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visited occupy wall street groups literally all over the country. do you think that the average person involved in occupy wall street gets that a lot of what's going on tracks back to reagan's radical changes in our tax policies is his suspension in eighty two for all practical purposes the sherman act that allowed all these corporations to get so big that there's actually a political basis to this that it was intentional there absolutely is a political basis because the policies that we push forward set the priorities for the country and as we've given tax break after tax break i call it a tax bail out to the wealthiest people in society we've created a massive disadvantage we should be getting in advantage of the people who need it most not the people who need it least but the idea that a trickle down system is the pathway to prosperity is totally flawed and the man has proven it doesn't work so as a loser that warren said that thing you keep doing stop doing it and i feel that if we're going to have a society that's equitable and a place where eve
visited occupy wall street groups literally all over the country. do you think that the average person involved in occupy wall street gets that a lot of what's going on tracks back to reagan's radical changes in our tax policies is his suspension in eighty two for all practical purposes the sherman act that allowed all these corporations to get so big that there's actually a political basis to this that it was intentional there absolutely is a political basis because the policies that we push...
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well for one i don't think we've seen the end of occupy wall street and things like occupy wall street i think when the nights grow a little bit shorter and a little bit warmer and the days grow a lot longer and a lot warmer we're going to see occupy wall street and some of its offspring bigger and larger and probably more politically engaged than they were last year in part as you point out earlier because it's an election year i think there are major activities planned over the next few months and we'll see if those come off or not but i would also start by saying that it's actually more of a surprise that took this long to get an occupy wall street than that we got one from a political standpoint as well as from an economic inequality standpoint all the things that brought those those people into the streets all across the country about occupy wall street are actually more true now than they were three months ago or four months ago and barring a sort of miracle which is unanticipated they'll be even more true three or six months out so as we sit and chat with each other at the end o
well for one i don't think we've seen the end of occupy wall street and things like occupy wall street i think when the nights grow a little bit shorter and a little bit warmer and the days grow a lot longer and a lot warmer we're going to see occupy wall street and some of its offspring bigger and larger and probably more politically engaged than they were last year in part as you point out earlier because it's an election year i think there are major activities planned over the next few...
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america see so i think now we're at a moment where i think if labor can learn the lessons of occupy wall street which is to have democratic ownership of the institutions then i think we can really have a revival and i mean unions have supported publicly supported occupy wall street some of them have even come out in protest as with them but still we're not going anywhere near the the impact that we're seeing in the u.k. yeah i mean if you look at what's happened a lot of unions like sci you have seen occupy wall street they've supported it and name its leaders got arrested what they mean really seeing it as a social movement that they can use leverage to make a deal behind the scenes i mean look at what sci president make it henry did she got a wrecked it arrested on the brooklyn bridge couple weeks ago and then she went around and she endorsed president barack obama saying that he was going to fight against the elite one percent on behalf of the ninety nine percent i mean they're still stuck in this corrupt mode of backroom deal making with other leaks but i mean do you think that if they are
america see so i think now we're at a moment where i think if labor can learn the lessons of occupy wall street which is to have democratic ownership of the institutions then i think we can really have a revival and i mean unions have supported publicly supported occupy wall street some of them have even come out in protest as with them but still we're not going anywhere near the the impact that we're seeing in the u.k. yeah i mean if you look at what's happened a lot of unions like sci you...
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nine percent as more than three hundred thousand people leave the labor pool and should the occupy wall street movement be occupying the ballot box we'll speak to christine oversell it bassist and co-founder of the band nirvana and the chair of fair vote who argues just that then we'll ask once again which religious group in the u.s. place is god above country of all that and more for you tonight including a dose of happy hour but first let's take a look at what the mainstream media has decided to miss. all right now with the rise of newt gingrich and fall of herman cain the mainstream media is in a frenzy after all what more could they ask for a real life sex scandal and a new candidate to obsess over it's practically christmas come early for them. it seems like today could be judgment day for herman cain could this be herman cain's last day on the campaign trail tonight he had to talk to his wife about accusations that he had a thirteen year long affair is the future of cain's candidacy riding on this confrontation conversation with his wife and family mitt romney taking off the gloves folks
nine percent as more than three hundred thousand people leave the labor pool and should the occupy wall street movement be occupying the ballot box we'll speak to christine oversell it bassist and co-founder of the band nirvana and the chair of fair vote who argues just that then we'll ask once again which religious group in the u.s. place is god above country of all that and more for you tonight including a dose of happy hour but first let's take a look at what the mainstream media has decided...
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engaging in fights with the police or they're engaging in violence they have been rapes on these occupy wall street movement by the way we. make them to like the fox let me make a machete at college football because sandusky was a pedophile you can't say that occupy wall street is so because there's one thing i mean if you have five thousand arrests it's not an isolated in this manner that these people are everything conflating the rest on purpose or camping out and people who are bringing attention to what is what they should you know why is this so scary so often since then why is it why why why aren't conservatives of seen on the fact that the occupy wall street people are getting arrested for things like trespass and you've got banks that we just discovered took seven and a half seven point seven trillion dollars according to bloomberg even the white house didn't know about it seven point seven trillion dollars made a thirteen billion dollars profit but most of it their own pockets over a thousand people are going to be a million dollars in bonuses why the hell aren't those thousand people and
engaging in fights with the police or they're engaging in violence they have been rapes on these occupy wall street movement by the way we. make them to like the fox let me make a machete at college football because sandusky was a pedophile you can't say that occupy wall street is so because there's one thing i mean if you have five thousand arrests it's not an isolated in this manner that these people are everything conflating the rest on purpose or camping out and people who are bringing...
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let's begin with the latest moves in the occupy wall street movement over the weekend two camps in major metropolitan cities were shut down here police in boston very early saturday morning taking apart the occupy camp there protesters had been there about two and a half months and nearly fifty people were arrested it was a very similar scene in san francisco late last week although there seventy people were arrested when this is a police in riot gear came to the camp and gave protesters five minutes to clear the area and clear the rest of the camp themselves police that apparently tore down the more than one hundred tents and threw the well the rest of the protesters belongings into a garbage truck all right so clearly this is a ramped up effort by police and other authorities around the country to put a stop to the occupation aspects of this movement but those who are part of the movement say you know no worries they have some strategies in the works anyway in new york city this morning protesters stood outside of goldman sachs headquarters building you may see they're holding a giant
let's begin with the latest moves in the occupy wall street movement over the weekend two camps in major metropolitan cities were shut down here police in boston very early saturday morning taking apart the occupy camp there protesters had been there about two and a half months and nearly fifty people were arrested it was a very similar scene in san francisco late last week although there seventy people were arrested when this is a police in riot gear came to the camp and gave protesters five...
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there is a lot more where that came from as we continue our entire show that's dedicated to occupy wall street now and might be in here right here in new york brought by wall street began but we know it's spreading across the country so we're going to speak to some other occupiers in d.c. and los angeles and britain have a special guest david house. whether you dive from high or to the depths. touch the power of the wind or drift in the beauty of the currents. the well prepared is a must and if you're lucky. you'll never forget your experience we only need some ice cream that's going to be heaven. in the white sea of gold and below the ice on our team. led mission to free accreditation free zones for charges free. range month free risk free. to tide free. download free broadcast quality video for your media projects a free video dog r.t. dot com. i know like i said new york city might be the epicenter where the humble beginnings of the occupy wall street movement began but as you know it's spread across the country around the world even but we sent our producers where we could in d.c. and in l
there is a lot more where that came from as we continue our entire show that's dedicated to occupy wall street now and might be in here right here in new york brought by wall street began but we know it's spreading across the country so we're going to speak to some other occupiers in d.c. and los angeles and britain have a special guest david house. whether you dive from high or to the depths. touch the power of the wind or drift in the beauty of the currents. the well prepared is a must and if...
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so that the demonstrators in support of occupy wall street the people who have made this an encampment will not return now just one last look after nearly two months of occupying los angeles city hall occupy l.a. time it has been shut down and what we're seeing here is a complete tear down of the encampment we shall see tomorrow and in the coming weeks where the heads for now we're reporting here in los angeles. are cheap. and we're going to take a sharp break but you're not going to lock them in this next story striking for a high labor union employees in the u.k. take to the streets so why can't american labor unions rally in the same numbers will discuss the issue in a moment. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so easy to understand it and then you glimpse something else here's you some other part of it you realize that everything is are you going to charge the big. protests that's the late in the u.k. and millions taken part today in a strike they're protesting slashes the public sector pensions over thirty labor unions from public how to tax collection have joined the
so that the demonstrators in support of occupy wall street the people who have made this an encampment will not return now just one last look after nearly two months of occupying los angeles city hall occupy l.a. time it has been shut down and what we're seeing here is a complete tear down of the encampment we shall see tomorrow and in the coming weeks where the heads for now we're reporting here in los angeles. are cheap. and we're going to take a sharp break but you're not going to lock them...
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but there is a lot more where that came from as we continue our entire show that dedicated to occupy wall street now it might be in here right here in new york where occupy wall street began but we know it's spreading across the country so we're going to speak to some other occupiers in d.c. and los angeles and britain have a special guest david house. sure is that so much a lot of people are curious they're listening. to the tumultuous year two thousand and eleven the world changed in ways hardly anyone predicted we witnessed the rise of people power on the. world. technology innovation. developments around russia we've got the future of covered. are now like i said new york city might be the epicenter where the humble beginnings of the occupy wall street movement began but as you know it's spread across the country around the world even but we sent our producers where we could in d.c. and in los angeles to get some messages from the occupiers there and then later on the show we're also going to bring them to the occupiers here in new york take a look. this is history in the making as far as i'
but there is a lot more where that came from as we continue our entire show that dedicated to occupy wall street now it might be in here right here in new york where occupy wall street began but we know it's spreading across the country so we're going to speak to some other occupiers in d.c. and los angeles and britain have a special guest david house. sure is that so much a lot of people are curious they're listening. to the tumultuous year two thousand and eleven the world changed in ways...
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think and her face that the the latest keep fighting everything that i knew that all these occupy wall street people want cheri they think that wall street is harappa the bailout should not happen they just want bigger gigantic government is that true so you just want a government that works very hard i say then i want a good government one that functions properly and the right wing wants a credible government that can just be steamrolled by wall street so to me that's you've already is just been doing all of the legwork for wall street i mean they've really been very very good to them and it says to me everything that this movement wants to push for a better direct citizens democracy where the tea party was a letter about electing house republicans who would vote against abortion and block obama's jobs bill i mean the senate minority leader mitch mcconnell he's said my number one priority is to end the obama presidency it should have been jobs right i mean how comparable is that with all the hysteria even their own hysteria about the deficit they still admit their number one goal is to sabot
think and her face that the the latest keep fighting everything that i knew that all these occupy wall street people want cheri they think that wall street is harappa the bailout should not happen they just want bigger gigantic government is that true so you just want a government that works very hard i say then i want a good government one that functions properly and the right wing wants a credible government that can just be steamrolled by wall street so to me that's you've already is just...
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they're protecting goldman sachs and that's not ok well speaking of the role of police in the occupy wall street movement it has been front and center in so many ways not only a bill police been the ones to send in to dismantle dismantle the occupy camps around the country they've also been caught on camera using weapons on protesters from pepper spray to tear gas to rubber bullets and their endeavors have been quite expensive according to a new survey by the associated press which shows that just over two months thirteen million dollars was spent on this movement in this eight hundred cities were surveyed and most of that money was spent on overtime and other municipal services so i want to give you an idea on just how that was divvied up here's a look at some of those cities and the breakdown new york spent more than half of the total with seven million dollars followed by oakland denver and portland but it's not just the money as much as the treatment of protesters protesters who call themselves the ninety nine percent that has brought about so much attention and it's also highlighted a large
they're protecting goldman sachs and that's not ok well speaking of the role of police in the occupy wall street movement it has been front and center in so many ways not only a bill police been the ones to send in to dismantle dismantle the occupy camps around the country they've also been caught on camera using weapons on protesters from pepper spray to tear gas to rubber bullets and their endeavors have been quite expensive according to a new survey by the associated press which shows that...
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occupy wall street's first camp in new york as a victim. journalist arrests at occupy wall street go public december twentieth eleven one of the most famous political prisoners in the world held in the u.s. taken off death row after thirty years but gets life behind bars without parole in moscow tens of thousands of people protest election results he gets protests in twenty years. in the u.s. despite initial promises to last only until. the occupy wall street movement still very much alive. protest a symbol of twenty eleven some have brought changes others results uncertain or even none at all news events come and go on the media can inflate them down play them or just question well the lessons of two thousand and eleven we learnt the your head will show so stay with us here at r.t. . r t your quite a bit of ground cover there highlighted and a lot of it i should mention she was on the front lines for so i want to bring in our to correspond honest. with me to talk about a few of the items we just saw in the report. i remember this the mounta
occupy wall street's first camp in new york as a victim. journalist arrests at occupy wall street go public december twentieth eleven one of the most famous political prisoners in the world held in the u.s. taken off death row after thirty years but gets life behind bars without parole in moscow tens of thousands of people protest election results he gets protests in twenty years. in the u.s. despite initial promises to last only until. the occupy wall street movement still very much alive....
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occupy wall street has just watched its three month anniversary what we fall into on september seventeenth with this moment this moment of frustration and anger with the bankers this time now i think that we've kind of injected the idea of economic inequality and see the public discourse where occupy wall street started that it would not last long enough to deliver any significant message but three months it was the biggest nationwide movement the west has seen in years it's clear that the protesters are feeling stronger and more united than to be one critic said the protests would not survive until winter they have we can't fund education we can't fund health care but we could fund the police state and fund these wars until the cows come home at what point is it enough. when does the greed stop opponents said the demonstrations would never trucked tens of thousands they have i would love to see a peaceful revolution where really what the media ridiculed them is a joke that is one of a party in their lives and is a trying to have burning man are living right. but kidding they were not. man
occupy wall street has just watched its three month anniversary what we fall into on september seventeenth with this moment this moment of frustration and anger with the bankers this time now i think that we've kind of injected the idea of economic inequality and see the public discourse where occupy wall street started that it would not last long enough to deliver any significant message but three months it was the biggest nationwide movement the west has seen in years it's clear that the...
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and you see that in the occupy wall street. we have 97% of gen yers saying that trusted and honesty is more important in how they choose to do business with someone. >> it was an outgrowth of the wall street protests, one woman protested against bank of america's fees, and bank of america pulled back those fees. so i think people are discovering that they can have a collective voice in this. they can influence businesses and how they treat their customers. >> you think those new york cops are mean? >> i think most of them are terrific. but occasionally there's a tussle and sometimes they ruse too much force and it gets outs of hand. but for the most parts the cops are good. >> you know about the occupy wall street movement. >> yes, i've been there. i've not excellent overnight, but -- >> what are you done? >> i talked to a number of them. >> engaged them in free inquiry? is that your question? >> no. >> okay. >> my question is, are they going to last? >> it's ideas that matters what they physically do, and these are rambunctious
and you see that in the occupy wall street. we have 97% of gen yers saying that trusted and honesty is more important in how they choose to do business with someone. >> it was an outgrowth of the wall street protests, one woman protested against bank of america's fees, and bank of america pulled back those fees. so i think people are discovering that they can have a collective voice in this. they can influence businesses and how they treat their customers. >> you think those new...
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all this power to washington the only solution is to take the power away the problem is the occupy wall street movement wants to give government even more power and that's just going to exacerbate that the image but why do you think that they wall street wants to give the government more power i think that quite the opposite they want the government to be what they think of the government should be which is representative of the people you know yeah that's what the constitution right that's the way that our government is set up as it's supposed to represent the people it's not supposed to represent those that just choose to million dollars into the campaign the movement is a is more of a marxist socialist movement they want the government turned gay are going to go out if they social it why do they not support the bailouts. no i did that well that's the irony of it the bailouts are very socialistic they just want different bailouts they want the government to take money away from people and give it to the middle class or give it to the poor or give it to students they want that money redistrib
all this power to washington the only solution is to take the power away the problem is the occupy wall street movement wants to give government even more power and that's just going to exacerbate that the image but why do you think that they wall street wants to give the government more power i think that quite the opposite they want the government to be what they think of the government should be which is representative of the people you know yeah that's what the constitution right that's the...
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then came a movement that is still ongoing occupy wall street it started with a group of a few hundred gathering to protest the corruption of a system in which the one percent or most wealthy and powerful in america make the rules and the other ninety nine percent lose out occupy wall street spread around the country and around the world here in the us harks and squares were occupied by peaceful protesters for months they were met with police brutality in the form of pepper spray tear gas and rubber bullets and the mainstream media who called them dirty hippies with no clear message just a few days days ago we saw protests in russia people who expressed anger about the recent elections there that landed the united russia party back with the majority of power the us media covered it as the arab spring on russia shores reporters goest about a resurgence of the liberal opposition completely ignoring the very ugly nationalist and anti-semitic leanings among them. and finally on to syria where protests are still ongoing now you hear a lot of talk on the mainstream media about the protests a
then came a movement that is still ongoing occupy wall street it started with a group of a few hundred gathering to protest the corruption of a system in which the one percent or most wealthy and powerful in america make the rules and the other ninety nine percent lose out occupy wall street spread around the country and around the world here in the us harks and squares were occupied by peaceful protesters for months they were met with police brutality in the form of pepper spray tear gas and...
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all right so for a while the mainstream media completely ignored the occupy wall street movement now they just mock them but there are a lot of reporters out there that has spent sleepless nights to bring us every single detail one of those is salon dot coms justin elliott who we spoke to. i think here we are a couple hours now please get here clean up the park and the like this is our last word for the party says. that he sat that he was going to leave her mark clear out of place and now with more things going on right i mean really salvatore mood here the people i was shocked i've been here for two weeks of covering covering the protests covering the city's response to it and it was recently about twelve hours ago last night the mayor and my police commissioner were saying that they were going to basically forcibly clear the park they were starting forcing the rules against city back against hearts and so on which of those rules are not going to force a class of the criticism here and something happened overnight somebody's feelings either the mayor or the country to start with jus
all right so for a while the mainstream media completely ignored the occupy wall street movement now they just mock them but there are a lot of reporters out there that has spent sleepless nights to bring us every single detail one of those is salon dot coms justin elliott who we spoke to. i think here we are a couple hours now please get here clean up the park and the like this is our last word for the party says. that he sat that he was going to leave her mark clear out of place and now with...
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cable networks a lot of the mainstream media playing this up as you know the unions reject occupy wall street can you kind of break this down for us the relationship between the occupy movement and the unions and what they were hoping to do and what they actually did do. sure will the action that's going to shut down on the west coast ports is actually in solidarity with. the e.u. local open longview washington which back about a month ago has very serious clashes with riot police over their refusal to let a group of grain be offloaded in their terminal in a long eternal because the family been stabbed by evidence that by scab labor a company name bunji international ltd decided they didn't want to pay your wages so they were going to try and get in and they were going to try and get new labor into the terminal so there's been a lot of union participation on kind of the. you know on a less alert level there's been a lot of heat in part of spatial i love you members actually come out and help organize a session and the problem with the use of then you're national is that they have a clause in
cable networks a lot of the mainstream media playing this up as you know the unions reject occupy wall street can you kind of break this down for us the relationship between the occupy movement and the unions and what they were hoping to do and what they actually did do. sure will the action that's going to shut down on the west coast ports is actually in solidarity with. the e.u. local open longview washington which back about a month ago has very serious clashes with riot police over their...
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somebody decides i want to go down to the occupy wall street demonstration say well i don't know but then they wind up on the list as somebody who supports the movement and then they wind up in various national security intelligence databases so the next time they go to the airport to try to get a flight they're pulled aside as a potential security risk merely because of something they the government thinks that there are some sort of a threat but they don't think what they're doing it but they're not the ones to make the decision the government makes those decisions certainly an interesting discussion and one that needs to be had more i would argue investigative journalist wayne madsen in tampa florida all right well thinking of twitter a bunch of us here at r.t. are pretty active tweeters one doubted lee our own queen of twitter is our senior producer lucy cavanagh of lucy has spent weeks at occupy wall street both here in new york and oakland and just yesterday she got back from russia where she was covering the protests there she was back here in the studio and a little earlier i
somebody decides i want to go down to the occupy wall street demonstration say well i don't know but then they wind up on the list as somebody who supports the movement and then they wind up in various national security intelligence databases so the next time they go to the airport to try to get a flight they're pulled aside as a potential security risk merely because of something they the government thinks that there are some sort of a threat but they don't think what they're doing it but...
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. >> well, forget about occupying wall street. these guys should be occupying paradise. do you think that's a stretch? well, think again. >> i'm neil cavuto and we used that video for just this occasion, over the top hipocracy. these guys soaking up the sun and socking it to the little guy. they are he' not the little guys. and union government leaders are picking the ritzy hilton in san juan puerto rico to hold the annual convention reportedly funded by union dues. so not a peep out of all the occupy protesters, the so-called rich corporate fat tax. and charles payne along with dagen mcdowell and adam lashinsky, and charlie gasperino. >> occupy wall street, if niece occupy kids are defense greed and people taking advantage of things, they have to be against some of the unions, particularly the big union bosses. you can argue greed by unions kill the auto industry, the trucking industry, you know, hurting the airline industry and the bosses in the unions, forget about it. they, really, really do live a life that only the 1% could even recognize. >> neil: dagen? >> where
. >> well, forget about occupying wall street. these guys should be occupying paradise. do you think that's a stretch? well, think again. >> i'm neil cavuto and we used that video for just this occasion, over the top hipocracy. these guys soaking up the sun and socking it to the little guy. they are he' not the little guys. and union government leaders are picking the ritzy hilton in san juan puerto rico to hold the annual convention reportedly funded by union dues. so not a peep...
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square attempted to take over a nearby twenty eight wall street church who helped occupy wall street movement in its earlier days when the demonstrators tried to seek sanctuary on the church's property they were met by several police officers who promptly began arresting people was the odd. of. about fifty people were arrested as they try to scale a fence the restricted the property surrounding trinity church and i wasn't only place the people were assembling in new york city about two hundred people gathered on seventh avenue to march towards times square and as they continued their peaceful calls for change at least two people were arrested by police while the rest remained under close police surveillance. people. have. to cut back. right. now to new york isn't the only place trying to keep movin alive they're still a strong presence in a handful of locations like nashville denver and d.c. and right here in d.c. the occupiers and macpherson square are still going strong so earlier today we sent producer treason a sente down of the street to get their take on what they're doing to k
square attempted to take over a nearby twenty eight wall street church who helped occupy wall street movement in its earlier days when the demonstrators tried to seek sanctuary on the church's property they were met by several police officers who promptly began arresting people was the odd. of. about fifty people were arrested as they try to scale a fence the restricted the property surrounding trinity church and i wasn't only place the people were assembling in new york city about two hundred...
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and the death of muammar gaddafi and the protests that brought the arab spring, as well as occupy wall street. so, time magazine distilled all of this into one cover photo and said the protester is their person of the year and i guess that that photograph actually was taken from an occupy wall street, the photograph on the cover was occupy wall street photograph. >> well, here, i'm going to be in the minority again, but i defend the selection of the person, quote, person in the year that resulted in a 30% increase in attention to foreign news, hurray at long last. >> i'm all for that. you know, unfortunately, time magazine, hardly anybody reads it anymore, look, the whole thing about the arab spring was a joke. anybody who knows anything about the history, the modern history of the middle east and gets the jews and christians and infidels, it was never going to be an american revolution, constitutional rights were going to be enshrined. i wrote about that and it doesn't take a prophet to know this is going to happen. the media totally bought it as 1776 for america. >> and i think they said so
and the death of muammar gaddafi and the protests that brought the arab spring, as well as occupy wall street. so, time magazine distilled all of this into one cover photo and said the protester is their person of the year and i guess that that photograph actually was taken from an occupy wall street, the photograph on the cover was occupy wall street photograph. >> well, here, i'm going to be in the minority again, but i defend the selection of the person, quote, person in the year that...
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because there's been cooperation between occupy wall street folks who are here for the beginning and the labor unions i believe the local actually i used the service workers union in providing food if i think there are plans for the local let's say you do i have a medical truck here to give people a shot if they're going to be staying over the winter so yeah that seems like a good relationship really if you see people coming in from all over the country who've been attracted by the message i've seen abroad. and just then just the fact that it's growing it's go. further than other magazines basically the same thing i mean again and still no clear goal or demand. here and there is a demand for discussing those things obviously the broad theme is still hangar wall street banker and economic inequality you know demand for more jobs and economic justice in this country i think it's just. nice that there are. they're not out. there. they are not a private party right exercise their freedom. that we have so many things. right i mean am i paid basically the beginning and i think it's turned
because there's been cooperation between occupy wall street folks who are here for the beginning and the labor unions i believe the local actually i used the service workers union in providing food if i think there are plans for the local let's say you do i have a medical truck here to give people a shot if they're going to be staying over the winter so yeah that seems like a good relationship really if you see people coming in from all over the country who've been attracted by the message i've...
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effort to keep the bush tax cuts in place for millionaires and billionaires is now targeting occupy wall street as we once attended an event in florida with the republican governors association and admitted that he's his words frightened to death by occupy wall street because it's wote having an impact on what the american people think of capitalism and quote but he also had a plan on how to defeat the movement for the latest on frank's and frank luntz is messaging to the one percenters joined by july for a broader we think progress is a always great to have you with us thanks for joining us again tonight and it's great to be here thank you massachusetts attorney general martha coakley survey. just blew this thing out she sued the bank of america j.p. morgan chase citigroup and g.m. a c. for allegedly seizing properties filing fraudulent foreclosure to documents and failing to help struggling borrowers who could've stayed in their homes if they had made lower you know if there had been. the. picks you know there are more shows look a lot of people are mortgage payments isn't this exactly the ki
effort to keep the bush tax cuts in place for millionaires and billionaires is now targeting occupy wall street as we once attended an event in florida with the republican governors association and admitted that he's his words frightened to death by occupy wall street because it's wote having an impact on what the american people think of capitalism and quote but he also had a plan on how to defeat the movement for the latest on frank's and frank luntz is messaging to the one percenters joined...
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occupy movements are taking place all around the country despite police dismantling many of these occupations but i want to bring in christine again salis she's an organizer an activist for all my wall street she is in new york christina lots to talk about here first of all as part of one of the activists with occupy wall street in new york just talk to me a little bit about the significance of this weekend what happened and what it means to be three months in. wow this weekend was definitely amazing you know we all got together are we saying happy birthday to ourselves it was really kind of cute actually and there were just so many people mobilizing you know we were taking over spaces there was actually a big immigrant march that happened on sunday so it's a really big weekend for us you know and it's just about celebration of course the cops like to break a bunch of that up but we don't want them to terrorists so it was really just a time for celebration and i feel really good about it and it feels good that we made it to this three month mark and even though the park has been torn down you know where we still have it going on and people see that and christine i see your raring the butto
occupy movements are taking place all around the country despite police dismantling many of these occupations but i want to bring in christine again salis she's an organizer an activist for all my wall street she is in new york christina lots to talk about here first of all as part of one of the activists with occupy wall street in new york just talk to me a little bit about the significance of this weekend what happened and what it means to be three months in. wow this weekend was definitely...
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occupy wall street folks here in new york city have engaged in a protest against stop and frisk demonstrations so i think that these sort of. targeted activities that they align occupy wall street with other protest movements that seek to help communities that have otherwise been unable to get their voices heard would probably be a lot more of what we're seeing in the future here i don't know if we'll see the kind of occupations the kind of you know camped out occupations that we saw at the beginning it's in a it's in the safe words of all vain and i think a lot of people are just waiting to see where it's going to go all right i'm sure you'll keep us posted reporter for democracy now ryan devereaux in our new york studios. coming on next.
occupy wall street folks here in new york city have engaged in a protest against stop and frisk demonstrations so i think that these sort of. targeted activities that they align occupy wall street with other protest movements that seek to help communities that have otherwise been unable to get their voices heard would probably be a lot more of what we're seeing in the future here i don't know if we'll see the kind of occupations the kind of you know camped out occupations that we saw at the...
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wall street secret government all it serves to protect its own. and wall street is a clear and present danger to a democracy and lastly the occupy wall street movement is fundable fundamentally correct but we need more i spoke to the man that's helping bring all of this to light economist and author les leopold i asked him just how wall street how wall street is pulling all of this off here's what he had to say. the fundamental way that it's done is through a revolving door where the top wall street executives become the head of the treasury and at the height of the crisis unbeknownst to anybody in congress. the secret government provided all street with seven point seven seven trillion dollars of loans meanwhile we were told the tarp program of seven hundred billion was all there was to it and those people who were trying to regulate the banks were considering legislation to go back to glasgow people to break up the hordes banks those people were not told those congressional leaders were not told of the incredibly bad condition that the wall street banks were in and of these secret loans. and so the banks you all say that the banks there they were
wall street secret government all it serves to protect its own. and wall street is a clear and present danger to a democracy and lastly the occupy wall street movement is fundable fundamentally correct but we need more i spoke to the man that's helping bring all of this to light economist and author les leopold i asked him just how wall street how wall street is pulling all of this off here's what he had to say. the fundamental way that it's done is through a revolving door where the top wall...
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-- next step for occupy wall street? >> what is your main interest in the issues raised by occupy wall street? if it is money and politics, you should join with those who are occupying the supreme court, fighting in states for clean money reform, and fighting for an amendment strategy to overturn the citizens united decision, and fighting in elections to change the supreme court. >> what would you think of having a national general assembly modeled on the original continental congress in philadelphia beginning on july 4 of 2012? coming up with a list of grievances that this assembly debated. >> lawrence blessing has talked about a new constitutional convention. i think it is early. i think it is tricky. i do not mean to sound too conservative. when you say to make a list of grievances, we could sit in this room and come up with a list of six ideas or grievances that need to be made real and lead to change. you need to find your issue, work in your community. work in the organizing around the issue. link up with groups doi
-- next step for occupy wall street? >> what is your main interest in the issues raised by occupy wall street? if it is money and politics, you should join with those who are occupying the supreme court, fighting in states for clean money reform, and fighting for an amendment strategy to overturn the citizens united decision, and fighting in elections to change the supreme court. >> what would you think of having a national general assembly modeled on the original continental...
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not arms folded didn't want to have anything to do with talking just talking to the occupy occupy wall street leadership and and then i would go back to occupy wall street and learn more and more about these wonderful people who are well organized ethical. methodical insistent and focused and they converted me i crossed that fence. a little inelegantly would you say. you know i said sort of dangled on the top there like going like a wounded duck but i've i did it because i was with my friends and i really believe in what i'm converted it's a remarkable story of the short yeah it's a remarkable story brooke you were there too and you had your own confrontation with the police i understand it was pretty rough what happened to you. yeah it was i was for george was the one who needed to be arrested because of his position and he did have the fabulous outfit and so i was just there to be supportive and make sure that he was going to be ok we knew he would be arrested so i was just videoing i was with a bunch of peaceful people outside the fence and i don't know what happened what was pushing us up
not arms folded didn't want to have anything to do with talking just talking to the occupy occupy wall street leadership and and then i would go back to occupy wall street and learn more and more about these wonderful people who are well organized ethical. methodical insistent and focused and they converted me i crossed that fence. a little inelegantly would you say. you know i said sort of dangled on the top there like going like a wounded duck but i've i did it because i was with my friends...
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since the occupy wall street movement started more than three months ago it's taken many forms from physical occupations and cities across america to occupy an individual homes to helping struggling homeowners avoid foreclosure to occupying corporate media headquarters to occupy in the iowa caucuses to occupying christmas the movement has so many different dimensions today and now there could be a bond developing between the occupy movement and christianity so what does that look like just what does occupy wall street and christianity have in common joining me to answer that now for our from los angeles blaze bon pain former mariel priest and director of the office of the americas and from new york george packard retired personable bishop an occupy wall street participant greens to both of you good to have you both with us thank you very much for joining us tonight. i tom had to feel closer to be with you thank you blaze it to you first i'm curious occupy wall street and the beatitudes. well the message is peace on earth goodwill to everybody it reminds me of the early christians before the
since the occupy wall street movement started more than three months ago it's taken many forms from physical occupations and cities across america to occupy an individual homes to helping struggling homeowners avoid foreclosure to occupying corporate media headquarters to occupy in the iowa caucuses to occupying christmas the movement has so many different dimensions today and now there could be a bond developing between the occupy movement and christianity so what does that look like just what...
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that's a powerful statement and it's the essence it seems of the occupy wall street movement and yet i never hear religious rhetoric coming out or very rarely hear religious rhetoric coming out of the people associated with occupy wall street in fact sometimes it's aggressively anti institutional religious anyway. how do you how do you square that circle. well you know i thought it was his remarks surplus where how do you bring it on around yeah the i thought blazes remarks just a bit ago really to the point that we there there may be a reem brace of historical christianity this christian anthropology that underwrites the dignity of every human being and those two as miss crow across with occupy wall street a lot of the mainstream churches. i don't think of caught up with the message with the paradigm they're still in the in the the the part of the the message that conveys the gospel we will be a gift to you we will give you things rather than realizing the light should go on they should stand with those in need and those who are asking for a voice to be heard and when i scale that fe
that's a powerful statement and it's the essence it seems of the occupy wall street movement and yet i never hear religious rhetoric coming out or very rarely hear religious rhetoric coming out of the people associated with occupy wall street in fact sometimes it's aggressively anti institutional religious anyway. how do you how do you square that circle. well you know i thought it was his remarks surplus where how do you bring it on around yeah the i thought blazes remarks just a bit ago...
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protecting civilians it's not it's not clear exactly who they're guarding what with respect to the occupy wall street if you go down there and if you went down there when the encampment was intact at zuccotti park they were protecting the financial institutions that wall street but at the same time there's there's simply there's simply an effort by federal law enforcement to take the reins of local law enforcement to corrupt local law enforcement destroy the relationship between civilians and the police and to treat civilians as criminals if not terrorists or as avi dichter f.b.i. director robert mueller his so-called mentor said terrorists i want to ask you because in some ways and it doesn't really make sense we point out on our team before that these police officers that are part of the ninety nine percent so it's why are they engage in these hostility is against their neighbors their friends their in their community. you know that that goes to the mentality of just following orders. i've seen chants during occupy wall street demonstrations at the police asking them to to join the protesters and t
protecting civilians it's not it's not clear exactly who they're guarding what with respect to the occupy wall street if you go down there and if you went down there when the encampment was intact at zuccotti park they were protecting the financial institutions that wall street but at the same time there's there's simply there's simply an effort by federal law enforcement to take the reins of local law enforcement to corrupt local law enforcement destroy the relationship between civilians and...
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insurrections include to rear square in egypt syntagma square in athens and of course wall street in new york now the occupy movement speaking of wall street is really seen as the latest worldwide manifestation of this giago phenomenon and just to give you a little reminder as of november seventeenth the media page of occupy together listed more than twenty six hundred occupy communities and towns and cities and that's worldwide now occupy. wall street is seen as the first time that the job a movement really moved to the epicenter of finance before that as you can tell from the other examples i gave you in the view of job of the insurrection could be conflated with other ills perceived like the role of mubarak in the case of egypt or the kleptocracy as perceived in greece and that financial experts and smart viewers is giago. now as i just showed you as occupy wall street saw a massive day of action yesterday and we saw images like these from new york of protests and arrests and police violence and some of the footage right there you can see an arrest a lot of people working on wall street actually got pink
insurrections include to rear square in egypt syntagma square in athens and of course wall street in new york now the occupy movement speaking of wall street is really seen as the latest worldwide manifestation of this giago phenomenon and just to give you a little reminder as of november seventeenth the media page of occupy together listed more than twenty six hundred occupy communities and towns and cities and that's worldwide now occupy. wall street is seen as the first time that the job a...