Voices from the American Autumn

[Phil Rockstroh]

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Poet, political writer and stand-up philosopher, Phil Rockstroh conducts interviews with various participants, veteran journalists e.g., Jeff Cohen, founder of FAIR and Danny Schechter The News Dissector, and young activists, ordinary citizens, the Rev. Billy, the Wikileaks Truck, Code Pink, and police on the scene, as well as, other sights and sounds from the OWS movement in Liberty Plaza in Lower Manhattan.

Link to a companion essay can be found here:

The global designs of the neo-liberal agenda have met the living architecture of a larger order — a portion of which has taken the form of a still coalescing, yet potent, countervailing consciousness, a global-wide Liberty Plaza of the mind — an order that is not informed by corporate-era public relations legerdemain, hyper-adrenaline media sound bites, right-wing emotional displacements, or “sensible” centrist platitudes — but the type of order that begins to jell when the structures of an existing system lose touch with the realities of daily life.

A ground-level, global-wide movement is afoot and has announced to the economic, media and political elite that they are on to their schemes. Accordingly, the plundering class and their protectors will no longer be afforded the luxury of insulating themselves (almost absent confrontation) within bubbles of privilege, bubbles of denial, bubbles of insularity.

Late capitalism has proven to be wholly reliant upon, in fact, addicted to, the creation of bubbles: market and media bubbles, respectively, serving to create inflated wealth and the manufacturing of closed narratives that shield the privileged players within from being held accountable for the consequences of their schemes. http://consortiumnews.com/2011/10/13/punching-a-hole-in-the-bubbles/