occupy activist and participant in occupy wall street as well or so and nicole wall can do both. and i thank you thanks for joining us first pursue your thoughts on wal-mart cashing in on the occupy movement. well the first thing to understand is that the poster is actually being sold by a third party seller through wal-mart so it's just a small business person selling the poster through the big channels that wal-mart has to sell items online so actually that money the majority of that money from the sale of that particular poster will go to a small business which is great however you know it is ironic that occupy wall street has been pretty active in the movement to hopefully in you know the best case unionize wal-mart in the even better case have. completely worker own that would be pretty exciting. forty two percent of the profits profits go towards a single family one hundred fifty billion dollars is owned by sixteen people imagine the real transformed change that could happen in this country if either the kind the kind the company or that wealth of that family were nationaliz

in that occupy wall street one of the biggest gripes of occupy wall street is the corporate takeover of our electoral politics and that's exactly why we have a fracking issue. because we have these these corporations who are paying off the politicians the politicians are making their decisions you know. in favor of these. of these companies that are the gas companies that are doing the fracking . and that's a big thing that we're fighting against in the occupy movement still are trying to overturn things like citizens united in order to really. give the voice back to the people mike where can people go to find out more about rusted root and also jason i want to you to add about the album rest of it. is our web site and we're pretty pretty active on facebook too there are probably two nights that we just get as much as i like you know it's just finished up and tore down the country and you guys are touring all the time and yeah there are a lot of shows if they were talking about them at the merge table having a hanging out with people and just talking about it and base and working peo

for occupy wall street, a new form of society. to how youack evaluate the potential for these were kind of shaking up the party system, making it more responsive to the issues i was talking about. the tea party has had some effect. if the tea party was able to take over the republican party even more thoroughly, i think we would see some kind of realignment, probably to their disadvantage. we would see things falling out differently in some other it -- and some other issues being addressed. where that is going is another question. it looks to me -- i am lister -- interested in that last paper, but it looks like they're pulling back a bit. there is talk that we may be need not to knock off everyone in these primaries. i am not sure about that. where the wisconsin movement is is pretty much diluted and defeated. it has set an example and it will come back but i think the momentum is lost. maybe they will be able to defeat walker the next time through. or not. dispersedl street was . i can say was an organization because it was not,

well actually the first time i went out to occupy wall street i was still living in wisconsin at the time and that was the first time i really went to an event specifically to cover it through photography before that i was involved in a different way when i was in wisconsin but i realized you know i'm a photographer i take photos a lot of the people that i met wisconsin a network i built up of activists in wisconsin kept talking about how. that they weren't sure if the info that they were getting was correct or not and so myself and one of my friends was a videographer and we decided to go out there is a team so that's kind of where my transition from just being an activist to also being documentary photographer that's kind of where it began so there was a big step for me also and filling the void as a documentarian and really getting those stories heard let's look at your most famous some your most famous photos a group of riot police during the two thousand and twelve tampa bay are in. a really powerful shot right there what were you trying to capture and why do you think this phot

coming up it's been more than two years since new york police broke up the occupy wall street encampment and zuccotti park what impact did occupy wall street have on american politics and what can i teach us about mass protest going forward and how these wal-mart trying to profit off a bit more on that right after the break. one of the wonderful strong women a lot of these policies i think you're right. it was. a pleasure to have you with us here on t.v. today i'm sure. you've got a quote for you. it's pretty tough to. say what it's about story. let's give this guy look it's about time. working for the people missions the mainstream media works for each other bribes vision by. phone from. science technology innovation all the news developments from around russia we've got this huge earth covered. i think. i would like to do. that you know the price is the only industry specifically mentioned in the constitution which says that's because a free and open press is critical to our democracy shrek. never go on i'm sorry and on this show we reveal the picture of what's actually going on we go

as wall street prepares to pay out over $90 billion in year-end bonuses, an offshoot of occupy wall street urges the banks to reconsider how they spend their massive profits. $60 billion in pay for two years of the national affordable housing trust fund. this is the program that is financed for 10 years could end homelessness in american -- and america. next up, $21 billion in needed repairs to public housing and wall street to take care of that. and you know what? it would still have $10.4 billion left over. >> and while the philippines struggles to rebuild after typhoon haiyan, the country is been forced to continue paying out billions of dollars in debt to the world bank and other lenders. all of that and more coming up. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. a car bombing in the lebanese capital of beirut has left at least five people dead. the victims included the attacks apparent target, the homage financelebanon's former minister. he was an age of former prime iri and a vocal critic of seared president bashar al-assad. a u.s. drone strik

coming up it's been now more than two years since new york police broke up the occupy wall street encampment and zuccotti park what impact did occupy wall street have on american politics and what can it teach us about mass protest going forward and how is wal-mart trying to profit off the war on that right after the break. i would rather i asked questions to people in positions of power instead of speaking on their behalf and that's why you can find my show larry king now right here on r.t.e. question. i know c.n.n. m s n b c fox news have taken some knots lately but the fact is i admire their commitment to cover all sides of the story just in case one of them happens to be accurate. that was funny but it's closer to the truth and might think. it's because one politicians and the mainstream media work side by side the joke is actually on here. and our teen years we have a different brain. because the news of the world just is not this funny i'm not laughing dammit i'm not. going to stick to the jokes i will hand over the stuff that i've got. i would like to know that you know the price is t

a foreign power joint occupy wall street protesters and pay the opposition to help bring down the us government like washington is doing and ukraine and elsewhere analysts say the boy tells would go ballistic there would be a hysteria that would be regarded as utterly unacceptable interference in the internal affairs of the united states by the government leaders and yet they have no compunction about doing this now in ukraine and in many many other cases around the world it's clear that the what the united states government is after is regime change in the ukraine and it has nothing to do with what they say they're concerned about that is you know human rights and democracy why are there no sanctions against the united states for what it did to iraq or what it's done in afghanistan or what it's done in vietnam or in so many other countries around the world are calling for an emergency meeting already expected to attend our helen hunt george clooney this team america knows the growing trend of trying to use they glom on to sway public opinion in politics like hello. world to me is an

it was in occupy wall street speech.socialism, take money away from the rich and give it to the port. the best example of why this is not that tea party president, think about obamacare coming into effect. one of the main functions of obamacare parties insurance subsidies that they will use to try to lure people to buy insurance from private companies. so we are going to borrow money from the chinese in order to prop up insurance companies. that is nothing the tea party would approve of. lou: by the way, that has been going on for quite some time. before we get all, you know, seemingly concerned aut the purist aspect of the government and the separation of the private sector, who in the world did you think is driving the health sector in this country? medicare and medicaid are extraordinary entitlements. fred, i mean, socialized medicine in some form has been a major part of this society and government and economy for a very long time. >> and it does redistribute income to a certain extent. lou: exactly. >> and obama wou

. >> from tahrir square to occupy wall street, video seen around the world. >> medic! >> that stoked the fires of freedom and sparked political change. >> ever since then the camera has been a feature of every protest. ♪ "caught on camera: revolution." >>> thousands of egyptians storm a bridge, fighting for freedom. 2011 is an historic year as revolutions sweep across the middle east in an unprecedented wave of political uprisings known as the arab spring. >> there are essentially uprisings and revolutions for freedom and dignity. some of them have been against monarchies. some of them have been against republics or republican presidents. but at their heart they're about freedom and dignity. >> reporter: january 25th, 2011. galvanized by the successful overthrow of the government in nearby tunisia, egyptian activists put out a call on the internet for a large protest against police brutality. >> the call went out on facebook, went out on twitter but also went out among the activist community. and a lot of people thought this is just another call, and who sends out a fa

he has stood up against occupy wall street. course he has assaulted us with other health indangering things like bicyclists on the prowl. but all in all, we owe him thanks. >> mary, how about you? >> my hit goes to breakthroughs in medical research, particularly the area of brain science. the first is we made some major progress in working towards the treatment of parkinson's disease. in december, a professor of neurology won a prize from silicon valley, a breakthrough prize, for his work on understanding the circuits that go bonkers with parkinson's disease. this goes straight to the treatment of the disease. >> very exciting developments on the science front. james. >> my hit is to the earth and the sun. who have conspired to blow up the predictions of those promoting the global warming thesis. these two -- the earth and the sun have just refused to show a warming trend over the last 15 years on earth's surface temperatures. so i think the amount of suffering that's been avoided by avoiding all the regulations they wanted to

during occupy wall street, that's what the whole thing was about., the republican party has kind of taken that message and turned it on its head. instead of doing something, the plan is switch and moan. blame it on obama and move back to complain about obama care. to me if working class people aren't fighting, we're going to lose. and that makes it that much more important for us to fight. >> jesse lagreca, mike papantonio, thanks for being with us tonight. >>> coming up, ohio republicans are trying to turn the state red by blocking progressive voters. their game plan, next. stay with us. clients are always learning more to make their money do more. (ann) to help me plan my next move, i take scottrade's free, in-branch seminars... plus, their live webinars. i use daily market commentary to improve my strategy. and my local scottrade office guides my learning every step of the way. because they know i don't trade like everybody. i trade like me. i'm with scottrade. (announcer) ranked highest in investor satisfaction with self-directed services by j.d

senator john mccain hasn't shown any such concern for occupy wall street protesters when they were brutally repressed in the united states and driven from zuccotti park and from the main centers of america cities across america or with. protesters in europe against neoliberal austerity measures when tens of millions receive like treatment over the last two years indeed just this week in spain in the united kingdom and in italy we saw police repression of peaceful political dissent john mccain hasn't. shown any concern about this john mccain has always been concerned with is he views russia as a geo political enemy of the united states of the greater transatlantic community and he like many western officials is viewing through this through a cold war lens of trying to separate russia from the ukraine in order to in his mind keep it in a permanently geopolitically weakened state of political turmoil a crackdown on protests and an economy and life in egypt is no easy ride just to have we take a look at whether the dreams of those who took part in the arab spring uprising almost three years ago

he has stood up against occupy wall street. of course he has assaulted was other health-endangering things like bicyclists on the prowl, but all in all we owe him thanks. >> mary, how about you? >> my hit goes to breakthroughs in medical research, particularly in the area of brain science. the first is that we made some mayor progress and advances in understanding and working toward the treatment in parkinson's disease. just in december, a professor of neurology at emery university won a prize from silicon valley, a breakthrough prize for his work on understanding the circuits that go bonkers with parkinson's disease. and this goes straight to the treatment of the disease. >> very exciting developments on the science front. james? >> my hit is to the earth and the sun, who have conspired to once again blow up the predictions of those promoting the global warming thesis. these two -- the earth and the sun have just refused to show a warming trend over the last 15 years in earth surface temperatures. so i think, you know, the amo

officers cattle and pepper sprayed a crowd of occupy wall street protesters despite a total lack of violence. other than the violence by the police in august of two thousand and twelve peaceful protesters the republican national convention in tampa bay were met by hyper militarized police who would like to belong more on the streets of benghazi than ample four years earlier at the r n c in minneapolis democracy now host amy goodman was arrested and charged with conspiracy to riot even though she was just reporting. so ironically i was doing that you're right. right. there right there. right rice is under arrest. yet and just this summer nonviolent protesters at the annual alec conference in chicago or push out get arrested by chicago police officers take a look. thank you. guys said was saying they are saying protesters are getting gassed in oakland and hitting the pavement in chicago the free speech rights of corporations are being protected in all of us by police forces across america and by the conservative justices on the supreme court who gave us the disaster's citizens united decision.

income inequality and the widening gap between rich and poor is what galvanized america's occupy wall street movement in two thousand and eleven everything that inspired everything those people were out there screaming and yelling about a few years ago is more painfully more true now more than half of all u.s. wage earners made less than thirty thousand dollars last year this as millions more are sliding down the economic ladder below the poverty line tonight let's declare that in the wealthiest nation on earth no one who works full time should have to live in poverty and raise the federal minimum wage to nine dollars an hour. months after u.s. president barack obama made his promise. yet fast food workers in more than one hundred u.s. cities have been taking to the streets pleading for an increase in the minimum wage at seven twenty five a pace so low the majority who earn it are forced to rely on government assistance like food stamps to make ends meet the bottom line is that wages have gone up united states in forty years the middle class has been disassembled and this is increasingly a c

civil society groups occupy wall street activists of spied on organizations like greenpeace have been spied on and the pretext fortunately has been terrorism they've actually used the specter of terrorism to justify some of these operations but there was an investigation by the office of inspector general in the u.s. department of justice which looked into some of the f.b.i.'s practices over about a five year period in relation to these organizations and they found out that actually there was no justification that would in any way resemble terrorism there was no threat of violence there was no criminal activity i didn't factor this investigation condemned the f.b.i. and said that they really shouldn't have actually open these investigations and continue these investigations to be working and speaking of justification to how it is how is this legal and what justification is the u.s. government using to share classified material with these giant corporations and furthermore what is this kind of partnership doing to the democratic process. well you know this is the thing for the legal ju