Gamil, who is a member of the Regional Directorship of MST as well as COPAVA, shared his experiences of the land occupations, evictions and life on the side of the road going back to the 1980s. “In the end it was worth it, I had been a tenant on someone else’s land and had nowhere else to go” he stated and also explained the importance of the camps and occupations as a place of learning and political formation.
Ni hadithi itokayo katika kitabu cha Charles Dickens cha Hard Times chenye wanafunzi fulani wawili kwenye shule ya mjini, ambao wanaombwa watoe maelezo kuhusu farasi. Mmoja, msichana aitwaye Jupe, ameishi na farasi maisha yake yote huko kijijini, na mwingine, mvulana aitwaye Blitzer, amesoma tu kuhusu farasi katika Encyclopedia. Jupe anashindwa kueleza farasi ni nini kwani katakiwa afanye hivyo kwa lugha ya kisomi, na Blitzer ambaye hajawahi hata kumwona wala kumgusa farasi anafaulu kueleza farasi yukoje kwa kutumia maana za ki-encyclopaedia.