Radio Smart Talk for Tuesday, October 18:
Last month, hundreds of protesters took to the streets of New York to demonstrate against corporate greed and a host of other issues -- a movement that became known as Occupy Wall Street. Since then the movement has grown and last Saturday, rallies were staged around the world, including Occupy events in Harrisburg, Lancaster and Lewisburg.
What are they angry about? Occupy Wall Street's website says, "Occupy Wall Street is a leaderless resistance movement with people of many colors, genders and political persuasions. The one thing we all have in common is that We Are The 99% that will no longer tolerate the greed and corruption of the 1%. We are using the revolutionary Arab Spring tactic to achieve our ends and encourage the use of nonviolence to maximize the safety of all participants."
Because the Occupy protests aren't restricted to one or even a handful of grievances, observers have sometimes questioned the goals of the participants and whether their tactics can affect change.
On Tuesday's Radio Smart Talk, we'll explore the Occupy Wall Street movement with two Occupy Harrisburg participants and a longtime Central PA activist.
Also, NPR Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep has written his first book -- Instant City: Life and Death in Karachi. In the book, Inskeep writes that for the first time in history, more people live in cities than in rural areas and several cities has seen tremendous population increases over the last 30 years. Inskeep focuses on Karachi, Pakistan as one "instant city" and "how this one city illuminates the perils and possibiltities of rapidly growing megacities all around the world."
Listen to the program:
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. . . .and wa-a-a-a-ay too short a program to effectively cover the multiple issues these protests represent.
I sincerely hope other SmartTalk shows are dedicated to the same topic in the near future.
It occurred to me as I listened that the frustration felt by citizens itself is very poorly formed....they sense that the
"American Dream" has become a fiction for the many....that atrophy has replaced effective growth, failures and losses have replaced successes and gains.. . . but it is not clear to them how it all happened.
We need additional conversation on "All of the Above" -----it is not one simple thing, it is indeed the plethora of ruinous practices which incite these protests, of whom all of us can consider ourselves active participants.
My proofreader is obviously out there somewhere protesting . . . as he should be.
all activists, did not lend clarity to understanding the Occupy Movement
By attempting to find parallels with other activist issues, the Pa. pay raise, protests in Israel, the focus of the show was lost. This is a social movement on the scale of the Anti-War movement of the sixties. While very insightful, the other panelists comments prevented us from hearing from the spokesman from the occupy movement. Sadly, this program missed it's mark
I don't disagree with you. The Steve Inskeep interview was offered to us at the last minute for a specific time. In hindsight, we should have re-scheduled the Occupy Harrisburg guests for another day so we could have a full hour. We'll look at it again as the movement continues. And Jim, I really enjoy Steve on the air and had a good time talking to him this morning.
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