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got some. work for i think my father is away and an assistant to the man i'm speaking with here vice president of seed anyway district one chris shelton one of the group c.w.a. represents the rise of 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 rising 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 are the not percent of the time of record profits of rice it is a very safe people that i'm a good look at it and i had a rich corporation that did not want to you will benefit acceptable from up i want to for you there i said 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
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at the body say it's about saving a million dollars next year what do you think that this kind of goshen 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 they responded by supporting us we went to their last rally at the headquarters they marched back in the park with us and some of them slept there they're going to be in a tough struggle that's why we're having 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
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for quite a while and they have to fight and run. 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 thirties 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
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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 the benefits of every congressional district in the country nobody really believes that the undisputed rate is they are 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 distinguish members of the norwegian nobel committee it's 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 chain. there was handed. down. to the family to see. the world. it was not right.
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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 to 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 taxpayers in 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 but i hear you saying that would not do very much
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to decrease our dependence on foreign oil 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 every one of 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 more 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 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 with clenched fists tonight in afghanistan or iraq who grow up willing to fly a plane into the building how many trillions are we prepared to spend on inventing that. 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 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 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
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. 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. to. thank. god i. was. thinking that if your goal anybody would have predicted that.
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you would have. people out of the streets in new york city. because something is really journalists be out here. the wheel has so many. young people might be on a global stage with affordable education do you think it is a challenge just because there is in fact the whole student loan debt credit 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
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a comfortable john. 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 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 in and all of us history that you can't ever default on you can ever discharge this it with 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 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 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
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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 truth and the sooner we come to know the we'll just all these effects are somehow so whether it's you know. the tar sands i think of the size of florida this from an alberta i was really interested in the car sam's protests this summer because to see thousand plus people getting arrested like that willfully is pretty amazing
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credit mess. style of your. is tar sands oil is not enough to go in order to get tarzan sought out you ask to destroy the art 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'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 taylor said the broke quote warrior actually a few decades back or whatever says the piper and it will be. game over me inside and out on the inhabitable earth.
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download the official publication. stream quality and enjoy your favorite. if you're away from your television well it just doesn't matter how would your mobile device if you could watch on t.v. any time and he was.
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wealthy british style. sometimes. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike structure for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into khan's report on r t. v. he will be here reading it i think. and i think that until the people who are the naysayers come down and actually get.
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their narrative there's. not a rarity i still see a criticism. of the diana everyone people to be able to him so that it's going to take time. we can't force we're not ready. because we see in the. field of vision for. good organization the center for the new american dream and. we're creating. i. i. i. i. put in a bit you know i didn't see this i don't miss it at the end you know. so you always
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said 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 ok thank god now we can expect them to get off it on their own even on that in the smoking a crack cocaine of my god. i am trying 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 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 and constitutional rights are for people over eight hundred fifty six and dred scott the same supreme court so
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that people are property dred scott affirm slavery in two thousand and ten the supreme court said property is people write those decisions i mean see. was was was was thought for some time god told me i'm telling. you thank. god it was the culmination was individuals who are getting the issues coming together with a secular purpose to get to where they come to you know and then the time they can clear cut his person they do not have been hearing about. how big that money he is not political. i am not going.
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to bend how he's coming tempos doctrines must be abolished he cannot overturn the functionality and still know out the individual just didn't find it enough coming out to. have. all the pieces that he was not satisfied that ha it was all biased democracy must love city look around at the power monopolies have you noticed people like this double our society chase we get treated like let's use with the excuse that
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someone's got to lose with some push for race to the wind as it's not going to be all that they don't build on the backs of our more it's by those words all forgotten the face we're all taught by our mothers have been the people out there to take over the pale cluelessly well the hillary has the most usually all the bull run to the pulpit parikh rocklike to be so much better if we just remember big corporations i was creation it. will be somebody just squabbling really because it is at least the people who cause that was how. little people come. up. to our people are realizing it very least that the way our economic system
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currently runs he's 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 you don't see the military which uses 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 these days is the future of our economy our infrastructure is going to work and so if you face of those two issues which are you know just war going on here the one percent the military industrial complex suddenly your 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
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see energy you can turn roads into solar power that's not possible we think that's why we put our money ran on it right it was frightening. it was writing. it was this was our target like the rest of you. you're right. we were 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 wealth inequality at this point i think we can all agree there is no debate there is inequity when it
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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 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 to the 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 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
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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 owes 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 was out here during the good for not ration. 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 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
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potentially co-opting for. 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 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
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a living breathing multi and force that refuses to find me she will be pushed into a corner of 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 that isn't easy to do to get the feeds you need to get the image coming to your t.v. here. if you get an injunction. to. do. 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 like and how can we bring a better world and i think this historical lesson the kids who would like to read
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about it they have to keep coming back and coming back to this. i think they could change places actually. doing something and i got. to let.
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me he. says.
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you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so. for life you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. the fox.
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let me let me i want it all let me ask you a question from. here on this network is what robbing the bank we have our knives out. but if you give up the fight with us by staying there to get here in a situation where be i going to talk about surveillance me. oh oh.

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