“Something Has Started”: Michael Moore on Occupy Wall St. Protests That Could Spark Movement

www. DemocracyNow.org – Oscar-winning filmmaker, best-selling author,and provocateur laureate Michael Moore joins us for the hour. One of the world’s most acclaimed — and notorious — independent filmmakers and rabble-rousers, his documentary films include Roger and Me; Bowling for Columbine for which he won the Academy Award, Fahrenheit 9/11, SICKO; and Capitalism: A Love Story. In the first part of his interview on Democracy Now!, Moore talks about the growing “Occupy Wall Street” protests in Lower Manhattan, which he visited on Monday night. “This is literally an uprising of people who have had it,” Moore says. “It has already started to spread across the country in other cities. It will continue to spread. … It will be tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of people … Their work ahead is not as difficult as other movements in the past … The majority of Americans are really upset at Wall Street … So you have already got an army of Americans who are just waiting for somebody to do something, and something has started.” Watch the second part of the interview, in which Michael Moore discusses the formative stories from his childhood that led him into filmmaking and activism: youtu.be For the complete transcript, podcast, and for Democracy Now!’s vast archive of reports on the US financial crisis, Occupy Wall Street protests and additional interviews with Michael Moore, please visit www.democracynow.org FOLLOW DEMOCRACY NOW! ONLINE Facebook: www.facebook.com …
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