71°F6:55 AM Occupy Louisville - In their own words [The Arena]
For weeks, the Occupy Wall Street movement was frustrated by what seemed to be a news "blackout" by major media organizations. By last week, the movement had broken through to the point that it and the economic issues it brought back into public debate had become the number one story in the news media.
Much of the coverage, however, has been about the typical news "angles". By necessity, news media with limited time or space can only intersperse occasional sound bites from actual protestors into the narration provided by their reporter.
One of the key features of the movement, however, has been a commitment to allowing everyone to be heard who wants to be heard. For that reason, and so that readers can meet some of these people themselves and form their own opinions about what they say, I have been conducting interviews at the occupation and promising to put them online with little or no editing. They speak about who they are, what issues have brought them to the protest, what they think about the mechanics of their movement, and more. So without further ado... here is Occupy Louisville "in their own words". Come back to this article for new interviews that I'll post as I do them.
Part 1
Part 2
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We are in trouble.
Excellent series of interviews, Keith. You have an obvious gift of getting folks to feel at ease in front of a camera. That said, I am forced to conclude that if this group is in any way typical of the next generation of American citizens, we are definitely in trouble. It's been many years since I taught college, and I had forgotten how astonishingly vapid and inarticulate the average adolescent is. If that first guy is a Philosophy student, then I'm the King of Spain. Keep up the good work; by giving a wider audience to these pitiful malcontents, you are serving a vital public purpose.
'an obvious gift of getting
'an obvious gift of getting folks to feel at ease'
oh brother. seriously??? these are good hearted folks put on the spot and asked to compose their thoughts into some words that could hopefully express what they may have only experienced on an emotional level. it's easy to sit at your computer and judge them, i guess.
Scorn & Pity
Tom, with analogies like, "Then I'm the King of Spain," you are one to talk about "vapid and inarticulate." It heartens me to see you are no longer teaching college and instructing the "next generation" for which you espouse such withering pity and contempt.
You are obviously as far removed from the issues which these Occupants seek to address as the Wall Street bankers whose negligent and self- and profit-centered actions formed part of the impetus for this dialogue. It is so easy to come from your life and arena of white male privilege and judge others about whose life you know nothing.
These videos sought to give an unimpeded voice to the Occupy movement, not an edited and sanitized soundbite for your Fox News consumption. I thank their author for helping to create and upload them, and the speakers who perhaps are finding their voice and a place to be heard for the first time.