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monday october fifteenth after weekend at nonviolent civil disobedience
training the tar sands blockade held amassed a vaction in wins for a texas
with more than fifty protesters participating
eight were arrested for criminal trespass
two of them had not been selves machinery actress an activist daryl
hannah and landowner eleanor fairchild
where arrested in protest earlier this month that what is the charts and
flocking
it's a group of texas and oklahoma landowners and environmental activists
protesting the construction at trans candidates keystone excel oil pipeline
president obama delayed the company's plans for the northern segment of the
pipeline but endorse this other leg
which will carry canadian crude from fishing oklahoma to the gulf port of
houston and fort arthur
the blockade began in late september when eight protesters began a fitting
seventy feet above ground and the swap of trees on the construction site
it reset urs are now in earning their fifth week the persisted
in the san fernando valley and los angeles
home foreclosures and balik
facing eviction in late august their hernandez family in van nuys teamed up
with occupied fights foreclosures turnout physical defense of their home
their strategy
to build board hernandez
now surrounded by barricades one forty six twenty let all street this home not
only to the family
it doesn't have a occupiers
ha dear hernandez bought the house in two thousand six at a price to five
hundred and forty six thousand dollars
with an incest or rape that prime land
the house is now valued at two hundred and forty two thousand dollars
what is documentation says that have yet had reported monthly income at eleven
thousand dollars
for a personal business called galaxy marble restoration unit that income was
verified by tax compare parlors china
mister hernandez denied ever owning such a business
uh... ever making that amount of income or ever knowing mister jab
i contacted karla said himself in he stated that he had no files on the
hernandez family
and that he had not ever prepare the tax verification letter it
that was contained within escrow papers
i've not yet been able to reach officials at bank of america the current
owner of the mortgage while it's clear that the income verification was
falsified it's not clear whether it was done by mister hernandez or by
countrywide the originator of the line
algata for twin brothers hobby erin ulysses to get their side of the story
so you purchase a home in two thousand six
and then
you started to face troubles with your hiding a loan modification in two
thousand eight deposited there before was a
a finger pointed who want to qualify for
modification
they were taken priority with people who have been
before through the report had already so
people lose their community they want to qualify for modification
limited to be behind the payments
say they told you that in order to get your modification that you'd have to
stop making payments on your house
this witness's
and so far it's been a
for modifications denied on the loan documents
it says that
uh... hobby air
on his own business and out see marble restoration for four years
and that you is making
eleven thousand dollars a month uh... in income from that business
and have you
ever out of business and from around the room with my own businessmen who work in
them
memorable industry so
there was something that we were recently discovered in uh...
over paperwork and funding for almost became a room
they perceive as we recently discover that the
there was so something about a room
eleven thousand dollars income here is a nation
process
it false start in inflation
this is not supplied by you or anyone in your family group there was a
summitted by the agents or the brokers
did the
loan officer ever give you a any uh... indication that your income wouldn't be
sufficient to paper this town the that you couldn't afford it
molinaro then moved to a person who was that the
that it was okay dad
in-room
deeds
moved
low-income families um... always or pitch in together too
toolbar get the rooms
born in it appears to be the first foreclosure process and its kind in the
nation
but they're barricade building anti poor closure occupation strategy is spreading
fort lewis era was recently arrested in east l_a_
stay tuned for updates in these developing stories
by major activism issue is overturning citizens united and instituting public
campaign financing
when i first got involved in occupy i was incensed by the crimes committed by
wall street it nearly collapsed our economy
i now usually thought that there would be broad bipartisan support for
financial reform
went it was clear that money interests would reign supreme
i realize that no other issues could be resolved in told the issue of money in
politics is address first john wellington annex came to this
realization back in two thousand five when he began researching the point date
investment scandal in ohio the genesis for his soon-to-be-released documentary
on campaign finance
paid a plank
i spoke with nl an executive producer holly musher at a recent screening of
the film for occupy that
but bill pay to play takes a look at what in politics through will use it
mcdougal
reach their mainstream audiences like uh... monopoly uh... colourful campaign
stories and even the uh... merging uh... street artist corporate us i got struck
up by the calling it scandal in ohio because you hear about their play but
because they're such colorful details there is one of the event knowing who's
been so lavishly popular guy who's involved in the air was thought to be
here to campaign speaking became the american people
was to set they got appointed to you know that europe recognition and running
and uh... unity
well uh... the board of regents for at the two sides educations to college
dropout ends up
there's always everything's words like you know you're a balanced budget list
of what was one guy's really workplace brings who can start to get a it's funny
the activity asking body and and work for a visit ok for collectibles like
jerseys beanie babies and that this is somehow on okay for workers compensation
because he was a big group heartbreak if there's a place that might be a you know
workers com
activity people illegally political uh... politically involved cvs major
issues that should just be like
serious red flag but media stories
would you say
yet problematic in many
you know whether they need media institutions that the fourthestate like
can you comment on what what what we did it take that you know my cousin and then
early nineties had worked for a new celebrating the news and her boss
clearly told her that she could not
third-party candidate and night have friends that work in the news
they might have been advertiser that doesn't like a stories the stories will
get cut
if people think we have a free press and it's like no it's run by the corporation
their internet so
i think you know the great people actually woke up to that six of them
phele i think it's it just as actual circle with that
its money in politics money and media and that's a real problem that
let me get paid to play in politics were not getting the need for not getting the
stories because
of corporate influence
yet and i think uh...
the individual voice becomes that sort of commodity that uh... the people are
looking for
to any party except is says wishful thinking son groups fighting against the
citizens united willing and poor public campaign financing
with interviews from former senator russ feingold
activist david koch and spiritual author marianne williamson
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