democracy are either dismally stupid or consciously running a very brutal con game but that's just my opinion. emissions free cretaceous three sports just free. range and free. three stooges free. download free broadcast quality videos for your media projects a free media party 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 been experts on all those things and more but 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 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 better word is good. we didn't write. greek works. greek. and can't. just say that the first. week. in my. thanks

will not only see tells us that other malfunctioning afraid 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 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 struction 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 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 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. console bad the world is it's a very wealthy vibe it makes it problems you just saw all the money in one place. that that so i got you was going to money is doing it for people over there the world. was fifty four million yes sixty 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 functioning bought and sold as it is by wall street and the pacs offers a bright ray of hope forward for anyone to the very same pile of anyone politicians know if they set about spending 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 for and by the people would be a funny joke if the joke were not on you mean almost everyone we know imagine a. 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 it was going to be just not a good enough we will be looking at duke ellington just. got to. do just not the conduct that he just put so much not. just yes that's democracy in action at the level experiencing the horizontal community and culture and organization. was so radicalizing 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 and then 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 for themselves and to be very original 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 home. i think. people might think it was by a certain degree much. i guess what you say is. no longer represent the. people are going to say.

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thank you thank you. thank you. so much. for. five thirty in the morning was 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 when he dicked occupy wall street and these thousands were there not just in solidarity they were there armed with an ideas and 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 in 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. and 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 cut in the. occupy d.c. occupy wall street occupy supreme court 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 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 music cotty that this thing. would be a revolution in the traditional sense but this is a revolution of the light. pollution and it's not going to be stuff like holy spirit games and pepper spraying is it everything looks like. the war you do it like. in the first six months of the movie about seven 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 for so many prepared to go to jail. who. lives. where we were supposed to get cleaned out of the park we swept the ship the park i mean we took brooms and we took them to the to wall street to co-create up wall street i think most of the problems with the filth was in the offices so we can get to it but we did a little victory lap and the police brutalized this the rest of our people like you know they do that they have done that for 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 uncommented spontaneous marches in the streets can be incredibly empowering movement building experience an antidote to the years of disempowering ignoring williams free speech zone 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. choose your language. fully recover though in a financial planner say still some other. treatments but the consensus didn't. choose the opinions that invigorating to. choose the stories that entire life

choose be access to your office. there are twelve cities in the united states in which half of the people with hiv

aids lives within a year or. two percent. this is a problem that frankly is substantially preventable it was like the big elephant in the room and nobody wanted to talk about it there were really good public health things that people were really focused on this problem you certainly should be able to. see a lot less human suffering. are you going to. be like this when i get. back i. like. to know i never know. but. i was young. people that had nothing if anything. my father everybody you have in our back

yard to look. back. to the bank on our back. i mean new york new york city. says no no no i don't. think. i. am. a i can't relate. 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 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 means and the nand their head lock arms now you know why take me to jail and you got to continue to do this i read about it tell you you know what you continue to pull my body and mind the mind of my uncle anybody else that looks like

me and i read i think it should be a scary thing not just for those who own you know people color minority can but all 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 made every job very rigorous you slice that with your so far as your bank ratio mother. of every two thousand one are little am profiting no matter what you're. going to rebuy action taking place right now. by my camera right. thank you you're welcome pal sometimes it's amending 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 gather 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 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 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 are more and more people around the country started to realize that there was another way to come back. was was back to that back. where i got 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 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 it's totally kind of came together like oh well and let's 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 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 to get how can how we did it and that was it was acceptable saturday practice because if you ask for i

was. was out i was. fine because you're going to have a snow cave where you are. so the value. of it. sally. was. put on the street and join protestors picketing outside where a dare risk wrote shared her story of why health care was literally a life and death issue i came here because our for my father part of our school did suicide get shot it had three states yes but because her life partner did have enough money to pay for health care to take care of it and didn't want to ask because my sister and myself was fifty four years old this is the most considerate

suicide that i've ever heard of if he had to put sticky notes on everything he had borrowed from anybody saying you know we turned this post this person and cetera et cetera everything that could have possibly done me good night one right before shutting down said please request by far my daughters will have to find satisfy me that it was he says i'm sure you understand this is something i have seen you can't hold you know without but simply not. 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 take a stand up not only for my father but for all those like. you have found. it is. it is i. think a i.

thought 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 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 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 or more gratian things look even better bank of america hold 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

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you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so for like sleep you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. little bit. of both of those. little. lives.

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