WEBVTT 00:00:07.483 --> 00:00:13.458 Why i am here ? Probably beacause i care about whats going on in our country. 00:00:13.458 --> 00:00:18.573 Because i want to live in this country and don't want to move away from here. 00:00:18.573 --> 00:00:21.124 want my kids and grandchildren to live here. 00:00:21.124 --> 00:00:29.025 I want it to be a country where everyone could live well and not just a small group of a few wealthy percents. 00:00:29.055 --> 00:00:32.731 I came here today because i support civic initiatives 00:00:32.731 --> 00:00:36.800 and those protest movements that is happening in Moscow right now. 00:00:36.800 --> 00:00:39.654 I think it is very important to be here right now. 00:00:39.654 --> 00:00:43.000 This thing is something very important. 00:00:43.000 --> 00:00:50.573 It is impossible to be anywhere else but here these days if you care for anyone but yourself. 00:00:50.573 --> 00:00:52.478 That's why i am here. 00:00:52.478 --> 00:00:58.645 I was at Bolotnaya square on 6th may, saw what riot police was doing to people over there, 00:00:58.645 --> 00:01:02.471 a lot of people were beaten by the police, 00:01:02.471 --> 00:01:10.151 this includes my friends and a lot of people that i know. 00:01:10.151 --> 00:01:16.487 It was outrageous of course and than this camp was made, and i realised that i should be here. 00:01:16.487 --> 00:01:22.939 Every conscious person should be here and support this movement i think. 00:01:41.431 --> 00:01:58.207 I think everyone who is supporting protest movement of last few months should come here to Occupy Abai camp, 00:01:58.207 --> 00:02:08.955 take city squares, protest peacefully and let government know that people need social reforms 00:02:08.955 --> 00:02:15.468 and let them see that we need serious political changes. 00:02:15.483 --> 00:02:26.160 I take part in this civic protests actions because i don't like how our government works, 00:02:26.160 --> 00:02:34.955 that it ignores me, my rights, needs and the rights, needs and concerns of my relatives and friends. 00:02:34.955 --> 00:02:45.160 I am world war two veteran, i lived a long life, i am 90 years old now. What i am here ? 00:02:45.160 --> 00:02:52.840 I came here to analyze life, to see how powers behave, Putin and Medvedev too, 00:02:52.840 --> 00:03:00.720 his government is criminals i think: they live by the lies, using people's money. 00:03:00.720 --> 00:03:06.440 My kids and grandchilren are coming here today 00:03:06.440 --> 00:03:15.268 and i am very well worried about what kind of future we left after us. 00:03:15.268 --> 00:03:22.440 My disagreement with how Russia threat it's own citizens brought me here today 00:03:22.440 --> 00:03:31.600 and i was at Bolotnaya square after 6th and was part of what some people call civil unrest 00:03:31.600 --> 00:03:39.360 and i think police shouldn't threat people who are trying to voice their opinions like this, 00:03:39.360 --> 00:03:41.080 it is absolutely unacceptable. That's why i am here! 00:03:41.080 --> 00:03:48.280 My desire to change this country for the best brought me here because authorities ignored all past rallies and meetings 00:03:48.280 --> 00:03:54.266 we had over past months and i think that form of protest just isn't working anymore here. 00:03:54.266 --> 00:03:59.920 They don't want to start any kind of dialogue and that is why i came here and going to take an active part in it, 00:03:59.920 --> 00:04:07.275 maybe staying here overnight because im pretty sure a real protest movement can be born out of this. 00:04:07.275 --> 00:04:16.653 People gathered here today to search for a civilized form of protest against current powers. 00:04:16.653 --> 00:04:23.080 I am here because i see how fast Russia becoming a third world country, 00:04:23.080 --> 00:04:27.040 i see that our political regime moving, at the alarming rate, 00:04:27.040 --> 00:04:32.520 towards what we saw in latin america under Pinochet presidency. 00:04:32.520 --> 00:04:37.600 Because i completly share the demands of this winter protest rallys 00:04:37.600 --> 00:04:44.003 and i think we should do something to show our attitude, 00:04:44.003 --> 00:04:48.800 to bring new people into the movement and to achieve the implementation of our demands. 00:04:48.800 --> 00:04:54.113 It is a very good thing because proper society should be about people respecting each other, 00:04:54.113 --> 00:04:59.960 it comes naturally, without any pressure from above, without leaders. 00:04:59.960 --> 00:05:09.600 People gather here not because of one person they like but because they are grown up citizens. 00:05:09.600 --> 00:05:13.757 There is no public places in our country, in Moscow. 00:05:13.757 --> 00:05:23.004 This is an attempt to retake our public space from authorities that doesn't allow us to walk the streets of our city, 00:05:23.004 --> 00:05:26.760 gather together, talk about politics and have discussions between people, 00:05:26.760 --> 00:05:35.882 the possibility to have a dialogue between people and authority is being born here. 00:05:35.882 --> 00:05:42.047 If we are capable to elect our leaders then i think we are capable to take care of our own lives too. 00:05:42.047 --> 00:05:44.920 It's a wonderful thing i think. They were calling us stupid, 00:05:44.920 --> 00:05:52.520 told us that we can't decide for ourself but people proved them wrong. 00:05:52.520 --> 00:05:57.520 People very well understand what's going on in this country, they don't agree with the way things are. 00:05:57.520 --> 00:06:02.344 And since we don't have any means of communication with authority - 00:06:02.344 --> 00:06:08.600 this is the only way to make our voices heard by the people who,as they think, have a right to decide our future. 00:06:08.600 --> 00:06:15.960 It's a way of interaction between people, it's a unique experience of self-organization, self-regulation, 00:06:15.960 --> 00:06:21.960 responsibility, experience of overcoming fears, at some extent, especially at the beginning. 00:06:21.960 --> 00:06:29.320 Even if they make us leave this place, even if this will end someday, i think people will remember all of this. 00:06:29.320 --> 00:06:32.680 It's not going to end here, we will keep gathering and occupy other places. 00:06:32.680 --> 00:06:51.963 I think the most important thing in camp is assembly, it is one of these things that politicize people in a good way. 00:06:51.963 --> 00:06:59.360 These events will be part of these peoples lives and our country history, 00:06:59.360 --> 00:07:06.905 general assembly is the best part of this camp i believe. 00:07:06.905 --> 00:07:12.280 Right now we can only talk about this and nobody really tackle those issues yet, 00:07:12.280 --> 00:07:14.462 we should engage ourself in trying to solve these problems. 00:07:14.462 --> 00:07:21.357 All the best people of Russia, who gather here in camp, should draw a roadmap - 00:07:21.357 --> 00:07:27.139 make a plan of future development of this country. 00:07:27.139 --> 00:07:31.736 We see how people come up with different initiatives, 00:07:31.736 --> 00:07:36.150 we see how they self-organize and i think it's the future of this movement. 00:07:36.150 --> 00:07:43.073 We completely put aside by civil government, we left with no ability to make decisions, 00:07:43.073 --> 00:07:50.080 we don't have autonomy, no accountable power institutions, what we see today is becoming of feudal state. 00:07:50.080 --> 00:07:53.992 I am against it and think a lot of people will agree with me. 00:08:02.284 --> 00:08:11.389 I am feminist and fight for non-patriarchal world, gender equality. 00:08:11.389 --> 00:08:26.160 I want to see a new free society which i am sure will be a version of socialism in its most democratic decision making form. 00:08:26.160 --> 00:08:34.769 I fight for freedom, equality, solidarity, anarchy, a world without governments and bosses. 00:08:34.769 --> 00:08:37.956 I fight for civic society in our country, for democracy. 00:08:37.956 --> 00:08:42.710 I don't want to live in a country of lies but in a real democratic country. 00:08:42.710 --> 00:08:51.278 Greatness of the country is measured by quality of life, individual respect, self-development opportunities - 00:08:51.278 --> 00:08:54.857 it's all very obvious things and not some kind of fantasy. 00:08:54.857 --> 00:08:58.958 Fairness, freedom, equality. 00:08:58.958 --> 00:09:08.702 I think the future is self-organization of people, struggle, adjusting society to that effect. 00:09:08.702 --> 00:09:12.986 I consider power minimization the main aim of this movement 00:09:12.986 --> 00:09:18.446 because what we see right now is concentration of all the power in one hands 00:09:18.446 --> 00:09:21.200 and absolute absence of it in the others. 00:09:21.200 --> 00:09:28.160 Occupy Moscow should spread across nation and become this... 00:09:28.160 --> 00:09:42.740 so people could look into each other eyes and realize that they are not alone, 00:09:44.894 --> 00:09:48.409 on Facebook, and that there is other outraged people in this country.