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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 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. for lack of better word is good. we just write. great works. greek. can. see evolution. and. my ex will not only stay tells us that other malfunction of this. audience is flipped out they cheered everybody in the eighty's 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 suits adopting the greed is good ethos and pursuing the american dream as it had come to be defined

now delivers obscene 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 the. lack of access to healthcare 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 the places you 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. can so bad the world is it's

a very wealthy vibrant mix of problems you just saw all the money's in one place. so i gotta do is go the money is doing that for people. who will. sixty four million years six years. thirty percent of american families one percent of the wealth of ninety five percent are american 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 problem anyone politicians know if they set about spending their competitors are they 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 the always going to greet us not about unanimity we go be like a duke ellington jazz orchestra. everybody got their own voice a need to do because not the conductor he just didn't put the money but he did gonzalez it. just encourages 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 so radicalizing because it draws such a stark contrast up against what they're trying. and it 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 is 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 original 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. so

. people. being killed by a certain degree much. like what you say. no longer represents. the people organizing.

if. you. believe we've expected you. to want. to make sure we're going to be about what was it was you was absolutely to want to be made of me. for 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. 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 are more than 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 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 james doing it is great that we have the fact that. occupy d.c. the 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 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 this may be an. evolution in the traditional sense but this is

a revolution of the. pollution and it's not least likely to change in congress. it. looks like. the utility. in the first six months of about seven thousand people have been arrested in occupy related protests spreading like wildfire. and why in the predawn hours on that friday in october were so many prepared to go to jail i i i i i. i i. i. i'm. i'm where we were supposed to get cleaned out in the park we swept the share park and then we took brooms and we took them to the to wall street the clean up all street i think most of the problems but the filth is in the

offices so we can get to it but we did a little victory lap and the police brutalized this i know they do that they have done that trying to twenty five years in this country three 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 the building experience an antidote to the years of disempowering and free speech zones when it comes to be there. 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 soley about clashes with the police.

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. and i can't or you don't want to set me up. like this why i guess. there are inherent in our civilians to get excited when. i was young i thought that . people that had not been seen anything strength there's no honor in. my public everybody has served in iraq afghanistan like to look him up. in afghanistan my mother didn't get our bags. come home i'm

a new york city my opinion your city and. there's no reason there's no bridges no owner and i don't see a million. this is. a. leisurely tire ok let's just be honest here for a moment for some people this is an 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 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 means and again their head lock arms and you know i take you to tell if you want to continue to do this i rather go to jail you know watch you continue to pull my brother and my sister and my mom's or anybody else that looks like me in arrest and i think it should be a scary thing not just for those who own you know people 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 time there are issues like that which are so pfizer because our mother. of every two thousand women are lowly in profiting no matter what. action taking place right now. by cameroon 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 gather in an attempt to stop the bank of america from executing yet another foreclosure. 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 to 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 store because you was there was another way to think

thank god. was. back. there. and sometimes demanding change in a large scale starts because 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 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 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 did how we did it and that's how good i did i acceptable. practice because they can provide what. was out was. fine if there was a snow cave you are right. if you really. want

to. get. sally. put on wesley and join protestors picketing outside where adair a scarlet shared her story of why health care was literally a life and death issue i came here because. for my father martin i was full suicide 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 didn't want to pass because my sister and myself were fifty four years old this is the most considerate suicide that i've ever heard of if he had to quit sitting outside everything he had borrowed from everybody saying you know we turned this post this person and cetera

et cetera everything that could have possibly been done good night one right the court shot herself said please tell me where my heart my daughter from i have to find. that it was he says i'm sure you understand this is something i have a whole you know without a plan is simply not working i'm sure that's why i'm here in this forum can you not hurt people like every person that for lack of access to health care somethings father or son or daughter thank you take a stand up not only for my heart for all those like. you have. it is a. thing 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 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 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 the workers median wage and while the rich got richer they were paying less and less taxes in one thousand 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 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. it's 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 you thank you because you.

cut you think i never was immaculate to me like you. think i was the excess i was. was yes thank you but one could send out if you want but that is twenty five years to pay nothing but greed. we've been working p q let me play this clip of the things that we put up with the minutemen that night but not listen to coop of the thank you thank you thank you to thank you thank you thank you thank you

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