(2011/10/18) We are the other 99 percent (Occupy Wall St Part 2)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 18 October 2011
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Edition #539
We are the other 99 percent (Occupy Wall St Part 2)
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Act 1: Police Are On The Wrong Side At The Occupy Wall Street Protests - Lee Camp Air Date: 9-25-11
Song 1: All these things that I've done - The Killers
Act 2: Romney Would Complain About Class Warfare - The Progressive Air Date: 10-5-11
Song 2: Revolution - Grandaddy
Act 3: The Screaming Majority song on Occupy Wall St - Majority Report Air Date: 10-7-11
Song 3: Up nights - Amsterband
Act 4: The TRUTH About The Occupy Wall Street Protests - Lee Camp Air Date: 9-27-11
Song 4: Free to decide - The Cranberries
Act 5: Panic of the plutocrats - Green News Report Air Date: 10-11-11
Song 5: Take 'em down - Dropkick Murphys
Act 6: CNNs Erin Burnett informs viewers about protesters - Counterspin Air Date: 10-06-11
Song 6: I'm a worried man - Willie Nelson & Toots Hibbert
Act 7: Erin Burnett's horrible Occupy Wall St report - Majority Report Air Date: 10-7-11
Song 7: We're simple minds - Club 8
Act 8: Occupy DC Event 'Infiltrated' By Conservative from American Spectator - Young Turks Air Date: 10-10-11
Song 8: Solidarity forever - Pete Seeger
Act 9: Purge the agitators at Occupy Wall St - David Feldman Show Air Date: 10-9-11
Song 9: The world has turned and left me here - Weezer
Act 10: How staying peaceful means we will win - Citizen Radio Air Date: 10-11-11
Voicemails:
Talk about cutting teachers salaries - Mark From Salisbury, MD
Call to action: Support Occupy Baltimore action - Kevin from Timonium, MD
Thank you to 'Occupy' protesters - Matt in Redding, PA
Thanks for Lee Camp! - Vicki from Oregon
Time to look for solidarity with real tea partiers - Michael From Glenn Bernie
Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Final comments on converting a death penalty advocate
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Police misconduct on Wall St. - David Feldman Show Air Date: 9-27-11
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show for details |
| 0:06.1 | visit the membership tab at bestofleft.com. Now welcome to the award winning best of |
| 0:10.5 | the left podcast with Coops today from the comedian Lee Camp, the Progressive, |
| 0:14.2 | the Majority Report, Green News Report, Counter-Spin, the Young Turks, the David |
| 0:18.6 | Feldman show and Citizen Radio with a bonus clip for our Apple iOS and Android |
| 0:23.0 | app users from the David Feldman show. |
| 0:30.0 | I'm Lee Camp and this is your moment of clarity. I've been down to the |
| 0:33.4 | Occupy Wall Street protest several times in the past week and one thing that |
| 0:37.8 | strikes me is that I realize the police are just doing their jobs but is there |
| 0:43.5 | not a little voice in each one of their heads telling him or her that it might |
| 0:48.1 | make more sense to monitor and arrest the bankers and traders and economic |
| 0:52.5 | rapers making millions while that policeman loses his benefits, loses his house, |
| 0:58.1 | gets shot at for less and less money each year, gets vomited on by homeless |
| 1:03.8 | alcoholics for less and less money each year, gets rubbed on by lots of |
| 1:09.2 | exhibitionists for less and less money each year. Instead, that policeman is |
| 1:15.2 | beating down a 19 year old with a feather in her hair and a habitat too because |
| 1:20.5 | she had the nerve to draw in chalk on the sidewalk a message that said less |
| 1:25.4 | money to create smart bombs and more money to create smart kids. As he's |
| 1:30.6 | punching her in the head and screaming put down the fuchsia chalk step away |
| 1:35.9 | from the chalk while wrenching her arms behind her back. There's got to be a |
| 1:40.8 | little part of him, a little part thinking wow I just pawned my grandma's |
| 1:46.2 | wedding ring so that I could afford to put my kid in daycare so my wife could |
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