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i guess. i work for. my father is sort of the way you read 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 risin is trying to break you everything my father worked for his whole career could be gone within his life so many of the bush people who are many walks of life that recognize that we ordinary not percent of the time of record profits of rising to the very same people that have made good look at a rich corporation that they now want to benefit acceptable from up they want to feel their eyes that it should be the poster child for corporate greed because of
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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 but what do you think this car negotiations is really about this car negotiation is about destroying our standard of living just as cooperation is trying to get what they want so that they were trying to get the last twenty five years and we cannot let them and that's why occupy wall street smashes and on message are exactly the same corporate greed is destroying this country that we cannot let it we have very close ties with the communication workers before september seventeenth we were already supporting the fall markers and responded by supporting us we went through their last rally at 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
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around now for quite a while and they have to fight and they see people fighting and they see their fighting the same enemy and they see the reaching out this movement has shown such 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 did this in their mass 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
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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 safer and more respected around the world thank you thank you thank you thank you thank. you to want to get a standing ovation from all democrats and republicans just come alive at the bottom line of the military industrial complex which just so happens the benefits of every congressional district in the country somebody really believes that the undisputed greatest they are 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 the same wish members of the norwegian nobel committee. citizens of america. and citizens of the world. i
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receive this honor with deep gratitude and great humility george orwell 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 didn't change. there was handed. it. to the family. sitting. around. the world. it was not right.
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that this is a trick i served in iraq in two thousand and four and two thousand and six i was in the second battle of. allusion november two thousand and four as a human being and as a person who has 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 and kill 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. are you saying that would not do very much to decrease our
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dependence on foreign oil there enough one point four trillion dollars to convert every home in america to one hundred percent solar energy. times over or it could convert every home in america to 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 laden. we even had money left over in the budget to decimate two countries launch hostilities resulting in
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over one million innocent civilians dead and counting ask yourself how many orphans are going to bed clenched fists tonight in afghanistan or iraq who grow up willing to fly a plane into the building and how many trillions are we prepared to spend on avenging that. 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 on 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. we
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just hit an awful milestone our nation's combined student loan debt has now hit 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 generation is just starting out i was. going to. get a year ago anybody would have predicted that. we would have. our
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young people out of the streets in new york city. because something is we journalists here. oh yes the. who has so many. people might be on a global stage with affordable education. teligent just as there is in fact whole student loan debt credit card debt when congress raises 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
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a comfortable job and not go to college we don't have an unskilled workforce anymore therefore the workforce that we have right now it's socially irresponsible not to go to 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 i inquired here there are no bankruptcy protections for any student loans because it's the only one and all of us history that you can't ever default on you can ever just charge this suv a car see the idea of 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 a so-called unskilled labor day 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 contract or arrangement with our lenders so that we can repay our loans
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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. how do. you. write code you know it's really about who we believe and the sooner we get to know the we'll just all these effects are so massive whether it's b.p. . oil or. the tar sands i think that the size of florida is from an alberta i was really interested in the entire sam's protests this summer because this. see
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thousand plus people getting arrested like that willfully is pretty amazing fred a message to all of you terry. is tar sands oil is not have to go in order to get tarzan out you ask to destroy the ark and so i think that you know finds out 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 going to magically go itself because we stop the pipeline and then the thing about the pipeline isn't and one reason that makes it so urgent is that that nasa scientist james taylor said the brokaw boring are actually a few decades back or whatever says the piper and it will be game over game over means out in front inhabitable or.
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speak your language. programs and documentaries in arabic it's all here on all t.v. reporting from the will talks specifically r.p. interview intriguing story to tell you. arabic to find out more visit arabic don't call. me. if he. be reading it. and i think that until the people who are the naysayers. and actually get a. narrative at least. close to. and i rarely hear so
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steve bruce isn't worth a host of the dialogue and we want people to be able to use the lift it to take time but. we can't force it we're not ready to. because we see a better world. people behave. as organization of the second that any american dreams. were created. was. ok it's time to put in a fiction you know was heresy this intervention at the end you know the so you all the sex stuff and then they sit around somebody who has issues and problems and
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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 and you think god now we can expect them to get off and on their own even on that in the smoking a crack for money. i only crack if they're easily addictive somebody who was cool six years ago snuck up on a crack rock this not to 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 that corporations are not persons property not speech constitutional rights are for people over eight hundred fifty six and dred scott the same supreme court so that he. oh our property dred scott affirm slavery. two thousand the supreme court said
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property is people killed decisions are you see. the sun for some problems. and the culmination of individual point in the issues coming together with the secular purpose. to come to charlemagne much to make it clear. that they do not have been here e-mailing about. money not political speech. today and probably he was
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committing tempo's doctrines must be abolished we cannot overturn corporate functionality and still allow wealthy individuals to stand out enough the money and how. i. feel. easily he would not want to find such a high it was all about if the law could see the money while city look around at the power monopolies have you noticed people like this double our society chase me gets me just like you with the excuse that someone's got to lose with some point for racing to win as if it's not going to go. we all this you know bill on the up
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that a lot more it's both of those we're told forgotten the thing we're all taught by our mothers should have been the people out there today so what's the payoff. well the hero has the most usually all of those drugs and it's all his. projects like these illnesses that are just the measuring stick with the way since our creation is. somebody who really does cause create is it was it was was because he was. ok and 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
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and kill we have some kind of economic democracy where in the past majority of people in their communities and in their workplaces have more decisions over what these corporations do if we want to have corporations and all then political democracy is a sham and then the you look at the military budget you know city of new jersey which you say spends as much as the whole world somebody at a time when our infrastructure is literally a deep level grade according the american society of civil engineers we get a deed in there these days is the future of our economy very infrastructure is going to work and so if you face of those two issues which are you know just going on fear the one percent in the military industrial complex suddenly your solutions to the issues i mean there's money to invest in a new resisting the economy you know certainly there's money to reform it we see energy you can turn roads into solar but that's only possible. we think that like
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with our russian friends on the right. right. right. right it was the smaller target like the rest. of the earth like the red streak. we were night are. here now. they say that the occupy movements major victory to date is that we have changed the conversation that people are now debating issues such as russian equality at this point i think we can all agree there is no debate there is inequity when it comes to wealth period full stop and it is growing and the super rich are not super
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rich because of some force of nature like summer morphing into fall or heat always going to coal they are super rich as a result of their active participation in or their willingness to be accessories to you 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 all of the issues are connected into war activists who are through healthcare reform advocates or housing or labor rights advocates will thank 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 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. rich is anyone could be
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a millionaire greed is good grab the most toys before you die each rose should be you and i used 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 before inauguration. it was a martin luther king day. 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 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 staying away from promoting political parties or individual politicians navigate the minefield of the potentially co-opting force that is the presidential election cycle now this year
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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 determinately a good close 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 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 tenant force that refuses to find mishka. will be pushed
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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 but is it hard to believe until you get. to the image can someone come to kitty still. believed to be killed by the indulgent publication didn't think the. policy. thanks lee said it better myself so when they say why occupy what will your answer the first time in decades people will really discussing the world have to be this way and how can we bring a better world and to this historical lessons about life in prison i don't know how to keep coming back and coming back to this because. i think they could say mrs
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