the saudi arabian concept of gender not really a part of having freedom of choice means being able to choose things that i may think are backwards or illogical you know let them have the walls in the stores if they want western civilization you know if it's truly the end all of human evolution then they'll take those walls down eventually on their own but that's just my opinion. 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 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. the lack of better word is good. right. works. creek. and can. guess. at the. end. i. will not only stay tell. that other malfunction of this. body and says flipped out they cheered everybody in the eighties wanted to be gordon get . but the thing is this oliver stone wrote it is

a piece of satire 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 suits adopting the greed is good ethos and pursuing the american dream as it had come to be defined now delivers a pretty well 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 to yes.

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 so i got you was going to money is going to get fewer people there will. be four million yes six you want to hear that well that's 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 the pacs offers a bright ray of hope forward anyone to the very same power anyone politicians know

if they spout spend their competitors are they going to when they're when the election ninety four percent of the time of day 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 know 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 you. the

we will be looking at duke ellington janet. got the only thing we need to do just note the conductor he just didn't put the money. just yes that's democracy in action at the local level experiencing the horizontal community and culture and organization. was so radicalized for three years to be surrounded by because it draws such a stark contrast 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 yourself and

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 no longer represents the people the people organizing.

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thank you thank you. thank you. for. 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. 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 in their

arms with an idea some cardboard signs in 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 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. which. it would limit all around the world because we love. working people and. that jane doing it is great that we have a place that. occupy d.c. the occupy wall street occupy supreme court not everywhere in my willingness to go

to jail for the movement i was hardly unique and with the thousands that room 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 use a comedy that it may not be in. evolution in the traditional sense but this is a revolution of the. revolution and it's not going to be stuff like police barricades and pepper spray is it. is like pulling the wool you do it like. in the first six months of the movie about seven thousand people have been arrested in occupy related protests were they why all the fuss. and why in the predawn hours on that friday in october were so many prepared to go to jail.

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 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 the 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 on spontaneous marches in the streets can be incredibly empowering movement building experience an antidote to the years of disempowering and free speech zone when it comes to be there. 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 it was soley about clashes with the police. is trash to get rid of. but it's also a treasure. worth fighting for. and a trap with no way out. do we speak your language anything about the war not a damn. good news programs and documentaries and spanish what matters to you breaking news a little tonnage of angles couldn't stories. you hear. them

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to find out. actually i do like this i guess. there are inherent in our civilians to get excited when. i was young i saw those. people that had not been seen anything strength there's no. law that everybody has served in iraq afghanistan like you look at my. life in afghanistan my mother didn't get an hour back. from home i'm in new york city my opinion your city and it

. will be there no bridges no owner no i don't see a million. was. this is. a. leisurely prayer 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 eighty seven and two thousand and seven states. 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 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 in law my mom or anybody else that looks like me an arrest i think it should be a scary thing not just for those oh you know people color minority but all of us the 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 various issues like that which are so pfizer recreational mother. of every two thousand one l.l. am profiting no matter what you're. taking place right now. by cameroon 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 the bank of america from executing yet another foreclosure. thanks 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 wargame today's values so this is something that all of can stand behind we believe that when folks have you know a hall and 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 you was that there was another way to thank

god. was. there. and sometimes demanding change in a large scale starts was 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 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 the 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 how he did that we did and that i don't regret it was acceptable. practice because if you fight was. was out i was. fine i think you're going to have a snow cave you are right. it

. sally. put you 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. for my father's part i was full of it suicide shocks so it had every state. but because of her life partner did have enough money to pay for health care i just take care of it and didn't want to ask because my sister and myself first fifty four years old this is the most considerate suicide i've ever heard of if he had put sticky notes on everything he had borrowed from everybody saying you know we turn this post this person and

cetera et cetera everything they could possibly get the whole time i want my passport shot down said please tell me where i park my dollars when i have to find . her body that it was you know i'm sure you understand this is something i have a whole you know without but simply not i'm sure that's why i'm here at this forum and i've heard people like every person that thinks 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 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 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 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 paste 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. in the past decade and in two thousand and eight paid taxes at a rate. for a. one per cent thank you thank you thank thousand.

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juggling job. do hack work and get caught when lobbyists money and lawmakers are combined together that's where the problem of corruption comes from. i don't know the document's. keep up a smart look. there is also. another way behind that which is how to influence these situations steer clear of provocations don't answer any question. came into the office and found banners hung around the office and lots of strange faces around for

monitoring what's what's happening will somebody please tell me what's going on and they said oh we've come to occupy your building. possibly they want to do a confrontation possibly they wanted me to ring up the police to have the police come in through the mount it. didn't seem to be a good idea to learn the european way with brussels business. in the ocracy it's one person one fault but in brussels business it's one euro one fault you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought. you don't know i'm tom hardy welcome to the big picture. live.

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