| Description |
1 online resource (1 video file, 58 min.) |
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digital |
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video file MPEG-4 Flash |
| Performer |
Narrated by Dennis Trainor, Jr., features filmmaker Michael Moore, Dr. Cornel West (Princeton University), comic/author/activist Lee Camp, journalists Nathan Schneider (Harper's, The Nation), Naomi Klein (The Nation) and more. |
| Event |
Originally produced by Media Education Foundation in 2012. |
| Summary |
In this gripping first-hand account of the Occupy Wall Street movement, filmmaker and former high school teacher Dennis Trainor Jr. takes an inside look at how a New York-based protest against corporate greed and economic inequality in the autumn of 2011 sparked a full-scale street revolution that continues to send shock waves through the American political system. Trainor weaves commentary from organizers, activists, and leading progressive thinkers with riveting street-level dispatches from New York's Zuccotti Park, Washington DC, and beyond. The result is a passionate and clear-eyed look at a movement founded on the core belief that the American political and economic system should "place human need above corporate greed" and do something about growing inequality. |
| Audience |
Grade 9+ |
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Higher education. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Income distribution -- United States -- Public opinion.
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Occupy movement.
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Protest movements -- United States -- History -- 21st century.
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| Genre |
Documentary films.
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| Added Author |
Kimball, Peggy.
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Trainor, Dennis.
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Kanopy (Firm)
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| In: |
Media Education Foundation Collection njcore00000000080 |
| Music No. |
1083569 Kanopy |
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