"Something Has Started": Michael Moore on Occupy Wall St. Protests That Could Spark Movement

www. DemocracyNow.org - Oscar-winning filmmaker, best-selling author,and provocateur laureate Michael Moore joins us for the hour. One of the world's most acclaimed -- and notorious -- independent filmmakers and rabble-rousers, his documentary films include Roger and Me; Bowling for Columbine for which he won the Academy Award, Fahrenheit 9/11, SICKO; and Capitalism: A Love Story. In the first part of his interview on Democracy Now!, Moore talks about the growing "Occupy Wall Street" protests in Lower Manhattan, which he visited on Monday night. "This is literally an uprising of people who have had it," Moore says. "It has already started to spread across the country in other cities. It will continue to spread. ... It will be tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of people ... Their work ahead is not as difficult as other movements in the past ... The majority of Americans are really upset at Wall Street ... So you have already got an army of Americans who are just waiting for somebody to do something, and something has started."

Watch the second part of the interview, in which Michael Moore discusses the formative stories from his childhood that led him into filmmaking and activism: http://youtu.be/nh63qBWooWo

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[sustainability2]

A WORLD OF NEW POSSIBILITIES IS IN THE MAKING NOW! LET'S READILY ACCEPT THAT OUR REALITY CANNOT AND WILL NO LONGER BE CONTROLLED, MANIPULATED, COERCED, OR FORCED UPON US BY INDIVIDUALS WHO LACK THE SPIRITUAL AND BASIC HUMAN ABILITY TO RESPECT AND LOVE THEIR FELLOW MEN AND OUR MOTHER EARTH! [THE LION HAS WOKEN UP!]

[TheGodlessGuitarist]

Finally the global revolution has started. The conversation publically and within the movement needs to be how to remove the existing regime and what must follow in order to provide equality for all people and be impervious to wealth/corruption.

[abusivemomba]

@stealthfighter077 I suppose that's how his DVDs hit the shelves in massive quantity too? He is one of the biggest outspoken hypocrites of today's world, deal widdit.

[stealthfighter077]

@abusivemomba No, he gained his wealth doing what he loves. You ought to do the same.

[RACINGWILDONE]

@TheGodlessGuitarist Yea, and now you can be held indefinitly, without being charged, for voicing your opinion. Kinda stomps the shit out of your revolution doesn't it ?

[abusivemomba]

Michael Moore has gained his wealth using the system of capitalism.

[quincee33]

@boumar19721972 the link won't work.

[AmericanBadass44]

@sustainability2 I don't like Onions on my burgers. You're going to need to know that.

[boumar19721972]

@quincee33 Here's a video on how to "jumpstart" this fake economy. /watch?v=4Z9WVZddH9w