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Video of Prestes Maia squat

CMI Brazil / UK | 17.02.2006 10:39

Below you will find links to a film about the Prestes Maia squat in Sao Paulo along with english subtitles made for a screening at the rampART squatted social centre in London....

Quicktime version
 http://brasil.indymedia.org/media/2005/07/324545.mov

Micro$oft version
 http://brasil.indymedia.org/media/2005/07/324546.wmv

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

Below are the timecoded englishs subtitles. You need to cut and paste them into a plain text file with an identical name to the video file and add the extension .srt

To playback, place both the video file and the subtitle file in the same folder and ensure you are using a proper media player like VLC and not Windows Media Player or Quicktime. If you have trouble, Real2Reel(.co.nr) can provide are version of the video with the subtitles self contained.

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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

CMI Brazil / UK

Additions

Video of Prestes Maia solidarity demo in London

25.02.2006 07:46

You can now also watch a video of the solidarity demo for Prestes Maia that took place in London...

 http://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/02/334457.html

R2R


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