"The path is difficult, but we will get there." "The birds are welcoming us." "Everything's blooming, so the path is overgrown." "We are one with this mountain." "We won't survive without it." "To victory." "To freedom." "How can we afford to lose this place'?" "We are not going to lose it." "There are plans for a very big project here." "31,700 hectares have been given to a Canadian company called Eldorado." "It will be one of the largest gold-processing plants under construction in this part of Europe." "An investment like this is worth a billion Euros over the next five years." "It would help us decrease our trade deficit." "It would give us an export product." "It would boost our economic growth." "And that's what we need to do." "They are generously offering us the annihilation of this place." "And since we are rooted in this place, we'll have to leave." "Both our future and that of our children are threatened." "Not inside the houses!" "There are children in there!" "The mine is going ahead, the Prime Minister said to a group of miners from Halkidiki who came to meet him outside a party convention today." "We have done our part of the job." "It must finish, and finish quickly." "The investment will proceed." "Be clear about that." "The investment will proceed." "This afternoon, four local residents were taken to court after raids on their homes last night." "Outside the courthouse, local residents showed their support." "Meanwhile, the SYRIZA party announced that if elected it would stop the mine." "They want to question him." "As well as twenty others." "Twenty people." "And they intend to convict them." "The police don't knock on someone's door without a reason." "They won't knock on yours or mine or anyone else's." "They knock on the door of someone who's guilty of something." "This is not Canada." "This is not El Dorado." "This is our land, and we are in charge." "All over Europe, women carry lipstick in their purses." "But because of the police repression here, we have to carry Maalox." "We smear it on our faces and we drink it so we don't get sick from the tear gas." "I won't see my children and grandchildren die of cancer." "I will not tolerate this." "Please tell the Canadians to pack up and leave." "I would give my life tomorrow for this thing to end." "We can't stand this anymore." "Thank you." "Listen well, you jailers." "Hands off our protesters." "I am sure that common sense will prevail." "And the majority of this society in co-operation with all levels of government will impose this investment because society needs it and the land needs it." "Stop!" "Stop!" "Where the hell do you think you are going'?" "Are you going to the coal plant'?" "No, to the village." "If you are going to the power plant, it will have to be over our dead bodies." "We've been here for over 215 days stopping anyone from the company getting through." "So you are not going to the plant'?" "No, to the village." "Oh, okay." "That's alright then." "In that case, you can go ahead." "Oh, warriors of Sompeta" "We've had our first taste of victory" "Warriors, comrades, defenders of Mother Earth" "The final battle is now at hand" "The struggle in Sompeta is the struggle for tomorrow." "It's actually that." "People have been living very peacefully in this area for generations together." "Suddenly the government decided to hand over the wetland where thousands of people lead their livelihoods to a company to put up an industrial power plant." "And that power plant is a coal-based power plant, and it's well known the link between the climate change and these plants." "They're dirty." "Private investors are encouraged to set up power plants." "We provide lots of incentives, like tax breaks, land and power subsidies, and tax holidays." "Private investors are entitled to land anywhere they want in the country." "Electricity is needed." "That's undeniable." "But if you look on their website they admit that none of the power will be for local use." "They're coming here to generate electricity and then sell it to other states." "They're coming here to exploit us." "We have to defend ourselves." "We keep saying "No."" "And they keep saying, "We'll give you this."" ""We'll give you that."" "Wooing us with stuff -- promising us jobs." "All these pretty words, but they don't listen to us." "Meanwhile they've given us nothing." "The company didn't give you what they promised." "If they did, would you accept'?" "No, we'd object." "*Here's the problem." "Help from them would be a one-time thing." "Who will provide for us day after day'?" "Do you understand, sir'?" "Would it be there the next day'?" "If we come back for more, they'll say," ""Get lost."" "We have no land for farming." "This is our livelihood." "This is the water we drink." "If the plant is built, they'll cover the wetland with landfill." "If that happens, what will you do'?" "What can we do'?" "We'll become beggars." "Dishwashers." "Forced to move to a city far away." "Power plant, go back." "Go back, go back!" "We never expected such a brutal assault." "We were there to negotiate." "It was shocking." "They broke our skulls." "Tore our clothes and beat us." "After facing such an atrocity, there was no turning back." "We realized: this is the moment." "We have to stand up, whether we live or die." "Do you want to arrest us'?" "Do it." "But we are not leaving." "This little piece of land is all we've got." "If we had retreated at that moment, the power plant would have gone ahead." "So we cut some branches from the Casuarina trees, and chased the police away." "As the police were retreating, they opened fire." "Two people were killed." "We won't give up until we win!" "We won't give up until we win!" "This is our wetland." "This is our wetland." "Have you ever seen a star in the sky'?" "No." "What about a blue sky'?" "I've seen one that's a little blue." "What about clouds?" "No." "This is every day of 2014 in Beijing." "I couldn't take my daughter outside when it was smoggy." "How often was that'?" "175 days were polluted." "One day my daughter will ask me," ""Mom, why do you keep me inside?"" "I made this film to answer her questions." "What is smog?" "Where does it come from'?" "What can we do about it'?" "China's emissions is growing a lot." "That's a fact." "But the misconception is that China is not doing anything to address climate change." "It's just using its status as a developing country to have a free ride." "Which is absolutely not true." "Because when you are looking at China's climate actions, it's really -- it even dwarfs that of the United States." "Nowhere else in the world has renewable energy been such a success!"