I was honored to have both the infamous “OccupyFreedomLA” (aka Freedom) and the notorious “OakFoSho” (aka Spencer Mills), citizen journalists both, join me live in-studio today on my KPFK/Pacifica Radio show after they spent the entire night live video-streaming the LAPD’s de-occupation of OccupyLA at City Hall for the entire world.
I was right there with them, last night, and this morning — at least on the Internets — following their invaluable reporting and video feeds (OakFoShow’s Ustream page here, OccupyLAFreedom’s Ustream page here) until just about 5:30am.
So it was awesome to meet them in person to discuss the art of live-stream citizen journalism, get the scoop on how they do it, how you too can also be the media as a live-streamer with little more than a smartphone, and to get some inside skinny on what happened last night as they tried to help counter the spin by corporate media and the 1,400 strong LAPD contingent, to ensure that “the whole world was watching.”
It was a fun and, hopefully, informative interview/discussion. Give it a listen!
P.S. Naturally, both of ’em live streamed the interview from the studio as it happened! So, while the sound quality isn’t nearly as good, and you won’t get to hear the sound clips or music from their inside-the-studio cameras, the archived video versions of each of their live streams follow below, if you prefer…
OakFoShow’s video stream archive our interview…
“The phrase consent of the governed has been turned into a cruel joke. There is no way to vote against the interests of Goldman Sachs. Civil disobedience is the only tool we have left.” “” Chris Hedges (Truthdig)
NO violence? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...&feature=youtu.be Note this photographer being aggresively pushed down and then tackled by LAPD. Also my stream from the last stand with tree house seige shows Officer Rubio firing 5 beanbag shots at close range into the tree house. I call that violent.
OccupyFreedomLA –
To be fair to me, I didn’t say “NO violence”. I said, “it was by almost all accounts done very peacefully, as the evictions happened without violence, pepper spray, tear gas…that police had brought to other cities.”
And now to be fair to you, you had lodged an objection to that statement during my intro, and I promised to return to it, to get your objections, but never did during the show. So, to help make up for that a bit, please see the piece I just posted (which also quotes you).
And thanks again for all!
The Mayor of LA may suffer politically as Mayor Bloomberg of NYC is because of mistreatment to Occupy movement members.