Michael Moore Gets Giddy Over Occupy Wall Street: 'Finally!'

[marmar]

from The Wrap:



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On your website a couple of days ago, you put up the sentence, "You are about to witness the end of 'Capitalism: A Love Story.'" Did you make the connection with that film right away?

I was instantly thrilled that there was finally a response. Not to the movie, but to the greed and corruption of the captains of industry who have overplayed their hands in the last few years.

The first time I went down there, somebody tweeted, "I saw Michael Moore, and there was so much joy on his face that if somebody took a picture, the caption should read, 'Finally!'" And I have been kind of giddy about the grassroots nature of this, and how it's just sprung up out of seemingly nowhere, without organization, without dues-paying members, without political leaders.

.....(snip).....

It really doesn’t do me or other people any good for me to be the poster boy for Fox News or Rush Limbaugh. It's harder for them to attack a movement, and it's harder for them to attack me if there are a million Michael Moores or a million Joe Blows or whoever. Whose picture are they going to put on the screen to bring out the hate?

But this has happened in ways that I never would have imagined. I would have been happy for just a small response, but this has just exploded. And not just here in New York, but across the country. I mean, I get things every day from people every day from the smallest towns saying "We've started an occupy movement in our little town." ..............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.thewrap.com/media/column-post/michael-moore-gets-giddy-over-occupy-wall-street-finally-exclusive-31767

[Blue_Tires]

1. ttt

[malaise]

2. Michael Moore has been at the helm of the revolutionary call

for change for decades. His documentaries have changed the discussion big time in the past decade.

[Lindsay]

3. I'm feeling the same way.

Finally. I knew it would happen, but didn't know when or how. And now here it is.

:thumbsup:

[Vincardog]

4. I hope it is the start of REAL change we can believe in. I am doing everything I can to ensure it i

[Fire Walk With Me]

5. Michael, it would not be the same without your amazing contributions and vision!

For saying what we were all thinking, for connecting the dots so brilliantly, for helping give us a voice and for reminding us of what is occuring!

[Luminous Animal]

6. Amen! I could feel his frustration in "Capitalism..." and I'll bet he's been

carrying that frustration since.

Goodonya Mike and goodonya us.

[Fire Walk With Me]

9. Michael's work is a tremendously important piece of what we're seeing happen.

:thumbsup:

[tallahasseedem]

7. Capitalism: A Love Story...

predicted this. It should be re-released into movie theaters.

[tallahasseedem]

8. Double post...

[sam11111]

10. one billionaire is the goal- who only will need 300 million of us worldwide

The goal of the corporations is to have one billionaire own the whole world.

But he will only need 300 million of us to make the luxuries he wants.

The rest of us will be surplus...just a lot of troublemakers. So we will be left to starve.

This is usually called "Population Reduction."
However I prefer the shorter term "Shrinkage" ...... or just "Shrink."

Shrink is the hellish future we have under the corporate style of
economy.

But are the corporate owners cruel enough to use starvation to eliminate 96% of humanity?

George Carlin says, (from Wikiquotes
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Carlin ):
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They want more for themselves and less for everybody else,
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They don’t want well-informed, well-educated people capable of critical thinking.........
And now they’re coming for your Social Security money.
.... so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street.
And you know something? They’ll get it....They don’t give a fuck about you. They don’t give a fuck about you. They don’t care about you at all! At all! At all!

[Remember Me]

11. It makes me giddy too -- but what pleases me so much is

that it's not just national, but GLOBAL. That's what we ultimately need, the whole world's people banding together.

But I'm incredibly thrilled to see what's happening here in the U.S>

[unkachuck]

12. K&R....n/t