for others because people do in fact die for lack of access to health care in the richest country in the world as 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 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 to yes. it's console that the world is it's a very wealthy vibrant mix of problems you just saw all the money's in one place. and so on. he was going to money is going to get fewer people than ever will. be

for a million years six years. three 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 spout spend their competitors 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 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 don't be like that duke ellington jazz orchestra. everybody got their own voice and even duke is not the conductor he just didn't put the money to others but it does sound like he did it. johnny and i just yes that's democracy in action at the deepest level experiencing the horizontal community and culture and organization. so radicalizing for people and continues to be. 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 but 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 there's a 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. i think. it

was by a certain degree much. i guess what you say. no longer represents the people. the people organizing.

thank. you thank you thank you. steve we've extended thank you. very much that was pretty much of the out of the five. thousand jobs. to. be made of. course it was. 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 michael 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 in their arms 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 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. 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 the fact that the. occupy d.c. occupy wall street occupy the supreme court not everywhere in my willingness to go to jail for the movement so 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. not be a revolution in the traditional sense but this is a revolution of the light. of the losing end it's not going to be stuff like holy

spirit games and pepper spraying kill millions if everything looks like. the more you deliberately kill. in the first six months of the movement about seventy thousand people have been arrested in occupy related protests for things while the fox. and why in the predawn hours on that friday in october were so many prepared to go to jail. if you. who we were supposed to get cleaned out of the park we swept the shit park and then we took brooms and we took them to wall street to co-create up all 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 the cyrus a lot of people like you know they do that they have done that for trying to twenty

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 uncredited spontaneous marches in the streets can be incredibly empowering movement building experience an antidote to the years of disempowering and or williams free speech zones when it comes to be the move 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.

you know. you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else. and realized everything is. welcome to the big picture. good leverage surely was able to build a most sophisticated. group at least. found anything. to teach me the creation of why you should care about humans and. this is why you should care only. there are twelve cities in the united states in which half of the people with hiv aids lives within a year. this is

a problem that. substantially preventable it was like the big elephant in the room and nobody wanted to talk about it there were really good public health campaigns that people were really focused on this problem you certainly should be able to. choose the consensus to. choose to get. to. choose the stories get him to to. choose . and i can assure you i want to. be like this now i guess.

there are inherent in our civilians to get excited when you see i was young something that i thought that. people that had not been sitting in anything. there's no. more public everybody has served in iraq afghanistan like to put him. back. in afghanistan the mother didn't get our back. come home i'm in new york city my opinion your city and it. will be different there is no british no honor and i don't see a million. was. this is.

a i get. tired 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 this panic 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 than it is to educate and. i think that's a great reason and again their head lock arms now you know i take me to tell you that i continue to do this i read about it joe you know watch you continue to tell my brother and my sister and my mom or anybody else that looks like me and i rest i think it should be a scary thing not just for those who own you know people of color minority can 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 made every job very rigorous you slice out your so pfizer recreational mother. of every two thousand one l.l. am profiting no matter what you're. going to rebuy action taking place right now.

by my camera all 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 gather in an attempt to stop bank of america from executing yet another foreclosure. the fact is it's 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 anti 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 get back. was was. there thank you yes. i think that 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 various states and and i stoli it 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 on 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 i doubt we need a national health care i didn't accept a bill saturday practice because they can't provide one. was out i was. fine i think you're going to have a snow cave will be your. legal reality was. that. sally. was. put on the street and joined protesters picketing outside where a derose girl shared her story of why health care was literally

a life and death issue i came here because. for my father part i was full suicide he shot himself it had three states. but because her life partner did have enough money to pay for health care to take care of it and decided to ask my sister and myself first fifty four years old this is the most considerate suicide that i ever heard of and he had to quit standing outside everything he had borrowed from everybody saying you know we turn this for this person and cetera et cetera everything that could have possibly been done to get it here and hope not what one might but for shoppers know exactly where i park my dollars from i have to find salisbury that it was because i'm sure you understand this is something i have you can't hold you know without but simply not i'm sure that's why i'm here at this forum to stand and 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. it is a. thing i. think a public a i think a 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 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 and 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 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 at a rate. for a. one per cent that it was was you. cut. the excitement was nearly to me like you. think i was the success i. was yes thank you but one could send out if you want but that about it come back

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