Fault Lines - Occupy Wall Street: History of an Occupation

In the fall of 2011, New York's Zuccotti Park grabbed the world's attention as the hub of Occupy Wall Street, a movement that set off a chain of rage against the country's financial and political elite.

Even in the face of police repression and media ridicule, the movement mobilised thousands of people fed up with the deep economic divide in the US. And within two months hundreds of Occupy Wall Street camps swept across the country changing the political discourse in the US.

"People were upset about the economy, people were upset about the foreclosure crisis, people were upset about the bailouts, and about the fact that it looked like elected officials were working for big business rather than for the people who they're supposed to be working for," says activist Max Rameau from Take Back the Land.

Fault Lines tells the definitive history of Occupy Wall Street from its early days through the movement's rapid spread up to the brutal crackdown by state authorities.

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• Category

  • Documentary
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• Starring:

  • Sebastian Walker
  • Zeina Awad
  • Josh Rushing
  • Anjali Kamat

• Produced by:

  • Mat Skene
  • Jeremy Young
  • Andréa Schmidt
  • Elizabeth Gorman
  • Laila Alarian
  • Sweta Vohra
  • Anjali Kamat

[salmonsaurus]

Bad troll.

[salmonsaurus]

Communism and direct democracy go hand in hand. e.g. Conquest of Bread

[dustin dows]

looks like a bunch of lazy people who use drugs blame thier poverty on people who work for money omg if you go to school and get a good job you make more money than if you dont holy shit thats your argument people who have good jobs make more money are evil get a fucking job you lazy fucks stop poisoning other lazy people

[rptasnik78]

Looks like a bunch of hippies, get a job. Learn a skill.

[J Hansen]

they say they want direct democracy, but many of the things the OWS organizers say also sounds like communism

[J Hansen]

Occupy wall street was pointless. No organization, no clear goals, no long term plan, and half of them were ignorant college hipster communists, if not more than half.

[Accbar Sace]

Holy communist revolution batman.

[warchiefproductions]

Fuck wall street dude... Fuck those greedy fucking assholes

[warchiefproductions]

But gangnam style is the bomb though...

[999across]

What you seem not to understand is this country is based on civil disobedience & is necessary to any healthy democracy. If everyone thought like you, the Civil Rights Movement would have never been.