Nov 22 2011
November 23, 2011
We’ll take the pulse of the Occupy movements with Chris Hedges, now that many tent cities including New York’s have been dismantled by the police. What lies ahead for the national movement? And, Spain’s Indignados have been an inspiration for Occupy Wall Street – we’ll analyze the recent Spanish elections in light of on-going popular resistance. Plus, politically inspired local artist Mear One joins us in studio to offer an alternative to Black Friday’s shopping …
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The Congressional Super Committee charged with cutting $1.2 trillion in federal spending has failed to meet its deadline. A statement was issued late last night by the co-Chairs of the committee, saying “after months of hard work and intense deliberations, we have come to the conclusion today that it will not be possible to make any bipartisan agreement available to …
Nearly two dozen Egyptian protesters were killed by security forces from Saturday through Monday, and an estimated 1500 were wounded during massive protests against the ruling military council. Security forces used rubber bullets, birdshot, and live ammunition against an ever-increasing crowd of demonstrators that swelled to at least 10,000 in Cairo by Monday. Egypt’s interim governing cabinet offered its …
UC Davis student protestors have called for a campus wide strike Monday November 28th, the day of a scheduled UC Board of Regents meeting. The call was made yesterday after Davis set up tents near the spot of the now-infamous pepper spray incident. A protest against fee hikes at the UC Davis campus last Friday erupted into violence when a …
The deadline for the Congressional Supercommittee to outline cuts in the Federal budget is today and an announcement is expected at any time that the 12-member bi-partisan group has failed to come to consensus. This means that $1.2 trillion dollars of automatic cuts to Medicare, the military, and other programs will be triggered as per the debt ceiling bill that …
