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on the phone a uh...
family eating something having breakfast
uh... is halifax opt-out copter ap scientist and well priscilla is ed
joining us she is one of the
an internship of occupied wall street journal
army yes some way editors are in the occupied wall street journal i'm also
color i know we are the ninety nine percent overclock
rate and that any of that block of course uh... uh...
uh... was uh...
became out before the occupied wall street journal and that uh... tumbler
blood is fantastic i gotta tell you that if you have not seen that folks
uh... this where people basically right in uh... with a picture of themselves
holding up a statement as to why lcl
what their situation is as a member of the ninety nine percent
all right so so tell me how did you get involved in that
be occupied well first off for those people who haven't had an opportunity to
see it what is the occupied wall street journal
on the occupying wall street journal is and a four page prachi paper it some
you know just one big
sheet of paper uh... preying on front back with
our stories about are people who are involved in the movement i
uh... stories from journalists use support us name journalists
and i said just you know and uh... one l_ y_ you know what i live in kind of
lake uh...
guide to you become an activist enjoying application
um... are
audience that we're really at the year trying to reach out to our people who
are not activity at people who were interested in the uk commitment
and want to engages that in some way
an end to how many how many have you uh... published so far
over hundred-thousand copies hundred-thousand copies and at least two
additions right
we've had three ditions are about to property tax audits and this week
suno this is very exciting about pension i'm i'm all gets a issue three
i have issue one but i notice issue three
and i show this to our idea stream is actually in is also has a
spanish-language version have all the man that i yes say they are all going to
have sat
uh... issued to you is the war is the one that you're holding company had
actually printed ec three in spanish yet
um... but yet they all have so you know we have been able to translate it into
many many different languages we actually had omp
the point person for a translation team in last night alum
helping spread into arabicon turkish
so we'll really have a vested interest in a mission to make sure that this
publication is avail
bubble you know internationally
and and so uh... you've been putting out the what forty thousand
earn issue fifty thousand per issue
for this national ron how many how many thousands of copies do you intend it how
do you intend to distribute it
uh... or not sure yet its
dependent on a few dollars out wherever cultivating right now
arms so we're not sure exactly how many cities or to print n
bua we're gonna ages were actually has send them to printers in different
cities
and then have it have them
printed in the cities and distributed by the local occupations
fantastic and so um... and and and
uh... tell me to the extent he can do well first off
uh... explain to people why uh... why and issues in your first name and the
because uh...
nine oh that has been
uh... there has been
consequences for people who have been involved with certainly
you know we know the story of uh... the the people were involved with npr but
were one of their equities that did that you'd seen first hand
i mean none of us really know exactly what the consequences are going to be
amin we've heard anecdotally about people losing their jobs and whatnot
on and i'm myself and eventually you know i i'm
unemployed which is however a wind up here
but actually i'm gonna have to go back out in the world and
you know get a job and uh... it when there's one available on
and it
in exist at the carrefour aamir socks even have to say that a consider that
can you know
considering we live in this country that specific
you know
founded on
orrin
you know this mission of freedom of speech and assembly
but apparently that you know we're not too wet to that these days cell yet what
did the is linger in the proper soon
protect
his line here is that hand
and you know otherwise we'd just give you tear gas canisters that had
apparently so helen
what was it what what work did you buy the way i just wanna say i thought it
was hard living in new york city until i saw what went on her car and then when i
know what
so
by stuffed antibiotic i've seen the
are the pictures of occupy all clinton it seems the
d
uh... the park seems to be built up almost to the point where was before the
cops came in an example that uh...
week ago
alright
it looks like their numbers have in fact doubled so thoughtful look
now answer tell me what what kind of work did you do before tell me what your
your
personal story was and how you began
well tents directly before
the occupation started i was just artificial media strategist for a very
big corporation
on that and i was hired on as a contractor i set up a bunch of systems
that let me go as thirty days
and i had been out my employed for almost a year prior to that enom before
that i was a wealth researcher for are not
i'm profits here in new york city
solicited so you know i had to set basically set up all these accounts for
them right and uh... and by major corporations so you clearly have skills
that they have value
uh... in the uh... marketplace um... they've basically got rid of u_n_ thirty
days because uh...
uh... after it's everything up
starry-eyed without guidance
uh... and i hope you uh... i hope you kept the passwords
uh... tactic nadi what seat belt where
by tuesday at a corporate protested at several
and said what i think is allot
better use of my time no i did just give me a sense of likely who writes the
pieces in here and um... what are you trying to uh... you know what type of
writers you looking for can people submit stuff to this i mean
absolutely people concerned that they can go they cannot submit their stories
are keep i'm media at gmail dot com
uh... looking you can go to our paper website at occupied
media dot com
and uh... we have a mix of both knowing that and you know
not known writers
uh... we're really excited about a peace that we're gonna have publisher national
dish and com by woman named barbara king solver
and she wrote about occupation as having in the east tennessee that
made all of us in the newsroom creich while you're at it
uh... um...
a you know it's a good max of people armed and ideas and opinions
so um...
day you know if you have something to say in your living out there wherever
sended until that's you know everybody has an equal shot
and uh... you know that the mandated that everybody should understand that
the mandate of the paper
is that we want to bring into the occupations people who are not activist
people we want to be
we're going to be on the choir
we want people to be reading this paper at p_t_a_ means and applicators and i
guess stations and at work
like this is for everybody's everybody's paper so
now milky people download this image is a downloadable in such a way so if i'm
living in a town where there is uh... where there is a you're very small
occupy uh... protester
or nine can i download a bunch of these and and and put it out tonight tonight
order
or you know a hundred copies to you uh... drop off of my uh... local coffee
shop for
uh... gas station arrives although absolutely uh... our website is still in
development
but as of right now you can actually are in our our twitter fees are keep i'd
w_s_ j
and um... that we have a all of the papers are hosted on pupil docs enlisted
there so it's just a public google doc and you could just downloaded and
print away our wheat actually haven't even registered even creative commons
copyright on a
because we firmly believe that it should be freely available to
ever wants to read it and printed and distribute it
and remix it and do whatever they want to it that
in in lastly massey is a need to what extent do you guys also use the paper
as a way because one of the things that's been fascinating about watching
uh... this protest movement developed
here on the case and the occupation um... got the occupation valid
either
the way in which
the hockey patient has control
he it's message
uh...
by by by controlling its means that the distribution
uh... in the sense that uh...
you know we saw very little of mainstream coverage in the beginning
and yet um... people became more and more aware of what was going on because
of the different channels
to what extent
do you guys feel a uh... is a part of your mandate through the city of the
mandate or part of your agenda i guess
to uh... put out information that is in some ways corrected
well i mean it's not
that it's correct says it's just
another voice as you know the majority report is another voice on the internet
you know we have this people think of the media
inlets anybody with a great idea i can have a platform
and so we're just taking advantage of that uh... mainstream media is no longer
mainstream at all
it is no longer the ball lauren that it has been for corporate interests you
know since spin mass communications are coming into our lives
with radio uh...
we now you know you can go and find the actual information that you want to find
about whatever subject
and through the occupations are really trying to
create another network another channel
weights yelp focuses heavily on you know corporate influence on government and
our wealth inequality in the united states and worldwide
uh... these are both problems that haven't been able to really be examined
in the past before and now im
and a dedicated way
and that's likely because of
louise pain the bells i would think um...
you know you'll uh... it possesses much is anybody you know understands the
power of new media and how we can reach beyond
these false boundaries that in place between espy business and now um... an
aristocracy
either time is over and i'm so proud to be a part of this effort
to kind awaken people
and touring and she's to the forefront that's as having been worked out in the
same way
well we certainly appreciate the work you do and down there and uh... here
tell you it it does just able to give uh...
match here's a copy of uh... occupied wall street journal and used terribly
excited
and i'm glad
but let me ask you before before you go
why wide why occupation as opposed to product protests and just curious as to
uh...
uh... what what was behind that
are you guys it's our pay attention to our sleep in a park and be interested
right
fair enough
best expect
sometimes you have to pull up some cardboard and laid down before people
start standing up
now bennett why is it important to know and i agree with and i think uh... you
know that he lacked has gone
we're not gonna go away and still problems started facts
you know i think i had enough uh... we've pandered enough and let people
dance around issues we have the most ineffective congress ever
uh... you know i've and we're just hired myself i'm tired
lake nothing has changed is gotten worse in my email thirty seven years on this
on this planet
and eight it's it's time to change things and
it's too important
for us to just
tama protests and go home to our families and just sit down it's time for
us actually stand up
and really makes a real sacrifices
and see if i elected officials are willing to make think race after faces
because it's obvious that they're not they're working for us right now and
they need to be reminded of who they're working poor and that's why it's an
occupation and not a protest and that's why nobody's going to go wait until
things start to be fixed
priscilla from occupied wall street journal uh... thank you so much really
appreciate your coming on and uh... appreciate the work you do it