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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.
Now – the Transport Workers Union is going to court to make sure that doesn’t happen again. TWU President John Samuelson said, “TWU Local 100 supports the protesters on Wall Street and takes great offense that the mayor and NYPD have ordered operators to transport citizens who were exercising their constitutional right to protest — and shouldn’t have been arrested in the first place.”
This week – other unions are expected to join the Occupy Wall Street movement – swelling the number of demonstrators in Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park to its highest numbers yet. Now with the support of major labor unions – the Occupy Wall Street movement has some teeth.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 9pm and 11pm... All in for Occupy Wall Street (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Need to Know: All in for Occupy Wall Street - Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers 
Screwed: Occupy Wall Street...the Real Boston Tea Party lives - Lee Fang, Think Progress
The Best of the Rest of the News...
Eric Cantor...no jobs bill, no domestic programs, no regulations...no, no, no - Neil McCabe, Human Events Online
Occupy White House 2012? - Bill Scher, Campaign for America's Future
Daily Take: "Ignore you, ridicule you...then you win"
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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 19: Unequal Wealth today. |
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The Daily Stack 
Quote: "It does not take a majority to prevail ... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." -- Samuel Adams.
Hour One: How Women Can be the Heroes of An Economic Recovery that Doesn’t Leave People Behind Karen Nussbaum, Working America
Article: " Constitution of the United States", article 3 section 2. "... the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make..."
The Signing of the Bill Of Rights - including the right of free assembly - was signed in Wall Street 222 years ago. John Nichols, The Nation Magazine
Hour Two: In the News: The Math Behind Class Warfare Isaiah Poole, Campaign for America's Future
Book: " The Trap", by Sir James Goldsmith.
Hour Three: Building an Independent Movement for Change Richard Trumka, President, AFL-CIO
Good jobs agenda and the growing movement across the country demanding “good jobs now, everyone pay their fair share, and no more cuts.” Mary Kay Henry, SEIU (Service Employees International Union)
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Coming up Wednesday on The Thom Hartmann Program
Hour Three: "THE MAGIC OF REALITY: How We Know What’s Really True" Professor Richard Dawkins, British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author
And, the best of the rest of the news and your calls right here on...
The Thom Hartmann Program... your media support group for we the people.
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Thom's Poll
Will Americans put up with Eric Cantor & House Republicans not allowing President Obama’s Jobs Act to the floor for a vote?
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Watch & Listen to Thom
Hartmann: Occupy Wall Street - The Birth of an American Autumn
Hartmann: New expose on Koch Bros - Iranian ties?
The Good, The Bad, and the very very Longicaudally Ugly
Hartmann: Supreme Agenda - Secret GPS Tracking & ObamaCare
Hartmann: Who told the Supreme Court they could overturn laws?
Hartmann: Proof - The Heritage Foundation Flip Flop on ObamaCare
Or watch the Full "Big Picture" Show
Full Show - 10/3/11. Birth of the American Autumn
Thom examines the growing "Occupy Wall Street" protests across the nation and the momentum it's gaining with various influential labor unions. Later in the show, he highlights how the right wing think tank, The Heritage Foundation has flip flopped on the issue of "ObamaCare".
Thom Hartmann on the News - Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Thom Hartmann with Richard Trumka - Building an Independent Movement for Change
Thom Hartmann with John Nichols - Taking Back the American Dream
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