Nobody Can Predict The Moment Of Revolution ( Occupy Wall Street )
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0:01 - 0:04I see corporatism, fascism, crony capitalism.
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0:04 - 0:06I don't see a free market,
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0:06 - 0:09I see a police state, I see an American empire,
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0:09 - 0:13I see seven hundred military bases in a hundred and thirty-five foreign countries,
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0:14 - 0:16I see five thousands dead bodies in Iraq,
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0:17 - 0:21a welfare warfare state which gives out billions of dollars of foreign aid
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0:21 - 0:24for dictators to build up huge armies.
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0:25 - 0:27I see America that's lost its way.
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0:27 - 0:29Republicrats: Republicans and democrats
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0:30 - 0:32who both pretty much stand for the same thing.
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0:33 - 0:35I do not see true democracy,
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0:36 - 0:38I do not hear the voice of the people...
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0:38 - 0:40Finally, we've risen up.
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0:50 - 0:53"Mic check, MIC CHECK"
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0:54 - 0:57Spain, Egypt... You know, is it the dynamic? Is it the time right? You know...
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0:57 - 1:00Is it the right moment? Is the Zeitgeist there?
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1:00 - 1:01None of these things we can predict.
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1:05 - 1:07We've seen what happens when people protest
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1:07 - 1:09and come out, and march around for a day.
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1:10 - 1:12This is an opportunity maybe for a new style,
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1:12 - 1:16for a new shift in power, in the way the people relate to each other.
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1:18 - 1:20Like I say, I think we're fucked either way but it's worth a shot.
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1:20 - 1:23I was waiting for this to happen. I knew it would happen
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1:24 - 1:27because it happened in Europe, and I knew it would spread.
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1:27 - 1:31This is something that I've been going through internally for a good part of my life now
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1:32 - 1:35and to see it externalized in the outside world
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1:35 - 1:38is really a blessing. It's really something I enjoy being a part of.
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1:39 - 1:42I'm an old timer, so I've been around for four decades at
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1:42 - 1:45one kind of activism [sic] or another and,
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1:45 - 1:51you know, so it's been a hope to go after Wall street.
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1:52 - 1:57Attack it without getting locked up and beaten up and
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1:58 - 1:59physically beaten up...
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2:00 - 2:01How do we win?
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2:02 - 2:08"All month! All year! We're not going anywhere!"
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2:11 - 2:16It's a process of educating people and educating the world really,
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2:17 - 2:21that we have to be, first and foremost, altruistic and care for the collective
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2:23 - 2:24before caring for ourselves.
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2:25 - 2:28A model should be a growing movement of
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2:29 - 2:31round table discussions basically.
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2:32 - 2:34I was arrested
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2:34 - 2:35two days ago
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2:37 - 2:38interrogated
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2:40 - 2:42by police investigators
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2:43 - 2:45and intelligence.
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2:46 - 2:48I encourage everyone
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2:48 - 2:50who is arrested
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2:51 - 2:53to not speak with these people.
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2:55 - 2:57They intimidated me,
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2:58 - 3:01said I would be chained to a wall
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3:01 - 3:02for a week
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3:03 - 3:05if I didn't talk.
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3:06 - 3:08I didn't talk
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3:08 - 3:10and I'm here right now.
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3:14 - 3:16The major of New York has a
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3:18 - 3:22strange position to be in here. He can't go off looking like a...
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3:24 - 3:28Mubarak or some other middle eastern leader
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3:28 - 3:30and treat protesters in the same way that they do.
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3:30 - 3:34And he himself made a comment that if they don't find some jobs for kids,
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3:35 - 3:39they're going to have a problem like they had in Tunisia, Egypt and other middle eastern countries.
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3:50 - 3:54The only way that people like us with no power and no money can,
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3:54 - 3:58at least, try to change things is through social pressure.
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4:01 - 4:08"All day! All week! Occupy Wall Street!"
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4:25 - 4:30I don't know how to achieve collective collaboration which we are all striving for but
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4:30 - 4:33I think it all needs to happen at the same time
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4:33 - 4:36and you know, we're here making a stand were holding space.
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4:36 - 4:38To make people conscious, because people
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4:38 - 4:43are in their houses, comfortable, as long as they have food or they have a house
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4:44 - 4:47they don't like make the effort to demand their rights.
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4:48 - 4:52It's about time that people start standing up for a true democracy
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4:52 - 4:54so we can get rid of the corporate greed.
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4:54 - 4:59Demands are problematic, and... disempowering, actually.
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4:59 - 5:06It's about people making things happen rather than expecting like someone else to take care
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5:07 - 5:09and you could see, this is like a micro-society.
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5:10 - 5:12It's a model for a new society.
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5:12 - 5:17It's not a protest in the sense of being against something,
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5:19 - 5:22it's a way to formulate something new.
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5:22 - 5:27A mass awareness, a mass realization and awakaning of the masses
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5:30 - 5:34to the obstruction of justice that has been a part of our lives for too long now,
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5:34 - 5:35for too long of a time.
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5:36 - 5:39Hey NYPD, the bankers are stealing from you too.
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5:58 - 6:01Even though we're so close together, especially in a city like this,
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6:03 - 6:06and everybody's sort of scared to make that the first step
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6:07 - 6:10to break through these walls that people put up
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6:10 - 6:15to make the connections necessary to build a community like this or
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6:16 - 6:18different, that talks about problems
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6:19 - 6:21and we all have common problems,
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6:21 - 6:24common things that we can change to make our lives better.
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6:25 - 6:28I'm a sixty-year-old Vietnam-era vet
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6:29 - 6:34who's been working like... irregular hours for a lawyer
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6:35 - 6:38and the lawyer himself is having financial problems,
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6:38 - 6:42and he's getting ready to not have me work for him anymore and I'm in trouble.
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6:43 - 6:44I don't know what the hell I'm gonna do.
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6:45 - 6:48If you're frustrated, if you're like me and, you know,
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6:48 - 6:51you see the Tea Party on television and in the news all the time, and you wonder
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6:52 - 6:56why the hell isn't there a radical left answer to the Tea Party, you should be here.
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6:57 - 7:00If you have a ton of student debt, like me, you should be here.
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7:01 - 7:03If you're pissed off and you realize that, you know,
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7:04 - 7:07if you paid any taxes last year, you paid more taxes than General Electric,
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7:08 - 7:10the corporation, you should be here.
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7:10 - 7:12If you want to see something amazing, period, you should be here.
- Title:
- Nobody Can Predict The Moment Of Revolution ( Occupy Wall Street )
- Description:
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We want to share insights into the formation of a new social movement as it is still taking shape in real time.
The video was shot during the 5th and 6th day of the occupation.
This idea to occupy the financial district in New York City was inspired by recent uprisings in Spain, Greece, Egypt, and Tunisia
which most of us were following online.
Despite of the corporate media's effort to silence the protests, and Yahoo's attempt to to censor it in e-mail communication,
the occupation is growing in numbers and spreading to other cities in the US and abroad.
Please forward our video to likeminded people via email, facebook, twitter - and make the voices of dissent circulate.Find the latest news, learn how to participate and support:
https://occupywallst.org/ - Video Language:
- English
- Duration:
- 08:01