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Democracy Now! (9 am), for September 28, 2011 - 9:00am

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"Something Has Started": Michael Moore on the Occupy Wall St. Protests That Could Spark a Movement; "Here Comes Trouble": Michael Moore Tells The Formative Tales Behind His Filmmaking, Rabble-Rousing.



Today's Headlines

    Study: Workers Facing Costlier Health Premiums
    Listeria Outbreak Kills 13 in U.S.
    Study: 30,000 Cases of Border Patrol Abuses Since 2008
    Report: FBI Keeps Names on Terrorist Watch-List Despite Exoneration
    Gaddafi Reported to Be Near Algerian Border
    Israel Authorizes 1,100 New Settlement Homes
    U.N. Official: Palestinian Authority Ready to Govern State
    Hundreds Protest U.S. in Pakistan
    Bahraini Court Upholds Sentences for Protest Leaders
    Republicans Launch New Probe of Planned Parenthood
    Danish Firm Protests Drug Use in Florida Execution
    Postal Workers Hold Nationwide Protests Against Cuts, Funding-Mandate

 

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I respect and enjoy Michale

I respect and enjoy Michale Moore a lot. Someone I know shows his documentaries in her university classes. He does not say anything that social researchers, thinkers and activists in the US do not already know...but he does it with spunk, humor and provocation that is admirable and applause worthy.

But why is Michael showing up on MSNBC and stating that the protestors have no agenda or purpose. That is insulting! They have diverse causes and purpose that are connected. They are sitting in, daringly and defiantly, disallowing business in Wall Street and New York to go on as usual. They range from a specific personal reason and story to a more idealistic concerns about a classist America that is weakening its own Democracy and rapidly becoming a police State. I know these events are great events to promote his book...but he needs to stop being so callous and careless with his words. I felt he was being set up and did not even know it. His open bashing of Obama on MSNBC was unnecessary and cheezy. He is now turning this protest into a Midwest anti-Fed protest against East Coast pro-Fed anti-protest conflict. Please do not do that. This protest does not appear to have anything to do with regionality, Catholic versus Jews, or anything of that sort. Michael stop implying stuff, and do not claim protestors do not have a cause. They do, they do, they do! And do something about the police brutality.

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