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well they have a lot of hurdles to get over and i just want to mention already you cited the national lawyers guild a few hours ago they were out and about telling activists to write their phone numbers on the back of their hands the phone number to the national lawyers guild so if anybody were to arrest you can immediately now clearly the police are one hurdle for these activists to be getting over when it comes to storming the streets but there are bigger hurdles when it comes to the problems of the u.s. system the way the political landscape is shaping out and has been a ping out for years and decades and finally when it comes to that the state of the u.s. economy these activists and all of their supporters say there needs to be a fundamental change like take back as to when and how this movement started by turning to our cities and. triggered by wealth inequality inspired by the arab spring occupy wall street a movement of the people bringing up real dialogue over the need to improve the way america runs. spilled onto the streets when the same bankers khana me were bailed out by our taxpayer mo
well they have a lot of hurdles to get over and i just want to mention already you cited the national lawyers guild a few hours ago they were out and about telling activists to write their phone numbers on the back of their hands the phone number to the national lawyers guild so if anybody were to arrest you can immediately now clearly the police are one hurdle for these activists to be getting over when it comes to storming the streets but there are bigger hurdles when it comes to the problems...
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. >> greg gladden, you are running cars is an attorney, the head of the aclu, with the national lawyers guildwhen you came into this case, why is it that you immediately suspected there was an undercover officer involved with this action? >> good morning. the use of this particular statute, this manufacture of a criminal statutes is criminal. they're not been many in the past three or four years. it is benny's to overreach the first reported case -- it has been used to overreach. it is when people were showing a movie in dallas and houston for "deep throats clam bake at busting of four misdemeanor charges. they finally charged in the possession of projector that when all the way to the fifth surfacecircuit. >> that was the instrument? oxfam made it into a felony selected overreach and make it more expensive and dangerous for them to show this movie than simply paying a fine for misdemeanor. the wars on terrorism were on drugs or on communists or whatever, the government has always used infiltrators and often have used infiltrators that would provoke the group to do things that will marginaliz
. >> greg gladden, you are running cars is an attorney, the head of the aclu, with the national lawyers guildwhen you came into this case, why is it that you immediately suspected there was an undercover officer involved with this action? >> good morning. the use of this particular statute, this manufacture of a criminal statutes is criminal. they're not been many in the past three or four years. it is benny's to overreach the first reported case -- it has been used to overreach. it...
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hesitate to to gather up any of those on the streets and arrest them as you said pointing to the national lawyers guild more than one hundred occupy activists have been arrested so far in this is it just five six hours into the day long of that that have been planned to mark the one year anniversary of this grassroots movement that began here in lower manhattan and then blazed all over the nation and throughout the world now while the the movement itself has died down ever since the activists were removed from their encampments just two months into the the movement the frustrations are still the same they still remain there the hundreds of activists that we've seen out on the streets are still speaking out against the economic inequality in the u.s. speaking out on behalf of the ninety nine percent talking about and raising issue of corporate influence on u.s. politics raising the issue about unemployment and the erosion of the middle class so while a year has passed the occupy movement believes that it has reached its. that's a full point because this is become part of a national dialogue that the iss
hesitate to to gather up any of those on the streets and arrest them as you said pointing to the national lawyers guild more than one hundred occupy activists have been arrested so far in this is it just five six hours into the day long of that that have been planned to mark the one year anniversary of this grassroots movement that began here in lower manhattan and then blazed all over the nation and throughout the world now while the the movement itself has died down ever since the activists...
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that's right and that number is climbing according to the president of new york city's national loyal lawyers guild at least eighty five people have been arrested since the occupy demonstrators began a few hours ago on monday now of course this event marks the one year anniversary of this grassroots movement a movement that many say the u.s. has not seen in decades now it began in zuccotti park when hundreds of activists were camped out to fight up to fight against and speak out about the economic inequality in the u.s. and particularly about corporate influence on u.s. politics now when the activists were removed from their camp crowds here in new york city and throughout the country the movement did suffer somewhat of a blow because the activists were organizing indoors they were not allowed to really be out on the streets the police crackdown against their the type of dissent that they wanted to show publicly but earlier today i had a chance with to speak with pulitzer prize winning journalist and author chris hedges who says the occupy movement is still a very powerful force here in the u.s. .
that's right and that number is climbing according to the president of new york city's national loyal lawyers guild at least eighty five people have been arrested since the occupy demonstrators began a few hours ago on monday now of course this event marks the one year anniversary of this grassroots movement a movement that many say the u.s. has not seen in decades now it began in zuccotti park when hundreds of activists were camped out to fight up to fight against and speak out about the...