{"id":8841,"date":"2011-10-13T14:05:06","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T21:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=8841"},"modified":"2011-10-13T13:29:47","modified_gmt":"2011-10-13T20:29:47","slug":"video-why-occupywallstreet-here-ya-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=8841","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: &#8216;Why #OccupyWallStreet?&#8217; Here Ya Go&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An awesome video <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myvoiceoverguy.com\/voice-over\/occupywallstreet-occupy-los-angeles-ows\/\">from D.C. Douglas<\/a>. Could well become an anthem for the movement&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe width=\"400\" height=\"233\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wK1MOMKZ8BI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The video is brilliant. Please crank up your speakers and watch it. You won&#8217;t be sorry. But just to highlight the four items Douglas, no enemy of capitalism, calls for changing &#8212; each of which would make very worthy demands for Occupy Wall Street and the 99% Movement, should they decide to create specific ones&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Reinstate Glass-Steagall:<\/b> Restore the firewall, created during the depression to avoid a similar mess in the future, then abolished in 1999, which kept banks out of the business of risky investment and speculation schemes.<\/li>\n<li><b>Audit The Fed:<\/b> Force transparency for the trillions of tax-payer dollars given away in corporate bailouts and\/or manipulated by the currently unaccountable public\/private &#8220;national bank&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li><b>Reverse <i>Citizens United<\/i> via Constitutional Amendment:<\/b> End the absurdity of corporate &#8220;personhood&#8221; and unlimited (and secret) corporate money in politics, as established by the U.S. Supreme Court last year.<\/li>\n<li><b>Overhaul the Tax Code for Corporations &#038; Top 1%:<\/b> They often pay less of their income than you do. Sucker. That is simply obsene.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An awesome video from D.C. Douglas. Could well become an anthem for the movement&#8230; The video is brilliant. Please crank up your speakers and watch it. You won&#8217;t be sorry. But just to highlight the four items Douglas, no enemy of capitalism, calls for changing &#8212; each of which would make very worthy demands for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,390,503],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-8841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-economy","category-occupy-wall-street"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8841"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=8841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}