dinsdag 23 september 2008

Danny Schechter 5

Danny Schechter schrijft:

'PANIC STILL ROCKING WALL STREET, SENATE DEBATES “RESCUE PLAN” TODAY
MARKET AND DOLLAR DROP DEBATING THE ORIGINS OF THE CRISIS WHAT CAN BE DONE TO FIX IT?

First, a personal update as I try to get my voice heard in the midst of this crisis. I had quite a day. The crisis seems to be providing me with some opportunities to speak in the media and to the public.

9 AM— Interview for national Show on Pacifica Radiol0:30 Screening of In Debt We Trust and Talk To Senior Citizens about Plunder and current crisis12: PM Radio interview with the Global Research Radio Hour while taking the M 103 Bus to Lower Manhattan. Finish Up interview on a bench at City Hall Parkl PM Walk to Wall Streetl:30 Join Reverend Jesse Jackson at an outdoor press conference over the loud din of construction noise. He calls for RECONSTRUCTION Trust company, says bailout too narrow and whole economy needs a redirction. Reverend invites me to speak. Only one NY TV station there. CNBC shoots a few minutes of his talk and then packs up and leaves before I speak with a big PLUNDER sign in front of me. Good response from the crowd. Spoke to a few journalists and sold a few books. Interview with Lenny Charles for his news program on Free Speech TV..2:30 Word Reaches us that Hillary Clinton is speaking outside the Federal Reserve Bank. We go up there and shoot some of it. Run into Jesse who also dropped in on Hillary and he tells us that the SEIU Union and Transport Workers Union Are Planning a Rally on Wall Street Next Monday at l PM. They could pack THE STREET!3: 30 Rush back to the office to check email, review current projects and start blog5: 30 Leave Office To go back downtown to East Village for another screening of In Debt We Trust organized by Sandra Chapin for organizers in the consumer movement8: 30 Go Home to write blog and wait for 9: 40 Radio interview in Santa Barbara California.
Do it again tomorrow: Have interviews slated with WVON Chicago, Real News Network and KALW San Francisco. Still no interviews on mainstream US TV. Hoping for invites to speak at colleges. Can anyone help? Will need honorarium, travel.
MORE BAD NEWS
I was outside the stock exchange today. On the inside it was another day in the dumper as stocks fall 500 points. Reports the Times:
NYT: Stocks Drop on Lingering Fears About Wall St. Rescue
Anxiety lingered in the markets as lawmakers hashed out the details of the biggest government bailout in history….
SKEPTICISM GROWS ABOUT TREASURY PLAN
Experts agree that crisis is severe but disagree on what to do about it…The Treasury’s proposal, reports the Times this morning, is “being challenged as fundamentally deficient.”'

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