Occupy Elections - Third Party Voting

A brief history of some recent third party candidates as well as some Gallup poll data which indicates that almost half of the country identifies as "Independent" in their political ideology.  Seems like the perfect environment for a massive switch towards a new political paradigm.  The question then should be 'why vote for one of the two corporate candidates?' and not 'why vote third party?'. [Click to Listen]

Occupy Elections - Super Duper PACS

A brief history of 7 court cases that have shaped the current landscape of campaign financing. Emily's List vs FEC, Citizen's United vs FEC, SpeechNOW.org vs FEC, Club for Growth, Commonsense Ten and National Defense PAC. [Click to Listen]

Occupy Elections - Debates

A look into the Commission on Presidential Debates and how they hijacked the presidential debates from the League of Women Voters and turned the whole circus into, well a more boring form of a circus. [Click to Listen]

Occupy Kids

Just because you are older than a kid, doesn't mean you can't learn from them.  The innocent point of view of kids is unvarnished by corporate media (to a point) and social pressure as well as the natural curiosity about anything and everything. [Click to Listen]

The System is Broken

The inconsistencies of law enforcement illustrate how broken the system really is.  Corporations pollute and poison with impunity while activists are arrested for wearing masks in public or sitting in trees. [Click to Listen]

Malcolm X Voting Advice

Malcolm X was addressing the upcoming election of 1964 in this clip, but he may as well have been talking about our current situation.  It's depressing how politics never changes. [Click to Listen]

Next Housing Crisis

Trying to predict the future by looking at the rising trends in unemployment and underemployment and the growing number of foreclosure filings by the major banks since the February 2012 "settlement" over the Robo-Signing scandal. [Click to Listen]