1 00:00:00,083 --> 00:00:03,083 I see corporatism, fascism, crony capitalism. 2 00:00:04,033 --> 00:00:05,087 I don't see a free market, 3 00:00:05,087 --> 00:00:08,087 I see a police state, I see an American empire, 4 00:00:09,040 --> 00:00:12,071 I see seven hundred military bases in a hundred and thirty-five foreign countries, 5 00:00:13,051 --> 00:00:16,021 I see five thousands dead bodies in Iraq, 6 00:00:16,058 --> 00:00:20,082 a welfare warfare state which gives out billions of dollars of foreign aid 7 00:00:20,099 --> 00:00:23,096 for dictators to build up huge armies. 8 00:00:24,082 --> 00:00:27,019 I see America that's lost its way. 9 00:00:27,049 --> 00:00:29,048 Republicrats: Republicans and democrats 10 00:00:29,076 --> 00:00:31,073 who both pretty much stand for the same thing. 11 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:35,016 I do not see true democracy, 12 00:00:36,006 --> 00:00:37,050 I do not hear the voice of the people... 13 00:00:38,033 --> 00:00:40,050 Finally, we've risen up. 14 00:00:50,014 --> 00:00:52,087 "Mic check, MIC CHECK" 15 00:00:53,059 --> 00:00:56,088 Spain, Egypt... You know, is it the dynamic? Is it the time right? You know... 16 00:00:57,042 --> 00:00:59,082 Is it the right moment? Is the Zeitgeist there? 17 00:00:59,082 --> 00:01:00,096 None of these things we can predict. 18 00:01:04,099 --> 00:01:06,076 We've seen what happens when people protest 19 00:01:06,090 --> 00:01:08,066 and come out, and march around for a day. 20 00:01:09,070 --> 00:01:12,003 This is an opportunity maybe for a new style, 21 00:01:12,046 --> 00:01:15,058 for a new shift in power, in the way the people relate to each other. 22 00:01:17,057 --> 00:01:20,018 Like I say, I think we're fucked either way but it's worth a shot. 23 00:01:20,041 --> 00:01:22,084 I was waiting for this to happen. I knew it would happen 24 00:01:23,051 --> 00:01:26,079 because it happened in Europe, and I knew it would spread. 25 00:01:27,011 --> 00:01:31,032 This is something that I've been going through internally for a good part of my life now 26 00:01:32,041 --> 00:01:34,060 and to see it externalized in the outside world 27 00:01:34,099 --> 00:01:38,029 is really a blessing. It's really something I enjoy being a part of. 28 00:01:38,070 --> 00:01:41,077 I'm an old timer, so I've been around for four decades at 29 00:01:42,023 --> 00:01:44,067 one kind of activism [sic] or another and, 30 00:01:45,044 --> 00:01:51,011 you know, so it's been a hope to go after Wall street. 31 00:01:51,081 --> 00:01:56,061 Attack it without getting locked up and beaten up and 32 00:01:57,071 --> 00:01:59,042 physically beaten up... 33 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:00,088 How do we win? 34 00:02:02,027 --> 00:02:08,012 "All month! All year! We're not going anywhere!" 35 00:02:11,040 --> 00:02:15,070 It's a process of educating people and educating the world really, 36 00:02:16,060 --> 00:02:21,029 that we have to be, first and foremost, altruistic and care for the collective 37 00:02:22,054 --> 00:02:24,014 before caring for ourselves. 38 00:02:24,052 --> 00:02:27,078 A model should be a growing movement of 39 00:02:28,074 --> 00:02:31,018 round table discussions basically. 40 00:02:31,058 --> 00:02:33,069 I was arrested 41 00:02:34,003 --> 00:02:35,036 two days ago 42 00:02:36,066 --> 00:02:38,035 interrogated 43 00:02:40,042 --> 00:02:42,050 by police investigators 44 00:02:43,036 --> 00:02:44,076 and intelligence. 45 00:02:46,006 --> 00:02:47,083 I encourage everyone 46 00:02:48,043 --> 00:02:49,073 who is arrested 47 00:02:50,080 --> 00:02:53,022 to not speak with these people. 48 00:02:55,035 --> 00:02:57,030 They intimidated me, 49 00:02:58,028 --> 00:03:00,074 said I would be chained to a wall 50 00:03:01,030 --> 00:03:02,033 for a week 51 00:03:03,014 --> 00:03:05,000 if I didn't talk. 52 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:07,062 I didn't talk 53 00:03:08,045 --> 00:03:10,010 and I'm here right now. 54 00:03:14,042 --> 00:03:16,000 The major of New York has a 55 00:03:18,015 --> 00:03:22,003 strange position to be in here. He can't go off looking like a... 56 00:03:23,050 --> 00:03:27,090 Mubarak or some other middle eastern leader 57 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:30,017 and treat protesters in the same way that they do. 58 00:03:30,017 --> 00:03:34,040 And he himself made a comment that if they don't find some jobs for kids, 59 00:03:34,055 --> 00:03:39,041 they're going to have a problem like they had in Tunisia, Egypt and other middle eastern countries. 60 00:03:50,006 --> 00:03:54,000 The only way that people like us with no power and no money can, 61 00:03:54,043 --> 00:03:58,039 at least, try to change things is through social pressure. 62 00:04:00,060 --> 00:04:08,008 "All day! All week! Occupy Wall Street!" 63 00:04:25,039 --> 00:04:29,069 I don't know how to achieve collective collaboration which we are all striving for but 64 00:04:30,042 --> 00:04:32,063 I think it all needs to happen at the same time 65 00:04:32,070 --> 00:04:35,066 and you know, we're here making a stand were holding space. 66 00:04:36,013 --> 00:04:38,017 To make people conscious, because people 67 00:04:38,047 --> 00:04:43,047 are in their houses, comfortable, as long as they have food or they have a house 68 00:04:44,009 --> 00:04:47,032 they don't like make the effort to demand their rights. 69 00:04:48,032 --> 00:04:51,065 It's about time that people start standing up for a true democracy 70 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:53,060 so we can get rid of the corporate greed. 71 00:04:53,080 --> 00:04:58,060 Demands are problematic, and... disempowering, actually. 72 00:04:59,019 --> 00:05:05,073 It's about people making things happen rather than expecting like someone else to take care 73 00:05:06,055 --> 00:05:09,030 and you could see, this is like a micro-society. 74 00:05:09,064 --> 00:05:11,075 It's a model for a new society. 75 00:05:11,097 --> 00:05:16,098 It's not a protest in the sense of being against something, 76 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:21,053 it's a way to formulate something new. 77 00:05:21,075 --> 00:05:26,052 A mass awareness, a mass realization and awakaning of the masses 78 00:05:30,009 --> 00:05:33,056 to the obstruction of justice that has been a part of our lives for too long now, 79 00:05:33,067 --> 00:05:34,079 for too long of a time. 80 00:05:36,020 --> 00:05:38,093 Hey NYPD, the bankers are stealing from you too. 81 00:05:58,049 --> 00:06:01,034 Even though we're so close together, especially in a city like this, 82 00:06:03,036 --> 00:06:06,034 and everybody's sort of scared to make that the first step 83 00:06:07,006 --> 00:06:10,000 to break through these walls that people put up 84 00:06:10,033 --> 00:06:14,076 to make the connections necessary to build a community like this or 85 00:06:15,055 --> 00:06:18,033 different, that talks about problems 86 00:06:18,084 --> 00:06:20,064 and we all have common problems, 87 00:06:21,033 --> 00:06:24,038 common things that we can change to make our lives better. 88 00:06:25,011 --> 00:06:27,091 I'm a sixty-year-old Vietnam-era vet 89 00:06:29,001 --> 00:06:33,066 who's been working like... irregular hours for a lawyer 90 00:06:34,057 --> 00:06:37,064 and the lawyer himself is having financial problems, 91 00:06:37,064 --> 00:06:41,086 and he's getting ready to not have me work for him anymore and I'm in trouble. 92 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:44,029 I don't know what the hell I'm gonna do. 93 00:06:44,073 --> 00:06:47,060 If you're frustrated, if you're like me and, you know, 94 00:06:47,060 --> 00:06:51,017 you see the Tea Party on television and in the news all the time, and you wonder 95 00:06:51,051 --> 00:06:55,091 why the hell isn't there a radical left answer to the Tea Party, you should be here. 96 00:06:56,078 --> 00:07:00,018 If you have a ton of student debt, like me, you should be here. 97 00:07:00,093 --> 00:07:03,009 If you're pissed off and you realize that, you know, 98 00:07:03,062 --> 00:07:07,029 if you paid any taxes last year, you paid more taxes than General Electric, 99 00:07:07,076 --> 00:07:09,059 the corporation, you should be here. 100 00:07:10,011 --> 00:07:12,036 If you want to see something amazing, period, you should be here.