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to overthrow governments to somehow bring about stability and democracy are either dismally stupid or consciously running a very brutal con game but that's just my. guess . and i worked 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 rising is trying to break the union 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 no not percent of the time of record profits of rights it is us to the very same people that have made them who get it and in
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a rich corporation that they now want to you will benefit acceptable from up they want to feel the rise 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 bar you 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 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 on message are exactly the same corporate greed is destroying this country and we cannot let it so we have very close ties with the communication workers before september seventeenth we were already supporting the farm workers and 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 relations. with labor labor scenes is
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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 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 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.
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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 to want to get a standing ovation from both democrats and republicans just from a wide view 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
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going to earn anyone any nobel peace prizes or a thank goodness they wish members of the norwegian nobel committee. 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 handed. down. to the family of the city. but
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he was not. 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 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 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 maiming people if you're not convinced our foreign policy is morally bankrupt perhaps we should talk about money. 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
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dollars would buy well it could be the end you will energy costs for every household in america for five years but i hear you saying that would not do very much to decrease our dependence on foreign oil there enough one point four trillion dollars could convert every home in america to one hundred percent solar energy by . over more 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 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 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 laden 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 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 and the. next thing 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 on the american economy set to explode with dire consequence. as 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 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. the.
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congress raises loan limits schools respond to those increased loan 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 yet and that's one of the problems in that that's where this problem is coming and that's why people are speaking up that's why that i'm hiring 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 suv a car see the idea of do you debtors union is based on the 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
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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. phrase. is really to believe and the truth of the sooner we get to know the world this is just all the so far so whether it's b.p.a. you know don't put words. so. the tar sands i think are the size of florida
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destroyed alberta i was really interested in the tar sands protests this summer because to see thousand plus people getting arrested like that willfully it was pretty amazing that a message to all of you. is tar sands oil is not applicable in order to get our standpoint out you ask to destroy it 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 a pipeline and then the thing about the pipeline and one reason it makes it so urgent is that that nasa scientist james hansen broke or boring or actually a few decades back or whatever says the piper i mean it will be game over. game over me and starting from up on inhabitable or.
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people who are the naysayers come down and actually get it all. there's. a good dose of rarity here so old student criticisms were ok so the dining and we want people to be able to use the lift it's going to take time but. we can't force it we're not ready to. because we see a better world. because of the. you know this organization of the second that any american dreams. were created. was.
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ok it's time for intervention you know. i hear or see this intervention at the end you know the show you all the same 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. that we can expect them to get off and on their own even on that in the smoking a crack for money. i mean crack rock can 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 the real. in my mind. said in the bar for the critique that corporations are not persons property not speech and constitutional rights are
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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 that the supreme court said property is people killed decisions i don't see was was was fought for such. on the member of the about putting on the television was a culmination of individual documentations coming together with a secular purpose to demand to know where they come from to kill and then to make a clear cut because. they didn't know how to begin here in
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a week about have our way that money is not political speech thanks to the income he was committing topcoat doctrines must be about why we cannot overturn corporate functionality and still allow wealthy individuals to still not enough the money oh thank. you. i think i'm up. to all talk. monstrosity look around at the power monopolies have you noticed i like this double
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our society chasing the good swedish like us use with the excuse that someone's got to listen put for a show the wind as it is not the older they don't build on the backs of the more it's been those we're told forgotten the face we're all taught by our mothers should have been the people of the us the payoff. for all the here we have the most easily all the bull run to the small of his. tracks like so much better if we just remember what the race is. cause for. the cause was cause he was thank you thank. god. that people are
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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 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 in the we look at the military budget. neutral but you say spend as much as the world 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 drip is the future of our economy very infrastructure is going to work and so the face of those two issues which are you're just going on fear the one percent. in the military industrial complex suddenly we are solutions to all the issues he's selling his money to invest in the new grease is doing the work on
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. selling his money to reform it looms them out wasting energy so you can turn roads into solar power that's not possible we like. our money was raised on it. right in. writing. that it was this mother target like the rest. of your. street kids. we know were right. here. 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 wealth inequality at
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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 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 all of the issues are connected anti-war 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. 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
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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 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 game for no education. 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
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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 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 arc. but there are no membership dues no papers to cite 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
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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 that is unique to receive. any you can play and it can come into your kitty feel. pleased to be delighted to sit in judgment. you didn't didn't think you'd. just smile and you. thankfully could have said it 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
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