(2011/11/11) Then they fight you (Occupy Wall St Part 6)
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🗓️ 12 November 2011
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Edition #547
Then they fight you (Occupy Wall St Part 6)
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Act 1: The Top 1% Vs YOU - Young Turks Air Date 10-31-11
Song 1: Give a damn - Spanky & Our Gang
Act 2: Occupy Wall Street Says "Stop, Thief!" - The Progressive Air Date: 10-28-11
Song 2: Stop thief - Fabian
Act 3: What's in a name at Occupy Wall St? - Jim Hightower Air Date: 10-31-11
Song 3: Liberty Square - UDORA
Act 4: NYPD Reportedly Sending Drunks Criminals to Occupy Wall Street - Majority Report Air Date: 11-2-11
Song 4: Out of my mind - James Blunt
Act 5: The general strike in Oakland - Rachel Maddow Air Date: 11-2-11
Song 5: If it weren't for the union - Robin Roberts
Act 6: Occupy Wall Street and Amend the Constitution to Overturn Citizens United - The Progressive Air Date: 11-2-11
Song 6: Ride of the Valkyries - Wagner
Act 7: The dignity of the Occupation and the coverage of it - Matthew Filipowicz Air Date: 11-3-11
Song 7: Dignified and old - Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers
Act 8: Occupation teach-ins on environmental issues - Green News Report Air Date: 11-3-11
Song 8: Return to sender - Elvis Presley
Act 9: Giant Protest Puppet Kills Dozens Of Peace Drummers - The Onion
Song 9: Night of the dancing flame - Róisín Murphy
Act 10: Who Are The 1 Percent? - Young Turks Air Date: 11-9-11
Song 10: What are their names - David Crosby
Act 11: Economics inequality and journalism ethics called into question - Counterspin Air Date: 11-4-11
Song 11: The sound of silence - Simon & Garfunkel
Act 12: What Do They Want? - Mumia Abu-Jamal Air Date: 11-6-11
Song 12: Too much information - Duran Duran
Act 13: Occupy Oakland Protester Shot With Rubber Bullet - Young Turks Air Date: 11-9-11
Song 13: Still fighting it - Ben Folds
Act 14: Adam Gabbatt on second U.S. veteran injured by Oakland police - Countdown Air Date: 11-8-11
Song 14: Sorrow - Bad Religion
Act 15: Occupy Wall Street Has Proven We Don't Have Free Speech - Lee Camp Air Date: 10-31-11
Voicemails:
Thoughts on the occupartion in Oakland - Max from Davis, CA
Call for a mass Occupy event in the spring - Daniel from Chicago, IL
Thoughts on what non-violence means - D from Chicago
Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Final comments on the fundamental appeal of the occupation
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Oakland Mayor Jean Quan must repent or resign - Countdown
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors of the show. |
| 0:05.6 | Free details visit the membership tab at Best of the Left.com and welcome to the award-winning |
| 0:10.3 | Best of the Left podcast with clips today from the young Turks, the Progressive, Jim |
| 0:14.2 | Hightower, the Majority Report, the Rachel Maddow Show, the Matt Philip Povit Show, the Green |
| 0:18.3 | News Report, the Onion Radio News, Counter-Spin, Moomi Obuchemal, Countdown with Keith |
| 0:22.8 | Alberman and comedian Lee Camp with the bonus video clip for our Apple iOS and Android |
| 0:27.1 | app users from Countdown with Keith Alberman. |
| 0:30.0 | Let me show you the income inequality, so you get a sense of what we're talking about here. |
| 0:33.6 | When it comes to occupy a Wall Street and so many people in this country, the 99% of us |
| 0:37.9 | that are frustrated. So last quarter, we're told that things went really well, the GDP grew by |
| 0:43.2 | 2.5%. Everybody was happy, the stock market has started to go up. What they didn't tell you |
| 0:48.6 | is that real disposable personal income fell by 1.7%. So the economy's quote-unquote getting |
| 0:57.2 | better, right? But the reality is, we're not getting any better. So the money's going somewhere. |
| 1:05.0 | I'm going to show you where it's going in a second, but it ain't going to us. Our income is going |
| 1:09.6 | down. Stock market must be thrilled, but it's not going to us. In fact, from Think Progress, |
| 1:16.4 | there's this excellent chart that we got. It says, if the US land were divided like US wealth, |
| 1:22.4 | here's how much of it would be owned in terms of the land mass, right? 1% would own that much, |
| 1:30.4 | which is gigantic amount. 9% would own the rest, and then you say, hey, at least we get Florida |
| 1:36.4 | in Texas. The 90% of the rest of us, right? But as you look at that, it gives you at least |
| 1:41.6 | some visual sense of how much of the wealth, the top 1% and the top 10% have. It is gigantic. |
| 1:48.7 | So when you look at how things have gone over the last 30 years, and this is what we've |
| 1:53.2 | been talking about all the time on this show, because this goes to show you how they whittled away |
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