Show: Occupied Territory

Host: Mike Feder

Showtime: Wednesdays @ 1pm (EDT)

Occupied Territory, with Mike Feder…

The name—Occupied Territory. It seems intrusive, aggressive; probably illegal. It is all those things.

Occupiers are people who oppress other people in their own land. The way, for instance, the British did in America.

A revolution was required to force the tyrants out and establish a free country.

So now, again, we have men and women camping out, sitting in, and marching in places where the law says they have no right to be. But they are doing no less than the founders of this country did—or the unions when they first formed in the early twentieth century. Nothing less than what the civil rights and anti-war demonstrators did in the Sixties.

The real Occupiers, the criminals who are oppressing this country now, are a very small group of obscenely rich, power-hungry men and women who control most of the land, run the big banks and corporations, and have used their wealth to corrupt almost the entire political process. They have occupied The Supreme Court, The Congress, and The White House; bribed elected officials and subverted appointed ones—including Governors, State legislators, the courts and the police.

The goals of the Occupy movement are not fuzzy or vague. They are precise and clear: We need to pry the hands of the rich off our throats; throw cowardly and corrupt officials out of office, take the money out of electoral politics, break up the big banks, restore law and order to financial markets, impose fair taxes on the rich and large corporations, and stop moneyed interests from poisoning our planet.

We have to back take our workplaces, our land, and our freedoms.

This show is intended to support this new movement.

If there are flaws, they’ll be pointed out—After all, there is no absolute line between the 1% and the 99%. Without long-time, mass consumption by a majority of Americans, the 1% could never have grown so fat. We have to take responsibility for ourselves in this movement.

But in the end, if we are to stop America’s frightening slide into a complete corporate police state, we have to support this new movement—keep it burning until it forms itself into a great political and economic force.

Each week we’ll interview activists, journalists, historians and economists; and, more importantly, get direct reports from Occupy movements in cities across the country.

We encourage listeners to call in and to spread the word as far and wide as possible.