happily married husband the father of two fantastic children i live on a main street in a small new england town with actual white picket fences i made this movie for you me and everyone we know in the hope that we can create a world where human need comes before corporate greed so why does it feel almost un-american to say that think about it this way just go with me for a second here you know that scene from the oliver stone film wall street when gordon gekko played by michael douglas in a role that would win him an oscar appears at a shareholders meeting of a company paper to defend his actions and his grotesque worldview and delivers the now famous speech where he says. for lack of a better word is good. greed is right. works. creek. and can't. see evolution. and. will not be seen tells us that

other malfunctioning corporation of this. audience is flipped out they cheered everybody in the eighty's wanted to be gordon gekko but the thing is this oliver stone wrote it as a piece of satire but nobody got it just the opposite all over stone was trying to send up the excesses of the reagan era michael douglas's portrayal helped inspire a whole generation of slicked back hair doos in double breasted seats adopting the greed is good ethos and pursuing the american dream as it had come to be defined now delivers obscene well for a very few well raining poverty and misery down on many and serving as a homicidal force for others because people do in fact die for lack of access to health care in the richest country in the world that's the us of a human consumption is in fact accelerating the instruction of our planet people do in fact die in wars waged. based on lies that profit

a precious few over five million children globally each year do not reach their fifth birthday because they die of starvation all of this is not because the system that puts man on the moon or can squeeze an entire library onto a computer chip the size of a thumbnail has failed to find a way to solve these problems rather our system without apology places corporate greed. and greed take back the popular phrase is not good now the question many within the occupy movement are trying to solve is this one what would world look like that had a culture and an economic system that places human need above corporate greed and how do we bring that world into being who cares what it is called call it socialism call it real democracy now call it chunky monkey cherry garcia the world needs to change radically needs to change dramatically and it needs to change fast this documentary is an invitation for you to participate in that positive change frankly

because we need you yes you. can so bad that well it's a very well to buy but makes it a problem if you just saw all the money in one place. at. a so i got to do is go a money is good for people there will. be four million yes six we want to hear. the wealth of thirty percent of american families one percent of the wealth of ninety five percent of americans so now that we've identified the problem for us. speaking what do you think the solution is raise your hand if you think the

way our representative democracy currently functions bought and sold as it is by wall street and super pacs offers a bright ray of hope forward anyone to the very same power anyone politicians know if they set about spending their competitors they're going to when they win the election ninety four percent time. so. they have no fear of the american people they fear the people who are going to fund their campaigns right so that means that you me and just about everyone we know has very little say over who represents us and little to no influence over them once they get into office for the process is rigged to throw an enormous amount of money behind candidates in the two major parties and consequently choosing the lesser of two evils is something americans have done with a fatalistic shrug of the shoulders for far too long to say the us government currently functions of for and by the people would be a funny joke if the joke were not on you mean almost everyone we know imagine a world in which your single voice carried as much weight as the c.e.o.

of goldman sachs and you're starting to imagine the world that the occupy movement is trying to bring into being we don't always go to greatness not of unanimity we will be like a duke ellington jazz orchestra. everybody got their own voice and even duke is not the conductor he just didn't put the money but he did gonzalez he did it. just is not just yes that's democracy in action at the deepest level experiencing the horizontal community and culture and organization. so radicalizing for people and continues to be so radicalizing because it draws such a stark contrast up against what they're fighting and actually in their minds clarifies what they're up against more and then somebody. more than it would be clarified if somebody got up and tried to clarify it for them thanks to occupy wall . street there is

a lot of new ways of organizing which is not just calling people to participate in something you came up with but giving people the opportunity to create themselves and to be part of a regional brainstorming about what to do so that they feel empowered in a smart it's also i think. finally put the kybosh on let's organize a rally on a saturday in washington d.c. when everything is closed and people come from around the country and spend a lot of money to walk around in a circle and go home. i think. it was by a certain degree much. i guess what you say. no longer represents the people. the people organizing.

thanks thank you thank you it was what. was it it was what it was it was what he was or was made you want to thank you for it was. i. mean five thirty in the morning is a comedy on most mornings early in the occupy wall street movement there would only be about fifty to maybe two hundred or so occupying the space but at five thirty in the morning on the morning of october fourteenth two thousand and eleven several thousand people were gathered there wide awake why because mayor mike bloomberg had

declared that his own personal army his words the n.y.p.d. constituting the seventh largest army in the world would have victory occupy wall street and these thousands were there not just in solidarity they were there armed with an idea some cardboard signs and an urgency to protect it and many of them were prepared to go to jail trying to fill the space i had already gone to jail once since all of this started as an organizer with the october two thousand and eleven coalition i had been in washington d.c. in the early days of the movement and you can see me here after suggesting repeatedly i had met inside the hart senate office building that we find other uses for the money we lavish on our homicidal will kill political china shop a foreign policy i was given to do not pass go go directly to jail card and in a few days i would be arrested again this time for protesting corporate personhood on the steps of the supreme court we had a bear witness. that it would occupy movement all around the world because we love . working people and. that jane joined us from the grave that we have the fact

that the. occupy d.c. occupy wall street occupy the supreme court was not everywhere in my willingness to go to jail for the movement though i was hardly unique and with the thousands that were in zuccotti on the morning of october fourteenth it seemed that you're about to eclipse the previous one day record total of seven hundred protesters arrested on the brooklyn bridge what was it that brought all of those people to music comedy that this. not be a revolution in the traditional sense but this is a revolution in the life. of the losing end it's not going to be stuff like holy spirit games and pepper spraying kill millions if everything looks like a completely the you deliberately kill. in the first six months of the movement about seven thousand people have been arrested in occupy related protests for that's why all the fuss. and why in the predawn hours

on that friday in october were so many prepared to go to jail. who i. thought. we were supposed to get cleaned out of the park we swept the show up park and then we took brooms and we took them to wall street to co clean up all street i think most of the problems but the self is in the offices so we can get to it but we did a little victory lap and the police brutalized osiris a lot of people like you they do that they have done that for trying to twenty five years in this country during that year's non violent confrontations with the police whether they be in asserting one's first amendment rights to assemble uncommented spontaneous marches in the streets can be incredibly empowering the building experience an antidote to the years of disempowering and williams free speech zones

when it comes to be the mayor and yet civil resistance is but one part one tactic of the movement if you only saw the early stages of the occupy movement through the lens of the mainstream media you might think the movement was solely about clashes with the police. or you.

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and i can are you going to set me up. like this when i get. in there you are an internet owner civilians to get exactly. what was your common sense i thought that the people. people that had nothing to do with anything stand there's no. law that everybody has served in iraq afghanistan like to look him up. in afghanistan my mother didn't get our back. come home i'm

a new york city my opinion your city and. there's no reason for it and there's no because no one ever heard about our civilian. life. this is. a few. lines it. says are a dance plays. leisurely tired ok let's just be honest here for a moment for some people this is and justifiably so a battle about a police state since one nine hundred eighty the number of people in prison per capita in the united states has more than tripled we now in prison a greater percentage of our population than any other country in the world in fact the united states is only five percent of the world's population has twenty five percent of the world's prison population in the u.s.

one in every one hundred six white males aged eighteen or over is incarcerated for this bannock males that number is one in thirty six and one in fifteen black males over eighteen is currently in jail. between one thousand nine hundred seven and two thousand and seven state spending on incarceration related expenses increased one hundred twenty seven percent while spending on higher education during that same period grows a mere twenty percent is it that much more profitable jail or population than it is to educate and. i think that's a great reason then the nand their head lock arms now you know i take me to tell if you want to continue to do this i read about it joe you know watch you continue to tell my brother my sister mine and my uncle or anybody else that looks like me and i read and think it should be a scary thing not just for those oh you know people of color a minority can but out of us another we have to live in a society like that. ok so depending on your geographic location your

everyday reality may reflect the police state we live in two larger or smaller degrees but at least you have your health right at least you have your home. already marriage on various issues like that your so pfizer recreational mother. of every two thousand one l.l. am profiting no matter what. kind of. action taking place right now thank you. from my camera right. thank you you're welcome pal sometimes it demanding change on a large scale has to start with small groups of individuals saying enough is enough like this group of individuals and western massachusetts who gathered in an attempt to stop the bank of america from executing yet another foreclosure auction. the fact is it's a five five by. a lack of government regulations gave banks enough rope to operate like cowboys in the wild west and they responded by lassoing homeowners

with these predatory lending practices when the housing bubble burst bank of america got bailed out and those with underwater mortgages were sold out so that c.e.o.'s like brian moynihan could collect the year end bonus of over nine million dollars a week lou with that they have enough money to pay for a reasonable war gauge at today's values so this is something that all of fluster can stand behind we believe that when folks have you know a home that they should be able to stay in that home and it's not like they're not willing to pay this is the weirdest movement i've ever worked in this way and the foreclosure movement because we are begging people to take money and they won't take it of course occupy hardly invented foreclosure defenses people like grace and anti foreclosure organizations have been toiling away at this for years but when occupy wall street went to east new york in december to march occupy are more and more people around the country started to realize that there was another way to back off.

was. that back to. where i can get that right i think you know and sometimes demanding change in a large scale starts with even smaller groups dr margaret flowers is among the nation's leading advocates for true health care reform health care reform that would eliminate the for profit insurance companies and provide medicare for all individuals in the united states a former pediatrician and congressional fellow dr flowers worked within the system for years after their farmhouse i was traveling around the country and people kept saying how are we going to get single payer i was speaking around you know various states and and i stoli it kind of came together like oh well unless you know as a as a movement even though we're in the majority of the population wants a single payer system we're not going to be strong enough as a single issue. kind of movement to have that kind of political power and health care is really part of a broader social economic justice movement anyway and so we really need to come

together bring our strengths together combine our strengths to have the power and so i know this in my talks i was starting to shift more into you know calling for a broader movement as a core organizer of the october two thousand and eleven coalition that occupied freedom plaza in washington d.c. dr flowers thought fit to attend as an uninvited guest a wall street comes to washington for health care conference i crashed the party with her i doubt they would let my big camera and so i had to shoot the video this impromptu meeting with the real death panels on myself was it how can we do that and that i don't have it i didn't accept some of. the facts because they can provide i was. was out i was. fine i think you're going to have a snow cave family you are right. the real. life

. bit. sally. was. put on the street and joined protesters picketing outside where a desk wrote shared her story of why health care was literally a life and death issue i came here because. for my father's part i was full suicide shock so it had every state. but because her life partner did have enough money to pay for health care i just take care of it and didn't want to ask because my sister and myself were fifty four years old this is the most considerate suicide that i ever heard of and he had to put sticky notes on everything he had borrowed from everybody saying you know we turn this for this person and cetera et

cetera everything that could have possibly been done to get him home not one right the court shot out said please tell me where i parked my daughter's home i have to find. that it was you know i'm sure you understand this is something i have a whole you know without a plan is simply not. that's why i'm here in this forum can you not hurt people like every person that died for lack of access to health care something's father or son or daughter thank you take a stand up not only for my heart but for all those like. you have. it is a. thing i. think a public a. thank you think even though my mortgage is underwater and my health care costs are going through this here is america i'll just pull myself up by the

bootstraps and get to work nose to the grindstone will solve all ills but be careful out there if you haven't noticed there is a war on workers well underway between one nine hundred eighty and two thousand and eight the average income of the bottom ninety percent remained effectively unchanged at thirty one thousand dollars per year in that same time span the average income of the top one percent went from four hundred thousand dollars to over one point one million dollars per year so much for trickle down economics in one thousand nine hundred a c.e.o. made forty two times that of an average employee by two thousand and ten to see those were earning three hundred forty three times a worker's median wage and while the rich got richer they were paying less and less taxes in one nine hundred forty five millionaires get a tax rate of sixty six percent in two thousand and ten millionaires effective tax rate was thirty two percent or more gratian things look even better bank of america

holds over two point two trillion in assets and pays less in taxes than the average american household in two thousand and ten g.b. reported five point two billion dollars in profit and was awarded a tax refund three point two billion dollars citi group has not paid taxes in the last four years and yet in the wake of the financial crisis they are deemed too big to fail and received four hundred seventy six billion dollars in taxpayer bailout money and goldman sachs has spent twenty two million dollars in campaign contributions and twenty one million dollars in lobby. efforts in the past decade and in two thousand and eight paid taxes at a rate. for a. one per cent that it was thanks thousand that you.

cut you mean by the time it was immaculate to me like you thank you thank us thank you to kind of was yes thank you thank you but one could send out if you want but that is the twenty five years of the nothing but treat we've been working p q let me take the lead in this little bit that he said he could put up with to keep it meant that at night when the election to cuba could be done to thank you thank you i thank you

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