chris christie will not run for president the european college student amanda knox is on a plane right now suspense almost over now for millions of i phone friends and there you have it mainstream media is hard hitting news of the day an american girl released from an italian jail someone not running for president and another i phone but wait a second where are the reports on this. a movement sweeping from sea to shining sea occupy wall street takes over new york los angeles and many other places in between so if the average joe finally saying

enough is enough when it comes to corporate capitalism. this is a no true revolution that's going on and i need to be a part of it i have a lot to offer and she's not the only one standing up to wall street we've got the older the younger the richer and the poor all uniting to fight for change and despite crackdowns by police this movement isn't stepping down we'll talk to one woman arrested at brooklyn bridge showdown. a terrorist tuesday october fourth four pm in washington d.c. i'm christine for you're watching our. all right before we get started today i want to talk about something i know i know i shouldn't be shocked about but i still am driving the day today dominating the airwaves on the mainstream media three stories that were given so much time and attention you'd think nothing else in the world

was going on three stories that in so many ways are not actual stories at least not breaking news however take a look at. breaking news right here on m.s.m. b.c. word that new jersey governor chris christie will not run for president christie will not run chris christie will not run for president several republican candidates breathing a big sigh of relief the other you're going to i mean the surviving back on u.s. soil american college student amanda knox is on a plane right now it's you likely stay at her mother's hold in west seattle and begin with she calls winning back her happiness suspense almost overnight for millions of fans hardcore applegate's claim the new device is faster and shoot like a teardrop amanda knox is in the airport she was behind bars for four years pretty american girl freed italian courts bad but what about the case of michael morton a

texas man imprisoned for twenty five years he was accused of beating his wife out but new d.n.a. evidence linked another man so that crime d.n.a. evidence the district attorney refused to turn over for you know for going to obsess with court cases what about more on the case of a fourteen year old boy wrongly executed in south carolina yes that was more than sixty years ago but this is the youngest person executed in the last one hundred years in this country what about a little more looking into the failures of our own system. so chris christie i lost count weeks ago how many times he said he wasn't going to run and it's not like he actually did ever leave the door open to changing his mind but i guess if enough people with mouthpieces still want you to run and they tell you enough times there is still a chance it becomes a news story my only question is how long was the wait until the media speculation begins yet again that he's possibly maybe changing his mind and of course the i

phone well admittedly i am in the market for a new phone so this personally is a story i was interested in but this will have to be one of the biggest stories of the day this that we got our hands on a confidential internal e-mail circulated around the web programming office of the washington city. says everyone the apple i phone five event is tomorrow meaning today in order to get as many page views as possible please put the word i phone in the title of every story you write today it doesn't matter if it's relevant or not don't worry it's just i will be counting your post at the end of the day really all right on to real news it is restraint of the occupy wall street protests and mainstream media have so far either ignored or ridiculed or marginalized the demonstrators but we want to take a look at the people behind the crowds our fees on the sausage we're going to spend time with some of those protesters to find out their personal stories and their reasons for being there. they have been accused of not having

a unified message the same kind of messages and little maybe because they're drawn from all walks of life brought together by anger and frustration at the direction of their country is sad because of all the users recreated from a policy that i've been trying to change forty years. destroying the lower class people. here day or night rain or shine it's the personal stories of these protesters that have kept them out on the streets three weeks into the demonstrations and the deeper into the occupation the deeper the. sixty seven year old letter t. card came all the way from california leaving behind a ninety seven year old mother the retired home financing specialist worries about the future generation. by my lifetime so i don't have

a problem but. my great grand kids. or grandkids. will just too hard for me to make it these protesters have largely been presented by the media as hippy anarchist teens this marching eighty nine year old retired teacher would beg to differ grossman oh my god what they do to be american people to our system around completely corrupt completely responsible for the national recession that we have video arts student he is here with his three year old daughter and i want to bring my daughter because i would like for her to. get an idea of what it is the politically active she says protesters issues with the system may differ but if you're fed up this is where you need to be very she's all come down for one thing and that you know when the wealth is concentrated into the hands of the field. it's very difficult to get any new laws for any kind of

issue that is in the interest of ninety nine percent as people are going around saying. you know i mean that's just bust economic reality pennsylvania couple dawn and mathias add some rules pedals to their outdoor beds to stay cosy topped off by an american flag i left my job i left my home i left my family i left my job. because i think this is a very very important cause this is a true revolution that's going on and i need to be a part of it i have a lot to offer it's not just passion but knowledge that's led them to protest the couple's friend anna spends her time researching the global and american financial system she drove twenty hours to get simple street. this is bottomless hole and that there's so much corruption there that. it was recording a famous film we're mad as hell and i'm going to take you out of found out about the protests into reaction at that moment they don't i mean that mass media is not

covering it two weeks later the media has paid some attention but as the demonstrators are presented as young slackers what's one thing that hippies like most of. those who are ready food real change are growing more diverse by the day because this is our team. all right so those are some of the faces of occupy wall street and for more than two weeks we've been showing you pictures from the front lines of this movement as well perhaps some of the strongest pictures we showed you are from over the weekend video of more than seven hundred people getting arrested on the brooklyn bridge now as far as the latest in lower manhattan a lot of today has been spent preparing for what is expected to be a major day tomorrow with labor groups announcing that they too will join the protests also i'm hearing rumors of a nationwide student walkout set for noon tomorrow but this evening well known economist will be speaking at the occupy wall street. protest and that is richard

roth host of economic a day on w b a i ninety five radio but before he runs off there he's going to spend a few minutes with us here talking about the protest the problems and so much more . hey there richard you are in so many others have called this a historic movement what are you seeing there and what is your hope what do you hope to inspire in your talk later this afternoon well partly what i'm going to try to do is to make these young people and the older people with them aware that it really is historic they are expressing something that's been building in the united states for thirty years it's not longer a country that was once relatively equal in its distribution of wealth and income has become much more on equal and with it has gone the destruction of our environment a corruption of our politics and what you're seeing now is a culmination of a build up of a long time that's why it's here that's why it's staying and i want them to feel

the full source of the legitimacy of what they're doing and the desire to change this country echoes in the minds of a clear majority of this country's people i think it's an important point you bring up and i do want to take this a little broader and i don't think astray from something that you wrote about your top tier getting today that you know so many people take such pride in questioning challenging and criticizing things like health care education and transportation yet we have failed to similarly question challenge or criticize our economic system otherwise known as capitalism i'm wondering why you think this subject has been so off limits. well you know we take a justifiable pride in questioning our institutions as a way to make them better we should have been doing that for the last fifty years with our economic system this is not its first failure this is not its first crisis but because of the cold war it became impossible to question the economic system

the either had to be a cheerleader or a celebrator of this system or you were considered somehow traitorous or disloyal and all that happened was that capitalism got a free pass it could be generate the way it has into the kind of corruption and the kind of inequality and injustice we're now seeing being protested so i think what these young people are doing and what the older folks with them are saying is it's time to get back and do what reasonable people ought to do question their economic system capitalism see if it needs to be changed see if we can do better and then move in that direction and no longer allow the voices of repression and conservatism to prevent us from making this a society that's better equipped to meet our needs than is now the case for you just that rhetoric that you blame i in part when the cold war for this sort of changing dynamic i know that whenever crack capitalism is criticized the cries of

socialism often follow the word socialist still in so many ways a bad word you know are i'm wondering if you have an idea how does this message war share that we saw in terms of talking about capitalism in a way that really weighs all are today. well i think that what you have is a kind of knee jerk reaction it is not working very well the more i go around the country the more i see that the cry of socialism kind of thoughts on deaf ears for the older people they've heard it so often they know that it's just rhetoric for the younger people they are led to ask the question if socialism is the big scary alternative to capitalism and if capitalism is not the liberal in the goods then maybe i'll learn a little bit more about this socialism and maybe i ought to ask some questions so the irony is the conservatives screaming socialism are actually feeding a growing interest in what socialism is and then leading to the discovery that

there are as many varieties of socialism as ever there were of capitalism and dismissing all of them is a sign of ignorance and not a sign of an intellectual activity and openness to trying to make the world better i mean i think that might be true richard in terms of the vast majority of level headed people thing you know maybe i do need to read understand socialism vs capitalism versus communism who knows but and however it still when you turn on a lot of the mainstream media they they have their talking points they have their short found and still photo was in is seen as a bad word. yes but again i am really quite confident that that is fading in the united states the more and more the system we actually have is clearly not working for the majority of people the more they will associate all of the arguments wide

to keep it's none the less to not question it those are going to be more and more thin and more and more questions that's already happening that's why this rally got going that's why it's growing that's why it endures despite the media retook relationship to it the police relationship to it this is the build up of a generation of people who realize that they should look for alternatives to capitalism socialism is one of those that's a worthy of their attention i don't think a lot of bad mouthing is going to change the impact of the real world on people's consciousness you know let's get back to those protesters richard i and one of the major themes of occupy wall street is this inequality gap continuing to grow as big banks and wall street banker sitting on top of growing profits and everyone else sort of you know watching their savings accounts dwindle down to nothing what do you think are some of the strategies being proposed to deal with this down in lower

manhattan we told you before some of the people who who worry that they're just being seen as hippies in the streets you know what are some of the real ideas here that are taking shape. it's a very rich tool one of the marvels of a genuine social movement as opposed to one manufactured in an advertising office is that a genuine genuine social movement is messy complicated brings in very diverse people who all have ideas but let me assure you that the ideas coming out of wall street are very good as an economist or professional i can assure you of that they want to change for example the tax system so that people at the top do not get away with paying fuel or low taxes something that has been in the new and they have some very concrete proposals to go back to what the tax rates were in the one nine hundred fifty s. and sixty's which turns out to be much more equal than they are today that's a very concrete proposal some of them have worked it out in considerable detail they have proposals also to change how the business is of america are run but if

you want a society that works equally in the businesses have to be run not pay a handful of people at the top pick shareholders boards of directors but in a democratic way by all the people who work there and by the people in the communities that interdependent with these companies they have proposals for a democratization of the workplace something that i talk to them about a great deal and there's a lot of interest in that so there are both older and newer original proposals i think you'll see them worked out in the weeks to come to a very good program but not one hatched in the brains of this or that expert one that comes out of a diverse social movement in the early phases of its birth it's an amazing and important social historical event to watch and to be part of and just last question for you richard and you have to run we talk about some of these people who have real power certainly the power is in the people on the streets but there are also

people higher up people making decisions with their hand on the bible i think about i'm chairman of the federal reserve ben bernanke he was recently questioned about these occupy wall street protests and here's what he said he said i take unemployment growth and inflation into account not protests and just a quick reaction from you to that electronic. in my entire life and you can tell from my here i've been around a while in my entire life that people in power always begin in reacting to social movements by insisting that they don't matter that they have no influence that's not correct but it is a good effort to dissuade and to discourage the people that are gathering there the people at the top are paying very close attention i can assure you from personal experience the leading bankers the leading corporate executives are very worried that this is the beginning of a menace movement that will change american politics and influence the bottom line

of their companies when you hear them say things like that that surely a p.r. effort to discourage such a woman i don't think it's a succeeded the first three weeks i don't think it will succeed in the future that's all it is an important point his movement seems to be getting larger not smaller richard wolffe economist and host of economic update on w b a i had ninety nine point five f.m. radio thanks so much i want to talk more about the ways in which occupy wall street is picking up steam it may have started in new york on wall street but it is migrating across the country even to the other side of the country here's a look at some of the cities in the u.s. that have joined forces with a movement and the message they are hoping will spread to some of the wealthier front of the most elite in this country some of these states that have it any man known as it's also gaining ground internationally take a look at all the different places protests in support of war income growth but occupy wall street protests protests are taking place around the world now we want

to show you more inside the country and so we sent our teaser mongul window out to take a look at some of these non wall street anti-war street demonstrators. i don't mind i'm not anticipating more pain or suffering more perhaps and i think people are taking this right more than a thousand people in los angeles. chose to stand in solidarity with the occupy wall street movement. at city hall the very visible center of government in power and have. demonstrators worry that the one percent who control most of the nation's wealth have gained a stranglehold over the u.s. government alexander hamilton you know refer to the people he was so afraid of as the great peace in the great peace as a way people of all our supply have turned out for this mass ministry scene here in los angeles now a lot of the protesters here say they've gotten their inspiration from the

demonstrators in new york and in athens and others are inspired by the revolution of egypt now there's still much debate about whether this is part of my revenue scenary movement here in america but one thing that people can agree on is that some drastic changes need to be made as to how this country runs from the east coast to the west coast and a growing number of places in between a collective anger is unifying people. in the windy city a group has been demonstrating outside the federal reserve bank of chicago for more than a week in boston a tent city in the heart of the financial district means occupiers can voice their discontent with corporate greed pushing for seven. just by dozens of the rest demonstrators intent to show that democracy does not end at the ballot box families have also been marching in denver and san francisco

demanding radical change from wahoo to olympia to omaha to orlando according to the occupy together web site. protests are being organized in more than one hundred cities one city by standing behind are worth around lucian their time and i think that. despite mainstream media downplaying and even really killing the movement supporters face the message will be understood you saw what happened in london. bunch of people that were just. you know that's. something is wrong already bruised by soaring unemployment poverty and foreclosures the middle class are now being told to tighten their belts leading many americans to finally put their voices across in the beginning bigger it looks like spreading throughout the country and you know

they had the arab spring you know hopefully never us in los angeles. archie. you know once again this by going on for more than two weeks there has been spotty coverage of these protests even though many say this is the start of you know either sort of a tea party on the left others as you just saw calling it the answer to the arab spring here at home the american autumn but it was until those arrests on the brooklyn bridge over the weekend of seven hundred people i mean people even more of the protests were going on so i want to talk about the media aspect of this as well as the potential shift in energy and how to do that i've got christian going in our new york studio kristen is a writer for alter net and she was also one of those people who were arrested and are christian. great. i read your description of this weekend and based on what you wrote this was a combination of young people people in their sixty's straight people gay people

couple visiting new york for the first time and despite basically being corralled off to jail you wrote about the moments leading up to the rest arrest when the bridge was taken over and you said you had a quote moment of pride and courage and this is the beginning of something big can you elaborate on that for me it was just an incredible feeling to be part of thousands of people taking over a public space as monumental as the brooklyn bridge and to put a face on the movement. by taking over the bridge it was just explaining to the public this is what we're doing we are the public we are the ninety nine percent and we're taking back what's ours i know what it was incredible to see go ahead it was just incredible to see that sense of pride and courage that it took to deliver such a strong message and we accomplished that absolutely i know one of the big controversies is the way the police have handled this i know the first major

incident that raised eyebrows was of course those young women being pepper sprayed by police and we had that we had some of those young women on our show last week but then we see literally hundreds of people some who say police actually you know was sort of them onto the bridge only to then be arrested and you have then and my p.d. released a video that i want to play for our viewers and then we can talk about it. hard to sort of understand them there are police wanted people to know that in fact they had a megaphone they warned every single person who went on the bridge all seven hundred protestors that they would be arrested if you were there i wasn't give me your take on do you think that everyone knew that if they stepped onto that bridge they would be arrested absolutely i mean megaphones are nothing compared to

thousands of people chanting together there was a point when we did pass a police officer with a megaphone and i could not hear anything coming from it i knew in fact that if you took the car route on the bridge there was a chance you would be arrested but only because i heard another protester shouting it out to people i am sure that most people did not hear him or the police and had no idea that they would be arrested if they if they went that way and in fact that's where most people were going and there was also a suspiciously low number of police and the ones who i did see weren't saying anything i actually walked next to a cop for about ten minutes down the bridge and he did not signal to anyone that they might be arrested or even say a word i would imagine too if all of those protesters have been more we would've seen so many of them sort of climbing over the bridge and trying to get off of it so as not to be arrested from that by the way is probably dangerous but i want to switch gears your journalist i want to talk about the media coverage of this as compared to the coverage of everything else you know i started today show off by

looking at three of the biggest stories in the last twenty four hours amanda knox returning home from italy the release of the new i phone and chris christie's announcement that he will not run for president despite making this announcement dozens of times before let's play a few clips of. aware going around you know not going to happen here still saying categorically not running down the twelve i'm not running a hundred percent certain about the ground i don't want to run i don't feel like i'm ready to run first in your heart you gotta want more than anything else and we're going to go along with that that was ok so this is a small section of them on top of the political put together of the new jersey governor making it very clear that he will not in fact run and yet there was much more on this non-decision then stories about occupy wall street or really anything else for that matter as a journalist as somebody who's who's attending these occupy wall street protests what are your thoughts about that i think that the mainstream media for the most

part is corporate and that it's dangerous for them to display this anti-corporate rhetoric and i also think that they wonder if their viewers supported them because it moves minute self hasn't gone completely mainstream yet although i think it will very soon they don't want to jeopardize their viewers and their sponsors what you said you think it is going to go mainstream pretty soon what do you think it's going to take i mean certainly over the weekend the arrests that you were part of made more people aware of what's going on the let's it going to take for this movement already been going on more than two weeks what will it take for all the cable networks to make this their lead story. i think that as it grows they will have no choice but to report on it as there are marches with thousands of people taking place all over the country to ignore the story will be pretty difficult because people will see it in their towns and i also think that as the unions join . it will kind of change the characteristics of the movement and people will say

less that they're dirty hippies or anarchistic that more that these are working people fighting for fair wages and the right to have a job many of those unions of course expected to join us tomorrow i know that a lot of eyes are on occupy wall street see how much bigger it grows let me get your take kristen of. sort of the changing sentiment we're hearing a lot of people comparing what's going on through the arab spring in egypt and tunisia some people even calling it the american autumn what are your thoughts on this i think that the movement absolutely gains strength and inspiration from the arab spring and that this is a global revolution and that people all over the world are rising up to say that their their governments don't represent them and they're ready to represent themselves and take control into their own hands and i think that in that aspect we are all the same we're all working people who want he want money who want to be paid for the work that we do and we don't want to continue to pay our government

not to support us do you think kristen that your time behind bars you were with several other people do you think that that was discouraging for a lot of people no not at all i think if anything it inspired people more because there was so much support throughout the entire ordeal from people who weren't being arrested coming over the bridge to tell us that everything would be ok that they had money for us that there was a march going on in support of us and just in the jail so we were all talking supporting each other and just becoming closer if anything i think it it strengthened. really really interesting i do want to thank you for sharing your story with us keep us posted because it seems like this is going nowhere in terms of how fast and big it's getting kristen going a writer for alter net and that's going to do it for now but for more on the stories we covered go to our t. dot com slash usa. excuse me or you tube dot coms.