they're claiming their territory in hopes of taking back the country's young people i want free movement gaining steam once again the protesters rallied together for a day of action so what was the result and could this be the new dawn of the movement to have a live report from new york. state is a pacific power and we are here to stay. here there and everywhere never mind a crippling economic crisis to make matters worse and u.s. tax dollars are now headed to a top secret base down under and i will speak with

a woman who broke into the house so it's. all over it's all small on the roads hopes and dreams hang in the balance because. little interest want to start from here it's an all out of food fight in washington d.c. major restaurants are trying to keep food trucks to the curb or in this case off the curtains in the nation's capital because something about competition there's a bad taste there now. good evening it is friday november eighteenth seven pm in washington d.c. i'm christine for the hour when you are tuning in to our team. so the occupy wall street movement today enters its third month yesterday of course marks the two month anniversary two months of demonstrations and occupations thousands of people around the world really demanding a change to

a system they say is dominated by an elite class who embody the ideals of wall street money power and corporate greed well main street continues to suffer yesterday also marks a change in the movement two days after zuccotti park was raided by police and tents and large backpacks were no longer allowed back in so we want to look at this afternoon this evening at the future of occupy wall street and what it will take for it to survive artie's honest aasia churkin to reports on the big apple. human tsunami of tens of thousands of people flooded the streets of new york. hundreds arrested dozens beaten dragged and abused by police thousands more protests across the u.s. on thursday the feast of america's civil war against corporate greed and wealth inequality the county park the points where occupy wall street was born looks nothing like it did just a couple of days ago officials were hoping that

a bit to the protesters would put an end to the movement but this has backfired a day of action brought more people out onto the streets with more bigger than ever before it's absolutely a story we haven't seen something like this in america thirty forty years and its history of eating itself to make it to see if we have two months of decision making two months after occupy wall street kick started in the big apple in europe with already has decided to kick protesters out of their camp bloomberg expose themselves as the clueless out of third world dictator that he would like to be this forceful addiction only added more fuel to the fire the way that we were sort of discarded like trash that our civil liberties were really run over by our billionaire mayor has galvanized a lot of people another more powerful stage of occupy wall street out of being campaigns and all over the city. we are absolutely stage two i think what happened yesterday was we show the world that we are strong we are numbers i'm we're we're

angry about what's going on and we want we want solutions protester see the lack of a campaign the presence of police violence and the fact that officials remain deaf to demands who only empower them more they don't store the sun. which is. their desire to stick by each other it's now stronger than before thank. you for being appreciate you guys are green. a new dawn for the occupy wall street movement is on the horizon is their future king are searching. and in our new york studios with the very latest information is on the stasi herself i'm with us and i'm glad you have you here because you have been covering this since day one you were out there on september seventeenth we've seen the pictures we've heard from some of the protesters tell me though how has the mood changed how has the feeling of this movement changed. well you know christine the way this movement has

transitioned is probably one of the most interesting things about occupy wall street we've seen not only the faces of the protesters changing their ages certainly they've gone from sort of the younger student type looking after kists as the media really like to call them from the beginning who came out in dozens and a couple of hundreds and a lot of them were not certain that they would be able to last until december as they had promised in the first place when this whole movement was only beginning to gather their presence has definitely gotten along stronger not just the numbers that we've seen yesterday were thousands tens of thousands of people were protesting here in new york city and across the united states their message has definitely gotten a lot stronger some of the people were sort of on certainly knew there were angry with something they couldn't quite articulate what it was but this is definitely not the case now when we speak to the protesters down there these days certainly everybody knows exactly what they're disappointed with they want specific changes

and it looks like they're not kohli not only going to stick until the december deadline but some are saying they might see even longer until real change occurs in the united states one of the you mentioned there's been sort of a changing face of this movement we've seen a fluctuation in the numbers some days there are thousands of people out there on the streets some days just hundreds there in new york here in d.c. sometimes hundreds and i was doesn't what do you expect to see and term are people losing steam. you know that's what some of the sort of skeptics and those who don't like the occupy wall street movement were hoping and that's certainly what the city's mayors and officials were hoping with the victory of the park and redid zuccotti park they were hoping the protesters would not come back but was as we saw with this deal of action yesterday they actually ended up really you know hurting themselves because what ended up happening is all the people that got kicked out of

friends who got really mad as well and the numbers multiplied by the thousands and certainly we saw this include these incredible crowds are out on the streets yesterday and it looks like this is something that's going to take a new sheet the occupy wall street movement now seems likely not just to be a camp that's positioned there and sort of is there all day all night it looks like now they're going to be more sort of organized big marches and rallies but not sort of on a daily basis and some people are saying that this could only make the message much stronger because what we saw yesterday was pretty unprecedented for the last several years for sure and i thought there were as you're speaking here as we've been showing this video of police you know throwing people down in the street arresting people to move them out of the way i'm wondering you know that aspect of it certainly we've seen in new york in oakland from the most memorable biggest cases of police brutality we've involvement however and we think when we talk about the messaging more here mayor new york mayor michael bloomberg held

a press conference i believe this morning outside of a hospital because that's where one of his officers a twenty four year old police officer had been admitted after being wounded and for is so it seems sort of like people that are against this protest are sort of trying to change the messaging war and say you know these protesters are hurting our police officers talk to me about that. well you know i have to say that's probably a big if for now because especially in bloomberg case i'm sure he's a little worried to see these incredible numbers come out on to the streets of new york they have been trying to see that the media as well not just new york officials that protesters have been rough with the police and things like that but we have to remember that billions of dollars were spent by mayor bloomberg on police overtime for police officers to be able the hundreds that we saw on the streets to be able to sort of resist these protesting so he's certainly not that

concerned about their well being if he is spending injecting these enormous amounts of money into making sure that these protesters are surrounded by these enormous numbers of police but it's hard to see really how the transitioning of officials is going to take place because certainly for the last stu months that the protests have been going on we have been hearing some go back and forth and try to sort of find some sort of similarities and try to show support for the protesters but certainly as of now we have not seen a real big step taken by any of the officials in the united states to show support that they're hearing these people who call themselves the ninety nine percent all right and argue the theater and i'm sure you'll keep your eyes out for us to see what happens this weekend and in the coming weeks thanks so much another question related to the occupy wall street movement is not just what will happen but how it will be covered by the media you know it did take a few weeks for most media outlets to even send in a camera crews to cover occupy wall street as

a serious movement but even when they did it they seem to have their own interpretations in fact i'll show you one just from yesterday here sean hannity on his show on fox news channel. we're dealing with part of now part of the global socialist regime what have we seen here violence rape arson destruction of property sex in public masturbation in public naked people drugs drug paraphernalia you know anti americanism and conservatism in capitalism that's certainly one interpretation and one that causes a lot of people to say you know what the mainstream media has it all wrong they haven't put in the time or the effort to understand what the occupy movement is all about among those people occupy wall street activist jesse la graca he has had a strong presence there and i talked to him in just a little bit earlier about the next chapter. or what you're seeing is a movement come alive you know we've come out of our infancy and we're starting to put our big boy pants and figure out exactly what we want. interesting is that you

know it makes me think of the civil rights movement when people would march down the streets one there in the next year there were people there i could feel that they would have to see it really goes at the end of the civil rights movement in reality the people who are in the streets are still in progress are going away so we're not going away and we're just going to take on a new activity and kind of evolve as a movement to effect as much change as we can argue about wall street though in many ways has come to be embodied by the occupations themselves the encampments people staying overnight in squares in parks in cities around this country and a lot of those not just to several of those camps have been dismantled were dismantled around the same time police officers they're not letting people back in what happens next then and i think it's interesting that you compared to the civil rights movement what happens next if the occupations are no longer. well you know forty years ago they tried throwing rosa parks or the bus now they're trying to

throw us out of the park i think that the people involved in occupy wall street will find creative ways to be involved whether it's putting a tent down or margin through the streets or being politically active this movement's going to continue to transform so i think yes we should try to be as this was possible if you can put it down i don't see why there's any law against you doing so but we also need to be moving beyond just having to say in staging gillie protest actions and find new and creative ways to force the change and reform that we want this country as well as another police around the world i gathered as wondering is that in the works i mean certainly you have been so active in new york in occupy wall street in zuccotti park in terms of the general assembly's in terms of actions and things that are planned not just for the next week or so but for the next several months are there things in the works that you see will translate into action into actual change. but i mean there are a lot of laws that people in occupy wall street would like to see and acted we need

to find the most effective way of facilitating that change whether it's through elections or running around candidates or you know just finding a platform that we support but i think the trick is to get people out in the streets talking to their neighbors whether you're putting it. in the street and i think the conversation or thoughts i think that people who are participating in the general assembly line they'll have their voices heard and once we really get together we'll come to an agreement on the best course of action so you know we were just in phase one which was you know kind of the infancy of our movement now we're kind of getting into grammar school let's say and i think as the months go by we will become what we find more focused in our efforts and hopefully we'll be able to achieve a quite a bit i want to talk about one of our favorite subjects test even mainstream media and how they have been covering this an event on a play something that was on c.n.n. just a few days ago and i'll get there we action and then we get this. is

. exactly what we have to do is make sure we bring the jobs. and make sure that there's. i don't think there's anybody who's going to say they're not. listening to you is this this is just really easy to do anything at all other than disrupting traffic and making it harder for people to get to their real jobs. all right so does on one hand you have this reporter saying these protesters as a really achieve anything other than blocking traffic and preventing people from getting to their real jobs things like a little bit of a dead on the reporters part but on the other hand i mean isn't it fair for people to be annoyed for people who actually do have jobs and are prevented from going after people who are late to work because they're sitting in so much traffic because the roads are blocked. you know going back to the civil rights movement i can imagine that the people. there might have been upset that the traffic got

blocked for a couple days you know if you're going to be ten minutes late to work but you had a better chance or inequality i think in sacrifice worth making so no one said this was going to be easy no one said reform was going to be easy or change would be easy and i think that if the least sacrifice people make is just being caught in traffic for a few minutes there's a lot you know it's not much to complain about as far as the media's coverage it's rather frustrating i'd say you know the c.n.n. clip that you just played obviously the reporter doesn't want to talk about the bigger issues about the crimes took place while she wore the way corporations pliable politicians campaign funding he wanted to talk about petty innocuous toughly trash and you know let's be honest the tea party was protesting corporate taxes being too high i'm sure c.n.n. has given them quite a lot of positive coverage and were saying that corporate taxes are too low that they should be contributing as much as the average person of a corporation is a person why don't they pay higher taxes like we do so i think c.n.n.

at least in this instance has done a very poorly disguised job of deflecting from the issue when in reality we all want this conversation to take place and i kind of c.n.n. and fox news another that we should be more honest in their coverage of times as the now about sort of. the evolution of the movement let's call it and there are people that are worried because i have to say you know in covering this since the first day over the last two months the protesters for the most part especially in new york where you are have really really been peaceful. what we signed yesterday michael bloomberg of course wanting to highlight that one of his police officers a twenty four year old police officer was wounded was in the hospital while working to try to keep our eye wall street protesters out of the street and he was injured is there a chance that in order to get the message out that this is going to turn take a turn into a more violent uprising. no chance at all the moment this becomes officially violent i'm done with this movement and it's not going to happen i think that there

are some people who would suggest that and i would say that they should be taken seriously what we're doing is engaging in civil disobedience in a nonviolent manner throughout the country we've been protesting for two months and there's been only where strange incidents that have nothing to do with the protests itself so i think that we will maintain the civility that we've maintained and i think that the best way for you know us to avoid any issues is to have the police come and observe us and protect us instead of bringing weapons in right here you know it's very frustrating to me that the police want the riot gear and people surprise a first line it's the coverage often says protesters clashed with police when it ought to say police attack on armed citizens so to me i think the coverage is skewed i think if the police were directed in a better way by mayors labeling bergen police captain sleekly kelly that we would be able void these unfortunate incidents that none of us want to see take place now

right activists not my wall street protesters that they were grabbed and as you have been one of the most articulate and outspoken voices we do always appreciate having you come in our style to weigh in. so for a few minutes i'd like to take a look at what's going on in italy and greece and also make some comparisons with the occupy movement here in the u.s. now in all cases this movement started by people who felt powerless living in a system controlled by the most wealthy and powerful one percent they feel the only thing they have left is their voices and their dedication to protest and many continue to question whether or not their actions will be enough to bring an opportune start looking for more to talk more about that i spoke to charlie mcgrath and there he is founder of wide awake news dot com to start things off i asked him with some preston is it fair to compare what's happening here to what's happening in telling greece has to take. i mean absolutely it's a gangster protest. and i think once the occupy movement realizes that.

the are protesting against the same people that the tea party movement was protesting against you know since two thousand and eight you know that parallel needs to be drawn and it needs to be shouted from the rooftops because the occupy movement here you know is talking about going after the two to fill firms on wall street if you party movement is talking about it too much government but the the message that needs to be delivered to all the people in occupy and the tea party movement is they are absolutely one in the same so the people who are protesting wall street right now they are protesting the government and vice a versa so if you look overseas and see what the people are protesting there it is the implementation of banks to rule over these countries you know your report talk about mario monti the demus rate these are based are puppets pappa demas comes right from the european central bank to replace the prime minister of greece because the prime minister of greece had the us audacity to put the big referendum

for his people if they were going to accept this bailout you were within two weeks he was gone and we have the banks there in there if you look at mario monti the in in italy history. record he is also up with he's the head of the european trilateral commission he's a builder burger he has the right paid agree to work on behalf of the banks there's this is why people are in the streets around the world so you're saying charlie that you know our people call call it scapegoating what we saw in italy in greece they sat down avondale sat down they said ok we're going to get two people in who actually know how to fix theirs who know what's going on you're saying the opposite you're saying that these leaders are actually speaking for the majority of their people and now they've been replaced by leaders who are have a much closer ties with sort of the one percent and those countries they are the one percent these are banks to beat any big comb from their community you know i think the legitimate fairly strongly in italy he is like he was under

tremendous pressure to do something on behalf of the banks to make sure they would realize the loss the same thing inside of greece and we can't even imagine what was said to them behind closed doors especially in greece when they were going to put it to a referendum but the proof is in the putting look what we have right now we have. the leadership being completely decapitated from these the trees and we have interim. in there so they can do the bidding of the thinks well let's contrast them for a moment what we've seen in these two countries certainly we saw a changing of the guard a change in leadership as a response to the financial crises in both those countries what about what's happening here occupy wall street still of course in its very young stages only two months voices are loud messages becoming more clear one about how our government here in the united states has been responding to the to that you know it in some respects a lot of people in the alternative media community don't like the word democracy but in some respects europe is more of a democracy you know they have a more of

a democratic situation going on in europe than we do here so it least inside of europe you have the seventeen e.u. nations that have a voice and. what we're finding out is if the voice isn't lining up with the banks they're gone. let's talk about the secret super committee i mean in some senses and the super committee came about because the left and the right as you say seem to have a little there of trouble first raising the debt ceiling dealing with budget issues so the super committee is formed a lot of things that we've seen happen especially in the last year or so have happened as a result of or perceived crisis here in the i.c. i know you've spoken about this a little bit the results of crisis governing talk a little bit about what you see as some of the biggest issues with us ok well great point in you're absolutely right you know for three years we've been dealing with this government by crisis. we're not even a shoddy democracy in this country we govern for the next crisis if the crisis is

that the financial markets are going to freeze up with we don't bail out the too big to fail we get it the last a congress represented the people of this country within september of two thousand and eight when it richard a no vote in the payload and that was charlie mcgrath founder of wide awake news dot com. president obama has spent the last few days in australia and while i was there he spoke to the australian parliament about the united states' commitment to the is a pacific region no doubt sending a pretty clear message to beijing took a lesson as we end today's wars i've directed my national security team to make our presence and mission in the asia pacific a top priority as a result reductions in u.s. defense spending will not. i repeat wal-mart at the expense of the asia pacific now you may not know is australia is also home to a highly secretive sophisticated and large military base it's called behind gap and

from the outside it looks like there are twenty six huge golf ball looking in tennis many believe it is information central intelligence being distributed from this base all over the world including to u.s. commanders and may have had a central role in the two thousand and three shock in our invasion of baghdad and the animal hern is an activist who actually broke onto the property a kind gap and told me why she felt this was so important to do this or we could that because we felt that had a right to know what was going on and i got it because it's actually a sacred place and the treaty that governs its presence in australia is actually secrets and even astray and members of parliament are not permitted to know what goes on a quiet guy so as a strains we thought well this isn't right if we live in a democracy we are have to have a sort of things accountable to do to our parliament and to the people so we went to pine gap and we did what we called our citizens inspection for suspected

terrorist activity and so we dressed up in our white lab coats and our hats when citizens inspection shame on our coats just trying to make the point that we want transparency in this country and we don't want any secretive activity going on especially activity that so. they grasp the gravity of that being involved in the war in iraq without that being an accountable to the government and to the people so that's why we went there to raise awareness and to highlight the role of mind that well done how far did you get and what did you see. well we didn't get to sa because we'll rested by. quiet well i think you're ready opportunity comes tries to encourage service and also. we didn't get too far but it was very interesting in just moving through the no i've sure that's why i got this located in the middle of a style you can sit right in the center of australia and agreed to keep quiet and just

running twenty four hours and we know that if you got got it it was not a high supply. and when we were arrested there was quite a fuss my that we had got bob and jane pretty forces there were very well bombs that we had actually managed to penetrate area of the guy and that was they don't know what was the fallout i mean what what what were you charged with and what we've done for us we were mr charged under an act of parliament. that's going on different special undertakings act and in fact with us on i guess in the cold war era to suppress information about secret by the strata so this act of parliament was dusted off and used for us for the first time on eva and so wi-fi started you can present in fact we were. charged and arrested and convicted and we didn't get such behavior penalty although the government did appeal prosecution but

in the end we also if you know because. it was a miscarriage of justice and conviction because we were not allowed to present any information and any evidence that we had gathered from experts about the role of function of. doing that it was not for the defense of australia and we were not committed to bring that information into the court room and so in the end we were acquitted of those charges that's what i want to ask you then i mean why i mean the us does seem to have bases just about everywhere around the world but if you think of you know countries that the us has no problem with at all australia would be one of them so there's got to be a reason why this is the location of this highly secretive sophisticated base. well this is two reasons one of them is that it's a convenient location in terms of the functioning of these types satellite bases so it's in the middle of it and has a clear view of the of the space in the satellite systems that it needs to have

access to so logistically it's a good position but i think the other migration is a political one and that is there's a lot of talk going on at the moment to train our politicians about how we're best friends and how we're the closest allies or countries and at one stage a former prime minister john howard actually called himself the deputy sheriff to president george w. bush which our largest because we would actually prefer to have an independent foreign policy than to be the deputy of another country so i think one of the reasons is because that's america knows that it can rely on astrologers politicians who are quite sycophantic towards the united states at the moment i'm wondering what your reaction was i mean our president has just spent the last few days in your country we just played a clip about the commitments that no funding that is cut will impact the u.s. presence in the asia pacific reason region one what was your you in the other activists i'm not sure if you're still in touch with them but what was your response to hearing what president obama said and to see that that relationship is

still extremely strong. we were quite shocked by the announcement that was made this week that there will be a new american military base established under the star use north with two thousand five hundred remains now to be permanently based in australia now this came out of blue and astrologers are still reeling at its decision and its announcement because we're still trying to figure out what exactly this is going to mean for australia but one thing that we're sure of this is not in the best interest of our country. that was peace activists donna will her in sydney australia and that is all the time we have but for more on the stories we covered priority dot com slash usa check out our you tube page you tube dot com slash r t america i wanted to mention too at the beginning of the show we told you we'd be showing a story about food truck wars well we'll set out in a half hour at eight o'clock so be sure to tune in.