roger ales are. they want to make sure that that 1% keeps their control. it s almost like they guessed our next campaign, ed, we re going to be starting, which is who are the 1%. allowing people to vote for those 1% who are using their wealth and using their power to step on the back of the other 99 percenters. and you know for sure murdoch s going to be on that list. well, you re a producer of films that other people don t do and a source of great information to a movement just like this. what could be produced that would maybe help this movement grow in your opinion? well, i think the movement s going to grow incredibly. what we re trying to do is with messaging around the 1% identify the people and the corporations that are the cause of the problems. because it s very important if you don t have a job and you re losing your home that you understand this is the way the system s working.
are not going to be able to do it. there will be an election day and there will be change. these people will be involved, no question about it. the officials who ignore or belittle this movement, they will regret it like republican congressman peter king. first of all you listen to them and they make almost no sense. these are people who are living in dirt. these were people who were involved with drugs, there was violence, rape. you are talking about a small number of people. probably get more people in a st. patrick s cathedral on sunday than in zuccotti park. king said he can t understand what these people are saying and he is derogatory to them. this is a start. here s some of the issues that occupy organizers really care about. right now they are calling it phase two of the movement. it s time to tax the rich. have we not talked about that in recent weeks and months? it s time for the wealthy in this country to pay their fair
consistent fashion when there s a real threat of some kind. i can tell you personally, i know that i ve done well when my twitter account or my facebook is lit up with all kinds of attacks from the right thing. right wing. it means you are striking a chord. and obviously, the occupy folks, the 99 percenters have made a profound difference in the way the entire country is looking at economic inequities. the entire country is now having a discussion and debate about fairness, about the way capitalism works, and about what s going wrong with the system which has so many people suffering incredibly. fox knows all about stoking a movement, the way they did it with the tea party. do they fear that this movement could just be a hell of a lot bigger and bring real change that they don t want? well, that s exactly it. this is a movement that s talking, and this is very important. it s talking about profound ways that the system is not working. that s exactly what fox is dedicated to stopp
hell, this is nothing but the democratic platform that the party adopted in 2008 at the national convention. that s all it is. you go right down the list. now, citizens united obviously happened after the 2008 convention. but you look at what they are talking about, what they re protesting about. we ve been there with the party. it s called the democratic party. and so it s par for the course for republicans like peter king to call them losers and druggies and filthy and they don t know what they want. hell, we ve heard all that before. the fact of the matter is this movement is not over and this movement isn t going to subside anytime soon and when these folks go home at night, when they disband, they may not be able to tent out anymore where they want to, but believe me, these protests are only going to grow in number and they re going to be a hell of a lot more often. get your cell phones out. i want to know what you think. tonight s question, is the 99% movement getting stronger or
and there are people who benefit because you don t have a job or home or health care. we need to name those people, those war profiteers who are making 10, 20, 30 million dollars while you don t have a job. we need to name people like murdoch. we need to name the bankers and the wall street folks and connect the dots for people. this is a system. this is an organized system. and people are paying a terrible price. and it s thrilling to see their courage and their guts and their honesty in throwing their bodies out there and saying day after day, damn it, no more. and fox news obviously throwing a concerted effort to disparage the movement and also to degrade it and label it things that it simply is not. is that going to strengthen the movement in your opinion? well, if we listened to fox, ed, i think we d all be in a lot of trouble. i think the movement s going to be strengthened because it s talking about basic and profound truths. yeah. it s talking about the fact that what p