Fault Lines - Occupy Wall Street: Surviving the Winter

When Occupy Wall Street faced violent police crackdowns around the country, most people thought it had come to an end.

But the protesters had no intention of abandoning a movement that had already brought out thousands of Americans to demand attention to the country's economic inequalities. Hundreds of protests and actions have continued around the country.

"The economic, political and social conditions continue to deteriorate and as a human being - it doesn't matter where you're from or what your history is - you'll always revolt against that," says Amin Husain, an Occupy organiser.

Fault Lines looks at how Occupy Wall Street continued to build itself through the winter months by following key organisers through planning meetings, days of action and assemblies - and how the movement must battle political co-optation in a US election year.

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• Category

  • Documentary
  • News

• 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

[TVACdotCA]

Fault Lines on AJE is one of the best new programs. It is professional, exceptional and one of the best new programs of this era.

The North American "media" could learn something from this great show. In depth, great videography and a point of view other than that of corporate sponsors. Excellent!

[Risto Kantonen]

Thank you Al Jazeera for reporting on occupy wall street and making these short documents that cover the occupy movement more broadly. Keep up the good work.

[dustin dows]

why dont these people get jobs instead of fucking up someone elses way of gaining money

[vaidotas86]

well, yes that is one opinion

[DEVRIMCI2007]

Thats not socialism , socialism is when workers controlled the industry, preventing alienation from occurring.

[Jack O]

You can't compare multiparty system to TWO Party System in USA. OWS could be a political party in any other country but not in USA because they wouldn't get corporate support. When you have 2 parties and it's made difficult for any other party to enter the politics, you have a system where richer get richer and poor get poorer.

[vaidotas86]

I work in Norway now and it is socialism here. If you say socialism in US everyone will kill you for being a communist (well there is red party in Norway..) But... good luck...

[José Novais]

Congratulations to everybody who fights back those world financial criminals!

Let´s join this movement!

Together, we are going to win!