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Tea Party Ruse? Big Picture 01/09/12
Thom Hartmann explains the ruse of the Tea Party movement which tricked many middle-class americans into thinking that it was the movement for the 99 percent. A clip is shown of Rick Santelli ranting on the trading floor of a CME group in Chicago about not wanting to pay taxes for people that can't pay for their mortgages. Tea Party Patriots thank Santelli for igniting the movement with this rant. Thom says, once tea-partier's realized that the movement was by and for millionaires and billionaires, and the populist rage was still out there, the real 99 percent movement began.
Email this pageOccupy Vs. Tea Party Big Picture 12/13/11
Members of the occupy movement met with local Tea Party members in Richmond, VA. They wanted to see if they had any common ground. Tea Party members learned that occupiers were more informed than the "young hippie" stereotype, and together they learned that they have some of the same targets including corporate greed. They also concluded that the Tea Party may have been co-opted by individuals with special interests.
Democracy Now!: Tuesday, June 28, 2011
The rising star of the Tea Party movement, Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann has launched her bid for the Republican 2012 presidential nomination. We are joined by journalist Karl Bremer, who has covered Michele Bachmann's political career for the last decade from Stillwater, Minnesota, which is where the Bachmanns currently reside. We also speak with journalist Michelle Goldberg, author of the book "Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism." In New Mexico, an out-of-control wildfire that began Sunday has already burned nearly 80 square miles and is a mile or less from Los Alamos National Laboratory, home to a nuclear weapons plutonium facility. We speak with Greg Mello, the director of the Los Alamos Study Group, a citizen-led nuclear disarmament group based in New Mexico. Democracy Now!, a daily independent newshour.
GRITtv: Thomas Frank: What's the Matter With Wisconsin?
"This is what's interesting in Wisconsin: I think that the Right may have picked a fight they can't win rhetorically," says Harper's columnist Thomas Frank, who visited Wisconsin during the heat of the union battles this winter. He notes that Wisconsin was historically one of the most liberal states in the country, and the labor-liberal base there is fired up and ready to fight back. Thomas joins Laura in studio to talk Wisconsin and the bigger picture for progressives in the country--is the time of the Tea Party fading?
GRITtv: S. C. Tea Party: Previews of 2012?
Michele Bachmann and Nikki Haley joined a Tea Party crowd in Columbia, South Carolina to talk politics--and a Democratic consultant was in the crowd, talking to rally attendees.
GRITtv: Wisconsin Farmers, Lena Taylor, and Susan Sarandon
Laura's back in Madison, Wisconsin, for our third special broadcast at the largest rally in Wisconsin history - more than 120,000 people are estimated to have descended on the capital. These protests mark the fourth weekend of protests and follow the action in the state house, as Wisconsin state senators forced through a bill stripping Wisconsin public unions of their collective bargaining rights. In this very special edition of GRITtv, we hear from Wisconsin farmers standing in solidarity with public workers, state senator Lena Taylor, actress and activist Susan Sarandon, and Will Williams of Veterans for Peace Madison. Distributed by Tubemogul.
GRITtv: Will Williams: Years of Struggle Gone
"Too much has been spent on defense and killing at the expense of people, of working class people," Will Williams, of Veterans for Peace Madison, said to Laura. "And I say that because, when you look at the statistics, it costs one million dollars a year to keep one troop in Iraq. Yet we talk about we can't balance the budget unless we do it on the backs of working class people. And it's wrong." Williams spoke with Laura from the streets of Madison during this weekend's protests. He pointed to the widening wealth gap and excessive military spending as evidence that the middle class is being forgotten. "This governor we have has taken away everything that working people had, what was built throughout years of struggle," Williams said. "He took it in the stroke of a pen." Distributed by Tubemogul.
GRITtv: Susan Sarandon and Robert Turner
"We will not yield to the system where political power derives from wealth," said actress and activist Susan Sarandon as she spoke to the protesters in Madison. "This is a great opportunity to become more human human beings and base our politics on compassion and love and not economics." Distributed by Tubemogul.
GRITtv: Lena Taylor: Awakening a Sleeping Giant
"They've awakened a sleeping giant. People who have never been engaged are engaged," Lena Taylor, Wisconsin state representative, told Laura Flanders from the streets of Madison. "900 million dollars, almost a billion dollars, out of education. How can we be prepared for our future?" Distributed by Tubemogul.
GRITtv: Ryan Bingham: A Song for Wisconsin
"There's just no time for propaganda, or media filled with hate. No time for scripted messages that slither around like snakes in your brain," sang Ryan Bingham, of Ryan Bingham and The Dead Horses, as he performed "Direction of the Wind," which he dedicated to all the people on the streets of Madison, WI. Distributed by Tubemogul.
