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download free broadcast quality video for your media projects a free media dog to our teeth dot com. my name is dennis i made this movie and there are a few things you should know about me right from the jump i'm not an expert on the economy climate change or foreign policy i'm also not an expert on sustainable farming systems the history of social movements or lego's the occupy movement has experts on all those things and more not really want to i'm 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. own film wall street when
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gordon gekko played by michael douglas in a role that would win him an oscar appears at a shareholders meeting of a company or 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. we just write great works greek. and can. guess. at the least. and. in my mind. will not only see tells us but that other alpha upgrade of this. audience is flipped out they cheered everybody in the eighties wanted to be gordon gekko but the thing is this all over stone road is 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
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a whole generation of slicked back hair doos in double breasted suits adopting the greed is good eat those in pursuing the american dream as it had come to be defined now delivers obscene well for a very few overeating 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
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greed human meet and greet 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.
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can so bad the world is it's a very wealthy word but makes it a problem if you just saw all the money in one place. at. a so i got you is going to money is good for people there will. be four million yes six 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 broadly 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 out spend their competitors they're going to when they're when the election ninety four percent of the time of day so. they have no for. fear of the
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american people they fear the people who are going to fund their campaign right so that means that you me and just about everyone we know has very little say over who represents and little to no influence over them once they get into all this 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 u.s. government currently functions of foreign 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 know it was going to be just not a unanimity we go be like a duke ellington jazz orchestra. everybody got to. do just not the conductor he just didn't know it so much but it doesn't it. just is not
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just yes that's democracy in action but level experiencing the horizontal community and culture and organization. was 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 than somebody. more than it would be clarified if somebody got up and tried to clarify it for them thanks to occupy wall street there's 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 their selves and to be. a regional brain and storing about what to do so that they feel empowered in this moment and it's also i think. finally put the kybosh. letter.
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as 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 come home. for what you see. people. being killed by a certain degree much more. i guess what you say is. no longer represents the people the people are going to take.
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i. thank you.
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for. 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 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 victor occupy wall street and these thousands were there not just in solidarity they were there armed with an idea some cardboard signs in an urgency to protect the young and many of them were prepared to go to jail trying to hold their space i had already gone to jail once since all of this started as an organizer with the october two thousand
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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 bull geo political china shop of 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. 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 it. occupy d.c. occupy wall street occupy the supreme court it's not everywhere in my willingness to go to jail for the movement though i was hardly unique and with the thousands that room zuccotti on the morning of october fourteenth it seemed that you're about
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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 use a coffee that is now. not be a revolution in the traditional sense but this is a revolution in the life of our people losing and it's not going to be stuff like police barricades into prospective angles is it everything looks like a clean bill are you deliberately killed. in the first six months of the movement about seven thousand people have been arrested in occupy related protests or that while the fox and why in the predawn hours on that friday in october were so many prepared to go to jail who. i thought.
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we were supposed to get cleaned out of the park we swept the show park and then we took brooms and we took them to the to wall street to co-create 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 a series of people like you know they do that they have done that trying to twenty five years in this country during that years non violent confrontations with the police whether they be in asserting one's first amendment rights to assemble for an uncredited spontaneous marches in the streets can be incredibly empowering movement building experience an antidote to the years of disempowering and williams free speech zones when it comes to be the movement 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 will two parties keep us politics a one way street live or will new voices disrupt the power of power.
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what is america changes try. this election please guide monday november fifth on arts. i'm in sochi to know his city in europe i'm the host of the twenty fourteen winter the big. sun see. the. sun. think of the. dog days of. the fridays here. comes. the. sun sea it's so true. download the official application to self choose your language stream quality and
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enjoy your favorites from a. t.v. is not required to watch on t.v. all you need is your mobile device to watch on t.v. any time. you don't want to. like this. or in a hundred million. people that nothing if anything. my father everybody has served in iraq afghanistan like a look. back. at it again are back. in
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new york new york city. there's no honor and i don't. i. am. i thank you. thank you for your e-mail we. say yes believe. three are 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 thousand a.d. 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 population has twenty five percent of the world's prison population in the u.s.
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one in every one hundred six white males aged eighteen or over is incarcerated for hispanic 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 of all spending on higher education during that same period rose 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 read and then their head lock arms that you know i take me to jail if you want to continue to do this i read about it joe you know watch you continue to tell my brother and my sister and my moms or anybody else that looks like me and i read and think it should be a scary thing not just for those who own you know people color minority can but all of us know not that we have to live in a society like that. ok so depending on your geographic location your
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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 which you're so far as your question or mother. of every two thousand one l.l. am probably no matter where you're. going to reside taking place right now thank you. for finding 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 bank of america from executing yet another foreclosure auction. the fact is it's. five back to. a lack of government regulations gave banks enough rope
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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 warga today's values so this is something that all of 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 i 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 our fair use more and more people around the country started to realize that there was another way to back off.
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was. that back to. where i got that right. and sometimes demanding change in a large scale starts because 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 the farm passed i was traveling around the country and people kept saying well how are we going to get single payer i was speaking around you know various states and and i stole a 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 once 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
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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 notice 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 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 that we need a national health care is it was acceptable. practice because they can provide was . was out was. fine if you're going to have a snow cave or you are right. so the real. thing. is
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to. actually hit. sally. street. but honestly and join protesters picketing outside where adair a scarlet shared her story of why health care was literally a life and death issue i came here because. for my father my heart was full of a suicide shot himself it had every state. but because he fired what part he did have enough money to pay for health care to take care of it and he didn't want to ask because my sister and myself first fifty four years old this is the most considerate suicide that i've ever heard of and he had to put sticky notes on everything he had borrowed from everybody saying you know we turned this post this
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person and cetera et cetera everything that could possibly be good and hope not one might but for shoppers out exactly where my heart so i started from i have to fight . for being that it was he says i'm sure you understand this is something i have a good hold no doubt but simply not i'm sure that's why i'm here at this current standard i've heard people like every person that died for lack of access to health care something's father or son or daughter thank you for your stand up not only for my father but for all those like. me who have found. is it is. it a i. think a i. think i thought ok you think you know my mortgage is underwater and my health care
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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 c. those were earning three hundred forty three times the workers median wage and while the rich got richer they were paying less and less taxes in one thousand forty five millionaires get a tax rate of sixty six percent in two thousand and ten millionaires effective tax
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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 lobbying. efforts in the past decade and in two thousand and eight paid taxes at a rate. for a. one per cent that it was thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you.
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cut you mean the to kind of was immaculate to me like you. thank you thank us to keeping wasn't yes thank you but one could send out if you want but then it is the twenty five years of the nothing but greed. we've been working to. keep people in this club that's exactly what we do we may have been done at night but nothing like to come out of that could be was to thank you thank you thank you thank you i thank ye thousand
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two thousand two thousand two thousand two thousand two thousand and six two thousand i. thank you. international writes on an international law we should not bomb iran we need to cut the budget and bring the troops home we should end the war in afghanistan to. the persecution of whistleblowers.
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where he'll patriot. i'm in sochi the only city in europe i'm the host of the twenty fourteen winter the pick a. seat. thank you. so much. thank you the. dog days of. the fridays it. takes. a seat it's so true. give me can i speak with you sir let me let me explain my son died in iraq i don't
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agree you don't agree with. my son isn't isn't in the marine i don't know what his copy of what he's trying to for you fer. sure and your country. countries i'm curious. the moon or in hope to help you find it. you find in so many own says war. and sometimes.

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