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 than 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 i 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 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 their eyes and can. see the evolution.

and we. will not be seen as i think that other malfunctioning brain of the u.s. . audience is flipped out they cheered everybody in the eighty's 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 a whole generation of slicked back hair doos in double breasted seats adopting the greed is good ethos in pursuing the american dream as it had come to be defined now delivers a pretty well for a very few well running poverty and me. 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 destruction of our planet people do in fact

die in wars waged based on lies that profit the precious view 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 but one world look like they have 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. it's a very well to vibe it makes it a problem if you just saw all the money in one place. so i got you is going to money is going to get fewer people there will. be four million you have six who want to hear. the wealth of thirty percent of american families you know 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 spout spend their competitor they're going to when they're when 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 a 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 always going to greet us not about unanimity we go be like a duke ellington jazz orchestra. everybody got their own voice and even duke is not the conductor he just one or the money the other but he did gonzalez he did it . jenny and i just yes that's democracy in action at the deepest level experiencing the horizontal community and culture and organization. so radicalized him for two point continues to be surrounded by 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 themselves and to be part of a regional brainstorming about what to do so that they feel empowered in this moment and 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 come home to see. what . people. think it was by a certain degree much. like what you say. no longer

represents. the people organizing. thank you. you. thought of. view of.

thank you thank you. thank you thank you. for. putting much of the out of the five. of part of. my life. to to to to part of the world to be made for the. poor of. i think. 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 men 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 admit inside the hart senate office building that we find other uses for the money we lavish on our homicidal bull geo political china shop and the 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 had

a bear witness look at me and it would get bad moment all around the world because we love. working people and. that jane joined us from the grave that we have the fact that it was an. occupy d.c. the occupy wall street occupy supreme court not you 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 zuccotti that this may not be. revolution in the traditional sense but this is a revolution in the life of our people not revolution and it's not going to be stuff likely to change in congress critical is it everything looks like a plea to lure you deliberately kill. in the

first six months of the movement about seven thousand people have been arrested in occupy related protests for things why all the fuss. and why in the predawn hours on that friday in october were so many prepared to go to jail. i blew when we were supposed to get cleaned out of the park we swept the ship park and then we took brooms and we took them to austria to co-create up austria having most of the problems but the filth is in the offices so we can get to it but we did a little victory lap in the police brutalized the sorry the people like you know they do that they have done that for trying to twenty five years in this country during that year's nonviolent confrontations with the police whether they be in asserting one's first amendment rights to assemble foreign uncommented 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 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. live download the official application to yourself choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorite from alzheimer's if you're away from your television just doesn't matter how would you. mobile devices you can watch on t.v. anytime anywhere. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so for you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize that

everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom hartman welcome to the big picture. the worst if you are going through. the white house to get a day on the radio guy in fort lauderdale a minute from a quick coffee i want you to watch what we're about to go because you've never seen anything like this on cold.

little. iraq. don't tell me how much time i. go.

and i can assure you i want to. be like this like gary. i am like. there are inherent in our civilians to get excited when you see that if i was your company i thought there'd be people. people that had nothing to do with anything sprang up there's no honor in. my public everybody who has served in iraq afghanistan like you look how much as you know. my father was an afghan and the mother didn't get our back country to come home i'm a new york city my i'm from new york city and it. would not. be subpoenaed and there is no british no honor and i don't see a million. i. was.

i was i was i am you. can say i can't slave. for a good fire 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 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 while spending on higher education during that same period rose a mere twenty percent is it that much more profitable jail or population then it is to educate and. i think that's a great reason and the nand their head lock arms now you know i take you to you know if you want to continue to do this i read about it joe you know what you continue to tell my brother my sister in law my mom's going to body 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 of color minority but out of us know that 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 i'm very sure slice know it you're so far as your recreational

mother. of every three thousand women are little am profiting no matter what you're . going to rebuy action taking place right now. my camera right. thank you you're welcome pal sometimes 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 gather in an attempt to stop the bank of america from executing yet another foreclosure. the fact is it's a. 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 weekly with that they have enough money to pay for a reasonable war gauge at today's values so this is something that all of forrester 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 high 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 come back oh god. was. back. there yes. 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 the 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 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 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 to get gawker that we need a national health service was acceptable. practice because they can't provide one i was i was. fine i think you have a snow cave or you are right. it's just one of.

three. and join protesters picketing outside where a derose girl shared her story of why health care was literally a life and i say here because. for my father bartunek i left school. at the head injuries. because i. didn't have enough money to pay for health care. and didn't want to pass. myself for sixty four years so this is all considered suicide. but everything the. better i. called my. life i bought my daughter. i.

think i had. that by my. father. her daughter. not only for my father but for all those like. you have passed. it is a. thing. ok oh ok. ok you think you know 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 thousand nine hundred 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 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 corporation 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 million 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 person that i was that was that. was. because of that i was american that was nearly guiding me i was saying i wasn't i i.

wasn't yet kind of the one percent at eighty one but that about is the twenty five years of the nothing but pretty. we've been working people. seem to hate people in this problem that they simply put up with the management that it is not good not that i thought of that they think we could be taught how to say thank you because i was if i was you was

thousand two thousand i was i was i was thank you i. me gives you the view it's. in the. sixth. let me let me i want it all let me ask you a question from. here on this network is what we're having in the bank we have our

knives out. but if you get this right what's a bad thing never again you're in a situation where b. and i don't agree to talk about the arrangement which. wealthy british style. that's not on the title of the five. markets why not i'm going to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's cause or for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to kaiser report on our.