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Free Speech TV invites citizen journalists from around the world to send us videos of actions in your community that support the 99% Movement. They'll be posted @ www.freespeech.org and some will air on DirecTV-348 & DishTV-9415 which reach into 35 million households across the USA. Check www.freespeech.org for more details on how to submit.
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Thom's blog
The New Gilded Age in America is upon us...
Occupy Oakland demonstrator – and Iraq War veteran – Scott Olsen is still in a hospital in serious condition with a fractured skull after being hit in the head with a tear gas canister during Tuesday’s night police assault on Occupy Oakland. In solidarity – demonstrators returned to the streets last night – and this time police left their military tactics at home. The movement marched to San Francisco across the Bay Bridge – with only a few confrontations with police. There are reports that two individuals were arrested.
Meanwhile – a new report by the Congressional Budget Office this week reminds everyone why they’re in the streets to begin with. Looking at income data over the last three decades – most of the new wealth in America has gone straight to the top – to the top 1%. For the lowest 20% of Americans – they only saw a measly increase in income since 1979 – just 18%. For the 60% of Americans in the middle – they saw a modest gain of 40%. But for the top 1% - since Reagan took office – they’ve seen their incomes go up a whopping 275%. The top 1%’s income has nearly tripled while most everyone else’s has been unable to keep up with the rising prices of things like healthcare, gas, food, and college tuition. The new Gilded Age in America is upon us.
But with action in the streets – then the Progressive Era of Teddy Roosevelt who broke up the monopolies – kicked corporations out of politics – and promoted a living wage – may be just around the corner.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 9pm and 11pm... 2x Iraq war vet injured at Occupy Oakland...roommate speaks (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)
2x Iraq war vet injured at Occupy Oakland...roommate speaks - Keith Shannon, roommate of critically injured 2x Iraq war vet Scott Olsen (shot in face by Oakland PD during raid on Occupy Oakland) 
Occupy Everywhere!: - Lynn Parramore, Alternet - ex-tea partier turned coffee partier Shane Brooks - Gavin Clarke, 12 year old progressive activist involved in OWS movement, speaking at Enough is Enough this weekend
The Best of the Rest of the News...
Hartmann vs. Gainor...lefty protests filled with anti-Americans? - Dan Gainor, Business and Media Institute
Exposed...out of state corporate $ flood Ohio's SB-5 election - Mike Ludwig, Truthout
Geeky Science - shooting up olive oil?!
Daily Take: People don't want phony Democrats!!
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Read Thom's Book for Free!
Now you can read all of Thom Hartmann's " Unequal Protection: How Corporations Became 'People' and How You Can Fight Back" for free online. Truthout is publishing weekly installments over the coming weeks. Read Chapter 23: Capitalists and Americans Speak Out for Community today. |
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The Daily Stack 
Quote: "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." -- Martin Luther King Jr..
Quote: "Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." -- Albert Einstein.
Out-of-State Corporate Money Floods Ohio Battle Over Anti-Collective Bargaining Bill Cliff Schecter, Libertas, LLC
Geeky Science rocks! - shooting up olive oil?!
Hour Three: latest on Scott Olsen, 2X Iraq war vet shot in the face by Oakland PD Keith Shannon, Scott Olsen's roommate (was deployed with Scott to Iraq)
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Coming up Friday on The Thom Hartmann Program
Hour One: If it's Friday, it's "Brunch With Bernie"... the honorable Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) will be here with all the news from our nation's capitol and as always he'll be spending the hour taking your calls and answering your questions too...
Hour Two: Enough is Enough! Eric Byler, filmmaker and co-founder, CoffeePartyUSA
Plus, It's Anything Goes on Townhall Friday...you choose the topics and we'll talk...
And, the best of the rest of the news plus your calls right here on...
The Thom Hartmann Program...your media support group for "we the people"...TAG, YOU'RE IT!!!!!!!!!!!
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Thom's Poll
The Gang of 12 put their deficit-cutting proposal - $3 trillion savings/$1 trillion new revenues/cuts to Medicare - will it fly?
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Watch & Listen to Thom
Hartmann: Eyewitness to #OWS Oakland night of terror
Hartmann: The "We the People" Campaign
Hartmann: Would Perry's Flat Tax Bankrupt the US?
Hartmann: The USA - Patriot Act Ten Years Later - UnPatriotic & UnAmerican
The Good, The Bad, and the Very, Very Benthopelagically Ugly
Hartmann: What #OWS & The Tea Party Agree on to Revolutionize America
Watch the Full "Big Picture" Show...
Full Show - 10/26/11. Eyewitness to #OWS Oakland Night of Terror
Senior writer and editor for Alternet.org, Joshua Holland gives a detailed account of the second night of violence in the Occupy Oakland movement. Later in the show, Thom debates his two conservative guests in the Lone Liberal rumble.
Thom Hartmann on the News - October 27, 2011
Thom Hartmann & Danny Goldberg: Why Hippie Culture Is Still Important to OWS Protests
Thom Hartmann & Cliff Schecter: Out-of-State Corporate Money Floods Ohio
Thom Hartmann & Keith Shannon: Roommate of Injured Iraq War Vet Speaks Out
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Thom and Louise Hartmann founded the New England Salem Children's Village (NESCV) in New Hampshire in 1979. With states delaying payment for the children they entrust to the village, they need help with cash flow. Can you help? Now on Facebook. |
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