The Awakening of the Youngsters

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On May 16, 2011, the most romantic way of exercising democracy in the hands of the people was experienced in the streets of Spain. It is in this context that the generations that are now resting speak to young people, inviting them to take charge of their lives and be an active part of society in crisis.

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García Locatelli, Sergio (film director)
García Locatelli, Sergio (screenwriter)
García Locatelli, Sergio (film producer)

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Cinematography, Hugo Carmona; editing, Sergio García Locatelli.

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Dear youth:

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I am so proud to meet you here.

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From this position I have to tell you

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One day when I was almost sleeping I said to
myself

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Are these young men and women sleeping?

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Why aren’t they out on the streets? Why?

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The awakening of the young - A documentary by Sergio
Garcia Locatelli

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We are also reminding all the people here

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Who need first hand information

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That we have a web page

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Remember that the other pages

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Are fake

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Our is madrid.tomalaplaza.net

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Recycle

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And yes, we will go on! If they say sleeping, I say
dreaming. If the say you won’t make it,

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We will make it there on tiptoes. If they say we
are lost, we say we are searching. If they say you
fell doen, we say I will rise up

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It’s not a crisis: Its a scam.

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We are not afraid, no, no!!

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This is a hold-up, hands up. This is a hold-up!

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Let them go away ooooh. Let them go away oooh

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Let them go away ooooh. Let them go away oooheeeh

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Here we are, the precarious youth!!

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Here we are, the precarious youth!!

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Here we are, the precarious youth!!

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If they don’t care about you, why do you protect
them?

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If they don’t care about you, why do you protect
them?

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If they don’t care about you, why do you protect
them?

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They have reduced your wages too!

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They have reduced your wages too!

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They have reduced your wages too! They have reduced
your wages too!

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Small companies in my neighborhood

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Which have been running for life, have been forced
to close.

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Because they went bankrupt.

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These people are unable to afford their mortgage
anymore

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And they have to put the house on sale, and it won’t
sell at all!!!

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What are we going to do? Camping on the streets?

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If it’s necessary we are all going to camp on the
fucking streets!

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I have been sleeping in Plaza del Sol for ten days
and I believe we need to clarify

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This is a true revolution of sensibility.

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I go to sleep every night thinking about our partners
in Brussels, Amsterdam and Cataluna.

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And we need to have this common feeling that we are
having every day.

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Only that one who knows is free, and the more you
know, the more free you are. Only culture grants
freedom. Miguel de Unamuno

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We are not going to be accomplice of what outrages
us or shames us anymore Nothing is immutable.
Everything changes

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LOIS PERREIRO (modest proposition to quit spinning
the hydraulic wheel of a cyclic universal history
of infamy).

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I love you.

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I respect you

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And I envy you

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But, as I am a little older than you are,

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I am a little confused

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If in this country

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We have been

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More or less

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60 to 80 years

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with

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our ears shut

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and our mouth shut

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I don’t understand

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Why the movement that you have created, and sorry

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that I say you have created,

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We have, but you have created.

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has been created

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to say: It’s enough! Do not carry silence

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We were in silence for many years.

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Watch out, I know what that is... and I don’t want

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to take what you have approved, that you have approved
on the 15th, that’s making history

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I am not starting a debate, I don’t want my share.

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This is wonderful

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They are speaking

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Sorry

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This is serious

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Tho I love to see your joyful faces

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Go ahead and thank you very much

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We need to go now

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If we go now, we are leaving when we want to leave

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If we stay longer, be it a week or a day

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We will surely leave when they want us to leave

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And this is a serious problem, because we are now
speaking from the heart...

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And we are all on a cloud

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Are we leaving tonight or tomorrow morning?, is
there any consensus?

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No!

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Ok, seems quite clear to me

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We’ve come here because we are taking you as a
reference

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If the camping leaves, the campings in Extremadura
will leave

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And it’s now, two days ago, that we have started
working.

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Then it’s not possible, not possible.

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We have problems, right.

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In Caceres, we have the problem that we get to noon
and there is no water.

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We are sleeping outside because they won’t allow us
to set up tents

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We have to sleep on the floor

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And we are struggling, so please if there is any
issue with the camping

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And we have to remain two days without gathering
any council, no problem

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We set up the camping and we gain strength, ok?

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We are not leaving!!

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We are not leaving!!

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We are not leaving!!

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We are not leaving!!

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We are not leaving!!

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Madrid’s Plaza del Sol was taken on May 16th, 2011,
after a day of mass protests

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Because of the repugnance they felt on the corruption
cases coming up on a daily basis, and the lack of
jobs affecting mainly the new generations.

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This camping

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You should rebuild it in a reference with presence

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symbolic

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I wish we could build, instead of a Record
Company,

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A reference that we started here the true democracy
in this town.

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A concrete proposal would be

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to lend concrete elements

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A concrete proposal es that on the 15th day of every
month

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we gather here

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A concrete proposal is that...

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each time there is any kind of issue, we come here
directly

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After several assemblies discussing whether or not
they will break camp in the Acampada del Sol

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the protesters decided to leave the Plaza and go
ahead with the 15-M movement.

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transferring it to the barrios on June 1st that
year.

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As a result of the activities of the so called
“indignados”, comes up “PODEMOS” as a Political
Party, that

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a few years later, becomes one of the most important
political forces in Spain.

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After several years since the movement’s birth,
corruption cases are still coming up

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and the young still have very few chances to get
decent jobs.

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(Singing) One big banker, balanced so carefully on
the property bubble

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When he found that the bubble was strong, he called
on another banker

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Two big bankers, balanced so carefully on the property
bubble

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When they found that the bubble was strong, they
called on another banker

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Today is a day to smile... The people have woken
up

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Thank you very much

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I am super excited

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and proud for the first time in my 30 years

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of the society I live in, thank you very much to
you all.

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This film is dedicated to those who suffer the crisis
and those who struggle to reverse this situation
that affects

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a big deal of young people who find emigration as
the only source of jobs.