The U.S. government is a passionate supporter of dissent and political activism in the name of a more just society - just not here.
In "I'm Not Moving," a seven-minute short assembled during Occupy Wall Street's infancy, filmmaker Corey Ogilvie explores this hypocrisy by juxtaposing the police brutality that routinely accompanies #OWS marches with the sympathetic words of American politicians like President Obama and Hilary Clinton as they describe protesters in Egypt and Syria being met with police violence and tear gas. Though Americans protests have claimed no casualties, what emerges is a shameful portrait of a powerful government using its police state to crush political dissent, making it blatantly obvious just how free we aren't in this country when we carry a message that threatens the status quo.
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