(2011/11/29) Pepper spray is a weapon, not a seasoning (Occupy Wall St Part 8)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 30 November 2011
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Edition #552
Pepper spray is a weapon, not a seasoning
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Act 1: Why Bloomberg Fights Occupy Wall Street - Young Turks Air Date: 11-15-11
Song 1: Nothing else matters - Apocalyptica
Act 2: Fox News Remembers That It Hates Occupy Wall Street - Media Matters Air Date: 11-16-11
Act 3: Hodgman, deranged millionaire, on the pepper spraying of 84-year-old woman - Rachel Maddow Air Date: 11-16-11
Song 3: Librarian - My Morning Jacket
Act 4: 1st Amendment Champions in NYC - Counterspin Air Date: 11-17-11
Song 4: We are the champions - Queen
Act 5: Police actions versus Occupy protester roumors plus a call from Gordon Gekko - Jimmy Dore Show Air Date: 11-17-11
Song 5: Razor Wire - Chris Priest
Act 6: UC Davis Police Pepper Spray Sitting Protesters at Point Blank Range - David Pakman Air Date 11-21-11
Song 6: Uncommon Courtesy - Hugo
Act 7: You Can't Pepper Spray A Mental Awakening - Lee Camp Air Date: 11-21-11
Song 7: Reinventing Kevin Bacon - Al Baker & The Dole Queue
Act 8: The pepper spray cop - Le Show Air Date: 11-27-11
Act 9: Protests now and from the past 50 years - Counterspin Air Date: 11-24-11
Song 9: Protest song - Anti-Flag
Act 10: Fox says that pepper spray is essentially a food product - Jimmy Dore Show Air Date: 11-24-11
Song 10: We shall overcome - Pete Seeger
Act 11: Pepper Spray is not a food product - Matthew Filipowicz Show Air Date: 11-22-11
Voicemails:
Use screenshots in chapter markers for visual elements - Nick from Santa Clara, CA
Donate to National Lawyers Guild Occupy legal defense fund at www.NLG.org/occupy - Stacy from San Francisco Bay Area
Who's really the radicals? - Alex from Texas
Support the occupiers however you can - Bill From Lubbock, TX
Thoughts on Occupy and cuts to social programs - Ronald from Baltimore
Leave a message at 206-202-3410
Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Final comments on www.occupythemovie.net and David Pakman's campaign to get on Current.tv
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
We are all Scott Olsen - 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. |
| 0:05.6 | For details, visit the membership tab at bestableleft.com. |
| 0:09.0 | Now welcome to the award-winning bestable left podcast with clips today from the Young Turks, |
| 0:13.2 | Media Matters, The Rachel Maddo Show, Counter-Spin, The Jimmy Dores Show, The David Pakman |
| 0:17.2 | Show, comedian Lee Kamp, Lusho, and the Matthew Philip Povitz show with a bonus video clip |
| 0:22.4 | for our Apple iOS and Android app users from the Occupy movie. |
| 0:29.9 | Let's go to Mayor Bloomberg's defense of his moves in a vecting Occupy Wall Street. |
| 0:37.2 | What you're about to hear from Mayor Bloomberg is a string of lies. |
| 0:41.8 | Now understand as we go into this, why is Mayor Bloomberg shutting down Occupy Wall Street? |
| 0:47.6 | And this never gets talked about in the press even though it's the most obvious thing |
| 0:50.3 | in the world. |
| 0:51.3 | Mayor Bloomberg is a billionaire right now, thanks to Wall Street. |
| 0:56.1 | This is product. |
| 0:57.1 | His product when he was an entrepreneur and set up his own company was not selling |
| 1:02.0 | apples or selling oranges or selling widgets. |
| 1:05.5 | It was selling a Bloomberg terminal to Wall Street. |
| 1:10.5 | That is his entire clientele. |
| 1:13.5 | That's how he made all of his money and continues to this day to make all that money from Wall |
| 1:17.9 | Street. |
| 1:18.9 | So weird how Mayor Bloomberg has decided, hey, you know what? |
| 1:21.3 | I should have picked Occupy Wall Street. |
| 1:23.2 | He's bothering my friends and clients down in Wall Street. |
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