Michael Moore, the Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker, makes great movies but they are not generally considered "cliff-hangers." All that might change since a whistle-blower on the Democracy Now! news hour revealed that health insurance executives thought they may have to implement a plan "to push Moore off a cliff." The whistle-blower: Wendell Potter, the former chief spokesman for health insurance giant Cigna. He was quoting from an industry strategy session on how to respond to Moore's 2007 documentary Sicko, a film critical of the U.S. health insurance industry. Potter told me that he is not sure how serious the threat was but he added, ominously, "These companies play to win."
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The winter of our Occupation is the spring of our movement... a proposal from Michael Moore
Tuesday, December 6th, 2011
Friends,
And now it is winter. Wall Street rejoices, hoping that the change of seasons will mean a change in our spirit, our commitment to stop them.
They couldn't be more wrong. Have they not heard of Washington and the troops at Valley Forge? The Great Flint Sit-Down Strike in the winter of 1936-37? The Michigan Wolverines crushing Ohio State in the 1950 Blizzard Bowl? When it comes to winter, it is the time historically when the people persevere and the forces of evil make their retreat!
Occupy Everywhere: The movement against corporate power
On November 10, 2011, Naomi Klein joined author and filmmaker Michael Moore, The Nation National Affairs correspondent William Greider, Colorlines Publisher Rinku Sen, and Occupy Wall Street Organizer Patrick Bruner at The New School in New York for a panel discussion called "Occupy Everywhere: On the New Politics and Possibilities of the Movement Against Corporate Power." Here is video of the discussion.
Michael Moore: 'Occupy Wall Street will only get bigger'
Michael Moore says, "Occupy Wall Street will only get bigger," on Keith Olbermann's The Secret Store.
Michael Moore supports war resisters at Toronto film festival
Documentary filmmaker, Michael Moore, and screenwriter Paul Laverty criticize the Harper government's treatment of U.S. war resisters in Canada. Video by War Resisters Support Campaign
Michael Moore: America's teacher
On September 17, in the midst of the publicity blitz for his cinematic takedown of the capitalist order, Moore talked with Nation columnist Naomi Klein by phone about the film, the roots of our economic crisis and the promise and peril of the present political moment. To listen to a podcast of the full conversation, click here. Following is an edited transcript of their conversation.
Moore at the Stock Exchange
Michael Moore's new film, Capitalism: A Love Story, opens this weekend in Canada. He recently took his message to a labour rally at the New York Stock Exchange.