OCCUPY HISTORY: A SHORT FILM ON THE IMPORTANCE OF DIRECT AND NON-VIOLENT ACTION
Posted by Paul Gallagher
Occupy History is videographer Paul McIsaac‘s short film on the importance of direct, collective and non-violent action – from the first occupy movement (the Bonus Army of World War One veterans, who marched and occupied Washington DC in 1932), to the Flint Sit-Down Strike in 1936, through the ideas of Gandhi and Martin Luther King, the civil rights movement, to the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Arab Spring, and on today’s Occupy Wall Street Movement. McIsaac’s film is a springboard into action, focussing on the potential of such collective action, rather than any critical examination of the disparate reasons behind each of the events documented.
With thanks to Hans Echnaton Schano
