Occupier Jesse LaGreca to get his own show produced by OWS.

[Luminous Animal]

Posted by Sabrina1 in GD

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Jesse LaGreca, (DKos's MinistryOfTruth) in case anyone did not see him on Utube, was the Wall Street Occupier who handed Fox News their head when they came to Zuccotti Park hoping to make OWS look bad. They picked the wrong guy when they picked Jesse.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002341375

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/02/22/1066823/-You-asked-for-it-You-got-it-Announcing-the-Jesse-LaGreca-Show?via=siderec

[sabrina 1]

1. Thanks, Luminous Animal.

I am really looking forward to seeing his show. I don't know if you ever watched RT's coverage of OWS, but they were there from the beginning and their coverage was fantastic. They've had Jesse LaGreca on many times. Lots of good video of him on their site.

I am so glad also that OWS is working on having their own media. I know they started their own newspaper 'Occupy Wall Street Journal' which I have tried to get but have never been able to order it online. Then recently I read that Occupy Chicago were starting a similar newspaper.

RT did a great interview with the people behind the scenes of Occupy Wall Street Journal. If I find the video I will post it here.

They know they cannot control their message on the MSM, so they are building their own media. After so long trying to get fair coverage on the MSM, I think it's better to start building a new media and leave the old media to do its thing for Corporate America.

[Luminous Animal]

2. Building our own media is important...

Spreading that media on the streets is also important....

I've been printing out articles etc., from Occupy blogs and news and leaving them in cafes and posting headlines on telephone poles.

Occupy SF has an online magazine...

http://www.sfoccupier.org/

[sabrina 1]

5. That's a very good idea. Thanks for the link to SF's magazine, didn't know about that one.

Btw, does anyone know if Occupy SF succeeded yet in starting their own Credit Union?

I thought that was an excellent idea and they seemed to have a lot of support for it. Plus they were talking about hiring at least 60 people, if they succeeded, some of them homeless who had backgrounds suitable for the job.

[Luminous Animal]

6. Hey Sabrina, in regards to the credit union...

The city of San Francisco is working on that itself and a few Occupiers are keeping the communication open and the pressure on. For whomever takes it on, it is a HUGE endeavor!

[sabrina 1]

8. Thank you, I did look up some information today to see if there was anything new.

I found a good article in the WSJ, believe it or not, from December which explained more about what they are planning, and as you say, the Occupiers are working with some of the City Council members, I believe, and have already registered the name. I posted a link in another thread here, I think it was applegrove's.

[Leopolds Ghost]

3. I find that dead plants have physical substance that lends weight to ideas + tradition

Is there any chance that, with the tech resources at Occupy's disposal thanks to all the techies involved, we could start a distributed printing network as a collectively managed co-op or some-such, to produce some of these papers? Folks could go online and decide which ones they wanted to subscribe to and be delivered locally by local printing affiliates. You could model it after the old, small-distributor bottling business. I was talking to an Occupy screen printer about having a similar model for t-shirts and posters as well.

Note that dead plants don't have to mean dead trees -- as lots of lefties probably know, William Randolph Hearst inadvertently killed the newspaper business AND kicked off the drug war about a hundred years ago when he got the booming new business of hemp paper manufacturing declared illegal in order to protect his monopoly on Michigan wood pulp. Hemp paper is now legal again for import from Canada and eco-friendly (not because it's crunchy and hip, but because it literally makes morse sense than any other source of material for paper).

[Luminous Animal]

7. Being a fan of dead plant media, myself... I like this idea.

[Scuba]

4. Excellent. Jesse deserves the airtime; he's very, very good.