Occupied Territory - America

Occupied Territory - 03/29/12

Today’s guest is Bruce E. Levine, clinical psychologist and author of Get Up, Stand Up, Uniting Populists, Energizing the Defeated, and Battling the Corporate Elite. This is a book everyone should read—passionate and hopeful. Bruce talks about the corrupting influence of money on every part of American society, culture and politics.

We also talk with a member of Occupy Wall Street, a splinter group of which is currently Occupying Pacifica station WBAI-FM in NYC, demanding that more programming be devoted to the Occupy movement. Another case of generational dispute and self-immolation on The Left.

Occupied Territory - 03/22/12

The Occupy movement is entering their "Arab Spring". But this is America, where money, entertainment, celebrity worship and general political ignorance rules-- so, if the Occupy movement is to move out of small pockets of protest and add up to something truly revolutionary it has to focus, communicate with other groups and develope a functional structure.

Comments on the 1% and their repressive cops and the future of the Occupy movement.

Occupied Territory - 03/15/12

Re-awakening--OCCUPY IS BACK AND IN FULL GEAR; Interviews with Dennis Trainor jr. and Mark Casello, on Capitalism and Occupy--and an update on Chicago--the big demonstration when NATO comes to town on May 20th.

Occupied Territory - 03/08/12

Homeland Security is Watching You... Guests today are Sara from Occupy Atlanta and Eric Robertson, political director of Teamsters Local 728 in Atlanta-- discussing a union-busting, anti-protest bill speeding it's way through the corporate controlled Georgia Legislature-- All part of an anti-labor, and more universally, an anti-dissent trend at all levels of government. It's going to be A VERY HOT SUMMER!!!!

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Announcements of actions and reports of new restrictive, anti-protesting laws passed all over the country... THEY are getting ready for the protests of their lives--Nato and G-8 meetings in Chicago, both political conventions, and all the rest of institutionalized greed and power-- the big test is what happens this year. When people want more than they need and try to take what you have, you have to resist.

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You can't have wealthy people without poor people-- it's a fact of life. And it is way past time to lighten the load of the rich and transfer what they have to those who have nothing or very little. This is what the Occupy movement is all about. A conversation about the "maximum wage"-- a lid on what any one person can accumulate-- with Sam Pizzigotti, editor of Too Muchl, a weekly magazine about income inequality (associate with The Institute For Policy Studies).

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REPEAT PROGRAM:  1/4/12

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A report on the violence in Oakland, an eviction in Miami and huge actions planned for March, April and May...

Ghandi in India, Martin Luther King and the civil rights movement... The time has come to move beyond horizontal action and create a dynamic, focused movement with elected, respected leaders. Otherwise the Occupy movement will dissolve into purposeless anarchy and violence.

State of The Union? No change-- government of the rich, by the rich and for the rich.

Obama says all the right things about leveling the playing field; chance he will actually do anyting about it? Zero.

Romney "earns" 21 million dollars in 2010 and pays 13.9 percent in taxes and that's "legal". Pelosi and Boehner make hundreds of thousands of dollars in stock-market profit on insider information and that's "Legal".

You can't pay your mortage? Go sleep in the street. We need the Occupy movement now more than we ever did.