(2011/11/23) The police are the 99 percent too (Occupy Wall St Part 7)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 24 November 2011
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Edition #551
The police are the 99 percent too
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Act 1: Police Let Vehicular Assault Slide at Occupy Oakland General Strike - Majority Report Air Date: 11-4-11
Song 1: You can go your own way - The Cranberries
Act 2: Who are the one percent - Robert Greenwald - Thom Hartmann Air Date: 11-3-11
Song 2: We are the many - Makana
Act 3: Don't just salute veterans, rally with them - Jim Hightower Air Date: 11-14-11
Song 3: Veterans - The Clips
Act 4: Kim Kardashian, Occupy Wall Street, Credit Default Swaps - Lee Camp Air Date 11-14-11
Song 4: Clowns (Can you see me now) - t.A.T.u.
Act 5: Police Need to Back Off on Occupy Wall Street - The Progressive Air Date: 11-14-11
Song 5: Stop the madness - Marty Dread
Act 6: Protesting at Berkley, past and present - Rachel Maddow Air Date: 11-15-11
Song 6: This fickle world - Theo Bard
Act 7: Shooting and clubbing veterans is not a solution - Jim Hightower Air Date: 11-15-11
Song 7: Shake it out - Florence + The Machine
Act 8: Workers Protest Over-Ventilation Of U.S. Factories - The Onion
Song 8: Seasons in the sun - Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
Act 9: Occupy Wall Street Brings on a "Which Side Are You On" Moment - The Progressive Air Date: 11-15-11
Song 9: All you fascists - Billy Bragg & Wilco
Act 10: Keith's Special Comment: Why OWS needs Michael Bloomberg - Countdown Air Date: 11-16-11
Song 10: So I need you - 3 Doors Down
Act 11: Occupy Wall St protest has been hosed - The Bugle Air Date: 11-17-11
Song 11: A change is gonna come - Ben Sollee
Act 12: Occupy Wall Street Media Blackout, Police State - Young Turks Air Date: 11-15-11
Voicemails:
A new take on the Occupation - Lea from Boulder, CO
A call for cops to call in with their thoughts on the police at Occupy protests - Max from Davis, CA
Agreeing with Mumia on the media's willful ignorance on the Occupation - Michael From Glenn Bernie
Call to action: general strike in Davis on November 28, 2011 - Max from Davis, CA
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Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Final comments asking for calls from police officers regarding Occupy Wall St
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Bloomberg Forever - short film - Occupy The Movie
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show. |
| 0:05.4 | For details, visit the membership tab at Best of the Left.com, and welcome to the award-winning |
| 0:10.1 | Best of the Left podcast with hopes today from the majority report, Tom Hartman, Jim |
| 0:14.2 | Hightower, comedian Lee Camp, the progressive, Rachel Maddo, the onion radio news, count |
| 0:19.0 | down with Keith Ulberman, the bugle, and the young Turks, with a bonus video clip for |
| 0:23.2 | our Apple iOS and Android app users from the Occupy movie. |
| 0:30.0 | I haven't been able to touch much on, obviously, the general strike, because we had a pre-record |
| 0:34.7 | yesterday, but I thought it was amazing. |
| 0:37.4 | I thought, in shutting down the port, I'm going to give one of these to a longshoreman. |
| 0:42.8 | I love it. |
| 0:48.8 | And to the people in Oakland, sadly, things turned violent that night, not as a function |
| 0:56.8 | of Occupy Oakland. |
| 1:01.1 | And I don't think necessarily a function of the cops, not quite sure what happened. |
| 1:06.8 | I do know that the extent that there was any vandalism, or, and it was, you know, look, |
| 1:16.1 | in Oakland, it was, you know, it's somewhat predictable that you're going to get, particularly |
| 1:20.2 | on the West Coast, a lot of those black block, in this instance, it was the Oakland Liberation |
| 1:33.9 | Front. |
| 1:36.2 | That was, you know, the day before the general strike was putting around Pamphlet's saying, |
| 1:40.1 | don't be pacifist, be violent. |
| 1:44.2 | There's a certain inevitability that that's going to happen with the protest of this size. |
| 1:50.2 | And a general strike, but frankly, I think when the Oakland police introduced tear gas |
| 2:03.2 | into the mix a couple of weeks ago, they opened up the door to this. |
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