Just Do It: A Tale of Modern-day Outlaws Page #7

I said we love bikes

and wouldn't steal them.

So they said they weren't going

to stand there and intimidate us.

Now, our role on the 16th of December

is to be a bit like the cavalry,

OK?

So, always moving,

and always taking the police away

from where they're trying to stop the

people coming into the Bella Centre.

Because what will be happening

is that people will be coming

into the Bella Centre

but also about 500 people

will be coming out.

And that's the beauty of the day.

So we're going to play some games

to get used to the bikes.

Put your bike up like that. You use

your tire to defend your body...

Ready? Go!

- How does that feel?

- Scary.

Scary! And that was your mates.

So, in this one,

the thing to do...

The cops are filming us.

We're in Copenhagen.

This is the UN talks,

where carbon trading is one

of the only solutions on the table.

- Carbon trading is the table.

- It is the table, indeed.

We are in the seat of that.

It's not like we're away.

It's not just about capitalism,

though that's great.

It's that the UN summit that's taking

place in Copenhagen right now

is presenting capitalist solutions

to something that shouldn't.

We're just making very quickly

our carbon trader

WACT Association posters

which we're going to be taking

on the big NGO march today

to illustrate just how important

a solution carbon trading is

to put on the table in Copenhagen.

Just subverting

what Greenpeace is doing

and flipping the tables around.

What do you want out of it?

Just to look at it. Just open it.

You can check it for weapons

if that's what you want.

We just found a lot of explosives.

So we're looking around.

- OK, thanks.

- No, no, that's cool.

Now then, bankers.

Let's shake off

any goodwill of humanity,

starting at your feet.

Three cheers for the police.

Hip, hip, hooray!

- Have a nice walk.

- And you!

Let's go, then.

- One solution!

- Trade pollution!

- One solution!

- Trade pollution!

Is this the first hippy

you've stopped today?

- We don't want those hippies!

- Are you gonna stop lots more?

He's a hippy.

Just take him away, it's fine.

It's just a hippy.

We don't want him.

Power!

Power!

Power to the privileged!

Because the privileged got the power.

Tell me, can you feel it?

We get richer by the hour.

We are singing for carbon trading.

We want to make some money now.

- Is it funny?

- Is it funny?

Yes, it's funny.

We thought about it for a long time

and now we find out it's irony. Yes.

One solution is to trade pollution.

200,000 people turned out that day

for an entirely peaceful march.

However, late in the afternoon,

as temperatures dropped,

the police used their new powers

and pre-emptively detained 968 people.

With a week left at the summit,

the police are taking

increasing control of the streets

and tensions are rising.

Excuse me, do you have guns?

When do you think

you'll need to shoot people?

What law are we breaking?

We're not doing anything wrong.

We have a democratic right to protest.

Kettle escaped!

That was so funny

when you climbed into the kettle.

But, on returning to base, they find

the police are already there.

They're not allowed

into their accommodation.

- How come we can't go inside?

- Because they are making a police...

With a girl inside,

they're talking to her.

Lauren, the film's producer,

is being arrested under anti-terrorism

law and tapes are being seized.

She works with me.

So, can I please go inside?

No, not at this moment.

But she's only come here

because she's my assistant.

So I think I should be allowed to.

She's probably quite scared.

I'm a card-carrying member of the

press and you're taking my material.

And that's a really illegal thing

to do, as far as I'm concerned.

Thank you very much.

It won't take a long time. Do you want

your bags? Or you can leave them here.

You trust these guys?

Can I just give her a hug?

Because I'm sure she's very upset.

Now, what the police don't realize

is that Emily's hug was just an excuse

for Lauren to palm off some

potentially incriminating footage.

Lauren, you haven't done

anything wrong.

- Probably not.

- No, definitely not.

She hasn't. We know

she's not done anything wrong.

We just have to get that confirmed,

that's all.

The whole police operation is about...

.. showing the force

in their organization,

terrifying us

with their force and organization,

arresting people

and putting them in cages.

Even the cages have been designed

to look like Guantanamo.

All this stuff is really...

It's a fine art

of psychological intimidation.

But we have our orders.

We don't know the reason

but we have our orders.

Not all of the outlaws

have headed to Copenhagen.

In London, Marina and co

have something up their sleeve.

The politicians are going

to Copenhagen to cop out.

So we're taking to the streets

of London to camp out.

We're going to take a space in the

center of London, pop up our tents.

All over the world,

there'll be actions.

Our personal bit is camping out

for cop out in London.

What's supposed to be happening is,

four groups

coming from four directions

will swoop at three o'clock.

And no-one else is here.

What's your text said?

That's changed.

Jubilee Gardens,

outside the Shell HQ.

We should have just gone

with fing Parliament Square.

Oh, God.

This is my worst nightmare.

Stay where you were.

We're going back

to where we came from.

Apparently, this is the diversion.

I've never given up

and gone home on an action before,

but I'm getting a little bit tired

and a bit confused.

And a little bit longing

for a hierarchy.

Tell me what to do!

Be my leader!

I'm going to go and sit on a bench.

I would have to look into

my crystal ball to tell you.

Nothing is happening.

We have a decoy in Jubilee Gardens

and a no-show on the site.

I don't know where the vehicles are,

what's happened to the communications.

I don't see

what was difficult about them.

And then, like a Christmas miracle,

tents pop up in Trafalgar Square.

As fast as can be, the camping elves

get everything set up.

Before Marina can get the kettle on,

the police arrive and ask for tea.

It's a very hard surface

to be sleeping on.

Yes, it is, and I'm hoping

we've come prepared.

But it's a pretty forbidding floor.

When did you leave the Isle of Wight?

When they threw me off.

If you're going to set up here...

Trafalgar Square is not running out of

tea, and neither is Copenhagen.

I'm worried about them.

Those Danish police, they've no manners.

Let's hope they all come back

safe and sound.

I wouldn't get plastic cups out

in front of those Danish cops.

Never mind the second best China.

It's the day before the mass action

against the UN conference.

All hands are on deck.

Have you got papers?

The Danish police has permission

to go into places here.

According to the Danish Police Act,

we are to see what's in here

and then we will leave again.

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