In a country where people are dying, starving and without a home to live in.. where people who worked thirty years as policeman, firemen and teachers are having their pensions stopped, it is IMMORAL, and should be illegal to be rich– A commentary on the psychopathology of “making” money.

Freedom means putting your body (and maybe your own liberty) on the line.
Today, we speak with Sibel Edmonds, author of the new book: Classified Woman–about her personal fight against corruption in the FBI, Congress and the courts. Then we speak with members of Occupy Charlotte who are preparing to organize demonstrations and protests at the Democrat Party’s National Convention on September 3rd.

Our problem is not civil disobedience — our problem is obedience.

With 2 guests:

Kevin Gosztola

http://my.firedoglake.com/elliott/2012/04/28/truth-and-consequences-the-u-s-vs-bradley-manning-by-kevin-gosztla-book-salon-preview/

Colin Mutchler

http://loudsauce.com/team

occupyspots.com

Bob Kinkaid, President of the board of Appalachian Community Health Emergency (ACHE)

Elliot Adams of Veterans For Peace, who was among 33 peaceful protesters arrested on Sunday outside Hancock Air Field in NY.

Interview with Chuck Collins, author of 99 To 1, How Income Inequality is Wrecking The World and What We Can Do About It. Plus, news from the delusional world of the 1% and a discussion of the dues that dissidents and protesters have to pay.

Two guests today:

Leah Bolger, retired Navy Commander and President of Veterans for Peace–talking about her arrest and sentence for “disrupting” a “Super-committee” budget hearing last October.

And Kevin June, a retired fireman who is leading a battle against the eviction of residents of a trailer park in Pennsylvania so that the land they live on can by used for Fracking.

Spring Cleaning! History and re-evaluation of the Occupy movement to date–and recommendations on how to proceed from this point on… Revolutions occur on the streets– Revolutions break laws.. or Revolutions fail.

Today’s guest is Bruce E. Levine, clinical psychologist and author of Get Up, Stand Up, Uniting Populists, Energizing the Defeated, and Battling the Corporate Elite. This is a book everyone should read—passionate and hopeful. Bruce talks about the corrupting influence of money on every part of American society, culture and politics.

Occupying the office of WBAI's Tony Banks (via @WBAI_Radio's Twitter)

We also talk with Brenton Lengel, a member of Occupy Wall Street, a splinter group of which is currently Occupying Pacifica station WBAI-FM in NYC, demanding that more programming be devoted to the Occupy movement. Another case of generational dispute and self-immolation on The Left.

The Occupy movement is entering their “Arab Spring”. But this is America, where money, entertainment, celebrity worship and general political ignorance rules– so, if the Occupy movement is to move out of small pockets of protest and add up to something truly revolutionary it has to focus, communicate with other groups and develope a functional structure.

Comments on the 1% and their repressive cops and the future of the Occupy movement.

Re-awakening–OCCUPY IS BACK AND IN FULL GEAR; Interviews with Dennis Trainor jr. and Mark Casello, on Capitalism and Occupy–and an update on Chicago–the big demonstration when NATO comes to town on May 20th.