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People Power
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PEOPLE POWER is the first comprehensive exploration of the use of active non-violence as a means to achieve social reforms.
By focusing primarily on the fall of Pinochet in Chile, the Palestinian intifada, and Cory Aquino's "People Power" revolution in the Philippines, the film demonstrates how Filipinos jogged to gain political momentum, or how a small concession by Pinochet - 15 minutes on government television - became the vehicle to rally a nation around a simple slogan: the word "no."
With insight from Gene Sharp, a leading expert on non-violent struggles, PEOPLE POWER weaves together personal and intellectual odysseys into a dramatic and thought provoking program.
"**** [4 Stars - Highly Recommended] A compassionate and literate look at people trying to escape fear and mobilize for their rights... Ziv reminds viewers that there are no easy answers to complex issues, and that is why his highly personal program is commendable."—James E. Reppert, Video Rating Guide for Libraries
"An earnest effort... The use of interviews with the participants in the events is excellent. Recommended for all libraries."—M. Whichard, Choice
"Highly recommended."—Landers Film & Video Reviews
"Ziv's film is an intriguing mixture of programmatic political essay and filmmaker's diary... hopscotching across the globe analyzing the fortunes of unarmed popular movements."—William Boddy, Film Comment
"A noteworthy piece... to show how peacable tactics can topple even the most heavily militarized dictatorships."—The Independent (London)
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Main credits
Ziv, Ilan (film director)
Ziv, Ilan (film producer)
Ziv, Ilan (cinematographer)
Ziv, Ilan (editor of moving image work)
Ziv, Ilan (screenwriter)
Vuijst, Freke (screenwriter)
Sharp, Gene (interviewer)
Anchique, Edgar (voice actor)
Other credits
Camera: Ilan Ziv, Tal Larish; editing: Martin Lucas, Ilan Ziv; original music: Russell W. Lossing; narration written by: Ilan Ziv, Freke Vuijst.
Distributor subjects
Asia; Christianity; Communications; Comparative Government; Conflict Resolution; Critical Thinking; Ethics; Human Rights; Latin America; Media Studies; Middle East; Philosophy; Political Science; Religion; Social Movements; Sociology; South America; Southeast AsiaKeywords
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In 1970 I was a paratroopers
and Israeli army.
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Thousands of miles away.
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Salvador Allende had been
elected president of
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Chile on a platform calling
for a radical social reform.
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And came to power democratically
through an election.
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But in 1973 he was overthrown
in a brutal military coup
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only three weeks before I was mobilized
to fight in Israel\'s October war.
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Over the years for me these two
events have been telescoped into
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one INDs nonviolent struggle for social
change had been a vision of hope
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for young soldier like
myself spending his days
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in border patrols and
knights in endless ambushes
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INDs defeat only weeks before the
bloodbath of the October War was for
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me a realization there is vision
might have been a dream after all.
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And the power of the gun is what dictates
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Political realities
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sees then these Freedom
Fighters whose surveillance is
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their only option shade met political
outlook and that of much of my generation.
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As a journalist have tried to document
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the social forces that have dregs
societies into violent civil war
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But in the Peruvian highlands my belief that
violence was a necessary evil was shaken.
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Because here I saw guerrilla movement with
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a total disregard for the number of innocent
people murdered in the wake of its fight.
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Then afternoon besieged by
the wives and mothers of the
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disappeared was the beginning
of a person\'s search.
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Could check a virus wrote to
justice had been mistaken.
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Could Martin Luther King\'s
choice of nonviolence
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More than simply a moral option could
it be an effective political strategy
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as
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The basis of
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long while actually is
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People acting to remove the sources
of power of governments and tyrants.
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Removing their legitimacy removing their
economic strength removing the fear
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of their punishments
removing the reliability
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of their bureaucracies of their
police and their armies.
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And if you pull away those supports it\'s
like the pillars of the old temple.
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You pull away the pillars then there\'s nothing
left but the temple to come falling down
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President Salvador Allende was
overthrown in a bloody coup.
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In 1973 Chile became a dictatorship.
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History professor for non-dual Jaeger
was forced to leave Valparaiso.
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The city where he lived.
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After the coup I was suspended
from the University.
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But after two months at the end of 73 I
received a very clear threat that if I didn\'t
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present by his resignation I would suffer
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the same fate as five professors
who had been assassinated.
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Now Al Qaeda has returned on the eve of a
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and side on the continued rule
of dictator General Pinochet.
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When I left it was silent as
a cemetery many way hiding
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in those buildings over there I rescue
people who were hiding in closets.
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There were many people
hiding inside closets.
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There was a great sense of solitude
Pinochet and the pressure to legitimize
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his 15 years military dictatorship call for
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the plebiscite the people
have a clear choice.
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A yes vote would give the dictator
the legal right to unlimited power.
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And no vote would pave the way
for free elections later.
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Overnight the General
became smiling candidate.
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How then could opposition mobilize
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the voters to answer a dictator
through the ballot box.
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Mass demonstration is one-way.
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Professional yoga plan several demonstrations
across the country from the office
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of a coordinating organization for
the promotion of active nonviolence.
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Yet mass mobilization is only the
final phase in a political process
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which begins with treating the first
symptom of a dictatorship. Fear
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Mod technology indefinitely era would
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realize without Tao at that
what lurks in the soul of
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the people is the terror
that the dictatorship has
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injected through a series of
psycho-social mechanisms.
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And these mechanisms were
working on all of us.
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Well that was where we thought
of organizing the schools of
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nonviolence where we would apply a
psychosocial treatments to cure the fear
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What are the methods of injecting terror and
fear and the people for the solution will
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look into how fear could deduce as
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a protective emulsion and at the same
time as a forced to unite people.
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Fema canals is a graduate of the school
for active nonviolence. It differently.
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This is one Nieto when
he was two years old.
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And this is one liter in
one of his last photos.
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The same expression such a pretty thing.
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He was very beautiful.
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He is very beautiful
because he lives forever.
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He was detained and they never
admitted his detention.
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Or rather he remains in a
state of disappearance.
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But meanwhile our feelings
were buried inside.
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We didn\'t even allow ourselves
to cry or to complain.
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Nor did we want to recognize
what we were feeling what
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dropped me was an an a
spontaneous reaction of Fury.
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I did not feel hate.
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Rather I felt a rage.
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I felt terrible rage.
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Now that I look back I realize
that this rage was destroying me.
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Feel my schoolmates have
planed and carried out
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many nonviolent actions protesting the Human
Rights violations of Pinochet\'s regime.
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Then I realized that I could transform all
these feelings of fury in to another passion.
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That was the passion for peace.
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The force of my emotions
change into a force for peace.
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I want to participate because I
think that in some way when one is
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pregnant people notice you more and that\'s
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important especially today
when people have so much fear.
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It\'s one thing not to have fear and another
not to be carefully. There is a difference.
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There\'s always fear always.
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But there is so much enthusiasm for
the process that you in the process.
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The fear is lost before you begin
there is fear but afterwards No
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Monica for myself the only way
to know how much you have
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achieved his school is through
participation in concrete actions.
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Go to confront your fears.
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You confront the police repression and
the fanatic groups of the yes camp.
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And finally you confront your own fear.
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This is a clandestine movement
in a police state riddled
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with spicing formers security
is a constant concern.
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This telephone calls are the only link
between the plant event and the participants
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The demonstration is evaluated in
workshops and the participants
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carefully examined their behavior
towards the police and bystanders.
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What happened Father
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Yeah I guess in this phase
it is not that we have
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a doctrinal position absolutely
opposed to violence.
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We understand demos that at times there is
need to defend life even using violence.
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Thank you. She self-defense at
times requests acts of violence.
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Here in Chile receive that
violence is not the solution mass.
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Violence will create more pain.
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And will not be effective.
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We have an army an apparatus
of violence installer.
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It\'s not going to be possible
to destroy evenly to eat.
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In order to expand the experiences of these
small groups access to television was needed.
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But for 15 years television had been
under the firm control of the regime.
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This demonstration was called
to protest television silence.
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We discovered that television was
much more important navy that CNI
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telling keeping all the Chileans significant
quiet during all these 15 years.
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When Pinochet gave into the opposition\'s demand
for television time during the campaign.
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He made a crucial mistake.
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15 minutes a day TV time for
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the Opposition must have seemed
like a small concession to make.
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Considering the hours of
government broadcasts.
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It tried to show in television
input has not been shown for
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15 years and was very
surprising for most of
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the TV viewers in the country to see someone
who says that being that he\'s been tortured.
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We lost all our fright
after television started.
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See no DO seem Valencia seen near though.
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No mass. No tyrants.
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In extreme situations.
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Know that they depend for
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their existence on the continued
obedience and submission low population.
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And they know when the population is
no longer enthusiastic about them
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Last recourse that the tyrant has is
to instill fear into the population so
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they continue to submit
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then dozens and dozens of other cases of
lung violent struggle throughout the world.
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People have reached a
point at which something
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happening inside them
that they lost that fear.
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Then the police and
tortures and soldiers with
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machine guns no longer are able to
force the people back to obedience.
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The fear of them is dissolved
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And the last pillar of support of the
regime as well as for Palestinians.
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And for us Israelis the gun has
been a symbol of empowerment.
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We share the belief that it could change
history of humiliation and victimization.
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When I was 18 hunting
Palestinian guerrillas
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my fellow soldiers arrive
with the pride of a nation.
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The living symbol that we
Jews were no longer afraid.
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But 15 years later
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filming in the ruins of South Lebanon I saw
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this blind faith in the power of the gun
is costing Israel and the Palestinians.
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Under the realization that Palestine could
not be won back by the force of arms.
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The Intifada the uprising was born.
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Now young boys at a freedom fighters.
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Over 500 of them had been killed with stones
they challenged the heavily armed soldiers
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They have crossed the barrier of fear.
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He had always told me.
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If I don\'t die how do we expect to liberate
our land you should always expect such news
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Happy is to tell me not to be said.
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Don\'t you ever be said I
am like all the others.
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The Jews have killed so many of us.
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How do you expect me not
to go and not to die
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He was always filled with emotions
and he was driven all the time.
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He used to tell me this afternoon and
be happy don\'t be sad and don\'t cry.
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But I told him I am a mother.
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I cannot give up that easily
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A few months before yards best friend at
the moon was killed by Israeli soldiers.
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I\'m not afraid of such a thing.
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There is nothing I am afraid of.
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I have lost my dear as two friends.
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I think of following them and
becoming a martyr would like them.
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I expect such a thing for
myself at every moment.
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For there is nothing I\'m afraid
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of.
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The whole occupation
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Based on the concept of fear self-censorship
you\'re afraid of prison afraid of
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collaborators afraid of informers
afraid that you will not get
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permits that you will be your house will
be destroyed your livelihood cut off.
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You\'d be prevented from
traveling you will not
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be given any of the licenses
and permits you need.
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But when you can liberate yourself from
fear then you can in fact become free.
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And there is no greater freedom.
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And the freedom of a person who says
I\'m not afraid to die. Shoot me
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I came back to Manilla for the
second time shortly after
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the assassination of opposition
leader Benigno Aquino is
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special act of carriage had triggered
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a nonviolent campaign to rid the
country of dictator Ferdinand Marcos.
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Already citizens were openly
defined for the first time.
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Singing the freedom him by anchor
which was banned by markers.
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But in the mountains the New People\'s
Army the Communist guerrillas
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believed in their own version of freedom
the violent overthrow of markers.
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Compared to the gorillas didn\'t violent
opposition seemed to me naive and even childish.
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They had a strong symbol the margin Aquino.
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But I doubt if they could overthrow a
dictator with jogging runs like this
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one from a kilos birthplace to the
airport where he was assassinated.
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How do you bring Brown and previous
dictatorship was jogging Filipinos die.
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Jogging is only one of the other moons
later but we will tell you our secrets.
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After we bring down the dictatorship
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I\'m violently then we
tell you how to do it.
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So that all other countries do not
have to go through bloodshed.
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Actually what you want to
do what its job is to get
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people to participate in something
that\'s very common to them.
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And with this kind of participation then
you get to awaken people to the issues.
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And that\'s when step number two
which was talking about comes in
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It\'s a matter of really
mobilizing the citizens first.
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Showing that I\'m struggling
for freedom and democracy.
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But do you think that running will
help freedom and democracy and yes
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if you show your participation
you just want to be gone dead.
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And so if Marcus sees that a whole lot
of people are running even if it\'s just
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running which is the peaceful form of protest
that I know that we will be counting
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By the way
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the Kinsey annual lack
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after 15 years the stick and now be occupied
by the people and we don\'t have to hide.
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If we want to express our ideas.
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Clear. I think that this demonstration is the
best evidence that we have lost our fear.
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We thought we were going to have
to do this in a clandestine way.
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But now we see that it has been
possible to go out into the streets.
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And I think that this reinforces our
courage to confront the dictatorship
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I think that this is Chile.
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The other is a chapter that was the time.
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We will leave behind us.
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Just as in the Philippines deposition in
Chile was greatly helped by unifying symbol.
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Pinochet could have never imagined that
by giving the opposition the word know.
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He had given them a rallying cry.
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Thus creating a vehicle for
popular participation.
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The process of political awakening
which began with the individual
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confronting his own fear had
reached its critical mass.
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But on the West Bank there are no people in
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the streets in massive demonstration
of public opposition.
00:22:30.005 --> 00:22:33.918
It is not allowed the
funerals for those killed by
00:22:33.919 --> 00:22:38.569
Israeli soldiers have become the
only expression of discontent
00:22:38.570 --> 00:22:46.570
that is sometimes tolerated
in dates or who we had lived.
00:22:48.260 --> 00:22:51.138
All shops close at lunchtime is part of
00:22:51.139 --> 00:22:54.724
the commercial strike order by
the leadership of the uprising.
00:22:54.725 --> 00:23:01.519
The Intifada leadership dictates all facets
of village life working entirely underground.
00:23:01.520 --> 00:23:05.238
The leaders communicate with the
people through leaflets which are
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distributed at night or read over
the loudspeakers in mosques.
00:23:09.620 --> 00:23:15.769
Yards from school have been occupied by the
military but classes take place illegally.
00:23:15.770 --> 00:23:20.160
If arrested teachers face long jail terms.
00:23:26.290 --> 00:23:31.909
Many families in Bateson who keep
chickens and rabbits in the basement.
00:23:31.910 --> 00:23:37.170
The prolonged curfews often make
it impossible to shop for food.
00:23:43.300 --> 00:23:50.059
Of mass protests banned the range
has to find some outlet to stone
00:23:50.060 --> 00:23:53.209
the throne leading to
violent confrontations with
00:23:53.210 --> 00:23:57.660
the Israeli army and to the
martyrdom of young boys.
00:24:06.100 --> 00:24:10.789
Well in the beginning I feel that a lot of
00:24:10.790 --> 00:24:15.214
people are seeing the stones and the
violent act as this is the Intifada.
00:24:15.215 --> 00:24:20.299
And I was very excited about
the everybody is resisting.
00:24:20.300 --> 00:24:23.359
And the stone was part of that resistance.
00:24:23.360 --> 00:24:24.994
And I was very happy with that.
00:24:24.995 --> 00:24:28.999
But after seeing that the Stones
becoming used as the gun then I would
00:24:29.000 --> 00:24:33.169
say that a wrong approach and
we have to find another symbol.
00:24:33.170 --> 00:24:35.868
And now I\'m looking for another
symbol that the Palestinians
00:24:35.869 --> 00:24:39.510
would use will be powerful like the stones.
00:24:40.750 --> 00:24:45.918
Yard here second from left at his
sister\'s wedding only months before
00:24:45.919 --> 00:24:51.244
his death for him and his village
stones have become more than a symbol.
00:24:51.245 --> 00:24:54.274
They have shaped their entire generation.
00:24:54.275 --> 00:25:00.994
Yet who was born under occupation raised on
stories of martyrdom and self-sacrifice.
00:25:00.995 --> 00:25:03.364
What is best friend was killed.
00:25:03.365 --> 00:25:06.479
How was he to express his rage
00:25:09.430 --> 00:25:12.919
These photos are now
pasted on walls throughout
00:25:12.920 --> 00:25:17.224
the village as well as graffiti
detailing his martyrdom.
00:25:17.225 --> 00:25:22.230
In the place where he was
killed arose was planted.
00:25:23.890 --> 00:25:29.464
I know he\'s a relative and something
like that to happen is saddening.
00:25:29.465 --> 00:25:35.554
And the other hand it is a human being with
a stone versus a soldier with a bullet.
00:25:35.555 --> 00:25:38.719
We are proud of that stone
that was thrown because
00:25:38.720 --> 00:25:41.508
due to that stone There was
a lot of martyrdom and
00:25:41.509 --> 00:25:45.064
the West Bank even if a
stone is going to drag
00:25:45.065 --> 00:25:50.449
behind it as 1000 Marty\'s
we are proud of all this
00:25:50.450 --> 00:25:54.649
Now there are reasons why the
Palestinians have used stone.
00:25:54.650 --> 00:26:00.408
It isn\'t easy means of expression
to vent the fury for all of
00:26:00.409 --> 00:26:03.168
the terrible things that have
00:26:03.169 --> 00:26:07.549
happened to the Palestinians
over the past 40 years and more.
00:26:07.550 --> 00:26:10.188
But the question is could
00:26:10.189 --> 00:26:17.689
that same indignation have been expressed
in some other way that both would have cost
00:26:17.690 --> 00:26:23.298
fewer Palestinian Lives and would
have had a greater impact upon
00:26:23.299 --> 00:26:26.539
Israeli society and the reliability of
00:26:26.540 --> 00:26:31.504
the Israeli army that the
whole Palestinian Intifada
00:26:31.505 --> 00:26:36.903
Should experiment experiment I say with
00:26:36.904 --> 00:26:44.904
abandoning even the stove the thrones
stone throwing and the molotov cocktail
00:26:45.694 --> 00:26:52.980
One example of that which I think was
very useful during Independence Day.
00:26:57.370 --> 00:27:02.659
The Palestinians deliberately
avoided confrontations with
00:27:02.660 --> 00:27:07.909
the soldiers and made the major
expression of struggle on
00:27:07.910 --> 00:27:11.599
that day balloons and fire crackers
00:27:11.600 --> 00:27:18.810
and expressions of happiness celebration
and bringing the church bells.
00:27:22.330 --> 00:27:28.113
Maybe that will get through to
some of those real soldiers
00:27:28.114 --> 00:27:31.023
Frankly I don\'t know if it will
00:27:31.024 --> 00:27:35.494
the response of the Israelis
initially might be more deaths.
00:27:35.495 --> 00:27:40.699
Because the absence of the violence
is politically more threatening.
00:27:40.700 --> 00:27:44.419
And it\'s harder for the soldiers
to respond to my goodness.
00:27:44.420 --> 00:27:47.959
How do we do now they\'re not even throwing
stones at us but we\'re supposed to be
00:27:47.960 --> 00:27:52.879
controlling the situation and our officers
will be down on us if we doubled.
00:27:52.880 --> 00:28:00.880
But that risk of greater brutalities by the
Israelis is likely to be a temporary bond.
00:28:01.280 --> 00:28:04.549
And it\'s likely to move the conflict into
00:28:04.550 --> 00:28:08.508
a situation in which fewer
Palestinian lives are lost
00:28:08.509 --> 00:28:14.718
Greater device sickness spread in Israeli
society and the Israeli soldiers
00:28:14.719 --> 00:28:21.049
themselves become more unreliable in
even walk out and say we don\'t beat.
00:28:21.050 --> 00:28:22.294
We don\'t break bones.
00:28:22.295 --> 00:28:27.030
We don\'t shoot people who were
not even thrown stones happens.
00:28:32.860 --> 00:28:36.754
And was initiated into an elite army unit
00:28:36.755 --> 00:28:40.920
at a swearing in ceremony in
front of the wailing wall.
00:28:43.690 --> 00:28:48.799
Just like these soldiers I was
given a rifle in the Bible.
00:28:48.800 --> 00:28:51.439
The message was part of a national
00:28:51.440 --> 00:28:55.429
The gun was to be used
only for self-defense.
00:28:55.430 --> 00:28:58.789
Killing civilians was not
part of the contract.
00:28:58.790 --> 00:29:01.290
We seal with the Bible.
00:29:09.160 --> 00:29:13.834
Due to palmar joined the
army the same time I did.
00:29:13.835 --> 00:29:20.044
Today he is a member of a kibbutz.
This is me.
00:29:20.045 --> 00:29:23.269
This is me and this is dubious.
00:29:23.270 --> 00:29:26.974
He was a very good friend of mine
and he was killed in action.
00:29:26.975 --> 00:29:33.214
In the village of her Mom I think I don\'t
even remember where he was killed.
00:29:33.215 --> 00:29:37.428
In the War of Lebanon I simply
had it via understood in
00:29:37.429 --> 00:29:42.484
a very clear and undeniable way that
I am responsible for whatever I do.
00:29:42.485 --> 00:29:45.889
I am the one who acts and any
form of taking cover and
00:29:45.890 --> 00:29:50.044
an order is just one more step
towards saying I didn\'t do it.
00:29:50.045 --> 00:29:52.849
I was not responsible for my actions.
00:29:52.850 --> 00:29:56.550
I was just a small screw
within a larger machine.
00:30:00.220 --> 00:30:04.219
Do though is a reserve
soldier in an elite unit.
00:30:04.220 --> 00:30:07.999
He has served to jail
terms 35 days each for
00:30:08.000 --> 00:30:12.649
refusing to serve during the war
in Lebanon and on the West Bank
00:30:12.650 --> 00:30:16.908
I think that drafting a
soldier like me who was fully
00:30:16.909 --> 00:30:20.509
trained and ready to defend his
country and even to kill for it.
00:30:20.510 --> 00:30:26.809
And then using these skills against civilians
were not only defenseless but also without
00:30:26.810 --> 00:30:33.964
rights is first of all simply not moral
as the British say it isn\'t fair.
00:30:33.965 --> 00:30:40.308
And secondly you just can\'t go once a year
for 60 days and be a policeman for women and
00:30:40.309 --> 00:30:43.548
children and old people
and live in a doubts
00:30:43.549 --> 00:30:47.404
were not interested in my
presence and don\'t want me.
00:30:47.405 --> 00:30:51.719
And I have no business being
there because it is my country
00:30:57.610 --> 00:31:02.719
I remember the sounds the crackling
of the communication system
00:31:02.720 --> 00:31:08.014
and the sites and occupy town in
Gaza through the barrel of a gun.
00:31:08.015 --> 00:31:11.808
Now almost 20 years later I\'m standing on
00:31:11.809 --> 00:31:16.894
an armored truck filming surrounded
by reserve soldiers my age.
00:31:16.895 --> 00:31:20.850
It feels like coming back
to the scene of a crime.
00:31:21.760 --> 00:31:28.098
So tell me when are you leaving
on Wednesday Are you waiting
00:31:28.099 --> 00:31:36.099
impatiently No I\'m not waiting for it impatiently
but it will be better not to be here
00:31:36.289 --> 00:31:41.944
Why it\'s not pleasant doing
his job not pleasant.
00:31:41.945 --> 00:31:47.280
And we\'re civilians after all and
issues that were not police Minister.
00:31:53.680 --> 00:31:57.199
We no longer have the luxury to play games.
00:31:57.200 --> 00:31:59.809
Each of us has to take
up some kind of a stamp.
00:31:59.810 --> 00:32:03.784
I no longer cry about how bad the
situation in the territories.
00:32:03.785 --> 00:32:05.928
I don\'t take part in what is done in
00:32:05.929 --> 00:32:10.080
a territory and then later
go and protest against it.
00:32:10.630 --> 00:32:18.484
What choice do you have I don\'t include
your question in my list of priorities.
00:32:18.485 --> 00:32:24.049
I\'m faced with a much more pressing reality
in which I am expected by you to be
00:32:24.050 --> 00:32:26.898
a human occupier and by
somebody else to go to
00:32:26.899 --> 00:32:31.129
the occupied territories to beat
women on the head with clubs.
00:32:31.130 --> 00:32:34.579
I\'m the one who was torn between
these conflicting demands.
00:32:34.580 --> 00:32:38.449
That\'s why I\'m also the one
to decide not to do them.
00:32:38.450 --> 00:32:42.274
The decision to say yes or no is mine.
00:32:42.275 --> 00:32:45.270
And I choose to say no.
00:32:45.910 --> 00:32:50.634
Gabe\'s goof guarded.
00:32:50.635 --> 00:32:54.919
If such a group should
materialize of soldiers and
00:32:54.920 --> 00:32:58.578
youth which will state
that they are willing and
00:32:58.579 --> 00:33:00.679
committed to wholeheartedly serving
00:33:00.680 --> 00:33:05.524
the Israeli armed forces but refused
to be pardoned to the acts of
00:33:05.525 --> 00:33:13.525
horror which are an integral part not to
be separated from the occupation policy.
00:33:13.910 --> 00:33:18.064
Caboose mitigate against
something like this.
00:33:18.065 --> 00:33:24.649
The government and first of all the
military government is completely helpless.
00:33:24.650 --> 00:33:28.264
There is absolutely nothing. It can do.
00:33:28.265 --> 00:33:34.879
You cannot put on trial 500 soldiers which
refuse to serve in the occupied territories.
00:33:34.880 --> 00:33:38.779
If you don\'t put them
on trial it would mean
00:33:38.780 --> 00:33:43.218
the beginning of the weakening
and this integration of
00:33:43.219 --> 00:33:47.779
the Israeli defense forces
to prevent this from
00:33:47.780 --> 00:33:54.299
happening it will be essential to change
the line of the occupation policy
00:34:27.040 --> 00:34:35.040
Just as the fear of punishments is
a strong support of the system.
00:34:38.090 --> 00:34:45.079
So the the army and
paramilitary units serving
00:34:45.080 --> 00:34:52.649
their regime are a potential
target of resistance
00:34:52.650 --> 00:35:00.650
By the population three
00:35:01.990 --> 00:35:04.089
years ago these women part
00:35:04.090 --> 00:35:07.658
of accretion based community
in Islam of Manila walk
00:35:07.659 --> 00:35:12.564
this avenue to the army camp Aguinaldo
More than ten kilometers away.
00:35:12.565 --> 00:35:16.269
Like thousands of other
Filipinos they were responding
00:35:16.270 --> 00:35:19.628
to cause from religious leaders
to put their bodies on
00:35:19.629 --> 00:35:23.859
the line and protect a group of
rebelling soldiers headed by
00:35:23.860 --> 00:35:29.090
former Defense Minister pons and
relay in general Fidel Ramos
00:35:35.530 --> 00:35:42.570
At the avenue of eta they confronted the
troops stay loyal to President Marcos.
00:35:45.010 --> 00:35:49.080
Thus began to Filipino revolution.
00:35:51.910 --> 00:35:55.624
Came here because we love our nation.
00:35:55.625 --> 00:36:03.625
That\'s why we were here in ads do unite in
order to protect citizens like general Ramos.
00:36:04.130 --> 00:36:12.130
Ramon Ramon. The citizens wanted to break down
the barrier between them and the soldiers.
00:36:12.200 --> 00:36:14.580
They were all the people.
00:36:17.680 --> 00:36:19.894
We talked to them.
00:36:19.895 --> 00:36:21.724
Some soldiers came out.
00:36:21.725 --> 00:36:24.859
We boosted their confidence that
they are not alone but with
00:36:24.860 --> 00:36:29.419
us any advance of the enemy couldn\'t
be done through the people.
00:36:29.420 --> 00:36:32.928
We were trying to avoid the
bloody confrontation between
00:36:32.929 --> 00:36:37.560
military and military
Filipinos and Filipinos.
00:36:42.310 --> 00:36:50.310
Not bad but the military was
divided into two factions.
00:36:50.735 --> 00:36:54.199
The civilians had to be the ones
to place themselves between
00:36:54.200 --> 00:36:59.718
the soldiers in order to avoid bloodshed
so that soldiers did not fire
00:36:59.719 --> 00:37:06.960
Because they saw among civilians
their brothers fathers and children.
00:37:10.420 --> 00:37:16.668
Violent confrontations between soldiers and
protesters occurred sporadically but in
00:37:16.669 --> 00:37:19.699
most cases other citizens put themselves
00:37:19.700 --> 00:37:23.910
between the two groups to
prevent further violence.
00:37:26.350 --> 00:37:32.194
The dictator hesitated to open
fire would mean a bloody massacre.
00:37:32.195 --> 00:37:35.059
But with every passing hour the people got
00:37:35.060 --> 00:37:39.529
stronger and more soldiers defected
to the probe correspond Aquino cam.
00:37:39.530 --> 00:37:41.748
It tanks retreated
00:37:41.749 --> 00:37:46.743
And we realized that the weep
weapons that are poor in
00:37:46.744 --> 00:37:49.549
social change is it
really the fact that they
00:37:49.550 --> 00:37:53.944
are powerless how to
make that powerlessness.
00:37:53.945 --> 00:37:56.599
The weapon.
00:37:56.600 --> 00:37:59.250
That was a question we get asked me.
00:38:04.150 --> 00:38:07.639
Whether this was part of
the thinking I don\'t know.
00:38:07.640 --> 00:38:10.204
But the fact that they
came to the conclusion
00:38:10.205 --> 00:38:12.709
their their strength was in
00:38:12.710 --> 00:38:18.844
their face and their ability than their
ability to do that to armed groups.
00:38:18.845 --> 00:38:26.400
I think they hit something which he said
that the heart of the nonviolent approach.
00:38:28.420 --> 00:38:36.420
Could you tell us what\'s happening on the
microbiome better what\'s happening what\'s
00:38:37.550 --> 00:38:42.258
happening there is
00:38:42.259 --> 00:38:49.930
over the Filipino people.
00:39:03.630 --> 00:39:05.999
But
00:39:25.520 --> 00:39:27.699
I
00:39:29.890 --> 00:39:32.359
Had a recurring dream
00:39:32.360 --> 00:39:35.073
in which I witnessed an
extraordinary meeting
00:39:35.074 --> 00:39:37.218
Between Martin Luther King and Che
00:39:37.219 --> 00:39:42.124
Guevara they examined the state
of the world since that death.
00:39:42.125 --> 00:39:47.539
King points to the dozens of countries which
have fought and won on valence struggles.
00:39:47.540 --> 00:39:49.744
He passionately concludes.
00:39:49.745 --> 00:39:52.998
We are approaching the day
when my dream will become
00:39:52.999 --> 00:39:58.639
a universal reality yes
chair replies defensively.
00:39:58.640 --> 00:40:04.804
Your way may have worked in getting rid of
a dictator and achieved some civil rights.
00:40:04.805 --> 00:40:08.700
But did it improve the
welfare of the masses.
00:40:09.190 --> 00:40:11.524
And is a feared.
00:40:11.525 --> 00:40:15.210
He used the Philippines
as his prime example
00:40:18.790 --> 00:40:25.204
He couldn\'t have found a better metaphor
then Smoky Mountain Mandela\'s garbage dump.
00:40:25.205 --> 00:40:29.599
When a site for the first
time in 1983 dozens
00:40:29.600 --> 00:40:34.680
of people waited through the garbage
searching for something to sell.
00:40:39.700 --> 00:40:47.460
Today they\'re hordes of scavengers on an
ever-expanding reads. You have garbage
00:40:58.420 --> 00:41:03.060
The violence or the words
nonviolent struggle.
00:41:03.520 --> 00:41:11.520
Miracle Channel by uttering
those words or acting on them.
00:41:12.245 --> 00:41:20.245
For a few days doesn\'t transform
or society permanently.
00:41:24.460 --> 00:41:28.998
At the corner of the avenue of
eta and national shrine was
00:41:28.999 --> 00:41:33.034
built to commemorate the spot
where people stop the tanks.
00:41:33.035 --> 00:41:38.284
But a 30-foot high statue of the
Virgin Mary is now overpowered.
00:41:38.285 --> 00:41:41.009
By monumental shopping mall
00:41:45.010 --> 00:41:51.364
My expectations refer peace and
equality that there will be no rich.
00:41:51.365 --> 00:41:56.074
No poor that we can eat three times a day.
00:41:56.075 --> 00:42:03.259
But what happened those in power did
not create laws to help the poor.
00:42:03.260 --> 00:42:08.538
In my opinion the law is that
of the gun that should not
00:42:08.539 --> 00:42:10.350
have happened.
00:42:18.350 --> 00:42:20.950
Strategy for
00:42:21.580 --> 00:42:26.179
The same strategy that operated that.
00:42:26.180 --> 00:42:28.924
We talk about people power then.
00:42:28.925 --> 00:42:32.373
Now the whole effort now after essays to
00:42:32.374 --> 00:42:38.374
institutionalize what flared up a dead
zone what we called people power.
00:42:38.375 --> 00:42:40.999
And to begin to bring
this all the way down to
00:42:41.000 --> 00:42:45.484
the village level where people
will begin to assert their power.
00:42:45.485 --> 00:42:47.239
You talk about graft and corruption.
00:42:47.240 --> 00:42:48.409
We talk about the buyer lens.
00:42:48.410 --> 00:42:52.399
We talk about injustices who are going
to who\'s going to correct all that
00:42:52.400 --> 00:42:58.229
and the more we go into this problem of socially
form we see that it has to be the people
00:43:14.560 --> 00:43:22.560
What about base group Rappaport has sustained
Lamborghini we must have representation
00:43:24.754 --> 00:43:30.108
all the base groups around the country must
have a representation in order for them
00:43:30.109 --> 00:43:32.239
to know the sentiments of the poor people
00:43:32.240 --> 00:43:35.419
the precedent does not hear
the voices from the masses.
00:43:35.420 --> 00:43:37.984
She\'s isolated from the poor people.
00:43:37.985 --> 00:43:42.244
She is isolated from these voices
by the people who surround her.
00:43:42.245 --> 00:43:46.729
If anybody who sits in power and
does not relate to his people
00:43:46.730 --> 00:43:51.919
The Philippines will vanish and there
will be no peace and prosperity.
00:43:51.920 --> 00:43:54.900
There will be no change.
00:43:59.470 --> 00:44:04.579
I see the challenge to this form
of popular nonviolent organizing.
00:44:04.580 --> 00:44:07.774
When I go and visit a
guerrilla movement again.
00:44:07.775 --> 00:44:12.709
The Filipino revolution did not
deter the New People\'s Army from
00:44:12.710 --> 00:44:18.120
its commitment to the violent overthrow
of the existing social order.
00:44:21.250 --> 00:44:26.988
Regime is already not very
different from the old one
00:44:26.989 --> 00:44:31.549
Even in terms of fascist repression
of the people this makes it very
00:44:31.550 --> 00:44:37.530
clear that that people simply
cannot put down their arms.
00:44:49.240 --> 00:44:54.019
We see this is why we are
waging is as a gene when
00:44:54.020 --> 00:44:58.978
a true People\'s War during
in a way you could say
00:44:58.979 --> 00:45:03.454
that we consider every
every everybody being
00:45:03.455 --> 00:45:09.629
a soldier say every village being
itself a fondness for the evolution
00:45:12.970 --> 00:45:16.203
The army and the gorillas have fought
00:45:16.204 --> 00:45:19.414
bitterly for the hearts and
minds of the population.
00:45:19.415 --> 00:45:23.029
But here high up in the
mountains in a ton of
00:45:23.030 --> 00:45:28.594
Sagrada the people blamed both armed
groups of committing atrocities.
00:45:28.595 --> 00:45:32.928
The people have withdrawn their
hearts and minds from the army and
00:45:32.929 --> 00:45:38.820
the gorillas and demanded to
establish their town is a disown.
00:45:40.660 --> 00:45:48.330
What do you think is the power of unarmed
people to influence to armed group.
00:45:48.850 --> 00:45:51.359
It\'s a real power.
00:45:51.360 --> 00:45:53.454
I believe it\'s a real power.
00:45:53.455 --> 00:45:55.569
We can look at the big incident
00:45:55.570 --> 00:45:57.809
which happened here in the
Philippines the Edsel evolution.
00:45:57.810 --> 00:46:02.034
That is plain people against tanks
and cannons and everything.
00:46:02.035 --> 00:46:10.035
And what happened people
power propelled home.
00:46:11.920 --> 00:46:16.448
Will these people rule or something like
00:46:16.449 --> 00:46:21.489
that no if the NPS do not
adhere to people\'s demands.
00:46:21.490 --> 00:46:25.688
But if they gave What if they
win Hummel The rule Soviet
00:46:25.689 --> 00:46:33.689
GFP especially with Dave\'s b we have
to accept that it is the civilians
00:46:33.989 --> 00:46:39.034
Will contribute to the salaries of
these people in terms of taxes.
00:46:39.035 --> 00:46:44.280
So what if they all of the people here
would say we\'ll stop paying taxes.
00:46:54.140 --> 00:46:59.418
Debate between those who seek to
00:46:59.419 --> 00:47:05.058
explore new ways or strategies
for the popular movements and
00:47:05.059 --> 00:47:08.809
those who stick to the
orthodoxy of an IOC share of
00:47:08.810 --> 00:47:16.810
state power boils down to a concept
of the type of society that we want
00:47:17.110 --> 00:47:25.110
In a sense the revolutionary
movement is working within
00:47:25.429 --> 00:47:28.834
a very Western orthodoxy that sees
00:47:28.835 --> 00:47:34.429
society thoroughly and comprehensively
governed by the state.
00:47:34.430 --> 00:47:38.944
So that if changes are darker in society
00:47:38.945 --> 00:47:43.819
there must be a seizure a formal
direct seizure of state power.
00:47:43.820 --> 00:47:48.753
There is no historical precedent
no material basis for believing
00:47:48.754 --> 00:47:54.499
that any nonviolent movement will
succeed in changing the society.
00:47:54.500 --> 00:47:58.249
There were no historical
precedents for going to the moon
00:47:58.250 --> 00:48:02.599
It\'s a technological thing but the
idea that one could deliberately
00:48:02.600 --> 00:48:08.464
mobilized human capacity and solve technological
problems in order to accomplish that.
00:48:08.465 --> 00:48:11.749
People never worried that
nobody ever done that before.
00:48:11.750 --> 00:48:13.969
You say why should we in terms of
00:48:13.970 --> 00:48:18.948
human relationships where we
potentially have more control and
00:48:18.949 --> 00:48:23.298
more experience directly assumed that were
00:48:23.299 --> 00:48:28.369
incapable of moving beyond
the historical experience
00:48:28.370 --> 00:48:33.684
Historical accomplishments in the past
they have done that history of warfare.
00:48:33.685 --> 00:48:36.439
There was a time there were no cannons.
00:48:36.440 --> 00:48:38.929
People didn\'t reject the
idea of calories on
00:48:38.930 --> 00:48:42.274
the grounds that bows and arrows and
swords that always been adequate
00:48:42.275 --> 00:48:45.828
and we never got to Leon bat y with
00:48:45.829 --> 00:48:51.739
the important but limited
experience in nonviolent struggle.
00:48:51.740 --> 00:48:57.724
Should people will assume that we\'ve gone as
far with that type of struggle as possible.
00:48:57.725 --> 00:49:00.210
It doesn\'t make sense.
00:49:28.960 --> 00:49:31.210
Lamarckian.
00:49:38.180 --> 00:49:40.639
Diego moves allele lending.
00:49:40.640 --> 00:49:43.489
We hope that one day there
will be a big money even
00:49:43.490 --> 00:49:46.489
here in the center of a sprawling
gardens which are flooded
00:49:46.490 --> 00:49:52.833
with Manolis flowers and birds
which are the lucky and is named
00:49:52.834 --> 00:49:58.369
Yes I sname written clearly Marina
candy Steinway like it is now.
00:49:58.370 --> 00:50:02.944
There will be a beautiful term
Stan and on will be written.
00:50:02.945 --> 00:50:07.170
Here lies a man who die
in defense of the people.
00:50:14.590 --> 00:50:20.569
Over the nine years I filmed a violence which
accompanies political and social upheaval.
00:50:20.570 --> 00:50:23.434
I remember most vividly the funerals.
00:50:23.435 --> 00:50:25.309
It is indies funerals.
00:50:25.310 --> 00:50:29.764
I feel it cycles of violence
are born and reborn.
00:50:29.765 --> 00:50:34.129
It is these personal memories of
the past that shape and limit
00:50:34.130 --> 00:50:38.328
the collective future of a nation
from Chile to the highlands of
00:50:38.329 --> 00:50:43.339
Guatemala to a coup in Peru I could
see her memories of brutality and
00:50:43.340 --> 00:50:49.890
injustice are passing through the silence
of the dead from one generation to another.
00:50:55.450 --> 00:51:01.534
In the Philippines and new memory was
born within four days in February.
00:51:01.535 --> 00:51:06.094
People stopped the tanks leading
to the downfall of a dictator.
00:51:06.095 --> 00:51:12.153
These images traveled by television to Chile
where they have the victory in the polls
00:51:12.154 --> 00:51:17.520
we\'re trying to engage the police
in a dialogue to avoid violence.
00:51:24.760 --> 00:51:29.328
A year later these images
influence Chinese students and
00:51:29.329 --> 00:51:33.664
workers who for three weeks while
the government troops and vague.
00:51:33.665 --> 00:51:35.673
And maybe it was the memory of
00:51:35.674 --> 00:51:39.874
these peaceful demonstrations and
not the massacre that follow them.
00:51:39.875 --> 00:51:44.494
That empowered alone citizen
to face a column of tanks.
00:51:44.495 --> 00:51:47.839
As this image was beamed across the world.
00:51:47.840 --> 00:51:49.159
It became part of
00:51:49.160 --> 00:51:54.648
our collective memory out of which the
political strategy for the future
00:51:54.649 --> 00:51:57.149
Mike yet to be born
Distributor: Icarus Films
Length: 53 minutes
Date: 1989
Genre: Expository
Language: Not available
Grade: 10-12, College, Adult
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