Michael Moore about to speak in Madison. Link:

[highplainsdem]

http://www.livestream.com/theuptake

[highplainsdem]

1. Lost the live stream again. He was making his way to the stage.

He marched to the Capitol with the firefighters.

[malaise]

3. Just coming on n/t

[highplainsdem]

2. Moore tweeted that he will also be live streaming the speech on his own site:

http://www.michaelmoore.com/

Hasn't started there yet.

[highplainsdem]

5. Still not on his site.

[highplainsdem]

13. Still no live feed on his own site.

[highplainsdem]

4. Introducing him now. Interruptions on the UpTake live stream.

[Webster Green]

8. I'm getting a very intermittent stream.

I thought it was my connection.

[Poboy]

6. Net recommendation: 0 votes (Your vote: +1)

I guess some people do not want to hear M. Moore.

[Hannah Bell]

7. "America is not broke -- not by a long shot. The country is awash with wealth

& cash, it's just that it's not in your hands. It has been transferred, in the greatest heist in history, to the portfolios of the uber-rich."

"400 obscenely wealthy individuals, most of whom benefited from the multi-trillion dollar bailout..."

the feed is not good. blackout. i hope someone's filming for youtube.

[Jokinomx]

9. Kicked and Rec

Listening right now.... 3:30 EST

:kick:

I have shaken his hand and personally thanked him for what he has done to help the working man. He signed my copy of a great book "Stupid White Men".

Salute Micheal! I am proud to be a Michigander on your side. :toast:

[madamesilverspurs]

10. Dialup here --

Live feed is useless === Can somebody please keep us apprised of what's happening?

-

[highplainsdem]

11. Michael's speaking now, but the live stream is failing at times. I'll post a transcript as soon as

one is available, plus links to video later. (Sometimes even with dialup you can watch video, though it takes a long time to load.)

[Hannah Bell]

12. michael moore: the folks telling us we need austerity are the ones who crashed

the economy....

they're hoarding vast wealth, it's not getting into the economy...

feed out now...

i think they're getting too many hits...

[malaise]

14. Mine is gone n/t

[Hannah Bell]

15. mine's back on: "the earth is shaking and the ground is shifting under the feet of

those in charge...the message is - we - have - had it!

chanting....

on wisconsin!"

feed out again....

[highplainsdem]

18. I heard that, right before it failed again.

[Hannah Bell]

23. government run by billionaires, for billionaires, is an affront to humanity.

thanks wisconsin, for 3 weeks you have stood in the cold, slept on the floor, skipped out of town...madison is only the beginning!

the rich have overplayed their hand...they couldn't have been just content with the money they raid from our treasury...or shipping millions of jobs overseas ...they wanted more ...they had to have our souls...they had to strip us of our dignity...they had to shut us up & shut us down so we weren't even allowed at the table to bargain about a simple thing like classroom size or letting a pilot get a few extra hours of sleep...

when i came in here on delta express ...the starting pay $19K a year...they don't fly on those planes, do they...that pilot has given up trying to get better pay...at this point he just wants a few extra hours of sleep in the parking lot...

they couldn't be content...they wanted to demean and dehumanize...after all, he's just another slob...

feed out again...

[Hannah Bell]

30. the crowd: shame, shame, shame

finally to the media who are here: please tell this story

i've only been here an hour & i'm shocked by what i've seen & haven't seen watching this on tv or in the papers -- all the pundits still say they were caught by surprise & don't understand what's going on in wisconsin after three weeks "there was an election..."

there's something going on here & you don't know what it is

we aim to fix the compass & steer the ship by ourselves from this point on

one person, one vote -- that is the thing the rich hate the most about america...no matter how they try to own the political process there's a hell of a lot more of us than of them

wisconsin, america's with you, america thanks you, madison, madison

crowd chants thank you thank you

thank you again, we love you, don't stop, hang in there buddy, every one of you men and women....

moore finishes, mod "thank you to michael moore, please recognize leaders of our firefighters, firefighters present moore with a button (?)

thank you firefighters of wisconsin, they have to go back to the station but we have a little fight...

feed out

[highplainsdem]

16. Got it back for less than a minute, then it failed again.

[eleny]

17. "We have had it!"

The stream came up just when Moore told the people that their message is resounding in all 50 states and that message is, "We have had it!" And the crowd chanted it with him.

[highplainsdem]

19. "Madison is only the beginning!" Cheering...

[eleny]

21. Goosebumps

Saying that the rich weren't content with raiding the Treasury. They had to have our souls.

[malaise]

22. Talkimg about the plight of pilots

$19,000 a year and no hotel rooms - they want to take away his sleep. The pilot afterall is just another slob.

Go Michael!

[highplainsdem]

24. Lots of booing from the crowd after the "slob" reference which reminds them of Grothman.

[highplainsdem]

20. "The rich have overplayed their hand.... They had to have more. They had to have our souls.

They had to strip us of our dignity."

[highplainsdem]

25. Criticizing the media now. Mocking them. "There's something happening here, and you don't know

what it is, do you?"

[SpiralHawk]

38. "Huh? What? Move along. Nothing to see." - Corporate Media (R)

[highplainsdem]

26. "The only thing that's broken is the moral compass of the rulers. We mean to fix that compass and

steer this ship ourselves from now on."

[highplainsdem]

27. "It's one person, one vote, and there are a hell of a lot more of us than there are of them."

[highplainsdem]

28. "Don't stop. Don't stop. And to the Wisconsin 14 -- hang in there!"

[highplainsdem]

29. Chants of "Thank you! Thank you!" from the crowd.

[highplainsdem]

31. And the live stream is gone again.... Still more of the rally to come, and Jon Langford will be

back, after a brief appearance earlier with Michelle Shocked.

[Luminous Animal]

33. I love Michael Moore and I love Jon Langford. Thank you & Hannah for the updates...

spotty feed and all.

[drokhole]

32. Michael Moore HAD to have been filming it, right?

What, considering the guy is a filmmaker, and all. Hope he had someone there, and that they post high quality footage of it soon.

[highplainsdem]

34. I'm sure it will be up online somewhere soon. I'll post a link when I have one.

[drokhole]

36. Sounds great, thanks! n/t

[highplainsdem]

35. His YouTube channel, but it isn't there yet:

http://www.youtube.com/user/mmflint

[highplainsdem]

37. His home page now says: "Check back soon for full video of Michael Moore's speech today outside the

Capitol in Madison, Wisconsin"

[highplainsdem]

39. He just put a slide show up there now. No video yet.