we've told you feel for your media. we'll go to our t.v. dot com. was. that chaos consumes the big apple as law enforcement officers violently of rest and a first rate protesters speaking out against corruption on wall street so as the second week of these protests continue why is the mainstream media only now paying attention and still very little. display coverage of saudi women getting the right to vote headlines about rigged to reason the sports world why is there so much silence on the occupy wall street movement shaping up in america's own backyard. and is this the beginning of the end that's the question on everyone's mind as the government prepares for yet another shutdown showdown so with

a decaying middle class massive unemployment and a congress stuffed in gridlock are the signs all headed toward imminent collapse. areas monday september twenty sixth four pm in washington d.c. and christine freeze out right in our team well it is what some are calling the beginning of a revolution hundreds maybe thousands of people frustrated at their government and the fact that it is the wealthiest who are constantly protected and giving hand handouts all the number of people who suffer continues to grow finally there is a movement of those frustrated people taking to the streets and i'm not talking about greece or libya this is happening right here in the u.s. and some of this country's largest cities namely new york and los angeles. well our

team has been covering the protests in new york since day one and we are going to bring you the latest now from the occupy wall street protest and take a closer look at who is there and who is not their arses on a saucer charkha has more. serious police brutality running wild in new york americans dragged punched and pepper sprayed the woman on the ground screaming you know to the silicon valley by police disgust. over eighty people were arrested over the weekend at peaceful and high wall street protests among them eric beaten up and held for thirty six hours the deep scars on his hands speak for themselves the activist a shocked by the price americans are paying for speaking out about injustice the police response has been. overly violent and brutal based on what they collected up and around the net that may span and they were even warned the

captain stepped up base their faces and then tried to run away and avoid cameras that were around. the occupy wall street movement was launched to kickstart america's own arab spring this is a historical moment beginning of the people's revolution coming this government is not working in the best interests of the people or this nation. but for now it remains a fringe movement of the anticipated twenty thousand people yet to gather there be nice if paperwork to stop being like what happened in egypt you know. you know. make them might be wishful thinking you know that's ok put you up please brainwash us. they took america's nice stream media a week to catch up with the demonstrations protestors say some networks deny them coverage. c.n.n. fox or. he disappointed yesterday the police responded in huge achievement

challenges and we were calling them constantly in a shutdown their headquarters he said and we've mentioned occupy wall street beating up on. other c.b. outlets that are covering the occupy wall street rallies are not doing nearly enough whispers a couple things those you know but it's people don't want people to know that this is going on are you kidding there's been coverage but it's like you know a bunch of people done one article alternative news sources are the ones spreading the word far and wide is actually expected that the mainstream media would not cover you know that this type of movement and you know what would be right you know they actually benefit from the system you know they stand the way it is so i will i'm not surprised that that that is the has been a complete blackout of the media twitter and other social networking websites are bringing people out as three years into a recession wall street has still not been held accountable for triggering the common americans worst nightmare and the three. ripple through the american people

you know when mortgages working with become the spirit of real this country if just for. the main reason i'm here is because of the corporate media blackout dimitry media pack you know you're only get the truth promoter and the new sites one in six americans are living below the poverty line unemployment is at a you know this is the highest been in a generation and you know. people are just can't find jobs so we have to send a message we have sentiment you're paying attention and we want things to change around the system to change. but the system is far from ready to change it is yet to start taking people's outrage seriously. while demonstrators marched the streets of the financial district bankers shamelessly toasted like the champagne right in their faces the u.s. political and corporate elites invoices uprisings when they're far from american soil the consumer of the. it's always

a big risk politicians largely the media and many americans turn a blind eye while the financial district robs the brutality of outreach to the rest of me or goes about its business as usual suspects a truck an artsy. and as an associate mentioned in her report a few of the cable networks and major newspapers are starting to pay attention to this but for the most part it's not a major story and even those who are they seem to be focusing mostly on the arrests and not the reason the protesters are there in the first place so i want to take a closer look at this and to help me do that i'm joined by georgetown university journalism professor chris chambers and also i've got in new york rap artist and activist marcel carr ca and marcella let's start with you you have been a part of this occupy wall street protest you've also done some pretty interesting rap songs they know about libya and egypt and the revolutions taking place there would you say that what's been going on what you've been attending is the start of a revolution. well i think what we see right now is the embryo of

a very broad fightback movement that may have the potential to grow into something larger i initially went to the troy davis rally the day after his legal lynching which took place in union square and i think in large part that's what gave the occupy wall street a great deal of militancy because when we had a spontaneous march from union square to wall street we were brutally attacked by the police and the n.y.p.d. very clearly showed their true colors by doing that by bringing out there were tons by bringing our rubber bullet guns by bringing out tear gas and having absolutely no regard for what was a very peaceful protests so when we ended up going down to wall street and we met the folks from occupy wall street then it really showed on the police the fear that they had of people actually organizing so yes i hope that is the beginning of a revolutionary movement we have to organize organize organize in order to get

there and not just on wall street but in our communities you know we need in an occupy harlem in an occupied washington heights an occupy the bronx from the police from gentrification and we need to do it also in the areas that are hardest hit which are those communities that i'm speaking about and there's a want to talk to you about sort of the media aspect of this i know this is a subject that you teach a lot about in your classes what the media focus is to cover and what they don't certainly if you turn the cable networks on at some point during the day you will see thumb coverage of that but they're not so much focusing on the whole point the whole point of this protest this is been going on. for ten days now has been there from the beginning what do you think about that well i mean you have to look at the core bias of the networks i mean they do benefit from this i mean from corporate ownership or the media from the 1980's and first that's that's pretty structural and pretty much something that we all expected. what's underneath this is

a basic bias in this country against this kind of grassroots movement when it's not from say the right wing because look at the treatment you have no even steven cold beer. on comedy central you'd think they would be very sympathetic to this they've treated this almost like a three ring circus to a new focus on the people we're in the funny hats and you know the the quote the only quote aspect of it it's you know smelly hippie people sleeping in a park you know and then protesting i mean that kind of bias builds up and that plays world to basically the average american who still wondering what's going on no you can turn around and blame the government you know because it comes back to what the protesters you're talking about had the president been up front about this eric holder in the f.c.c. the f.c.c. the f.b.i. see loose on these people in the beginning of his administration maybe this would have had some traction he didn't but he had people like lawrence summers vising him

so you see that whole you know it's on it's an it's a spider web it's not black and white it's not you know republicans and democrats conservatives and liberals everybody's moral us on the same team it's just who's the extreme on the same team these people in wall street are not on the team and they're and and so we don't know the people on earth or else the thing to be thought of the referees and the leaders walk out with as though to us troops are not on our so they're going to be kind of off camera we don't want to concentrate on them so i know what you're saying oh yeah and you know it's not just me saying that i mean a lot of people have been tweeting about this i want to read you a couple comments truth excavator right there and anderson cooper on our way to egypt to cover protests at tahrir square but won't go down to block going down the block to cover the occupy wall street protest. when you sarah says the only news about occupy wall street seems to be about the lack of any hash tag mainstream

media and for. leaners again agrees tweeting corporate mainstream media won't cover unless there's violence or blood it's our movement tweet stand on the corner with a sign hash tag occupy wall street so you see this isn't just you know us kind of getting down on the mainstream media people are noticing the lack of coverage or the vyas coverage. or as i want to talk to you turnout has not been as large as expected there was talk that this would bring you know twenty thousand people and when you think about it you know new york is much larger than wisconsin but i'll keep my wall street hasn't seen these same types of numbers i'm wondering if you think that there might be a connection between the media coverage or lack of media coverage and the turnout. oh absolutely and not only the media coverage but the way that we've been taught in this society to talk about the concept of democracy when we're taught that the united states is a democracy which it isn't but even if you take their you know for what they tell you it is their you know full extent of participation and they want you to be

involved in this process is voting and i think that a lot of people are beginning to see that it doesn't really matter whether you vote in a republican or a democrat you're going to get the same results at the end of the day you're going to get these bailouts you're going to get gentrification you're going to get unemployment you know everything will fundamentally remain the same so i think that people are coming out now even if it's in small numbers because they're tired of being passive they're tired of being told put a piece of paper in a ballot box every four years and that's your democracy i think that if you look at the history of this country the only way change has it ever happened whether the civil rights movement or anything after that has been through people organizing in the streets you know we're taught a lot of times that it was a nice politician or somebody with a humanitarian spirit that signed the civil rights bills that was in the case people were in the streets actually ready to burn down the country so it was like you better hurry up and sign these bills otherwise there will be nothing left and i

think that you know we are beginning to see that and i think it's a process of all the greatest that the ruling class that tiny minority of billionaires and bankers has in their favor is the fact that the masses of people who don't yet realise that we are the driving force of the society we can shut it down in a second and i'm wondering i want to talk to you chris about one of the videos that sort of gone viral in the last twenty four hours and instances of police brutality and i want to play a little bit of the video that we've been seeing of a woman being sprayed in the eyes i police spray and then we'll talk about it. now chris what kind of story it is pictures like this tar ball you goes back to the

classic bull connor and the dogs or the civil rights movement which got a lot of middle americans off their sofas basically down the other for the flip side of that is as if there's no kind of commonality between the protesters and average americans who are out of work having their being foreclosed upon etc etc then you know those are terrible pictures but they're going to be removed and they're all they're going to do is motivate the people who are already pretty much motivated to go down there and to participate in occupy wall street there needs to be some kind of common thread here otherwise again we're going to be played as some hippie chick who had it coming i mean that sounds very courage but that's what a lot of people sitting in their living rooms will see now it will motivate younger people will motivate people who follow you tube and these things going viral does have that ironic effect but however you know there has to be something else and saw it with troy davis when it was mostly with african-americans of also economic

stripes it's got to be that kind of own. attack me at my base level thing to get people out in the streets that's what happened wisconsin because people's jobs literally were at stake and you know here it's a little more indirect it's really interesting too i mean we also saw you know the new york times and their coverage of it they have been covering this to an extent but one of their main big articles about this was essentially entirely about the lack of organization i think a lot of the protesters down there would agree that there is that but again missing a big point in marseille i'm going to talk to you i think that you're a native new yorker and i think your accent might say that. and i'm pretty sure i read you were from. one of the boroughs but you know new york city is a place where fifty of the top four hundred wealthiest americans live now this is according to a new report by forbes and they have a combined net worth totaling two hundred eleven billion with a b billion dollars meanwhile we look at the latest u.s.

census data that also shows that the percentage of people living below the poverty line has grown to more than twenty percent so talk to me about this i mean you are a native new yorker marcelle there is a growing gap between the rich and poor i'm wondering you know are new yorkers frustrated. new yorkers are definitely frustrated but i think that again because we're a lot of times to be passive about things we don't exactly know how to go about war going to us and we don't know how to go about fighting back a lot of people just become you know very defeated in a sense and i think that's why a lot of people in our communities turned you know alcohol or drugs for example is a symptom of alienation feeling as if you're totally be in down and can't do anything you know to counter the your pression that we face i mean if you take the six train from the upper east side to the south bronx that's only maybe a ten minute subway ride but you're going from the wealthiest community in the

united states to the poorest community in the united states in a span of ten minutes and this is in the richest country in the world the richest city in the world is absolutely insane is absolutely a rational is absolutely inhumane but it will continue as long as the capitalist economic system is the one that runs the show and that means that those tiny group of billionaires on wall street run the show those of us who organize in the answer coalition which stands for ag now to stop war and racism we're tying all of these things together for example is not just about wall street it's also about troy davis it's also about the police brutality that happens every day in black and brown communities just a few weeks ago john colada was murdered in washington heights by an undercover police officer and there was a huge march the washington heights where was the coverage of that was the coverage every single time that somebody is beaten by the cops you know so i think it's going to take connecting the dots also understanding the occupation of iraq

afghanistan palestine and now libya you know because they're sending poor and working class brothers and sisters in the military to go kill other poor and oppressed people and it makes no sense but the only reason they're able to do that is because we have all of this thread way. you know usa ingrained in us not understanding that you know the average american has very different interests than those on wall street those who introduced it is to uphold that red white and blue flag that actually doesn't represent us at all even though we're the vast majority we are ninety nine percent you know like the slogan at occupy wall street marcel i didn't mention this before but we should tell our viewers that you were one of the people that was actually injured and i think you got a gash in your leg there or something so our best guess as you and just real real briefly chris we're almost out of time he's talking about this this protest this march in washington heights again reiterate for us just one more time why are those

kind of stories not covered well because they're rich american is invested in them as they might be you know the target demographics the people who buy the stuff on the commercials you know who are offered by the same companies and own these companies who are wall street so i mean it's a vicious spiral but you know i mean unless somebody gets killed and let's do something really going to hit everybody across the board this is going to continue this non-coverage certainly important things to keep in mind and we hope to keep covering than hearing r.t. georgetown university journalism professor chris chambers thanks so much and rap artist and activist marcel card today in our new york city thanks so much. and it's not just the c.e.o.'s on wall street that seem to be totally absorbed in their own schemes without caring about the world around them it seems to so do many of the lawmakers in washington d.c. members of congress are once again bringing the federal government to the brink of closing over

a spending bill now if you're experiencing days all right now there is good reason this is the third time this year that huge disagreement over spending has brought about the government has brought the government to a standstill that was the initial budget battle and then the debt ceiling debate and now this a standoff between the house and senate over emergency funding about three to have billion dollars in disaster assistance for victims of natural disasters in other words money to fill the almost empty emergency account of fema and of the army corps of engineers now one of the main issues here we've got to say the republican led house says they will agree to that money if all their money is cut and what they want to cut is a program that's developed fuel efficient vehicles a program that most democrats want to keep those vehicles use less oil and he didn't connect the dots but you know there's a lot of got in fourth for those living outside washington though a lot or seem very murky so to help me wade through all of them i want to bring charlie mcgrath into this discussion charlie is the founder of wide awake news dot

com and joins me from bozeman montana hey there charlie a let's talk first about the role of congress in the economic crisis i guess it's a two part question what is the role of congress and what should it be. well as far as my opinion goes the role of congress or in the economic collapse that we are now in. are completely culpable i think that they were serving on behalf of against risk that brought us the financial crisis they made sure that there was no bickering among the red and blue team when it came to handing out trillions and trillions of dollars in bailout money and lending money to these banks at zero percent interest for three and a half years now but now that the rubber is meeting the road we have to pay for it we are going to go continue to govern by crisis one crisis after another and as you mention three in the last year and if we don't act now it's going to be the end of the world and we see the results of this right we see s. and p. downgrading us we see the creation of

a super congress and we see the handwriting on the road if you just look over at europe and so you could actually going. is coming to this country and it is being brought to us but the same lawmakers that make sure that the folks on wall street were bailed out and made completely whole you said a couple things i found really really interesting charlie first of all the government you know doing its job governing crisis by crisis i mean i think a lot of people that's if those are blending together i mean for me and for a lot of people both in and outside of washington it's like oh geez are we really doing the think again but another thing you talked about s. and p. downgrade and if i remember correctly one of the major things cited when our credit was downgraded for the first time was the fact that congress could not make decisions why is it that we're back in this point again when clearly that was the reason for this atrocious thing to happen well i guess it depends on which way you want to look at this if you look at is there simply is being credible and as s. and p.

as an organization we should listen to you might buy into their argument that it's congress and or it's the senate the house they're bickering that has led us to be downgraded but if you look at it it broke my point of view i see as a people was part and parcel for bringing us to so primal. crisis that we're in right now they they have rubber stamped all these investments as aaa back then now it's fashionable to downgrade the sovereign this failure has been put on the backs of the american people through the expansion of our national debt they have no problem coming in and rubber stamping it goes away plus so i don't see it as a fault of our government it's our structure of government your government our structure of government representative republic has been around a long time the problem is the absolute immersion you know corruption between wall street and washington d.c. there is absolutely no links that they will not go to in order to bail out their friends and stick the american people with with that burden well i mean i can't

imagine how charlie that another bank bailout could ever happen at least in the next decade i mean you think that's really feasible that that's a possibility well let's take our own treasury secretary tim geithner is just words in an article he was quoted in just two days ago the i.m.f. needs a bailout you know tim geithner went over to europe talking about installing some kind of tarp program for these european banks so they don't go down that route so we don't go along with a if you look at if we if the i.m.f. needs more capital in order to bail out european banks the number one single largest contributor to the i.m.f. is the united states at seventeen percent of the funding it is in the i mean so tim geithner's over in europe talking about a bank bailout so that for me to think that it can't happen again here that's just not reality yeah european central bank is in trouble but is so is the entire treasury of the united states that you know entirely there's a lot of theories out there about what is best for this economy for the country and

even for the world i want to put something up on that economist nouriel roubini thought it regarding a physicalist parity and how it could actually bring about economic calamity followed by war he said quote i'm not predicting world war three but seriously. if there was a global financial crisis after the first one then we'd go into depression the political and social instability in europe and other advanced economies is going to become extremely severe we're being that that's emerging markets and he said something is something that we do have to worry about i'm wondering it charlie do you agree that more cutting could be more hurtful than helpful look at the protests we have a wall street run going we have civil disobedience here in this country we have people literally dying in europe now because of austerity measures there is no indicators anywhere in the west or on planet earth for that matter that we are coming out of the economic depression that we entered into in two thousand and

eight it's almost as if we needed to transfer all this failure on the backs of the world and then declare all this failed investment public that's what we call it sort of and it will look this sort of collapse occurred no look at chips fall where they may here's long as the power players who pay for their representation in d.c. are covered for build look at people the world find it out and why would why would this depression need any different then the depression of the twenty twenty nine hundred thirty s. when we were late into world war two you know everything seems to be going the exact same path we have all this optimism all these green shoots followed by the harsh crisis of reality that we're starting to enter into right now and certainly a lot going on right now and our we always do appreciate your insight charlie mcgrath founder of wide awake news dot com well the united nations general assembly has finished the sixteenth think session but still many are questioning are still there are many questions left unanswered including us what's the deal with the

palestinian bid for statehood so as the world waits to see if a new country will be added to the united nations next r.t. correspondent marine important to give a wrap up of the events from last week. it was a weeklong gathering of the world's most politically powerful people with the heart of the united nations' pursuit of peace. imperfect world america's nobel prize winning president said in an ideal tone as the sixty sixth session of the un general assembly open yet at the heart of almost all diplomatic dialogue. demonstrations and media attention was the palestinian pursuit of official u.n. membership. as a tone with the arab peoples of groomed for democracy in the arab spring the time is now for the spring the time for independence. supported by the majority of u.n. member states president mahmoud abbas submitted an application for statehood i

historical bit the us a staunch ally of israel now to block with a security council veto these will not come through statements and resolutions at the united nations if it were that easy it would have been accomplished by as diplomats worked around the clock to bring israel and the palestinians back together at the negotiating table. delegations for thirty countries abandon the iranian president during his speech to the general assembly. if some european countries still use the whole acosta after six decades as the excuse to pay a fine or ransom to the zionists should it not be an obligation upon the slave masters or colonial powers to pay reparations to the affected nations mahmoud ahmadinejad's annual attack against the west and israel was a reminder that peace is hard but we know that it is possible a possibility for the palestinians and israelis to resume negotiations was put

forth by the middle east quartet friday russia the u.s. european union and the u.n. presented both sides with a twelve month timetable to solve this sixty plus years dispute within three months of the negotiation beginning resent comprehensive proposals on borders and security that is the only way in the end we deal with the difficult issues. around the table in because she asian the u.n. general assembly was this week's biggest political show a spectacular display of pride for the palestinians a quote theater of the absurd for the israeli prime minister the security council meets monday to discuss the palestinian bid for u.n. membership as the quest for peace goes on divisions over how to achieve it remain firmly in place. r.t. new york and that is going to do it for this hour but for more on the stories we.