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Happy Birthday Occupy Wall Street
Today marks the one-year anniversary since Americans began highlighting Wall Street's crimes by occupying Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan and eventually hundreds of other cities across the nation. Events and rallies are underway in New York City and elsewhere around the nation to commemorate the occasion, and already there are several reports of more than 70 demonstrators arrested in lower Manhattan. One year ago, Occupy changed the game by changing the national conversation away from deficit-reduction and austerity and toward wealth inequality and job creation.
After brutal police oppression, the encampments disappeared from the public eye. But Occupy didn’t go anywhere, it’s been working under the radar saving Americans from foreclosure, helping students with debt, and helping workers organize. The nation is in a crisis, and, in response, the American people are pregnant with revolution.
Occupy was simply the first tactic in the burgeoning, grassroots revolution. What comes next we don’t know for sure, but it’s absolutely essential to pick up on what Occupy started a year ago, get organized and get active to take on the corporate 1% that have taken over our government and economy and is destroying the American middle class.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 9pm... OWS 1 year later...the game is rigged (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Need to Know: OWS 1 year later...the game is rigged
Need to Know: One Year later...why OWS still matters- Jesse LaGreca, Journalist/OWS participant -  - Nina Mehta, activist/participant-OWS NY  - Ravi Ahmad, activist/ participant-OWS NY
Screwed: Citizens United- David Cobb, Move To Amend / Lawyer / Democracy Unlimited
Why tax cuts for the rich don't work...- David Selig, Federal Tax Practitioner.
The Best of the Rest of the News...
Teachers Strike: Chicago is just the beginning- Josh Eidelson, Freelance Journalist & Contributor-Salon and In These Times
Everything You Know is Wrong...about lap dancing: The Art of the Lap Dance: As Told by a Former Strip Tease Artist- Sheila Hageman, author "Stripped Down"
Daily Take: Why the GOP will never have smart people on their side...
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Friday's Daily Stack 
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: campaign, foreign policy- Congressman Adam Smith (D-WA, 9th District)
Hour Three: Anything Goes on Townhall Friday
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Monday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
Hour One: How the Rich Screwed the Middle Class....
WI judge rules FOR collective bargaining- John Nichols, The Nation Magazine
Hour Two: How NYC's soda ban could save lives- Carrie Lukas, Independent Women's Forum
Hour Three: OWS 1 Year Later - The Game is rigged- J.A. Myerson, OWS participant / Freelance Journalist & Contributor-Truthout
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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Tuesday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
We'll have the latest on the Chicago teacher's strike...
Plus, tax cuts for the rich and why they don't stimulate the economy...I'll have a rumble with conservative Peter Ferrara...
And, our "taking our country back" segment is back! I'll be talking with Minnesota congressional candidate Jim Graves who is running against Rep. Michelle Bachmann...good on him!!
We'll also have the best of the rest of the news along with your calls right here on...
The Thom Hartmann Program, Occupying The Media 3 hours a day 5 days a week" for "we the people"...Democracy begins with you...
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Thom's Poll
Have rumors of the Occupy movement's demise been greatly exaggerated?
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Watch & Listen to Thom
The Arab Spring "J Curve"
Gov. Jesse Ventura - How Pro Wrestling Prepares you for Politics
The Big Picture Rumble - Obamacare is working!
The Big Picture Rumble - Who Mitt Romney thinks are middle income Americans?
The Big Picture Rumble - diplomatic community calling Romney out, too...
Or watch the Full "Big Picture" Show...
Full Show 9/14/12: Gov. Ventura Vs. Gang Gov't
Thom talks with Governor Jesse Ventura about America's troubled political system and his new book "Democrips and Rebloodlicans." Tonight's "Big Picture Rumble" panel discusses Romney's handling of the unrest in the Middle East, the Fed's new stimulus plan and the latest from the Chicago Teacher's strike. In tonight's "Daily Take" Thom explains what's really going on in the Middle East.
Thom Hartmann on the News - September 14, 2012
Brunch with Bernie- September 14, 2012
Romney's foreign Policy - Forcing our will on the World
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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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