chaos consumes the big apple as law enforcement officers violently arrests and pepper spray protesters speaking out against corruption on wall street so as the second week of protests continue long as the mainstream media only now paying attention and still very little. just by coverage of saudi woman getting the right to vote headlines about victories in 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 it's the question on everyone's mind as the government prepares for yet another government shutdown showdown so with

a decaying middle class not of unemployment and a congress stuck in gridlock are the signs all headed toward imminent collapse. and it seems that everyone is trying to pin down what fun in the economic turmoil will take you to the about the first twenty allotment where doods from all over again on the state of the union. hey there is monday september twenty sixth five pm in washington d.c. i'm christine from and you are watching our t.v. well it is what some are calling the beginning of a revolution hundreds maybe thousands of people frustrated that their governments and of the fact that is the wealthiest who are constantly protected and given.

handouts all the number of people who suffer continues to grow we'll finally now there is a movement of those frustrated people are taking to the streets and i am not talking about greece or libya and this is happening right here in the u.s. in some of this country's largest cities namely new york and los angeles mark you have been covering the protest in new york since day one and today we bring you the latest from the occupy wall street protest and take a closer look at who is and who's not there aren't you gonna start your charkha has more. by. police brutality running wild in new york americans dragged punched and pepper sprayed the women who want to ground screaming crying after being assaulted me by police discussed. over eighty people were arrested over the weekend a peaceful and high walls from full among them eric beaten up and held for thirty six hours the deep scars on his hands speak for themselves and activist is shocked

by the price americans are paying for speaking out about injustice the police response has been. overly violent and brutal based by what they collected back in and around the net and that may span and they were even warned to captain stepped up to base their faces and then try to run away and the court cameras that were around since. the occupy wall street movement was launched to kickstart america's arab spring it's horrible moment the beginning of their people's revolution coming this government is not working in the best interests of the people for this nation. but for now it remains a fringe movement for the anticipated twenty thousand people yet to gather there be nice if it grew into something like what happened in egypt you know. but you know.

make them might be wishful thinking you know but the people here please brainwashes . they took america's main stream media a week to catch up with the demonstrations protestors say some networks deny them coverage. c.n.n. fox are really disappointed and yesterday the police responded in huge extreme brutality and we were calling it carson in a shut down their headquarters he said and we mentioned occupy wall street beating up on us. others say the out. it's that power 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 the skoda. are you getting 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 to pick the mainstream media would not cover you know that this type of movement you know what would they write you know they

actually benefit from the system you know they stay in the way it is so i would not surprise of that that that is there has been a complete blackout for 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 street with. the american people you know when it's. become the spirit. it's just the book and. the main reason i'm here is because of the corporate media blackout anything in your past you know you're only good because the most part of the two sides one in six americans are living below the poverty line unemployment is at a you know this is the eyes have been in a generation and you know. people are just can't find jobs so we have to send a message we have some images paying attention that we want things to change when the system changes. 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 when similar events take place at home banquets politicians largely the media and many americans turn a blind eye about the financial district over us for tolerating it outraged the rest of the work goes about its business as usual suspects. aren't you. now 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 even those who are there seem to be focusing more on the arrests and not the reason the protesters are there in the first place so i want to talk about this more and to help me do that earlier i spoke to georgetown university journalism professor chris chambers as well as rap artist and activist marcel. 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 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 this 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 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 all those communities that i'm speaking about and i want to talk to you about a third of the media aspect of this i know this is i think that you teach a lot about in your classes let 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 some coverage of that but they're not so much focusing on the point the whole point of this protest this is been going on. for ten days now he 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 of the media from the 1980's but that's 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 and when it's not from the right wing we look at the treatment you have no even steven colbert there. on comedy central you'd think they would be very sympathetic to this they treated this almost like a three ring circus to a new focus on the people we're in a funny hat and you know the record the only quote aspect of it it's you know smelly people sleeping in a park you know and then protesting i mean that kind of bias builds up and that plays well 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 are talking about the president been upfront about this eric holder in the s.c.c. the f.c.c. the city 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 not only 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 extreme on the seem to be these people in wall street or not on the team and they're and so but there are people who are throughout this thing to be sort of the referees and the leader. they're not on i really i think 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 thing that's i mean a lot of people have been tweeting about this i want to read you a couple comments truth excavator right there and then i think oprah went all the 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. then you sarah says the only news the barkeeper wall street seems to be about the lack of any hash tag mainstream media and filing. 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 bias 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 an eye 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 is it even if you take 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 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 is 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 though the greatest amel with 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 realize that we are the driving force of the society we can shut it down in a second and i'm wondering i want to. one of the videos that sort of gone viral in the last twenty four hours instances our 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 by police and then we'll talk about it. chris what kind of story it pictures like best how well you goes back to the

classic bull connor and the dog sitter the civil rights movement which got a lot of middle americans off their sofas basically now the other flipside of that is if there's no kind of commonality between the protesters and average americans who are out of work having their being foreclosed upon the cetera et cetera 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 what will be played as some hippie chick who had it coming i mean that sounds very harsh but that's what a lot of people sitting in their living rooms will see it will motivate younger people will motivate people who follow you tube and these things going viral does have that ironic effect however you know there has to be something else you saw it with troy davis when i was posing with african-americans of all economic stripes

it's got to be that kind of own face 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 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 with essentially entirely about the lack of organization i think a lot of the protesters out there would agree that there is that but again and i think the big point in marseille and let me talk to you i think you're a native new yorker i think your accent might say that on and i pretty sure i right you. from. one of the boroughs but you know new york city is the 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 good i think again because we're toying a lot of times to be passive about things we don't exactly know how to go about we're going to as and we'd all nought how to google 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 out to the drugs for example is a symptom of alienation feeling as if you're totally be in their own we can't do anything you know to counter the your profession that we face and that was georgetown university journalism professor chris chambers with rap artist and activist marcel cartier and. those not just the c.e.o.'s on wall street that seem

to be totally absorbed in their own schemes without any care about the rest of 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 overspending now if you're experiencing deja vu right now there's a good reason this is the third time this year that huge disagreement over spending has brought about a government to a stand up and there was the initial budget battle as well as the debt ceiling debate and now this standoff between the house and senate over emergency funding about three and a half billion dollars in disaster relief for victims from natural disasters in other words money to fill the almost empty emergency aid accounts fema and the army corps of engineers now one of the main issues here the republican led house says they will agree to that money if the other if more money is cut and they're looking to cut a program that develops fuel efficient vehicles a program most democrats keep there's

a lot about in forth here and for those living outside of washington d.c. these waters here seem very murky so to help us wade through all of them i spoke earlier to charlie mcgrath the founder of why don't wake news dot com i want to get his perspective on what he sees as the role of congress in the economic crisis and also what he thinks the role should be here's his take. my opinion goes the role of congress in the economic collapse that we're. there completely culpable i mean they're serving. the interests of the financial crisis they made sure that there was no bickering amongst the blue team when it came to handing out trillions and trillions of dollars in bailout money and lending money to these banks that jerk's an interest for three 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. 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 that in p. downgrading it we see a creation of a super congress and we see the handwriting on the road if we just look over europe and due to direction we're going there is coming to this country and it is being brought to us but the same lawmakers that make sure that the photo was super bailed out and made completely whole and 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 it 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 this again but another thing you talked about that 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 somebody is being credible and is definitely an organization we should listen to you might buy into their argument that it's congress or it's the senate's out there bickering that it led us to be downgraded but if you look at it from my point of view i see s. and p. who was part and parcel of bringing a private crisis that we're. right now you know they they rubber stamped all these investment aaa back then now it's fashionable to downgrade the sovereign debt now that there's value has been put on the back to american people through the expansion of our national debt they have no problem coming in and rubber stamping it double a club so i don't see is a fault of our government it's our structure of government your government our structure of government a representative republic has been around a long the problem is the the absolute immersion in corruption between wall street and washington d.c. there is absolutely no link that they will not go to in order to bail out their

friends and stick the american people with murder well i mean i can't imagine a charlie about 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's latest word in an article he was quoted in just two days ago the i.m.f. means available. 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 we'll go down a lot with those 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 it's seventeen percent of the funding that is in the i.m.f. so tim geithner's over in europe talking about a bank bailout so for me to think that it can happen again here that 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 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 said regarding a physicalist therapy 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. a global financial crisis after the first one then we go into depression the political and social instability in europe and other advanced economies is going to become extremely severe we're being said that the 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 the wall street 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 of our own find it or 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 under the backs of the world and then declare all this failed investment public debt that's why we call it sovereign debt and we'll let the collapse occurred know let the chips fall where they may as well as the power players who paper their representation and b. are covered up front they'll let the people of the world that fight it out and why would why would this depression any any different than the depression of the twenty twenty nine and their thirty's will be we're led into world war two you know everything seems to be going the exact same path we have all this afternoon all these green shoots followed by the harsh crisis of reality that we're starting to enter into right now certainly a line going on right now and i'll we always appreciate your insight charlie mcgrath founder of wide awake news dot com. still ahead here on ars for some it was a movie for others it was

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