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 a 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. the lack of a better word is good. right. grete works. green eyes. and can. look at the east. end. well not the state tells us that other malfunction of the. body and says 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 i. excesses of the reagan era michael douglas his 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 wealth for a very few 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 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 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.

it's con so bad. it's a very well to buy but makes it a problem if you just saw all the money in one place. at that so i got you was going to money is going to get fewer people there will. be four million year six we 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 pile 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 you know always going to greet us not about unanimity we got to be like that duke ellington jazz orchestra. everybody got their own voice and even the duke is not the. conduct but you just look at some of. the look.

not just yes there is democracy in action but little experiencing the horizontal community and culture and organization. was so radicalizing for people in continues to be so radicalized 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. particularly much. i guess what you say. no longer represents the people the people are going to take the term.

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take part of today for the. poor. 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 it and many of them were prepared to go to jail trying to hold 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 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 bear witness let me bet it would occupy movement all around the world because we love. working people and. that jane joined us from the grave that we have a pledge that if the. occupy d.c. occupy wall street occupy supreme court does not use 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 cotty that it may not be. a revolution in the traditional sense but this is a revolution in the life of our people not the revolution and it's not going to be stuff like holy spirit cajun pepper spraying is it everything looks like a girl in cleveland the work you do it looks like still. in the first six months of the movement about seventy thousand people have been arrested in occupy related protests for things like why all the fuss. and why in the predawn hours on that friday in october were so many prepared to go to jail i know i did my life thank you for the five years that i have my life if i did

my life by the way we are supposed to get cleaned out of the park we swept the show up park and then we took brooms and we took them to austria tico clean up austria having 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 this r.s.s. people i know they do that they have done that for trying to twenty five years in this country during that years nonviolent confrontations with the police whether they be in asserting one's first amendment rights to assemble for an uncommitted spontaneous marches in the streets can be incredibly empowering movement building experience an antidote to the years of disempowering and or williams free speech zone when it comes to be the norm and yet civil resistance is but one part one tactic of the movement if you only saw in 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 i'm. sure we speak your language i mean some of the will not advance. news programs and documentaries and spanish matters to you

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and i can assure you i want to. be like this like i guess. i can like you. 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 and there's no honor in. my public everybody who has

served in iraq afghanistan like to look him up that. my father was in afghanistan the mother didn't get in our back country don't come home i'm a new york city my opinion your city and. there's no reason for it and there's no british no honor and i don't see a million. i. was. i was i was i am you. can say i can still a good life or 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 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 the 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 read and understand their head lock arms now you know why take me to you know if you want to continue to do this i'd rather go to jail you know watch you continue to put my brother my sister and my mom going to body 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 minority 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. was already made it was john very issues like that which are so pfizer recreational mother. of every two 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 bank of america from executing yet another foreclosure auction. the fact is

it's. 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 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 the for 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 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 to that back. 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 farm passed 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 and 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 god now we need a national health care is it was acceptable. practice because they can't provide one i was i was. fine

i think you have a snow cave where you are right. it's just one of. three. found 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 buck i looked. 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 old this is

a suicide. but everything the. better. i called my. life i bought my daughter. i. think i had. that by my. father. daughter. stand up not only for my father but for all those like. you have passed. it is. thing. ok oh ok

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 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 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 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

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