Just Do It: A Tale of Modern-day Outlaws Page #5

- Too late now!

This is Trudy, our beat officer.

Marina's got a favourite

police officer, and it's me!

I got emotionally engaged.

I got so involved.

I'm not too sure

if you're going to be able to do this.

You're removing property

that belongs to another person.

I know that you planted the seed...

.. but you're removing the earth,

aren't you?

Marina, I don't know.

I'm just saying that this is all being

recorded. You are removing some earth.

- If they wish to...

- Prosecute me.

- I'll have my day in court.

- OK!

Crumpets, everybody!

Crumpets?

We require you

to leave in five minutes.

I hated the way

the authorities tell you,

"Your campaign is ending today. "

How dare they?

So, let me get this straight. You're

not giving a woman long enough

to put her crockery away,

because you think an hour is a

reasonable time to tat down a camp?

We've given you enough time,

and nothing's been done,

so this is what we now require.

No!

Here they are, taking down my tent.

Excuse me, I now require you

to leave the site, please.

I'm not leaving

without my belongings.

We've given you a chance

to get your personal possessions.

You haven't given us a chance.

Because I'm packing up

all three places.

I now require you

to leave the site.

- Are you going with them?

- I want my bed.

They're telling me to go.

They're going to pack it up.

You can collect it later.

If you don't leave the site now,

I'll have to arrest you.

No, I've got to get my kettle.

I'm not going without my kettle.

Where's my kettle?

Can you come with me, please?

Marina, you're under arrest,

under Section Ten.

You do not have to say anything,

but it may harm your defense,

if you do not mention anything

you later rely on in court.

Anything you do say

may be given as evidence.

Being arrested for trying

to leave with two things.

There was just nowhere...

There was no space in the interview

for any understanding

of the fact

that you've been living somewhere.

The policewoman

who arrested me,

the day before, she visited and

I thought we got to know each other.

She gave me a hug goodbye

when she turned up with the bailiffs.

She arrested me, anyway.

She cried during my interview

because...

I mean, I cried.

And even then, I keep polite.

It was like...

They're telling me that

I should have packed a bit earlier.

I left my stuff till last.

So I suppose my tears were

more for the sadness

that there's so much to overcome.

The only way we can overcome

is if lots of people agree the law is

an ass and start ignoring the laws.

Because that's how you get

the laws changed.

Rosa Park sat down on a bus.

The law changed because

lots of people agreed with her.

So that's what we have to do.

But it has to be fun and exciting.

We have good friends

and we get over getting arrested

and we get on with the next job.

That's what we'll do.

We're not hoping for arrests.

We're hoping for lots of new recruits

to the revolution.

This is Ratcliffe on Soar Coal

power station,

the second largest power station

in the UK

and soon to be the target

of a publicly announced mass action.

A planning meeting is held

in Nottingham. Anyone is welcome.

Morning.

Well, except the police.

There's a load of secrecy

that goes with taking direct action.

It's hard for any member of the public

to take direct action.

If they want to stop a power station,

they don't know how.

The point of the swoop

was to say:

"We'll shut down this power station

on this day, with loads of people.

Anyone who wants to help

can come along. "

A power station

is on high alert tonight

as environmental campaigners

have vowed to shut it down.

One advantage

of a publicly announced action

is that news coverage starts

before the target is in sight.

Protestors arrive

at Nottingham tonight.

Hundreds more

are expected tomorrow.

I'll show you how extensive

the security operation is here.

There are dozens of police officers.

Some are in riot gear.

All day, the police helicopter's

hovered overhead.

Take a look at this. Mile after mile

of razor wire and fencing

has been put up around the site.

All this security is with one aim:

to stop the protestors

from getting inside.

State-sanctioned protests

are good for one thing.

But we need to start

doing things

that will directly impact

on those offenders.

And the coal industry

is a massive offender.

They are causing carbon emissions

that will destroy our planet.

And one thing about direct action,

I suppose,

the target is meant

to have an immediate effect.

The idea with the climate swoop

was to shut down a power station

and stop it emitting

dangerous chemicals

into the atmosphere.

To actively stop it.

It wasn't just to stand on the line,

with a placard saying,

"We don't like what you do. "

It was actually to do something.

On an action, it's important

to look after each other.

So everybody has a buddy

to watch their back.

So Sophie and Mary are buddies,

and they will stick together.

They are paired with Rowan and Paul

to make what we call a brick.

As a four, they can make quick

decisions and work as a tactical unit.

So there might be someone

that's happy to cut a fence open.

There might be someone else

that's not.

But they'll support someone

cutting a fence.

And so they work out their roles

so that one person

might be carrying all the food.

That enables the person that's happy

to cut a fence open, to do it.

Their brick is part of what we call

an affinity group,

who will work together for the day.

Their affinity group joins others so

they can move en masse to the target.

You walk in the footsteps of history.

You're doing it because you want

to stand up and defend the future.

A lot of people have made

a lot of change in history.

And they have done it

by working together

and challenging the status quo

and finding hope and faith

where it might seem

like there is none.

But, in the end, somebody has

to take down the fences.

There are campaigns

involving letter writing.

You can do frightfully nice picnics.

But sometimes,

you have to get messy.

The coal just has to be stopped.

So I've come with a messy attitude.

I'm just getting in there, being a bit

ooh and ah with my balaclava up.

Somebody's cut a hole in the fence

over by the bridge. That way.

Let's not point.

He's waiting for

some kind of critical mass

to make their way

and storm it.

It wasn't just

about destroying the fence.

It was about getting through it

and locking ourselves

onto different points.

This is one way

in which we can change things.

And a really important way

because mass civil disobedience

shows that the law is unjust

and people are willing

to become outlaws to change things.

Keep moving back, please.

It empowers people

to take control of their own lives

and their own actions

and futures.

Criminal damage pointed at the right

organization is completely warranted.

Especially when you figure

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