same brutality different location today a nasty tune out of views it city as police in nashville arrest dozens of occupy wall street or but it doesn't stop there america's finest city experiencing some not so fine behavior with fan diego police in riot gear pepper spraying peaceful protesters will have the latest on all the occupy wall street movement. and out of the movement throwing marines and military personnel band together in support of their injured brother scott also an occupy wall street as a whole so with those who fight abroad heading to the front lines that home will anything change. and she is a symbol of the american dream and today lady liberty turns one hundred twenty five years old but with mass protests economic inequality and deportations skyrocketing the statue of liberty reached her statue of limitations we'll debate. they're not

starting businesses they're not cars they're not house it's not starting at least not the children instead they're paying off the debt this says student debt surpasses the historic trillion dollar mark rather than bailing out the banks should the u.s. government bail out the suffering generation. it's friday october twenty eighth eight pm in washington d.c. i'm christine you're watching our team well today is day forty two of the occupy wall street protests and it has become very clear this week but this has become a nationwide movement. this is video from nashville tennessee very early this morning protesters have been occupying legislative plaza. for about three weeks now they were told they would

need to evacuate by last night as you can see those who stayed were removed from the area by police police cited concerns about safety after reports of fights pfaff's and disruptions by homeless people occupiers say police intentionally starts patrolling the area once the camp was set out leading to the increase in crime and now to standing idle california you can see police making an arrest there as other protesters stood their ground in on more than forty people were arrested also told that officers confiscated all personal belongings as well as supplies and food and hundred donated to the protesters this video here also taken from earlier this morning. this week of course the march by the situation in oakland california there you see there iraq war veteran scott olsen he was standing there peacefully protesting and moments after you see this moments later he was severely injured and carried away taken to the hospital with a fractured skull from police non-lethal projectiles this sense of shock waves

through the world and in particular through the military veterans community as well as the occupy movement take a look at this two this is video from last night in oakland more than a thousand people came out with candles and signs holding vigil in honor of scott olsen we're told by the way his condition has been upgraded from critical to fair hospital officials say scott suffered minor brain damage he's apparently right now awake and aware but on able to talk and may need surgery on his brain two tours in iraq and it's oakland california where he's badly injured it's a reality that really has outraged so many people including military veterans in this country including one in particular you remember you may remember this video we showed you last week. the that was sergeant smart thomas yelling at police officers in new york about their

treatment of protesters now this is before scott olsen was injured and this video here went viral on you tube with millions of hits i spoke to mark thomas just a little while ago about his reaction to this turn of events. this reaction especially at the video that was why rule was shocking this release scott olsen is you know a patriot for this country and he you know decided to go out and stand up for the people he chose to protect in iraq so. you know the police no disregard for him or his uniform was shocking you know i believe so interesting to him he was wearing a veterans for peace t. shirt at the time that this happened i know that your reaction is not unique a lot of people are just simply outraged when they saw these pictures come down i want to play some video from a couple nights ago in new york when news of what happened in oakland

a raid came down these are some pictures of occupy wall street protesters in new york just a couple nights ago the protesters showing solidarity with what happened in oakland i think. we're seeing your head in this video actually as well i'm pretty sure you were down there it just tell us a little bit about what that was like so many people in the three it looks like there's police officers there as well what was the mood i just a couple nights ago there in on occupy wall street in new york. well the mood out there was. you know one of shock and disbelief of what happened in oakland and then it turned into you know pride and solidarity we initially started. peaceful protesters walking in the street if somebody would slip up and you know put

a foot into the street that police you know saw a man get pushed down just you know step in you know one foot off the car and so you know the protests had decided that they would peacefully march through the streets you know you know chanting that you know these are trees because you know that fact they are streets and the police are you know really going hard to. stop what we're trying to do peacefully and trying to you know i feel like they were trying to incite violence and slight you know be disorderly but everybody kept it peaceful nobody you know did any sort of violent act with the police but. in my twenty five years on this that was one of the greatest things that i've ever been a part of so. please with the people who were out there with the way they protested the way he acted the way they carried themselves. scott olsen is an american hero and you know that that march you know signified how we feel about the people of

oakland and all the occupations across the world do you think that this will change anything shamar i mean for the occupy wall street movement have been going on for much more than a month now but certainly just week and there's a different feel and yet there's a different mood from people that we interviewed people that we talked to about this what do you think will change if anything on the ground where you are in new york. well that's as far as it will change this is a progressive movement what happens is. the media that is a wall of mainstream is you know put out a lot of different images in a lot of different you know soundbites of what's really going on what they really think what they say is really going on but florida goes the american people is going to catch on that we're all about then this is this is about the not enough percent of america that a hardworking that you know good citizens that go to you know go to work every day

come home and take care of their kids this is this is about the america that we all know and love is what most people you know start seeing you know the kind of people that are really out there once the media stars the training for what it really is i think that more people will come out and support and you know we just have to you know get this country back on track and you know get it back to where it needs to be i think it's so interesting when you talk about the america that we all know and love there are so many people both here in washington and in the mainstream media on those cable network people who are constantly talking about loving the country supporting the troops wanting to be resilient in afghanistan in iraq wanting to just support the military in so many ways a lot of times it's so interesting these are the same people who are also saying pretty crazy things about the occupy wall street protesters calling them unpatriotic telling them they don't love freedom they don't love this country what do you think about those two very in my mind different opinions coming from the

same people. i think they just don't understand what is going on and i think you know even before i went to occupy wall street for the first time the media coverage was you know that we smokin hippies and you know these are people who who are not resilient who don't want to work and things of that nature but both my parents are the military i served in the military we have college educated people i don't understand how you can go to college or serve in the military or be a fly a slider or you know being a local you know as a construction worker to not be considered resilient so you know we have a lot of people out there who are from all walks of life but the media portrays it as one aspect of life and so that's why the opinions of who is down and what's going on is different from you know place to place but i will be you know i'll be the first one and so you that we are we are resilient and that's what we're all here fighting for the people no matter you know if they believe in us and at the

end of the day if we're successful then we'll all we will all live well and you know credit needs to be given to the occupy a few fires throughout the twenty four hours a day seven days a week you know you know the freedom of this country and we should mention to scott olsen that injured veteran from oakland was protesting but he is somebody who has a job in addition to having served two tours in iraq if you don't mind started out if i could put up a photo this is a picture of it jay genteel that we have this is a former sergeant with the u.s. marine corps we spoke to him yesterday and he was just in shock he's holding a picture of scott olsen he's also holding a sign that says you did this to my brother i know this picture really alyssa did a lot of response including comments from other veterans and one of them really sticks out to me it says i think it was aimed at police it says you have awoken the big dogs marines we need you military personnel we need you to stand up i'm

wondering if this continues if there's more police brutality that we see do you expect that former military will come out and sort of act as a security force do you think they should what are your thoughts about that. well i encourage all military members that are veterans you know i don't really. want active duty to you know leave their post because you know i don't want you know to jeopardize their careers but i do believe that all veterans you know have a responsibility to protect these people because we you know like myself we fought in foreign lands for you know the you know the idea of peace and that we were there to be you know to you know ensure freedom in our way of life in america and so to come back to america and not you know stand up for the people that are here the people that you fought for you know it is an injustice to yourself and you know which of values are i would also tell another side of the story this week we also

saw in albania new york the governor of new york the mayor of albany asked the state and local police to enforce a curfew there and police officers actually defied their orders they said you know what these protesters are being peaceful we don't want to start any riot and they actually defied orders by your reaction to that and if you think you know that's something that we're going to see more and more because of what we've seen coming out of new york city coming out right. first of all i must say that is you know i applaud those men and women who are out there who allow those peaceful protests it's a peacefully protest you know that's what we need more in this country because you know the police have to understand that they're flooded in ninety nine percent in and that we all look up today and we all you know have to put our trust in the police officers to protect us on a daily basis regardless of how they feel about you know who we are as far as agenda what we're there for what we're doing as well as with people you know they need to understand you know that their jobs are great sites is that's why you know

little kids want to be police officers and firefighters when they go because you know it's about serving a community and i would hope that everybody you know take that as an example that you know we we have to come together this is about all of us this is about it's not about you know the college students it's not about the nine to five workers it's not about anybody else but the whole collective unit as america as americans and you know as a as a global in a global world as well argentina are comic want to thank you so much for joining us today thank you iraq veteran also occupy wall street protests are joining us from new york and the movement is changing just not in the new faces it's bringing out but also in the way it's being covered by the media despite very little interest by the mainstream media at first and movement continued to grow and continues now to prevail and to bring about more recognition for alternative media i think

a little while ago to running a college and she told me what she is seeing on the ground. all the scenes the police brutality that you just showed they've been seen around the country and around the world and i think one fascinating aspect of this is that it's really exposing a large part of the country you'd never been exposed to plead for johnny before to the militarization of law enforcement the labor of the three decades or so so i think that's really a big deal because the people in this country words who are familiar with the sleeper child are generally sort of low income minority communities and longtime active and occupy wall street is a movement that really consist of a broad spectrum of people in causes who never seen this kind of stuff before so they're really shocked and it's really galvanized the movement and led to i mean thousands of people out a candlelight vigil been protesting what happened in oakland the other day i think that such an interesting point you raised and i was down at occupy d.c.

just a few days ago and people were talking about that they were saying you know we're not surprised this police brutality is nothing new to our community but it is certainly getting a lot more media attention so you can be as is speaking of media attention i want to put up something interesting this photo this was in the washington post today a police officer petting a cat in oakland apparently this cat was left behind by one of the protesters possibly a protester who'd been arrested kind of an interesting choice for a photo taken just after police used tear gas and projectiles critically injuring one of those protester and that's the photo that we're seeing of this police we putting this cat when you think about that well i think generally other mainstream media often present. the police brutality and in this case like the front page of the washington post you see an officer putting a cat and i think the headline with something like protestors but overstating their welcome or something along those lines just sort of you know sort of getting this

idea that easy for a judge or. you know in a way there's been destructed so there is good reason why these are really never look how gentle the police are and whatnot but i think one thing that's definitely happened it's been ok because you've gotten so big that it's so difficult to really ignore it and there's so much independent media coverage of it that they think that an article in the washington post isn't enough to cover what's been happening between the. president. and that was ron your colleague reporter for alter net. many protesters occupy wall street say the country is simply on the wrong track and also started discussions about the extent to which so many feel imprisoned here and about how freedom is no longer a given in this country as today is the one hundred twenty fifth anniversary of the commemoration of the statue of liberty a symbol of freedom and opportunity in this country that calls itself the land of the free and home of the brave however people have

a very different idea about what this means earlier i spoke to two people with two extremely different opinions president of less government and just a look back on an activist of the occupy wall street movement in new york is making its way around the country to other movements i so then a map this map that shows that if land in this country were distributed the same way as wealth is distributed it would look like this the one percent owning the majority of it and you see the nine percent only some of the bottom there the remaining ninety percent so little here is their reactions of the snap you know my grandfather used to say so you've never lived close was trying to figure and i think when you use these crowds he paints a very clear picture my kids are people i'm not against capitalism i'm against crime and what we have right now is an unjust system that exploits human resources natural resources i mean literally the fact is that since the one nine hundred eighty s. we just have been totally stagnant while all the world generating this time has gone to the wealthiest people in the system and the trickle down that we've been

promised for thirty years has not taken place so i feel that we need to. try a different track to give people the same opportunities are enjoyed by those who are given those opportunities based on their own income says he says numbers don't necessarily lie i mean do you at least understand why some people are upset as they continue to see your service through their misguided mr acted as government grows the gap between wealth and poor poor grows because if you increase regulation if you increase taxes the rich are already rich it doesn't hurt them if you took every penny bill gates made this year in taxes it wouldn't hurt him he'd still be rich but the people who are trying to become rich or woefully impeded by all these additional regulations or impediments to new business start ups to newbridge the rich people can absorb those but those those business costs for people who are trying to grow their businesses cannot so as government grows and it has grown exponentially over the last thirty years it was a guess the future of your one of the decisions that government has made was the

decision to extend the bush tax cuts when you do that and you know not adding new taxes but extending tax cuts for the wealthiest americans hearing the sound job creators making with a quote maintaining the rate of under the last few years of bush however that has resulted in wealthy people getting much out of their well running they earned the earlier money must share more of the year. they got less of the other. their money did what about all the people who were earning their money we're going to jobs and these large corporations the c.e.o.'s of which are earning more and more money are cutting people's jobs they're laying off workers and what about those going to come to work capitalists a somewhat people do get another job retraining themselves don't really have to meet all certainly. ground there isn't a story of three brothers my best friend was a union iron worker when the economy class in two thousand and eight he was not able to find a job so he didn't exactly what you would suggest he retrain themselves into this

new economy and study to be urgency. technician of emergency work even though he missed his girlfriend is a professional as well she was there and why you so you have a two income household now my best friend who sees people's lives only thirteen dollars an hour they are struggling to figure out what they can afford this month went for food now for cabalistic system is working and regular what it's like out of the system i consider a corporate assistance and i think it's a lot of favors to multinational corporations crony suttles and that's obama but oh you guys went and then their lives changed that and i think you understand that word i mean to say that it's socialism right now it detracts from an honest conversation i'm trying to get is socialism in what regards because that word they could very well the word yeah you know the guys use it an honest man i think you guys use that if you if you my for me it was redistributed to people who don't that's the little things that you're shooting at the only one president obama and it's insulting for you cannot be how they're going to hear that made in there is no evidence occasion or about our wars right so you're basically saying if we task

people to fund these wars i mean that's i was us the war you're talking about it we're having the wars nevertheless let's just you know in that late with this is the first time in american history that we've had warfare and cut taxes and seen time that's created a massive deficit no it wasn't after we spend one of those we spend less on both wars but the entire length of the war and we don't hear about the status hazard without absolute certain numbers don't lie the numbers don't lie but let's be honest health care versus ten years of record war you really can't compare the two so she says no you aren't going because if you can where the last bill has even been implemented maybe i deserve it last i because they could make it work but many conservatives have taken this as an overreach of government i would i don't have health insurance because there's no way if the government were in go through the government people already to run health care didn't george washington ordered that every able bodied and purchase firearms during the work of the revolutionary war and that's a man that was at that well that's i mean those predikant he was three constitutional process and i think he supported a mandate everybody left he was only going to do it and also are seeing and he's

massively would rise to contrary to i think in the event that you. you are visiting and taking part of the us that occupy wall street movement what is it that you and other people out there are fighting for i believe this is a foe for economic justice i believe it's a fight for social justice the reality is i don't want to take away the ability from people who have those successes i don't want to take that away but so many millions of people are being denied he has to share in a sacrifice for a disaster that they did not create and they're being denied these opportunities that we were promised i mean a lot of this argument is about broken promises that we were promised or security to see my grandparents had government failure government failure really you guys throw that word a lot of around but i'm not sure if there's a security private problem either that i'm the other is going to be received or security if you're telling me that she's participating in a party scheme i would rather go to bed now my mother and look at your mother and them up in social security i think some of your users need some non-disabled about the consequences because a wall street no one ever mentioned be able to see on social security and out of

social security i think a lot of people who receive social security not only now not your mother in the future but what about all these people in the past few decades would disagree with you that it's a failure it works the money though is it a it's a yes it's true it's a dollars and it's going to drain the girls and there is a lot of people that are older now working are not out on the streets a large. area where you're going to hundred percent. for elderly americans has gone most everyone is under that since nine hundred fifty they had ninety percent tax rates on the wealthiest one percent in the smallest of income inequality i mean really look at it let's say we went back to tax rates what they actually thought it was reagan social security and if you get one point two percent you and i have an honest debate with it i want to know more it's what i do you have one more example so we're talking your president right now and it's going to go underwater but so are you at times or for one cake is out of people's world he's turned into a tool and they don't want to tell him the israeli aggression is their money disappear the government's crashing right now it's a good thing for is the dollars will go and that was occupy wall street activist

jesselyn graca and the president left government money. moving on now to an issue that is weighing on the shoulders and rained on the bank accounts of so many young people in this country debt from student loans president obama has pledged to help students saddled in loan debt with a plan called pay as you earn but the problem remains for millions in this country that the decision to get a college degree is often too expensive r.z. correspondent was want takes a closer look. they call it the american dream because you have to be asleep to believe that student debt is crushing the american dream for millions of students and college graduates it's this thing that eventually you'll have to kind of face. you kind of pretend it doesn't exist because if you did then it's it's a bit daunting vast majority of youth are only able to. pay for college which birds for the first time in the u.s. total student debt has surpassed one trillion dollars now more than the nation's credit card debt this as unemployment amongst college graduates is at an all time

high president obama recently announced his plans at least to known that we're going to make it easier for you to have one payment. at a better interest rate and this will last it will cost taxpayers a dog but it will save you money and it will save your truck but his plan won't help millions of americans already drowning in debt and it excludes private loans which is where many students run into trouble due to their high interest rates move on dot org launched a petition to eliminate student debt which has garnered over six hundred forty seven thousand signatures if you put more money into the people they're going to spend and. it will create economic growth and it will create jobs robert applebum says bailing out students rather than banks will stimulate the economy by putting more cash in the pockets of the educated middle class they're not starting businesses they're not buying cars they're not buying they're not

starting. in other developed countries getting a financial education isn't such a financial burden you have free tuition in france denmark finland they don't do anything overseas and when they do pay the price tag isn't as shocking as it is in the u.s. twenty one countries in europe for which we have data. there's only four who have jewish and more than two hundred dollars compared that to an average of over a thousand for public and over twenty thousand dollars for private u.s. colleges many cost much more the average reader charging thirty five to forty five thousand dollars a year and we all met the person i work at to university and i netted out. twenty eight thousand dollars a year and it's not getting any better over the past two decades which you have directed over four hundred percent this year alone the cost of college shot up over

eight percent occupy wall street protesters camped out here and across the nation say this is yet another example of rising inequality with millions shackled to college debt for years and in many cases decades in washington love lost already well taken to archie next week for our continuing coverage of the occupy wall street protests the mainstream media networks might be quick to shine the spotlight away from the protests but archie is on the ground and we're not leaving until the protesters do in new york this weekend police are threatening to evict occupy wall street camps protesters are holding their ground and from coast to coast the movement is spreading from wall street to main street and americans from every walk of life are picking signs and will be there when they do. plus forget green technology what if i told you there was a nuclear reactor that couldn't melt down created cheap energy and burned old rock

weapon stockpiles is this a pipe dream or could it be for real and how soon could it be coming to an energy grid near you. closet's a meeting of the economic minds the g. twenty is gathering once again this time in france and they certainly have a lot to catch up on including the european debt crisis global unemployment and poverty just to name a few above with all these issues and so little time will anything actually come out of this meeting will be on the ground in a can at the very latest those are just some of the stories we have on tap for you next week along with much more news and in-depth interviews so keep it tuned right here to our team i was going to do it for now but for more on the stories we covered go to arts you got com slash usa also check out our you tube page that address you tube dot com flash r.t. america you should also follow me on twitter twitter handle is x. frowsy the big picture with thom hartmann is coming up in a half hour and i thank you so much for watching i'm christine press out. r g is

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