By Don Irvine ——Bio and Archives--November 8, 2011
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Holmes: But to talk about it and get the attention, but at some point, is the Occupy movement going to have to get more organized to get results? Because you have them popping up in so many cities, and frankly, we’re seeing some ugly scenes, including in Oakland, that’s getting a lot of attention and taking away from the message. Jackson: Well the common—but the common theme is economic disparity. The wealth gap, the health access gap, the education gap, the income gap, that’s the theme. Now, that incident in—in Oakland did not really describe the movement Oakland for economic justice, and when it did happen, those who are the occupiers stood between them and that activity. Now unlike Memphis, Dr. King leading a march for collective bargaining for sanitation workers, the back of the line was some provocateurs who threw some bricks in some windows. You see, the media would rather cover the bricks than the banks. This issue is about bank behavior, it’s about removing the Glass-Steagall where they have options to lend and invest, and choose investing over lending, as long as we have huge bodies of foreclosed homes, churches in sunken communities.
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Don Irvine is the chairman of Accuracy in Media and its sister organization Accuracy in Academia. As the son of Reed Irvine, who launched AIM in 1969, he developed an understanding of media bias at an early age, and has been actively involved with AIM for over 30 years.