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I see corporatism, fascism, crony capitalism.

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I don't see a free market,

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I see a police state, I see an American empire,

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I see seven hundred military bases in a hundred and thirty-five foreign countries,

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I see five thousands dead bodies in Iraq,

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a welfare warfare state which gives out billions of dollars of foreign aid

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for dictators to build up huge armies.

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I see America that's lost its way.

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Republicrats: Republicans and democrats

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who both pretty much stand for the same thing.

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I do not see true democracy,

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I do not hear the voice of the people...

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Finally, we've risen up.

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"Mic check, MIC CHECK"

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Spain, Egypt... You know, is it the dynamic? Is it the time right? You know...

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Is it the right moment? Is the Zeitgeist there?

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None of these things we can predict.

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We've seen what happens when people protest

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and come out, and march around for a day.

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This is an opportunity maybe for a new style,

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for a new shift in power, in the way the people relate to each other.

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Like I say, I think we're fucked either way but it's worth a shot.

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I was waiting for this to happen. I knew it would happen

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because it happened in Europe, and I knew it would spread.

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This is something that I've been going through internally for a good part of my life now

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and to see it externalized in the outside world

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is really a blessing. It's really something I enjoy being a part of.

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I'm an old timer, so I've been around for four decades at

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one kind of activism [sic] or another and,

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you know, so it's been a hope to go after Wall street.

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Attack it without getting locked up and beaten up and

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physically beaten up...

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How do we win?

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"All month! All year! We're not going anywhere!"

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It's a process of educating people and educating the world really,

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that we have to be, first and foremost, altruistic and care for the collective

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before caring for ourselves.

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A model should be a growing movement of

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round table discussions basically.

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I was arrested

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two days ago

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interrogated

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by police investigators

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and intelligence.

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I encourage everyone

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who is arrested

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to not speak with these people.

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They intimidated me,

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said I would be chained to a wall

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for a week

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if I didn't talk.

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I didn't talk

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and I'm here right now.

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The major of New York has a

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strange position to be in here. He can't go off looking like a...

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Mubarak or some other middle eastern leader

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and treat protesters in the same way that they do.

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And he himself made a comment that if they don't find some jobs for kids,

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they're going to have a problem like they had in Tunisia, Egypt and other middle eastern countries.

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The only way that people like us with no power and no money can,

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at least, try to change things is through social pressure.

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"All day! All week! Occupy Wall Street!"

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I don't know how to achieve collective collaboration which we are all striving for but

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I think it all needs to happen at the same time

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and you know, we're here making a stand were holding space.

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To make people conscious, because people

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are in their houses, comfortable, as long as they have food or they have a house

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they don't like make the effort to demand their rights.

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It's about time that people start standing up for a true democracy

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so we can get rid of the corporate greed.

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Demands are problematic, and... disempowering, actually.

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It's about people making things happen rather than expecting like someone else to take care

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and you could see, this is like a micro-society.

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It's a model for a new society.

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It's not a protest in the sense of being against something,

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it's a way to formulate something new.

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A mass awareness, a mass realization and awakaning of the masses

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to the obstruction of justice that has been a part of our lives for too long now,

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for too long of a time.

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Hey NYPD, the bankers are stealing from you too.

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Even though we're so close together, especially in a city like this,

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and everybody's sort of scared to make that the first step

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to break through these walls that people put up

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to make the connections necessary to build a community like this or

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different, that talks about problems

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and we all have common problems,

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common things that we can change to make our lives better.

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I'm a sixty-year-old Vietnam-era vet

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who's been working like... irregular hours for a lawyer

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and the lawyer himself is having financial problems,

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and he's getting ready to not have me work for him anymore and I'm in trouble.

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I don't know what the hell I'm gonna do.

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If you're frustrated, if you're like me and, you know,

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you see the Tea Party on television and in the news all the time, and you wonder

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why the hell isn't there a radical left answer to the Tea Party, you should be here.

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If you have a ton of student debt, like me, you should be here.

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If you're pissed off and you realize that, you know,

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if you paid any taxes last year, you paid more taxes than General Electric,

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the corporation, you should be here.

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If you want to see something amazing, period, you should be here.