MEDIA ROOTS– Abby Martin of Media Roots reports from the front lines of the immediate aftermath of the predawn Oakland police raid against the peaceful Occupy Oakland encampments on Tuesday, October 25, 2011. The raid was perpetrated under the ironic pretext of ‘sanitation and safety,’ even though the encampments were in accordance with safety standards. Abby Martin questions the Oakland … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS— Rhetoric aside, Obama continues to be the darling of Wall Street. In 2008, President Obama racked up $750 million dollars for his Presidential campaign, and is projected to take in roughly $1 billion dollars for 2012. Although the President appears to commiserate with the Occupy Wall Street movement and its dissatisfaction of Wall Street’s influence over politics, Obama … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS – Felipe Messina of Media Roots speaks with Alexa O’Brien of US Day of Rage and Co-Organiser of Occupy Wall Street to ask her about the origins of the Occupy Wall Street movement and its looming interface with MoveOn and the Democratic Party, our broken U.S. electoral system, the false left/right paradigm of our U.S. two-party dictatorship, and … Read More
