"Renaissance Thinking About the Issues of Our Day"
October 2011
Tuesday 4 October '11 show notes
- Show live from the "Take Back The American Dream" conference.
- Karen Nussbaum, Working America. How Women Can be the Heroes of An Economic Recovery that Doesn’t Leave People Behind.
- Robert Weissman, President, Public Citizen. Corporate Power.
- John Nichols, The Nation Magazine. Right of free assembly.
- Isaiah Poole, Campaign for America's Future.
The Transport Workers Union don't want to bus Occupy Wall Street to Jail
The New York Transport Workers Union went to court to block New York City and the NYPD from forcing bus drivers to transport arrested Wall Street protestors. After police rounded up and arrested 700 peaceful demonstrators on the Brooklyn Bridge over the weekend – the NYPD commandeered 3 city buses to haul off the demonstrators. Monday 3 October '11 show notes
- Show live from the "Take Back The American Dream" conference.
- Robert Reich, Goldman School of Public Policy - UC Berkeley. Take Back The American Dream.
- Jim Dean, Chair of Democracy for America (DFA). Take Back The American Dream.
- Norman Solomon. Health care, education and jobs programs.
- Tim Carpenter, Progressive Democrats of America.
Did “Occupy Wall Street” turned into a “Crackdown on Wall Street?”
The “Occupy Wall Street” demonstration turned into a “Crackdown on Wall Street” as NYPD officers disrupted a peaceful march across the Brooklyn Bridge and arrested more than 700 people on Saturday. Yet demonstrators in lower Manhattan’s Zucotti Park – the “central command” of the movement – remain undeterred despite the crackdown. Each day, more and more people are streaming into the park – renamed “Liberty Square” – to j
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