Mic Check Radio

On this show we take a look at N+1 magazines gazette series called Occupy!, specifically the articles by Susie Cagle and Nathan Schneider on the San Francisco's Commune and the role Religion should be playing within the movement.

A look at the tactics used by the FBI's COunter INTELligence PROgram (COINTELPRO) against activist groups in the United States (with some readings from Dan Berger's book: Outlaws in America).  The program officially ended in 1971, but the tactics are clearly still being practiced today against Occupy Wall Street and the Occupy Movement in general.

Activists are arrested as the NATO protests begin, clouding the Corporate Media's coverage just as the Cleveland arrests did for the May Day Rally's nation wide.  The violent demonization of the Occupy Movement by the State and all of its cohorts is starting to look suspiciously like Operation Backfire and the FBI crackdown on ELF and ALF.

A little history lesson from the archives of Pacifica Radio.  The Democratic Convention of 1968 and the heavy handed tactics of the Chicago Police Department thru the fantastic reporting of Phil Watson.

Some thoughts on how to prepare for modern protests within the current police state, specifically in Chicago for the NATO/G8 protests.  The Black Cross Health Collective in Portland, Oregon has some great resources available here.

After sifting through way too much Corporate Media coverage of May Day 2012, here are some of the choicest clips from Neil Cavuto, Shepard Smith, HLN Special Report and Anderson Cooper.  Prepare to yell at your speakers!

Recorded Live (sort of) on May Day, a rambling narrative of news events as they happened.

Mission Police substation hit with paint balls, New York City activists residences raided by NYPD on April 30th, Risk Control Strategies helps the State monitor protest plans, over 50 picket lines in NYC, New York Times reports on envelopes with notes and white powder sent to Mayor Bloomberg and 6 others, 5 arrested in Cleveland for plotting, Occupy Oakland harassed and gassed by cops, Occupy Chicago shuts down banks, Guitarmy draws huge crowds, the San Francisco Commune is re-Occupied, Obama pops up in Afghanistan and created a Corporate Media distraction, London is re-occupied, Wall Street is blocked off so OWS protesters head to the Vietnam War Memorial and end the night in Liberty Square.

Want to Occupy your college or university? Here are some lessons learned from the 1968 Columbia student occupation.

Taking a look at Fracking and other Environmental issues within the OWS protests via an article in EcoWatch Journal by Rep. Bob Hagan (D-Youngstown).

Tom Hayden and his thoughts (published over at The Nation) having been there at the start of the Students for a Democratic Society and the authoring of the Port Huron Statement, up through the Occupy Wall Street movement.  Here is his interview with Democracy Now.