WILD GEESE SCRIPT November 4, 2011 (60 mins)
Video Intro
Caption
Wild Geese
Songs of Migration
Unit 1 The Merchants (3 mins.)
The Merchant Song
Brecht Eisler ironic cabaret style
Jilah(J)
The tall ship sails across the ocean
Canvas white as driven snow
Carrying cargo from distant places
30 men in the decks below
J
The merchants stand on the open dockside
Inspecting bounty lined on the quay
Sailors roll down Ratcliffe Highway
Heading for taverns down Cable Street
Chorus
Cotton from Jakarta sugar from Jamaica
Coffee from the Guatemalan shores
Tamarin, tumeric, ginger and juniper
From Bombay Delhi and Lahore
Fred(F)
The big ship sails across the oceans
Ploughing through the stormy main
Below the decks a human cargo
Sailing west in iron chains
F
Auctioneers on the open quayside
Human flesh is up for sale
Free labour for the sugar plantations
Men and women on the merchant‟s scales
Chorus
Cotton from Jakarta sugar from Jamaica
Coffee from the Guatemalan shores
Tamarin, tumeric, ginger and juniper
From Bombay Delhi and Lahore
Dave(D)
The big ship sails across the ocean
Black smoke billows from the funnels tall
Down the gang way walk the migrants
Seeking work on an alien shore
D
With hope in their eyes they walk the quayside
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To factory forge and building site
Toxteth, Brixton Southall, Smethwick
To help rebuild Great Britain‟s might
Chorus
Cotton from Jakarta sugar from Jamaica
Coffee from the Guatemalan shores
Tamarin, tumeric, ginger and juniper
From Bombay Delhi and Lahore
And the West wind steels across the dockside
Raising spirits from long ago
Distant voices long forgotten
like fallen leaves they swirl and go
Steel away
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Caption
Part 1 Come to the Motherland
John Bull
We appeal to our cousins in the colonies to help us out in our hour of need.
Come to the motherland. Come to Britain. We need you!
Video clips of Windrush arrivals 1947
Video Voice Over:
The Empire Windrush brings to Britain 500 Jamaicans, many are ex service
men who know England, they served this country well.
In Jamaica they couldn‟t find work, discouraged but full of hope they sail for
Britain, citizens of the British Empire coming to the mother country with good
intent. Fortified by public opinion the colonial office gives them a more cordial
reception than was at first envisioned.
WG2
I missed my mother every night I used to cry; I cried non-stop for a long time
because I came here at 16 and I was so close to my mother and then you feel
that separation, the things she used to do for you like she would go to the
market
WG 3 Jim
„what the hell am I doing here?‟ Snow on the ground there was, headache, so
a relation what brought me over, brought me down to Aston to his sister‟s then
he put me on a bus to Maypole to a cousin of mine – just knocked the door
and he said, „Who are you?‟ Am Jimmy Dodd, „Come in!‟ That‟s how a started
here.
Wild Geese Song
D
Goodbye Erin‟s Isle we‟re crossing the sea
With nothing much at all but a hand full of dreams
Farewell to Strabban not a man to be found
The wild geese have flown to a black country town
F
Farewell to the sun and the blue, blue sky
You stand on the deck and you wave goodbye
One last look at the land you adore
Leave your broken heart on a Caribbean shore
CHORUS
Wild Geese spread their wings to sale across the sea
D
You stand on the deck and dream of success
There‟s plenty of jobs in the NHS
Pavements of gold across the Irish sea
Tears in your eyes as you walk down the quay
F
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Fisherman farmers from Montego Bay
Sugar cane workers St. Kitts émigrés
Calypso carousers from Barbadian shores
In a Liverpool Infirmary scrubbing down the floors
CHORUS
WG3
I tell you‟ve I‟ve worked for every builder in Birmingham, Bryant‟s, you name
them, McAlpine‟s the lot of them all over the place.
Caption (over WG2)
The NHS established in 1947, was built on the labour of migrant workers from
the Afro-Caribbean, South Asia and Ireland
WG2
I was working at the. …What used to be called the Sandwell and District
General Hospital? …And we started at the bottom like with the bedpans and
testing of the urine! Starting with the dirty jobs.
Caption
Enoch Powell Minister for Health, advertises for nurses in Jamaica
D
We cared for the young we cared for the old
The summers were wet and the winters were cold
A night nurse in Bilston is doing her rounds
Dreaming of sun sets in old Spanish Town
F
They didn‟t like their accents the colour of their skin
They needed their work but they didn‟t want em in
They did the jobs that no one else would do
No Irish no blacks in Britannia Avenue
Chorus
D
Cooks in the kitchen porters in the halls
Cleaners in the theatre nurses in the wards
Goodbye Tipperary farewell Skibereen
We‟re washing dirty dishes in the ward canteen
F
They were young they were strong they were keen they were proud
They came from the land they were bold they were loud
They were just passing through they didn‟t mean to stay
They ended up stranded on bottom line pay
Chorus
Wild Geese spread their wings to sale across the sea
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Wg2
Patients, initially in those days, some of them would say, “don‟t touch me!” Or
“I don‟t want that black nurse to look after me”
John Bull as Enoch Powell
We must be mad, literally mad, as a nation to be permitting the annual inflow
of some 50,000 dependants, who are for the most part the material of the
future growth of the immigrant-descended population. It is like watching a
nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre
Too Much Pressure Song
F
They came from Jamaica and Asia to the land of liberty
The golden gates of England to support their families
Instead of milk and honey they got freezing rain
Too much pressure prejudice and pain
Chorus
Too much pressure.
They landed In England come through the custom gates
They landed in sweat shops and working for the welfare state
They landed in jobs the white man didn‟t wanna do
Scrubbing down the floors swilling out the loos
Chorus
They stayed through the mean years stayed to build a home
Stayed through the hate years made this land their own
Their kids grew strong they had different schemes
But too much pressure blocking off their dreams
Chorus
Burn baby burn the sky she is alight
Justice now we demand our rights
They‟re walking from the shadows and they walk clear into the day
We‟re black and we‟re British and we are here to stay
Chorus
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Caption
Part 2 Globalising Sweatshops
NIKE subvert 1990
Caption
1989 NIKE subcontract rate:
50p for a compulsory 10 hour day
To pay NIKE‟s Indonesian workers a living wage would cost:
10p on a pair of trainers
1 US TV advert
The wharf song
J
The big ship sails across the ocean
From Jakarta, Taiwan and Bangkok
Carrying the spoils of foreign labour
To container trucks in London docks
And the tall towers rise over Ratcliffe Highway
Where merchants gaze on computer screens
They wheel and deal on the super highway
They market hope and down size dreams
Chorus
And the West wind steels across the dockside
Raising spirits from long ago
Distant voices long forgotten
Like fallen leaves they swirl and go
Steel away
John Bull
“Come to Britain, Firms can make profits in Britain, where the costs for wages
and social benefits are much lower than the rest of Europe”.
Narration
In the 1980s Thatcher goes to war with the miners in the first battle to push
back the trade union movement and establish a flexible, business friendly
environment, where big business has the right to manage without interference
and workers know their place.
In 1979 the Tories came to power
They said we‟ll make the country great but things are turning sour
Oil‟s gone, telecom and now they‟re cutting coal
Norman Tebbitt on your bike
Stuff yer bleedin‟ dole
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Captions (over diddling song tune)
Tory legislation 1980s establishes:
Deregulated economy
Anti trade union laws
Privatisation
Outsourcing of contracts
Sub contracting
Oh me friends they must have seen us coming
4 million people on the dole
Aren‟t the figures stunning
With health cuts council cuts and cuts in education
The next cut must be Thatcher‟s throat
To save the situation
Bridget Anderson page 3
Sub contracting is about having a flexible labour force which basically means
that the employer can turn it on and off at will..
Super
Bridget Anderson
Bridget Anderson
..it means it‟s raining so I don‟t need the workers, so I‟ll phone the agent and
tell them I don‟t want anyone today thank you very much
D
Sangita Begum all day she is working
Sewing and sewing seam after seam
Blouses and shirts strewn in every direction
Hell is a home with a sewing machine
Hers are the hands behind Colours of Benetton
Working the night through for M& S stores
Two pounds an hour for Top Man and Chelsea Girl
Disposable labour for Christian Dior
Ten pence a piece turn out twenty each hour
They pile in the kitchen and out in the hall
Doing the business for Dorothy Perkins
To sell at a price Sangita can't afford
“Read me a story” Mohinder is crying
“When I‟ve finished this dress, only one minute more”
The minute has flown it lasted three hours
Mohinder's asleep on the living room floor
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Why did my parents come to this country
Is there a future that‟s worth waiting for
Where are the hopes of a whole generation
Lost in the thread on the living room floor
Down at the temple the women are meeting
The wage is too short and the hours are too long
Soft-spoken voices speak out their grievances
The thread that unites them is fine but its strong
The women they sew in the back streets of Bilston
The women they sew in Bangladesh
The women they sew from Jordan to Djakarta
Survivals a seam on a Bennetton dress
Caption
Burnsall‟s plant, Smethwick 1993
Balbir Kaur (Translation)
“He used to treat us like animals. Not only did we have to work so hard, we
then had to eat and drink in that filthy place. He didn‟t understand that we
were human beings“
Balbir Singh (Translation)
We had no life, we‟d worked in other places before but this was the worst. I
had to lift a heavy jig by myself and it fell on my foot, the hook was embedded
in here, there was so much blood that it filled my shoes. I saw the boss and
he just gave me a plaster, and said “go back to work.”
Acid and grime, double overtime,
Stinking fumes all day,
Hands in a rash, trying to earn my cash,
Burning my life away.
“Just do the job, don‟t open your gob
Plenty more where you came from”
“The more you sweat the less you get
Smethwick, Dundee Taiwan”
Chorus
Working in a sweat-shop, bottom line wages,
Down on the factory floor,
Working in a sweat-shop, non stop rip off,
Ain't gonna take no more.
Two pound an hour, working for this shower,
Stuck like a dog in a ditch,
Non stop grind, killing my mind,
To keep this boss man rich.
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Don‟t want a union, says its gonna ruin him,
He ain't gonna pay a penny more,
He‟s in clover in his big Rover,
That‟s how the poor stay poor.
CHORUS
Working in a sweat-shop, bottom line wages,
Down on the factory floor,
Working in a sweat-shop, non stop rip off,
Ain't gonna take no more.
Instrumental
Caption
June 30 1992
Burnsall‟s workers vote to strike
Hey there Jimmy man, what you gonna gimme man,
You ain't gonna get your way,
No more enslavement, we‟re out on the pavement,
And we are here to stay.
Aggravation, Intimidation,
Out on the picket line,
Scabs won‟t break us, cops couldn‟t shake us,
Come sun or rain or shine.
CHORUS
Working in a sweat-shop, bottom line wages,
Down on the factory floor,
Working in a sweat-shop, non stop rip off,
Ain't gonna take no more.
Dhargan, Hamrik, Mohinder and Sargit,
Unity is strong,
Balbir and Kuldip, Surinder and Indergit,
Know which side they‟re on.
Bali and Rashpal, Dave Brown Nirmal,
Don‟t let the scabs go in,
Poro and Charlie, Atta and Tajinder
They need our help to win.
Caption (over chorus)
GMB failed to build community support
Strike called off after 12 months
CHORUS
Working in a sweat-shop, bottom line wages,
Down on the factory floor,
Working in a sweat-shop, non stop rip off,
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Ain't gonna take no more
Ain't gonna take no more
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Caption
“Part 3 “We are here because you were there”
Captions in Bold John Brown in plain
Video BP Logo Beyond Petroleum
JB: A good business should be both competitively successful and a force for
good.
Video Beyond Petroleum Morphs to Big Porkies
BJB At the core of BP is an unshakeable commitment to human progress
1995, BP established 200 mile pipeline in Colombia
JB: In Colombia where we are a major oil producer, we have been closely
involved with local people to ensure that the wealth generated by our
production furthers the area‟s economic and social development.
Number of farms cut in half:
500
Number of Campesinos evicted:
1500
We will enable customers and communities to participate in a new
constructive dialogue.
Protest stifled by army and death squads
We are committed to the principle of transparency in all our dealings.
These efforts include promoting a more open relationship with the security
forces
Sept 1996 BP gives $60 million to Colombian military
Where others see contradiction and conflict, we see opportunities for mutual
progress. At the core of BP is an unshakeable commitment to human
progress
1990-2004
3 million internally displaced people in Colombia.
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Unit 6 Iranian Migrants
G
Kurdish song
F&J
Chorus
And the West wind steels across the dockside
Raising spirits from long ago
Distant voices long forgotten
Like fallen leaves they swirl and go
D
And the big ship sails across the ocean
Below her decks the tools of war
Bound for Basra, Baghdad Tehran
Blood for oil on Eastern shores
Logo BP trap door opens
Logo BP morphs to
Big Profits
Voice over:
BP began its corporate life as the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company.
In May 1953 Iran‟s newly elected prime minister Mohammed Mossadeq
nationalised the company .
In September, a coup was organized by the CIA and MI6 . Mossadeq was
removed from power and the Shah was imposed. The oil was returned to
private ownership and BP, British Petroleum was born. Democracy was
destroyed and the way was paved for future repressive dictatorships in Iran.
Drum over captions
Captions
Gender laws in Iran
Punishment for breaking dress law 75 lashes
Punishment for girls showing hair 25 lashes
Punishment for adultery death by stoning
Iran 2001
Payam Bakhshayesh arrested for talking to a young woman in the
street
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Payam
I was only 18 years old,
and I faced a girl in the street and I liked her face and I think she liked me as
well.
I knew it was going to be dangerous for me, I should risk if one of them sees
me then…
I didn‟t go that close cos I was a bit scared that something might happen
Payam’s Song
D
I‟ll tell you a story of not so long ago
I was out a walking, walking down the road
The sky was blue the sun was in the trees
I saw a pretty woman sailing on the breeze
I took one look in her dark brown eyes
They shone like stars in the midnight sky
I could ask your name but that would be too bold
Fear in my heart love in my soul
Gentle slender woman walking by my side
Why must a love so strong be denied?
One small move and I could touch your hands
But a move so small is too much for this land
Chorus
I love you
No matter what they say
I love you
I only want to stay
I love you
No matter what they do
I just want
To walk alone with you
Payam
I saw a police car just go across the street. ...
They took me to a special room,
he just started attacking me by his boots into my knee, by his hands into my
face and ear and
on camera
after a few hours keeping me like that standing and everyone attacking me, all
my leg from my knee to my ankle was black.
Music Violin break
The flame burns strong the flame blows wild
The flame in my heart must flicker fade and die
The river runs deep the river runs free
The river in my heart is searching for the sea
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Chorus
I love you
No matter what they say
I love you
I only want to stay
I love you
No matter what they do
I just want
To walk alone with you
Payam
At first I thought that he - the one who caught me, he is responsible – I
wanted to do the same to him but
On camera
then I realised that it’s not just him, it’s all of them, it’s the regime
actually.
we decided to distribute our leaflets and when I was distributing I saw
someone who’s face was familiar to me-
On camera
I just saw it in his face that he remembered my face as well - he just
took a leaflet put his head down and walked away.
Violin and drum
it was then that my Mum picked up the phone and she was scared -
on camera
They’ve come to the house, they’ve knocked the door, they opened the
door and searched all around the house, they’re looking for you,
Jilah & Gaylan vocal
Payam
They placed me in the back of a lorry there was a small room
just behind the lorry driver which had a door which could be opened
from underneath the lorry.
On camera
They put me there and there were 3 more as well and he just drove out
to somewhere - somewhere safe
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Open Borders
Travelling north in search of freedom
Down dusty roads and motorways
Only the roaring diesel engine
Comforts a lonely émigré
Over cool mountains burning deserts
Flying past forests fields of corn
Onward we go lost in the darkness
Travelling north from dawn to dawn
Chorus
Tear down the walls no detention
Unbolt the locks no prison chains
Cut through the wires open borders
Fling back the doors let freedom reign
Here in the dark we dream of sun light
And cool riverbanks where the small fish glide
We yearn for the scent of sweet magnolia
And garlands of stars in the Eastern sky
We come here to work to sell our labour
We offer the skill of our hands and our brains
Farmers, doctors, students, teachers
Hoping to breath free air again
Chorus
We are „the poor and huddled masses‟
Driven in exile to your shores
Leaving our families far behind us
Fleeing oppression famine and war
Millions have walked this way before us
With holes in their shoes hope in their hearts
From the ghettos of Warsaw to Sarajevo
They ask for a chance to make a new start
Chorus
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Caption
Part 4 Creating non-people
Walmart Rally USA
Walmart documentary piece
Asda/Walmart voice (in plain text) with mock cartoon image against
And captions in bold
ASDA, Britain‟s best value retailer became part of the Wal-Mart family in June
1999.
Our Mission is:
-To allow Asda and Britain‟s farmers to grow together.
Number of UK farm workers who, lost their livelihoods 1998-2000;
50,000
-To buy British wherever possible
Percentage of Wal-Mart products produced in China:
80
-To create a level playing field for all our suppliers
Average Chinese daily wage:
£1
-To forge closer partnerships with our agri-suppliers
Percentage of UK fresh food produced by Migrant Workers:
50%
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Unit 8 Morecambe Bay (12mins)
The big ship sails across the ocean
Bound from Fujing and Shanghai
Below the decks a hidden cargo
Freedom bound they follow the sky
Chorus
And the West wind steels across the dockside
Raising spirits from long ago
Distant voices long forgotten
Like fallen leaves they swirl and go
Steel away
Narration
One alternative to working in the export processing zone is to pay a
snakehead 20,000 pounds for passage to Britain. Once here it‟s illegal to
work. However there are other ways to become part of Wal-Mart‟s sub
contracting chain- like picking cockles.
Voice over link
Caption
Migrant Chinese cockle pickers
Morecambe Bay 2004
Billy
The tide when it comes in covers the whole area and very deep water in less
than an hour, when the tide comes in it doesn‟t roll in like any other tide, it
comes up through the sand and makes the whole area very treacherous, very
quickly which is one of the main reasons that this bay is one of the most
dangerous places on the English coast.
Super
Gina Tang
Gina
Friday morning, I heard somebody told me; there was a disaster last night,
about a cockle picker…. Quite a lot of people get killed.
Super
Billy Pye
Billy
In adition to that it was February so it was dark very early and it was a terrible
night; there was an awful storm, it was freezing cold and the rain was just
lashing down whilst they were cockle picking and they were stranded as the
tide came in,
They were surrounded by water and had to call for assistance from mobile
phones right out there in the bay.
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Gina
Friday night when I come back, I know its 23 people missing …
Cockle Pickers Song
1. He came from Fujing on the South coast of China
A head full of hope, 19 years old
Working all night for the big US boss man
A dollar a day in the Free Trade Zone
Chorus
Steel away steel away, haven‟t got long to stay here x2
2. Heard all the stories of foreign adventure
Over the seas big money is made
Sign on the line with the snakeheads of Fuji
Surrender your self to the traffickers trade
Chorus
3. Thousands of miles across borders and mountains
Smuggled in cargo ships banged up in holds
Dicing with death in the bowels of a trailer
Hopes and dreams bought and sold
Chorus
4. Five to a room and 2 to a bunk bed
In a Liverpool basement rammed like slaves
Ten pounds a day take it or leave it
Trapped in the web of the gang masters trade
Chorus
5. He walked past the sign that warned of the danger
Written in words he could not read
Rain lashing down fingers frozen
The gang masters eyes full of greed
Chorus
6. Lost in the dark he fished for cockles
Bound for tables in distant lands
Trapped in the beam of the gang masters head lights
Blind to the wave that sped over the sand
Chorus
7. Cold the seas that swept in that evening
Cold the bodies of those émigrés
Cold as ice the hearts of the merchants
Who profit from death on Morecambe Bay
Chorus
Gina
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The souls still waiting for me
Gina
The family thought their souls still in the sea, and I told the family no, I got
them out in 7 day because you have to get them out in 7 day
Billy
What would it take for you to leave everything you have
To travel half way around the world in the back of a lorry
To go to a country that doesn‟t want you
How desperate would you have to be?
Gina
I said right, you stay here, and wait right and I will take you home, yeah?
And I will take you home, yeah?
The souls still waiting for me
Billy
As far as the governments concerned, it seems to me, these people are non-
people, well my answer to that is, „no, they‟re not‟ these are human beings like
you and me with families, these are parents, these are brothers and sisters
and sons and daughters just like you and me and if you do nothing else you
can‟t accept in silence that they died for nothing. And we won‟t.
Bridget Anderson Page 6
The big employers are always at a distance, so Sainsbury‟s and Tesco‟s can
always hold their hands up and say, ‟Oh that‟s terrible, we‟ll never use that
supplier again,
Billy
I was a miner at Parkside Colliery, the last deep coal mine in Lancashire up
until its final and ultimate demolition in 1994. We were really clear during the
miners strike …if the trade unions in general …didn‟t come and support the
miners in our struggle– we would end up with a completely deregulated
economy,
No Connections
1. I gotta mate name of Steve dug the coal in the Staffordshire seams
Thatcher came to close the mines spent 12 months on a picket line
Pit heads just a tombstone now dereliction stalks the town
Loved his kids loved his wife, signing on destroyed his life
Coal comes in from China now, no safety laws and the unions bound
Steve will be sleeping out tonight, Shit just happens…that‟s right!
Chorus
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There are no connections
2. A guy from Stanislav Ukraine he got no papers he got no name
Price of grain went down and down had to leave his farm and town
Came to Brum to feed his kids works all night for 15 quid
Packing food for the Tesco store, he sweats blood and they want more
This the corporate paradise labour at rock bottom price
Here comes the immigration man, Better run while you can,
Chorus
3. My old man worked all his days saving up his retirement pay
Company had the final joke when the pension scheme went broke
Had to sell his home to eat now he rents a crumbling heap
Bloody place is freezing cold, no one wants you when your old
Old folks home got privatised no bloody place to end your life
“Sorry mate you cann‟t stay, nothings free unless you pay”
Chorus
Is there anything left in England that‟s not for sale
4. Gina works in Salvador stitching Jeans for the Levi store
Export zone free trade laws Company goons patrol the floor
Cotton thread stained in tears Levi jeans made in fear
A dollar down for a ten-hour day Freedom care of the USA
You get sick you get the sack You get pregnant don‟t come back
Gina‟s set up a union cell, Levi Straus… Go to hell! x4
Chorus
There are connections, yea, yea, yea
Instrumental
There are connections
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Caption
Part 5 Industrial Strength
John Bull as Canada 1 tower
Canary Wharf Group plc is a distinctive, integrated property development, we
have transformed a derelict wharf into the premier business district in Europe.
And the tall towers rise over Ratcliffe Highway
Where merchants gaze on computer screens
They wheel and deal on the super highway
Trading in hope down sizing dreams
Chorus
Cotton from Jakarta sugar from Jamaica
Coffee from the Guatemalan shores
Tamarin, tumeric, ginger and juniper
From Bombay Delhi and Lahore
And the West wind steels across the dockside
Raising spirits from long ago
Distant voices long forgotten
Like fallen leaves they swirl and go
Steel away
Meet Our customers the BP, Barclays, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley and
the HSBC bank.
Video
We see the HSBC tower it talks
HSBC
The world is a rich and diverse place…
Caption
HSBC profits 2005
9.4 billion pounds
HSBC
A world full of interesting cultures and people who should be treated with
respect
Caption
HSBC bank investment in the three Gorges dam in China will create 1.5
million refugees
HSBC
A world full of interesting cultures and people from whom there is a great deal
to learn.
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Caption
HSBC cleaners Canary Wharf
Paid £5.20 per hour
HSBC
Our business is about people and everyone is unique.
Caption
HSBC bank to sack 4000 UK workers and out source to India
HSBC
Customers drive our business and our employees deliver to our customers.
Caption
Stephen Green CEO of HSBC earns more in 2 hours than his cleaners do
in a year
Super
Emmanuel Siller
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Emmanuel WG10 Page 1
generally cleaners is seen as a ghost worker, der …. and dey ave gone, dey
come back de following day, dey find dat der office is cleaned, da all de
messes dat dey ave made done, dey are windows everyding shining ready for
work the following day, dey feel dat its magic
Super
Hectar Ledesma Sanchez
Fabio WG9 page 1
I coming from Colombia about 5 years ago. I am solicitor in Colombia. For
many problems in my country I leaving to…to England….
Bridget Anderson Page 4
Your employer can say, „if you don‟t do what I want you to do, then we‟re
gonna report you to immigration‟.
Fabio WG9 page 2
„You clean this toilets this your job‟ this is your job for one year, two year,
three year, ten year, I don‟t know.
Fabio Sanchez was a lawyer fighting for the peoples‟ rights
In the town of Bogata he said to win you got to fight
He took on the corporations he took on the Colombian state
And the paramilitarios funded by the USA
When the death squads paid a visit in the middle of the night
Fabio had to flee in exile with his daughter and his wife
He fought against injustice he stood beside the poor
Now he‟s seeking refuge and protection from the law
Chorus
We are the cleaners, those you ignore
The cast offs, the rejects swept up on your shores
We come from many countries and our banner is unfurled
We are the workers of the world
Super
Joseph Onwunbiko
Joe
In actual fact the cleaners are treated like second class citizens in that we
were allowed to use the main gate to come into the building in which we are
cleaning we go through the back doors
He landed up in London no time to take a rest
Searching for survival with the poor and dispossessed
He signed up on the ghost shift in the belly of the beast
Working on Canary Wharf where the global merchants feast
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He‟s just another refugee counting down the hours
Working in the shadows of the Shell and BP towers
Cleaning out the ash trays and feeding from the hands
Of the corporation merchants who robbed his native land
Chorus
We are the cleaners, those you ignore
The cast offs, the rejects swept up on your shores
We come from many countries and our banner is unfurled
We are the workers of the world
Super
TELCO Community Campaign Organisation
Catherine
The living wage campaign is about raising the pay and conditions of service
workers, particularly cleaners, catering staff, hospital porters, security guards,
in all different sectors of London where people work ah to just get their pay
and conditions up to a level where people can escape poverty.
Super
Organiser Transport & General Workers Union
Miles
Morgan Stanley are famous of course for the strap line “look for the Union
label and run like hell” as a piece of advice for their investors
There‟s brothers here from Bela Russe and sisters from Belise
Kurds and Croats, Poles and Turks Somalian refugees
Every creed and colour working down the wharf
Slaving in the citadels of the moghuls of the North
Chorus
We are the cleaners, those you ignore
The cast offs, the rejects swept up on your shores
We come from many countries and our banner is unfurled
We are the workers of the world
Catherine
Well we go straight to the top. We don‟t bother with the sub, sub,
subcontractor. We‟re saying, “you hospital, you big bank, you are
responsible.
Miles
I think more and more cleaners of Canary Warf and elsewhere are beginning
to see that the only way they‟re gonna deal with this is by standing together
and using good old industrial strength
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Fabio
From this day I make many friends, I speak to many friends and making many
applications for the union members.
We have joined the sindicato in the union we belong
On our own we are divided but together we are strong
You who rob our country‟s you who drive us into debt
If you think we are defeated you aint seen nothing yet
Chorus
We are the cleaners, those you ignore
The cast offs, the rejects swept up on your shores
We come from many countries and our banner is unfurled
We are the workers of the world
Emmanuel
Dey value animals more dan human being
Chorus
We are the cleaners, those you ignore
The cast offs, the rejects swept up on your shores
We come from many countries and our banner is unfurled
We are the workers of the world
If you think we are defeated you aint seen nothing yet
We are the workers of the world
Scene Title
New Arrivals 2006
The Rahimi Family Must Stay!
Video Rahimi demo
John Bull
The Home Office is the government department responsible for internal
affairs. We work to build a safe, just and tolerant society, to enhance
opportunities for all, and to maintain the protection and security of the public.
Title
Navid Rahimi’s Xmas party
Establishing shot Navid at party
Super
Nick Kelleher
AR 14 28.00 Nick Kelleher
They‟ve organised workers in Iran in the oil industry and the things that they
do and have done in the past are things that we in Britain think nothing of
when we are organising as trade unionists.
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Super
Zohrieh Rahimi
Some of my best friends executed, some of my friends..but in de um in de
prison. Um but because I change my city, dey can‟t find me.I change again
again, that they can‟t find me.
Rahimi Song part 1
Dark Clouds fill the sky
West winds calling me
Oh how I long to stay
Yet I know I have to leave
No flower can flourish here
No man, no king, no God we trust
Singer put away your song
All your words they are lost
All your dreams will turn to dust
Chorus
Mother take my heart
Father take my name
Sister take my dreams
„til I can return again
Chorus
Hiliyliya x 2
AR14 Nick Kelleher
Now because of Ali doing this in Iran he‟s had to flee the country and is now
facing death threats.
AR14/24.09 Eamonn Corduff
Rahimi family must stay for their own safety for their future if they were to
return they would face for certain imprisonment and possibly execution and
torture.
Rahimi Song Part 2
My ears are deaf to sighs
My eyes have cried their fill
My heart is full of rage
How can my tongue be still
Persia I see you cry
In the cold morning rain
I can see your gentle face
Wounded with grief and pain
Chorus
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Mother take my heart
Father take my name
Sister take my dreams
„til I can return again
Chorus
Hiliyliya x 2
Caption
17 August 2004
Rahimis flee iran
Arrive Heathrow airport
AR 12 5.00 Zohrieh
It was in airport for er 10 hour … we didn‟t er um expect dis treatment by
police, because dey search er us every hour.
AR12 Ali
Navid about 18 hours don‟t sleep, Navid half past twelve in de night. .. very
tired, very tired and “Navid wake up, wake up, wake up!” Navid just 5 years..
searched er Navid pants.
Zohrieh
Every hour, every hour
Music over captions
Caption
Rahimis detained for 8 days
Oakington detention centre
25 August
Rahimis dispersed to Wolverhampton
AR12 47 Ali
I came to Wolverhampton. Just open de door , very very dirty and very dirty
house. Haven‟t e carpet, haven‟t a sofa, haven‟t a bed, haven‟t a blanket,
….she said “yes, you go shopping centre and buy” huh? Which money?
£38?! Huh! For one week! This very funny.
Caption
16 May 2005 5 am
Home Office raid Rahimi home
AR12 59.00 Zohrieh
5 O clock at morning they come to our house and near 8 immigration officer
and police and knocked e down de door, they said “you should go back to Iran
because you refused”
Caption
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Rahimis forcibly taken to Heathrow airport
For deportation
AR13 7.58
There is a special van that is like er a cage- metal door, there is a big lock and
er dey lock de door all de time and er Navid said dem “I, I should go to toilet”
but dey didn‟t accept .
Caption
Rahimis driven round airport for 8 hours
Ar 1315.53
I want somebody tell me why! One 5 years little boy?! 8 hour to van?! To
cage?
The Big bird flies across the ocean
To Kabul, Kirkuk Shanghai
Outward bound a bonded cargo
Human surplus no longer required
And the West wind steels across the dockside
Raising spirits from long ago
Distant voices long forgotten
like fallen leaves they swirl and go
The Big bird flies across the ocean
To Kabul, Kirkuk Shanghai
Outward bound a bonded cargo
Human surplus no longer required
And the West wind steels across the dockside
Raising spirits from long ago
Distant voices long forgotten
like fallen leaves they swirl and go
Caption
17 May
Rahimis resist deportation
Rahimis taken to Yarlswood detention centre
AR13 28.13
Ali Somebody, together make dis programme for torture family,
this noise very bad for every body minds, because every time you noisy, dey
lock de door open de door lock de door and, …….
Caption
18 May
Rahimis start hunger strike to protest forced detention
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26 May
Ali passing blood
AR13 32.4
Head nurse. Said “you want to go to hospital?” I said “yes, I have a kidney
problem.” “Ok, should be you speak wid wife and your wife eating, after you
go hospital.
Caption
8 June
Day 20 of hunger strike
Zohrieh loses 20 kilos
AR13 34.00 Ali
Zohrieh fell down in de floor and blood pressure coming to 5, and she write
10. I said “why you trick? I see Zohrieh blood pressure 5!?” say “ok ok
don‟t worry, you must go out you must go out!” ….. very good for you, go go
go go!
Caption
Day 27 of hunger strike
Rahimis granted court hearing
Zohrieh ends hunger strike
16 June
Rahimi court appearance
AR13 36.14 Ali
Judge say “dis very funny, dis very, I‟m confused, you from Home Office
coming and haven‟t any document and information and background?”
Caption
16 June
Rahimis granted bail
They return to Wolverhampton
24 July 5.30am
Second Home Office raid
AR1319.51 Ali
6 officer, 6 police and 4 officer coming, 10 people! I not terrorist!
Caption
Rahimis taken to
Immigration Centre Heathrow airport
AR15 16.4 Zohrieh
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er in de airport Navid has er a small mm ball, and he play wid it er and
….said to him “don‟t play” …. took der ball and Navid was very mm sad and
said “I want my ball” … she took de ball in de rubbish bin.
AR15 45 Ali
and de head officer woman said “shut up, shut up, de bitch,don‟t
speak,zip!”
Music transition to Rahimi Song
Caption
Rahimis forced on to plane
No flower can flourish here
No man no God we trust
Singer put away your song
All dreams will turn to dust
Chorus
Mother take my heart
Father take my name
Sister take my dreams
„til I can return again
Caption
KLM pilot refuses to fly Rahimis to iran
AR13 19.51 Ali
KLM pilot come and see “Oh very bad very bad” and Zohrieh and Navid very
bad, crying and she, fell down on the floor. Officer very sad, everybody for the
KLM group said “I don‟t fly” and officer pilot said “no I don‟t like take back this
family”
Caption
Rahimis return again to Wolverhampton
Video of Rahimi demo
Caption
September 10
Rahimi Family Defence Campaign set up
Who dug potatoes for the Tesco store
Who sprayed the lettuce got bugger all
Who plucked the berries, then picked the plums
Who wrapped and packed „til her fingers were numb
Who took the shit, who took the hate
Who got stung on the refugee rate
Who lost their lives on those cockle beds
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Who pays the real price for our daily bread
Chorus
Ilegals, refulciado, migrant workers, clandestine, imigrante, manonegra
asylum seekers, sans papier
AR12 50 Ali
Where is de law about worker? Where is de law? Where is de Human Right?
I search I no see. I see de City Link and see de Night Flight, I see de chicken
factory and very very freeze area Every Kurdish and Afghanian working de
chicken factory
Who was that porter in the hospital ward
Who„s contracted out who‟s labours ignored
Who does relief in the privatised homes
Who cares for the young the sick and the old
Who makes the burgers, the pizzas, the chips
Who works below deck on the big merchant ships
Who mixes the mortar carries the bricks
When corners are cut who takes the risks
Chorus
Ilegals, refulciado, migrant workers, clandestines, imigrante, manonegra
asylum seekers, sans papier
Payam MV 4
Everyone should be free to live wherever he or she wants to. There shouldn‟t
be any walls in any country, we are all living on the earth
Who shut the ship yards the factories the mines
Who kills communities, who wrecks lives
Who plans pipelines, who plans dams
Who made migrants, who stole the land
Who poisons the sea, who markets the earth
Who profits from death, who patents our birth
Who plans invasions who wages war
Who blames the people who flee to our shores
Chorus
Its legal , perfectly legal, exploitation, intimidation
global destruction , arms production, , Corporate corruption, all over the world
WG5\8 Gina
Money is enemy isn‟t it? The worst enemy in this world. Money make power,
money make people kill. So…… I think we need to lock the money up instead
and not locking people up. I think we start locking the money up.
Performer raising a glass
Lets raise a glass to all those Irish labourers who fled poverty and famine who
built our canals, railways and roads
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And lets raise a glass to those Afro-caribbean and Asian workers who came
to work the foundries and mills and without whose labour our national health
service could never have happened
And lets raise a glass to those refugees asylum seekers and economic
migrants from Iran, Iraq, Kurdista, Poland Russia, China, Colombia, the
world. Welcome here friends.
Billy Pye
These are brothers and sisters and sons and daughters just like you and me.
Who digs the coal, who cuts the cane
Who lays the tarmac, who unblocks the drains
Who rolls the steel from dawn through to dawn
Who harvests our fruit, who reaps the corn
Who drives the trucks who fights their wars
Who cuts the cloth who serves in their stores
Who builds the ships, who fishes the sea
Who picks the cotton who serves the tea
Who draws the oil from the dry desert sands
Who fights for the right to live in their land
From England to Palestine, Spain to Iraq
There‟s only one world
Take it back! X4
Chant
No one is illegal, No on is illegal…
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