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Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy

(2011/12/11) Keeping Wall St Occupied (Occupy Wall St Part 9)

Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy

Jay Tomlinson

Politics, News Commentary, News

4.53.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2011

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Edition #556

Keeping Wall St Occupied

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Act 1: We are the 0.99 Percent - David Feldman Air Date: 11-18-11

Song 1: Peer Gynt Suite No. 1: Morning - BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra & Einar Steen-Nokleberg

Act 2: Anatomy of an Occupy Wall Street Smear - Majority Report Air Date: 11-3-11

Song 2: Susan - The Exit

Act 3: OWS Retired Police Captain Ray Lewis on his arrest, Part 1 - Countdown Air Date: 11-23-11

Act 4: OWS Retired Police Captain Ray Lewis on his arrest, Part 2 - Countdown Air Date: 11-23-11

Song 4: Candle in the wind (Ben's Song) - Andrew Jackson Jihad

Act 5: Occupy Wall Street Divided - Daily Show Air Date: 11-16-11

Song 5: Class Warfare - Chris Priest

Act 6: Will Occupy Wall Street Affect 2012 Election? Glenn Greenwald Interview - David Pakman Air Date: 11-14-11

Song 6: Anti-Hu - Pinback

Act 7: Whom Do They Represent? - Mumia Abu-Jamal Air Date: 11-21-11

Song 7: Cotton Eyed Joe - Asleep At the Wheel

Act 8: Keep Wall Street Occupied (Part 1) - Ransackedroom on YouTube

Song 8: Lost in the post - The Wombats

Act 9: U.S. Citizens Form Massive Special Disinterest Group - The Onion

Song 9: Don't vote - Cass McCombs

Act 10: Iraq vet Scott Olsen on what he hopes the movement will achieve - Countdown Air Date: 12-2-11

Song 10: Bloodstream - Stateless

Act 11: UC Davis Pepper-Spraying Cop John Pike Anti-Gay Slur Lawsuit - David Pakman Air Date: 11-28-11

Song 11: Sociopath - Anya Marina

Act 12: Walker's War on Free Speech - The Progressive Air Date: 12-6-11

Song 12: Heat of the moment - Asia

Act 13: Occupy Wall Street Leaked Memo, Banks Plan Attack - Young Turks Air Date: 11-21-11

Voicemails:

Looking for more info on Brian from TX - Josh from Dallas, TX

Follow up info in his run for congress in Texas - Brian Ingram from Forth Worth, TX

Thoughts on tackling the casually pepper spraying cop - Ron from outside Philly

Occupying America: The Rest of Us - New project from the producer of the Watch it Burn podcast - Dave Kinser

Link to Dave's project: www.kickstarter.com/projects/279525328/occupying-america-the-rest-of-us?ref=city

Email Dave at bdkinser@gmail.com

Hear Dave's original show "Watch it Burn" at godlesskinser.podomatic.com

Leave a message at 206-202-3410

Voicemail Music:

Loud Pipes - Ratatat

Final Comments on Dave Kinser, his old podcast and his new project

Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:

Elderly Occupier Pepper Sprayed - Colbert Report

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0:00.0

This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show, for details visit

0:06.2

the membership tab at BestableLeft.com.

0:09.0

Now welcome to the award-winning BestableLeft podcast with clips today from the David Felton

0:13.0

show, The Majority Report, Countdown, The Daily Show, The David Pakman Show, Moomi Abu

0:17.7

Jamal, YouTube user, ransacked room, The Onion Radio News, The Progressive and The Young

0:23.0

Turks, with a bonus video clip for our Apple iOS and Android app users from the Cold Bear

0:27.5

Report.

0:40.5

Thanks to the Occupy Wall Street movement, Americans have finally taken notice of the rampant

0:47.2

economic inequality, corporate greed, and government corruption perpetrated against the bottom

0:53.6

99% by the top 1% and that's all well and good, but what about the forgotten victims?

1:02.2

What about the bottom 99% of the top 1%?

1:16.1

Hello, I'm Ted Winthrop, founder and CEO of Occupy Beverly Hills.

1:22.1

Those of us in the bottom 99% of the top 1% are sick and tired of playing a game that's

1:27.4

rigged against us, and we plan to occupy Beverly Hills until the top 0.01% gets the message.

1:35.3

If the founding fathers knew how many hardworking Americans have to time share a jet instead

1:39.7

of owning one outright, they'd roll over in their mausoleums.

1:44.1

Occupy Beverly Hills will not be silenced from the birth of our movement to our latest

1:49.2

setback, when security evicted us from the Bel Air Country Club because we accidentally

1:54.2

brought in a Jew.

1:55.8

Please join us this Saturday afternoon when we plan to occupy the Barney's on Wilshire,

2:01.0

followed by a leisurely dinner occupation of Spagoff, we can get a table near the front,

2:05.0

and if you still haven't satisfied your hunger for justice, you can always help us occupy

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