(2011/12/29) Year of the uprising (Occupy Wall St Part 11)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 30 December 2011
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Edition #560
Year of the uprising
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Act 1: What Are We Truly Willing To Fight For - Lee Camp Air Date: 11-28-11
Song 1: The persuaded - Faded Paper Figures
Act 2: Back to UC Davis and the Fox News take on police overreactions - Jimmy Dore Show Air Date: 12-1-11
Song 2: God be with you - The Cranberries
Act 3: America: a beacon of social justice? - Jim Hightower Air Date: 12-28-11
Song 3: Liquid Sun - The Beginning (A New Hope) - DJ Keoki
Act 4: Obama - Wall Street Did Nothing Illegal - Young Turks Air Date: 12-12-11
Song 4: Don't believe the hype - Public Enemy
Act 5: Occupy Wall St and the Holy Trinity - J.A. Myerson for Citizen Radio Air Date: 12-6-11
Song 5: 2 atoms in a molecule - Noah and the Whale
Act 6: Infectious Global Protests - The Progressive Air Date: 12-28-11
Song 6: Together we fight alone - Darlings
Act 7: Steve Justino - Occupy the Courts - Thom Hartmann Air Date: 12-05-11
Song 7: You gotta be - Desree
Act 8: Three Quarters of Americans Believe Rich, Corporations Have Too Much Power - Young Turks Air Date 12-17-11
Song 8: Messages - Xavier Rudd
Act 9: Obama harking back to 2004 DNC "One United" speech - Rachel Maddow Air Date: 12-6-11
Voicemails:
NPR and the GOP debates - Jeff the socialist policeman from South Florida
Complement for the War on Christmas episode - Doug in Chicagoland
Thoughts on Mumia from the policeman who initiated the original discussion on the topic - Jeff the socialist policeman from South Florida
A call for more African American voices on the show - Jacoby from Hawaii
Thoughts on the future of the Occupy movement - Vicki from Oregon
Asking for updates on the congressional candidate in Texas - Big fan of the show
Update on US House Candidate in Texas - www.brianingram.org - Brian Ingram from Forth Worth, TX
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Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Final comments on Citizen Radio productions
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Rep Walsh Runs From Occupy Protesters - Young Turks Air Date: 12-07-11
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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 VestivalF.com. |
| 0:09.0 | Now welcome to the award-winning Vestival Left Podcasts with clips today from comedian |
| 0:12.6 | Lee Tamp, the Jimmy Dorshow, Jim Hightower, the Young Turks, J.A. |
| 0:16.6 | Myerson reporting for Citizen Radio, the Progressive, the Tom Hartman program, and the Rachel |
| 0:20.9 | Maddo show, with the bonus video clip for our Apple iOS and Android app users from the |
| 0:25.4 | Young Turks. |
| 0:26.4 | The first clip of today does contain profanity. |
| 0:30.4 | This is your moment of clarity from LeeCamp.net. |
| 0:34.0 | Some of the people are concerned with bringing our men and women home from Afghanistan, but |
| 0:39.2 | the truth is, as we saw in the past few days, we have a war going on right here at home, |
| 0:46.0 | a war pitting American against American and all or nothing, battle royale. |
| 0:50.5 | And that war is for discount goods at Walmart and Best Buy, Toys or Us and Macy's. |
| 0:57.4 | People getting shot and pepper spray trampled and molested, pummeled and arrested, but unlike |
| 1:02.1 | Afghanistan, our objectives in this war are clear. |
| 1:07.4 | Those objectives are to get that plastic or metal made in China, trinketer, bobble or video |
| 1:14.7 | game before someone else does. |
| 1:17.4 | Fuck them and their ugly ass kid and their ugly ass kid's Christmas wishes. |
| 1:21.3 | That plastic thing belongs to me. |
| 1:23.2 | Take no prisoners, no holds barred. |
| 1:25.2 | The Geneva Convention can suck a fat one because it does not apply at Best Buy. |
| 1:31.6 | And besides, if that kid really wanted to have a happy Christmas, really wanted to have |
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