Filmmaker, activist, and the author of the new york times bestseller, here comes trouble: stories from my life. also joining me, kase wheatley, one student pepper sprayed at uc davis. the chancellor apologized. is her apology good enough? not at all. to be honest, the chancellor is similar to a robot. i don t expect her apology. what would you say to the chancellor and other mayors,
Wall street person a single rational question about the economy that would lead them to say, for example, who s going to pay for the park you re occupying if there are no businesses making a profit? joining me now, a man who needs no introduction, but he s going to get one anyway, academy award winning filmmaker michael moore and the author of the new york times best seller, here comes trouble: stories from my life. michael, thank you very much for joining me tonight. thank you for having me. that was mr. newt gingrich talking about occupy wall street. he really seems to have a feel for it. well, it s amazing that here s a movement that s seven weeks old and it was mentioned two or three times tonight in the republican debate. that s something they used to ignore that sort of thing. so that s a victory for occupy wall street. but he i think he s got it mixed up, what he said, if it wasn t for the corporation, there wouldn t be a park there.
Rational question about the economy that would lead them to say, for example, who s going to pay for the park you re occupying if there are no businesses making a profit? joining me now, a man who needs no introduction, but he s going to get one anyway, academy award winning filmmaker michael moore and the author of the new york times best seller, here comes trouble: stories from my life. michael, thank you very much for joining me tonight. thank you for having me. that was mr. newt gingrich talking about occupy wall street. he really seems to have a feel for it. well, it s amazing that here s a movement that s seven weeks old and it was mentioned two or three times tonight in the republican debate. that s something they used to ignore that sort of thing. so that s a victory for occupy wall street. but he i think he s got it mixed up, what he said, if it
Economic catastrophe that has been wrought in a place like youngstown. it may be that not enough of d.c. is paying attention. but these very ordinary folks who are part of occupy youngstown are paying attention. this is a photo from occupy youngstown s general assembly. ordinary workaday, working americans who say they ve had enough of an economy and a political system that only works for the rich. these are occupy youngstown s tents outside a bank. an implicit demand made by physical presence that we ought to expect more out of our systems than that they just take great care of the banks. looking at their photos today on facebook, i think this is the sort of anonymous edge of occupy youngstown. and here are some youngstown occupiers who are old enough to remember when the mills sent everybody home and the economic destruction began. joining us tonight for the interview, having just spoken at occupy denver this evening which i watched on the live stream, is michael moore. filmmaker a
Stream, is michael moore. filmmaker and author of the new book here comes trouble: stories from my life. mike, it s great to have you back. thanks for being here. thanks, rachel. am i right that you are at the tattered cover in denver? is that where you are right now? i m at the tattered cover bookstore in denver. very famous bookstore here in this part of the country. before you leave give everybody a hug from me because i love that place. yes, it s so sorry. i was just going to say i know you were at occupy oakland a few days ago, occupy denver today. i ve only been to occupy wall street so far. what kinds of differences are you seeing when you go to these different protests, between these different places, mike? what i m seeing are it s actually quite similar. i ve been to probably half a does occupies across the country this past week. and it s clear that there s a real broad cross-section of