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In May 2021, a UK Home Office dawn raid triggers one of the most spontaneous and successful acts of civil resistance in recent memory. In Pollokshields, Scotland’s most diverse neighbourhood, hundreds of residents rush to the streets to stop the deportation of their neighbours.
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00:02It's not the kind of thing you expect to see when you open your curtains in the morning.
00:06I started getting these text messages.
00:09Ride on Camille Street. Can people get there now?
00:12These two men have been here for 10 years, and they're now in this van.
00:19This, this man just, just ran underneath, just stopped the van.
00:24If it wasn't for him, the van would have left.
00:30I'm a van man, and this isn't my face, but these are my words.
00:34I'm a man, and...
01:01Like, actually, there is love here.
01:03We put out tables.
01:05We thought, let's make a wee Eid celebration out of this.
01:08Have tea and biscuits with us.
01:12We've been taking one day, two days, three days.
01:16The day of the time, we have the world.
01:19There will not provide us.
01:21Black and white, unite and fight.
01:28These are my neighbours.
01:29These are my friends.
01:32And my mind goes back to you.
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