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00:00:00This is Justin Samuels, and this film is The Many Faces of Occupy Wall Street.
00:00:06Many Faces of Occupy Wall Street is a compilation of many of my videos on Occupy,
00:00:11and in this film, I'm showing both positive and negative aspects of Occupy Wall Street.
00:00:17People who were happy with the movement or see the movement change in positive ways,
00:00:21and people who had many complaints about the movement,
00:00:24including problems such as rapes or sexual assaults in the camps or things like that.
00:00:30For more information on these things, you can check out a variety of sources.
00:00:34Early in the fall, when I wrote more positive coverage on Occupy Wall Street,
00:00:38you can check out my articles on op-ed-news.com.
00:00:42You can also check out my e-book, Occupy Wall Street, A Leftist Anarchist Cult,
00:00:48for the major problems in Occupy Wall Street.
00:00:50That e-book is available for sale on Amazon.com.
00:00:54For further information on Occupy Wall Street, you can check out a variety of other sources on the web.
00:01:00The Huffington Post, Breitbart.com.
00:01:03Lise Ranahan, among others, has done excellent work on covering Occupy Wall Street.
00:01:07And you can also check out The Daily Caller. It has some pretty good articles, too,
00:01:12for more of these things that are featured on Occupy Wall Street.
00:01:16The sexual assault case that Nan Terry speaks about,
00:01:21that is referenced in the Huffington Post.
00:01:25Basically, I think that Occupy Wall Street had...
00:01:29I've been pretty critical of it recently, but it's had some good effects, too.
00:01:33The one good effect Occupy Wall Street has had is, I think, the changes it's had on the media,
00:01:38because for a long time, the major networks in the New York Times were the official sources.
00:01:45And other newspapers, too, were the official sources of news.
00:01:49And if they decided not to cover things, they didn't get covered.
00:01:53And Occupy Wall Street changed that on both the left and on the right throughout the political spectrum.
00:02:00When people wanted to find out what was going on in Occupy Wall Street,
00:02:03they didn't necessarily turn to the big newspapers or to the networks.
00:02:07They found out a lot of interesting information from blogs,
00:02:11from e-books sold on Amazon, from YouTube, from Vimeo, from other sources.
00:02:17And many of these new media outlets have continued to thrive post-Occupy Wall Street,
00:02:22and they still cover things in the activist world, not limited to Occupy Wall Street.
00:02:28So I think that's the most positive change that Occupy Wall Street has had,
00:02:33in terms of it's led people to other media sources, and I think that's great.
00:02:38My biggest criticism of Occupy Wall Street is that I think it's failed its most vulnerable members.
00:02:44It sort of glorified homelessness, we hate money, we hate money, we hate money.
00:02:48But if you've got no money, the only way to fix your situation is to get money,
00:02:52to get a job, go to school, get an education. These are things that will fix your homelessness.
00:02:57Ultimately, the only things that will fix your homelessness.
00:03:00And Occupy Wall Street, some in Occupy Wall Street, not everybody,
00:03:04were so anti-everything, anti-capitalist, anti-everything,
00:03:08they basically throw away everything.
00:03:12They consider themselves anarchists, they basically want to throw away all structure and all authority,
00:03:17but if you throw away everything, you even throw away food production,
00:03:21such as agriculture, you throw away food transportation, refrigerators, electricity,
00:03:25you're left with nothing, and unfortunately some people have taken it to the extreme,
00:03:29and have been in some very unsafe circumstances, basically living homeless,
00:03:34in New York City and other large cities, and that's extremely unfortunate,
00:03:38it doesn't have to be that way.
00:03:40So those people, I would just urge them to rejoin the rest of society.
00:03:44But anyway, I really hope you enjoyed this film,
00:03:47and I hope you check out those other sources of information on Occupy Wall Street,
00:03:52including my book, Occupy Wall Street, The Leftist Anarchist Cult.
00:03:56An e-book that gives more favorable coverage to Occupy Wall Street is
00:04:00Every Time I Check My Message Is Somebody Thinks I'm Dead, by Daniel Levine.
00:04:06And again, check out Lise Cunningham's work on Breitbart.com.
00:04:11Check out some articles from the Huffington Post.
00:04:14Check out other articles on Occupy Wall Street from Breitbart.
00:04:17Check out Citizen Journalist, by Nicarama, he's done a lot of coverage on Occupy Wall Street.
00:04:22Mandy Nagy again, Breitbart.com has done excellent coverage.
00:04:27Just check out a variety of sources across the political spectrum on Occupy Wall Street,
00:04:31and you'll get a fuller picture of all the things that went on.
00:04:36...to higher education, to higher education!
00:04:55Hey, look, if you're really worried about this, you can all come and work for us.
00:04:59My whole paycheck goes to Sally Mae!
00:05:08Thank you!
00:05:11Thank you for signing your futures away!
00:05:30I have an idea!
00:05:33Why don't we all come by and organize together, and have a gut strike!
00:06:00Strike! Strike! Strike!
00:06:12Strike! Strike! Strike!
00:06:18It's a celebration! It's a party!
00:06:30It's a celebration!
00:06:33It's a celebration!
00:06:36We're going to do it!
00:06:39You're wrong! You're all wrong, okay?
00:06:42You are alone!
00:06:45And it's never going to change!
00:06:48We are not alone! We are not alone!
00:06:58We are not alone! We are not alone!
00:07:18And today we'll actually start our program by maybe even telling you guys, sharing with you guys,
00:07:24what the Panchen Lama means to the Tibetan people, who he is to the Tibetan people,
00:07:28by sharing the poems, the writings, the music, by Tibetans inside Tibet, by Tibetans in exile,
00:07:37who express their love, their devotion to the Panchen Lama,
00:07:42so that you can share a glimpse of what the Panchen Lama means to the Tibetan people,
00:07:48and what he could mean to the world.
00:07:52So...
00:08:00Maybe you can share a poem with us.
00:08:13I'm going to read out the lyrics of a song from Sunam Tashi,
00:08:18called Missing the Panchen Lama by Sunam Tashi.
00:08:21Sunam Tashi is a well-known Tibetan singer in Tibet.
00:08:24Here he sings in reverence to the Panchen Lama,
00:08:27and expresses his, as well as the Tibetan people, devotion and love to the Panchen Lama.
00:08:32You're my root Lama.
00:08:36Please, you return to the land of snows.
00:08:40Who else could I offer this pure white scar to?
00:08:45To who else could I sing this heartfelt song for each drop of my tear?
00:08:49I think and think. I feel really sorry.
00:08:52You are my root.
00:08:56Please return to the land of snows.
00:09:00Who else could I offer this pure white scar to?
00:09:04To who else could I sing this heartfelt song for each drop of my tear?
00:09:09I think and think. I feel really sad.
00:09:16That was an English translation to a song by Sunam Tashi,
00:09:21who is a well-known Tibetan singer, musician inside Tibet,
00:09:25who sang openly about his devotion to the Panchen Lama.
00:09:31Second, I would like to ask Lucy to come share a poem.
00:09:36So, Tsering Woser is a Tibetan poet, a writer, and a blogger, who lives in Beijing.
00:09:43She writes reports on the situation in Tibet,
00:09:47and is a courageous voice amplifying the messages of the Tibetans living in Tibet,
00:09:53despite the constant harassment she receives from the Chinese government.
00:09:58According to Woser, the situation in Tibet is not only difficult,
00:10:04According to Woser, this poem was written one day in October 2005,
00:10:09when she had finished reading The Search for the Panchen Lama by a female British journalist.
00:10:15If time could cover up a lie, is ten years enough?
00:10:22A child matures into a clever youth,
00:10:26but like a parrot mumbles by rote the phrases that will please his masters.
00:10:32The other child, where is he?
00:10:35The scarlet birthmark on his wrist recalls his previous life before,
00:10:41when for ten years he sat trust with tight handcuffs
00:10:46in some Beijing cell no ray of light could reach.
00:10:51What bruises mar him now, the child no one hears from.
00:10:56If there are nine levels to the darkness,
00:11:00at which one are they trapped, he and the other?
00:11:04If there are nine levels to the light, to which do they aspire, he and the other?
00:11:10Perhaps in each phase of darkness and of light, where one is trapped, the other aspires.
00:11:16Kun chok som, the world's turned upside down,
00:11:20that the pain of impermanence of samsara has struck home to the Panchen Lama.
00:11:29For those of you who are just joining us,
00:11:41we are here celebrating the birthday of Tibet's Panchen Lama,
00:11:46Tibet's 11th Panchen Lama, who is a very important religious leader,
00:11:50a spiritual leader of Tibet, who was kidnapped in 1995 when he was a six-year-old boy,
00:11:56and today he is turning 23 years old.
00:11:59This is the 17th birthday he is spending in captivity.
00:12:03This is the 17th birthday he is spending against his will.
00:12:08What we are doing right now is sharing poems, sharing music,
00:12:18sharing lyrics from songs that Tibetans inside Tibet,
00:12:23as well as Tibetans in exile, have written in expression of their love and devotion to Tibet's Panchen Lama, the stolen child.
00:12:31Can I ask Namgya La to come up and share the lyrics to another song?
00:12:44Hello, everybody. My name is Namgya. Thank you all for joining us.
00:12:49I'm going to read the English translation of the song Yi Re Kyo by Kunga.
00:12:56Kunga, a widely popular Tibetan singer, was born on September 3rd, 1981, in eastern Tibet.
00:13:05Kunga is one of many Tibetan singers, including Yadong and Jamyangki,
00:13:11who have vowed never to sing in favor of the Chinese Communist Party.
00:13:16The following song, Yi Re Kyo, which means Heart Saddened by Kunga,
00:13:22calls for the return of the Dalai Lama to Tibet
00:13:26and sings in reverence to the Dalai Lama, Panchen Lama, and the Karmapa.
00:13:33Kunga refers to the Dalai Lama and the kidnapped Panchen Lama
00:13:37with concealed analogies, the Dalai Lama to the sun and the Panchen Lama to the moon.
00:13:44Here's the translation of the song.
00:13:47Sun sets behind the seven mountains.
00:13:50The white moon gets consumed by the clouds.
00:13:54And the stars have fallen amid rain and clouds.
00:13:58Heart saddens, unable to meet you three.
00:14:02Heart saddens, unable to meet you three.
00:14:06Oh, the sun, the moon, and the stars.
00:14:09The stars have fallen amid rain and clouds.
00:14:12Heart saddens, unable to meet you three.
00:14:16Heart saddens, unable to meet you three.
00:14:20At the center of the planet Earth, come, eastern Tibet,
00:14:25echoes the reverent Lama's teaching.
00:14:28Now I'm left alone and unable to hear such teaching.
00:14:33Heart saddens, I'm unable to see my Lama.
00:14:38Heart saddens, I'm unable to see my Lama.
00:14:42Oh, my Lama, now I'm left alone and unable to hear your teaching.
00:14:48Heart saddens, I'm unable to see my Lama.
00:14:52Heart saddens, I'm unable to see my Lama.
00:14:56My dear father and mother, ashen hair, close to departure,
00:15:01now your kindness yet to be repaid.
00:15:06My youthful heart saddens, my youthful heart saddens.
00:15:10Oh, father and mother, now your kindness yet to be repaid.
00:15:15My youthful heart saddens, my youthful heart saddens.
00:15:30For those of us joining us,
00:15:33we are Tibetans in exile,
00:15:36and our supporters here at Union Square
00:15:39to celebrate the 23rd birthday,
00:15:41the 23rd birthday of Tibet's Panchen Lama.
00:15:44The Panchen Lama is one of the most important religious leaders of Tibet.
00:15:49Him, the Panchen Lama, and the Dalai Lama
00:15:51are one of the two most important religious leaders of Tibet.
00:15:55The Panchen Lama, Gendun Chukyi Nyima,
00:15:59He was six years old when he was recognized as Tibet's Panchen Lama,
00:16:04the reincarnation.
00:16:06At six years old in 1995, he was abducted by the Chinese government.
00:16:12At six years old, he was the youngest political prisoner.
00:16:16Him and his family were abducted by the Chinese government,
00:16:20and it has been years since anybody has heard anything from him
00:16:25or seen anything about him or known his whereabouts,
00:16:28and the Chinese government refuses to give that information over.
00:16:32Today is his 23rd birthday,
00:16:3517th birthday in captivity,
00:16:3817th birthday since his kidnap by the Chinese government.
00:16:47What we are doing here is asking everybody,
00:16:51asking our New York friends, our New York neighbors,
00:16:54to join us in calling for his release.
00:16:59Alright, so do you see Occupy as changing things in this country?
00:17:06Yes.
00:17:08Alright, how long have you been in Occupy?
00:17:11Since September 17th.
00:17:16Have you been on a lot of direct actions?
00:17:18Not really.
00:17:20Okay, you just kind of hold down the fort?
00:17:22Yeah.
00:17:23Okay, did you stay in any of the squats?
00:17:25Yeah.
00:17:26How was that?
00:17:27Terrible.
00:17:29I hated it.
00:17:31Wow, is it true that people were like,
00:17:34biting and being raped and all that?
00:17:36Yep.
00:17:37Wow, anybody know?
00:17:38Nope.
00:17:39Okay, but you heard people tell you what happened to them, right?
00:17:43Yeah.
00:17:44And it was pretty bad.
00:17:46Yes, it was.
00:17:48Was it just girls being assaulted or guys too?
00:17:51Both.
00:17:52Both were being assaulted.
00:17:53Wow.
00:17:54So it was a very unsafe condition, right?
00:17:57Yeah, basically.
00:17:58Unsafe place.
00:17:59But we tried our best.
00:18:01You tried your best.
00:18:02Well, you did what you had to do.
00:18:03Well, I'm glad you're out of it.
00:18:04Are you now sleeping out on Wall Street or somewhere else?
00:18:07I'm sleeping out here on Wall Street.
00:18:09Well, actually this is Wall Street and Broad Street,
00:18:16on the corner of Broad Street.
00:18:18Broad Street, okay.
00:18:20So that's good, though.
00:18:22I mean, like, everyone is back again,
00:18:24because in the wintertime it was pretty cold and it seems like a lot of people went away.
00:18:27Yeah.
00:18:28But to me it looks like a lot of people are coming back now that it's warm
00:18:31and now Occupy is in the news again, so all good, right?
00:18:36Yep, all good.
00:18:38All right, one last question.
00:18:40Where do you think Occupy will be by the fall?
00:18:43By the fall?
00:18:44Yeah.
00:18:45Hmm.
00:18:47Hopefully in a mass number that 500,000 people come.
00:18:54All right.
00:18:55And overwhelm the police.
00:18:56The police don't have enough police for 500,000 people.
00:19:02Yeah, and New York City only has 40,000 police,
00:19:04so 500,000 people would be significant.
00:19:07And it would be like,
00:19:09hello, we're marching down here if you like it or not.
00:19:13You are not arresting all of us.
00:19:16That, yes.
00:19:18We'll march down every street, every corner, every alleyway,
00:19:23every inch of the sidewalk we just take up.
00:19:26Okay.
00:19:27And then people will turn around and say,
00:19:30wow, 500,000 people, 40,000 cops, who's going to win this one?
00:19:39And most likely they're going to have to call in the National Guard
00:19:44and assist help from all the neighboring states
00:19:50to spare any police officers that they can,
00:19:53which New Jersey doesn't do it because they hate New York City.
00:19:57New York State, the state of New York, won't do it.
00:20:03From Pennsylvania all the way up to Maine won't even do it,
00:20:08won't even help New York.
00:20:10Yes.
00:20:11Basically, New York is stuck by itself.
00:20:13New York City is stuck, stranded in the middle of the ocean by itself with no backup.
00:20:19With no backup.
00:20:20So step on the National Guard and then we can have a field day.
00:20:24Okay.
00:20:25That'll be very interesting to see.
00:20:29So we have to wait and see.
00:20:32You're welcome.
00:20:33This is the infamous Nan Terry in front of Bank of America.
00:20:36How are you doing, Nan?
00:20:38I am blessed.
00:20:39Very busy, extremely, extremely blessed.
00:20:43I've been taking care of business, like always,
00:20:46and keep up, following up with the movement online.
00:20:51Also, my working groups have sent out people to basically follow up
00:20:55and do what they need to do in my head.
00:20:57Basically, while taking care of other things.
00:20:59Okay.
00:21:00Can you tell us more about your working group, Strong Women Rules?
00:21:03What do they do?
00:21:04Strong Women Rules working group,
00:21:05we dealt with women that got raped when we were in the park.
00:21:11Right now we have several trials that have been taking place
00:21:15bringing justice for the victims,
00:21:20for those basically that have been victimized by the rapist.
00:21:24We have a couple trials.
00:21:25One of the trials coming up is a Tanya Child.
00:21:28I'm so excited.
00:21:29I can't wait to see it.
00:21:31We just had another trial just finish.
00:21:33And we're also going to go after David Parker.
00:21:37David Parker, who actually raped, besides Lauren,
00:21:40with different hair, but other people,
00:21:42also other women who were actually at the park.
00:21:45Okay, that's good.
00:21:47I'm hoping, I'm sure the courts will do the right thing
00:21:49and convict these men for the crimes they've done.
00:21:51They will.
00:21:52They will, yes.
00:21:54I'm just wondering, Strong Women Rules is doing good work.
00:21:58Why was there such opposition against you and Occupy?
00:22:02Great question.
00:22:04Because I tell the truth.
00:22:06I don't sell my soul to the devil.
00:22:08You want to call it that way?
00:22:09Okay.
00:22:10I'm straight to the point.
00:22:11I don't have time for BS.
00:22:12I can smell a BS a mile away.
00:22:14They couldn't manipulate me.
00:22:16They couldn't brainwash me.
00:22:18And they tried to silence me in any way possible,
00:22:21from bribe me to silence me,
00:22:24to basically try to destroy my reputation.
00:22:26But in reality, those who really know me,
00:22:29they know exactly what I have done,
00:22:31and they know my work.
00:22:33No matter what other people might do,
00:22:35who doesn't know me, might not, you know,
00:22:37probably listen to the haters.
00:22:39I would suggest people to actually get to know me
00:22:42than just go by what they said.
00:22:46I basically did not put up.
00:22:48I saw what was coming,
00:22:49and I've been calling out exactly what was coming.
00:22:52I told people, you know, that's not fishy.
00:22:54I listened to my inner guts,
00:22:56and my inner guts never, never, never failed me.
00:23:00And whenever there was something like, for example,
00:23:02a podcast that sounds fishy,
00:23:04I would ask questions.
00:23:06If that question was not satisfying to me,
00:23:08I would continue to ask questions.
00:23:09If I had to raise my voice.
00:23:11And several times they tried to basically silence me
00:23:13when I was trying to do that.
00:23:15And I would not, you know, remain silent
00:23:17because, like I said, I am for the real 99%,
00:23:20not the fake 99%,
00:23:22but the one, the true 99%.
00:23:24Those people who actually, that are struggling,
00:23:27that are basically can't pay their bills,
00:23:29or that lost their homes, that lost everything,
00:23:31because of the economy, because of the greed.
00:23:33I am for those people.
00:23:35Like I have said before, I am for them.
00:23:37I would die for the 99%,
00:23:38I stand with the 99%,
00:23:39and I do sleep among the 99%.
00:23:41But besides helping the victims,
00:23:44the rape victims,
00:23:46we help them provide shelters.
00:23:48We help them bring them back to society.
00:23:51Occupy Wall Street never, never, ever
00:23:54could do something like that.
00:23:55Because really, those people right now
00:23:57who claim they are occupiers,
00:23:58who are in Occupy Wall Street,
00:24:00they don't care for the old 99%.
00:24:02If you want honesty, want the truth,
00:24:04at night time, go to Union Square.
00:24:06Watch them laying down, you know,
00:24:08for themselves, laying down,
00:24:10the poor 99%, the homeless.
00:24:12Those people who were part of,
00:24:13actually part of the movement
00:24:14that made the movement what it was,
00:24:16watch them on the street,
00:24:17how they are laying down in a,
00:24:19whatever they are laying down,
00:24:21cardboard, whatever they use to lay down.
00:24:24If 99% was for the true 99%,
00:24:26one other thing I can say,
00:24:27let's get a building.
00:24:29Accounting refused to do that.
00:24:30Accounting come with all kinds of excuses
00:24:32so they can splurge their money.
00:24:33They're wasting money on stupidity.
00:24:35They're wasting the money on
00:24:37what that damn group called,
00:24:39the group that basically saying
00:24:40they're doing direct action.
00:24:42Direct action is a joke.
00:24:43Because direct action, all they do is
00:24:45splurge and cause people to go to jail
00:24:47for nothing.
00:24:48One of the things people do not understand,
00:24:50when you go to jail,
00:24:51you might think, oh, it's nothing,
00:24:52you know, it's a little fine here and there.
00:24:53But down the road, that will come,
00:24:55that could come down and haunt you.
00:24:57You know why?
00:24:58Because if you do decide to start a business,
00:25:00or get a job, or whatever it is,
00:25:02when they're doing the backgrounds,
00:25:04they'll find out about your criminal record.
00:25:06Exactly.
00:25:07And people don't understand,
00:25:09cooperation, big companies nowadays,
00:25:11in order to have a business,
00:25:13you got to go to the government.
00:25:14So they have to have what they call a tax ID,
00:25:16a business tax ID.
00:25:18So a company will look at that,
00:25:20they will look at the business,
00:25:21and they will look at you.
00:25:22They'll pick the next person
00:25:23that don't have a record,
00:25:24that deal with disobedience,
00:25:26civil disobedience.
00:25:27That's true.
00:25:28And the other thing is,
00:25:29depending on what the person got convicted for,
00:25:30if you're a convicted felon,
00:25:32a company like a bank, for example,
00:25:34cannot hire you.
00:25:35They're not permitted to.
00:25:36By the government.
00:25:37Exactly.
00:25:38With the market right now,
00:25:39nowadays it's really hard,
00:25:41and more harder for any felon to get jobs.
00:25:44And if those felons who manage to get jobs,
00:25:47they're either blessed, number one,
00:25:48or they have to struggle,
00:25:49or they have some kind of connection.
00:25:51It's really, really hard.
00:25:52So then people need to really start thinking,
00:25:54and start basically let people push them.
00:25:56The anarchists,
00:25:57those who basically have apartments,
00:25:59who have money,
00:26:01who have mom and dad that can take care of them.
00:26:03They need to really look at themselves.
00:26:05Yeah, the movement is wonderful.
00:26:07We have a movement.
00:26:08Great.
00:26:09But when you look at different movements
00:26:10during the years,
00:26:11like in the hippie days,
00:26:13in the 60s and the 40s,
00:26:15when you got all those movements that was right,
00:26:16that we had,
00:26:17and then what happened?
00:26:18It's dead.
00:26:19It's gone.
00:26:20Going back to living their life.
00:26:21But nowadays we have the technology.
00:26:23We got more restrictive rules and regulations
00:26:25and laws and stronger government,
00:26:27and that will affect you.
00:26:29I think it's kind of ironic that anarchists,
00:26:31who do have money because they're being supported
00:26:33by their parents,
00:26:34were in such opposition to Occupy
00:26:36doing something for people to get jobs,
00:26:38because homeless people need money,
00:26:39they need income.
00:26:41They were saying,
00:26:42oh, we don't want people to be wage slaves,
00:26:44but we all need money.
00:26:46You can't go to the grocery store for free.
00:26:48Your clothes,
00:26:49someone had to pay for them.
00:26:51To be able to communicate with people that you love,
00:26:53like your family,
00:26:54your friends,
00:26:55someone has to pay your cell phone bill,
00:26:56your internet connection.
00:26:57You don't need money.
00:26:58It's all come down to laziness.
00:27:00They want somebody to take care of them,
00:27:01why, you know,
00:27:02they're saying,
00:27:03yeah, we're part of the 99%.
00:27:04But, you know,
00:27:05they're not only lazy,
00:27:06but they're hypocrite,
00:27:07because if you really want to be part of 99%,
00:27:09live like one.
00:27:10I have lived by the 99%.
00:27:12So have I.
00:27:13So people who know me,
00:27:15they know I only slept in the churches with them.
00:27:18I helped them.
00:27:19I give them everything they want.
00:27:21I go out my ways
00:27:22to make sure that they got what they needed.
00:27:24So those people who are saying that,
00:27:26oh, yeah, you know,
00:27:27I'm an honor key,
00:27:28I got my parents,
00:27:29I'm a trust fund baby,
00:27:30let's do this,
00:27:31let's do that.
00:27:32Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:27:33And, you know,
00:27:34it's hypocrite.
00:27:35It's really hypocrite.
00:27:36You really need to understand
00:27:37how somebody feel
00:27:38walking that person's shoes.
00:27:40That's all I have to say.
00:27:42Okay, good.
00:27:43Well, thank you very much, Nan.
00:27:44And this was a splendid interview.
00:27:46And I'm sure everybody would like to hear
00:27:49your side of the story.
00:27:50My side of the story?
00:27:51It was wonderful.
00:27:52We all enjoyed it.
00:27:53It was a pleasure talking to you.
00:27:54They can follow me on Twitter,
00:27:55StonemanHools1 on Twitter,
00:27:57or they can send us an email,
00:27:59StonemanHoolsWorkingGroup
00:28:00at either yahoo or gmail.com.
00:28:02All right?
00:28:03Okay, everybody,
00:28:04you know how to contact Nan
00:28:05for more information.
00:28:06And we're out.
00:28:07Live now.
00:28:08What do you think about
00:28:09the move to Union Square?
00:28:11I think it was a good idea at the time.
00:28:13Like, at the time,
00:28:14I thought it was a good idea.
00:28:15And I still think that it was a good idea.
00:28:18And right now,
00:28:20I'm just sorry that
00:28:21there was not more support
00:28:23from the people that control the website.
00:28:24But Union Square does
00:28:27activism,
00:28:29outreach,
00:28:31conversations.
00:28:32We used to do an open mic here all the time.
00:28:35Union Square is a good place
00:28:37to have conversations
00:28:38about all kinds of things.
00:28:39It's a good place to be.
00:28:40Okay, and
00:28:42in terms of, like,
00:28:44any future financing coming in,
00:28:46do you think occupiers are being taken care of?
00:28:48Are things going well in that end?
00:28:50I don't think that occupiers
00:28:51should be taken care of like pets.
00:28:53But I do think that
00:28:54if you're showing video footage
00:28:56of an occupation
00:28:58and you're doing reporting
00:29:00on an occupation,
00:29:01an actual encampment,
00:29:03and then money comes in,
00:29:05if you're taking that money,
00:29:06it's your responsibility
00:29:07to get that money
00:29:08to the occupation
00:29:09that you're letting everybody know about.
00:29:13Okay, so that occupation
00:29:14should be funded
00:29:15towards any money
00:29:16that's being raised.
00:29:17Those people, because they're occupying,
00:29:18obviously deserve the money
00:29:19because they're doing all the work occupying, right?
00:29:20Not so much deserve the money,
00:29:21but it's like,
00:29:23not to use the corporate language,
00:29:25but if money was communication,
00:29:27then the people that are donating
00:29:29are trying to communicate their support,
00:29:31and we're not getting those communications.
00:29:33Even the letters of support
00:29:35that we get,
00:29:36we never got to see them.
00:29:37We rarely got to see...
00:29:39The actual people that were camped out
00:29:41never got to see letters
00:29:43from anyone in America,
00:29:45and I got to see them
00:29:46because I went into a room somewhere,
00:29:48and I looked around,
00:29:49and under a pile of tarps
00:29:51and slogan flyers,
00:29:54I saw some letters,
00:29:56but no one ever handed those out
00:29:57or made copies of those.
00:29:59I don't know if I'm really getting across
00:30:01the idea that's in my head,
00:30:02but the point is
00:30:03that there's a middleman
00:30:05between America
00:30:06and the actual
00:30:08Occupy Wall Street encampment,
00:30:10and those middlemen need to get out of the way.
00:30:12One last question.
00:30:13Do you know who those middlemen are?
00:30:21On my website,
00:30:22there's a video of the first
00:30:24General Assembly
00:30:26at Ducati Park.
00:30:28Yes.
00:30:33I know the people who think
00:30:34that they created the General Assembly,
00:30:36and I know the people who think
00:30:39that they're the ones
00:30:40that created Occupy Wall Street.
00:30:42And that info is on your website?
00:30:44Well, there's a video of somebody doing it.
00:30:48On the video is the first General Assembly,
00:30:51and I asked the two facilitators,
00:30:54I was like,
00:30:55who are you,
00:30:56who are you affiliated with,
00:30:58and why are you standing up there?
00:31:00And they laughed.
00:31:01They had some sort of innate authority.
00:31:04And I was like,
00:31:05why didn't you ask for volunteers
00:31:07to facilitate?
00:31:09I can facilitate a meeting,
00:31:10other people can facilitate a meeting.
00:31:12Let's just say that the people
00:31:14that are good at socializing,
00:31:16those guys,
00:31:17the socializing people.
00:31:18The socializing people
00:31:19kind of took over from everybody else?
00:31:20Yeah.
00:31:21Occupy Wall Street is not anti-capitalist.
00:31:23It's just the anti-capitalists
00:31:25that are so good at socializing together
00:31:27and controlling the message.
00:31:29Oh, so a bunch of anti-capitalists
00:31:32or anarchists,
00:31:33whatever they call themselves,
00:31:34took over from everybody else?
00:31:35Not so much took over,
00:31:36but just created something
00:31:37that looked legitimate.
00:31:39And, you know,
00:31:40the media manipulators,
00:31:42the people that can manipulate the media,
00:31:43the people that can manipulate the message.
00:31:45Okay.
00:31:46As usual.
00:31:47The same thing that happens
00:31:48in the macrocosm
00:31:49happens in the microcosm.
00:31:51Okay.
00:31:54Alright, thank you, Sage.
00:31:55No problem.
00:31:57Alright, Zach,
00:31:58how do you think Occupy
00:31:59has helped the country?
00:32:00Or do you think Occupy
00:32:01has done anything
00:32:02for the regular person?
00:32:03I believe Occupy Wall Street
00:32:05has helped bring attention
00:32:08to a lot of corruption
00:32:09within our country
00:32:11and a lot of problems
00:32:12that we're facing with.
00:32:14It's shed light
00:32:15on another side of America
00:32:18that's kind of twisted and corrupted.
00:32:20And I think it's helping
00:32:22the country realize that
00:32:24and helping the world realize that.
00:32:26So they're coming down
00:32:27on our country
00:32:28asking them to stop messing
00:32:30with us so much.
00:32:32Alright, do you think
00:32:33Occupy has helped you?
00:32:34And if so, how?
00:32:36Occupy has helped me a lot
00:32:37become more self-sufficient
00:32:39on the streets
00:32:40and surviving
00:32:42within the community
00:32:44like the support system.
00:32:46It's like always having
00:32:48people there for you.
00:32:49Like if I don't have
00:32:50an extra pair of socks,
00:32:51where do I go?
00:32:52I go to Occupy Wall Street
00:32:53and somebody has
00:32:54an extra pair of socks.
00:32:55Or if I'm starving,
00:32:57I go to Occupy Wall Street
00:32:58and somebody's got something
00:32:59to put in my stomach.
00:33:01You know what I mean?
00:33:02If I'm lonely,
00:33:03I go to Occupy Wall Street.
00:33:05There's people here.
00:33:06The support system is great.
00:33:08So Occupy has been a big support system
00:33:10not only emotionally
00:33:11but physically.
00:33:12Like physical needs
00:33:13like food,
00:33:14clothes,
00:33:15etc.
00:33:16Yeah, everything.
00:33:17They've helped me out a lot.
00:33:22I think Occupy Wall Street
00:33:24has turned into a good thing
00:33:26instead of a bad thing
00:33:27the way the media portrays us.
00:33:29I think the best thing
00:33:30about Occupy Wall Street is
00:33:32despite whatever problems
00:33:33we may or may not have,
00:33:35the support system
00:33:36is probably really important.
00:33:38And I guess
00:33:39the social network without money
00:33:41because
00:33:42normally in a big city like this
00:33:43you have to go out
00:33:44to the restaurant or the bar
00:33:45to spend a lot of money
00:33:46but Occupyers can socialize
00:33:47with each other for free.
00:33:50Yeah, a lot of people
00:33:51have to spend a lot of money
00:33:52to show off in front of people
00:33:54and that's the only way
00:33:56they can gain friends
00:33:57or companionship
00:33:59because it's lonely
00:34:00when you have all that money
00:34:02and nobody to share it with.
00:34:04And then you have to
00:34:05go out there and impress people
00:34:07and act like something
00:34:09that you're not
00:34:10instead of being yourself
00:34:11and just being a natural person
00:34:13and just enjoying nature
00:34:15enjoying the greater things in life
00:34:17that money can't buy.
00:34:19Alright, thank you, Zach.
00:34:23Hi, Felix.
00:34:24Hi.
00:34:26So,
00:34:27has Occupy Wall Street
00:34:28changed your life at all?
00:34:30Well,
00:34:32it has changed my life so much
00:34:35that
00:34:37I couldn't even go back
00:34:38to my old life.
00:34:39Like,
00:34:40there's a lot of protesters
00:34:41yesterday saying
00:34:42oh, I want to go back
00:34:43to my old life
00:34:44but I can't yet.
00:34:45In my opinion,
00:34:46the way I feel is like
00:34:48I have changed so much
00:34:50in my life.
00:34:53There's no option
00:34:54for anyone to leave
00:34:56when I'm going to do
00:34:57things the way
00:34:58things are the way
00:34:59we're hoping to be.
00:35:00Because
00:35:02more than anything
00:35:03I think myself
00:35:04have changed
00:35:05over the last six months.
00:35:10I am very proud
00:35:11of everything I've done
00:35:13and
00:35:15I did not plan
00:35:16to stop doing it.
00:35:17Yes.
00:35:19Okay, and
00:35:21where do you think
00:35:22Occupy will go in the future?
00:35:25Well,
00:35:26not in my real world
00:35:29but
00:35:30I will tell you that
00:35:33whatever direction
00:35:34we're taking
00:35:36which it seems like
00:35:39expanding here
00:35:40we already have
00:35:41like two locations
00:35:42in New York
00:35:43we have here
00:35:44in inner square
00:35:45and we have
00:35:46down in Wall Street
00:35:47we're trying to hold
00:35:48onto the fort
00:35:49down there too.
00:35:52It seems like
00:35:53we're actually trying to
00:35:55make satellite
00:35:56locations all over the city
00:35:59so we can actually
00:36:00bring the message out
00:36:01and
00:36:03we are mostly
00:36:04directly now
00:36:05I guess
00:36:06toward a social justice
00:36:08aspect
00:36:10because
00:36:13I
00:36:14feel like
00:36:15not only
00:36:16I mean the money is just
00:36:17the root of the problem
00:36:18but just
00:36:20branch out
00:36:21to so many ways
00:36:22like
00:36:25housing
00:36:26and
00:36:27marriage equality
00:36:28and
00:36:31so many things
00:36:32out there like
00:36:33healthcare
00:36:34childcare
00:36:35education
00:36:38all these things
00:36:39that need to be
00:36:40improved
00:36:42and
00:36:43what I see
00:36:44Occupy Wall Street
00:36:45doing is
00:36:47trying to
00:36:48find ways to be
00:36:49self-sustainable
00:36:50teach all the people
00:36:51to be self-sustainable
00:36:53and
00:36:54what I see
00:36:55in Europe in the future
00:36:56is like
00:36:58somehow
00:36:59small co-ops
00:37:01acquire slack
00:37:02making
00:37:03working groups
00:37:04as a co-operative
00:37:05actually
00:37:08teach like
00:37:09how to
00:37:10build community
00:37:11I've heard of
00:37:12Occu-Bank
00:37:13from one guy
00:37:14and
00:37:15there's some other things too
00:37:16and I've
00:37:17heard from some
00:37:18young occupiers
00:37:19Occupy Farms
00:37:20that Occupy has
00:37:21showed them
00:37:22how to find food
00:37:23or how to find clothes
00:37:24it's like
00:37:25shows them how to
00:37:26find resources
00:37:27they have friends
00:37:28you don't have to
00:37:29spend a lot of money
00:37:30in the bar
00:37:31just to hang out
00:37:32with your friends
00:37:33you have your
00:37:34friends that you
00:37:35actually work with
00:37:36are in Occupy
00:37:37or whatever you're
00:37:38working on
00:37:39and
00:37:40so Occupy has
00:37:41been good for
00:37:42a lot of people
00:37:43myself included
00:37:44I've been writing
00:37:45a lot more because
00:37:46of Occupy
00:37:47and interviewing
00:37:48a lot of people
00:37:49because of Occupy
00:37:50but
00:37:51that's what it takes
00:37:52yes we are
00:37:53it's interesting
00:37:54seeing the
00:37:55melting pot
00:37:56in Occupy
00:37:57how
00:37:58we're coming from
00:37:59all different
00:38:00walks of life
00:38:01and all
00:38:02spiritual or
00:38:03religious backgrounds
00:38:04and non-religious
00:38:05or non-spiritual
00:38:06backgrounds
00:38:07and
00:38:08there are even
00:38:09capitalists
00:38:10among
00:38:11our list
00:38:12which is
00:38:13strange
00:38:14but they have
00:38:15a lot of
00:38:16money
00:38:17and
00:38:18they have
00:38:19but they have
00:38:20their own ideas
00:38:21that are making
00:38:22work so
00:38:23we're going from
00:38:24the capitalists
00:38:25to the anarchists
00:38:26all together here
00:38:27trying to figure
00:38:28out a middle point
00:38:29and so far
00:38:30the only thing
00:38:31we have in common
00:38:32and that we
00:38:33can agree on
00:38:34is that
00:38:35things are
00:38:36fucked up and
00:38:37bullshit
00:38:38and that we
00:38:39all want pizza
00:38:40we all want
00:38:41pizza yes
00:38:42everybody waits
00:38:43until the store
00:38:44is closed
00:38:45and we all
00:38:46fucking pizza
00:38:47that's one of
00:38:48the reasons
00:38:49why we
00:38:50need pizza
00:38:51yeah
00:38:52things are
00:38:53fucked up
00:38:54and we
00:38:55need pizza
00:38:56that's what
00:38:57we thought
00:38:58other than
00:38:59that
00:39:00we are
00:39:01trying to
00:39:02I guess
00:39:03find a middle
00:39:04ground
00:39:05a safe
00:39:06work ground
00:39:07where we
00:39:08can actually
00:39:09work
00:39:10and
00:39:11I'm
00:39:12pretty happy
00:39:13about
00:39:14the outcomes
00:39:15we're not
00:39:16sleeping on
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00:46:32Alright there is a
00:46:33Trayvon Martin
00:46:34march today and
00:46:35there is one
00:46:36tomorrow.
00:46:37Specifically,
00:46:38what are people
00:46:39doing on this
00:46:40march?
00:46:41Well,
00:46:42the march today
00:46:43was organized
00:46:44by the
00:46:45TWU
00:46:46I guess its to
00:46:47raise awareness
00:46:48and solidarity
00:46:49with what
00:46:50is happening
00:46:51throughout the
00:46:52country.
00:46:53The one
00:46:54tomorrow
00:46:55which is
00:46:562pm
00:46:57at the rally
00:46:58and then
00:46:597pm
00:47:00to march
00:47:01grand jury is going to convene yeah i heard that they're not going to convene i heard the grand
00:47:05jury is not even going to go through but they're still having a rally tomorrow here in a march
00:47:10they're leaving at seven o'clock and basically that's in solidarity with other actions going
00:47:14on throughout the country and that's also like a black community and like other disenfranchised
00:47:20communities coming out and speaking out against police brutality or speaking out against other
00:47:26state-sanctioned uh brutalities against people of color okay like uh tomorrow specifically the
00:47:34reason why i agree with um with uh rallies and marches like this is because it raises
00:47:39awareness about like core issues of what's going on in the black community and like other minority
00:47:45communities that are disenfranchised you know you have systematic discrimination and you have like
00:47:50you have systematic uh disenfranchisement through brutality stopping like for example you have
00:47:57stop stop and frisk you have um other like policies that target specifically these
00:48:02disaffected communities do you feel that um not that i'm advocating drug use i'm totally against
00:48:08this but do you feel that the war of drugs totally um what's the word um this has disparate impact
00:48:15on poor people or people in poor communities let's say if somebody has like a small amount
00:48:19of marijuana and then they get stopped on that and they get locked up in jail do you think that's
00:48:23um is that negatively affecting these communities oh yes i'll say it was negatively affecting the
00:48:29community like even like the um the limited amount of uh benefit it has on the community
00:48:35like just like busting of like drug dens of uh busting of like uh drug corners yes that's yes
00:48:42that's a very limited benefit because at the same time you're really not addressing like the deep
00:48:49uh problems of why people are using drugs you're just criminalizing the issue and you're arresting
00:48:55people that have like a bag of marijuana for example you're clogging up the judicial system
00:49:02and um you're messing up these people's like uh records and uh futures possibly possibly with
00:49:08convictions they may have a high time getting a job or going to school right exactly because
00:49:12that's already hard enough if you don't have that so having that is definitely like an extra like uh
00:49:19impediment for uh for your advancement in this society so i guess it's sort of weird because
00:49:24often when people talk about limited government you know the government is too big in this country
00:49:28blah blah blah we hate the government it seems ironic that the government would punish people
00:49:33for doing um marijuana i'm not saying become a pothead or become an alcoholic or become a this
00:49:39or become a that but that seems like it seems like a choice should be left up to you to do that
00:49:45yes it's a contradiction like a lot of like so-called like uh republicans yes or so-called
00:49:50conservatives that they like pride themselves on limited government it shows the hypocrisy
00:49:54because the only time they want limited government is when the government is actually going in and
00:49:57busting up monopolies or going in and providing uh poor people with social services like medicare
00:50:03ssi or section 8 however like when the government's uh trying to regulate what women do with their
00:50:09body as an abortion or when the government is trying to regulate the amount of drug use people
00:50:14use which is something personal and our best sickness these same people are saying that the
00:50:19government should arrest them convict them and harass them so it shows the contradiction right
00:50:25it shows like the blatant and inherent contradiction in their position and arguably
00:50:30if you want to make government smaller if you reformed the drug laws let's say not locking
00:50:36people up for marijuana for example you would have a lot less government spending because i
00:50:40know people talk about they hate taxes um we've all worked nobody likes having taxes cut out of
00:50:45your paycheck so i mean yeah so somebody commits a serious crime murder theft lock them up but kids
00:50:51smoking marijuana arguably by throwing so many people in jail for that or even prosecuting them
00:50:56even if they don't go to jail that's a huge waste of um taxpayer money wouldn't you say
00:51:00yeah i'll say like it's a big uh use but like you have to consider also too like um let's take an
00:51:05example what's going on now here like uh zuccotti and what's going on union square with all these
00:51:11police doing overtime yeah a lot of times these institutions they need something to justify
00:51:16funding about their continued existence and again preservation like take the dea you know the dea
00:51:22and other like um organizations like that they want to the war on drugs to continue why because
00:51:27it funds them yeah you know it's a career for them it's the same thing like uh the war on terror
00:51:33yes you know you want to war on terror because if you own like a surveillance camera uh company
00:51:40you're gonna get that funding from the government or if you like a company like let's say um big
00:51:44chinese company yeah um what's the company's name uh which harry richard halliburton yeah or kbr
00:51:52yeah well if you have this running on so-called war on drugs you know it's good for your coffers
00:51:57for your pockets you know you really don't care about the issue but you care about what the issue
00:52:01for you
00:52:21no one should lose their kids
00:52:31is
00:52:51and she was right we can't wait for the council to tell us what to do
00:52:55we can't wait and call phone calls are not enough we have to get up and get out here
00:52:59and i brought us out here to make that a statement and this is just the beginning
00:53:04we're going to march we're going to walk we're going to hold up our signs our flags our middle
00:53:08fingers our feet whatever you i don't care what you do you're just going to walk and you're going
00:53:12to scream at the top of your lungs every single person you have lost to the system every single
00:53:16person that's locked up right now and you know shouldn't be there you say their name while you
00:53:20walk i don't care if you cry i'm crying in front of all of you right now it means nothing no one
00:53:26should be in jail for no reason other than if they committed a crime it's another form of slavery
00:53:31it is you're right it is so follow us as we march down here towards washington square park
00:53:37and we're going to hold up our flags take pictures
00:53:40thank you and thank you all for coming out to support me i really do appreciate it
00:53:56um
00:54:10we are
00:54:26trayvon martin
00:54:37we are
00:54:56we are
00:55:01we are
00:55:26so is it dying what's wrong with that it just can't fly right now maybe because it's a baby
00:55:33no it totally is a baby yeah you think so yeah you get big oh yeah no you get to see it in his face
00:55:42it's a spring though i don't think they have babies like around this time i don't know i
00:55:45mean a lot of animals but it's big though it's not like a newborn it's just an anatomy itself
00:55:53you ever seen a big bet okay look at its hair it was seen how big see how short the hair is on the
00:55:57back it's a baby that's a that's a baby it would be bigger and it would be flying right now
00:56:05it would be somewhere hanging upside down
00:56:11i can't believe it
00:56:22oh you guys can go to the pet store they'll sell them at insects
00:56:35so yeah you guys can buy like some bugs for it
00:56:37i don't know how to use it you guys should set up put up like a donation bucket or something
00:56:52like that feed the bat feed the bat yeah feed the bat yeah put up a bucket all the
00:56:57go to the cars
00:57:11so is it dying what's wrong it just can't fly right now maybe because it's a baby
00:57:15no it totally is a baby yeah you think so yeah you get big oh yeah no you get to see it in his face
00:57:21oh it's a spring though i don't think i have babies like around this time i don't know i
00:57:27mean a lot of animals but it's big though it's not like a newborn it's just an anatomy itself
00:57:34man it's a baby a big bet okay look at its hair it was seen how big see how short the hair is on
00:57:39the back you know that's a baby that's a baby it would be bigger and it would be flying right now
00:57:46absolutely it would be somewhere hanging upside down
00:57:49so you think it fell out of a nest or something maybe
00:57:52uh i can't believe it i'm gonna tap on the bank i had to probably try to fly it like
00:57:57every day because when i was walking on the street
00:58:11anybody got any insects oh you guys can go to the pet store they'll sell them at
00:58:15insects in the pet store so yeah you guys can buy like some bugs for it
00:58:31you guys should set up put up like a donation bucket or something like that
00:58:34feed the bat feed the bat yeah feed the bat yeah put up a bucket all the people go to the cars
00:58:40this
00:58:54we read the names of all 26 of those unarmed citizens who were murdered
00:59:02like state violence and systemic racism
00:59:10as we read their names their ages and their locations we hand out these balloons to commemorate
00:59:22the reasons they fell and to hope for a world
00:59:26in which we could all live free of racialized oppression
00:59:40um
00:59:57the first
01:00:00january 12 2012 donald johnson 21 new orleans
01:00:10january 12 2012 duane brown 26 east new york brooklyn
01:00:24january 17th angelo clark 31 little rock arkansas
01:00:33jr
01:00:35january 24th steven rodriguez 22 monterey park california
01:00:48january 29th antoine white antoine white 17 bushwick brooklyn
01:00:57january 1st steven watts steven watts 15 calvin illinois
01:01:12february 3rd
01:01:16remarly graham
01:01:2018 bronx new york
01:01:23it's time to go
01:01:25february 10th manuel loggins jr manuel loggins jr 31 san clemente california
01:01:42january february 13th johnny warren
01:01:48johnny warren 43
01:01:52Durham alabama
01:01:55february 26 trayvon martin
01:02:0217 sandburg florida
01:02:07february 29th raymond allen raymond allen 34
01:02:14dollars in texas
01:02:20march 1st justin sip 20 new orleans california
01:02:30march 1st dante prince 25
01:02:38ohio
01:02:43march 1st melvin lawn horn 26 karshawn county south carolina
01:02:54march 3rd bo morrison 20
01:03:01westbound wisconsin
01:03:03march 5th demi dillard 29 gainesville florida
01:03:16march 5th wendell allen 20 new orleans louisiana
01:03:24march 7th michael lembard 22 newburn new york
01:03:36march 10th marquez smart