The movie highlights the work of US Uncut, an association created in February 2011 which campaigns against tax evasion across the US. Many of its members have joined the anti-Wall Street Occupy movement. Bruce also believes that change has to come from popular action, rather than through the ballot box, including November elections in which President Barack Obama is seeking re-election. “Voting, I’m not convinced that it’s working anymore. In fact, I don’t think November would change anything … Obama has been completely on the side of corporations since he’s been in office,” she said. And she added: “Once you realize that you’re paying more than corporations in your country that are making billions of dollars in profits, and then you are told that we have to fire teachers, we can’t feed poor people, you realize how our system is corrupt and broken. “It’s sucking money out of the population and it’s not coming back, it’s in the pockets of the CEOs now and they don’t care about us.”
Scathing Sundance film highlights U.S. Uncut’s work | The Raw Story
