574 - Occupy Wall Street Special (Hip Hop Audiocollage)

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Episode #574 - Occupy Wall Street Special (Hip Hop Audiocollage)

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⌚ Sat 22 October 2011  ☻Chris Hedges, Luke Rudkowski, Slavoj Žižek (Mass reading), The Network, Martin Luther King, Jr., Mario Savio, John F. Kennedy, Sara Tuft, Immortal Technique, Innumerable Wall St. Occupiers

Download Hour1 Download Hour2A special show this week devoted to Occupy Wall Street. How to make a show of interest both to OWS attendees and to those who know next to nothing about it? Inspired by the popularity of episode 536, we give you an audio collage including live radio interviews with participants and local residents, video soundtracks, historic material and quite a lot of music.

One month in, the Occupy Wall Street movement, in spite of an attempted news blackout by commercially controlled media, is off to an auspicious start. This show is a representative selection of the material I found, and concludes with my own contribution to the OWS vision in the form of a JFK speech about the OWS movement (comparison with his 1963 speech on racial discrimination may prove illuminating).

A different format of show this week, inspired by the popularity of episode 536 I thought I'd make another audiocollage. This is roughly in chronological order, and starts off rather newsy, with simple reporting of what went on in Wall Street and how it felt. Later we hear opinion from commentators such as Chris Hedges and Slavoj Žižek, interspersed with a mixture of music (mainly political hip hop) overlaid with soundtracks from videos of OWS by participants and reporters. To see the videos for yourself, see the list of contents below.

In any case, I urge you to stay non-violent even as the psychopathic control freaks and their minions do their best to provoke you. As Luke Rudkowski remarks, each act of gratuitous violence erodes what little remains of the machine's credibility. First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they violently oppose you, then you win.

As usual, I encourage you to think big -- personally, I am thinking about a full scale replacement of the money system. Is the abolition of Wage Slavery any more radical a demand than the abolition of slavery? Others may suggest that ceasing the US imperial wars is a high priority. If the Occupy movement goes global, closing all military activity and a worldwide ban on the production and trade in weapons of death and torture would seem like a suitable goal.
Music: Various singles from Miseducation of The Masses by ThaTruth, Tuolomne and Big Hard Sun by Eddie Vedder, Toast to The Dead by Immortal Technique, The Revolution will not be Televised by Gill Scott Heron, Occupation and We are Everywhere by David Rovics, Dreamers by Lowkey, Carried Away by Akala, World Citizen by Babar Luck, The People, United Will Never be Defeated (instrumental) by Charlie Haden, Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven and various other snippets.
Thanks to Jack R. Johnson of Hidden Histories, Fred Nguyen, Democracy Now, OccupyWallSt.org, Building Bridges, the Dissident Islanders and all those OWS Uploaders
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Source archive: "I can't Breathe" (3 min) OWS Protester Witness of Police Brutality at Occupy Wall Street (6 min) OWS Protester A Day at Occupy Wall Street (4 min) OWS Chris Hedges Interview (1) (10 min) Chris Hedges Peaceful Protester Arrested, NYPD Refuses to Say On What Charge (1 min) OWS Uploader OWS Speech (1) (9 min) Slavoj Žižek OWS Speech (2) (8 min) Slavoj Žižek Cops turn Violent, NYPD drag girl across the street (12 min) OWS Uploader OWS Protester You Will Never See On Fox (3 min) OWS Protester Occupy Wall Street - Too Big to Ignore (4 min) Russia Today (Note how many times Obama blinks while speaking!) Luke Rudkowski Attacked By Police (4 min) Luke Rudkowski Occupy Wall Street Brutality (5 min) OWS Uploader NYPD Cop Punches Protester (3 min) OWS Uploader No More Free Passes For Governments (2 min) Immortal Technique Civil Rights speech, 1963 (13 min) John F. Kennedy JRK speaks on OWS (9 min) John F. Kennedy Odious Machine Speech (8 min) Mario Savio Veterans for Peace White House Civil Disobedience to End War (5 min) Chris Hedges and others Freedom Fighters (5 min) Tha Truth Rage Against The System (4 min) Tha Truth Living With The Earth (1 min) Tha Truth Seeing Through Illusions (5 min) Tha Truth Rebel Music (5 min) Tha Truth The Function of Poverty (5 min) Tha Truth MLK Speech Snippets (5 min) Martin Luther King Lift Yr Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven (5 min) Godspeed You Black Emperor! Hard Sun (5 min) Eddie Vedder Tuolumne (1 min) Eddie Vedder Everybody knows things are bad (2 min) The Network Occupation (2 min) David Rovics We Are Everywhere (3 min) David Rovics The People, United, Will Never Be Defeated (Jazz) (2 min) Charlie Haden Carried Away (4 min) Akala WBAI report on OccupyWallSt (5 min) WBAI The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (4 min) Gill Scott Heron An Ocean Of Great Whites (3 min) Inspired Flight OWS (1) (2 min) Hidden Histories OWS (2) (2 min) Hidden Histories OWS (3) (2 min) Hidden Histories OWS (4) (2 min) Hidden Histories Dissident Island OWS Report, 2011-10-07 (120? min) Dissident Island Radio Occupy Wall Street Wins, Then Celebrates with Citywide Protests (29 min) Building Bridges

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