A kind of counter-advertisement to support the activists accused for the blockade of the Parliament on 15 June 2011. Edited with found footage that mixes an electoral campaign ad for Artur Mas and an ad for Audi, the car that he uses. This armoured Audi A 8 was the cause of one of the most serious accusations faced by some of the defendants. According to the prosecution, they brushed against it and hit it with their fists… and for this they are requesting an 8 year jail term. The Audi is a contemporary revival of what Ernst Kantorowicz said about the king’s two bodies in feudal societies. According to old political theology, the king had two bodies, an earthly one and a heavenly one, and as such attacking the first meant attacking God himself. You could say that Artur Mas also has two bodies, one is his own and the other (the heavenly one) is his Audi. So hitting the almost one and a half tonne armour plate of this massive vehicle is the equivalent of hitting Artur’s nose: almost an attack of lèse-majesté.

Life in an Immigration Detention Centre is not life at all, it is waiting. Waiting and fear. Fear of deportation, fear of losing your direction while your life is limited to the four walls of the cell, fear of a future that could surely not be worse. The testimonies of former inmates of the Immigrant Detention Centre (CIE) at Zona Franca, Barcelona, offer us a glimpse of the reality of these illegal, covert prisons.

A video based on an advertisement for GuardianSpain, the Spanish branch of Israeli company Guardian Homeland Security, which specializes in training security professionals to act – not against an external enemy but against the threat of citizens in their own countries. Israel thus shares its extensive proven experience in citizen control, particularly in urban contexts. Its Spanish clients include: Mossos d’Esquadra, Guardia Civil, Ertzaintza, the Interior Ministry, etc. The courses cost between 3.500 and 4.000€, and are paid for by our taxes.

The reality of this scam resists representation, which is why we are unsuccessful in our attempts to align words and images with the original meaning of things.

The Presidents of African countries are the puppets of Europe: they don’t care about their people or their countries, if they did they would honour their sovereignty. We were born in countries where our own culture is relegated to the background. Our leaders have the power to build up their own countries but they don’t have the will. Those with the will to do it are murdered.

“We have to protect everything that the State and the catholic Church have built over the past 300 years. I don’t see any contradictions between apartheid and the Church: as Christians, we believe in the development of non-whites and we try to help them by building churches and helping them in their pastoral work. But these people prefer to stay in their own churches, and if that’s what they prefer…”

A video that denounces the situation of more than 300 people who lived in the Nave del Poblenou in Barcelona, and the eviction order that was acted upon at 6am on 23 July 2012.

A former industrial warehouse in Barcelona’s Poblenou provides a place to live and work to a group of people, most of them originally from black Africa. In this video, they denounce their living and working conditions, and the segregation and attacks that they suffer. And they give us a lucid vision of the society that discriminates against them: “They ask us be to be civilized, to become civilized… I ask myself, what does it mean to be civilized? To spend money, to buy things… to consume.

Themeroc, the prophecy.

Dolores Tjeada Saavedra, the Councillor for Work at Marinaleda Town Council, gives a simple and detailed account of how a grassroots social movement has managed to socialize the means of production, housing, health, education and leisure in this small town in Southern Spain. Dolores explains the many benefits of having an active trade union, with the political power of the town counciland the productive force of cooperatives in the hands of the people. Marinaleda has a population of 3000, and an unemployment rate of 0%. Anybody who wants to self-build in the town is only charged 15 euros per month, and working families only pay 12 euros a month for childcare including meals, to name just two of a long list of social benefits. A true oasis in a country dominated byunbridled capitalism and the shabbiest and most retrograde government in Spain’s short history of democracy, which has left the country with an unemployment rate of 27% – 50% in the case of youth unemployment – and three million people living in poverty.