tv [untitled] February 5, 2013 12:30am-1:00am EST
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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 seed 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 us everything my father worked for his whole career could be gone within his lifetime 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 disaster very safe
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people that have made good look at a rich corporation that they not want to go to will benefit acceptable from up they want to fuel 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 negotiation 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 smarts is not on 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 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
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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 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 took 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.
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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 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 that 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
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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 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. crime. for far. too many fans to see.
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the words it was not right. that. i served in iraq in two thousand and four in two thousand and six i was in the second battle of often enough allusion nov 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 go to five thousand troops said 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
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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 are enough one point four trillion die. could convert every home in america to one hundred percent solar energy. times over 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
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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 are going to be 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 to 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
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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 every. just 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. i. kept. my. god. i.
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was. thinking that if your goal anybody could have predicted that was the rainy day in november two thousand you would have. people out in the streets in new york city. because something is judy we journalists are beyond here . oh it's just the. has absolutely chilling but. young people might be on a global stage with affordable education. and it is a challenge and justice that there is in fact the whole student loan debt credit
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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 a comfortable job and 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't ever discharge this in vain carcassi 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
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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. how do. you. write code like this you know it's really about who we believe and the sooner we come 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
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was really interested in the tar sands protests this summer because to see thousand plus people getting arrested like that willfully is pretty amazing find a message to all of you terry here. it's tarzan's oil is not have to go in order to get tar sands oil 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 and one reason that makes this so urgent is that that nasa scientist james hansen broke low boring or actually a few decades craft or whatever says that the pipeline is it will be game over game over millions out in front on the inhabitable earth.
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sigrid laboratory here mccurry was able to build a new most sophisticated robot which will unfortunately doesn't give a dollar amount anything jim's mission to teach music creation why it should care about humans and worry that this is why you should care only on the dog. 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 six to two percent and so specious it's i diagnosed with a specific 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 that people were really focused on this problem you certainly should be able to have a lot less h i feel a lot less human suffering. he
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says. he. just needs to. see. thank you do we see you reading it as we go. and i think that till the people who are the naysayers come down and actually get a ball. there's. a good dose of hope and a rarity here still steve bruce isn't worldly so the dining and we want people to be able to use the live is to take time. we can't force we're not really a good way because we see a better world. it would be. you know this organization of the second that any
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american dreams. were created. by. god. i call. it oh i. i oh. oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh i. think it's time for intervention you know god have mercy 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 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 don't you think. now we can expect them to get off it on their own even though not in the smoking
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a crack rock group the money for. crack rock if they're 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. then you are 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 people are property dred scott affirm slavery in two thousand and ten the supreme court said property is people killed decisions i didn't say was i was right i
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was funny person from the bottom telling them the wow i was cutting the was a culmination of individuals who are getting the issues coming together with a secular purpose. to where they come to kill and then i tell a clear cut his person they do not have been here emailing them about it hello. money is not political speak thank you today and how he's coming top doctoring must feel like we cannot overturn the functionality and still allow wealthy individuals to step out and the money oh thank.
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you. i i think. monstrosity it's a power monopoly have you noticed people like this double our society should we get swedish like us use the excuse that someone's got to put for race in the wind as if it's not going to be all this bill on the backs of our morris brothers we're told forgotten the phrase we're all taught by our mothers should have been the people of the us the payoff. for all the hero has the most honorable son they call his. rocks like. that are just the big corporations.
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because he. was a was. 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 till 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. but you say spends as much as
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the. body at a time when our infrastructure is literally a deep level grade according the american society of civil engineers we get a decent these days is the future of our economy very infrastructure. going to work as a face of those two issues which are you know just wrong and unfair the one percent in the military industrial complex suddenly your solutions to all the issues really there's money to invest in the new resisting the return no certainly there's money to reform and rooms that waste the energy so you can turn roads into solar panels that's not possible we like with our money ran on it. right here. right. now he said it was this mother target like the rest. of the earth fight.
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we are right. here. and. they say that the occupy movements major victory to date is that we have changed the conversation and people are now debating issues such as western equality 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 cold they are super rich as a result of their active participation and or their willingness to be accessories to criminally rig the homicidal force of
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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 antiwar activists or through health care 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 riches anyone could be a millionaire greed is good grab the most toys before you die each rose should be used 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
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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 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 for a movement that is determinately i get close to. this mad
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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. but 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 and force that refuses to find mishka 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 it isn't easy to do you think needs you to listen to you claim it can come into your kitty feel. pleased to be delighted to sit in judgment
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. didn't you. just smile and. thankfully the new senate better myself so when they say why occupy what will your answers the first time in decades people will really discussing the world have to be this way and how can we bring a better world into this historical lessons about life and freedom i don't know how they could come to that and coming back to this because. they can't seem to place actually putting this thing from the mouth.
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the to. strut. such a set. up they said. that. it's such a. it's. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so for you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you don't know i'm tom harvey welcome to the big picture.
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