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Occupy Wall Street: The History and the Survival
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Occupy Wall Street: The History and the Survival

25 MIN · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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Occupy Wall Street began in the fall of 2011 with a small encampment in New York's financial district, then spread into a national protest movement against economic inequality before police crackdowns across the country led many to assume it was finished. This Fault Lines report follows the organizers who kept it going through the winter, sitting in on planning meetings, days of action, and open assemblies rather than treating the movement as a headline that had already ended. Amin Husain, one of the organizers, frames the persistence in plain terms: as long as conditions keep deteriorating, people will keep pushing back, regardless of where they come from. The film also tracks a subtler fight happening inside a US election year, as politicians try to attach themselves to Occupy's language and organizers work to avoid being absorbed into either party's campaign. It closes without a resolution, showing a movement still arguing over strategy and message while refusing to declare itself over.