the. chaos consumes the big apple as law enforcement officers of violently arrest and copper spray protesters speaking out against corruption on wall street so as the second week of protests continue why is the mainstream media only now paying attention and still very little. and despite coverage of saudi women getting the rights of 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 could this be the beginning of the end of 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 stuck in gridlock are the signs all headed toward imminent collapse. would still be worse for you is. this when they keep going to be there it will be ready for wall street so it seems everyone is trying to pin down what's behind the economic turmoil we'll take you to live out the first twenty eleven where doods from all over weigh in on the state of you. is monday september twenty sixth seven pm in washington d.c. i'm christine friends out there watching r.t. . well it is what some are calling the beginning of a revolution hundreds maybe thousands of people frustrated with their government and at the fact that it is the wealthiest who are constantly protected and given

handouts of the number of people who suffer continues to grow well finally there is a movement of those frustrated people taking to the streets and i am not talking about greece or libya this is happening right here in the u.s. in some of this country's largest cities namely new york and los angeles a large we have been covering the protests in new york since day one and today we're bring you the latest from occupy wall street and also take a closer look at who is and who's not there are he's on the south africa has more. police brutality running wild in new york americans dragged punched and pepper sprayed the woman on the ground screaming crying after being assaulted probably by police just. over eighty people were arrested over the weekend a peaceful anti wall street protests among them eric beaten up and held for thirty

six hours a 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 filing empirical they based what they collected up in a around a match and then mace them and they were given a warrant to captain stepped up base their faces and then try to run away and avoid cameras that were around. the occupy wall street movement was launched to kickstart america's arab spring storable moment getting out of the people's revolution come this government is not working in the best interests of the people for this nation. but for now it remains a fringe movement with the anticipated twenty thousand people yet to gather there to be nice if they grew it to something like what happened in egypt you know. you

know. make them might be wishful thinking you know but it would be completely brainwashed if. they took america's nice tree media a week to catch up with the demonstrations protestors say some networks deny them coverage. c.n.n. fox i'm really disappointed yesterday police responded in huge street challenged and we were calling in carson in a shut down their headquarters he said and we mentioned occupy wall street beating up on. other cv out. it's that are covering the occupy wall street rallies are not doing nearly enough whispers a couple things is you know but it's you 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 not too typical of the mainstream media would not cover

you know that this type of movement oh you know why 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 with that that is there has been a complete blackout in 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. become the spirity throughout the country it's just the book and. the main reason i'm here is because of corporate media blackout i mean you know you're only get the truth from alternative 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 some of it you are paying attention to it we want things to change when the system changes. but the system is far from ready to change it has

yet to start taking people's outrage seriously. while demonstrators marched the streets of the financial district bankers shamelessly toasted life and champagne right in their faces the u.s. political and corporate elites and graces uprisings when they're far from american soil the one similar events take place at home bankers politicians largely the media and many americans turn a blind eye while the financial district votes for tallia outraged the rest of me or goes about its business as as usual. r.c. . now if you have the cable networks and major newspapers are starting to pay attention to this but for the most part it is not a big story even those who are there 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 earlier i spoke to georgetown university journalism professor chris chambers and rap artist and activist marcel

card ca i asked by starting by asking marcel if the occupy wall street movement was in his view the possible start of a revolution here's what he had to say. well i think what we see right now is the embryo of a very broad fight back 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 their baton by bringing a rubber bullet guns by bringing out here a guess and having absolutely no regard for what was a very peaceful protests so when we ended up going down the wall street and we met the folks from occupy wall street then it really showed on the police to here that

they had of people actually organizing so yes i hope it's 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 credit i want to talk to you about the media that i know this is a subject that you teach a lot about in your classes what the media focuses 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 right but they're not so much focusing on the point for what's right in this process and this is been going on. for ten days now are are they have been there from the beginning what do you think about that as 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 for the media from the 1980's but that's still 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 we recrossed look at the treatment you have no even steven colbert there on comedy central you think they would be very sympathetic to this treatise on this like a three ring circus too and they focused on the people we're in a funny hat and you know the the quote hippie unquote aspect of it is 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 well to basically average american who still wondering what's going on now you can turn around and blame the government you know because it comes back to what the protesters are talking about had the president been up front about this eric

holder in the f.c.c. the f.c.c. the f.d.i.c 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 is good vising him so you see that whole you know it's a it's an it's a spider web you know it's not black and white it's not you know republicans and democrats conservatives and liberals everybody's more or less 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 all three of the think it is sort of the referees and the leader was almost as though testers are not on ali i think so so they're going to be kind of our camera we don't want to concentrate on them so i don't know what you say yeah and you know it's not just me thank god i mean a lot of people have been tweeting about this i want to read you a couple comments truth activator writes sarah and anderson cooper went all the way to egypt to cover protests at tahrir square but won't go down to block to go down

the block to cover the occupy wall street protest. venue suresh says the only news about occupy wall street seems to be about the lack of any news cast happening three media and five. the nurse 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 us you know us kind of getting down on the mainstream media people are noticing a 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 also by 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 that you know for what they tell you it is their full extent of participation that they want you to be involved in 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 result 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 we are beginning to see that and i think it's a process though the greatest animal is the ruling class that tiny minority of billionaires and bankers has in their favor is the fact that the masses of people don't yet realise that we are the driving force of the society we can shut it down in a second and i was going to i want to talk to you chris about one of the videos that's sort of gone viral in the last twenty four hours instead 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 by police right happer stranraer talk about it. the the.

so chris what kind of story pictures like this how well it goes back to the classic bull connor and the dog sitter in the civil rights movement which got a lot of middle americans off their sofas basically now the other the flip side of that is if there's no kind of commonality between the protesters an average americans who are out of work having their being foreclosed upon and cetera et cetera then you know those are terrible pictures but there is they're going to be removed and all are going to do is motivate the people who are already pretty much motivated to go down there and into it to to to participate in occupy wall street there needs to be some kind of common thread here otherwise again we 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 study in their living rooms will see now it will motivate younger

people it will motivate people to follow you tube and these things going viral does have that ironic effect but however you know there have to be something else you saw it was troy davis it was posing with african-americans of also economic stripes it's got to be that kind of owns attack me at my base level 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 in the red that was georgetown university journalism professor chris chambers and rap artist and activist marcel cartier. and we also want to get the perspective of other people who attended because there are so many takes and experiences from the occupy wall street protest and of course all this has been going on now lawmakers in washington are not occupying anything except for a whole lot. of the american people's time and patience now senate leaders of just come to an agreement just down the street here on capitol hill that will prevent a government shutdown however this comes after weeks of going back and forth of

what is now sort of amounted to nothing earlier i spoke to richard asco about all of this he's a writer and senior fellow at the campaign for america's future and was in our studios in los angeles. well i attended it once i found it you know i went down there or with an experiment in mind because i knew that they were trying to keep the demonstrators away from the i was looking away from wall street so i just went to the stock exchange and to try to see if i could find it and i couldn't there was no way anybody could be seen from a wall street itself but wall street was barricaded and very hard to get through normally it's a production and walkway that i was treated people were barricaded herded into small tunnels on the sidewalks and there were a lot of police tracks or heavy police presence and i finally had to do a little bit of google research before i could actually find the demonstration itself which was several blocks away is really interesting because i know that when

the sort of concept of this first came out it was all over twitter or facebook and it seemed like there was going to be a large crowd of people thousands even and i do remember hearing from the new york mayor mayor michael bloomberg talking about his concerns he said he was concerned before these protests even started he said that he feared riots in the streets of his city and. i'm going to read you this quote that is that he said quote we have a lot of kids graduating from college can't find jobs that's what happened in cairo that's what happened in madrid you don't want those kinds of riots here the damage to a generation that can't find jobs that will go on for many many years so a couple things here richard first of all do you think that you know this this protest the outside wall street can be compared to what happened in cairo or madrid and also do you think that it was because of his concern that you have this experience of not being able to find it because of all the blockades. you know i

think what happened in cairo is called democracy and i think mayor bloomberg problem and it's a longstanding problem is one with democracy you know during the two thousand and four republican convention in new york city he and his police force violated the civil liberties of demonstrators over and over and over and what he did last week and is still doing now is right out of the george w. bush playbook which is to tell americans who want to demonstrate in public that they can have something called as bush called them free speech zones that are far away from the action where they can't be seen as a free speech is something that needs to be corralled up and hidden from public view and i've got news for all of them which is our free speech zone is called the united states of america but this is something that a lot of people have a lot of trouble with and bloomberg went way too far and it's inexcusable to herd these protesters and keep them so far away and it's inexcusable the way

they've been treated by the police i just think it needs to change i want to talk about a few other things with you. a lot of that about what's going on here in washington you were here a couple weeks and i think right where you are in new york right now we're dealing with what could possibly be a government shutdown over a spending bill about three and a half billion dollars money for you know the victims of natural disasters and it didn't hold held up here because a lot of the republicans in congress say we will absolutely give you that money we will put that money in as long as we take it away from somewhere else they're wanting to take it away from the program that that going to have building manufacturing fuel efficient vehicles comes to me about the creating politics of the theory when this happened around. well it's a combination of radicalism and corruption in the sense of political conditions

being bought off by wealthy corporations and individuals who don't want to pay taxes and it's what happens when you negotiate with the economic terrorists which is what they really are at the end of the day if you allow them to hold the entire us government and the function of government hostage over and over again they'll get used to doing that and we'll do it over and over again so i think what we're seeing is the inevitable and a failed strategy by the president and leaders of the democratic party that's a if you hold a gun to our head we'll give you what's in our wallet there comes a time to say we don't negotiate under these conditions but richard it happened long ago awfully it's going to start happening now but this was a long time coming this seems to be a strategy though that isn't working i mean whether you look at the polls the way the american public views congress and they're angry at this approach you can also look at the s. and p. downgrade a few months ago the fighting the fact that the u.s.

congress is unable to get things done for the certainly the economic institutions the american public do not see this as a good strategy why on earth would they be doing this again. well i don't know that they are doing it again in fairness to the president the other democrats i think why they've done it in the i hope they don't i think why they've done it in the past is because in a variety of reasons the president has wanted to position himself as above party and above ideology as if ideology were a bad thing by the way we we have a lot of ideologies in this country we're all we all agree on including freedom and justice but but i think he wanted to position himself a certain way that maybe the way his personality is wired he wanted legislative accomplishments what he's up against the republican party that would not allow him to name the republican party official state party of the u.s. government they just don't want him to get anything done so he needs to accept that

fact and accept that this is basically transfer warfare and move on and hopefully he has hopefully from now on he's going to start getting stronger and stronger about articulating an alternative case which is what the public actually wants a job creation and a more sensible approach to taxation for the rich and and dialing down on this of saying obsession with cutting spending when we need spending to save ourselves first even the i.m.f. thinks that's crazy the international monetary fund that's known for being advocates of that sort of thing so so if they really need to move beyond that and if they do maybe we won't have to hide demonstrators away from public view because they're their viewpoint will be getting spoken a little bit more regularly in washington or so as not to talk about you're talking about a president here in new approach some are saying the president has finally taken his gloves off there's a lot of different perspectives out there in terms of what's happening right now with president obama in his third year i want to talk to you also

a bounce the president's relationship with social media i mean just today we saw a hand on his you know linked in campaign and the president uses facebook and twitter and. you tube and all kinds of things to try to to reach the masses and get the message across how effective though do you think this is i mean certainly it is a media savvy white house and a social media savvy administration but is it doing the job. well you know twitter was a key part of the arab uprising because the messages being sent on twitter were ones that the public wanted to hear i think it's fine to be savvy about social media as long as you're saying what people need to hear now i'll give the president some credit for moving much more toward public opinion not only of his party but of people across the political spectrum calling for jobs and so i'll give him a lot of credit for that i give the progressive movement a lot of product for that because they've been pressuring him for

a long time to do exactly that and i think he's coming around. but i think it's great to use social media if you're using it to say things people want to hear i hope you'll continue to do that i hope you get stronger in his positions and i hope you'll follow through with real actions well sorry for being all over the place with that with my questions to you but you always like to cover a lot of bases and it appears a lot of geography as well richard as co-writer and senior fellow campaign for america's future in our los angeles studio. still ahead here on ars he for some it was a movie for others a new way to look at the world and where the little guy always seems to come out on top in the end. get it right. and get big eight years. this is what's going. on but this isn't a case of mistaken identity it's a big deal about fast and los angeles coming up we'll talk to some of the dunes and . what drives the world the fear mongering used by

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