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I have filmed my friends fight for Ungdomshuset

from August 2006 to March 2007.

I was allowed to film almost everything.

I have so far as possible told it

chronologically, and as I see it.

Director, Nikolaj Viborg

I'm going off on Sunday

so I won't be here when it starts.

It's a really special feeling for

me to stand here right now.

It can be the last time

that I'm in this house.

It looks like it.

"Theyve got the house, we'll get peace"

Copenhagen Mayor, 1982

Mads Lodahl.

Ungdomshuset activist

Hi Tanja.

I'm collecting materials for my article.

Where would people like you go if

there wouldn't be Ungdomshuset?

I would sit all day in my house,

pissed off and sad.

Because here I'm also all day.

I don't want to be anywhere else.

That's the only place where

I don't fell like a freak.

I think many people feel the same.

Without this house it will be hard to

find some other place like this in Denmark.

Ungdomshuset, 28. August 2006

It will look like a joke.

- That's what its all about.

Don't look at me.

- Try to shout.

Today, the Supreme Court holded up

the decision of the County Court.

Super!

Hi. Today, the Supreme Court holded up

the decision of the County Court.

Anyway, we are staying.

We are still ready for negotiations,

but if they don't want a political solution,

confrontation is inevitable.

Today, the Supreme Court ordered

the youth to leave Ungdomshuset.

They gave the owner of this building

- the religious group Faderhuset -

rights to use this building.

What is the situation in Ungdomshuset?

It's tight. Ungdomshuset attracted

all youth groups from Norrebro.

Their representatives don't want confrontations,

but will they manage this situation?

If I would like to be dramatic, I would say

that this is a peace before the storm.

Does it look good?

- Your fringe is a bit too high.

Do they look real?

- Nope, your face is too pale.

I look like Amalie.

- Yeah, Amalie also wore it like this.

My openness about my homosexuality

has been often met with violent reactions.

In Ungdomshuset it's different.

I quickly found out,

that Ungdomshuset is a place

where I can be myself.

Copenhagen Authorities

gave us Ungdomshuset in 1982.

By doing that, they confirmed a need for

a place that will be for all outsiders.

It seems that people who rule now

think different.

It's not important

what I think about their decisions.

I'm expecting that we will find a solution.

I'm expecting a dialogue about this.

I think that's the way

we should handle with this.

Ungdomshuset, 18. September 2006

Who will read the plans for

the weekend from 22. to 24?

It will start with a demonstration.

We need a group on the sides

of trucks and on the front.

Something about eight people...

- What about accommodation for the night?

If the 80 people from Holland won't come,

and if 120 from Kiel will,

then we have night rests for everybody.

As a Monday Summit Ungdomshuset

representatives, we want to show our strategy

so you will know what to do.

Our official statement is,

that we don't support combat actions.

No destructions or vandalism,

unless in self defense

if cops will start it.

We're in negotiations with the City Council

and we agreed to participate

in this democratic process

because we know that we will get

beat up if we would fight with police.

I have promised to encourage everyone

to participate in the Saturday demonstration.

It must be peaceful, we want to show how

broad is the spectrum of support for us.

DEFENSE OF PEOPLE

I will tell you something about those,

who they call "the youth"

All newspapers write about fights with youths...

City will pay a lot for this.

You are responsible for fun,

but what about fights with police?

We don't want any fights and there won't

be any, unless the police will start them.

Come on, they want to arrest

everybody from the group up there.

We gotta do something!

Is she so dangerous for you?

How much extra payment you get

for beating innocent people?

How much do they pay you?

On the side.

- Further on right.

Our motto "We decide, when we fight" is super,

but the problem is that we don't always decide.

If cops will attack we don't

have what to decide about.

We can only decide if we defend ourselves

or passively get beat up.

We can't require from the demonstrating people,

to passively set themselves under police batons.

All this case with revolutions romanticism...

These times passed away.

Today it's only a vent

for rage and frustration,

so people fight with police.

To be real, it's counterevolutional...

because you direct all anger on police

and honestly, you shouldn't be mad at them.

I don't agree, because we

can't run from our history.

When the movement appeared,

the movement who wanted to get Ungdomshuset

and they've asked for one, they were ignored.

They didn't get one until they

started to be serious.

They've squatted empty building

and were attacked by tear-gas.

It forced them to defence

and that's why they got this house.

Its true that nobody wants this confrontation.

But we must remeber that we wouldn't

get this building without a fight.

From today news:

On Norrebro violence exploded.

Attention:
We are showing unpleasant

scenes of meeting punks with cops.

Enough of this.

In the place where I come from everybody

looks the same and this is scary.

Somebody says:

"Why can't you respect their lifestyle?

They've chosen to live

in a city without graffiti

where everybody looks the same."

But I didn't choose this when I lived there.

I wanted something else,

engage in something.

But there wasn't anything like it.

That life was deadly for everybody

who didn't toe the line.

Homosexuals always moved to Copenhagen.

...as everyone else who was

different from "normal people".

They had places like Ungdomshuset.

If Copenhagen would be just like Herning,

then what's the point of moving to Copennhagen?

It would be the same in Copenhagen,

lonely and sad.

...arised a foundation, that wants to buy

back Ungdomshuset for the youths.

We estabilished a foundation...

[Association] and we want to buy

the building back from Faderhuset

and offer some avalaible solutions,

so Ungdomshuset could

continue their activity with us.

With the foundation behind us

we have a good position.

So it's important to hold

the politicians good will.

Faderhuset is the only one

who don't want us to stay here.

If I convince them to sell the building

to the foundation then we are saved.

We don't brake the law

by calling to them, just to talk.

We don't need to threaten them.

You can say, that you worry about

their safety, or whatever you want ...

We had made some smaller campaign,

when we called them and jumped for a visit.

Thanks to us, they didn't have

any mass in one and half month.

And we turn off their telephones.

Today they announced, that theyll

start again making their services.

It's a clear invite for us,

to "visit" them on Monday.

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