Occupy videos by Aaron Freeman

Paul Krassner - Occupy Wall St. & the Yippies Political prankster and writer and comedian Paul Krassner talks with investigative satirist Aaron Freeman about the differences between the Occupy movement and the Youth International Party. 

#OccupyChicago Cartoons - Prof. Al Gini Public Media Poet/Philosopher Al Gini, a professor of Business ethics @ Loyola University in Chicago hears in Sharon Rosenzweig's Occupy Chicago cartoons echos of classical philosophy. He discusses them with investigative satirist Aaron Freeman. 

Heather Booth - Why is the Occupy Movement happening now? Aaron Freeman's interview with organizer/activist Heather Booth about the Occupy Wall Street movement.

Curb Exchange

Please join us on Sunday, November 13 for Curb Exchange, a self-guided audio- and print walking tour of Wall Street that explores the history of the neighborhood and the financial system from the perspective of the people. Come and learn about the historic struggles that have led to the rise of the Occupy Wall Street movement!

We are proud to be endorsed by the Arts & Culture NYC General Assembly Working Group. We encourage the 99% — including all occupiers, supporters, activists, volunteers, and citizens — to take the Curb Exchange tour, which explores the history of the neighborhood and the global financial system it has come to symbolize from the perspective of the people.

We'll be meeting up at newsstand outside of 40 Wall Street on Sunday, November 13 at 2 pm. Download the audio tour beforehand at www.curbexchange.org.

Hope to see you there!



From the Brooklyn Rail

99% - The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15 AT 7:30 PM
UNION DOCS // 322 UNION AVE. BK, NY
FREE // DONATIONS TOWARD FILM ACCEPTED

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Please join the Brooklyn Rail and UnionDocs for a collaborative (yet structured) event about the feature documentary in-progress: 99% - The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film.  The event will consist of a screening of material followed by a moderated Q&A with both NYC-based participating filmmakers and contributors across the U.S. via Skype about the opportunities and challenges in making a collaborative documentary about a current event.  It will then be opened to questions from the audience followed by an informal reception. Space is limited so please arrive promptly.

The Rail's Williams Cole will introduce and the Q&A will be moderated by Christopher Campbell, film critic for the Documentary Channel, IndieWIRE, and Movies.com, where he writes the bi-weekly Doc Talk column.

99% - The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film is a feature documentary film spearheaded by over 50 independent filmmakers, photographers, and videographers across the country. The end product will be a compelling, cinematic, resonant, and honest portrait of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Founded by NYC filmmakers Audrey Ewell and Aaron Aites, the project currently counts among its collaborative many award-winning documentary producers, directors, musicians, and editors (as well as PR people and distributors) including Michael Galinsky and Suki Hawley (Battle for Brooklyn, Horns and Halos), Ava DuVernay (distributor of independent black films via AFFRM, director/producer I Will Follow), Aaron Yanes as supervising editor (a frequent Barry Levinson editor, he's also edited many award-winning features and documentaries, from Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner Padre Nuestro to James Toback's Cannes prize-winning Tyson), Tyler Brodie (Another Earth, Terri), Bob Ray (Total Badass), and many more.

SPACE IS LIMITED. PLEASE ARRIVE PROMPTLY.



The Undiscovered New World

A Song for the Soldiers of Occupy Wall Street

By Vogel and Vogel

The first acts of protest only began in September, less than two months ago, but they were carried out with such breathless defiance, passion and unlikely sanity, it's no wonder that Occupy Wall Street soon began to captivate the world. From that moment to this, the Wall Streeters and their brave satellites have emboldened many of us far from the front lines, inspiring millions of Americans to rethink our predicament and rededicate ourselves to the true ideals of our country: fairness, community and compassion. But the OWS struggle will be long, their detractors will become more fearsome with each turn of the screw, and their ultimate success will not happen - it is becoming increasingly clear - without the efforts of many more of us. And so, with gratitude for what the protesters have already accomplished, and with the wish that our music might inspire even more Americans to take up the cause, we offer the movement this song of hope.

"The Undiscovered New World"
She was just halfway down the road to death from Plymouth
Yet never had such a New World felt so old
So weak from pain, so filled with gloom
She had to stop awhile
And surrender to the chase of her yesterdays dipped in gold

As one by one her years of greatness fast approached her
The New World begged each one, "Please set me free."
"Release me from the memory of my eminence"
"And the glories of a youth I never more shall see."

"We're not here to incarcerate"
Whispered 1968.
"We only want to take you back to you."
"To help you reach that distant shore,"
Added 1864,
"So, won't you kindly join our crippled crew?"

The broken must not be strangers
Lonely worlds will never live anew
But make the broken man your lover
We'll set sail and find the undiscovered
New World still alive inside us all

Then, all at once the New World felt a mighty rumble
Her panicked people filled the streets
They ran from mansions,
And they ran from tents beneath the bridges
The living and the dead couldn't help but meet

The souls of slaves, no longer buried, fled the graveyards
Discussed their fates with men who worked three jobs
While the Gilded Age's pioneers of oil and steel
Wondered was it worth the lungs and landscapes robbed

The grocer met the five-year-old
Whose hand picked the grapes he sold
Four hundred years of mothers were distraught,
They asked why, "Why is it parents now elect
To build their lives on gross neglect
What did our children need that yours do not?"

The broken must not be strangers
Lonely worlds will never live anew
But make the broken man your lover
We'll set sail and find the undiscovered
New World still alive inside us all

And when at last each man had found unlikely allies
The New World once again was dipped in gold
Felt gladness like no other season she'd lived through
A vitality that made her youngest years seem old

"And all your people feel alive,"
Uttered 1935.
"You've shown them such a world beyond their tears."
"To tell the truth, I envy you,"
Admitted 1492.
"The kind of youth that only comes with years."

flUSH ~ visual poetry by Daniel Baez