experts on all those things and more but 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. any paper to defend his actions and his grotesque worldview and delivers the now famous speech where he says the now famous for lack of better word is for lack of a better word is good for this. creek. and can't. get the east. end.

and. will not receive tells us that other malfunctioning of the. 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 a whole generation of slicked back hair doos in double breasted seats adopting the greed is good eat those and pursuing the american dream as it had come to be defined now delivers obscene wealth for a very few well reigning 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. but 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 the places you 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 hey hey. it's console bad well it's a very well to buy but makes it a problem if you just saw all the money in one place. that that was so i got you is going to money is going to get fewer people there will. be fifty four million yes six you 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 for anyone to the very same power anyone politicians know if they set out spend their competitor they're going to when they're when the election ninety four percent of the 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. just you know we go below duke ellington just i. got the only thing worse than the duke is not the conductor he just. doesn't look. yes that's democracy in action and. experiencing the horizontal community and culture and organization. so radicalized him for two point continues to be surrounded by some 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 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. a regional brainstorming about what to do so that they feel empowered you know it's also i think empowering and it's 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. i am. thinking . or. i guess what you say is what brought over to the government

no longer represents the people the people who are going to take. the people who are going to. meet.

you. mr president. i. thought. i. thought maybe i. was poor i. i thirty. 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. 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 dicked occupy wall street and these thousands were there not just in solidarity they were there are more than ideas and cardboard signs in an urgency to protect the young 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. i'm a societal bull geopolitical 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 we had a bear witness who had me at my holiday and it would occupy movement all around the

world because we love war people we love working people what can we want milo that jane joining us from the grave that we have of putting up an. occupy d.c. 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 rings you carry on the morning of october fourteenth it seems 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 a revolution in the traditional sense but this is a revolution of the mind and our. revolution and it's not going to be stuff like holy spirit james and pepper spraying is it everything looks like a plea for you do it like. in the first six months of the movie about seven thousand people have been arrested in

occupy related protests or things while the fox. and why in the predawn hours on that friday in october were so many prepared to go to jail i don't i think you i think i've we were supposed to get cleaned out of the park we swept the share park and then we took brooms and we took them to the to all street to co-create up wall 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 pretty. lies the sorrow i think that we have done that are trying to play 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 foreign uncommented spontaneous marches in the streets can be incredibly empowering movement building experience an antidote to the meirs

of disempowering and or williams free speech zones when it comes to be the norm 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 soley about clashes with the police. wealthy british style. sometimes. market why not canada. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mikes concert for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into cons a report on r g. two least be told language.

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put. up with. and i can't or you don't want to start me up. like that. actually i do like this now i guess i'd. like. to hear you ignoring her owners of billions to get excited when you see that if i was your company's best possible that. people that had nothing to do with

anything sprang up there's no honor in. my pov that 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 don't come home i'm a new york city my opinion your city and. there's no reason for it there's no bridge there's 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 thousand nine hundred 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 us 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 to jail our population than 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 read about it joe you know watch you continue to tell my brother my sister my mom going about he also 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 not 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 made it was your shoes like that which are so far as your question oh mother. of every two thousand women are little am profiting no matter what you're. going to rebuy action taking place right now. from my camera all 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 in western massachusetts who gather in an attempt to stop 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 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 out 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 to. where i get that right. 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 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 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 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 and a wall street comes to washington health care conference i crashed the party with her i doubt it 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 care is

a good acceptable. practice because if you provide one. was out i was. fine i think you have a snow cave 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 barco it. is a head injury. because. i have enough money to pay for health care. of

. myself for sixty four years old this is a suicide ever. but everything gets. better. by god my daughter. understands. that by my. father. her daughter. not only for my father but for all those like. you have passed. it is.

ok. ok oh ok thank 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 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 your 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 had a rate. waiting for it. one person that it was was that. was. the except that i was merely guiding me i was saying i wasn't i was i. was yes. but one percent got eighty one percent of it done better than twenty five years of the nothing but grief. we've been working for the. three hundred k. people in this little bit that we would put up with we may have been born at night

but not like i was going to think we would be but to say thank you guys thank you thank you thank you i was it was you was my was thousand to two thousand i was i was i was.

dead heat. evil's the decades. if you had fifteen thousand people killing each other in any other country there would be diplomats there would be mediators. self-imposed costs from society i will cut myself i want to tax my brother. going to be. the cause of my anger and my frustration. that up. to. two of the most violent gangs in u.s. history. is just all model killing to kill with colors matching the national flag.

of this country uses violence when it reaches and then it legitimizes the. made in america on the oxy. do we speak your language anybody will not be in. the music programs and documentaries in spanish more matters to you breaking news a little tonnage of angola's kidneys stories. for you here. in detroit i'll teach spanish to find out more visit eye to eye all tito it's calm . you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so for lengthly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything

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