occupy wall street starts off the month of may with a bang protests around the country clashes with police and even a few arrests i'll tell you what happened overnight now ask if these occupiers could be the future leaders of the u.s. . and we expect college students to try new things back even experiment a little but i bet you didn't think i was talking about dabbling in rome like it or not unmanned aerial vehicles are coming to a college campus near you so have drones just become that much a part of life in the u.s. . plus a british panel rules that murdoch unfit to run the news back in the us a fox news

is raking in record profits so what's with the disparity and has this media mogul found the secret formula to making news a profitable business again we'll explore. it's wednesday may second four pm in washington d.c. i'm christine for you're watching our t.v. . well let's begin with a look at what we have seen unfold on the city streets over the last twenty four hours both in this country and around the world may day protests have sparked more than just discussions about workers' rights and immigration reform and here in the u.s. much of may day was actually organized and celebrated by those involved in the occupy wall street movement this was a day that had been planned for months deemed by many occupy activists as comeback day the resurrection of the movement in a form visible to the public and those not involved in some of the work that's been

done behind closed doors well argy correspondent on the stasi a church going to was up late into the night in new york and takes a look at some of the biggest protests that took place around this country. may day workers united after winter pause the occupy movement took the streets of its birthplace new york back. on a day of action protests took place in the big apple and throughout the country the divide between the political and. the workers at zero. percent rapidly growing by wall street movement to be a new stage in the battle for social and economic justice. but what started out peacefully. turned more intense as the day went on with about thirty arrests a new york after an ocean of people marched through with streets the movement is

still alive it's growing and people are taking notice and made their way towards wall street. people may step from portland to overland which saw nine arrested with a new vigor with which people flooded the streets is this a new dawn for occupy wall street the problems are real and they persist and they're getting worse the problem. kleptocratic banking. confiscating well and this is causing economic to wrest. the wealth inequality continues to be a major issue for the working and many non-working americans. more hundred americans as much wealth as the bottom hundred fifty million these protesters say the politicians turned a blind eye to the needs of the people as they promote the interests of wall street here. the system the demonstrators see as broken and corrupt with the democrats

and the republicans but both disappear into some nasty hell that you know one of one hundred dante circles always said. since the beginning of occupy wall street lasts. roughly twenty one hundred people have been arrested throughout the u.s. in the tourist incidents of police brutality. with dozens more last night the question now is whether the new took over american streets only day will continue with the seeing force to become a tangible next step of the american people taking the sting back. from space you took you know fourteen. all right so may first known elsewhere as international workers day is over but what did it accomplish and what's next in the struggle for workers' rights and for a change in the system many say benefits the one percent and not the ninety nine percent some say louder action is needed others an overhaul in the system and let's go to new york now and speak to george martinez an occupy wall street activist also

adjunct professor at pace university and he's also running for congress in new york's seventh congressional district hey there george i guess just give me a breakdown on what you saw yesterday is occupy back in full force what we saw yesterday was that occupy never left. even though in new york city we got kicked out of liberty square and we had a tough winter that people were working people were building coalitions building alliances and preparing for spring and summer activities so what we saw yesterday was that it never left its back on the public agenda that people can see it again it's visible in the better to weather the better the responses in the streets and now you have a unique situation you're running for congress to be a part of the u.s. government the very system that so many people affiliated with occupy wall street point to as you know plagued with disease and wondering why this is the road that you choose to take. well first of all it's absolutely played with disease so

there's absolute solidarity on some of the biggest critiques and criticisms but it's important as we're building autonomous institutions to help solve community problems locally with which is that in the true spirit of of the occupy movement that we don't neglect the formal the formal apparatus and the formal mechanisms listen the reality is we can we can occupy the boardroom and we can draw attention to some of the the corporate corruption and some of the exorbitant amount of compensation for c.e.o.'s and we can call attention to them but we don't have a legal remedy to be able to remove more or affect their their bottom line but when goldman sachs is donating their money to elected officials and buying basically members of congress what we have legal remedies to be able to remove those people and be able to come get them and basically start to replace some of the the people who are operating the levers you know so we basically believe that issue literacy

needs electoral direct action we can start to remove some of the people and reclaim our government back in the hands of the the average american person the ninety nine percent it's really interesting because this is really a movement that's represented by a group of people who likely george will not live as well as their parents did one in five and now move in with their folks at some point after college they're people who did what they were told to do they worked hard they graduated from college and now they're coming to work for a society where there's no jobs available i guess i'm wondering how you see this reflecting on the direction this country takes in the next few years. right well first of all it's a beautiful thing that we finally have a movement and the occupy movement that has done more to be able to bring the social and economic injustices that are happening in our country and around the world to the public attention in the last just six seven months so that's that's already been remarkable and historic but there's big there's a movement of solidarity and this is what particularly interesting to me and people

from my community i am a puerto rican from new york city born and raised in brooklyn and from our community it's really important we see solidarity across the economic injustice is a social injustices that we've basically lived with for a long time so that there is no there is no no magic pill to put people on the other side of the success line that people who can go to school and who can basically like you said played out of rules were card still failed and we're basically saying that the american public is too big to fail the ninety nine percent are too big to fail so when banks get bailouts when corporations get tax loopholes that basically take those resources out of our economy added or infrastructure and leave the rest of us with the bill and the reality of the deterioration of our schools the creep of the prison industrial complex just to name a few let alone student debt the student debt at think is critical it really shows

that somebody can get what we say is the key to success education and then come out with debt that basically has you trapped and in many situations of basic servitude for the rest of your lives and we think that that's absolutely not fair it's not just and as a as a human rights activists i think that education is one of the basic needs of all humans and so we have to say yes down to housing and forget coming out of college with no money so many people these days are coming out in the negatives and when i say in the negatives that we're talking tens of thousands of dollars and then i want to switch gears for a second george one of the things that the op. movement really brought about something that wasn't on sort of the original agenda but really shed light on was police brutality in this country we saw it in new york and we definitely saw it in oakland we saw a critical wound of an army veteran scott olsen. i'm wondering your reaction though because just in the last few days it's come out that the city of oakland the oakland police department have been threatened with sanctions to really change the

way that they do business they've used you know extraordinarily violent tactics in dealing with some of the occupiers we're showing video right now of that day when scott olsen was hit with a rubber bullet i believe it was really really critically injured that's just one person though there were old women women in their seventy's who were also injured talk a little bit about your reaction now that some action is being taken against the oakland police department. well first of all i think the reactions of the american police have been. byzantine to say that to say it mildly i think that the we basically exposed the the out of date. policing model that we use in the united states of america and particularly in major cities where where the reality is that people are in the streets there aren't any jobs people are losing their homes there are more empty housing units than there are

homeless people and we if we still have homeless people in the streets people are finding solidarity to protest the the corruption and the corporate greed and police are now standing in solidarity as workers as members of the labor force that basically shows that the paradigm of policing is out of date and then that repressive practices and tactics that they're using are are totally byzantine but the the biggest problem for me is that in communities of color low income communities throughout the united states we've had history of of violent and non healthy interactions with the police particularly and why and why p.d. new york for example where we have the stop and frisk policy where we have a just a couple months ago a brother bought a name of ramallah graham was killed in his home on armed new york state we have a brother named kenneth chamberlain who was a marine who was killed in his home at midnight with a false alarm so these things happen normally in our community and then we see the

combination when people exercising their constitutional rights peacefully protesting for what the constitution says petition our government for redress of grievances and we see that the cycle of violence that the police use normally in our communities is now being brought to bear on peaceful protesters i feel absolutely violated i feel like the american public should be outraged when we saw the images of new in new york city we saw the images of oakland and oakland p.d. poppy. the canisters of basically teaching or coups in the streets about guerilla him to hand combat warfare in there peacefully protesting i think it's a dangerous situation i think we need absolute oversight as a congressional candidate is one of my platform issues to call for congressional oversight of cities that have used force that is more than questionable it's downright illegal yeah we were showing a picture just a moment ago i don't know if we can put it back on the screen of a tank

a share of tank actually being used a lot of here here it is i believe this is in oakland this is you know looks like a military tanks on the scene afghanistan this used by the sheriff's department there to deal with some of those occupy post protesters of course we're learning too many police departments buying up drones a lot of interesting steps that these departments are taking good luck on your bed for congress george martinez an occupy wall street activist thanks so much thank you very much well as the end of the school year and for all of those students graduating from high school and heading off to college now have yet another field of study to choose from when they get there according to a new article by salon dot com several universities in this country are adding drones to their curriculum drone use drone development and more there's a few examples kansas state university there's now a degree offered in unmanned aviation and it's already got about thirty takers students they're already working with the kansas national guard and its disaster

response efforts helping to develop drones that can serve a town's hit by tornadoes georgia tech students and teachers are focusing on a new technology to help make the drone engines more quiet and therefore less detectable by those on the ground they're also working on what's called the flying android technology to make it so unmanned aerial vehicles will someday be controlled if they're not already by smartphones. at middle tennessee state university there are several programs offered an unmanned aircraft systems and students there focus on the role of drones in civilian life. now this is not the electronic frontier foundation has been looking into this and found that the f.c.c. the federal aviation administration has already approved twenty five universities to fly drones in its air space so something is going on here and we want to talk about just what that might be a means to plan of it as part of the national security council team at epic and is here with us now i mean from what i understand some of these universities have already purchased drones and it sounds to me that in many cases the u.s.

military is footing the bill it is actually there are grants from the department of defense to the department of homeland security that are being used and being given not only to universities but to private companies and to law enforcement to encourage them and enable them to purchase drones that they might not have been able to afford on their own in order to experiment to see what they can do with them to provide surveillance and to look into their capabilities and hopefully in the future i think the goal is to get them to buy their own and to proliferate the system the economy i want to for a second look at the bigger picture here i mean it was just a few decades ago that we saw you know a flurry of computer programming programs being offered at universities in the last decade or so we've seen a lot of focuses in things like web development. do you think more drones on college campuses in college curriculum means that something is about to explode not just on our diplomas but also in our skies that we're going to see a lot more drones well they're estimating thirty thousand drones in the united

states national space in the next ten years so that is a lot of drones that is just an exponential amount more than what we have now i think the largest fleet currently in the country is done by the bureau of customs and border protection and a d h s they have nine drones that is the largest fleet currently if you think about going all the way up to thirty thousand these are going to be what you see when you're in your parks when you're walking down the street you're going to see these things flying over your head now on one hand you know some of these schools that we've been talking about some of the schools that have. volunteered or have decided to. train people in the use of drones their agricultural based and so they're looking to use drones for things like weed encroachment they don't want to spray pesticides on the farms on all of the areas of they'll use a drone to sort of surveil below and do that they'll use drones for places where tornadoes hit often so they can survey the damage so those are some positive things i think that you that you can point to. do these programs have merit there are

definitely positives to drone use like you said they can be used for many different things that are very good for i think the united states in fact there is one case of a drone being flown over a river and it actually detected animal abuse at a factory it found what they called a river of blood and they were able to trace it back and to find what was going on at this factory now that's a great use however drones themselves can't tell the difference between surveilling a crop for we needs and surveilling a person so we have to be careful that we're not only training these people in how to conduct drones kind of like the video game piece of it the how to operate the joystick but also what it means to surveil somebody how what privacy rights are like where they feel like they should cross the line just morally and also you're seeing with large scale surveillance what the n.s.a. people who are controlling the surveillance have come out later years and actually have post-traumatic stress disorder because of having to spy on people and getting

all that information they feel like they're encroaching on people's lives and this is actually a big issue and i think these students need to be trained in order to deal with kind of the repercussions that come with surveillance i think it's important to mention too because when it comes to drone use for spying a lot of people are saying you know there are so many good things that there use for the spying the surveillance aspect is really overhyped but the fact is if a private company or if the government is going to use drones for the purpose of surveillance they're probably not going to be talking. they're probably not going to have a whole lot of evidence or paperwork out there that's going on that could be used for evidence so talk a little bit about that i mean some people say this is overhyped but is it oh i definitely don't think it's overhyped you see it all the time where happens that a program used for one thing all of sudden becomes used for something else so for example with drones the customs and border protection has nine they're supposed to use them to monitor the border to monitor for immigration for drugs and for just

different things coming over the border that aren't supposed to be here now they're not only doing that they're lending them out routinely it's coming out to local law enforcement to the f.b.i. for missions totally unrelated to where they were or why they were originally licensed so you know let me ask you this point amy should we expect to live in a society where it's very normal to see drones flying above us if we just walk outside in our backyards well like i said if they say it's coming in the next ten years hopefully it's coming with privacy rules and restrictions in place to protect us all and protect us in our daily lives so we're not totally being constantly surveilled and we know that that's not going on but i think under the regime as it is if we don't confront it and put something into place and it's on its way i think it's important to talk about it no matter what because we don't want to just wake up one day and have this happen we need to let people know that this is going on right now that our future children will be could possibly be trained in using drones this is happening right now and that's why we're here that's why ethics here

is where petition the f.a.a. were asking for rules for really being proactive and trying to get these restrictions put into place before they're rolled out because you find out that once the program's already in place it's hard to go back and say wait a second we should have done this before let's stop for a second and go back to our aim is to kind of it's legal counsel with the electronic privacy information center appreciate you coming on shank you so much. once again our one of the world's best known media moguls robert murdoch the owner of fox news channel the wall street journal and so much more has been modest recently across the pond in britain long after his news of the world shut down after a phone hacking scandal and many more company wide practices deemed outrageous here's a recent decision read aloud by the british parliament we find news corp carried out an extensive coverage of its rampant law breaking its most senior executives repeatedly misled parliament and the two men at the top rupert and james murdoch

who were in charge of the company let's no answer for that in the view of the majority of committee members rupert murdoch is not fit to run an international company like b. b. sky. all right lots of people have opinions about murdoch and his beloved baby at least american baby fox news but love him or hate him we want to talk about this assertion that he is unfit to run a company the fox news model is arguably the most successful in this country right now i'm not saying the best but the most except the most successful explanation point take a look at this graphic it's cable profits from two two thousand and nine to two thousand and ten as you can see fox news made eight hundred sixteen million dollars in two thousand and ten and online estimates say fox made one billion the next year and twenty eleven the next closest network is c.n.n. their numbers actually combined with h.l. and taking in about five hundred sixty million dollars and s n b c collecting about one hundred seventy two million dollars in revenue so again while there are

a them rupert murdoch knows how to maintain a media empire while we've got georgetown georgetown university journalism professor chris chambers here to discuss and press column him a moral column self righteous or whatever but unfit to run a corporation well when you look at the profits and the operations across the pond across the atlantic and here you know that merged into this hacking scandal you know he was using you know they've uncovered you know this reams of evidence showing that you know news of the world a lot of the other media outlets media properties he owns over there were doing you know you know everything from shady to out not illegal things to get that advantage so i mean you know there's a there's a history here of using short cuts both kind of you know little little tiny moral short cuts to major crimes to build the same pyar and really what has happened is that the equivalent of our you know house judiciary committee has basically you

know given him and his stockholders something to think about with this decision so you know this isn't anything new for him you know he'll weather the storm because like all you know. zillionaires they will but you know it's something to think about over this side of the atlantic as well you know especially our f.c.c. needs to start thinking about it now we put up on the screen some of the profits that fox made again and again they are said to have made a billion dollars but i want to also show the ratings because that's important to. have this is just april cable news ratings of fox news their top thirteen programs are on fox news san and the n.b.c. are of course battling for that number two spot but april was one of c.n.n.'s lowest rated months in total viewers since august of two thousand and one it's crazy to see those kind of numbers. even though studies have shown that people who you know avidly watch fox news are less informed than people who watch no news at

all you know the question is what is a successful news model well this isn't a news model that's what that's what the that's it i mean this isn't a news model this is infotainment content delivery model and i know that sounds like gobbledygook but that's really what it is i mean look we have to take the news angle out of this i mean this is this is. news in that is that is crafted into political message is crafted in a marketing message that is crafted into psychological sort of you know commercials kind of the thing i mean you know roger ailes started off as a regular t.v. producer so he knows how to reach the reptilian brain that that stuff that advertisers like to go after and he's got a nice of people i mean you know nice doesn't necessarily mean tiny niche can mean a big trench of people who feel that the mainstream media has abandoned them as abandon their values you know whatever those values might be some of them legitimate some of them just kind of stupid well this must be really difficult for

you because you deal with the future journalists of america georgetown university the people that you teach say you have a choice you have a choice to teach the fox news model in which some would say you'd be teaching people how to be immoral millionaires or you can teach them how to be you know unemployed well intended well it depends i mean you have to also understand i mean there are news product during the day you know while i might not agree with with their editorial choices and stories and the scope is actually a pretty decent news product it's when you start shooting into the evening and that's where you have the problems about also where they have the highest exactly and that basically what you what he has given a group of people in this country is basically right wing soap opera and that gives you know they're eating right up and you know it's. so that masks what you know some of the things in the past has been happening with with with news corp with fox

in general with their licensees and you know even now i mean this is now fodder for the f.c.c. to perhaps look at some of the broadcast licenses that he holds let me ask you i mean when you're teaching is there a model that you hold up to tell your students you know n.p.r. you tell them and b c sixty minutes i mean what do you hold up as sort of a higher journalist well if it crosses into into fox properties really it's just basically doing your homework and doing it you know whether you're giving an opinion or just giving the news doing it with authority just doing it with the nuff information that you can give people what they need to really propel themselves forward either just that day or intellectually for the rest of their lives it's really not that complicated what do you think the chances are. arguably again and i successful media model in this country we see how great britain feels about than about rupert murdoch right now but even the chances are of eventually fox news going across the pond going to france going to britain going to russia going to

china well this is this is pretty much this is not good in terms of expansion he doesn't really need to he's got roger ailes he's got his newspaper properties he's got he's got it set here he's got a very friendly forum in the republican party they're not the tories in england they really do owe a lot of their success to him and a lot of them are rethinking that so susie probably but he's got a friendly forum here why kill a good thing by trying to stretch it out over chris we know how those billionaires get that i just want to make more money always good to have you on the south christopher chambers journalism professor at georgetown university always good to see you and i'm going to do it for us here for now but for more on the stories we covered go to youtube dot com slash r t america also check out our website our team dot com slash usa and you should definitely find me on the twitter sphere i am at christine for.

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