labeled over and over by the obama administration as a do-nothing congress is it. people are losing their job, their homes and l life savings. it s quite serious. i don t know where the idea that congress is doing something comes from. they need to get that bill to the floor and debate it. the american people deserve it. if there are things to be changed, you debate and amend it. you roll up your sleeves and work for the people, not for partisanship and posturing. whenรง we talk about the occy wall street movement we ve been seeing new headlines and most of them are violent. this show as police officer repeatedly punching a man. nbc news has not corn firmed when this video was taken. when we do see images like this and we just saw what happened with occupy oakland with an iraq war vet fracturing his skull last night after getting injured after a scuffle there with police, what do you think lawmakers should be doing?
many oaklanders support the goals of the national ok pie wall street movement. however, over the last week, it was apparent that neither the demonstrators nor the city could maintain safe or sanitary conditions or control the ongoing vandalism. the city said protesters can now occupy the plaza between 6:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m. but not overnight. a new poll out today shows 43% of americans say they agree with the view is of occupy wall street movement. 27% said no. they disagree with those views. the poll found two in three say that wealth is not distributed fairly in america while just one in four says wealth is distributed fairly. massachusetts senate candidate elizabeth warren has embraced the occupy wall street movement and she told the daily beast, i created much of the intel lech chulg foundation for what they do. i support what they do. joining me is a man who was just at the occupy wall street tonight, boxing promoter, don
mayor michael bloomberg has so far avoided a showdown with occupy wall street protesters but city officials across the country are losing their patience. they are trying to disperse protesters in oakland who marched toward city hall. arrests have been made but police cannot confirm how many at this time. just before dawn in oakland this morning police in riot gear cleared out 350 protesters using tear gas and bean bags. the mayor released this statement today. many oaklanders support the goals of the national ok pie wall street movement. however, over the last week, it was apparent that neither the demonstrators nor the city could maintain safe or sanitary conditions or control the ongoing vandalism.
myth that is like that. we can do it and make pizzas and money. why are people occupying wall street? stop occupying wall street and get a job. even in herman cain s case, people helped him and friends enabled him and his lobbying years enabled him. no one in the world makes it all by themselves. this notion of an isolated individual who makes themselves rich. it s nothing but a myth. time magazine is heralding the return of the silent majority. it doesn t exist. is that who herman cain is appealing to? 59% of americans support the coup wall street movement. is that the silent majority. democratic awakening and working people, poor people and well to
now teach and where you graduated, and i wanted to ask you a couple of questions about the occupy movement. sure. the first is really about this language of occupy. now, many indigenous native american communities are pretty concerned about the language of occupation. i mean, after all, we just finished our occupation in iraq. what does it mean to occupy versus decolonizing wall street? i think that s important. i mean, the people of color i ve been speaking to around the country, particularly indigenous activists, have been very clear, a, for their support of the goals and the wall street movement, but that you have to be careful. when you choose language like occupy, what you forget, particularly if you re a white activist, is that white folks have been occupying manhattan, including lower manhattan, for hundreds of years. it s not really new. and when they go home from the park and wall street, wherever they may go home to. if it s greenwich village or the west side or whateve