WEBVTT 00:00:00.083 --> 00:00:03.083 I see corporatism, fascism, crony capitalism. 00:00:04.033 --> 00:00:05.087 I don't see a free market, 00:00:05.087 --> 00:00:08.087 I see a police state, I see an American empire, 00:00:09.040 --> 00:00:12.071 I see seven hundred military bases in a hundred and thirty-five foreign countries, 00:00:13.051 --> 00:00:16.021 I see five thousands dead bodies in Iraq, 00:00:16.058 --> 00:00:20.082 a welfare warfare state which gives out billions of dollars of foreign aid 00:00:20.099 --> 00:00:23.096 for dictators to build up huge armies. 00:00:24.082 --> 00:00:27.019 I see America that's lost its way. 00:00:27.049 --> 00:00:29.048 Republicrats: Republicans and democrats 00:00:29.076 --> 00:00:31.073 who both pretty much stand for the same thing. 00:00:33.000 --> 00:00:35.016 I do not see true democracy, 00:00:36.006 --> 00:00:37.050 I do not hear the voice of the people... 00:00:38.033 --> 00:00:40.050 Finally, we've risen up. 00:00:50.014 --> 00:00:52.087 "Mic check, MIC CHECK" 00:00:53.059 --> 00:00:56.088 Spain, Egypt... You know, is it the dynamic? Is it the time right? You know... 00:00:57.042 --> 00:00:59.082 Is it the right moment? Is the Zeitgeist there? 00:00:59.082 --> 00:01:00.096 None of these things we can predict. 00:01:04.099 --> 00:01:06.076 We've seen what happens when people protest 00:01:06.090 --> 00:01:08.066 and come out, and march around for a day. 00:01:09.070 --> 00:01:12.003 This is an opportunity maybe for a new style, 00:01:12.046 --> 00:01:15.058 for a new shift in power, in the way the people relate to each other. 00:01:17.057 --> 00:01:20.018 Like I say, I think we're fucked either way but it's worth a shot. 00:01:20.041 --> 00:01:22.084 I was waiting for this to happen. I knew it would happen 00:01:23.051 --> 00:01:26.079 because it happened in Europe, and I knew it would spread. 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 00:01:32.041 --> 00:01:34.060 and to see it externalized in the outside world 00:01:34.099 --> 00:01:38.029 is really a blessing. It's really something I enjoy being a part of. 00:01:38.070 --> 00:01:41.077 I'm an old timer, so I've been around for four decades at 00:01:42.023 --> 00:01:44.067 one kind of activism [sic] or another and, 00:01:45.044 --> 00:01:51.011 you know, so it's been a hope to go after Wall street. 00:01:51.081 --> 00:01:56.061 Attack it without getting locked up and beaten up and 00:01:57.071 --> 00:01:59.042 physically beaten up... 00:02:00.000 --> 00:02:00.088 How do we win? 00:02:02.027 --> 00:02:08.012 "All month! All year! We're not going anywhere!" 00:02:11.040 --> 00:02:15.070 It's a process of educating people and educating the world really, 00:02:16.060 --> 00:02:21.029 that we have to be, first and foremost, altruistic and care for the collective 00:02:22.054 --> 00:02:24.014 before caring for ourselves. 00:02:24.052 --> 00:02:27.078 A model should be a growing movement of 00:02:28.074 --> 00:02:31.018 round table discussions basically. 00:02:31.058 --> 00:02:33.069 I was arrested 00:02:34.003 --> 00:02:35.036 two days ago 00:02:36.066 --> 00:02:38.035 interrogated 00:02:40.042 --> 00:02:42.050 by police investigators 00:02:43.036 --> 00:02:44.076 and intelligence. 00:02:46.006 --> 00:02:47.083 I encourage everyone 00:02:48.043 --> 00:02:49.073 who is arrested 00:02:50.080 --> 00:02:53.022 to not speak with these people. 00:02:55.035 --> 00:02:57.030 They intimidated me, 00:02:58.028 --> 00:03:00.074 said I would be chained to a wall 00:03:01.030 --> 00:03:02.033 for a week 00:03:03.014 --> 00:03:05.000 if I didn't talk. 00:03:06.000 --> 00:03:07.062 I didn't talk 00:03:08.045 --> 00:03:10.010 and I'm here right now. 00:03:14.042 --> 00:03:16.000 The major of New York has a 00:03:18.015 --> 00:03:22.003 strange position to be in here. He can't go off looking like a... 00:03:23.050 --> 00:03:27.090 Mubarak or some other middle eastern leader 00:03:28.000 --> 00:03:30.017 and treat protesters in the same way that they do. 00:03:30.017 --> 00:03:34.040 And he himself made a comment that if they don't find some jobs for kids, 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. 00:03:50.006 --> 00:03:54.000 The only way that people like us with no power and no money can, 00:03:54.043 --> 00:03:58.039 at least, try to change things is through social pressure. 00:04:00.060 --> 00:04:08.008 "All day! All week! Occupy Wall Street!" 00:04:25.039 --> 00:04:29.069 I don't know how to achieve collective collaboration which we are all striving for but 00:04:30.042 --> 00:04:32.063 I think it all needs to happen at the same time 00:04:32.070 --> 00:04:35.066 and you know, we're here making a stand were holding space. 00:04:36.013 --> 00:04:38.017 To make people conscious, because people 00:04:38.047 --> 00:04:43.047 are in their houses, comfortable, as long as they have food or they have a house 00:04:44.009 --> 00:04:47.032 they don't like make the effort to demand their rights. 00:04:48.032 --> 00:04:51.065 It's about time that people start standing up for a true democracy 00:04:52.000 --> 00:04:53.060 so we can get rid of the corporate greed. 00:04:53.080 --> 00:04:58.060 Demands are problematic, and... disempowering, actually. 00:04:59.019 --> 00:05:05.073 It's about people making things happen rather than expecting like someone else to take care 00:05:06.055 --> 00:05:09.030 and you could see, this is like a micro-society. 00:05:09.064 --> 00:05:11.075 It's a model for a new society. 00:05:11.097 --> 00:05:16.098 It's not a protest in the sense of being against something, 00:05:19.000 --> 00:05:21.053 it's a way to formulate something new. 00:05:21.075 --> 00:05:26.052 A mass awareness, a mass realization and awakaning of the masses 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, 00:05:33.067 --> 00:05:34.079 for too long of a time. 00:05:36.020 --> 00:05:38.093 Hey NYPD, the bankers are stealing from you too. 00:05:58.049 --> 00:06:01.034 Even though we're so close together, especially in a city like this, 00:06:03.036 --> 00:06:06.034 and everybody's sort of scared to make that the first step 00:06:07.006 --> 00:06:10.000 to break through these walls that people put up 00:06:10.033 --> 00:06:14.076 to make the connections necessary to build a community like this or 00:06:15.055 --> 00:06:18.033 different, that talks about problems 00:06:18.084 --> 00:06:20.064 and we all have common problems, 00:06:21.033 --> 00:06:24.038 common things that we can change to make our lives better. 00:06:25.011 --> 00:06:27.091 I'm a sixty-year-old Vietnam-era vet 00:06:29.001 --> 00:06:33.066 who's been working like... irregular hours for a lawyer 00:06:34.057 --> 00:06:37.064 and the lawyer himself is having financial problems, 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. 00:06:43.000 --> 00:06:44.029 I don't know what the hell I'm gonna do. 00:06:44.073 --> 00:06:47.060 If you're frustrated, if you're like me and, you know, 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 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. 00:06:56.078 --> 00:07:00.018 If you have a ton of student debt, like me, you should be here. 00:07:00.093 --> 00:07:03.009 If you're pissed off and you realize that, you know, 00:07:03.062 --> 00:07:07.029 if you paid any taxes last year, you paid more taxes than General Electric, 00:07:07.076 --> 00:07:09.059 the corporation, you should be here. 00:07:10.011 --> 00:07:12.036 If you want to see something amazing, period, you should be here.