Please join us for a premiere of the new film Occupy Wall Street: An American Dream, followed by a discussion about the movement and its legacy on its 14th anniversary.
When: September 17, 2025, 6:30 – 8:30 pm ET
Where: The People’s Forum, 320 W. 37th Street, New York, NY, or by screening link
On the 14th anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street movement, please join us for a premiere film screening and discussion.
In the Great Recession, Wall Street crashed the economy but got rewarded with billions of dollars in government bailouts, while millions of Americans—unemployed, homeless, desperate—had nowhere to go for help. When a small group of people responded by setting up camp in a New York City park, their protest ignited one of the great democratic movements in U.S. history.
A personal narrative with footage from our travels to 42 occupations in 27 states, Occupy Wall Street: An American Dream (dir. Michelle Fawcett, 2025, 51 min.) reveals the unseen diversity and development of the movement over the course of its first year. Factory workers in the Rust Belt, Indigenous activists in the Southwest, unemployed graduates saddled with debt, and homeless veterans everywhere, the occupiers forged a new American Dream on street corners all over the country. Together, they flipped the script from austerity to inequality, from reform to revolution, and from fear to power, heralding a new era in American politics.
The film contextualizes Occupy Wall Street in historical perspective and captures the joy and challenges, humor and love of a movement that Professor Frances Fox Piven, co-author of Poor People’s Movements, called “one of a series of movements that has episodically changed history.”
What can we learn from Occupy Wall Street, and how can we apply these lessons to our current political struggle?
