country house for the day is the blue eagle materials the river economy it used to be the ones that use the term the oil flow the rueben certainly. the flow of. the oysters are loud and their numbers are growing but is anyone listening to their demands and will show you what they in the life of occupy wall street protesters and explore what exactly this movement stands for and what's next. and while the movement may be falling on deaf ears it's getting more help this week first labor unions now distressed homeowners we'll take you to the city of angels where residents facing foreclosure are fighting back against the system.

and while the mainstream media is accusing protesters of not having their act together seems like they do forming a unite against fox news so as to rouse all of that leads out there in the thick of things being hated on by the way where is anderson cooper. it's monday october tenth four pm in washington d.c. i'm liz wall and you're watching our t.v. . and occupy wall street protests have been going strong as it enters its fourth week now hundreds remain camped out on wall street and a spinoff protest here in washington and cities across the country and many ways it's a fascinating story people are actually rising up voicing their frustration and anger at a system that they say allows corruption and greed to flourish and benefit

a privileged few while the masses suffer r.t. has been following this story from day one much of the mainstream media on the other hand has either under-represented or misrepresented the story like this commentator on c.n.n. just like what you heard there is what i saw it's just a bunch of dancing hippies protesting there are all kinds of people there babies teachers cheerleaders uncle sam and. seriously it's a mixed bag but they were happy to take some time from their books so bongos sports training. catered lunch yet it was catered lunch designer yoga clothing absolutely lemon logo computers awesome act books and phone stop and get to the bottom of it. but seriously r.c. has shown you firsthand that many of the people camped out down the street here

don't appear to be crazy yes protests attract your so-called hippies and extremists many of whom may appear to be overdue for a shower but i've personally interviewed a distressed mother sick and tired of her son being deployed to fight in afghanistan time and time again i've spoken to another person whose home was foreclosed and struggling to make ends meet and i've spoken to young college graduates shackled by college debt and graduating and so you believe job market and any of these people feel powerless and are struggling to get their voices heard any way that they can and protesting they say is their only hope of being heard the question now is what comes next beyond staying camped out on the streets what needs to happen to see some real policy changes and see some real results now there's movement as still has no clear leader but it may not be fair to say that these

people are not organized are the correspondent on a stuffy a churkin a takes us on a look at the day of the leg of the occupation. not maced in the face. or drug around during police arrests. the peaceful tone prevails at the occupy wall street protests. hundreds of people have been out here for over three weeks all day and all night and while some are trying to present the movement as just crowd sitting around we take a look at the life of the occupy wall street protester sleep here scarse with the camp a buzz around the clock it's really only the dead of night maybe for i don't know maybe three hours from i don't know well maybe you know three to five years but. we're really well down so the crowds are growing i just took the train down from

buffalo new york to come down just for a daily schedule keeps the occupation in order of preference with money we have early like a general suddenly meeting or working group meeting so that they were really dressed you know the things that they might need for that day volunteers at these groups are busy all day long the media center life streams video of developments from the ground other spread information and occasions on paper we don't want any more tax cuts for millionaires the economy is not in any position right now to give a millionaire the tax cut when everyone is back we can't pay teachers can't pay for people's health care. basically people are not gods. through an occupy wall street journal published by the people for the people it's spread around we had media blackout no one knew about it i mean you call to the common people and they be like i don't know is even happening a big screen with messages sent by occupiers reflects a growing global support what we have here is now over two hundred fifty thousand

people have that signed a pledge of support for the occupiers they are with you we stand with you we are you know. i did and fight for real democracy against corruption i brag government that truly accountable to the people and not to a corrupt. the kitchen is a vase preparing meals for occupiers. those working in sanitation are busy keeping the camp clean you see the same thing that's the shit i try to give folks a little comfort and medication area volunteers give out warm clothes i have more can see assistance we make do they're surrounding. areas. you get the feel of the. this or it can mean fear in a crowd you know it's dark at night and. i couldn't imagine. wondering about what's going on and body of the scrubbers dealy needs brushed aside

self education occupies many here i spend a lot more time reading verses like television are. bigger games or whatever when they're not marching the streets of the financial district they demonstrate they can. those with a creative streak paint and draw sketches to document the revolution to relock some play chess or teach yoga and meditation classes the general assembly meetings pull everyone together. help during the day and then at night. the big decisions are made here for direct democracy as protesting continues from one cause to change a corrupt economic and financial system and ninety nine percent of the country. are . have don't have control of the wealth that they should is not evenly distributed one percent of the country forty two percent are well the do the protester is

packed the mind occupied with revolution these people want to bring real change to america through pro. only we can. lose those who are cheap. and joining me now for more here in studio is author and activist david swanson david thanks for joining us again we just saw the latest there our reporter covering over the weekend you've been camped out here in d.c. and you know we've been seeing these images over the past few weeks where answering our anniversary almost and so the question now is what comes next. well we're not going anywhere we're staying in and week out here to washington on october sixth and congress left town and they get back on tuesday and so tuesday morning is when we really begin to bring our grievances to our government on capitol hill i mean we have lots of other targets in this town buildings that we

have been and will continue to be shutting down but our government hasn't even been here and most of the bureaucrats and the lobbyists and the profiteers have been gone for the weekend and columbus day so we're just getting ready to get started and we have no intention of going anywhere anytime soon ok and as they become i felt they're back into washington how do you think that's going to factor in the movement like you think that'll go the list then see you more i mean what how are you expecting that. change i'm not expecting them to shut down all foreign bases and end all wars and redirect money to human needs by next week i thought this is going to be a long process of shifting our culture of educating each over of coming to realize our strength in numbers but we're beginning to see it we're beginning to see conversations i mean peace and justice activists like me outside of a party or a campaign getting invited on network television and cable television this is new and different the conversation about what the one percent of us is doing to the

rest of us senator sanders getting ben bernanke you to admit that wall street ruined our economy california pulling out of the mortgage fraud settlement restored to see little reports but it's going to be a lengthy process but i'm more encouraged and i've been in ten years ok so i mean do you think that this movement has reached its peak or is there do you have a fear that this may fizzle out and you know the next big stories going to come along i doubt it very much i don't think we're completely dependent on the u.s. corporate media and when we march through the streets of this city and i've heard stories from other cities people who join in the march we shout we're the ninety nine percent and so are you and they cheer and they join. and then we applaud the people honk their horns not you know anger at the traffic jam but in solidarity cabbies show up at freedom plaza and so are you one of the protesters no charge stores are donating things we're beginning to realize that it's not our personal problems in our household but that everybody shares these problems and you know we

slater this is the criticism in the media that there is no leader there's so we still haven't seen this leader or merge and you think that you know with that that this process is able to stay strong without this kind of charismatic leader emerging and inspiring people to persist and to advance their interests we've seen in goodman's our leader i'm reminded of the u.s. army demanding a chief from american indians who didn't have one we don't need that we don't need that imposed on us we're working to avoid having a leader people who saw a politician like barack obama as a leader are very disillusioned right now and that's good they've got that right we don't need a leader we need an agenda and we thought that tax the rich and and the wars that empower the majority rather than the corporate elites you know it's quite simple it's you know it's anyone other than perhaps a c.n.n.

producer can grasp it. right and you know it's obvious what the message as and what these people are excited about but in terms of demands can you can you narrow it down to three things that quantify it or to make it so you know we could steer there's a basis for a change in policy to see some real change if you if you go to the way we have thousands of charismatic leaders but if you go to the top of october two thousand and eleven dot org you'll see seven short bullet points including ending the wars cutting the military spending taxing the rich getting clean elections taking the money out it's better if you read all of that. it's a thousand times shorter than the instruction manual for a d.v.d. player or a television it's completely within the cognitive ability of americans you know if thomas jefferson had had to fit the declaration of independence on a bumper sticker it wouldn't have made it better it would have made it stupid you

know and the fact that the soundbites of shrunk over the years doesn't mean that our demands have shrunk right i mean you can put it into words majority rule but there are a lot of things that the majority wants that aren't happening in washington and you know you know we saw these protests anti-war protests some similar messages in the sixty's during the civil rights movement and and that some of them turned violent which you know we never want to encourage violence but do you think that there needs to be something else like some kind of another push something else to really . how to help this movement take off and we need to use the very strongest tool we have because this is a crisis and that truly is nonviolence nonviolence is much more powerful than violence the two guys who tried to mess up our our march to the air and space museum the other day using violence displayed its weakness violent succeeds around

the world less than half as frequently as nonviolence nonviolence is just much much more powerful it brings more people into our movement it frightens the elites much more severely and it is much more likely to achieve success we just need much more of it. much more and are you the spec being. you know with movements what the tea party movement for example you saw thousands and thousands of people show up i mean how can you get more people because you're saying that you're in the ninety nine percent how do you get the crowds to reflect that number or we're seeing even more people to put even more pressure on government leaders want some of us have been trying to get this started for many years without this much success like we have more people now with more young people more people from different backgrounds now and much more public awareness of solidarity with the movement now than we've seen in the past ten years that has to grow dramatically but this is an

incredibly good start but i think needs to be continued in more or less the same direction it's going david thank you so much for keeping us. informed on the latest on the protest that was author and activist david swanson and the media efforts brushed off the demonstrations some have mocked the protests and some are now being forced to listen up and cover it what role does the media play in the perception of this movement and how about some lawmakers urging them medias who ignore the protests for fear of legitimizing it person answers earlier i spoke to chris chambers journalism professor at georgetown university. i would critique the coverage of this story by the networks and cable giants i would probably give a c. minus. with fox on the low end and ironically networks like m s n b c pretty much in the c.

plus range very likely because they are you know retreating to stereotypes of the people you know either of the square or wherever as hippies or drumbeating you know savages and they are not i mean this this is not an organized movement as say with the tea party where you had conservative business people conservative politicians and pac roups basically orchestrating what the grassroots was doing this is true grassroots so maybe there is a bias on that level there's also a bias in the level that you know wall street funds the corporations that have owned these media outlets since the 1980's so i would say a c. minus and i'm happy you think that being a cop or a camp of a bad by the mainstream media. affecting public perception. of the public perception of this movement is very very weird you have.

the kind of nine hundred sixty s. kind of mean going on where you know people are trying to either channel the sixty's in a positive way or refer to it in a negative way i mean for example you have say that an innocent p.c. particularly in maddow should rachel maddow show and say the nation magazine which is on the left trying to channel this this left this grassroots sort of approach on the right with fox it's basically looked down upon me almost smugly. not even condescendingly i mean almost like a with the state and it also fits into their kind of the sixty's where bad me where you have you know radicals and brawl burners and you know. black panthers that kind of thing i mean they're they're actually trying to dredge them up and you see that in the coverage on fox you see that the comments by people like representative

gruen republican from illinois or peter king. republican from new york basically dredging up those old sixty stereotypes now speaking of fox i want to hear a show you the clap some of the coverage we are seeing on fox ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha now there is geraldo rivera kind of talking on this fight the cancer there and i want to contrast that with. a clip here from c.n.n. to really clean up and rebuild port au prince is going to require more than your shovels and brooms and work crews here's what i know i can tell you at this hour last night basically this exact time there was a large pro mubarak demonstration and the death toll continues to rise the poll numbers at this point we're still very early days. her care.

now anderson cooper are going to fly for all corners of the world from earlier than . wherever they are and wherever there is a disaster all right poor he's a fairy are quite can he walk down the street and papa pokes unself and gets pretty close by pretty easy. well you know people but i think at first blush that those two clips are totally unrelated they are on the one hand you have sending their you know the one guy who they think can infiltrate that group or all go because for all it was is a lightning rod for that kind of of stuff and scotty square to go down there and broadcast live but you know again he goes down there with a new pair agenda as well i mean he goes down there and shows the drumbeating it cetera et cetera but does not talk to the young people in

a matter of fact costa time of the smiley cornell west who serve a dual purpose they can show the kind of reversion or you know that it's some movement of scary black people as well as hippies on the one hand but it also fulfills the role of showing them as they are these are two men who have been very much in opposition to barack obama so it's a very well planned well produced sort of situation and you know the protesters kind of pulling into that when they do the fox news lies chant and that scares fox's demographic on the other hand you have c.n.n. which is owned by time warner which you know is beholden to a lot of investment banks and funds on wall street basically ignoring this until the last minute yes anderson cooper could go down and look at that he could he was and so here's where he was in haiti this is our version of the here square but again there are target demographics main street that watches. anderson cooper

they're not that personally invested in this yet but they will be because. more and more people you see unions and just regular people backing this and you see it all over the country so i think you're going to see c.n.n. and scrub ridge get a little bit more foxes probably will remain the same i'm glad. you know we found one congressman peter king he says he's got on the record saying that if and poor and our people and the media cannot lie get in my story that again you're asked to bring attention to this story. what's your reaction for that well he says he's reading from the kentucky or it's basically that you see you know across the g.o.p. now from broome to eric cantor to peter king who should know better because that you know he's from new york and i'm sure he even knows something it's good that some of these older people who are working people have going to support them where

they are and unions are not i mean this is reading from the same playbook from the sixty's don't agenda my eyes the protests because it'll get larger and these people don't represent america well what they're saying is we do represent america we're just brave enough to go down there because we're young and that's what young people do and i think there are a lot of older people that really saw it with them on this and again i think this is just from the republican talking points if you will and try to deal with it in my eyes this this movement because it isn't a formal movement i mean not like the tea party they'll when you look at their comments about the tea party than oh it's a little you know then it's they're supportive but that is you know the reconcile with grassroots but they were being financed manipulated etc etc by brother organized forces so it's you know i don't i don't fault peter king for saying what he says in that it fits into what their strategy is i'm just saying he

should know better. and that was journalist chris chambers a journalism professor at georgetown university so while the mainstream media continually misrepresents the occupy wall street protesters we want to show you the heart and soul of the protest and shaft right on exactly what's going on in new york's financial district laurie harkness of the resident dot net how does the protests on last article find out what these people are fighting for. i'm here at occupy wall street this week let's talk about that i think what we're really focusing is you know the failure of the system to respond to you know a kind of higher calling for you know our country you know we can't be subjected to . you know one percent of the one percent those the real bad guys you know who make over five million family dollars a year working that well i do feel that the country is in a very serious serious situation or did just the united states or is it

a global issue it's a global issue but the united states says that the center of the of all of the goes to port this is right now going to pieces that are from spain to black money one fifth of spain we have people who live over talk you've got i just saw two a guy over there one of these it really is a little closer to it as a social forces are for i mean thirty five percent of our wealth is owned by one percent of the population if you're going to be that wealthy you should have to pay a tax to be that wealthy if only fair if you think that's going to happen through movements like this you know who knows but as we're out here trying during the sixty's there were riots in newark and l.a. because of poverty inequality racism is set for so i made people rioting and burned their old cities down as soon as that happened within a year there were all kinds of the government programs to help people out because they got people really afraid that was going to spread all over the country. we're

trying to make sure that doesn't happen by having a peaceful revolution some justice and some some enforcement of the regulations we already have on the books that would be a good start up going to happen. i have to believe so yeah i believe so how is this going to achieve that. this is just like the genesis of a bigger movement it's been going on for a couple weeks and every day gets larger and larger so i think eventually it'll bring results but i think there's a large amount of discontent with what's going on in this country and i think that this is it makes it so people can identify me like a lot of people are feeling this way as well so i mean it and the sense of a rallying point i think that this is this is going to draw attention is also going to draw people in whether or not you agree with their math but the bottom line is people are getting the word out. and from new york to los angeles homeowners facing foreclosure are allowed to

express their shared grievances of the occupy wall street who are teams that run on the lambo shows us how those affected by the financial collapse are fighting back against the. protesters bank of america. willing to get arrests in order to send a clear message to wall street. and we. know that wasn't taken to the streets of los angeles this was people from occupy los angeles it's all very well i was and we have here who have just been foreclosed on plenty of police here in force in order to keep this crowd in chat yeah it's a corporate globalization which started in new york are spread. and now some of the

most affected by the nation's economic crisis are joining in rose could tell received an addiction notice after falling behind on her mortgage payments i have. and that was that. my pay also had a death or a family which cause further financial hardship she claims are bankrupt used to deal with or what she tried to renegotiate her mortgage detail was arrested during a peaceful sit in earlier in the week but she believes that this type of political action will bring results and they've been really governing out of place i'm sorry my kids thank you and dad and i think this is the stand that you see that this boy from struggling homeowners to the unemployed people of all walks of life are becoming in polled and by the recent street demonstrations we have to go. to my job to do. but it passed me eight and your side of me and used to work at an auto

parts plant he's part of the four point five million people who have been unemployed for more than a year now this father of two is struggling to hold on to his home state created this mess and they should be held accountable diverse groups have made up the mobilization in cities across america in recent weeks as more people become inspired to vent their frustration with our financial and political institutions this is the job ok. they're still uncertainty about whether these protests will cause direct change or whether other self interested try to capitalize on the popularity but it appears that the financial state of the nation has helped motivate americans to take the moxie to the streets.

on. los angeles. and from los angeles to chicago to new york as we've proven our t. is keeping up to the minute with what's going on in the occupy wall street movement and i want to let you know our intrepid producer lucy craft knowledge is in the midst of the action in new york with the latest hottest news from occupy wall street and this just in lucy has just tweeted this pic of our t. correspondent marina parton with immortal technique mario sat down with the political hip hop artists and will bring you some of the interview all new later today on our t.v. if you'd like to keep up with lucy you can follow her at lucy cavanagh and before we go i want to take a second so welcome and.