the occupy wall street movement is about to get even stronger a group of business leaders led by ben cohen and jerry greenfield of ben and jerry's ice cream are planning to give substantial funds to the occupy wall street movement in an attempt to sustain the protests and promote political change so now that it appears the occupy movement is gaining some much needed funding and beginning to develop a clearer organizational structure will it become stronger than ever does it now have the necessary ingredients needed to promote lasting change in america joining me to discuss this is ben cohen founding partner of ben and jerry's ice cream and molly chris on member of occupy the hood welcome to both of you. you know you do it great great to have you both with us. bad and if i may start with you what prompted you and the rest of your group to decide to help fund the occupy movement. you know i think we've been working on progressive social change economic and social justice for the last twenty or so years and i think we have been getting that far and the missing ingredient has been a massive gr

necessary ingredients needed to promote lasting change in america joining me to discuss this is ben cohen founding partner of ben and jerry's ice cream and molly croissant a member of occupy the hood welcome to both of you. you know you do it with great great to have you both with us. bad and if i may start with you what prompted you and the rest of your group to decide to help fund the occupy movement. you know i think we've been working on progressive social change economic and social justice for the last twenty or so years and i think we have been getting that far and the missing ingredient has been a massive grass roots movement and that's what the occupy movement has the potential of becoming and. so we're incredibly excited. incredibly hopeful that we'll be able to take advantage of this potential and build it into the massive grassroots movement that it can become that's great tell me about occupy the hood and what you what you folks are you know everybody there by wall street and the groups affiliated with it are thinking about doing with the resources the bens bringing to the tab

will show you just how little general electric paid in taxes this year and then later he will have ben cohen you know ben and jerry's ice cream on the show to talk about his plans to fund the occupy wall street movement. but that is going to do it for the news for more on the stories we covered you can head over to our ti dot com slash usa and if you miss anything from this show or any show today don't worry we post our interview interviews in full on line just go to our youtube page it is youtube dot com slash artsy america and don't forget to leave a comment we had one.

responsibility at all and the occupy movement has got a strong show of support stay tuned for ben and jerry's ben cohen and occupy the hood. you need to know this polls are closing in michigan and it's likely to be a long night before a winner is named that's because heading into the michigan primary mitt romney and rick santorum were neck and neck in a dead heat you bet romney who was actually born in michigan just like me wasn't expecting this close of a race then again when you wrote an op ed for the new york times titled let detroit go bankrupt there are political consequences consequences the santorum is now using as he reaches out to of all people democrats to push him over the top in the wolverine state take a listen to this robo call that went out to democratic voters this week paid for by the santorum campaign. michigan democrats can vote in the republican primary on tuesday why is it so important romney supported the bailouts where his wall street billionaire buddies might oppose the auto bailout that was a slap in the face to every michigan worker and we're not going to let romney get away w