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Programming designed to skirt the sports spectacles, superstitious sermons and silly retro television re-runs.
Yesterday, over 700 of the adamantly non-violent 99%ers occupying Liberty Plaza on Wall Street were led onto New York's Brooklyn Bridge by the police, trapped in a pincer maneuver, arrested and hauled to jail.
"Kettled" a word used recently by participants, many students, in England to describe this dirty tactic by the police is now part of the American language.
Indeed from an economic perspective many tens of millions are being "kettled" by stingy bankers sitting on over $2 trillion, refusing to "stimulate" the U. S. economy while reaping record salaries.
Listen to Charles M. Young, a veteran journalist who witnessed yesterday's police outrage from the walkway above the mass arrests on the Brooklyn Bridge and has in the last 15 days attended many of the daily "General Assembly" meetings there. He describes some of the new social revolutionary new ways the 99%ers are organizing.
Charles M. Young is part of the on-line news collective of reporters at This Can't Be Happening!