Political Analysis - 11/22/11

This week, two days before Thanksgiving, Political Analysis host Sandy LeonVest waxes thankful for the Occupy Wall Street movement. She includes in her Thanksgiving tribute, audio clips from the brilliant Occupy teach-in that took place this November in Los Angeles, former labor secretary and economist Robert Reich's magnificent speech there, and the organic emergence from the occupy movement of mature and courageous leadership, even as efforts by corporate lobbyists to marginalize and de-humanize the movement become evermore virulent. Sandy follows this "Thanksgiving segment" with an un-thankful segment, which includes audio of disparaging remarks about the occupiers made this last week by Republican presidential hopeful, Newt Gingrich (who thinks protesters don't bathe, pay taxes or work) and a not entirely convincing apology by UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi for her part in the campus tear-gassing "incident."

During the second half of the program, Aimee Allison updates listeners on current actions to hold UC Davis police and campus officials accountable for their criminal assault on peacefully protesting students with military-grade pepper spray. Amy also discusses recent shocking revelations of a coordinated national effort on the part of city officials, aided and abetted by the US Department of Homeland Security, to end the Occupy encampments.

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