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Media Roots Radio – Occupy Wall Street, Divide & Conquer, Medical Marijuana

Media Roots Radio

Abby & Robbie Martin

News

4.6 • 827 Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2011

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Abby & Robbie Martin cover the Occupy Wall Street movement: Bay Area activism compared to other cities nationwide, the divide and conquer tactics being used to discredit OWS, the different schools of thought and ideology within the movement and the original demands made by the US Day of Rage; the Obama administration's shocking crackdown on medical marijuana and new federal law banning medical marijuana card holders from owning firearms; Blackwater and the privatization of the armed forces: is the corporatization of the US military what is preventing an anti-war rebellion similar to that seen in the 60s? http://mediaroots.org/occupy-wall-street-divide-conquer-medical-marijuana.php mediaroots.org

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0:00.0

I'm you know,

0:21.6

I'm

0:22.6

going to

0:24.6

the Hello, welcome to Media Roots Radio.

0:47.8

This is Robbie Martin.

0:49.3

And Abby Martin.

0:51.2

And today we'd just like to mention if you would like to donate to help Media Roots

0:56.9

and other grassroots media projects that we're involved in,

1:01.4

please go to MediaRoutes.org.

1:03.6

For every $40 donation, we will give you an art print or a piece of music from my record label,

1:10.7

recordlabel records.org.

1:12.7

So please check that out. Enjoy the rest of the show.

1:16.4

So there's a revolution happening. It's very fucking exciting, man.

1:20.6

I mean, we haven't done a show for a little bit because we've just been doing a ton of other stuff.

1:26.5

But yeah, I heard that AdBessers was putting on the

1:30.2

U.S. Day of Rage, and I just had no idea that this was going to happen, and I just couldn't be

1:35.9

more thrilled to see this unfolding all around us, all around the country, all around the world.

1:41.6

I've heard that there's like 1,300 different Occupy Wall Street events

1:45.5

going on as we speak. So it's pretty awesome to be a part of it. We just went down to Occupy Oakland

1:51.7

for the first day and documented some of that and just put up a little video about it so you guys

1:55.8

should check it out. But hopefully everyone's going out, showing support and talking to people and hopefully this starts

2:02.7

at least initiates the the conversation that we need to be having with each other we all know

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