Here's two videos making the connections between informed economic critique and the #Occupy movement/moment (I appear in some capacity in each of them).
The first is from Econ4.org; it's a powerful video version of the Economists Statement in Support of Occupy Wall Street:
Occupy Economics from Softbox on Vimeo.
The second is an interesting attempt to provide a ""Crash" Course for Occupy Wall Street - Thirty Years in Thirteen Minutes":