 --> 01:08:59.160
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01:08:59.160 --> 01:09:03.200
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