Occupy Wall Street: Actor and activist Mark Ruffalo shares his first-person account of the movementCountdown - CurrentTV
October 4, 2011 at 10:47 pm
OLBERMANN: What do you get out of the idea that they're being portrayed nationally -- in reputable, supposedly neutral news organizations, not what we just saw there -- but as ineffective, meriting the juvenile simplifications on CNN one moment, then portrayed as likely to become violent, and when all else fails -- "That's right, they're Hitler and the French Revolution" --
RUFFALO: They forgot the 1776 -- the American Revolution.OLBERMANN: Okay, good point.
RUFFALO: And that was a -- that was a turning point, that created this democracy that we live under today. And, it was based on the same principles that are guiding us here. There was -- people were being oppressed by a ruling class. There was no justice. There was no -- there was no sense of law. It was a lawless land. The noblemen had all of the cards, and the common man was just made nothing more than a slave. We came to America for these principles. These principles have been -- over the course of time have not been promised. They've been promised but not delivered upon. And, what we're seeing is -- right now -- is Americans waking up. What I -- what I really love about what I'm seeing is this is -- this is a movement that's transcending political ideologies. It's a movement that's touching people all over the United States. And, you know, like all great democratic movements, it takes time to ferment.<And...>
RUFFALO: "What are these people not doing with demands?" Well, you know what, when you're creating a new world, when you're creating a better place when you're actually honoring the promises of democracy -- it takes time to hear those voices. But we're hearing them. And the things that we're hearing is that they want justice. They want -- the people who are losing their homes to -- you know, robot bank signings, robo-mortgage signings. They want justice. People who are losing their jobs because corporate America is sending them overseas and then making record profits -- they want justice. You know, people are being left out in the streets. They can't pay their health care.
This is not the America that we were promised, that certainly my generation and the generation before that was promised. With this great, burgeoning middle class that had a growing income, that had a life that was livable, that was enjoyable, that -- where they could pursue happiness. And this is what -- this is what's striking a tone for people. Link (w/Video & Transcript):
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