VERSE 1 The Power's with the people don't let these cowards deceive you and be the next mouse in the talons of a eagle this country's wealth gap isn't unbalanced it's evil we celebrate access while the people have less in poverty abject madness while the economy collapses add stress ...
Articles from 'October 2011'
Top Wall Street Banker: 'Obama Mostly Wanted to Help Us Out, to Quell the Mob'
On March 27, 2009, President Obama and his economic team met at the White House with the heads of thirteen major U.S. banks: Ken Chenault of American Express; Ken Lewis, Bank of America; Robert Kelly, Bank of New York Mellon; Vikram Pandit, Citigroup; John Koskinen, Freddie Mac; Lloyd Blankfein, Goldman ...
Occupy Wall Street: Michael Moore says Dems and GOP ‘feed at the same trough’
Keith and activist/filmmaker Michael Moore discuss how the Occupy movement takes issue with both Democrats and Republicans for accepting campaign contributions from the same companies responsible for the recession. “These politicians by and large are bought and paid for by the same people.” Moore suspects that if any political candidates ...
Occupy Wall Street: Inspired by rapid progress, Michael Moore calls on all Americans to participate
Keith and activist/filmmaker Michael Moore discuss how in just 34 days the Occupy movement has garnered support from 57 percent of the public and has changed the conversation in the media from the debt ceiling to unemployment. Moore encourages the Occupy movement not to fall for the trap that ...
To Be With the 99%, President Obama Must Fire Tim Geithner
In my last piece, I talked about how Tim Geithner's job over the past five years has been to (a) print money, (b) give it to rich friends, and (c) deny everyone else legal and financial rights. This shows up everywhere, from the 0% you get on your savings account ...
For the past forty two years, Muammar Gadhafi had ruled Libya with what could best be described as an iron fist. I do not have to perform a massive amount of research to tell people the various atrocities that occurred under this man’s rule. It’s well known. You can turn ...
Is the National Security Complex Too Big to Fail?
Crossposted from TomdispatchThink of Iraq as the AIG of wars -- the only difference being that the bailout there didn’t involve just three payouts. More than eight years after the Bush administration invaded that country, the bailout is, unbelievably enough, still going. Even as the U.S. military withdraws, the State ...
Police Back Off from Grandmothers as the Granny Peace Brigade Occupies Lincoln Center
Culture seekers streaming through Lincoln Center Tuesday evening, Oct. 18, were undoubtedly surprised to see a tableau not usually seen at the arts complex. Approximately 60 members of the Granny Peace Brigade and their followers formed a semi-circle around the fountain located in the midst of the plaza surrounded by ...
More Reports of Cancer Near Koch Brothers' Factory
Billionaire political donors Charles and David Koch aren't the only ones who saw our latest investigative film. Thousands of people have posted comments on our Facebook page and have offered additional testimony about the Koch brothers' pollution in their communities. In a smear campaign orchestrated in response to our investigation, ...
The Police are not the 99 Percent
I am sick and tired of hearing people say the police are one of us. They are not. They are the enemy. They do not exist to protect us. They don’t give a fuck about your safety or your rights. They are there to serve the corporate state. Sure there ...
Letter to a Dead Man About the Occupation of Hope
Crossposted from TomDispatchDear young man who died on the fourth day of this turbulent 2011, dear Mohammed Bouazizi, I want to write you about an astonishing year -- with three months yet to run. I want to tell you about the power of despair and the margins of hope and ...
Neither security nor democracy comes from a gun
I recently enjoyed the opportunity to speak to various groups at the University of Northern Iowa in connection with the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks and also in celebration of Constitution and Citizenship Week. All the more because the overarching post 9/11 challenge: "How do we defeat terrorism without ...
As I wrote last week, Maine and California are taking radically different approaches to implementing health care reforms within their boundaries. While the GOP-controlled government in Augusta has passed legislation that gives health insurers far more control of the health care system than they’ve ever had, lawmakers in Sacramento are ...
America’s Secret Empire of Drone Bases
Crossposted from TomDispatchThey increasingly dot the planet. There’s a facility outside Las Vegas where “pilots” work in climate-controlled trailers, another at a dusty camp in Africa formerly used by the French Foreign Legion, a third at a big air base in Afghanistan where Air Force personnel sit in front of ...
Constitutional Moments: The People's Voice
Today we face a crushing burden of foreclosures, dropping incomes, and a financial elite that has bought our government. The elite consensus is powerful enough to prevent change, no matter who is elected. The situation seems, at least in electoral terms, hopeless. Yet, America has been here before, and has ...
The Revolution Cannot Be Stopped
When it was announced at 6 AM yesterday that the NYPD would not go through with evicting Occupy Wall Street I experienced one of those moments that make life transcendent. The crowd erupted in cheers. People hugged, high-fived, clapped, jumped up and down, pumped their fists in resistance, chanting “the ...
Bursting Leon Panetta's Spending Spin Bubble (VIDEO)
Leon Panetta becomes Defense Secretary and suddenly he forgets his experience as a professor and environmentalist: military spending costs jobs compared to other ways of spending the money. Still, Panetta pressures Congress to slash other spending that actually creates jobs rather than trimming a bloated war budget that's strangling our ...
Why We're There: Occupy Philly
Recently, I went to City Hall in Philadelphia to film what was going on at the site of the Occupy Philly movement. What came out of it was this thirteen minute short documentary. Thank you all very much for watching. Daniel
America, This Is Your Intervention
The following article is that of my own opinions and thoughts and no way is a representation of the Occupy movement as a whole. The first step towards recovery is admitting you have a problem. The United States as it is, has too many problems to list. The Occupy movement ...
Exposing the Koch brothers' polluted response
Billionaire political donors Charles and David Koch were among the tens of thousands of viewers of our latest investigative film, and they didn't like it. Our film's protagonists, one of whom is a local minister named David Bouie, made personal appeals for a visit by the Koch brothers. The Kochs do ...
The Right to Remain Silent, An Obligation to Speak Up
The following essay is an account, from my own perspective, on the events of Monday, October 10, 2011, the aftermath of decisions made by peaceful protestors and the right to peaceably assemble. This in no way should be taken as a representation of Occupy Movement as a whole. The recent ...
Thanks in large part to the New York and national corporate media a massive campaign to shift power away from giant corporations and into the hands of the people is now afoot all across this continent. It was inspired by peoples' nonviolent uprisings in other countries and sparked by courageous ...
“MINUSTAH: Keeping the peace, or conspiring against it?”
By Deepa Panchang, Another Haiti Is Possible Co-Coordinator, Other Worlds Nou dwe sèl mèt bout tè sa a: We should be the only owners of this land. This was Haitian protesters’ message at a demonstration last month against the UN peacekeeping mission in Haiti, known by its French acronym, MINUSTAH. ...
Chicago to Wall Street: Pay US Back!
While the Occupy Wall Street movement is sweeping the country and peaceful arrests are mounting, Chicagoans took to the streets this week to hold the big banks accountable for crashing the economy and to demand city, state and federal policies that work for working families. For many, the goal was ...
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March 23rd, 2013
This evening is going be a big moment in turning our country around on the issue of gun violence. That's why I desperately want you ...
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March 21st, 2013
I am hosting a nationwide series of house parties this Saturday night where tens of thousands of people will gather together in living rooms to ...
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March 15th, 2013
The response to my Newtown letter this week has been overwhelming. It is so very clear to everyone that the majority of Americans have had ...
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March 13th, 2013
America, You Must Not Look Away (How to Finish Off the NRA)
The year was 1955. Emmett Till was a young African American boy from Chicago visiting relatives in Mississippi. One day Emmett was seen "flirting" with ...
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February 26th, 2013
My Final Word on Buzzfeed and Emad Burnat's Detention at LAX
Thanks to everyone for bearing with me as I spend so much time on what happened to Emad Burnat. It's important to me because he's ...
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February 26th, 2013
Michael Moore Responds to Buzzfeed Story on '5 Broken Cameras' Co-Director Emad Burnat
On Tuesday, February 19th, Emad Burnat, the Palestianian co-director of the Oscar-nominated documentary '5 Broken Cameras,' was detained with his wife and son at Los ...
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February 20th, 2013
Last night was the Motion Picture Academy-sponsored dinner in Beverly Hills honoring the directors and producers of this year's five nominated films for Best Documentary. ...
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September 11th, 2010
If the 'Mosque' Isn't Built, This Is No Longer America
OpenMike 9/11/10 Michael Moore's daily blog I am opposed to the building of the "mosque" two blocks from Ground Zero. I want it built on ...
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December 14th, 2010
Why I'm Posting Bail Money for Julian Assange
Yesterday, in the Westminster Magistrates Court in London, the lawyers for WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange presented to the judge a document from me stating that ...
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May 12th, 2011
Some Final Thoughts on the Death of Osama bin Laden
"The Nazis killed tens of MILLIONS. They got a trial. Why? Because we're not like them. We're Americans. We roll different." – Michael Moore in ...
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November 22nd, 2011
Where Does Occupy Wall Street Go From Here?
This past weekend I participated in a four-hour meeting of Occupy Wall Street activists whose job it is to come up with the vision and ...
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September 22nd, 2011
A STATEMENT FROM MICHAEL MOORE ON THE EXECUTION OF TROY DAVIS
I encourage everyone I know to never travel to Georgia, never buy anything made in Georgia, to never do business in Georgia. I will ask ...
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December 16th, 2010
Dear Swedish Government: Hi there -- or as you all say, Hallå! You know, all of us here in the U.S. love your country. Your ...
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November 2nd, 2010
This letter contains (almost) no criticisms of how the Democrats have brought this day of reckoning upon themselves. That -- and where to go from ...
