Thom Hartmann: Occupy Wall Street & The Real Boston Tea Party

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Run time: 10:44 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQ10-zAzF24   Posted on YouTube: October 05, 2011 By YouTube Member: TheBigPictureRT Views on YouTube: 79   Posted on DU: October 05, 2011 By DU Member: thomhartmann Views on DU: 935

 
There's pressure mounting on the young people in Manhattan - many of whom refer to themselves as "the other 99 percent of us" or the "99ers" - to lay out some clear reasons as to why they are occupying Wall Street In fact - the mainstream media has turned to ridiculing the movement - because there isn't a set agenda or clearly defined goal. Even though the real reason why the mainstream media is ridiculing the movement is because it doesn't fit within their corporate-friendly narrative. But first - in case there were still doubts as to why the 99% of us should be upset with how the top 1% have hijacked our economy - and why people are now taking to the streets to do something about - consider some history & facts. Then Lee Fang w/ Think Progress joins Thom Hartmann to talk about how the growing protests against transnational corporations' love affair with greed resembles another historic protest...the Boston Tea Party?

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1. Sad truth

Fang prefaces his explanation of the Boston Tea Party by noting that what most of us have been told about that incident is still being taught in our public schools today. This is why even if you COULD get Tea Partiers to listen to the real truth about the event, they wouldn't believe it.