i guess. i work for. my father is the 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 life so many diverse people who are many walks of life that recognize that we are the not percent of the time of record profits of rights it is ours to the very same people that have made good. and in a rich corporation that they now want to do will benefit acceptable from up they

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 but what do you think this current go shouldn't is really about this kyra negotiation is about destroying our standard of living this is 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 smashes 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 markets and boeing responded by supporting us we went to 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 scenes is 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 run. the people fighting and they see they're fighting the same enemy and they see them 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 a million of our fellow citizens bought. 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 both democrats and republicans just because i'm alive at the bottom line of the military industrial complex which just so happens to the benefits of every congressional district in the country somebody 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 goodness they wish members of the norwegian

nobel committee. the citizens of america. and citizens of the world. i receive this hour 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. there are. down for far. too many. see. the world. it was not right.

i started in iraq in two thousand and four in two thousand and six i was in the second battle. and allusion november of 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 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. united states have made 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 that i hear you saying that would not do very much to decrease our dependence on foreign oil and there are enough. one point four trillion dollars could convert every home in america to one hundred percent solar energy. 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 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 sixty 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 hostilities resulting in over one million innocent civilians dead and counting and ask yourself how many orphans are going to bed with clenched fists tonight in afghanistan or iraq who grow up willing to fly a plane into the building and how many trillions more we prepared to spend on avenging that and the. next thing you can do every. 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 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 how. to. thank. god. was. that

a year ago anybody would have predicted that. november two thousand you would have . people out of the streets in new york city. because something is real journalists here. as you have 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 is crazy yet 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 comfortable jobs. not go to college we don't have an unskilled workforce anymore we are for 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 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 bankruptcy the idea of you do you get is 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 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. how do. you. write code like this you know it's really about who we believe and back to the sooner we. just saw the suspects or somehow also 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 tar sands protests this summer because to see thousand

plus people getting arrested like that willfully is pretty amazing credit mess. no your derriere is tar sands oil is not enough to go in order to get tar sands oil you ask to destroy the art and so i think that you know find some of the pipeline but what happens after that you know another 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 isn't and one reason that makes this so urgent is that that nasa scientist james hansen broke low boring or actually a few decades back or whatever says the pipeline is it will be game over game over me and so i didn't come up on inhabitable earth. to use sigrid lumber jury to mccurdy was able to build a new most sophisticated robot which will unfortunately doesn't give

a dollar amount anything to nj mission to teach me creation why it should care about humans and worry that this is why you should care only. there are twelve cities in the united states in which half of the people with hiv aids lives within a year of a diagnosis of. over sixty two percent of. darkness with this is a problem that frankly is substantially preventable it was like the big elephant in the room and nobody wanted to talk about it there were really good public health campaigns if people were really focused on this problem you certainly should be able have a lot less h i feel a lot less human suffering. he .

says. let's just. take a peek. we're reading it as we go. and i think that i'm killing people who are the naysayers come down and actually get a false narrative that there's. a close and not a rarity here still stinging criticism we're away. and we want people to be able to install it it's going to take time because we can't force it we're not ready to write it because we see a better world. we have a big role in this organization of the center for the new american dream. were

created i think i will i die i. i i i oh oh ok i i i. i i i installed put in a bit you know was i honestly that so i don't miss 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 is still i mean 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 ok. now we can expect them to get out on their own even on that in the smoking a crack open my door was. crack rock to be very easily addictive

somebody who was cool six years ago snuck up on a crack rock this is not the occupy movement has become a conduit to venue for talking about this corruption 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 and constitutional rights are for people over 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 the supreme court said property is people killed decisions i don't see was was was was thought for some qatada i'm telling.

you how how. could i do the wasn't a coalition was individuals organisations coming together with a secular purpose to get to where they come to kill and then to make it clear corporations. that they do not have been hearing about. how bad that money is not political speech thanks. to it and how he's come it in top doctrines must be about why we cannot overturn the functionality and still allow wealthy individuals just didn't have enough money . thank you.

how. come. you all so easily he would have found a positive ha it was all biased because he must love sitting around at the power monopolies have you noticed people are like this double our society should we get swedish like let's use the excuse that someone's got to lose some point for ration there with as if it's not going to go as we all this you know built on the backs of our morris brothers were told forgotten the stage we're all taught by our mothers should have been the people out there to take the bill would pull the harry is the most easy on the bull run to the pulpit carriages probably but it'd be so much better if we just remember big corporations cause creation is. somebody

who really does because it is. the cause that was. the. guy. that. people are realizing that 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 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 you look at the military budget the ops in the military budget you say spends as much as the whole world's 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 threatens the future of our economy are you for structures going to work as if you face of those two issues which are you know just war going on fear the one percent in the military industrial complex suddenly your solutions to all the issues really there's money to invest in a new resisting the economy no selling his money to reform at whom so they're not wasting energy you can turn roads into solar panels that's where possible we like. our money in france i don't have it. frightening. frightening. that it was a target like the rest. of the earth by the way. we are right. here.

because. 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 wealth inequality 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 rich because of some force of nature like summer morphing into fall or heat always going to they are super rich as a result of their active participant. nation in for 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 to the internet or activists or through health care 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 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 euthanized 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 game for inauguration. it was a martin luther king day and two thousand people total strangers were out of each

other on the streets we had conversations across class and race lines and all the sudden we felt oh. well so this new better you can't 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 stayed 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 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 when. for a movement that is the terminally to. this mad flux of money and politics so it's going to be a really scary contrast and

a 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 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 but it didn't leave you do you feel deep seated next to you in the image coming to your kitty feel. ill pleased to be indulgent. to them.

just. thankfully in the senate better myself so when they say why occupy what will your answers the first time in decades people were really discussing does the world have to be this way and how can we bring a better world and the biggest historical lessons about kids who like to read about it they had to keep coming back and coming back to be good because they knew it. and they knew they could change to crazy to actually. think something out of. i.

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