Only in LA: On one side of Pico Blvd., the Rancho Park golf course, with joggers, dog walkers and of course, golfers; on the other, a hundred “Occupy Fox News” demonstrators outside Fox Studios, chanting “We – are – the 99 per cent!”; in between, a hundred LA cops, many with riot gear at the [...]
LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW– SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Occupy Wall Street made a stunning showing over the weekend – we’ll talk about the different manifestations around Southern California with ALAN MINSKY, KPFK program director. My personal favorite: Occupy Irvine – more than 500 people marched on Saturday. Who would have thought? Also: It’s time to [...]
After decades in which “hard hats” were described as enemies of the left, and four decades after construction workers in lower Manhattan attacked anti-war demonstrators on Wall Street, the AFL-CIO on Thursday called on its members to defend Occupy Wall Street from the NYPD as the city moved to arrest and evict protestors in Zuccotti [...]
LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW– SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Last night Senate Republicans blocked Obama’s jobs bill, which would have taxed millionaires to fund infrastructure construction, repair schools, and rehire cops, teachers, and firefighters who have been laid off. Meanwhile, Occupy Wall Street grows. JOHN NICHOLS will comment–he writes “The Beat” blog at TheNation.com. Big [...]
When Sarah Palin announced last week that she was not running for president, many wondered, what had she been trying to do during the last three years, when she seemed to be almost a candidate? Now we know: she was trying to make money. . . . continued at TheNation.com HERE
From High Noon to The Ten Commandments, from low-budget horror films like Them! to noir melodramas like Panic in the Streets, Hollywood was a key arena for the giant U-turn in American politics that took place in the late 1940s and early 1950s. (Review of An Army of Phantoms: American Movies and the Making of [...]
In a move that dramatizes the political differences between Los Angeles and New York, several members of the LA City Council today declared their support for Occupy LA and introduced a resolution that will put the city officially on record as endorsing the demonstrators camped at City Hall. City Council president Eric Garcetti, who is [...]
LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Everybody has advice for the protesters at Occupy Wall Street –What do these people want, anyway? They need to explain their demands! BETSY REED, executive editor of The Nation, says progressives have plenty of policy ideas. Occupy Wall Street provides something new: a spark. Occupy L.A. [...]