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The Winter of Our Occupation
And now it is winter. Wall Street rejoices, hoping that the change of seasons will mean a change in our spirit, our commitment to stop them.
They couldn't be more wrong. Have they not heard of Washington and the troops at Valley Forge? The Great Flint Sit-Down Strike in the winter of 1936-37? The Michigan Wolverines crushing Ohio State in the 1950 Blizzard Bowl? When it comes to winter, it is the time historically when the people persevere and the forces of evil make their retreat!
We are not even 12 weeks old, yet Occupy Wall Street has grown so fast, so big, none of us can keep up with the hundreds of towns who have joined the movement, or the thousands of actions -- some of them just simple ones in neighborhoods, schools and organizations -- that have happened. The national conversation has been irreversibly changed. Now everyone is talking about how the 1% are getting away with all the money while the 99% struggle to make ends meet. People are no longer paralyzed by despair or apathy. Most know that now is the time to reclaim our country from the bankers, the lobbyists -- and their gofers: the members of the United States Congress and the 50 state legislatures.
And they're crazy if they think that a little climate chaos (otherwise known as winter in the 21st century) that they've helped to bring about is going to stop us.
I would like to propose to my Occupying sisters and brothers that there are many ways to keep Occupy Wall Street going through the winter months. There is perhaps no better time to move the movement indoors for a few months -- and watch it grow even bigger! (For those who have the stamina to maintain the outdoor occupations, by all means, keep it up -- and the rest of us will do our best to help you and keep you warm!)
The winter gives us an amazing opportunity to expand our actions against the captains of capitalism who have occupied our homes with their fraudulent mortgage system which has tossed millions of families out onto the curb; a cruel health care system that has told 50 million Americans "if you can't afford a doctor, go F yourself"; a student loan system that sends 22-year-olds into an immediate "debtors' prison" of working lousy jobs for which they didn't go to school but now have to take because they're in hock for tens of thousands of dollars for the next two decades; and a jobs market that keeps 25 million Americans un- or under-employed -- and much of the rest of the workers forced to accept wage cuts, health care reductions and zero job security.
But we in the Occupy Movement reject this version of the "American Dream." Instead, I suggest we shift our focus for this winter to the following actions:
OCCUPY THE WINTER
A proposal to the General Assembly of Occupy Wall Street from Michael Moore
1. Occupy Our Homes. Sorry, banks, a roof over one's head is a human right, and you will no longer occupy our homes through foreclosure and eviction because well, you see, they are our homes, not yours. You may hold the mortgage; you don't hold the right to throw us or our neighbors out into the cold. With almost one in three home mortgages currently in foreclosure, nearing foreclosure or "underwater," the Occupy Movement must form local "Occupy Strike Forces" to create human shields when the banks come to throw people out of their homes. If the foreclosure has already happened, then we must help families move back into their foreclosed homes -- literally (see this clip from my last film to watch how a home re-occupation is accomplished). Beginning today, Take Back the Land, plus many other citizens' organizations nationwide, are kicking off Occupy Our Homes. Numerous actions throughout the day today have already resulted in many families physically taking back their homes. This will continue every day until the banks are forced to stop their fraudulent practices, until homeowners are allowed to change their mortgage so that it reflects the true value of their homes, and until those who can no longer afford a mortgage are allowed to stay in their homes and pay rent. I beseech the news media to cover these actions -- they are happening everywhere. Evictions, though rarely covered (you need a Kardashian in your home as you're being evicted to qualify for news coverage) are not a new story (see this scene I filmed in 1988). Also, please remember the words of Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur of Toledo (in 'Capitalism: A Love Story'): Do not leave your homes if the bank forecloses on you! Let them take you to court and then YOU ask the judge to make them produce a copy of your mortgage. They can't. It was chopped up a hundred different ways, bundled with a hundred other mortgages, and sold off to the Chinese. If they can't produce the mortgage, they can't evict you.
2. Occupy Your College. In nearly every other democracy on the planet, students go to college for free or almost free. Why do those countries do that? Because they know that for their society to advance, they must have an educated population. Without that, productivity, innovation and an informed electorate is stunted and everyone suffers as a result. Here's how we do it in the U.S.A.: make education one of our lowest priorities, graduate students who know little about the world or their own government or the economy, and then force them into crushing debt before they even have their first job. That way has really worked well for us, hasn't it? It's made us the world leader in … in … well, ok, we're like 27th or 34th in everything now (except war). This has to end. Students should spend this winter doing what they are already doing on dozens of campuses -- holding sit-ins, occupying the student loan office, nonviolently disrupting the university regents meetings, and pitching their tents on the administration's lawn. Young people -- we, the '60s generation, promised to create a better world for you. We got halfway there -- now you have to complete the job. Do not stop until these wars are ended, the Pentagon budget is cut in half, and the rich are forced to pay their taxes. And demand that that money go to your education. We'll be there with you on all of this! And when we get this fixed and you graduate, instead of being $40,000 in debt, go see the friggin' world, or tinker around in your garage a la the two Steves, or start a band. Enjoy life, discover, explore, experiment, find your way. Anything but the assistant manager at Taco Bell.
3. Occupy Your Job. Let's spend the winter organizing workplaces into unions. OR, if you already have a union, demand that your leaders get off their ass and get aggressive like our grandparents did. For chrissakes, surely you know we would not have a middle class if it weren't for the strikes of the 1930s-1950s?! In three weeks we will celebrate the 75th anniversary of the workers in my hometown of Flint, Michigan taking over and occupying the General Motors factories for 44 days in the dead of winter. Their actions ignited a labor movement that lifted tens of millions out of poverty and into the middle class. It's time to do it again. (According to the Census Bureau and the New York Times, 100 million Americans either live in or near poverty. Disgraceful. Greed has destroyed the core fabric of our communities. Enough!) Here are two good unions to get your fellow workers to sign up and join: UE and SEIU. The CWA are also good. Here's how to get a quick primer in organizing your place of employment (don't forget to be careful while you do this!). If your company is threatening to close down and move the jobs elsewhere, then it's time to occupy the workplace (again, you can get a lesson in how to successfully occupy your factory from my movie).
4. Occupy Your Bank. This is an easy one. Just leave them. Move your checking and your credit card to a nonprofit credit union. It's safe and the decisions made there aren't based on greed. And if a bank tries to evict your neighbor, Occupy the local branch with 20 other people and call the press. Post it on the internet.
5. Occupy the Insurance Man. It's time to not only stand up for the 50 million without health insurance but to also issue a single, simple demand: The elimination of for-profit, privately-controlled health insurance companies. It is nothing short of barbaric to allow businesses to make a profit off people when they get sick. We don't allow anyone to make a profit when we need the fire department or the police. Until recently we would never allow a company to make a profit by operating in a public school. The same should be true for when you need to see a doctor or stay in the hospital. So I say it's long overdue for us to go and Occupy Humana, United Health, Cigna and even the supposed "nonprofit" Blue Crosses. An action on their lawns, in their lobbies, or at the for-profit hospitals -- this is what is needed.
So -- there are my ideas for the five places we can Occupy this winter. Help the foreclosed-upon to Occupy their homes. Occupy your college campus, especially the student loan office and the regents meetings. Occupy your job by getting everyone to sign a union card -- or by refusing to let the CEO ship your job overseas. Occupy your Chase or Citi or Bank of America branch by closing your account and moving it to a credit union. And Occupy the insurance company offices, the pharmaceutical companies' headquarters and the for-profit hospitals until the White House and Congress pass the true single-payer universal health care bill they failed to pass in 2010.
My friends, the rich are running scared right now. You need no further proof of this than to read this story from last week. The Republicans' top strategist met privately with them and told them that they had better change their tune or they were going to be crushed by the Occupy Wall Street movement. They didn't have to change their greedy actions, he assured them -- just the way they talk and PR the situation. He told them never to use the word "capitalism" -- it has now been made a dirty word by the Occupy movement, he said. Only say "economic freedom" from now on, he cautioned. And don't criticize the movement -- because the majority of Americans either agree with it or are feeling the same way. Just tell the Occupiers and the distressed Americans: "I get it." Seriously.
Yes, in just 12 short weeks we have killed their most sacred word -- Capitalism -- and we have them on the run, on the defensive. They should be. Millions are coming after them and our only goal is to remove them from power and replace them with a fair system that is controlled by the 99%. The 1% have been able to get both political parties to do their bidding. Why should only 1% of the population get to have two parties -- and the rest of us have none? That, too, is going to change. In my next letter, I will suggest what we can do to Occupy the Electoral Process. But first we must start with those who pull the strings of the puppets in the Congress. That's why it's called Occupy Wall Street. Always better to deal with man in charge, don't you think?
Let's Occupy the Winter! An #OWS Winter will certainly lead to a very hopeful American Spring.
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Show AllCouldn't agree more Michael. When you made "Capitalism a Love Story" it was 98% against the 2%, today it's 99% againist the 1%. I wonder if it was wise of them to reduce their numbers while we increased ours. Apparently the "wise guys" didn't think this thing through any better than they did their housing bubble.
Moore is a rabid Democrat. Shut him out.
"But eventually, the greater danger to the movement is that it may dovetail into the presidential election campaign that's coming up. I've seen that happen before in the antiwar movement here, and I see it happening all the time in India. Eventually, all the energy goes into trying to campaign for the "better guy", in this case Barack Obama, who's actually expanding wars all over the world. Election campaigns seem to siphon away political anger and even basic political intelligence into this great vaudeville, after which we all end up in exactly the same place".
Arundhati Roy
That quote by Arundhati Roy has nothing to do with the article.
There is a trend on this website for posters to try to make themselves sound intelligent by bashing anyone who ever says anything positive about Democrats. In the case of this article, Moore never even brought up Democrats or Republicans.
I must have been reading a different article than you because I did not see a single endorsement of Obama in this piece. Just because someone doesn't explicitly bash Obama in every single article he writes does not necessarily make him an Obamabot. Right now, OWS needs all the support it can get and what better champion for it than Michael Moore?
Actually Moore has been very critical of Obama and supportive of OWS. Shutting him out would be unwise. I just saw a video a couple days ago where he said that Obama is Wall Street's man, that he has collected more from Wall Street than all the Republican contenders combined. If he were such a "rabid Democrat" he would not be saying such things.
Unfortunately, there are now many more Democrats than there are Greens, Peace and Freedoms, Working Family people and independent leftists put together.
If you are going to "shut them all out" because they are Democrats, you will just prevent them from ever changing or moving to the left.
Apparently, there is nothing quite so dogmatic or unthinking as a Stone.
The real movement now is not about political parties, but in the streets, campuses, workplaces and neighborhoods. Michael Moore knows that. The rest of us could profit from his example, and pay more attention to building the "base" than to the political "superstructure."
Once we have a growing social movement that can win more allegiance than the big money and its media, THEN it will be useful to think about political parties.
And by all means, do NOT listen to the Michael Moores of the world when they try to persuade you to pull the lever for the Democrats in the 2012 election. Either vote third party, or do not vote at all.
He never said that. I don't think Michael's ever been invited to the White House. I don't think he's been invited to play B Ball with Barry or even share a beer in the rose garden.
I suggest we all write in Bernie Sanders.
"I suggest we all write in Bernie Sanders."
Bernie's a good guy, I know, but he--who claims to be a Socialist-- compromised his own principles and voted for privatized, corporate health care. I won't support any politician who voted for that terrible legislation.
Rocky Anderson is forming an exploratory committee and he's running as a third party candidate. Excerpt:
"A leaked copy of the meeting agenda and minutes from a previous meeting noted that there was support for Anderson forming an exploratory committee as soon as possible. The document outlines a platform for the party focused on ending the corporate influence, stopping wars, promoting human and civil rights and ending for-profit prisons."
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/mobile/53014248-90/anderson-ballot-former-hall.html.csp
Who's Rocky Anderson?
Drosera
He was the former mayor of Salt Lake City, Utah.
Someone who if you vote for him, your vote goes no where and you've wasted it.
Remember, every time you vote for one of the two "parties" (two heads of the same monster), you waste your vote!
The last time I wasted my vote was voting for Bill Clinton in 1992. Ever since watching Bill zealously push NAFTA through in 1993 I have voted for Ralph Nader, a man who did more for the 99% by the time he was 40 than any president (with the possible exception of FDR) ever did in a lifetime.
When it comes to voting for Dims or GOP the old saying "KEEP DOING WHAT YOU HAVE BEEN DOING AND YOU WILL KEEP GETTING WHAT YOU HAVE BEEN GETTING" applies big time.
Me, too! I gave up the Democrats in 1992. You are absolutely right about Ralph Nader!
That said, many of my friends are still joined at the hip with the Dems, despite their precarious financial situations.
Ralph Nader has spent his entire career, which is to say every day of his life practically, serving the greater good of the PEOPLE. He's also been warning us for years about the exact mess we're in now, how dangerous it is for corporations to have unchecked power over our nation. We should be so lucky as to have such a person, with intelligence, actual values, and integrity, for president, with the same standard for our Congress, as well.
so, your voting for the lessor of two evils right Sundome?
Obama is no where as scary as any of his Republican goons that are running right?
However, unlike in the last election, the lessor of two evils, the president, Obama, the democract has his HANDS STAINED WITH INNOCENT BLOOD FROM INNOCENT PEOPLE IN AFGHANISTAN, PAKISTAN, PALESTINE, EGYPT, BAHRAIN, LIBYA, SAUDI ARABIA, YEMEN AND SOME LITTLE "THING" CALLED THE "ENVIRONMENT"
I gladly vote for the fellow who has yet to MURDER
I gladly vote for the fellow who has yet to TAKE A DIME FROM WALL ST.
Here's a quick synopsis from OpEd News:
"Rocky rose to nationwide prominence as a champion of national and international causes, including climate protection, immigration reform, restorative criminal justice, LGBT rights, and an end to the "war on drugs". Anderson was a leading opponent of the invasion and occupation of Iraq and related human rights abuses; he was the only mayor of a major U.S. city who advocated for the impeachment of President George W. Bush."
He recently held a meeting with to Margaret Flowers, Kevin Zeese, and John Anderson. Just Google Rocky Anderson or Justice Party to find out more.
To lefttown, I've mostly taken the line that the Obamacare plan, largely written by the insurance and pharmaceutical industries, does little more than mandate that we buy lame private insurance. I recently came across this different view: http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2011/12/02/the-bomb-buried-in-obamacare-explodes-today-halleluja/. I'd be interested in hearing people's thoughts.
Thank you Dreamer,
That's an invaluable piece of information that I knew nothing about.
The gist of it is that because health insurance companies are now (as of this month) forced to spend 80 or 85% of their budgets on actual patient care, "we are already seeing the parent companies who own these insurance operations fleeing into other types of investments. They know what we should all know – we are now on an inescapable path to a single-payer system for most Americans and thank goodness for it."
And that, "If you thought that the Obama Administration chickened out on pushing the nation in the direction of universal health care for everyone, today is the day you begin to understand that the reality is quite the contrary."
We'll see how it works out. But I also want to point out that "Obamacare" allows 15 million new people, the poorest of the poor, to sign up for Medicaid, which is as many new people as it requires to buy private health insurance, many with government cash supplements.
I'm still voting Green. But we shouldn't allow our political rage to blind our perception.
gardenernorcal: I won't be writing in BS. The Myth of Bernie Sanders: http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2011/09/30/the-myth-of-bernie-sanders/
Rama
Many thanks to the link that you provided about Sanders and his less than stellar credentials of being a true leftist.
On the contrary, he got on his knees in 2004 and begged Nader NOT to run against the adorable John Kerry, and he voted for Obama in 2008.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RysZy331YK0
"On the contrary, he got on his knees in 2004 and begged Nader NOT to run
Yeah, he gave us Obama! and the end of the anti-war movement. My previous admiration for Michael Moore could be renewed if he would go down on his knees, preferably on national TV, and beg Obama to stop the endless slaughter of innocent people. I'll forgo the dream if Obama promises to stop killing children.
Or maybe, on his knees or standing, Moore can issue a mea culpa, apologize to Ralph Nader, and admit once and for all that the Democratic Party is indistinguishable from the Republican Party.
Of course, our guy from Flynt won't do any such thing because he realizes that many who go to see his films and buy his books are loyal Democratic voters.
Hey gardener.
He hasn't said it "YET". Back in 08 he was front and center a huge ( ;-) backer of Obotomy.
Wait til Jan. 1, 2012 and then see what he has to say. He has been invited to the white house as well. google it. and I don't know about the Bball with Barry or the beer but he for sure has shmoozed for him.
I'll never forget how after Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace prize, Mike M wrote an opinion piece about how Obama needed to go out and "earn it" now. It was a good piece, not great but realized that O had "earned" it yet (laughter). Then that night his wife said, "mike you were too hard on our president" and you know what? MIke wrote another opinion piece the next day about just that, that he had been too hard on our good ol president and that in mikes mind, get ready, drum roll please, "Mr. Obama would go on to be the only person to win the Nobel Peace prize BACK TO BACK"
wow, were you wrong on that one Mike!
After watching CAPITALISM, A LOVE STORY I believe Moore deserves a clean slate. We all have past indiscretions we would like to forget.
That's the spirit, Ray! If we don't believe growth and evolution happen, what's the purpose of life... this great experiment at least in part designed for the evolution of the human animal? (And thanks for the kind words on another thread.)
Or don't vote at all, just what a good republican should say. Voter suppression from the right is normal for these thieving bastards. What a circus, Newt, Willard, or Michelle. Put all three together and they still don't have the brains to pound sand in a rat hole. Predatory loans forced onto college students, health care for the wealthy only, foreclosures, faux news, no social security or Medicare, no food stamps, no heat assistance, the list goes on and on but the top one percent will get their bush tax cuts. Don't vote at all? Moore is and always has been correct, in deed listen to him.
Constitutional,
I agree with with you 110%. Thanks.
I think that is what happened last time (election 2010) people withheld their votes, and now all of the blame is on Obama. I like Michael Moore, and looked at and purchased most of his videos. I also think people forgot, that bankruptcy laws where changed under W. making it impossible to just file chapter 7; as well as the credit card laws, some people thought they had a certain credit limit until they tried to use their cards and their purchase was denied, terms and interest rate changed. It was under the GOP that tort reform laws were introduced making it impossible to file a lawsuit.
Something else, IMO, people tend to forget, there are 3 branches of government, Administrative, executive, judicial and the defense has their own budgets. Regardless if they bring in an entire new government from these branches, if the same people are heading defense...you will still have the same procedures and policies of agencies like, say, central intelligence, who, from what I'm told are the ones who are on the ground in different countries. From what I'm told, they are the ones who know the language and are supposed to know the culture. Something else, as long as the SCOTUS are mostly conservative judges, again, even with an entirely new administration, congress/senate, some things still won't make a difference - these judges are appointed for life.
And for people to keep saying that Obama is the 'warmonger,' I assume they keep forgetting the millions of lives lost in (blacks) African nations, Central/South America, Haiti which also included children.
I will admit, I have a lot of family member who are hard-core-staunch republicans. I used to be a republican until the year of 2000, when I heard family members talking about this coming to be - rich vs. poor. I also used to be a member of the Mormon church and was baptized there. So, back to the GOP, people probably don't know or remember that W. gave Gordon B. Hinckley a very high honor. Hinckley is/was the 15th prophet and prez of Mormon church. It is alleged that W. is related to the Hinckley's. If you'd like, you can also google, "The Family: A Proclamation to the World."
Again, I like Michael Moore, but, I also think people should look at the documentary, "Lockedout2010.org." The movie trailer can be looked at online. This is about workers locked out. The company bused in new workers, hired a security company...the union went to homes of the workers, brought them groceries...you will see how the kids dealt with this situation - it also showed parts of a Canadian company in Papa New Guinea - how this company killed people trying to protect their land/environment.
BTW, intentionally, it wasn't a mistake when I said the three branches of gov. is admin, executive, and judicial. I didn't mention legislative in place of admin because it is said the 'legislative,' branch doesn't read or write the bills. It's obvious they don't work for us, but for corporate, hence corporations are people - and it's the corporations that are writing the bills (credit card, bankruptcy, insurance...), and they are the ones funding campaigns, giving goodies such as golf club membership, trips to retreats (remember Koch brothers impersonator, they would fly Scott Walker to what was it Califas?) So, I would like to call them an extension of the corporate administration. LOL!
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Agree. Moore lost my ear many years ago. When he walked away from Nader, I knew the mind-control had set in.
Yeah, I bet Nader would've won had Moore endorsed him.
Third Party or not at all!!!
Vote third party. Period! There has to be one good candidate among them--someone who has not ordered a drone attack on innocent civilians or misappropriated government monies, someone who is not a corporate lacky or a total wacko. Vote, but vote third party--just this once. I promise you, you will feel so much better afterwards. Nothing says "I feel dirty" like pulling the lever for a Republican or Democrat--no matter how bad you may think the "other" candidate is. Vote outside the box. Please. Try it. Once you vote third party, you will never go back to political whores.
"Why should only 1% of the population get to have two parties -- and the rest of us have none?" There it is. As plain as the noses on our faces. Until there is a third party formed and run by the part of the 99% that don't just kowtow to the !% we are slaves to an abominable system.
BTW, thank you, Mr. Moore, for making the workings of the rich and powerful obvious for all to see.
"Until there is a third party formed and run by the part of the 99% that don't just kowtow to the !% we are slaves to an abominable system"
We are indeed, dimpossibility.
Michael further tells us, following your quote of him "That, too, is going to change. In my next letter, "
Wow, If I'm not misreading him, it sounds as if Michael is actually going to dump the Dims and advocate for a progressive third party In his next letter. We could hardly ask for better news.
I think helping the Greens get their act together would be much more expedient than forming a new party.
The Dims are not mentioned anywhere in the article...a very good sign.
We don't need Michael Moore or anyone else to show us anything.
All people need is to trust their own senses, trust their own lives, trust their own judgement and act.
I suggest people start by switching off televisions and radios and talk to their neighbours.
Thanks Morticia. My guess is that by your spelling of "neighbours" you don't reside in this wunnerful country we call the USA. Clearly, you're still able to think for yourself. How refreshing. Don't ever give that quality up, no matter the cost(s). It is central to our humanity.
tj
I live here in the wunnerful USA , just that my old spelling ways are hard to shake off.
And all my friends here think I am mad, except for the freinds who everyone else think are mad. ~lol
And it's easy to seem like an independent thinker when you are a foreigner but we all to some degree accept the world as presented to us, so when we see a different world we see all worlds.
I'm sure if you were to live in Australia, my home country, you would think and see differently to the people there too.
"...when we see a different world we see all worlds."
Now that's a truly cool statement. While I certainly don't believe in utopias or panaceas of any kind, it boggles me that you would leave Australia for the U.S. I know that white supremacy is a root of both nations (since the European invasions), still...
Thanks for the wunnerful quote.
G'day Mate.
Welcome to third world America!
RDLT
Excellent point. Moore specifically names the Republicans for plotting against the Occupy movement while for some reason never pointing out that Obama has refrained from praising the actions of those participating in the Occupy movement even though he had felt compelled in the past to note how the protesters in Egypt and Libya were doing the right thing by speaking out against their repressive governments. It would seem that what Obama is saying is that he is in favor of democracy taking place around the world just as long as that democratic fervor does not extend to the United States.
Moore does refer obliquely to the Democrats when he notes that: "Why should only 1% of the population get to have two parties -..." but his criticism of the Democrats appears to be muted when compared to the scorn that he overtly heaps upon the Republicans. One would think that he would understand that Americans are not drawing a distinction between the Democrats and the Republicans when they are unable to find a job or when they are homeless or when they cannot pay their medical bills or when they cannot afford to pay their tuition at the college that they had graduated from. It is a certainty that the Afghans and the Pakistanis are complaining just as vociferously when their loved ones are being torn asunder by U.S. 500 lb. bombs and drone missiles regardless of whether they are being rained down upon them by either George W. Bush or Barack H. Obama. But yet Moore apparently has a lot of trouble condemning Obama and his party with the same rage that he had directed against GW Bush and his fellow Republicans.
Agree, and you might add that Moore has not publicly condemned Obama and the Democrats for passing the corporate health mandate.
Unfortunately, there are many writers who turn up on CD who still have a soft spot in their heart for the Democrats (e.g.: Robert Reich, John Nichols, Katrina vanden Heuvel, among others).
Michael Moore: Healthcare Bill "A Victory for Capitalism"
President Barack Obama is signing the main healthcare overhaul bill this morning at a White House ceremony. We speak with Academy Award-winning filmmaker Michael Moore. "The healthcare bill that was passed ultimately will be seen as a victory for capitalism," Moore says. "It protected the capitalist model of providing healthcare for people — in other words, we are not to help unless there is money to be made from it."
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/3/23/michael_moore_health_care_bill_a
Michael Moore Blasts House Health Care Bill
"The health insurance companies are going to make an extra 70 billion dollars as a result of Americans being forced to buy their health insurance. What company wouldn't love this bill?" -- Michael Moore, Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52QtplJGgzQ
Michael Moore Also Hates Obama’s Health Reform Bill
Just because George W. Bush is no longer in the White House doesn’t mean documentary filmmaker and activist Michael Moore is gushing over our current administration. In fact, the director of 2007′s Sicko – about America’s whacked-out health care – is vocally against President Barack Obama‘s proposed reform bill.
http://www.mediaite.com/online/michael-moore-hates-obamas-health-reform-bill/
Michael Moore: Obama's Health Insurance Bill Would Be a "Death Sentence for Literally Tens of Thousands of People"
http://oneutah.org/national-politics/michael-moore-obamas-health-care-bill-would-be-a-death-sentence-for-literally-tens-of-thousands-of-people/
This Health care Bill is Horrible - Michael Moore
This healthcare bill the way it is is a death sentence to tens of thousands of sick people says Michael Moore , Obama entered this whole process in a spirit of compromise holding his hand out and the other side did not want any hand being held out towards them , they wanted to slap that hand away , says Michael Moore , the republicans when they are in power and they want something done , they come with the guns blazing and they get it done says Michael Moore , Moore is for a universal healthcare this bill is horrible Moore added it will leave 12 to 15 million not covered.
http://economycollapse.blogspot.com/2010/03/michael-moore-this-health-care-bill-is.html
Nicely stated, Erroll. Moore has always been a part of Empire and its promise of wealth. When it comes to Obama and Dems: See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak no Evil. And given your reference to his "two party" obfuscation, it hardly means anything juxtaposed his foolishness in 2008 when he was on his knees begging Ralph Nader to pull out. Moore and his disciples just don't GET IT!
The greatest proof of the potential power of OWS is the right's (over)reaction to its very existence, from hoary propaganda (Dirty hippies! Anti-Semites!) to police violence.
Have no doubt... the Establishment is very, very frightened.
The police attacked the San Francisco camp this morning and took everyone's personal property. This was the last encampment in the big cities here in the bay area that I know of.