his name is david swanson. i guess on top of mind is exactly what is it that you're looking for because you have this broad range of demands that would be amazing if they could all be met. but what do you really want? >> majority rule, right? we have majority teammates, we are disregarded by our government. taxing the rich is the overwhelming majority. the rich are not getting taxed. ending the war, we are getting out of them. move the money from the military and the war machine to where we need it. peoples needs, infrastructure, jobs, it's not that complicated. >> a lot of this stuff with all due respect sounds like the left wing demand. we want, you know, guns, no butter, kids, not profit, all this kinds of stuff. what's different about this? >> left wing when the left wing is 85% of the country. then i will call it left wing, but these are majority demand. everybody says get the money out of politics. this is not coming from a political party, not from a politician, it's coming from people. and people, not j

another four million will do so in two thousand eleven joining me now for more arthur and activist david swanson david thank you for joining us to be perfect just a reaction to those new statistics out it confirms personal experience there are people in my family that fit those categories people i've met in freedom plaza that other occupations who fit those categories it's outrageous in the wealthiest nation on earth other people lose a job with it people are in secure and without income and can lose their homes and can destroy their families it's there's no excuse for that and people are starting to realize it's not their personal fault it's happening to all of us and it shouldn't be and if we all get together maybe we can change it and david you have been at the occupy d.c. protests that we have to over two thousand and eleven protests from the beginning over one month later what are what are the latest developments there. well we're we've got a protest encampments permanently established in both freedom plaza and another group in fierce and square and they are doing actions every day we are p

and joining me now for more here in studio is author and activist david swanson david thanks for joining us again we just saw the latest there our reporter covering over the weekend you've been camped out here in d.c. and you know we've been seeing these images over the past few weeks where answering our anniversary almost and so the question now is what comes next. well we're not going anywhere we're staying in and week out here to washington on october sixth and congress left town and they get back on tuesday and so tuesday morning is when we really begin to bring our grievances to our government on capitol hill i mean we have lots of other targets in this town buildings that we have been and will continue to be shutting down but our government hasn't even been here and most of the bureaucrats and the lobbyists and the profiteers have been gone for the weekend and columbus day so we're just getting ready to get started and we have no intention of going anywhere anytime soon ok and as they become i felt they're back into washington how do you think that's going to factor in the movement

and for more on this i thought of the author and activist david swanson i asked him what's next here's his take well we're not going anywhere we're staying in and we got here to washington on october sixth and congress left town and they get back on tuesday and so tuesday morning is when we really begin to bring our grievances to our government on capitol hill i mean we have lots of other targets in this town buildings that we have been and will continue to be shutting down but our government hasn't even been here and most of the bureaucrats and the lobbyists and the profiteers have been gone for the weekend and columbus day so we're just getting ready to get started and we have no intention of going anywhere anytime soon ok and as they become the filter back into washington how do you think that's going to back to the movement but do you think that a little listen to you more or i mean well but how are you expecting that that change i'm not expecting them to shut down all foreign bases and end all wars and redirect money to human needs by next week this is going to be a long process o

and that was author and activist david swanson well that does occur now for more on the stories we covered go to artsy dot com slash usa and check out our youtube page it's youtube dot com slash artsy america you can also follow me on twitter liz i have a great night.

informed the latest on the protests that was author and activist david swanson. and the media at first brushed off the demonstrations some have mocked a protest and some are now being forced to listen up and cover at what role does the media play in the perception of this movement earlier i posed that question is a christian members journalism professor at georgetown university here's what he had to say. i would critique the coverage of this story by the networks and the cable giants i would probably give a c. minus. four or five on the low end and ironically networks like m.s.n. you see pretty much in the c. plus range very likely because they are you know retreating to stereotypes of people you know either a square or wherever has hippies or drum beating you know savages and they are not i mean this this is not an organized movement as say with the tea party where you had conservative business people conservative politicians and pac rubes basically orchestrating what the grassroots was doing this is true grassroots so maybe there is a bias on that level there's

streets have already pledged to stay for as long as it takes to make their voices heard activist david swanson has been at the protests in washington and believes neither the police nor the onset of colder weather will derail the movement's growing old mansome but we are starting to hear talk again from the police that they are being pushed by someone in the administration higher up to drive us out of there we'll see what comes of that we're not leaving we've got protests encampments permanently established in both freedom plaza and another group in which fierce and square and they are doing actions every day we are protesting not just our government what its funders its handlers its think tankers and we're building community and we're making decisions and we're networking with the other occupy movements around the country we'll see what the police do and what the weather does to these occupations but you know the weather was shut down half of this country that will stay warm for sure and we have no intention and there are a lot of people camped out there that have no intention of ever leaving

author and activist david swanson who was among those demonstrating in the u.s. capitol told me that congressman should get ready for more protests we got here to washington on october sixth and congress left town and they get back on tuesday and so tuesday morning is when we really begin to bring our grievances to our government so we're just getting ready to get started and we have no intention of going anywhere anytime soon when we marched through the streets of this city and i've heard stories from other cities people who join in the march we shout where the ninety nine percent and so are you and they cheer and they join in and we applaud them people honk their horns not in anger at the traffic jam but in solidarity we're beginning to realize that it's not our personal problems in our household but that everybody shares these problems when c.n.n. demands our leader i'm reminded of the u.s. army demanding a chief from american indians who didn't have one we don't need that we don't need that imposed on us we're working to avoid having a leader people who saw a

continue our coverage of the many different protests taking this country by storm activist and author david swanson have been living in washington d.c. it's freedom plaza since the beginning of the october two thousand and eleven and occupy d.c. protest join us to discuss the latest developments coming out of the nation's capital plus we'll have some insight on the end a quality gap in america that keeps on growing this of the rich get richer while the poor are getting poorer. and we'll have back to the golden state where one person one who has been shared knows how to rake in the gold the president mr obama kicks off his weeklong fund raising tours schmoozing with the rich and famous in hollywood well talk to the always outspoken the community organizer ron go to as they're an hour from one o'clock hour. well that does it for now for more on the stories we covered go to artsy dot com slash usa and check out our you tube page it's dot com slash artsy america you can also follow me on twitter at liz wall be sure to chill into our t.v. up next is the capital account with more and we'll start. the off

a fund raising campaign to keep the organization afloat earlier i spoke to author and activist david swanson here's what he wants to say i certainly hope not but you're under greater threat i think from the u.s. justice system but. of course there was abroad but they deserve our support and our gratitude with out their information we wouldn't know half of the things we're protesting in these occupations without the information that apparently bradley manning leaked to wiki leaks there would have been much less pressure on me within the iraqi government to say no to a continued occupation of troops with legal immunity we owed them as much gratitude as we go principled activist movements and i hope people will put some money into it and you know why are these financial companies they're playing the plug on wiki leaks but some say they're not legally obligated and they're not legally obligated to in fact julian aside just calling it an lawful financial blockade. whether it's on lawful or extra legal it's immoral it's discreet spittle it's it's corporations with power they should not have with m