tv [untitled] February 10, 2013 9:30pm-10:00pm 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 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 us everything my father worked for his whole career could be gone within his lifetime so many diverse people whom he walks of life that recognize that we are the not the same kind of a time of record profits of rise it is very safe people that have made good. and i had a rich corporation that they now want to go to will benefit acceptable from up they
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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 what do you think that this car negotiations 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 so 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 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 seen as relieved they are i never expected when i first started contacting unions that the
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response would be so enthusiastic but the labor movement has been kicked around now for quite a while and they have to fight and runs. 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 took this in their mance 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 to want to get a standing ovation from all democrats and republicans just because i'm 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 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 you distinguished members of the norwegian nobel
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committee it's citizens of america. and citizens of the world. i receive. this honor with 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 change. there is. it. for far. too many than. sitting. around. the world. it was not right.
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i started in iraq in two thousand and four in 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 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 taxpayers in united states have 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
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household in america 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 die . 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 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 oh we even had money
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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 stay 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. 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 consequences this is a big one staggering debt from student loans everyone is told
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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. was happy. i. was. going to. i. was. thinking that if your goal anybody could have predicted that
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rainy day and november two thousand you would have. if you people out of the streets in new york city. because something is real journalists i would be out here . oh wow. we'll do whatever has absolutely to win it all right so you will be on a global stage with affordable education yet you think it is a miscarriage of justice that there is in fact the whole student loan debt credit card debt that when congress raises the loan limits schools respond to those increased long limits by raising tuition because they think that students can
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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 business the only one and all of us history that you can't ever default on you can ever just charge this with 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 day negotiated with the factories for better working conditions so that they could go back to work just that same way to you debtors
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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 you believe and the sooner we come to know the we'll just all these effects are so massive whether it's b.p. . oil. 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 massive show of your terry here. it's tar sands oil is not enough to go in order to get tarzan out you ask to destroy the ark and so i think that you know find some of 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 a pipeline and then the thing about the pipeline and one reason that makes this so urgent is that that the scientist james hansen the brokaw of the warrior actually a few decades back for it ever says that the pipeline is. game over means out in. inhabitable area.
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i think that until the people who are the naysayers come down and actually get a false narrative there's. a good dose of hope and rarely are still stupid criticisms were always so. and we want people to be able to use the if it's going to take time. we can't force it we're not ready. because we see a better world. we have a vision. you know this organization the second that any american dreams. were created. was.
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put in a fiction you know was heresy this intervention at the end you know only so you always 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 don't you think. that we can expect them to get off and on their own even on that in the smoking a crack. 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 venue for talking about this corruption and so folks that move to amend the real. in my mind i. said in the bar for the critique
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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 that the supreme court said property is people killed decisions i don't see was was was done for some cutting i'm telling them how about putting the money should be a coalition not individuals organisations coming together with a secular purpose to get to where they come to show not tell a clear cut is that they do not have been hearing about
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how about the old. money is not political speech thanks. to the end goal he was committing topcoat doctrines must feel like we cannot overturn the functionality and still allow wealthy individuals just didn't have enough money oh thank you. oh. oh oh oh oh. oh oh oh oh oh oh. he's a he was kind of the high of the old. monstrosity look around at the power
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monopolies have you notice she's still alive as stubbles our society shapes he gets needed like us use with the excuse that someone's got to listen put her race in the wind as if it's not good we all this you don't build on the backs of our morris brothers we're told forgotten the things we're all taught by our mothers should have been the people out there today show us the pale coolest well the hearing is the most easily oslo's from the pulpit parish projects like these so much better if we just remember the corporations are our creations. to somebody who really cause. was the cause was because he was.
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that 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 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 we look at the military budget yup city of new jersey but you see 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 decent there's these days is the future of our economy very infrastructure is going to work as if the face of those two issues which are you're just wrong and unfair the one percent. in the military industrial complex suddenly we are solutions to the issues he's selling his money to invest in
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a new resisting the economy will certainly there's money to reform and rooms that are wasting energy you can turn roads into solar panels that's where possible we like. our running friends on the. right the. right. place at least this mother target like the president. there are easier. street. we are right. here. and. they say that the occupy movements major victory to date is that we have changed
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the conversation that people are now debating issues such as wealth in a quality 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 are always going to hold you 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 to 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
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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 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 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 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
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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 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 arctic. but there are no membership dues no papers to cite all that is required is the willingness to see
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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 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 isn't it time to receive the ability to listen to please you listen to you well in coming to your kitty feel. pleased to speak to somebody to sit in judgment to speak to you just didn't think of you. just smile and you just. thankfully kind of said it better myself so when they say why occupy what will your answers the first time exactly people will really discussing the world happen leaders like and how can we
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juggling jogging. do hack work and get caught when lobbyist money and lawmakers are combined together that's where the problem of corruption comes from. the documents. keep up a smart look. there is also. another well behind which is how to influence things situation worse. steer clear of provocations don't answer any question. came into the
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office and found banners hanging around the office and lots of strange faces around so i said what's what's happening will somebody please tell me what's going on and they said oh we've come to occupy your building. possibly they wanted a confrontation possibly they wanted me to ring up the police have the police come and threw them out but it didn't seem to be a good idea to. learn the european way with brussels business and. it's one person one fault but in brussels baseness it's one euro one fault. well. it's technology innovation all the least of elements from around russia we've got the future covered.
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