purchase there if you like well thank you to the both of you for coming on the show today i was jason samel he's the executive producer and founder music for occupy and map last musician for music brockett by thanks so much for having us peace. well all around the world and back here at home we've seen what happens during an economic crisis french president nicolas sarkozy lost his job over the ordeal and greek prime minister george papandreou and italian prime minister silvio berlusconi suffer the same fate so people are unhappy with the current economic recovery but well so many families are financially struggling numbers like this come out a recent study of two hundred eighty fortune five hundred companies found that a quarter of these companies paid less than ten percent federal income taxes between two thousand and eight and two thousand and ten and if you don't like the sound of that brace yourself for this next one thirty of these companies paid absolutely no income tax on their profits during those years that's right not a penny in fact of any actually got a significant amount of mo

there if you like right well thank you to the both of you for coming on the show today that was jason samel he's the executive producer and founder of music for occupy and that plast musician for music for occupy thanks so much for having this piece. well the alona show is coming up in just a half an hour let's check in with alona to see what's in on today's agenda what can we look forward to hey liz well first of all we're talking about this latest warded terror plot in yemen and the debate that's going on right now over secrecy versus transparency and just how much information should be given to the media just how much information should be given to the public and what officials choose to leak and then going to be joining us to talk about oil speculation and just how much that actually affects the price that you pay at the pump which believe it or not is a lot could be up to fourteen extra dollars that you're paying every single time that you fill out and so he is going to break down some of the specific lobbyists that are working really hard to make sure that congress doesn't pass any re

last year joining me now is the executive producer of the album and founder of music for occupy jason samel and one of the artists featured on the album is song is titled something's got to give singer and songwriter matt plus welcome to you both thanks for joining us tonight and thanks for having us jason what inspired this album how do you bring this thing together. what inspired the album is the occupy movement number one of course. but more to the point matt plus inspired the album. i had been down in zuccotti park on september twentieth two thousand and eleven i met matt there was kind of drawn in by his music he was playing on the steps of zuccotti park and was just drawn in by a harmonica and then these amazing lyrics that i was hearing from him. and went over to him and listened to a little bit and introduced myself to him and just a musician he's a musician i thought we could collaborate with each other asked him for his card and he hands me a small piece of paper with his name written in magic marker so i said great nice to me he said are i google me you'll find me and said ok wal

his on dot com great thank you very much to the both of you for coming on the show today that was jason samel he's the executive producer and founder for music for occupy and george martinez new york congressional candidate and hip hop artist well as occupy wall street to bring attention to rising inequality in the u.s. we want to turn now to the faces most affected by it not just the ones that make up america today but those who are its future art is on a look at the gap between the rich and poor children of the u.s. . one in four faced with hunger a nightmare for any adult but a reality for american kids twenty three percent of all children living in poverty children are one hundred percent of the future what kind of future we really talking about in the big apple the gap between rich and poor children is all too visible inside this building is one of many organizations in new york working to help struggling mothers it operates twenty four seven almost every minute a family in need is walking in and out of its stores right now seventeen thousand homeless children are bedding down in the mun

the mainstream airwaves stuff more about the album and the efforts behind it we were joined by jason samel executive producer and founder for a music of occupy and george martinez new york congressional candidate and have up artists. song i contributed to the album was done with my wife shout out to my wife clara guerrero the song is called occupation freedom and it's basically a call for people to start to work for freedom when i check on my job applications i aspire to check what it says occupation freedom were and we're hoping to inspire the next generation of freedom workers. i believe we have a clip of at to share with everyone take a lesson. with . the way. to go the older. carriage tell us about the mass said in your lyrics well my wife and i wrote a song that again it was the inspired next generation of freedom workers but what we're really saying is that it's about work it's we describe an assault different ways that people can occupy we say occupy all airwaves and spaces in between but we also see a lyric that says. occupy our government we are the ones we've been waiting for and