In the center of Sao Paulo there are more empty homes than homeless families. I was born in Santo Amaro da Purificação, a city near Salvador. We are 12 siblings.
Back then there was no TV to entertain people. So, we’re 12, only 2 women and the rest of us guys. It was just one room in the yard, and there were fruit, but it was very nice.
I was 11, and it was very good. As small as it was, only my mom slept on the bad, and the rest of us on hammocks, it was small but cozy. I remember that in the back of my house there were a few beds, sort of a hostel, and my mom would do the laundry for the drudges, and cook them lunch, it is drudge, that they are called… I am from Itapoca, hometown of Tiririca!
At age nine I was already working at the town fair, peeling oranges, selling, this type of thing, and I got some money that I would give my mom. My parents separated, and who took on the heavier load was my old lady. Demir was a street vendor and he had about four stands around here.
So I asked him to bring me, so I could work. Because everybody kept saying that São Paulo was the place to make money, so I said “Come on, Bro, take me there ‘cause I want to get rich. He brought me here.
Then I was, twenty years old. Then my brother came to São Paulo to be a hairdresser, and he had a friend who was a hairdresser and lived here. So I tagged along.
When I got here I went to work so I could make rent, then I sent for my sister and my daughter, and soon after that my mom came too, everybody moved here. They swindled me. Swindled, that’s the word, for my coming to São Paulo.
They said São Paulo was a world of wonders, that here anybody could make it. And then he referenced me to a building where I could work as a security guard, there at Paulista Ave. I worked there as a guard for six years, and then I left, and didn’t want to work anymore, not registered under anyone.
I got disgusted by bosses. I came to São Paulo… When I met my wife there, I was 14 years old. And, when he saw I was with his daughter, he wanted to kill me.
One day he caught us together and then he beat her up, nearly killing her. And that’s when I took her and we ran to my house. We stayed there for two months, then he found out where we’d been hiding.
So my mom and my grandma had the idea to ship us off to São Paulo. ‘Cause I had an aunt that lived here… In Bela vista, right, that’s what I said? I was born here.
Almost everybody came from different states, very few of us are from São Paulo. Even the accent, we end up incorporating a little bit of each one’s, suddenly we’re no longer aware of our own identity. Once I got here and looked around… A bunch of buildings, the tallest one we have there, in Guariba, I think to this day, is four or five stories high, which is the Town Hall, the rest… Wow, right?
When I saw, all these big tall elephants, I confess I was frightened. At first I got lost at the bus terminal, went crazy! Slept there for two days.
And I remember my wife and I, she had this big belly, we were sleeping on this tiny bench. Then this guy took pity on us and took us to Carapicuíba. I stayed at his house, and after one week on the phone, we found the contact for my aunt in Bela Vista.
And we lived in several different places. From Vila Guarani, in a small room, that we could no longer afford, and then we moved to many hives around here, in Muniz de Souza, Lava Pés, Miguel Teles Jr. , a lot of hives around Cambuci.
Once we couldn’t afford those anymore, we moved under the Glicério Bridge. I’ve lived in hostels with all kinds of people. And when I say all kinds, I mean drug dealers, murderers, thieves, hookers, anything you can imagine.
I went to, up to the tenth month of college, at Uniban. Only back then, I worked at a bank. It was during the Collor years, actually it gives me this itch when I speak his name because I lost my job, two days before he assumed I received the news that I’d been laid off.
So, with that money, I held on, paid rent back then. So I kept paying rent, and school until I couldn’t get another job and was forced to stop. It’d been 11 years since I’d been living in São Paulo.
In the slums. I went through a fire and was left with nothing, only the clothes on my back. When I started buying my things again, for the house, I was afraid I was gonna lose it all again, that there was gonna be another fire, I was traumatized.
And the when I came here, to visit my mother, I checked the possibility of coming to live here, even though I knew it wasn’t definitive, that it wouldn’t be mine… When I made some money, I went to Ceará, left a little there, and never thought about tomorrow. And I made some good money, street vendors made real cash. What killed me was the rent.
Rent and transportation from where I lived, because my bus was intermunicipal and the boss wouldn’t cover it. He didn’t pay for transportation. So, I worked for that alone, for making rent, bills and transport.
And so it went, and I never saw time go by. When I realized, the police were on to us, taking all our stuff, falling into a decadence, and I couldn’t even make rent anymore. I started living in a small federal hotel, hotel, right there, that’s now been deactivated.
There I paid twenty bucks a day. There were days that I made it and days that I didn’t. And then my niece, Gerlane, came to me and said “auntie, let’s occupy that building over there!
Come on! ” I said “but, niece…”, she said “come on, auntie, stop being such a wuss! ” So I said “ well, then, let’s go!
”. And then we came. It’s approximately 10 to 12 m2, each room.
You can see that here is the kitchen, the laundry room, the living room. We improvise. There at my job I tell them.
They know where I live, they know what my condition is. I don’t hide my circumstances from anybody. That we are here, that this is a building that’s been illegally occupied.
And that we’re fighting for housing. My name is Elisete Barbosa Souza, I am 45 years old, I’ve been a doorwoman here at Mauá for the past 3 years and 4 months. This is my first movement.
My first fight is this one right here. There’s a determined visitation period. When someone comes with an ID, they come in, but when the clock strikes 9pm, they must leave.
The convenience store came up because my mother sold tapioca in front of the building, and I was unemployed, so I said “hey, mom, I want to come up with something I can sell”, because she sold the tapioca, and I sold coffee, so I have some of that enterprising blood in my veins. I bought a small grill, and started selling barbecue. The police came and took it away.
So I went and bought a cart, and they came and took it as well. So I started buying chips, and gums, and snacks to put in the cart along with the barbecue and the refreshments, that kind of thing. And one day they came and took everything away, all I was left with was what I had at home.
The left over stock, then I said ‘I’m done. I’m not going there anymore. I’ll sell what I have up here and then I’ll find a job.
” When I laid all the stuff here, it went very quickly, there’s even a clip on Youtube, of when I moved here, that’s when it started. That was my kitchen, That was my room. And then… It grew… It’s growing, thank God.
Look people, this place is evolving! It is turning into a real community! Because, the other entrance, it worked like this: was there security?
Yes, because there was the doorman, and the doorman has to be ster. And the doorman is me and the guy who works nights. We have to be stern, we need to look mean.
Here we have 3 cameras, which provide our security, for the doorman and the inhabitants too. Because if the police arrives, or anyone, they can only come in if I open the gate. Well, we built the building.
Participating in the collectivity, respecting all the rules that exist within these walls, to maintain a sense of community, in a harmonious fashion. Look here, I haven’t retired it, I keep one here. Why?
If somebody walks in here, either a drunk or someone else, they can wait for a resident to enter, and they’ll just come in along. And when they do walk in uninvited, without identifying themselves, they mean harm. So that’s my job.
When I see that happen, I open the gate, go around and meet them. Then I ask what they want, what they’re looking for, tell them we have an intercom here. Then I explain, and most of them get it, apologize, but then there’s some who, you know… So I jump them, kick them out and that’s it.
Done We are very neighborly here at Mauá, we always want to know from our next door neighbors, on either side, if there’s a problem, if there’s anyone causing trouble, you see? If they’re throwing garbage on their houses, their roofs. This building, for instance, when we occupied it, it was practically impossible to walk the halls.
So great was the amount of trash, you were forced to jump over heaps of garbage. Completely infested, fleas, mosquitoes, so that’s where we really become specialists in revitalizing spaces, for then, things that were once totally degraded regain some life. Skipped this one, right?
Skipped my ass, I got at seven, honey! And who told you to sweep? You were supposed to help wash, not sweep.
We estimate about 220 families. There’s the maintenance coordinator, the entrance coordinator, and the girls who organize themselves in the matter of cleaning, We have one coordinator per floor, and that is the person that will discuss how he can help with the community. They organize gatherings to assist in electricity as well as plumbing, cleanliness.
Is there a gathering? Did Nete come down to help? So today, the 19th, Nete came down to participate, so her name will be there.
On the 20th, will there be an assembly? Is Nete’s name on the attendance list? Did her children go down to the yard for the capoeira lessons?
There’s the score. There’s the score. So we get all the records and see.
For example, if we have 5 open spots, through social partnership, so, not only is Nete in need, but she contributes, so that’s said in the assembly, Nete took part in the following dates, etc, so, for that reason, within the determined criteria, Nete will be contemplated. Because the fight, it is made of secrets. Of stealth.
The fight, it isn’t, nobody, not one revolutionary, they don’t publish in the papers what they’re doing tomorrow, because if they do, they’re screwed. I hope, I am hopeful, that we will overcome this situation we are in. I hope.
Soon, the Front for Housing will be performing several actions, several occupations. It will be simultaneous. Soon, when the dates have been settled, we will be speaking.
As of Monday, I’ll be checking out a few new targets, we’ll be initiating a new settlement, if memory doesn’t fail me, of about 40 families, and right after that we’ll have to look into another one, because not everybody will fit in that one target. I mean, everything, for me, changed! By the end of the month, I have my money, I can shop for my house, and that means the world to us, our dignity, people!
If I don’t work, how am I gonna get the money for food? Where am I gonna get it from? What do I say?
And who will respect me? If they can’t see that I work, that I fight for my dignity, as well as that of my family? When you live under the bridge you get food because people help a lot during the night.
One will give a hot plate, some other, bread, someone else, hot chocolate, soup. So I had food to give my children, but I didn’t have a door, a window, a roof. And there was a gathering, a group of people visiting the area and inviting us, giving us a piece of paper calling us to participate, to join them in a meeting.
I didn’t believe it so much, I couldn’t understand it properly. But the girl’s father went. “I’ll check it out.
” The first settlement was an old deactivated hospital, Matarazzo, and when I heard that’s where we were going I went crazy “there’s diseases, I’ll get this, I’ll get that, my girls, I won’t be able to bring my son”, he shook me, he really shook me and said "fine. We won’t go. We’ll go back to the streets.
We’ll go back under that bridge, but, I won’t stay there for long. I’ll steal, I’ll deal, I’ll do everything, and if I get caught, and you leave me to rot in jail, it’ll be on you! And then I saw how serious he was, so I said “you know, let’s give it a try, it looks great.
” There was an assembly during which the coordinator turned to me and said “as of tomorrow there will be no more food in the community kitchen”. And we depended upon that. And I was ashamed of speaking in a crowd but my “why” just popped out.
“Why? ” I gathered all the women and said “I should go around and ask for some food” But they said “I’d rather go hungry”, “I’m never doing it! ” There was one who said “they should be the ones to get it!
” Then I said “here’s what we’re gonna do: I’ll beg, and you can just help me carry it. ” One of them even laughed, Aparecida Aranha, she said “ look at you, think you’re gonna have the whole supermarket on your back”. So we asked, and asked, and asked.
We got, beans, rice, biscuits, milk. And I got excited with that! “Look at Nete, she really did it!
” Then I said “Now we’re going to the street market! ” We brought everything back to the coordinator, “look, here it is”. We weren’t gonna have food, but now it’s important that there’s food for all of us.
“Ivanete, don’t you want to join us in a meeting tonight? It’s called a coordination meeting. ” “To do what?
” “Join us, we’re looking for new coordinators and such, don’t you wanna be a part of the group? ” I was elected Movement Secretary, then Second Coordinator, Then first, first, first, first. And somebody needs to take over for the first, because the first needs to retire!
In here I am the General Coordinator for MMRC. NETE represents MSTC, Sukita and Raquel ASTC. The process for the settlement of Mauá, of gathering three different fronts was very important for it had never happened before, this was thr first time, but I believe that it won’t happen again.
My name is Raquel Guimarães Dutra, I’m 33 and I’m with ASTC. When I first came here, the settlement had been functioning for two months. I wasn’t here for the occupation.
My mom did. When I came to visit her, she explained to me how it all worked, and why they were fighting, and I felt that I fit in. I said “Here I can find my place.
” It had never crossed my mind that I would make it to the coordination, all I wanted was to take part in the fight. The MSTC emerged in 2000. Excuse me.
Just a minute. Hi Maria! Co-ordination meeting happened yesterday?
Got it. At Prestes Maia? What time?
Yes. Because he works in his place. OK.
But let's keep going. I got it. Great.
Thank you, bye. We'll have to connect the sewer again. I’m no longer staying here, there’s a new crowd in the coordination, but I’m leaving my card, and should there be any problems, they’ll call us and we’ll be right here.
Because you know we’re all about the neighborhood, right? We don’t want any trouble with the neighbors! All right?
See you, old timer! Later! Good Morning?
What’s up? How are you? Steady as a nail in the sand.
You know that this is inconsiderate, right? You boys down here? You, youngsters, taking a room downstairs.
No, but if it’s a problem, just tell me and I’ll move up. Yeah, that’s contradictory. See?
You and Leo. You gotta move upstairs and leave room down here for the elderly. Got it.
Argh, for the love of Christ! Where is the maintenance boy? Call him for me.
Oh, here he is. Tell me something. Hi Mané Hi, how are you?
You wanna go through? No, I just have to give this guy a piece of my mind, he’s been screwinf up. It’s just that there’s too much to do.
We’re putting together a petition to get Luquinhas back, because he’s the only one who can get the plumbing to work, and I’d like a word with you right now! I’ll be at your door, I’m not gonna leave! The deal I got going with the cab drivers over there is this, the bombs stay off during the day, we go down to the basement, there’s a water meter there, we’ll try to get it loose, see if there’s water, if there isn’t, we’ll just have to go over to Prestes Maia.
Nobody comes down here, ok? It was my choice as well, right? My choice to not yet have a permanent home.
What lead me to it? The people that are following me, the leadership of the movement. There were two opportunities for me to get my house, but I told them to give them to someone else.
Today I live in a venture by CDHU, I got something there. Well, my wife did, it’s in her name. My goal is my home, and that of everyone in here, isn’t it?
That is the point, the struggle. I may have gotten it, but my companion hasn’t. So, that’s the main characteristic of the movement, to fight for those who have not got it yet.
If I had taken my apartment back then, I believe that today I would not be fighting for those in need. I would have adapted, like many have adapted. I was dead set on not getting my permanent house.
So much so, that I haven’t had it for a full year yet. I only did it through the advice of Manoel, of some coordinators, who said “you have to take it, you have to. Because we are a reference.
” It’s not right for a family to listen to you knowing that you still haven’t achieved those goals, through the movement. So I took it. And when I did so it was a decision made during an assembly, and people were concerned, they asked “but Mr.
Nete, if you get it, will you leave us? ’ I said “No. ” I said “I will leave only with the last person in here”.
My wife is the one with the credit. But we’ve been having trouble finding something for her to buy. In addition to the amount of kids that we have.
Six children. I’m with one movement and she is with another. Hers is MSTC, mine, MMRC.
Right now, my concern is for her. If we get expelled from here, where do we go? What will we do?
I met her here, at Mauá. She would walk by and harass me, I didn’t do anything! She was married and everything.
But her husband didn’t know left from right. And he was a friend. He would complain about how he couldn’t get a job, and I’d say “Take care of your woman, Nilson, because they don’t like lazy men.
” They want somebody to lean on, right? Not someone who is worse off than they are. She wants a safe port there.
A shoulder to rest their heads upon, isn’t that right? But he wouldn’t listen to me, and I said “you’ll end up losing her, man”. And that’s what happened.
Her sister would come and give me messages from her, and then I said “look, get your business straight with your husband, then we can talk”. And that was it, she kicked him out, and then it started. In a relationship, the gender doesn’t matter, it’s irrelevant if it’s a man and a woman or a man and a man, what matters, what’s important is the respect that the person provides their family, the balance, you know?
The organization that is built within the home. So, I mean, I am a very responsible person, and everything is good. No news.
Within our group, our movement, it’s mostly women, and people say “aren’t you scared, because you put together assemblies and take away the men’s position”. In the old days it was all women. Only women.
It was 15 women, the coordination board. And good women, they’d get beat but they beat back as well. And today there are a fex men involved as well, right?
Manoelzinho, for instance, who’s awesome. This group was formed for an ideal. Which was to work for the people and then it strated to stary, started doing things that didn’t correspond with their issues, and they were the ones who had the courage to say “enough!
I’m out! ” In MTSC, in general, I think, all women, they, I always mention Carmen, Nete, Solange, all women, Ivanilda, Elaine, because they’re the ones who carry this group. Sometimes my husband is in bed and he says “babe, can you get me some food?
” I say “no, you go and while you’re at it get me some as well, I’m hungry”. And before I joined the movement I used to get beat up by my husband. A lot.
I’d sit and say “go ahead, beat me up, because you’re my husband and you’re entitled. ” He’d say “today someone came to joke with me at the firm and I said “don’t joke with me, I’m so irritated I punched the wife last night’”. Once I understood the movement, took part in a few formations, when he came after me, he hit me once, but I hit him the rest of the times.
I remember he said, his face was all scratched up, I scratched him with my fingernails. And I punched him as well. And he said “how am I supposed to go to work looking like this?
” And I said “you’ll get to there and you’ll say ‘don’t play with because I’m irritated, I got beat up by the wife last night. ’”. You understand?
Because it’s enough, I’m not putting my head down for any man. Under God, no man. Why not place the worker next to his working place?
Most of us work around here in the downtown area. I, for example, don’t depend on public transportation. It’s wonderful, I can walk to my workplace.
This could be a thing that could achieve a lot more people. Fourteen twenty. And I stay on until ten forty.
Many people have a wrong idea of what a housing movement is. They think the person is breaking in because they don’t want to pay. We do want to pay, only within our means.
They think that when you take over a building, you’re kicking out people that live there, no. The main motivation is political. It is to educate the politicians about the fact that there is an edifice that is abandoned.
There is no one living there. Many people think that ‘oh, God, I’m in danger of losing my apartment, these people could just walk in”, no, not in any way. Generally a research is conducted, and in many buildings, as I said, the taxes are, are higher than the estimated value of the place itself, so, it is a way of educating the political force that there is an underprivileged population that needs housing.
That wants to live with dignit, and that there are means of accomplishing it. I am hopeful because, as I said, Town Hall has launched progressive taxes, and I think that is a great leap forward in ending realty speculation and turning several buildings out there into hospitable environments. We are specialists in revitalizing spaces, just leave that part to us.
When you speak of the homeless, you’re talking about, hooligans, trouble makers, vagabonds, the unemployed, the lazy, society’s ticks. And that’s not accurate. We’re fighting for our housing as well as for our jobs!
And in here, there are a lot of people in the same situation I am in. Who are there, working, losing merchandise, people assume we don’t want to pay our share, we do, we just don’t have the means. Here there’s a building.
The rent I paid there was $500, per month, along with utilities. I worked on the streets and I could make ends meet. I could cover rent and lead a respectable life to society.
If you live in a building then you’re well. If you can afford your rent, food, transport, you know? But now, if society sees me here they think I’m some kind of lazy slob, what they don’t know that here in the movement I’ve been much happier than I was when I lived in that building and made rent.
In here, I’m a lot happier. If there’s anything happening on Saturday, then sadly I won’t play. Before I play, I was homeless.
I do, I have a band, because, on the weekends we need to have fun. Otherwise we can’t handle. The stress.
I feel blessed, for being here right now, and for being able to see the true dimension of São Paulo. If you look down this Avenue right Here, São João. There you can See Avenida Paulista next to us.
Can you imagine if there were no buildings, only houses? São Paulo would’ve merged with Rio and Bahia a long time ago because it’s so big, so big. Let’s look around?
Let me see if I can find myself here. There, where the train is going by, that building is abandoned too, there’s only one person there, that was a public building at some point and now it’s abandoned. We’re looking into that one as well.
Over there there’s another one, huge, that we also intend to attack. Here, there’s one in front of the subway which we’re also looking into. And then by Paulista, there’s this one, which is also not fulfilling its social purpose, right?
Abandoned, we’re also after that one. So you can see that there are already constructed facilities all over town, there’s no need to build, the money that would be spent by breaking ground could be spent making over these fixtures and inhabiting them. So, I say it isn’t necessary to build new housing, we already have it, it is the abandonment, the carelessness, it could cover the housing deficit of São Paulo.
Just in the downtown area there are 450. 000 empty buildings that don’t fulfill their social function. Social Function.
So, us, the person, the family, in achieving a space downtown, they will be near a train or a subway, if they can’t afford it, they can just walk around here and they’re sure to find a job, if they can’t afford a doctor, there are public hospitals nearby that can walk to, a pharmacy on one corner, a supermarket on the other. You can’t build housing where such infrastructure isn’t available, see? It ends up being a lot more expensive to build far away than to renovate these buildings that are available downtown.
We contact the military police and devise a schedule, they then get in touch with a social worker, firemen, everything and register everybody who invaded the premises, we give them a 30 day deadline to leave, and if they don’t we attack. Then it is forced. We’ll take their possessions to storage, things like that.
This building has been pawned, and the company bought it in a judicial auction. This building will be sealed and go through a renovation soon. There will be a person tending to it in the mean time.
It is a lot harder to see the rights than it is to see the mess. But the right, it is difficult, it is hidden, below the surface. While we don’t start causing a fuss worldwide, things will continue the way they are, with people being thrown out like garbage, without a reason why.
We leave a building, families are on the street and it’s just gonna be there, for the insects too use. Fine. We’ll leave.
But we’ll bring the building down. That’s putting on a show. But to do thing the way we’re doing, peacefully, is hard.
And whilst that’s our game plan, we won’t make it. That’s the truth. One needs to prepare for the revolution.
I am a true believer in the revolution. And to revolutionize, you must be prepared. Be prepared.
With the support I get I’m achieving the things I want. Thing I dreamed of. Before I wouldn’t dare to dream, I lived that miserable life, a housewife, tending to the children.
The constant flow of people within the movement makes it hard to sustain the level of political awareness we would like. So the process is that of systematic education, to introject those values, until people can truly appreciate them. We’ll never be able to yell someone into the movement, to sacre them into it.
It’s about shaping and teaching. You don’t want to join us? Fine, then make room for those who do.
Each person’s awareness is also very interesting. Why am I here? I f I intend to always live in settlements and fight or if my intention is to one day have my own home.
Today, I have things to look forward to. I see the world out there, and understand that its problems are my problems as well. To not pay attention to politics, no, I’m watching that, it concerns me.
Go over there to where the guards are and check to see if it’s only the men on the bikes or if the truck is there, that big shock truck of theirs? Go see if it’s there. OK.
Down the street, you make a right, there’s the camera parking lot, go there and check to see if they’re all together. Hey, baby! Where are you going?
I’m going to work! You’re going to work, baby? They stay away, and when they attack, it happens all at once, they’re cowards!
They’re cowards! I never get violent, I leave, I don’t care. I’m not doing anything, I’m not here for vandalism!
I’m here for housing, I’m not here for vandalism. If I had a roof over my head I wouldn’t be here. Yeah, go.
It’s cool, there’s a lot of cops but only on bikes. Hey you guys, get over here, come on. None of you, none of you will be there with the crowd, ok?
You’ll be at the square. So what do you do? You take as many rocks as you can find, leave them ready, and if we run into any trouble, just chuck them on the windows and leave!
None of you can get caught, is that clear? Any questions? Ok, so at the square, everybody together, keep an eye on the target!
Sidney will be there, and here’s the thing, if someone touches that canvas, shoves somebody, that’s what happens. Before that, nothing, alright? Spread, I don’t wanna see any of you next to each other.
I see City Hall, a bunch of sissies! They don’t do shit! People are camping there!
And the president of the commission himself is completely inhumane! So much so that we ask for his support and he invites me to leaves the premises, and threatens me that if I don’t he’ll call the police! I’m not worried about my pay, thank God, I’m not going hungry, if I should be lacking in anything I can borrow it from a neighbor.
My pocket doesn’t concern me. But there have to be public policies and housing policies to supply to the demand from the low income population! It’s repugnant!
I’m sorry, I got carried away now. I think Nete, Ivanete, is perfectly capable of being our representative in office. You’re crazy, God forbid!
No. The one thing I thought of running for is the Teen and Child Care Council. But politics?
Argh. . .
and encase? I’ve made a commitment to fight until I’m dead. I don’t know how I’ll be fighting, if it will be for housing, for healthcare, for education, sewage, water, but I will be fighting, while I still have strength, to my last breath I will be fighting.
Like our leader Nete puts it, who doesn’t fight is dead. And I intend to fight to my last breath, I feel it’s very important. Our people have been enslaved for 500 years.
They’re used to be being afraid when somebody prettier comes along. Nete breaks all those bounderies. A guy was talking, she walked up to him and said “what do you want?
” A discussion was kicked of and this guy walked up saying that if he should lay a hand on her he would break him, and so she said “I don’t need any man to defend me” and pushed the guy. Even the police that was standing around was shocked, because Nete has attitude, when she did that, she touched everybody. People started screaming and the guy sheepishly left.
So, when I fight alongside her, I get strong. Are we firm and strong or are we like jell-o? Firm and strong!
Today we have something to do, a party to throw, right? RIGHT! A party only we know how to throw.
We would like for you to be quiet in the bus. Quiet as a mouse. We would also like for you to be silent once we enter the hall, because, God willing, they won’t notice we’re there until tomorrow.
First you go, alright? If when you get there there’s people standing around send them to the back. Once the bus stops, everybody gets off and starts making that human chain that we talked about.
Let’s go, let’s go to the bus! It is important to remind you all that the homeless aren’t tramps. One way or another, we all have to answer to a boss.
Today is D day. Tomorrow, is D day. After Tuesday, alright, whoever needs a slip or a declaration we can get it, ok?
Informing that you were out at a protest for housing for the Town Hall. I even played with a comrade here, she said ‘but I have to be a work tomorrow at 7”. Have to be there at 7 and by the end of the month the pay isn’t enough to make rent.
So, let’s stop for a while and realize that both things move together. The building. .
. Jesus, just give him to me. The building is dark, so please follow the flashlights.
Don’t go in and assume you can’t stay. Yes you can. If you wanna make a difference.
Whoever has children, please mind them, hold their hands and watch for the elevator. Agreed? We’re moving out, little by little, agreed?
Those in the commission take the first buses, alright guys? After the underpass there’s a bus stop and a public phone, Park there. There’s a bunch of people coming.
Those who intend to saty with us all the way raise their hand! This act means a commitment of responsibility. The fight is not for you, it is with you.
Those who don’t fight! ARE DEAD! THOSE WHO DON’T FIGHT!
ARE DEAD! MSTC! THE FIGHT IS FOR REAL!
MMRC! THE FIGHT IS FOR REAL! ASTC!
THE FIGHT IS FOR REAL!
