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The film is about 7 minutes long and starts off with a two minute 'arty' sequence before getting into the interviews with residents.

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Occupy, Resist, Build

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Occupy, Resist, Build

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Occupy, Resist, Build

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Occupy, Resist, Build

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It's almost impossible to believe
the power that people have.

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It was almost impossible to live here.

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Here were almost 70 containers.

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Here, the height of the rubbish went
above the second floor window.

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Then you removed everything?

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We just pulled up all sorts of rubbish bins
and then brought it all down by hand.

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don't throw food left overs in the sink,
please cooperate

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There were tragedies.

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Even in the newspaper "Folha" there was a report.

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There was an murder in here
right in the beginning.

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Drug dealers wanted to dominate the area
and they tried to infiltrated.

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Then after the 7th Sept 2003 there was a big fire and the families in here lost everything.

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Look we still keep it this way.
In room 10 a little girl was burnt to death.

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Four years old. Kimberley Brenda. We both came in the same group on the day of the occupation.

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There's a story that you want to
put her name to the building?

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Yes, yes. In her memory. Kimberley Brenda

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Many families. About 2000, 2500 people

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These are families of low income, working
at the flower market, selling on the street.

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People also survive on rubbish recycling.
They pick up paper, cans.

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This is Dona Nenem

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You said something about recycling..
And you also re-use everything ?

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We had to do everything in here,
from electrical installation, the bathrooms.

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But of course we pick up
all sorts of things on the streets.

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There's these containers and we call them the homeless people shopping centre.

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The bathrooms have things we found,
sinks, toilets.

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We pooled money to make the water connections, electrical connections.

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Everything was done like that.

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Everybody contributing,
everybody helping each other...

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and that's how it's still working today.

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They trying to pull us down
but they will never be able to do it.

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I heard something about the
appreciation of the lands value...

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So this is the reason
why the owner is so interested now?

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It's right in the centre of Sao Paulo.

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It's funny, the mayor sends his staff after the street vendors for not contributing tax...


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And then there's the owner who owes millions and they don't go after him.

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This building was to be repossesed before
and it wasn't because ...

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he doesn't have the proof that he's the owner!

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He bought it off an auction.

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So he doesn't have ownership?

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No he doesn't. He doesn't have an official document with his name, stating his ownership.

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And now a judge gave the repossession to this man who doesn't have that document.

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So we can't really understand it!

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Occupy it or live in it.

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Stories of resistance.
Tenants and the history of the
occupation of Prestes Maia, Sao Paulo

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Occupy, Resist, Build !

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Indymedia Brazil

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English translations by Manuela, Manuel
Subtitling by Real2Reel, IMC London