tv [untitled] November 1, 2012 11:30pm-12:00am EDT
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way you are and an assistant to the man i'm speaking with here vice president of seat anyway district one chris shelton one of the groups c.w.a. represents the rising workers and as of june two thousand and twelve the horizon workers he represents have been working without a contract for over a year except this round of contracts is different the risin is trying to break you everything my father worked for his whole career could be gone within his lifetime so many diverse people who are many walks of life that recognize that we ought to know not to say that of the time of record profits of rice it is ours to the very same people that have made good look at it and in a rich corporation that they now want to benefit acceptable from up want to feel their eyes that it should be the poster child for corporate greed because of all the money they make and what they're trying to do to us and everybody else at the body say it's about saving a million dollars next year what do you think that this car negotiations is really about this car negotiation is about destroying our standard of living this is
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cooperation is trying to get what they want that they've been trying to get for the last twenty five years and we cannot let them and that's why occupy wall street specialists and i message are exactly the same corporate greed is destroying this country that we cannot let it says we have built very close ties with the communication workers before september seventeenth we were already supporting the fall markers and responded by supporting us we went to their last rally at the headquarters they marched back to the park with us and some of them slept there they're going to be in a tough struggle that's why we're getting this relationship with labor labor seen as relieved they are i never expected when i first started contacting unions that the response would be so enthusiastic but the labor movement has been kicked around now for quite a while and they have to fight and right. people fighting and they see they're fighting the same enemy and they see them reaching out this movement has shown such
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an eagerness to reach out to the mainstream of the american public and the unions represent the organized part of that the focus on the one percent and the first time in an american movement i don't even think in the thirty's that the communist party took this in their mance work i don't even think they identify the enemy as the ruling class mr speaker. mr vice president. members of congress distinguished guests and fellow americans last month i went to andrews air force base and welcome home some of our last troops to serve in iraq. together we offered a final proud salute to the colors under which more than a million of our fellow citizens fought. and several thousand gave their lives we gather tonight knowing that this generation of heroes has made the united states
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safer and more respected around the world thank you thank you thank you. thank you thank you thank. you to want to get a standing ovation from both democrats and republicans just keep them alive at the bottom line of the military industrial complex which just so happens the benefits of every congressional district in the country nobody really believes that the undisputed greatest player of violence in the world actually makes us safer and more respected i mean come on that kind of attitude is not going to earn anyone any nobel peace prizes or thank you distinguished members of the norwegian nobel committee it's citizens of america. and citizens of the world. i receive this honor with deep gratitude and great humility george orwell
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would have had a hard time coming up with this are we really this delusional you see the more honest we are with ourselves about exactly what our foreign policy is the better chance we have to stop some of the truly horrific conditions it visits upon many of the people of the world so say it with me the us foreign policy is a blowback inducing homicidal bull in a cultural religious and geo political china shop to change. their was handed. down. to the fans who were sitting. around. the world. it was not right. the answer to the truth i served in iraq in two thousand and four and two thousand and six i was in the second ballot. in november of two thousand and four as a human being and as a person who has
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a heart i can't lie to myself anybody else and say that we had a reason to be there that there's a reason for the million iraqis that died in the five thousand troops said that we say we're the greatest country in the world but we go into you know people in their country but we don't stop genocide in africa we don't help people that we can help that would be the greatest country in the world if we can save a million people instead of killing them and people if you're not convinced our foreign policy is morally bankrupt perhaps we should talk about money. and united states had need one point four trillion dollars for total war spending in iraq and afghanistan since two thousand and one never wondered what one point four trillion dollars would buy well it could be the annual energy costs for every household in america five years but i hear you saying that would not do very much to decrease our dependence on foreign oil there. one point four trillion dollars could convert every home in america to one hundred percent solar energy. times over
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or it could convert every home in america through one hundred percent wind energy knowing times over for groceries for everyone in the country for free for two years or to provide scholarships to every college student in america and award them a fifty five hundred dollar grant seven times over the war turn all volunteer firefighters into full time employees and pay them a full salary for twenty three years or pay the full time salaries of every public school teacher for the next six years instead we took one point four trillion dollars pay a small black ops team to hunt track and kill osama bin ladin oh we even had money left over in the budget to decimate two countries launch are still it is resulting in over one million innocent civilians dead and counting ask yourself how many orphans going today clenched fists tonight in afghanistan or iraq who grow up
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willing to fly a plane into the building and how many trillions more we are prepared to spend on avenging that you. can do everything go to school and not just go to school but excel in school work really really hard and i graduated and really had the feeling a lot of the time very consciously in my head that. i might as well. you know i mean. was there reason for me to be in debt good evening of all the time bombs in the american economy set to explode with dire consequences this is a big one staggering debt from student loans everyone is told a college education is a way to get ahead college tuitions though keep going up so does the borrowing and we just hit an awful milestone our nation's combined student loan debt is now. one trillion dollars that averages out to twenty four thousand per student it's now larger than credit card debt in this country and it comes just as an entire
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here. who has so many. people. on a global stage with affordable education. it is a challenge just as there is in fact the whole student loan debt credit card debt when congress raises the loan limits schools respond to those increased long limits by raising tuition because they think that students can afford to pay more because they're actually allowed more money nobody really has the option to expect to get it come to. not go to college we don't have an unskilled workforce anymore we're for the workforce that we have right now it's socially irresponsible not to go to
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school because the entire workforce is predicated on higher education i think our education system hasn't caught up to our economy and that's one of the problems and that that's where this problem is coming and that's why people are speaking up that's why that why i'm here there are no bankruptcy protections for any student loans this is the only one and all of us history that you can't ever default on you can ever discharge this with a car see the idea of you do you debtors union is based on a labor union model and what they did effectively when our economy was very different when there was so-called unskilled labor they negotiated with the factories for better working conditions so that they could go back to work just that same way you do you debtors union you could renegotiate a better contractor arrangement with our lenders so that we can repay our loans it's employing an autonomous strategy of refusal so you were fused to do something you're saying no to something in favor of making things better.
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how do. you. write code like this you know it's really about who we believe and by truth and the sooner we come to know the we'll just all these effects are so massive whether it's b.p. . oil. the tar sands i think of the size of florida this from an alberta i was really interested in the tar sands protests this summer because to see thousand plus people getting arrested like that willfully is pretty amazing from. my message to all of you to tell you is tar sands oil is not have the coke in order to get tarzan sought out you ask to destroy the art and so i think that you know fine stop
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the pipeline but what happens after that you know i know there's a standoff with big oil i think so i think so i don't think it's the environment's going to magically go itself because we stop the pipeline and then the thing about the pipeline and one reason that makes this so urgent is that that nasa scientist james hansen broke with warrior actually a few decades back for whatever says the piper and it will be game over game over me inside and out on the inhabitable earth. or you.
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they believe. we're reading it as we go. and i think that until the people who are the naysayers come down and actually get a false narrative there's. a good host of people not a rarity who are still stinging criticism. of the dialogue and we want people to be able to do so that it's a time. that we can't force we're not ready. because we see in the arab world the feel of the. organization of the center for the new american dream. we're creating. i. i. i. i i. i. i. i. i. i
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i. i think. it's time to put in a bit you know. how do you see that side of him at the end you know the show you all this stuff and then they sit around. somebody who has issues and problems and they talk about you know how badly that person has done and what they're going to do if they don't change their behavior and for us we're dealing with folks who have a serious addiction to corporate money was now we can expect them to get off it on their own even on that and they smoke and i crack open my door was i only crack i can be very easily addictive somebody who was cool six years ago snuck up on a crack rock this is not on the occupy movement has become a conduit to venue for talking about this corruption and so folks that move to amend that are really in my mind i. said in the bar for the critique
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that corporations are not persons property not speech and constitutional rights are for people eight hundred fifty six and dred scott the same supreme court so that people are property dred scott affirm slavery in two thousand and ten on the supreme court said property is people write those decisions i mean see was was was was thought for some time god told them telling. you the wow who was the man i mentioned was the culmination was individuals organisations coming together with a secular purpose. to where they come to you know and then that to make it clear
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cut his person they do not have been hearing about oh. money here is not political speech thank. you. he's coming tempos doctrines must be abolished he cannot overturn the functionality and still the out the individual just didn't find it enough coming out. how. i. feel cause he's a human hi how to find something ha is what we're all biased democracy must love
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city look around at the power monopolies have you noticed people are like this double our society chase he gets treated like let's use the excuse that someone's gotta lose with some cooperation the weird as it's not going to go be all that they don't build on the backs of all morris brothers were all forgotten the days we're all taught by our mothers have been the people out there to take over the pale coolest well the harry has the most usually all the bull run to the pulpit parikh rocks but it'd be so much better if we just remember big corporations i was created it. will be somebody who was really good because it is at least those people because that was how. little people. know how.
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people are realizing it very least that the way our economic system currently runs is not democratic it's not beneficial to the vast majority of. people and kill we have some kind of economic democracy where in the best majority of people in their communities and in their workplaces if more decisions over what these corporations do if we want to have corporations and all then political democracy is a sham and then you look at the military budget you know upset the military which uses it as much as the whole world somebody at a time when our infrastructure is literally a deep level grade for the american society of civil engineers we get a deed in there this is where it is the future of our economy their infrastructure is going to work and so if you face of those two issues which are you know just war going on here in the one percent in the military industrial complex suddenly your
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solutions to all the issues i mean there's money to invest in a new resisting the economy you know certainly there's money to reform at whom we see energy you can turn roads into solar power and that's where possible we think that's why we have our money ran on it it was frightening. frightening. that it was this was a target like the rest of you. you're right that we had three kids out there that we were right. here. and.
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they say that the occupy movement major victory to date is that we have changed the conversation and people are now debating issues such as well cynical at this point i think we can all agree there is no debate there is inequity when it comes to well period full stop. and it is growing and the super rich are not super rich because of some force of nature like summer morphing into fall or heat always going to the cold they are super rich as a result of their active participation in or their willingness to be accessories to criminally rig the homicidal force of a system what the occupy movement has done and why people armed with nothing more than an idea are being suppressed often violently is to acknowledge that most only issues are connected into war activists who are through healthcare reform advocates or housing or labor rights advocates will banks the reform advocates you name it are now all shining a light on the root cause of inequity you see our foreign policy does in fact limit
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our options when it comes to health care reform a shareholder capitalism one that demands growth every quarter is directly contributing to the assault on collective bargaining issues the american dream itself the way it is understood by many as a mistress rags to riches anyone could be a millionaire greed is good grab the most toys before you die each rose should be euthanised for the greater good and the birth of a new american dream based on equity sustainability and the general welfare of the people should be brought into being and by people i mean people not corporations i was out here during the day in foreign occupation. it was a martin luther king day and two thousand people total strangers were out of each other on the streets were having conversations across class and race lines and all the sudden we felt oh. well some of us knew better than you can there's no
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messiah going to get elected by this system and deliver hope and change we can believe in so how will the occupy movement that has wisely stayed away from promoting political parties or individual politicians navigate the minefield of the potentially co-opting force that is the presidential elect. the cycle now this year is just going to be nuts we've never seen this much money spent on a political process in the history of the world. and this comes at a time for a movement that is determined. to. this mad influx of money and politics so it's going to be a really scary contrast and the challenge of this movement is to create a counter narrative is to show that the justice of its cause is more interesting than anything these candidates can put on television i mentioned at the beginning that this movie is an invitation for you to join the occupy movement but there are no membership dues no papers to sign all that is required is the willingness to see
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the world as it is and decide that you are going to be part of the solution occupy is less of an organization and more of an organism a living breathing multi and force that refuses to find me she will be pushed into a corner this organism is still a baby and the narrative it will be telling in the years to come is yours to write what's your alternative and if you talk to somebody do you feel how deep you need to get the image coming dr judy feel. the to be. indulgent. i didn't didn't. just fall. out thankfully in the senate better myself so when they say why occupy what will your answers the first time in
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decades people were really discussing does the world have to be this way and how can we bring a better world and i think this historical lesson the kids who would like to read about it they have to keep coming back and coming back the didn't because they knew it. i think they could change the place and actually put things from them and i got . to.
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